Rose offers online and outdoor readings, workshops, and discussions.
Please get in touch to discuss events, or receive occasional email updates.

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NEWS & EVENTS

Readings

***In-person events have been cancelled due to COVID-19. Rose is currently scheduling online and outdoor events.***

2020
December 15
Further Notice Reading Series
with Tiana Clark
9:00pm (EST)
Free online event (donations to the NAACP welcome)
https://www.facebook.com/events/319390662491725

December 16
Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award Celebration
and reading by the finalists
6:00pm (EST)
Online event
Register here

December 6
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia  Reading  with L. Lamar Wilson, Chelsea Rathburn, Jim May, Shauna Morgan Kirlew, Justin Gardiner, Catherine Carter, Mildred Barya, and Debra Allbery
hosted by the NC Arboretum
3:30pm (EST)
Free online event
Registration required. Sign up here.

October 11
Exploring with A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia: An Interactive Afternoon of Observation, Reading, and Creative Writing
with Nickole Brown
2:00pm (EST)
Online event
Registration available through the NC Arboretum.

July 2
Palace Poetry Group
7:00-8:30pm
Online event: Please request an invitation.

May 31
North Carolina Arboretum
details TBA
Asheville, North Carolina

May 6-19
Longleaf Writers Conference
events TBA
Seaside, Florida

April 5
Flyleaf Books
3:00pm
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
 
April 4
Bull City Press
House Party Reading Series
details TBA
Durham, North Carolina

April 3
Scuppernong Books
details TBA
Greensboro, North Carolina

February 8
Alarka Expeditions
3:00pm
Franklin, North Carolina

2019
November 3
Malaprop's Bookstore
Poetrio
3:00pm
Asheville, North Carolina

November 1
M. Judson Books
7:00pm
Greenville, South Carolina

October 3
Randolph College
Maier Museum of Art
8:00pm
Lynchburg, Virginia

September 20
Pebble Hill - Auburn University
6:00pm
Auburn, Alabama

September 16
Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center
6:30pm
Franklin, North Carolina

September 6 - CANCELLED
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers
4:30pm
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

June 28
ASLE Cultural Crawl
Ecotone Reading
6:45pm
Tea List, 2nd St.
Davis, California

June 27
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
(ASLE) Conference
“Fire in Paradise: A Poetry Roundtable”
4:00pm
Davis, California

April 10
Creative Writing Faculty Reading
Coffee Cat
7:00pm
Auburn, Alabama

February 7
UNC-Chapel Hill
Armfield Poetry Reading
Donovan Lounge, Greenlawn 233
3:30pm
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

2018

North Carolina
April 5
Western Carolina University
Spring Literary Festival
4:00pm
Sylva

October 13
Vandercooked Poetry Nights
Asheville Bookworks
Asheville
7:00pm - broadside printing
7:30pm - reading

Illinois
March 24
"A Door Open," reading and gallery talk
(collaboration with artist Kim Piotrowski)
Linda Warren Projects
Chicago
2:00-5:00pm

Florida
March 10
Draining the Swamp:
The Future of Environmental Writing on a Changing Planet
AWP Conference
1:30pm

March 10
Book signing, booth #1644
AWP Conference Book Fair
11:00am

March 9
Terrain: 20th Anniversary Reading
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
Tampa
7:00pm

2017

Alabama
September 7
Coffee Cat
7:00pm
Auburn

Michigan
June 22
The Regular's Table, The Scarab Club
7:00pm
Detroit

Mississippi
June 29, 2017
Off Square Books
5:00 - signing
5:30 -reading
Oxford

North Carolina
March 2, 2017
Appalachian State University
Boone
3:30pm-craft talk
7:30pm - reading

Washington, DC
February 9, 2017
AWP Conference
4:30pm -
50 Years of Celebrating
The Southern Humanities Review

Kentucky
October 11, 2016
Morehead State University
Morehead
6:30pm

Georgia
Young Harris College
September 8
Young Harris
4:00pm

Alabama
September 29, 2016
Pebble Hill
Auburn
7:00pm

August 18, 2016
Jules Collins Smith Art Museum
Auburn
6:30pm

New Hampshire
August 2, 2016
The Frost Place Poetry Seminars
Franconia
8:00pm

July 27
Darmouth College
Hanover
4:00pm

July 10, 2016
The Frost Place Conference on Poetry
Franconia
8:00pm

July 10, 2016
White Mountain Chamber Music Festival
Sugar Hill, NH
4:00pm
July 5, 2016
Abbie Greenleaf Library
Franconia
7:00pm

Vermont
July 7, 2016
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
St. Johnsbury
7:00pm

Tennessee
June 10-11, 2016
Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
Lincoln Memorial University
Harrogate


California
April 1, 2016
AWP Conference
Warren Wilson College 40th Anniversary Reading
Los Angeles
3:00pm

*Photo by Ginger Legato

News

Chapbook available
A micro-chapbook of Rose's poems, In the Gem Mine Capital of the World, is available from Bully City Press.

Essays published
Rose's lyric essay "Weights and Measures" was published by Shenandoah, "Blue Prints" appeared in Blackbird, and, most recently, she wrote "Lay of the Land" for Orion.

Recognition for best Appalachian writing awarded
Forage received the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Writing, which recognizes one book of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction each year.

Anthology featured
A feature on A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia has been published by Southern Humanities Review.  Read the poems and prose and see the artwork here. There are also tips for teaching with the book and using it to prompt your own creative writing.

Poem nominated
Rose thanks the Southern Review for nominating her poem, "Blackberries," for a 2019 Pushcart Prize and Birmingham Poetry Review for nominating "Many Kinds Make the Crowd."

Poem on exhibit
Jubilation Inflation, an exhibition of artist Tamar Ettun’s interactive audio work, mixed media sculptures, experimental videos, and inflatable environments (which takes its name from and includes one of Rose's poems) is in Manhattan at the Pace University Gallery (41 Park Row, New York, NY) starting in October 2019.