Ozark poet Ruth Weinstein will be this week's feature for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave.
The regular open mic session for all poets will begin at 6:30 p.m. Weinstein will perform at 7 p.m., followed by another open mic.
Admission is free and open to all ages.
For more than 40 years, Weinstein and her husband have been organic gardeners on their 40-acre farm in the Ozark Mountains near Marshall. Her experiences as an organic farmer are a major topic of her poetry.
"I've been writing poetry all my life, but didn't start sharing it until a couple of years ago," Weinstein said in a news release.
In 2015, with the musical help of her husband and friends, Weinstein recorded 20 of her poems for "Exhausted Gardener Napping on a Bed of Swiss Chard," a CD that will be available for sale Wednesday night. Her poem "Bickering Over Potatoes" was published last year in Poetica Magazine and was a finalist in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Prize competition.
She won the 2016 Eat!-Write! fellowship at the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs where she was a writer-in-residence for two weeks. Weinstein has performed her poetry at Vino's Brew Pub in Little Rock and this Wednesday will be her second feature at WNP.
In addition to poetry, Weinstein writes short fiction and personal essays about her place in the garden, the natural world and social relationships. She is working on a nonfiction piece that is part memoir and part history of her mother's family. Weinstein is also a visual artist working in the mediums of textiles, watercolor and acrylics.
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Entertainment on 02/21/2017