Eureka Springs poet and artist Kate Lucariello 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 begins at 6:30 p.m. and Lucariello will perform at 7 p.m., followed by a second open mic. Admission is free and open to all ages.
A native of Boston, Mass., Lucariello has lived in several states during her lifetime and spent 20 years as a professional journalist. After retiring from that career she attended Western Washington University where she received her master's degree in English with an emphasis on professional writing. Lucariello then spent 11 years teaching English and writing on the college level in Washington state and Arkansas.
She moved to northwest Arkansas from Washington in 1996. "I gave up my home, job, friends, community and possessions, bought a motor home and hit the road with no idea where it would lead me," she said in a news release. "Spirit led me to northwest Arkansas, where I met my life partner whom I had seen in a dream months earlier. We later married and have been together for 19 years."
Lucariello began writing poetry as a child and in 1982 had a poem published in the anthology "Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression." She has also edited three annual editions of Table Rock Review, a publication of Holiday Island Writers. In addition to poetry she has written short stories, two novels, and a play, which she directed and produced in Minneapolis in the 1980s. Lucariello has read her poetry at several venues including Dragon's Den in New Orleans, Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs and numerous open mics in Fayetteville and Eureka Springs.
In addition to writing she is also an artist in several mediums including photography, colored pencil, mixed media and acrylic painting. She has also performed as a dancer and has been a violinist in the NWACC string orchestra.
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Entertainment on 01/23/2018