CHRIS ABBATE
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Winston Salem, NC
Wednesday February 26, 2020
with Morgan Christie, Nicole Stockburger, and Jacinta White
Aversboro Coffee
Garner, NC
Sunday December 15, 2019
with Valerie Macon and Shelby Stephenson

Scuppernong Books
Greensboro, NC
Sunday November 24, 2019
with Joan Barasovska and Pam Baggett
The Country Bookshop
Southern Pines, NC
​Sunday June 30, 2019
​with Murray Dunlap
​Aversboro Coffee
Garner, NC​
​Sunday July 15, 2018
​with Pam Baggett

Malaprop's Bookstore
Asheville, NC
Sunday July 8, 2018
with Jennie Boyd Bull and Nan Cohen

McIntyre's Books
Pittsboro, NC
Sunday June 24, 2018
with Beth Copeland and Dorothy Baird

All Booked Up
Apex, NC
Saturday May 12, 2018
​with Valerie Macon and Madelaine Desautels
Quail Ridge Books
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Raleigh, NC

​Sunday March 4, 2018
with Terri Kirby Erickson and Kelly Lenox

Lucky Tree Cafe
Raleigh, NC
Wednesday February 21, 2018
Flyleaf Books
Chapel Hill, NC
Thursday February 8, 2018
​with Maureen Sherbondy

Timber Drive Elementary School
4th Grade Poetry Slam
September 27, 2019
with Bartholomew Barker

2018 Flyleaf Books Poetry Contest
October 14, 2018
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I was honored to have my poem, "Chemistry," selected by poet Peter Makuck as the 1st place entry in the 2018 Flyleaf Books Poetry contest. I read with Debra Kaufman and Kevin Rippin.

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2019 North Carolina Poetry Society Awards Day
May 11, 2019


I received 2nd place for the Poetry of Witness award. I was very honored again to share this day with the other winners!
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Timber Drive Elementary School
4th Grade Poetry Slam
September 27, 2018
​with Tara Lynne Groth

Holly Springs 2018 Book Festival
September 29, 2018

Featured speaker, Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate
2018 North Carolina Poetry Society Awards Day
May 13, 2018

I received honorable mention for the Thomas H. McDill award (a poem of any form or style and that is less than 70 lines). It was a great day and I was honored to read with the other winners!
2018 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival
April 8, 2018

I read at the 2018 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival April 8 in Cary, NC as one of the honorable mentions in their annual poetry competition. I look forward to this festival every year and was grateful to be a second-time honorable mention and to have the opportunity to read the poems I submitted. Thank you to the American Turkish Association of NC and to the Town of Cary for organizing this event!
Blue Heron Review Featured Author

I was happy to be the December 2018 featured author for Blue Heron Review. BHR is an online journal that has been very supportive of my poetry. Check out my profile, read a few of my poems, and peruse the rest of the journal here.
Book Launch Party
November 11, 2017
Sassool Mediterranean Restaurant
1347 Kildaire Farm Rd. Cary, NC
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