Literature

Tuesday, April 16th at 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17th at 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 18th at 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Overcash Lobby

This year Sensoria is teaming up with CPCC Service Learning, PTK and the Service Club to collect items for A Child’s Place Summer Camp program.

Central Campus Library, 2nd Floor Atrium

Authors’ Showcase of CPCC part time faculty authors: Carol Baldwin, Edward McKeown,  and Jodi Helmer.

Student Commons (Bojangles in Overcash)

“In Reality” is an event where students are allowed to express their thoughts and feelings through a spoken or poetic word form. During the performances, you will experience free flow, smooth jazz, the drawings of different artists, and the beautiful essence of the poetic culture. The purpose of the event is to bring the people of the community together to represent unity, harmony, and to show appreciation for the arts.

A lecture with Mark Ethridge

Tate Hall

This is a talk about how a true story that took place at The Charlotte Observer and in South Carolina became a novel called Grievances, and how the novel became a 2012  movie called Deadline starring Eric Roberts that was released nationwide. We've all seen movies that weren't like the book. This speech tells you why that is - and why it has to be that way.

Central Campus Library, Second Floor Atrium

Authors’ Showcase of CPCC staff authors: Vivian Jenkins, Yolyndra Green, and Jerry Landry.

Tate Hall

Michael McFee has published fourteen books, most recently a collection of poetry, That Was Oasis (Carnegie Mellon, 2012), a chapbook, The Smallest Talk (Bull City, 2007), and The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview (University of Tennessee, 2006).  He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill.

9:30 a.m. - Noon

Overcash Lobby

We invite you to explore the writings of Sensoria literary speakers. Preceding and following each event, you will have the chance to browse and obtain copies of featured writers’ works. Moreover, we welcome you to meet and greet them during a book signing after each engagement!

Levine Campus Auditorium

with Laurie Prince

Remember the last time you read a good personal story, then thought, “I’ve got to get serious and write about what happened to me”? Then your friend, Mr. Procrastination, dropped by. There went your good intentions. Laurie Prince introduces you to a few easy steps designed to break up your relationship with Mr. P. 

Tate Hall

with Richard Krawiec

Writers try to speak the truth.  The truth about their lives, the lives they witness, and the world as they understand and imagine it.  Sometimes they speak with humor, sometimes outrage; sometimes they speak with love, sometimes horror. Witnessing the World  offers a funny, fast-paced, hopefully moving, interactive poetry experience.

Halton Theater

Ron Rash is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pen / Faulkner Finalist novel, Serena, the basis for the 2013 film of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

Levine Campus Auditorium

with Stephanie Tolan

There's a lot written about writing books and there's always considerable focus on discipline. But there's a secret few people tell you. Of course discipline’s important, but most important of all is the magic.  This will be a talk about Tolan's own experience writing 25+ books and the magic involved.

Pease Auditorium

In this documentary film, director Katja Esson explores the lives of six poets who survived some of the most atrocious crimes of the 20th  century. These horrible offenses include Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Iranian Revolution.

Pease Gallery

Honoring Diana Pinckney for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts

                      Presented by Dannye Romine Powell, 2012 Honoree

The Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts was established in February, 2004. The Advisory Committee for CPCC’s Annual Spring Literary Festival voted to name the award after Irene Honeycutt in recognition of her advocacy of writers and for her service to the Charlotte community and to the region as Founding Director of the Festival.

Pease Auditorium

*Part of Sensoria Nights*

Ron Rash is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Pen / Faulkner Finalist novel, Serena, the basis for the 2013 film of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Overcash Building Lobby

We invite you to explore the writings of Sensoria literary speakers. Preceding and following each event, you will have the chance to peruse and obtain copies of featured writers’ works. Moreover, we welcome you to meet and greet them during a book signing after each engagement!

Levine Campus Auditorium

Where do you come from?  Do you think of a place, people, house or neighborhood? George Ella Lyon answered that question through a poem she wrote using where-I’m-from lists.   In this interactive workshop, participants will use listing, categorizing and the five senses to create their own version of “Where I’m From.”

Halton Theater

with Katja Esson and Li-Young Lee

In this documentary film, director Katja Esson explores the lives of six poets who survived some of the most atrocious crimes of the 20^th century. These horrible offenses include Hiroshima, the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, the Kurdish Genocide in Iraq, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Iranian Revolution. The film focuses not so much on suffering, but rather on the incredible strength of the human spirit. The artists show how they were able to cope with disaster and tell their story through the creativity of their poetry. 

Levine Campus Auditorium

Participants in the second workshop will write a group “Where I’m From” poem that will illustrate our collective experience together.  We will look at common ground that we share, and we will celebrate and analyze the differences between each participant’s history.  The product of this workshop will be a poem that features all of our voices forming into one.

Tate Hall

Four writers from the Charlotte area read and discuss their work depicting four disparate regions: China, India, the Middle East, and the Philippines.  David Radavich, Kristin Sherman, Ann Tsao, and Nitin Vyas explore cultures beyond the U.S. and the intersections of lifestyles that make up our contemporary world.  

Tate Hall

Word of Mouth: Real Stories. Told Live.

This event is a showcase of outstanding oral stories which were first told at campus Word of Mouth events that took place February through April.  These memorable stories told by CPCC students and the CPCC community, focus on the theme “stories about family photos.”  Each story is told live, without notes, and is no longer than 5 minutes.

Tate Hall

*Part of Sensoria Nights*

Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry, his most recent being Behind My Eyes (W.W. Norton, 2008). His earlier collections are Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001); Rose (BOA, 1986), winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; The City in Which I Love You (BOA, 1991), the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon and Schuster, 1995), which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012.