Reading with Georgann Eubanks
Friday, September 19
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Old Orchard Creek General Store
Join us for a reading with author Georgann Eubanks with time for audience Q&A.
Always a Festival favorite, Georgann Eubanks is a writer, teacher, and documentary producer whose work spans poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She directed the Duke Writers Workshop for two decades and later founded the Table Rock Writers Workshop, held each fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She is a frequent speaker on North Carolina history and literature and currently serves as the literary executor and executive director of the Paul Green Foundation. Georgann divides her time between Carrboro and Little Switzerland, North Carolina. www.georganneubanks.net
With her first volume of poetry, Rural Astronomy, Eubanks invites new explorations. These poems shift between childhood memories and her contemporary observations of the ongoing clash between Nature and human entitlement. With incisive vision and an occasional poke at the patriarchy, this memoir-in-poems hints at the magnitude of future degradations-by climate and human character-while inviting us to remember the guiding stars of a simpler past. For Eubanks, there are no brighter stars than her grandparents, Bomer and Stella, whose stories and lives frame these poems as well as Eubanks’ startlingly unique perspective. Rural Astronomy celebrates an adventurous life through poetry that is both personal and universal, reflective and prescient.
