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Literature
Keynote Speaker
Kathryn Stripling Byer, N.C. poet laureate
presenting the Irene Honeycutt Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, March 26th 7:00-9:30 PM Pease Auditorium
Also Thursday, March 27th, 11:00-12:15 PM Halton Theatre
Kathryn Stripling Byer will deliver the Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, March 27, at 11 a.m. The lectureship was established in 2006 to honor Honeycutt, the founding director of CPCC’s Spring Literary Festival and dedicated English and creative writing instructor at the college.
The Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lectureship was established in 2006 to honor founding director of CPCC’s Spring Literary Festival and dedicated English and creative writing instructor Irene Blair Honeycutt. Fourteen years before, she had a vision to create a literary festival at the college that would introduce students to award-winning authors, as well as provide a venue for the public and CPCC’s faculty and staff.
Kathryn Stripling Byer is serving her third year as North Carolina’s appointed poet laureate. In this position, she serves as an ambassador for North Carolina literature, past and present; curates features on poetry; and speaks to public audiences across the state. She also writes poems commemorating occasions of historic or cultural importance.
Her published books of poetry include Catching Light, Wildwood Flower (the 1992 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets), Black Shawl, and The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest.
Kathryn Byer has served as poet-in-residence at Western Carolina University and has received writing fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.
Special thanks to our Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lectureship Donors
Featured Speakers
A. Van Jordan
Thursday, March 27th 9:30-10:45 AM Halton Theatre
Thursday, March 27th 7:00-9:30 PM Pease Theatre
Poet A. Van Jordan just published Quantum Lyrics, which threads issues of race, history, and identity through poems that borrow from the language of mathematics and physics. His previous books include M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, a fictional sequence of interwoven poems chronicling the life of MacNolia Cox, who, in 1936, was the first African-American child to reach the National Spelling Bee finals. Professor Jordan’s first collection of poetry, Rise, won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award.
A. Van Jordan has received a 2006 Pushcart Prize and a 2004 Whiting Writers Award, given for “emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.”
Henrietta Goodman
Enough Devil In You: breaking Personal Taboos in Poetry
Thursday, March 27th 11:00-12:15 pm Levine Campus
Thursday, March 27th 3:00-5:00 pm Bryant Hall
Henrietta Goodman’s Collection of poetry, Take What You Want, received the 2006 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books.
Goodman’s poetry has been published in Mid-American Review, Willow Springs, and RUNES: A Review of Poetry, among other publications.
She has received the Marjorie Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Montana Arts Council.
Goodman is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Montana and also works in the university’s writing center.
Henrietta Goodman is a CPCC alumna. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a master’s in English and master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Montana.
Additional Panels and Workshops
The Charlotte Writers’ Club Panel on Essay and Fiction Writing
Thursday, March 27th 1:30-3:00pm Bryant Hall
Tom Peacock began writing memoir and short stories after he retired as president of a major Southeastern leasing company. His writings have appeared in many magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including ‘Tis the Season, which he also edited. In his introduction to Peacock’s recent memoir, The Way it Was, Frye Gaillard notes that the essays transport the reader back to a time filled “with lessons and memories that should never be lost.”
Lisa Williams Kline’s first novel, Eleanor Hill, won the N. C. Juvenile Literature Award, and her second, The Princesses of Atlantis, is in its fourth reprinting. Her third book, Write Before Your Eyes, is forthcoming from Delacorte Press. Her stories for young people have appeared in Spider, Cicada, Odyssey, and Cricket. Her stories for adults have appeared in Independence Boulevard, Women’s Words, Peregrine, and several anthologies. She is an associate editor for Novello Festival Press and also reads and evaluates manuscripts for iUniverse.
CPCC Press: How to Get Published Workshop
Thursday, March 27th 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Overcash 300
As far as our research has proven, CPCC Press is the only community college publishing house in existence in the entire United States. Our mission is to offer CPCC faculty, staff and select community writers the opportunity to become published authors. Whether it’s academic and text materials, or the next great American novel, the CPCC Press wants to celebrate new Carolina authors by providing them with this informative workshop.
What’s the best way to capture an editor’s attention? It’s with a great query letter! Crafting the Query provides the essential tools for writing a great query. Jodi Helmer will cover the basics of selecting a topic and researching publications as well as specific details on what a query letter should contain and how to promote your expertise as a writer. At this workshop, Susan Alford, Project Coordinator for CPCC Press will be on site to answer all of your questions related to CPCC Press and the publishing industry. We hope you will join us for this fun, educational and eye-opening workshop!
About Jodi Helmer: Jodie Helmer is a freelance writer who specializes in writing about travel and the environment. She has written for Hemispheres, US Airways Magazine, AAA Living, AAA Home and Away, Backpacker, Woman’s Day, Women’s Health, Parents, Her Sports, American Fitness, Curve and dozens of others. Helmer has taught writing classes for Portland Community College, Portland State University and Saturday Academy. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Jodi Helmer currently resides in Charlotte, NC. She will begin teaching in CCE at Central Piedmont Community College in the summer of 2008; Writing for Women and Crafting the Query. Visit her online at www.jodihelmer.com
CPCC Press LIVE!/SlamCharlotte
Wednesday, March 26 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Tate Hall
Join us in the Tate Hall located at CPCC Central Campus for the introduction and presentation of our 2008 CPCC Press authors and their titles! This year’s event is an exciting collaboration of literature, theatre and performance poetry. We will be highlighting our 2008 CPCC Press titles with live readings by the authors as well as a dramatic reading by CPCC Student and Charlotte local actors directed by Rob Craig. We are thrilled to have SLAMCharlotte perform original performance poetry pieces for us. Come celebrate with us and experience some amazing art in action!
Exhibition of the ‘Song Bo Paintings’ by Jack Hemphill - This historical novel is told through the eyes of one of five artists chosen in 1954 to create an exhibition of paintings to be used in the Cold War by the U.S. Department of State. In what has since been referred to by The New Yorker as “Cultural Propaganda,” he was required to spend six months in Ap Dan-Khi, a remote village in French Indochina, known today as Vietnam. During the final months of conflict between the French Army and local Communists forces, a deep and sensitive 
relationship developed between the young artist and a local woman which changed his life forever. Through her insight, courage, strength, and love, he was able to develop a passionate understanding of her people, their complex history, and their desperate struggle against communism. Through his experiences, he was able to translate these feelings into his paintings.
About the Author - Jack Hemphill is a graduate in architecture from Clemson University, an exhibiting artist, and a Vietnam veteran. He currently has an architectural practice in North Carolina.
Half-Past Nowhere by Joseph Cavano - This novel will take you back to when you were young. The growing pains, the indifference experienced in life are captured here in the voice of our young hero. Set in the scenic mountains and college towns of upstate New York, immerse yourself in this coming of age tale of a boy discovering love, heartache, apathy and self.
About the Author - Ignoring the advice of teachers from grade school to graduate school to dedicate his life to writing, Cavano chose in his own words, "the road most traveled," and opted for the secure life of an English teacher in the secondary schools and colleges of the Hudson Valley in New York. Semi retired now, he has begun to write again, and in less than a year has put together this collection. Two stories into the collection, "Phineas Rising" and "Mountain Men" have already been selected as finalists in the prestigious Glimmer Train Short Story Contest. An inveterate traveler, he and his wife, Stephanie, live in Charlotte, NC and continue to travel throughout Europe and Asia. In his spare time he plays jazz piano.
Through the Garden by Thomas E. Anthony - Deep, soul-centered poems inspired by life, journey, lessons and love. Raw, gutsy, honest, passionate, and colorful this compilation is thought provoking, emotional and inspiring. If you’ve ever experienced joy and grief you may find yourself here. 
About the Author: Thomas Anthony was born in Brooklyn, New York. Finally settling in Montgomery County, North Carolina in 1970, Thomas attended West Montgomery High School and Pfeiffer College. It was here his passion for writing was born. He received a Master's degree in mathematics from Appalachian State University in 1986 and then worked extensively in the computer industry for fifteen years, abandoning both writing and teaching. He began to study with the Intentional Living Institute in 1995 and subsequently reclaimed his passion for writing. Since then he has published the following books of poetry: Release of Dreams and Reality (1997), Grandma called Him Tom (2000), Release of Dreams and Reality (2000), Golden Nuggets (2001), Rocks Crashing into the Sea (2002), Messages in Bottles (2003), Lost Love Letters (2004), Transformations through the Storm (2006) and Garden of the Heart (2006). He is currently an instructor of mathematics at Central Piedmont Community College.
Fondly, Carolyn by Dr. Carolyn Hart - Fondly, Carolyn: Letters to a Young Physician was inspired by a partially fictional young physician, “W”. Each letter encourages the reader to “take time” for a different aspect of healthy practice; time to comfort, to relax with family, to volunteer, to notice beauty, and to advocate.
About the Author: Dr. Carolyn Hart attended Vanderbilt University and Emory University School of Medicine before residency training in pediatrics and pediatric neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since then, she has practiced with Mecklenburg Neurological Associates in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a clinical preceptor for premedical and medical students from Davidson College and the University of North Carolina respectively and has received the regional Elliott White Pediatric Teaching Award.
