CHRIS ABBATE
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Malaprop's Bookstore
Asheville, NC
March 12, 2023

Nexus Poets
New Bern, NC
April 4, 2023

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Flyleaf Books
Chapel Hill, NC
January 5, 2023
with Sherry Siddall and Joan Barasovska
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Quail Ridge Books
Raleigh, NC
October 23, 2022
with Jan Harrington and Stan Absher
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Poets and Poetry Matters with Celestine Davis and the North Carolina Poetry Society
August 5, 2022​
Well-Versed Words with Alison Hurwitz
July 9, 2022
FUMFA Live! Poets and Writers Series (Fairfield University's MFA program)
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June 26, 2022
Scuppernong Books
Greensboro, NC
​June 11, 2022
with Caroline Cottom and Joan Barasovska
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So & So Books
Raleigh, NC
Thursday May 26, 2022
with Maureen Sherbondy and Joan Barasovska
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Words for Flying Book launch with Redheaded Stepchild
​March 24, 2022
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FUMFA (Fairfield University's MFA program) Poets and Writers Series
October 3, 2021
with Jessica Tumio
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Bookmarks
Winston Salem, NC
February 26, 2020
with Morgan Christie, Nicole Stockburger, and Jacinta White
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Aversboro Coffee
Garner, NC
December 15, 2019
with Valerie Macon and Shelby Stephenson
Scuppernong Books
Greensboro, NC
November 24, 2019
with Joan Barasovska and Pam Baggett
The Country Bookshop
Southern Pines, NC
​June 30, 2019
​with Murray Dunlap
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​Aversboro Coffee
Garner, NC​
​July 15, 2018
​with Pam Baggett
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Malaprop's Bookstore
Asheville, NC
July 8, 2018
with Jennie Boyd Bull and Nan Cohen
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McIntyre's Books
Pittsboro, NC
June 24, 2018
with Beth Copeland and Dorothy Baird
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All Booked Up
Apex, NC
May 12, 2018
​with Valerie Macon and Madelaine Desautels
Quail Ridge Books
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Raleigh, NC

​March 4, 2018
with Terri Kirby Erickson and Kelly Lenox
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Lucky Tree Cafe
Raleigh, NC
February 21, 2018
Flyleaf Books
Chapel Hill, NC
February 8, 2018
​with Maureen Sherbondy
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My interview with South Florida Poetry Journal!
August 2022


www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/interviews-2022-23.html

My interview with the Prolific Pulse Poetry Podcast!
May 23, 2022

Audio: anchor.fm/lisa-tomey/episodes/Poet-Talk-with-Chris-Abbate-e1iuiao

Video: youtu.be/a47sXUgu7Gs


Book Launch Party for Words for Flying
May 14, 2022
UUFR
​Raleigh, NC
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

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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 for Talk About God
November 11, 2017
Sassool Mediterranean Restaurant
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Cary, NC
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