RambleRill Farm
Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026
4 - 6 p.m.
3 Poets Reading
or pay at the door
Featuring . . .
Ross White
Ross White is the author of Charm Offensive, winner of the Sexton Prize for Poetry, and three chapbooks, Valley of Want, How We Came Upon the Colony, and The Polite Society. He is the director of Bull City Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, where he hosts The Chapbook, a podcast devoted to chapbooks. He teaches creative writing, podcasting, publishing, and grammar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others.
Sheila Smith McKoy
Sheila Smith McKoy, PhD., is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, auto ethnographer and filmmaker. She received the 2020 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize in poetry. Her books of poetry include The Bones Beneath (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), and, as co-author, One Window's Light: a Haiku Collection (2017 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award) and Griots: Keepers of the Story (2026). Her book of poems, Above the Rushes, was published in 2026 by Cuttlefish Books.Jessica Covil-Manset
Jessica Covil-Manset is the author of To Sing You,and to Shout, her first poetry chapbook. She holds a PhD in English from Duke University and lives in Durham, NC, with her husband, daughter, and cat. Her poetry explores gender, relationships, trauma, self-discovery, and joy. She has been twice nominated for Best of the Net, with poems appearing in SWWIM Every Day, Rise Up Review, Whale Road Review, and other journals.
RambleRill Farm
Saturday, April 3, 2027
4 - 6 p.m.
3 Poets Reading
$5 at the door
Featuring . . .
Mark Wunderlich + two area poets to be named
Mark Wunderlich was born in Winona, Minnesota, and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies before transferring to the University of Wisconsin, where he studied English and German literature. After moving to New York City he attended Columbia University, where he received an MFA.
Wunderlich has published four collections of poetry: God of Nothingness (Graywolf, 2021); The Earth Avails (Graywolf, 2014); Voluntary Solitude (Graywolf, 2004); and The Anchorage (U of Massachusetts Press, 1999). His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He has also been awarded the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
Oct
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The Toves at Speakeasy
Come spend a Sunday afternoon with us at Speakeasy in Carrboro. Plenty of room and a full bar - and a pool table if you absolutely have to shoot some 8 ball while you’re listening to the Toves. It’ll be relaxed and fun! We promise!