In celebration of the recent four-month run of the Ray Johnson
exhibition From BMC to NYC: The
Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967), the Black Mountain College
Museum + Arts Center will host Write
Soon, Goon, a closing night poetry reading and vaudeville-style
performance, featuring poets Earl Braggs and Keith Flynn, cabaret-style singer
Vaudevie and performers Thomas Butler and Cody Magouirk. The closing
celebration will take place at 7:00 p.m. at the museum/arts center located at
56 Broadway in downtown Asheville.
Earl Braggs teaches creative
writing and African-American literature at the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including Hat
Dancer Blue and In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected
Poems.
Keith Flynn is the founder and
editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. His fourth book of poems, The Golden Ratio, and his first book of
nonfiction, The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your
Poetry Swing, have garnered
Flynn national attention.
Vaudevieperforms on accordion,
piano and odd bits of hand-made home-constructed percussion with elements of
dark cabaret.She has performed
locally and as far away as Spain.
Thomas Butler is the Producing Director
of Asheville Vaudeville, for which he also writes and acts.
Cody Magouirk, an actor, was most recently seen in
Asheville Community Theatre's production of Little
Shop of Horrors.
Support for this event
has been generously provided by: the North Carolina Arts Council, Asheville
Area Arts Council, Henco Reprographics, Charlotte Street Computers, and many
generous individual sponsors.
