Tickets $20
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Story Parlor | 227 Haywood Road
Parking & Policies
Students must RSVP in advance: Email us here with your name and current student ID.
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for purchase. All shows, unless specified, are ages 16+.
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Juniper Bends, a quarterly reading series curated by Locke Hunter and Alli Marshall, features poetry, prose, and music from established and emerging writers and artists.
This month features: RK Faulk, Lindsey Pharr, Brinn Langdale, and Alli Marshall, with musician M A R. Books will be available for purchase, and the authors will sign them.
Students can attend for free with proof of current student ID, but MUST RSVP at the above ticketing link.
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RK Fauth writes about ecological grief, awe, and the un/natural world. Her debut poetry collection, A Dream in Which I am Playing with Bees (2024), explores the relationship between species extinction and language. It won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press, and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry. RK's poems are published in POETRY Magazine, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Arc Poetry, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Notch Magazine, The Shore, and anthologized in queer and environmental poetry collections. Most recently, the prelude poem to Playing with Bees was anthologized in The Gift of Animals, edited by Alison Deming and foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer. RK is the recipient of a Treehouse Climate Action Prize from the Academy of American poets, the Lois Cranston Memorial Poem Prize, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her work has been supported by residencies at Art Omi and The Oak Spring Garden Foundation. A first-gen college student, she received her Master’s degree from Georgetown University, where she was a Poetry Fellow at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. RK lives between Asheville, North Carolina, and New York.
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Lindsey Pharr is a fifth generation Mississippian who has made Asheville her home since 2009. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. Her award-winning essays have appeared in Appalachian Review, Brevity, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere.
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At 22, Brinn Langdale began confronting her own childhood trauma, setting her on a lifelong journey of healing and forgiveness. Today, she runs a thriving private practice as a licensed psychotherapist, speaker and author. Brinn’s core message, that everything you do makes perfect sense and that healing is possible, resonates with a wide range of audiences, including students, professionals, survivors, and anyone seeking personal growth and self-improvement.
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Hailing originally from Peru, US based M A R is a Latinx singer, songwriter, and producer who fuses folk elements through bilingual lyrics and Latin grooves over indie-flavored acoustic guitars. Recipient of the 2022 LGTBQ+ Emerging Artist Award, and founder of Óyelo Music Productions, M A R truly enjoys collaborating with like-minded creatives. That same year, M A R debuted an original and autobiographical piece in the iconic A Swannanoa Solstice at the Wortham Theater in Asheville, NC in junction with American-Peruvian artist Gina Cornejo, and returned as a guest artist on December 2024. You can catch M A R solo at a show, or with his band M A R & The Marmeladies, or his recently formed Cumbia band Las Montañitas.
About Juniper Bends | Launched in 2009, Juniper Bends ran for 10 years before taking a two-year hiatus during the pandemic. Juniper nurtures the voices of new writers while providing a space for local established writers to showcase their work.