Join us for a night of open mic original poetry — hosted by Dark City poet Greg Feightner! Get here early and sign up to read.

Greg Feightner is a big nerd whose right and left brains are constantly in conversation and occasionally disagree. He comes to us here in Marion from spending time recently in the Dark City Poetry Society in Black Mountain, NC, through open mics and monthly critique circles.

The puzzle pieces of his life as a former pastor, IT support manager, systems administrator, one-time festival organizer, men’s group facilitator and public storyteller/writer at first seem to impossible to fit together, but somehow, they do. The result is a wonderfully abstract tableau resembling a Picasso painting smeared into a JMW Turner-esque canvas. His proudest achievements are recipes, particularly figuring out how to perfectly cook thick cut bacon in the oven.