Come experience the power of poetry to hold grief, honor love, and gently guide us toward healing.
Join us for a soulful evening of poetry, motherhood, and the quiet divinity of women as we celebrate the launch of What Does Anyone Know About Goddesses?, the debut poetry chapbook of writer and Hive member, Gina Malone, in honor of National Poetry Month.
✨ Evening Highlights:
• Poetry readings by Gina Malone
• Author conversation & Q&A
• Heart-centered creative writing experience
• Book signing & connection time
A living memory altar honoring Gina’s mother, created with personal mementos and symbols of her life, will offer a quiet space for reflection and remembrance.
A tea reception with home-baked cookies will be available during the evening.
📚 Books will be available for purchase (cash, check, or PayPal).
💛 Learn more & read Marga’s interview with Gina Malone.
Registration: Please register online. The event is free. Donations welcome. Your generosity helps sustain our social healing work and makes it accessible to all.
About Gina Malone
Gina Malone is a native of South Carolina and now writes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Her short stories and flash fiction have won awards in the Charlotte Writers’ Club’s annual competitions, most recently in 2018 with Wiley Cash as the judge. She was a winner of the Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition in 2012 and 2020, and, in 2013, she won a North Carolina Press Association award for feature writing. Her poems have been published in Poetry South, Quartet, Streetlight and Kakalak, and have twice been finalists for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. From March 2020 until March 2022, she wrote 800 poems about the pandemic, and thinks occasionally of taking up work again on an as yet unpublished memoir of essays about her 19 years running a bookshop in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Read more of her published work at https://www.ginamalonewriter.com.