Empty Step: Poetry & Spoken Word, Featuring Laura Jackson
Event Details
Join us for an evening of poetry and spoken word at 7pm Saturday, November 30, 2024 in The Gallery at Towngate Theatre!
Empty Step is a spoken word event that includes a featured poet and an open mic.
7pm November 30 at Towngate Theatre.
Admission is $5. Purchase tickets online or call 304-242-7700.
Sponsored by Main Street Bank.
Featured Poet for November 30
Laura Jackson is an environmental writer and humorist. Her work has been published in places like “Terrain, Brevity, and Hippocampus,” and she writes regularly for “Wonderful West Virginia” and “West Virginia Living” magazines. She works for WVU as a research writer and her essay collection, “Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums, & Finding Your Way in West Virginia” will be published by Autumn House Press in October of 2024.
Open Mic
Those wishing to participate may bring any poetry or prose they would like to read.
About Empty Step: Poetry & Spoken Word
Take a mesmerizing journey with a featured poet. Listen to local actors bring stories to life through theatrical readings from selected plays. Most of all, explore the connections between spoken word and personal expression.
You can discover and develop your own voice, too. After the featured readings, an open mic session closes out the evening. Poets and storytellers, new and experienced, shy and bold, bring their poetry and prose and read aloud to the audience.
“Empty Step” was created by Towngate veterans Maribeth Thompson and the late Tom Stobart in the 1980s to give our local poets and actors an opportunity to have their works and voices be heard. The program was revitalized in recent years and is coordinated by C.J. Farnsworth.
Towngate Theatre is more than theater…
Towngate’s Second Season enhances Wheeling’s arts landscape with literary programming, spoken word performances, live music, improvisation and more. Programs often feature works by emerging and/or local authors, playwrights, songwriters, and poets.
