Poetry Hickory is a monthy reading series held the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. at Taste Full Beans Coffee House (29 Second St. NW) in downtown Hickory, NC.  Each reading is preceded by Writers’ Night Out, beginning at 5:00 also at Taste Full Beans, coordinated by Scott Owens as NC Writers’ Network Regional Representative.  These meetings and readings are open to the public and free of charge.

The series was founded by Scott Owens in September 2007 and is sponsored by Taste Full Beans and Main Street Rag.  Each reading includes two featured writers preceded by a 30-minute Open Mic.  Upcoming readings will be posted on this website.  Ten-minute video samples of several of the readings are also available here.

Previous featured writers have included the following:

John Amen, Margaret Booth Baddour, Rand Brandes, Ann Campanella, Robert Canipe, Jessie Carty, Bud Caywood, Ann Fox Chandonnet, Sara Claytor, DB Cox, Jeff Davis, M. Scott Douglass, Linda Annas Ferguson, Brenda Graham, Bill Griffin, Lissa Hamilton, Sigrid Hice, Jack Hicks, Irene Blair Honeycutt, Debra Kaufman, Kevin Keck, Helen Losse, Al Maginnes, Carter Monroe, Tim Peeler, John Picard, Ted Pope, Pat Riviere-Seel, Dannye Romine Powell, Adrian Rice, Jonathan K. Rice, Molly Rice, Katherine Soniat, Mark Smith-Soto, Chuck Sullivan, Brad Vogler, Tammy Wilson.