Spoken Word Celebration
Venue: Cafe De Bangkok, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012
Time: 4:30 - 7:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Downtown Blacksburg, Inc presents the Spoken Word Celebration on Friday, June 1st at Cafe de Bangkok. The event will feature local writers and poets reading from their works.

Readers Schedule:
4:30 Beth Wellington, activist poetry
4:45 Michael Abraham, fiction from his new book, Providence, VA
5:00 Elias Simpson, VT MFA 2012, poetry
5:15 Elizabeth McCommon, wise woman, actress, essay
5:30 George Norton, ag economist, essays on 3rd world poverty
5:45 Anna Hawthorne, humorous essay
6:00 Chelsea Adams, poetry
6:15 Kathy Coleman, coal region storyteller, and former storytelling ambassador to China

For more information, visit: http://www.downtownblacksburg.com/all_events.aspx or call: 540-951-0454.

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