Haw River in the Round presents a reading from One Window’s Light, followed by an open mic.
Date: Friday June 14, 2024
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Location: River Amphitheater, Saxapahaw, NC. The amphitheater is beside the Haw River Ballroom: 1711 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Rd., Saxapahaw, NC 27340
One Window’s Light (Unicorn Press, Greensboro: 2017) is a collection of haiku by Dr. L. Teresa Church, Lenard D. Moore, Dr. Shelia Smith McKoy, Crystal Simone Smith, and Gideon Young. It won the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award for best haiku anthology published in 2017.
“This collection is a lighted window into lives of African American haiku poets with powerful connections to earth and family.” —Ruth Yarrow
The haiku are arranged in thematic sections. Here is a sample of poems from the History section.
diagonal snow
Wall Street glitters
with afros and badges
—Gideon Young
plantation tour
I follow the swallowtail
to the slavehouse
—Crystal Simone Smith
upturned cicada
we read slave narratives
row by row
—Lenard D. Moore
dusty slave quarters
rusted sugar kettles
holding rainwater
—L. Teresa Church
