Upcoming Readings
Hello, All. Just a little quick housekeeping today regarding upcoming readings:
The Return to the Dojo
Date: January 28, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Location: UNCW Campus, Wilmington NC. Kenan Hall, Auditorium.
This will be a reading from my book (We Call This Thing Between Us Love) back at the place where I learned to become a better writer (and maybe even a better person). Therefore, I have dubbed this reading “The Return to the Dojo.”
The Cure for the Common Reading
Date: January 30, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Location: “Jengo’s Playhouse”. 814 Princess Street, Wilmington NC
As many of you know, good friend Justin Edge and myself have been hosting a series of creative readings for almost two years now. This will be the next installment. The challenge for our readers this time will be that they must incorporate some portion of their favorite literature into their own creative piece. Promises to be awesome!
Here’s our lineup of participants:
Creative readings by:
Josh Spilker
Kiki Vera Johnson
Randy Skidmore
Cheryl Wilder
Erin Sroka
Justin Edge
Jason Mott
Original artwork by:
Andy Wiles
Leslie Wilson Miller
Please come out and enjoy the fun!
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Book Release Party & Recent Article
For those of you in the Wilmington, NC area, I am pleased to announce that the official book release party and book signing for “We Call This Thing Between Us Love” has been scheduled. Please feel free to come out and join me!
Date: Saturday, December 19
Time: 8:00 p.m
Location: Parallelogram (523 S. 3rd Street; Wilmington, NC)
Also, here is an article recently posted in the newspaper “Lumina News” regarding myself and the book:
A promised tomorrow for UNCW poet
by Jenny Yarborough
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Love, Jason Mott—University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) Creative Writing grad of both undergraduate (2006) and graduate (2008) programs—said, is one of the most overwritten subjects in the world, second only to death. Still, this is the subject he chose to write about in a collection of poetry that was later selected as a finalist in the 2009 Main Street Rag Poetry Contest.
“I would actually say that I didn’t choose the project, but it chose me,” the young poet said. And though Mott admits the topic could be cliché, he explained that doesn’t mean it can’t still be fresh and unique. It just takes more work to make it happen.
Dive deeper…
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Pushcart Prize Nomination
I am very pleased to announced that the following poem has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Very exciting stuff!
Thinly Veiled, the Young Man Comes
to Me Seeking a Friendly Face
(The Joker)
So I’m out and about one day
when this “priest” walks up to me and says,
“Beloved bard, my mother has died
and my father is ill and I’ve lost my faith.”
And I said to him, “But faith’s forever!
Got a lifetime warranty, doesn’t it? I’ve
always wondered about that though,
Whose life?”
But, anyhow, this “priest” said to me,
“God’s become a ghost. An imagination
in my head. He used to feel so real.
I could touch him in my mother’s hands.” Dive deeper…
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Graphic Poetry Project: Part 2
Here’s another sample from my graphic poetry project (see previous post if you’re not familiar with it). This is a trial run of lettering being added to the artwork. Enjoy!
Artwork by Federico Zumel, Lettering by Jeff Carney
This poem is actually a sonnet, an English sonnet Dive deeper…
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