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Sacrificial Poets founder Kane Smego is looking for inspiration to continue his work. Smego is an educator, writer, and performer who has taught and performed slam poetry at the local and national level. He also was a poet-correspondent during the Arab spring spending two months in Egypt and Tunisia collecting oral histories and writing poems that were later used to produce a WUNC radio documentary. Smego is looking to take a break from teaching and running his nonprofit to write and gather inspiration from other sources.
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27737
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Nathaniel Mackey is a poet, novelist, critic, and Durham resident. Mackey has been widely successful and is influential as a black experimental writer whose poetry has a musical, jazz-like quality. The author discusses the influence that Durham’s poetic community has had on him and how he approaches writing poetry.
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7248
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Poet Michael Chitwood, visiting professor in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses his early interest in writing and his poetry, including The Weave Room. The book of poems is about the people who worked in the textile mill in his hometown of Rocky Mount, Virginia, and their struggle with unionization.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 16 Issue 1, Fall 1999, p20-21, il Periodical Website
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