Join The Bookhouse for a night of poetry with a group of talented local poets! Grab your beverage and settle in for this can’t miss, round-robin style event!

Meet the Poets: 

Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of seven collections of poems (six with Press 53). Her work has received
multiple honors, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, and the International
Book Award for Poetry for her collection A Sun Inside My Chest. Her poems have appeared in numerous
journals, magazine, anthologies, and other publications, including her poem “Moon Walk” in NASA News. Her latest collection is Night Talks: Selected Poems, published in 2023 by Press 53.

Jacinta V. White is the author of Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American
Churches & Cemeteries in the Rural South, and founded Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing to
provide a platform for those to tell their story through poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography. She
is widely published and the recipient of several awards, including the first Press 53 Open Award for
Poetry and a Duke Energy Regional Artist Grant from the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.

Joseph Mills has published seven collections of poetry with Press 53. He holds an endowed chair at the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and in 2017 he was the featured poet at the China
International Poetry Festival in Tianjin, China. His collection Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers was called
“a must have for wine lovers” by the Washington Post. His latest book of poems, Bodies in Motion,
reminds us of the roll dance has played in all of our lives.