Tonight the Grand Tour arrives in Fountain, North Carolina, where some local bards, bartenders, and blues singers have lined up a great Bash to remember NC poets. A nice announcement appeared in the Wilson Times:
Pembroke
Magazine editor and poet Shelby Stephenson will read poems by Sam Ragan
and Paul Green. Wilson-based poet Jim Clark will perform poems by Byron
Herbert Reece set to original music composed by Clark. Lightnin' Wells
will read poems by George Moses Horton and perform songs by Piedmont
blues poets Blind Boy Fuller and the Rev. Gary Davis.
Others have
committed to read poems by A. R. Ammons, Jonathan Williams, Randall
Jarrell, and Rocky Mount's William Boyd.
"Anyone who's
interested in poetry is welcome to bring along a favorite poem by a
dead Tar Heel poet to read," said Albright. "Who knows? You might wind
up in the documentary."
Tuesday's
event is the only North Carolina stop on the Dead Poets Bash tour, which
concludes later this month in Massachusetts with a 24-hour marathon
visit to 48 dead poets' graves.