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With funding from NCArts and North Carolina Humanities Council, both of which have provided generous and much-needed support through the first decade, Asheville Wordfest has welcomed poets from more than 30 cultural contexts, global and regional.
Galway Kinnell, LeAnne Howe, Allison Adele Hedge Coke, Li-Young Lee, Quincy Troupe, Valzhyna Mort, Cornelius Eady, Raul Zurita, Ross Gay, Elizabeth Bradfield, Frank X Walker, and David Whyte, along with many others, have spoken their work.
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Simon Ortiz from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Raul Zurita from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Natasha Trethewey from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Galway Kinnell from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Kathryn Stripling Byer from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Cornelius Eady from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Patricia Smith from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Elizabeth Bradfield from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Valzhyna Mort from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Lee Ann Brown from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Ekiwah Adler-Belendez from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Ross Gay from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Quincy Troupe from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Richard Chess from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
David Whyte from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Flying Words Project from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Holly Iglesias from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Patrick Rosal from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Li-Young Lee from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
Evie Shockely from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo. Erik Bendix from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo. Matthew Shenoda at Asheville Wordfest from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo. 2.9 from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo. Day 2 Poet 3 from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo. Paul Guest from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo. Brian Turner from Laura Hope-Gill on Vimeo.
The Story Shepherds 