Julia Ralston, Sun Shadow Sun, 2022, gouache on paper, 5 x 7 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
Come celebrate the artists and poets of BRAHM's inaugural ARS POETICA exhibition! The reception will include an awards ceremony to announce the pairings chosen for the two Judges' Choice Awards as well as the People's Choice Award. Light refreshments will be available.
Free and open to the public.
Findings
by Jeffery Beam
I took the apple
from where it fell
& went down
under the grass
under the pasture's last
wave of
goldenrod light
where the mole's
inner sanctum lies
where the apple seed
is a bead of sweat
in the cool earth.
I found there:
the sun & the
third thing.
Originally published in Visions of Dame Kind, Winston-Salem: The Jargon Society, 1995.
About the judges:
Joseph Bathanti
Joseph Bathanti is the former North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14) and recipient of the North Carolina Award in Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor. He is the author of twenty books. His latest volume of poetry, Light at the Seam, from LSU Press, won the 2022 Roanoke Chowan Prize, awarded annually by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association for best book of poetry in a given year, as well as the 2023 Brockman-Campbell Award, given annually by the North Carolina Poetry Society, for the best book of poetry published by a North Carolina poet in the previous year. The Act of Contrition & Other Stories, winner of the Eastover Prize for Fiction, from Eastover Press, was published in July of 2023. His novella, The Stranger, is forthcoming in 2024 from Regal House Press. Bathanti is the McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Education at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He served as the 2016 Charles George VA Medical Center Writer-in-Residence in Asheville, NC, and is the co-founder of the Medical Center’s Creative Writing Program.
Jennie Carlisle is an independent curator based in central North Carolina, and the Curator/Director of the Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University. From 2013 to 2015, she was the Program Curator at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina—a living museum, ever changing three-floor art installation, and artist-residency program. As a curator and art historian, Carlisle is particularly dedicated to socially engaged curation, collaborative processes of art production, issues of sustainability, and situation driven aesthetics. Their most recent ventures include the Signs, Wonders, and Blunders project on App State’s campus and From Here, a group exhibition at the Hiddenite Art and Heritage Center. Carlisle completed PhD coursework in Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011.