“Set Your Soul on Fire”
Last year, Hendersonville poet and activist Robert “Zach” Zachary attended a poetry open mic at Shakedown Lounge Kava Bar in Hendersonville. The performers spoke…
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The People Still Need a Poet
The deep fryer is fertile ground for poetry. While tending to chicken thighs churning in hot vegetable oil, part-time deli worker, part-time dishwasher, and “people’s poet” Tony Robles writes. He writes about peach cobbler and green beans, about snapping turtles marooned on Greenville Highway. He writes about racism. But mostly, Robles writes about people.
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