Poetry Month Saturdays at The Bookhouse
Every Saturday in April | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Celebrate Poetry Month with us! Every Saturday morning, The Bookhouse will welcome featured poets in-store for meet-and-greet events. Guests can:

• Meet talented poets from our community and beyond

• Have books personally signed

• Chat with authors about their work and creative process

• Discover new poetry collections

Schedule of Visiting Poets:

• Saturday, April 4th – Jacinta White

• Saturday, April 11th – Barbara Greenbaum & Courtney Perry

• Saturday, April 18th – Spencer Brown & Sam Brbee

• Saturday, April 25th – Joe Mills & Jenny Bates

Whether you’re a longtime poetry lover or just beginning to explore the genre, join us for inspiring conversation, signed books, and a celebration of the written word!

Meet the Poets:

Spencer Brown

Spencer K. M. Brown is an award-winning poet and novelist. A finalist for the CMA National Book Awards for “Best Novel” and winner of the Penelope Niven Award and the Flying South Fiction Prize, his work has appeared in numerous publications. He lives in the foothills of North Carolina with his wife and three sons. He is the author of the novels Move Over Mountain and Hold Fast, and one chapbook of poetry, Cicada Rex. His debut collection of stories, Slow Fire, is forthcoming from Loblolly Press in August 2026. His debut full-length collection of poems, The Salvation of Me, is forthcoming from Press 53.

Joe Mills

A faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds holds the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and was honored with a 2017 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His work includes poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. He has published eight volumes of poetry with Press 53: The Holiday Cycle; Bodies in Motion; Exit, Pursued by a Bear; This Miraculous Turning; Sending Christmas Cards to Huck and Hamlet; Love and Other Collisions;  Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers; and Somewhere During the Spin Cycle .

He has also published a collection of linked short stories: Bleachers.

With his wife, Danielle Tarmey, he researched and wrote two editions of A Guide to North Carolina’s Wineries (John F. Blair, Publisher). He has also edited a collection of film criticism entitled A Century of the Marx Brothers (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). He won the 2017 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network for his essay, “On Hearing My Daughter Trying to Sing Dixie.” In 2015, he won the North Carolina Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for This Miraculous Turning.

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He has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago (B.A.), the University of New Mexico (M.A.), and the University of California-Davis (Ph.D).  As he was working on his third one, his mother asked, “Don’t you know that stuff yet?”

Jenny Bates

Jenny Bates, seven poetry books, published in numerous NC and international journals.
Presented at the 2023 Ecopoetics and Environmental Aesthetics Conference, London.
ESSENTIAL, Redhawk Publications 2023: nominee Pushcart Prize 2024. Her poem,
“Virga” Honorable Mention in 2025 Pinseong Awards, was also included in If I had a
Dove (Redhawk Publications 2025) this Anthology will help with hurricane and flood
relief efforts. Jenny has been featured on NPR’s Dante’s Old South with Clifford Brooks,
2025.

Barbara Greenbaum

Barbara P. Greenbaum has an MFA in creative writing from the University of
Southern Maine, Stonecoast, graduating the Summer of 2005. She taught creative writing
at Arts at the Capitol Theater, a public magnet arts high school in Willimantic,
Connecticut, for twelve years and served as an adjunct professor at Eastern CT State
University. In 2011, she was awarded a Teaching Arts Fellowship from Surdna.
Her fiction, poetry and essays have been published in numerous literary
publications, both in print and online. These include American Writer’s Review, Arcturus,
Clementine Unbound, Crack The Spine, Courtship of the Winds, Fiction Fix, Forge,
Hawaii Pacific Review, The Lascaux Review, The Louisville Review, and The
Massachusetts Review, among others.
She is the author of The Last Thing, a collection of poetry, and Go Out Like
Sunday and Other Stories, a book of short stories, both published by Main Street Rag
Publishing Company.
Her work can be found at www.barbaragreenbaum.com
She lives in Winston Salem, North Carolina with her dog, Bean and Grand-cat,
Nori.

Courtney Perry

Courtney Perry is a writer and a nonprofit leader in child and family services based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her debut collection, More Than One Way: Poems and Reflections on Early Motherhood, explores the joys and struggles of becoming a parent with honesty, tenderness, and humor.