By Whit Coppedge, on September 1st, 2012 The Hinge Literary Center is partnering with Doe Branch Ink: A Writer’s Retreat to give you what every writer needs: time to write!
What is Doe Branch Ink?
“Doe Branch Ink is a writers’ retreat located on 50 acres nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Just 30 miles north of Asheville in lovely Madison County — “The Jewel of the Blue Ridge” — [the] retreat takes its name from a spring fed stream that flows from high in Pisgah National Forest into the French Broad River, a protected National Scenic Waterway. [The Branch Ink] offer writers experiences of two kinds: in the late spring and early fall, [they] organize facilitated writing experiences for 6 to 8 guests with successful writers in residence who are also proven teachers.”
What is The Hinge’s Doe Brank Ink Raffle?
This is your chance to go to Doe Brank Ink! With a gift of ten dollars to The Hinge Literary Center, you will be entered into a drawing for one workshop with Doe Branch Ink. With a gift of twenty dollars, you will be entered twice, and so on! The drawing will be held on Saturday, October 6 and the winner will be notified by Hinge Literary Center. All proceeds go to support The Hinge, which supports readers and writers in the Triangle via classes, events, readings, and more.
The Fine Print
Winner must sign participation agreement signed by all participants. Winner has choice of one workshop with Doe Branch Ink during fall 2012, spring 2013, or fall 2013, subject to availability. To be eligible, workshop must have a critical mass of paying customers, without the winner. In the event that no match is found over the aforementioned three workshop seasons, the winner is entitled to a refund of the cost of the winning ra ffle ticket. No other fi nancial liabilities if match not found or Doe Branch Ink ceases to operate. Must be 21 or older to win. Drawing will be held Saturday, October 6, 2012. Winner will be notifi ed by The Hinge Literary Center. Board members and former or present instructors of The Hinge Literary Center are not eligible.
Enter here:
http://doebranchraffle.eventbrite.com/
By bridget, on August 27th, 2012 
Poetry Class with Rochelle Hurt
WHAT: An eight-week workshop for writers of poetry.
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 27, meeting once a week, for eight weeks. 7-9 PM
WHERE: New Haven Medical, 121 S. Estes, Ste 205-D Chapel Hill, NC
COST: $250
TO REGISTER CLICK HERE!
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
In this class, we’ll take advantage of the eight-week workshop by thinking about poetry in a long-term setting. While assignments will be open to individual interpretation and inclination, this approach may entail prompts conducive to series, themed work, or other poetic projects that will span the length of the course. By creating a larger scale for their poetry, students can begin to examine not only how their poems can become successful on an individual level, but how each poem extends into a body of work as well. This will also allow workshop peers to understand and critique each poem in a more complete context, and hopefully lead to a more personalized and valuable workshop experience. We will read and briefly discuss examples of published work, and students will try a few in-class exercises during the first session, but the majority of class time will be spent in workshop.
Rochelle Hurt lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she teaches for the Carrboro ArtsCenter and the Loft Literary Center online. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she taught creative writing courses for several years. Rochelle is the author of a chapbook, Rustblood (forthcoming from Dzanc Books), and she has been awarded prizes from several literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, and SDSU’s Poetry International. Rochelle’s poetry has been published in a variety of journals, including the Kenyon Review, the Southeast Review, the Cincinnati Review, Columbia Poetry Review, cream city review, The Collagist, Versal, and Meridian.
By Whit Coppedge, on August 26th, 2012 The Center for Documentary Studies, in partnership with The Hinge, is thrilled to present the third installment of Professor Diablo’s True Revue, an evening of art and performance at the Durham, North Carolina, club Casbah featuring writers, musicians, visual artists, and others who make extensive use of documentary fieldwork and research in the creation of their art. The second installment played to a packed house in June; one audience member called it “one of the most bewitching performances I’ve ever seen.”
Professor Diablo’s True Revue III
Tuesday, August 28, 8 p.m.
Casbah
1007 W. Main St.
Durham, North Carolina
The Professor’s aide-de-camp, CDS writer in residence Duncan Murrell, has seen rehearsals for the upcoming show and says he was floored, describing it as “challenging, heartbreaking, fun, and funny.” The theme for True Revue III is “Relations,” and we’re honored that it will be explored by these four artists:
Howard. L. Craft: His play Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1: The Super Spectacular Bad Ass Herald M.F. Jones—the first installment of the first African American superhero radio serial, The Jade City Pharaoh—recently rocked Manbites Dog Theater audiences. Craft’s other plays include The Vet Who Lived Underground: Dispatches from Beneath the Map and Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders. His poetry collection Across the Blue Chasm is published by Big Drum Press. Craft lives in Durham with his wife and son.
Anita Woodley: Actress, writer, director, improv performer, visual artist, journalist and radio producer. She is the creator of Mama Juggs and The 100 Living Rooms Breast Cancer Awareness Project, touring throughout the United States. In 2011 Mama Juggs won the “Best of the Best” award at the MALI Women’s Film & Performance Arts Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2010, while visiting the Cameroon rainforest, she reunited with her maternal Tikar tribe, learned their native language, and was honored with a traditional naming ceremony. She is also a multi-award winning producer for American Public Media and The Story with Dick Gordon. She has won numerous prestigious awards from the Harry Chapin Foundation for Hunger & Poverty, the National Association of Black Journalists, and an Emmy (with CNN) for Exceptional Coverage on September 11, 2001.
Justin Robinson: A Grammy winner and former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, he now heads a collective of multi-instrumentalists who bring to the stage the magical intersection of their varied musical backgrounds. The Mary Annettes comprise local musicians Elizabeth Marshall, Kyra Moore, Sally Mullikin, and Josh Stohl. Justin’s vivid stories are delivered atop a rotating arsenal of instruments including autoharp, tres, viola, banjo, violin, fiddle, cello, bass, keys, and drums, and Kyra and Sally provide rich vocal harmonies. The band lists among their influences JS Bach, Erykah Badu, English nursery rhymes, moonlight on a frozen swamp, Loretta Lynn, ossified remains of mammals, palindromes, and rhinestones. He and Thaddaeus Edwards were married in Massachusetts in 2009.
Thaddaeus Edwards: Photographer and a founding member of New Traditions Theatre. Credits include The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, Middletown (Manbites Dog), and The Art Center’s fifth annual “10 by 10 in the Triangle” short-play festival. Thaddaeus is an ensemble member of both hands theatre where his credits include the parent project and @ liberty. For Little Green Pig Theater he has appeared in The Cherry Orchard, In the Dog House: The Execution of Dostoevsky, The Island, and Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1. He and Justin Robinson were married in Massachusetts in 2009.
Jay O’Berski, of Little Green Pig Theater, will be helping produce Professor Diablo’s True Revue III.
A condensed version of Professor Diablo’s True Revue II, in two acts. Shot by Joel Mora and Matthew Phillips. Edited by Joel Mora.
By bridget, on August 26th, 2012 
New Fiction Class with Rosecrans Baldwin
WHAT: An eight-week workshop for writers of fiction.
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 26, meeting once a week, for eight weeks. 7-9 PM
WHERE: 121 S. Estes, Ste 205-D Chapel Hill, NC
COST: $250
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Each class will begin with a discussion of a certain writing technique, followed by a workshop to review and help strengthen one another’s short stories and/or novel excerpts. The class environment will be thoughtful, supportive, lively, and serious. We’ll study voice, humor, structure, and character—the technical decisions we make as writers to achieve certain effects. All students will be expected to participate in discussion.
Rosecrans Baldwin is the author most recently of “Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.” His debut novel, “You Lost Me There,” was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2010 and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He and his wife live in Chapel Hill.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
By bridget, on July 11th, 2012
Mixtape #2
Featuring: writers Brian Howe and Fred Moten, filmaker sarah goetz, and photographer MJ Sharp
When: Tuesday, July 24, 8-10 PM, with an intermission
Where: The Casbah, 1007 Main Street, Durham
What: Local cultural mavens read selections from their personal desert island bookshelves. Stir in some film and photography, and you’ve got Mixtape.
Cost: Free! (for member of the Casbah, or $3 to become a member)
By bridget, on June 6th, 2012 Flyleaf Poetry Reading & Open Mic Series Featuring Chris Vitiello
 When: Thursday, June 14 at 7pm
Where: Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Chapel Hill
What: Chris Vitiello will read from his new book Obedience, along with Charlotte-based poet Julie Suk.
An open mic will follow, so bring something to read! The Flyleaf Poetry Reading & Open Mic Series is curated by Debra Kaufman and Stan Absher.
Chris Vitiello, pictured above, lives in Durham, NC with his two daughters. His most recent poetry book is Obedience (Ahsahta, 2012), a doubled aphoristic series within two front covers. Other books include Irresponsibility (Ahsahta, 2008) and Nouns Swarm A Verb (Xurban, 1999). When he’s not putting on poet’s plays in spaces around town or writing custom poems as the Poetry Fox, Vitiello is a freelance arts, performance, and hockey writer for various newspapers, magazines, and blogs.
Third Friday and The Hinge
Join us Friday, June 15 for our monthly Third Friday event.
When: Friday, June 15, 6-9 pm
Where: 305 E. Chapel Hill Street, Suite 215, 6 -9 PM
What: A casual shin dig with area writers and artists
And don’t forget to bring a short piece of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry to contribute to our “Open Wall.” This month’s theme, in honor of the American Dance Festival, is “The Body.”
By bridget, on June 4th, 2012 June 26th, 8 pm, at The Casbah in Durham.
It’s the second coming of Professor Diablo’s True Revue, this time a musical visual performance extravaganza that’s all about dark holes in the ground, strikebusting, flooded valleys, John Sayles’ film “Matewan,” and POWER. Featuring Hiss Golden Messenger, Mike Wiley, and Jeff Whetstone.
What will we do for POWER? In two parts, Professor Diablo presents a dramatic rendering of Sayles’ classic film about striking West Virginia coal miners, performed by Mike Wiley and Hiss Golden Messenger, and a modern depiction in monologue and photographs of one family transformed by the flooding of their valley for electricity.
Featuring:
* Mike Wiley, actor and playwright of documentary theater that includes “The Parchman Hour,” “Dar He: The Emmett Till Story,” “Blood Done Sign My Name,” and other mind-blowing fusions of history and drama. (http://www.newsobserver.com/2008/04/20/83727/actor-playwright-turns-on-the.html#storylink=misearch)
* Hiss Golden Messenger, kick-ass practitioner of American roots music. “Skewed, country-soul greatness.” — Pitchfork (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16546-poor-moon/)
* Jeff Whetstone, photographer, Guggenheim fellow, and Tennessee-bred spelunker, whose work includes “Post-Pleistocene” (http://www.jeffwhetstone.net/)
Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies in partnership with the Hinge Literary Center.
Here’s the first True Revue:
The Casbah:
1007 W. Main St.
Durham, North Carolina
By bridget, on May 16th, 2012 
The Hinge, in conjunction with The Casbah, announces Mixtape Readings
A reading featuring the works of Lydia Davis, Albert Camus, Charles Mingus, and Yusef Komunyakaa?
Plus, did we mention a short film—“When Walt Witman Was a Little Girl”—created by Jim Haverkamp will be shown?
Yeah, that’s Mixtape Readings.
Local cultural mavens—this month those mavens are Misha Angrist and Howard L. Craft— read selections from their personal desert island bookshelves in this multi-disciplinary series. They’ll share the texts that changed them, that they love, and that they want to shout from the mountaintop. You’ll come away with your mind on fire and a reading list to keep it aflame.
Where/When: Tuesday, May 22, 8pm, The Casbah, 1007 Main St., Durham
This is a free event. Let us know you are coming by RSVPing on Facebook.
OUR READERS:
MISHA ANGRIST’s book Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (Harper) tells the true tale of getting his genome sequenced and then making it public—with plenty of rumination about society and policy along the way. Angrist has an MFA in writing and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary journals. He teaches at Duke and lives in Durham.
HOWARD L. CRAFT’s play Jade City Chronicles Vol. 1: The Super Spectacular Bad Ass Herald M.F. Jones—the first installment of the first African American superhero radio serial, The Jade City Pharaoh—recently rocked Manbites Dog Theater audiences. Craft’s other plays include The Vet Who Lived Underground: Dispatches from Beneath the Map and Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders. His poetry collection Across The Blue Chasm is published by Big Drum Press. Craft lives in Durham with his wife and son.
JIM HAVERKAMP
“When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl.” (Short Film)
Not your typical History Channel biography, “When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl” tells the startling, unuttered truth about America’s good gray poet. Starting out as an ordinary nine-year-old girl, Walt is soon catapulted into the world with all her senses ablaze, and neither will ever be the same.
Based on a prose poem by M.C. Biegner, the film mixes drama, dance, puppetry, and oddball humor to portray the world through the eyes of a ‘sensitive kid.’ Walt awakens to the mysteries and wonder of nature, leaves her home to seek fame and adventure, is plunged into the horror of war, and finally begins to understand the unspoken poetry of childhood.
By Jonathan Farmer, on May 16th, 2012 Sign up here: http://jonathanfarmerpoetryclass.eventbrite.com/
The Hinge’s newest poetry workshop will be led by poet and editor Jonathan Farmer. It begins on Monday, June 11, and runs for eight weeks. Each session runs from 7-9 on Monday night.
The class will meet at 305 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC, in The Hinge’s Third Friday Party Studio Space.
Class Description:
The critic and poet William Empson once wrote, “You must rely on each particular poem to show you the way in which it is trying to be good.” In addition to helping each poem be good on its own terms, we’ll be looking to discover additional ways of being good–to open up new possibilities for all of us as readers and writers. The core of that effort will be our workshopping of each other’s poems, but I will also start each meeting with a brief discussion of a published poem that seems relevant to the subjects we’re discussing in the workshop. We’ll also try to develop our community with an email forum; each week, one of the participants will share a published poem he or she finds interesting, along with a few words on what he or she values in the poem. Anyone who has time and inclination can then chime in with questions, observations, favorite lines, other poems it reminds them of, etc. Hopefully we’ll be able to help each other as writers well beyond the eight weeks we spend together, sharing new areas for exploration and starting conversations that will continue long after the workshop is done.
About Jonathan:
Jonathan Farmer is a poetry critic for Slate.com and the founder and poetry editor of At Length. In the latter role he has published work by such poets as Alan Shapiro, Elizabeth Alexander, Rachel Hadas, Kevin Young, Brenda Hillman, Erin Belleu and Major Jackson, whose poems from the magazine appeared in the 2011 edition of Best American Poetry. He has taught poetry writing at The University of North Carolina and The University of California, Irvine, as well as through The Hinge Literary Center. Craig Morgan Teicher, the Poetry Editor at Publisher’s Weekly, has called him “the rarest kind of poetry editor: one who actually knows how to help a writer make poems better.” Kimiko Hahn notes, “he doesn’t revise the work, he leads the writer to draw her/his own conclusions. He opens up possibilities. That is what revision is all about, and this what expert teaching can do.” And Joanna Klink has written, ”He has an uncanny knack for stepping into the world of a poem and making sense of what would happen there. With an exquisite ear, a wide heart, and an intuition for the extravagance of language, he helps poetry be what it is: the speech of what is most possible and most true.”
Sign up here: http://jonathanfarmerpoetryclass.eventbrite.com/
By Whit Coppedge, on May 8th, 2012  Welcome to the latest edition of The Hinge Story, this time for Short Story Month! We’ve been very happy with both the reader response to both poetry and fiction, and to the writers who’ve been kind enough to contribute.
This month, we’re excited to feature “Laura, Linda, Sweetie Pie” by Daniel Wallace, which first appeared in Wag’s Revue in the Fall of 2009.
You’ll find the story below. Daniel will be checking in during the week and joining us on Sunday, May 20th, from 4-6 pm. Please join the conversation by adding your comments and questions, either by typing in the Leave a Reply box, or, if you want to respond to a particular entry, click on Reply next to the datestamp.
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