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    2006 Festival Cancelled; Festival Reorganizing Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, March 20 2006 @ 11:37 AM
    Contributed by: Admin

    General NewsIn the interest of a long-lived and better organized Carrboro Poetry Festival, Festival founder and director Patrick Herron has decided to cancel the 2006 festival. Patrick hopes the year off will help him to establish the Festival's organizational and financial independence, with the ultimate goal of ensuring a long and healthy life for the Festival. A plan to instutute the Carrboro Poetry Festival under the auspices of a 501c3 is under way. The Festival will be back on track for June 2007.

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    About the 2005 Festival




    The Festival was held Saturday May 21 & Sunday May 22 2005

    Carrboro Century Center, Carrboro, North Carolina



    Todd Sandvik Named New Carrboro Poet Laureate Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, July 04 2005 @ 11:28 AM
    Contributed by: Admin

    Carrburritan and festival participant Todd Sandvik was named the new Carrboro Poet Laureate. Tood is a well-respected local poet and host of the famed monthly Blue Door readings. Todd will serve as poet laureate for two years. He hopes to use his term to create new poetry events in the town including a poet's theater.

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    2007 Dates Announced Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, June 20 2005 @ 04:17 AM
    Contributed by: Admin

    Dates for the 2007 Carrboro International Poetry Festival have been set for June 2-3, 2007. THE 2006 FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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    Poetry festival provides home for readers, artists Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, June 20 2005 @ 04:05 AM
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    An article from the May 22, 2005 edition of the Durham Herald-Sun by Carolyn Norton

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    A Review of the 2005 Festival Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, June 20 2005 @ 03:48 AM
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    Chapel Hill poet Randall Williams shares his thoughts about the Carrboro Poetry Festival he originally posted to the Lucipo discussion list

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    "Waxing poetic will be the order of the day" - story in the Chapel Hill News Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, May 23 2005 @ 06:01 PM
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    "Waxing poetic will be the order of the day" - story in the Chapel Hill News 17 May 2005: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/our_town/story/2416811p-8794780c.html

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    "Carrboro to be a poet magnet"- story in the N&O Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, May 23 2005 @ 05:55 PM
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    A story on the festival in the Friday May 20 edition of the Raleigh News & Observer

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    Thanks to our poets and our sponsors Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Monday, May 23 2005 @ 08:42 AM
    Contributed by: Admin

    A hearty big and sloppy "thank you" to our sponsors and to the poets who participated.

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    CPF in the Independent Weekly Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Wednesday, May 18 2005 @ 10:52 PM
    Contributed by: Admin

    "The Carrboro Poetry Festival," an article in the Independent Weekly
    written by our own Ken Rumble
    http://indyweek.com/durham/2005-05-18/ae.html

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    True Confessions of a Carrboro Poet Laureate Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
    Wednesday, May 18 2005 @ 03:58 PM
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    Carrboro Poet Laureate reveals all in Sunday's Chapel Hill News:
    http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/story/2416845p-8794817c.html

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