Join us at the Woody Guthrie Center at 6 p.m. on First Friday, Sept. 1 for our next installment of People’s Poetry. This month we’ll feature Nuova Wright, Cassidy McCants and Audrey Kallenberger.
During First Friday, the Woody Guthrie Center and Bob Dylan Center are partnering with the Pencil Box for a School Supply Drive. Bring by supplies to donate and receive free admission during the art crawl (6-8 pm).
Tickets
People’s Poetry is free with admission to the center (only $5 during the art crawl or free with donated school supplies).
About People’s Poetry
Woody Guthrie was an artist in multiple mediums. In addition to his music and paintings, Woody was a prolific writer, producing a bulk of poems, essays, short stories, and more.
Often called the “Poet of the People,” Woody’s writing was an important tool both for his personal self-expression and his life-long commitment to activism.
Woody Guthrie once wrote, “A folk song is what’s wrong and how to fix it, or it could be who’s hungry and where their mouth is or who’s out of work and how to fix it or who’s broke and where the money is or who’s carrying a gun and where the peace is.”
This bent toward repairing the damages of the world was at the forefront of his creative drive. People’s Poetry carries on the legacy of Woody Guthrie and his writing while also highlighting the voice of today’s poets who use their craft towards that same end: highlighting the injustices of the world and pushing us all towards a better world.
About Nuova Wright
Nuova Wright returns to People’s Poetry on September 1. Wright is the author of little wife: the story of gold, and three chapbooks: Black Pussy, prayers of Calcitrant, and imaginary lovers. Their poems have appeared in Santa Clara Review, Spill Words, Elephants Never, Please See Me, Q/A Poetry, The Girl God, Word Riot, This Land, and on countless restaurant napkins. Wright is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and was a 2004 Grolier Prize finalist. Join us on First Friday to hear Nuova read.
About Audrey Kallenberger
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Audrey Kallenberger has been dreamily writing poetry, prose and stories since she was 9 years old. She has always had a deep sense of curiosity and love of travel, so she studied French Language and International Studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and left home for the East Coast in 2006. At The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, she completed a Master’s Degree in Political Theory at UMASS Amherst and spent a life-changing summer in Beirut, Lebanon in 2010. She then moved to Brooklyn, New York, without a plan, and fell into freelance writing and acting until she moved back to her hometown in 2018. Much to her surprise and delight, the slower pace of life in the Midwest suits her.
About Cassidy McCants
Cassidy McCants received her M.F.A. in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She edits for Nimrod Journal and is creator/editor of Apple in the Dark. Her prose has appeared in Witch Craft Magazine, Clackamas Literary Review, The Creative Field Guide to Northeastern Oklahoma, and other publications. She won the 2020 Innovative Short Fiction Contest from The Conium Review, and her stories have received honorable mentions from Glimmer Train Press.
