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Local restaurant to feature poetry
The Tipsy Teapot will host
Brian Mazurowski
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Features
The Tipsy Teapot will sponsor a poetry reading on Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. The reading, hosted by the English Graduate School Organization, will feature their spring poetry reading. The event has been dubbed "The Birds, Bees, and Bitterness Poetry Reading," and will highlight poetry by contemporary American poets as well as pieces about love, read by English graduate students and faculty.
"[Readers] will read original poetry or poetry written by people a lot more famous than they are on love, sex, its foibles, regret and a little bitterness thrown in," said Lisa Devries, a member of the organization who helped organize the event.
The poetry reading is one of the English Graduate School Organization's two annual readings.
"[These readings] allow grad students and English faculty to meet and to further appreciate literature outside the classroom," Devries said.
"[They] also allow creative writing students to try out their work on a live audience."
According to Devries, the organization also puts on social events, fundraisers and community activities.
All ECU students and faculty are invited to attend the reading, which should last about an hour and feature 10 to 12 different readers.
The English Graduate School organization is open to all students in the graduate program in the department of English. Its purpose is to provide "a recognized organization for department of English graduate students to interact with ECU and surrounding communities," according to the organization's Web site.
"The Birds, Bees, and Bitterness Poetry Reading" will take place at the Tipsy Teapot, a small and welcoming eatery/teashop that is conveniently conjoined with a bookstore.
The Tipsy Teapot is located on 409 S. Evans St., located next to the Fifth St. Tavern.
For more information about the English Graduate School Organization or the poetry reading, visit www.ecu.edu/org/egso.
This writer can be contacted at features@theeastcarolinian.com.
"[Readers] will read original poetry or poetry written by people a lot more famous than they are on love, sex, its foibles, regret and a little bitterness thrown in," said Lisa Devries, a member of the organization who helped organize the event.
The poetry reading is one of the English Graduate School Organization's two annual readings.
"[These readings] allow grad students and English faculty to meet and to further appreciate literature outside the classroom," Devries said.
"[They] also allow creative writing students to try out their work on a live audience."
According to Devries, the organization also puts on social events, fundraisers and community activities.
All ECU students and faculty are invited to attend the reading, which should last about an hour and feature 10 to 12 different readers.
The English Graduate School organization is open to all students in the graduate program in the department of English. Its purpose is to provide "a recognized organization for department of English graduate students to interact with ECU and surrounding communities," according to the organization's Web site.
"The Birds, Bees, and Bitterness Poetry Reading" will take place at the Tipsy Teapot, a small and welcoming eatery/teashop that is conveniently conjoined with a bookstore.
The Tipsy Teapot is located on 409 S. Evans St., located next to the Fifth St. Tavern.
For more information about the English Graduate School Organization or the poetry reading, visit www.ecu.edu/org/egso.
This writer can be contacted at features@theeastcarolinian.com.
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