This year, the Living Poetry organizers are spearheading poetrySpark! This Raleigh event is part of SparkCon, a weekend to showcase the creativity, talent, and ideas of the Triangle. I volunteered the two previous years at the Poetry-on-Demand booth, creating verses for passersby from $1 and a word of their choosing. As a co-organizer of poetrySpark, I’m helping to identify event venues, recruit readers, organize the Featured Readers night, and find a low-cost, high-quality printing vendor (i.e., the inmates at Correction Enterprises).

If you live in the Triangle or don’t mind driving to Raleigh’s Warehouse District during September 13^th  – 16^th, then you should plan on attending one of our events:

• Erotic Reading @ circusSpark After Dark (Thursday evening, 9/13)
• Best of the Open Mic Contest @ White Collar Crime (Friday evening, 9/14)
• Youth Poets Reading (Saturday afternoon, 9/15)
• Featured Readers Night with former NC Piedmont Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green & Sacrificial Poets (Saturday evening, 9/15)
• Poetry on Demand (Friday and Saturday, 9/15 & 9/16)

Right now, poetrySpark has a call for poets for the open mic and all reading events until August 15^th at midnight. We also need volunteers for Poetry on Demand and at the events to help set up and clean up. Spread the word among the poets you know and love!