tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-247908032024-03-27T02:38:30.845-04:00Susan Laughter MeyersBlog of poet Susan Laughter Meyers, an update of publishing news and poetry events--mainly ones that I'm participating in, mainly in the Carolinas.Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-87139365602086627412017-04-23T08:43:00.000-04:002017-04-23T08:45:01.558-04:00April 19: Pints & Poets reading, Spartanburg <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">April 19, 2017</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Lee Kendrick & Susan Laughter Meyers</span></b><br />
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Hub City Tap House, Spartanburg, SC<br />
Celebrating National Poetry Month<br />
Sponsored by the Converse MFA program<br />
<br />Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-16777003651253371072017-04-14T10:08:00.002-04:002017-04-14T10:08:35.152-04:00April 7 opening reading for The Poetry Society of SC<br />
It was a pleasure to read a few poems to open the April PSSC program that featured Celeste McMaster. I started out, here, with a poem by Kate Daniels. It's always a joy to be among poet friends at the beautiful Charleston Library Society in downtown Charleston.<br />
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<b>Tonight at the Poetry Society of SC</b><br />
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I'm happy to be reading a few poems to open tonight's Poetry Society of South Carolina (PSSC) program, which will feature poet CELESTE MCMASTER, who won the inaugural PSSC Summer Scholarship, an annual competition for members. For her selection by judge Lola Haskins, Celeste received full tuition to the 2016 Hub City Writing in Place Conference, a weekend event held every year in mid-July on the campus of Wofford College. While there, she studied with nationally known poet Kate Daniels, of Vanderbilt. Debbie Scott and I, of the PSSC Summer Scholarship Committee, would like to congratulate Celeste again for this honor! <br />
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Celeste is an associate professor at Charleston Southern University. She has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals, including <i>The Dos Passos Review, New Delta Review, </i>and <i>Arkansas Review.</i> She is also this year's winner of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Fiction Fellowship of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.<br />
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The Poetry Society of SC programs are held at The Charleston Library Society, 164 King Street, Charleston, SC, at 7 p.m. Typically they are on the second Friday of the month (Sept. - May), but this month is being held early because of the Easter weekend holiday next weekend. The readings are followed by a reception and book signing. They are free & open to the public.Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-62746922682455090682017-04-07T14:31:00.001-04:002017-04-07T14:31:30.381-04:00Looking back on the 2017 Litchfield Tea & Poetry Series<div style="text-align: center;">
Here was the schedule for this year's Litchfield Tea & Poetry Series. </div>
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A special thank you to all the poets who read!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Please join us for our eleventh year of
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Refreshments: tea &
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brief reading/writing
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Free & open to the
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Linda Ketron, series
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">January 5 – </span></b><st1:state><st1:state><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brookgreen</span></b></i></st1:state><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></b><st1:state><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gardens</span></i></b></st1:state></st1:state><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">: Nights of a Thousand
Candles</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> (CLASS, 2016).<b> </b>Editor<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">
Linda Ketron </span>and<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span>photographer<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> Anne Swift Malarich</span> will talk about the experience of
publishing this beautiful book celebrating Christmas and the winter holiday
season at </span><st1:state><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Brookgreen</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Gardens</span></st1:state></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. Several contributors will
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">February 2 – Jennifer Bartell; Len Lawson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the author of the chapbook <i>Before the Night Wakes </i>You (Finishing Line
Press) and co-founder of the Poets Respond to Race initiative. Recent honors
include a fellowship from Callaloo Creative Writing. He teaches writing at </span><st1:state><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Central</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Carolina</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Technical</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">College</span></st1:state></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">March 2 – Jonathan Kevin Rice; open mic <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Jonathan KEVIN Rice,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> of Charlotte, is a poet and visual
artist. His most recent poetry collection is <i>Killing Time </i>(Main Street
Rag, 2015). He is also the founding editor of <i>Iodine Poetry Journal. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are invited to read one of their own poems. (Please keep your reading to a
single poem no longer than a page.) We’ll all look forward to hearing a variety
of voices, including yours. Please join in! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">April 6 – Kate Daniels; <i>Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry</i> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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known poet KATE DANIELS, professor and Director of Creative Writing at </span><st1:state><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Vanderbilt</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">University</span></st1:state></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, is the author of
several poetry collections—the latest, <i>A Walk in </i></span><st1:state><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Victoria</span></i></st1:state><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">’s Secret.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> Among her many honors
are a Guggenheim Fellowship and Pushcart Prize. She will offer a reading of her
poems, including her work in the new anthology <i>Hard Lines: Rough South
Poetry</i> (</span><st1:state><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">University</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> of </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">South Carolina Press</span></st1:state></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, 2016). Introducing her
will be co-editor<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> Daniel<b> </b>Cross
Turner, </span>who will also talk about the anthology’s focus. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Author George Singleton describes <i>Hard
Lines</i> as “<span style="background: white;">a wonderful selection of writers
wrestling with, and extolling, the most intricate, beautiful, and perplexing
aspects of our South.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Susan Laughter Meyers at </span></i><a href="mailto:bardowl2@aol.com"><i><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">bardowl2@aol.com</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">or Libby Bernardin at
libbypoet@gmail.com</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-72892027314073876682017-04-07T14:25:00.001-04:002017-04-07T14:25:40.064-04:00April 6, 2017: Litchfield Tea & Poetry 2017 grand finale: poet Kate Daniels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>What a finale to the 2017 Series, our eleventh year!</b><br />
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Thanks to poet Kate Daniels, of Vanderbilt University, for making our last event of the 2017 Litchfield Tea & Poetry Series a finale that was truly grand. Yesterday she read some of her poems from the new anthology <i>Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry </i>(University of South Carolina Press, 2016), as well as a selection of her other poems. <i>Hard Lines </i>was edited by Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright. This final program of the season was a celebration of the anthology, as well as of Kate's poems.<br />
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Please join us in 2018--on the first Thursday of Jan., Feb., Mar., and Apr.--for readings by a roster of talented poets from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Libby Bernardin and I have enjoyed coordinating each event this year. We're delighted to be joined next year by poet Cliff Saunders, who will work with us as a third coordinator. The three of us have lots of ideas for the coming year! Much gratitude to our cosponsors, The Waccamaw Neck Branch Library and The Poetry Society of South Carolina. Thanks, too, to Deloris Roberts for our receptions of delicious homemade confections and tea--and to co-founder Linda Ketron. The events are held at the lovely new library at 41 St. Paul Place, Pawleys Island. We look forward to our twelfth year of tea and poetry!Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-70803776793798636252017-03-31T18:04:00.000-04:002017-03-31T18:23:53.436-04:00Wednesday, April 19: Pints & Poets readings, Spartanburg, SC<b>PINTS & POETS</b><br />
<b>April 19, 2017</b><br />
<b>Readings by Robert Lee Kendrick & Susan Laughter Meyers</b><br />
8 p.m., Hub City Tap House<br />
197 East St. John St., Spartanburg, SC<br />
Hosted by Converse College MFA in Creative Writing<br />
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I'm excited to be a part of this lively event and look forward to meeting and reading with Robert Lee Kendrick. It's the last Pints & Poets reading of the semester for the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing program--a chance to celebrate National Poetry Month.<br />
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<span style="background: white;">Robert Lee
Kendrick grew up in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: white;">Illinois</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: white;"> and </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: white;">Iowa</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: white;">, but now calls </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: white;">South Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: white;"> home. After earning his M.A. from </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="background: white;">Illinois</span></st1:placename><span style="background: white;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="background: white;">State</span></st1:placetype><span style="background: white;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="background: white;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="background: white;"> and his Ph.D. from the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="background: white;">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="background: white;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="background: white;">South Carolina</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="background: white;">, he held a number of jobs, ranging from
house painter to pizza driver to grocery store worker to line cook. He now
lives in Clemson with his wife and their dogs. His poems have appeared in Tar
River Poetry, Xavier Review, Louisiana Literature, South Carolina Review, The
James Dickey Review, The Sow’s </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ear Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook,
Winter Skin, was released in 2016 by Main Street Rag Publishing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">Pamela Hoppock, Coordinator</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.8571434020996px;">Attending & featured: author Jacqueline Woodson.</span><br />
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honored to be asked to be one of the judges for the inaugural "Young Minds
Dreaming" Poetry Contest, sponsored by the South Carolina State Library. </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica";">South
Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="background: white; font-family: "helvetica";"> students in grades 3-12 were invited to submit poems
relating stories of a person, place, or an experience that made a mark on
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">There were nine judges. I judged the submissions from the 3rd
graders, a rich assortment of poems consisting of about 90 entries. Then the
three judges assigned to the elementary grades judged the top nine poems from
grades 3-5. <span style="background: white;">T</span>hank
you, students, for each poem--each flight of imagination--that I read! I look
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">1st Place - Sonia Baxter: "The Beach", 3rd grade, Round Top Elementary School</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">2nd Place - Catie Coats: "My Grandma's Death", 5th grade, Oak Pointe Elementary School</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">3rd Place - Michaela Grindstaff: "Up Main Street", 5th grade, Oak Pointe Elementary School</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">1st Place - Nada Rahal: "Beauty", 6th grade, Alice Drive Middle School</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">2nd Place - Charlotte Hughes: "The Cherry Blossom City", 8th grade, Heathwood Hall</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">3rd Place - Michaela Lanier: "Destructional Peace", 7th grade, Blythewood Middle School</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">1st Place - Skye Robertson: "Dreams", 12th grade, Fort Mill High School </li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">2nd Place - Gillian Moses: "Flight", 9th grade, Clover High School</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">3rd Place - April Williams: "Dreaming of Innocence", 11th grade, Fort Mill High School</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">Last Saturday was the second Poetry Society of SC (PSSC) Writers' Group workshop of the year, when we continued our exploration of "Fishing for Poems," generating new work. We began by each creating a word bank of nouns and verbs we might want to use in the day's writing. We then spent working with our class packet. For our first writing activity we wrote our own lines in-between the lines of a published poem, all of us using the same poem, "Though I've Never Been to Gettysburg, by Gabrielle Calverossi. We used her poem, which was tripled spaced to give us writing room, as ghost lines that we took off from by paying attention to sound, rhythms, and whatever else struck a core. Our intent was to make associative leaps, not necessarily to respond to the poem or even pay attention to it content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">We also wrote an erasure poem, either from our own earlier freewriting or from two pages of prose from a book called <i>Weather Wisdom.</i> An erasure poem is typically quite spare, with deliberate care spent on which single words to choose. We each circled only the words from the paragraphs in the <i>Weather Wisdom</i> excerpt that we wanted to cause to bump up against each other with surprise and freshness to create the poem. All the rest from the prose was "erased." No rearranging of words and no adding of new words. It's like choosing which stones to step on while crossing a wide creek.</span></div>
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Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-86145572464500879172017-03-31T16:23:00.001-04:002017-03-31T16:23:09.365-04:00Looking back at the NCPS Sam Ragan Poetry Festival, March 18March 18, 2017<br />
Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities<br />
Southern Pines, NC<br />
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Road trip! Up to the North Carolina Poetry Society program with friend and SC poet laureate Marjory Wentworth. Friday afternoon in the charming town of Southern Pines and dinner at Rhett's.<br />
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All day Saturday at beautiful Weymouth, featuring a morning reading by Peter Makuck--poet, writer, and founding editor of <i>Tar River Poetry</i>. Followed by<br />
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Afternoon reading by Marjory. Loveliest of days!<br />
<br />Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-71423644788824878232017-03-22T21:50:00.001-04:002017-03-22T21:50:05.528-04:00Looking back: Press 53 Gathering of Poets -- March 4, 2017On March 4, 2017, in Winston-Salem, NC, Press 53 held its Gathering of Poets, a much anticipated annual event planned and offered by publisher Kevin Watson. I was honored to be on the faculty this year, along with these talented poets:<br />
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Each poet on the faculty offered an hour-and-a-half workshop twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. There were a variety of subjects, and participants were able to take a total of four workshops. Such a full day of poetry! My workshop was called "Song of the Imperative." Here's the approach we took in it:<div>
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“Incantation.” “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” says Adam Zagajewski in the
quieter, softer music of his lines. What does a memorable poem of the
imperative offer? Perhaps advice, instruction, a blessing, even a recipe—real
or imagined. A rhythm of imperative verbs, always. Plenty of surprise. Syntax
and image worthy of any good poem. This is the chance for you as poet to speak from
the core, imaginatively and directly to the reader. Our agenda includes discussion and writing time to
generate a poem, as well as a workshop packet of writing strategies, exemplary
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this workshop let’s cast for poems, somewhat like throwing out a fishing line
in first one spot and then another, knowing that sometimes we catch a fish,
sometimes we don't. We're notfixed on the catch as much as
we're determined to sit back and enjoy the process. If we
dedicate ourselves to this time of generating something new--if we allow
ourselves plenty of opportunities to let our imaginations loose, to experiment
without judging our work—by the end of the workshop, we’ll each have several poem
starts or drafts to take home for revision, as well as new strategies for
filling our poetry pail. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-18377696199162298282017-03-22T20:55:00.004-04:002017-03-22T20:55:52.482-04:00Oct. 22, 2016: A day at the Pat Conroy Literary FestivalThe Pat Conroy Literary Festival was as enchanting as I thought it would be. I was there for the day on a Saturday and felt the magic of the Festival as soon as I arrived in downtown Beaufort, SC. Pat Conroy's presence was felt by everyone there, as one program followed another. Besides his literary talents, it's his big heart, his generosity that was best remembered. I was honored to be a part of the readings from the anthology <i>Found Anew,</i> published by the University of South Carolina Press and edited by R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus.<br />
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It was one of those days that somehow feels just perfect. I hope I can attend again next year to feel some more of that magic.Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-73177662355154155622017-03-22T20:46:00.001-04:002017-03-22T20:46:28.264-04:00Last fall's Poetry Society of SC Writers' Group workshop: Oct. 29<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last fall's Poetry Society of SC Writers' Group workshop:</span><br />
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line breaks? This workshop looked at how lineation affects a poem, how
various poets have upheld the integrity of the line – whether it’s short, long,
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<b>THE SOUTHERN POETRY ANTHOLOGY,</b><br />
<i>Volume VII: North Carolina.</i><br />
Eds.Jesse Graves, Paul Ruffin, William Wright<br />
(Texas Review Press, 2014).<br />
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<b>CAROLINA MOUNTAINS </b><br />
<b>LITERARY FESTIVAL ANTHOLOGY:</b><br />
<i>A Celebration of Ten Festivals.</i><br />
Ed. Diana M. Donovan (Press 53, 2015).<br />
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<b>FOUND ANEW: </b><i>Poetry and Prose </i><br />
<i>Inspired </i><i>by the South Caroliniana Library </i><br />
<i>Digital Collections.</i><br />
Eds. R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus<br />
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<b><b>BROOKGREEN GARDENS:</b></b><br />
<i>Through the Seasons in Images and Words</i><br />
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Ed. Diane Lockward<br />
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<b>THE WORLD IS CHARGED:</b><i> Poetic </i><br />
<i>Engagements </i><i>with Gerard Manley Hopkins.</i><b> </b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">THE CRAFTY POET: </b><i>A Portable Workshop.</i><br />
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<i>Nights of 1000 Candles. </i><br />
Photographer Anne Swift Malarich,<br />
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I enjoyed being on a publishing panel as the one poet among prose writers, plus we poets held two sessions of our own. Poet and editor Tom Lombardo held a seminar on Putting a Poetry Book Together, and Asheville poet Pat Riviere-Seel led a session on Becoming a Better Poet: Tips & Totems.<br />
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Thanks to Shuly Cawood and her steering committee for a great weekend on campus!<br />
<br />Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-17614825489526795382016-10-23T09:05:00.000-04:002016-10-23T09:55:04.034-04:00Release of The Crafty Poet II, ed. Diane Lockward<div class="MsoNormal">
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favorite resource, and I'm doubly excited about the two books since my work is
included in both. The second<span class="apple-converted-space"> in the series, <i>The </i></span><i>Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>has just been released by Terrapin Books, and I'm
happy to report that it lives up to the first: helpful craft tips, prompts with
exemplary poems, the "Poet on the Poem" features, and more. Diane
Lockward is a gifted editor with a teacher's eye—in this case, for tips, poems,
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Kelli Russell Agodon, Dick
Allen, Nin Andrews, David Barber, Judith Barrington, Ellen
Bass, Mary Bindiger, George Pilgere. Chana
Bloch, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, David Bottoms, Fleda
Brown, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Lauren Camp, Martha
Collins, Mary Cornish, Oliver de la Paz, Carl Dennis, Toi
Derricotte, Natalie Diaz, Camille Dungy, Jill Alexander
Essbaum, Alice B. Fogel, Alice Friman, Karin
Gottshall, Tami Haaland, Barbara Hamby, Ava Level
Haymon, Tom Hennen, David Hernandez, Tony Hoagland, Karla
Huston, Laura Kasischke, Meg Kearney, David Kirby, Lance
Larsen, Sydney Lea, Ada Limon, Timothy Liu, Diane
Lockward, Alessandra Lynch, Davis McCombs, Deborah
Miranda, D. Nurkse, Priscilla Orr, Paisley Rekdal, Susan
Rich, Alberto Rios, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Sheryl St. Germaine, Martha
Silano, Ron Smith, A. E. Stringer, KC Trommer, William
Trowbridge, Lee Upton, Sidney Wade, Charles Harper
Webb, Hilde Weisert, Marjory Wentworth, Terence
Winch, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Michael T. Young</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Gloria Amescua, Bob
Bradshaw, Constance Brewer, Betsey Cullen, Jessica de
Koninck, Gail Fishman Gerwin, Deborah Gerrish, Patricia L.
Goodman, Jeanie Greensfelder, Susan Gundlach, Barbara G.S.
Hagerty, Tracy Hart, Penny Harter, Karen Paul Holmes, Akua
Lezli Hope, Jenny Hubbard, Jen Karetnick, Tina Kelley, Adele
Kenny, Kim Klugh, Denise Low, Kathy Macdonald, Charlotte
Mandel, Joan Mazza, Jane Miller, Maren Mitchell, Camille Norvaisas, Ellie
O'Leary, Judith Quaempts, Wanda Praisner, Anjela Villarreal Ratliff, Kim
Roberts, Jennifer Saunders, Paula Schulz, Martha
Silano, Linda Simone, Jay Sizemore, Kate Sontag, Carole
Stone, Marilyn L. Taylor, Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Pramila
Ventkateswaren, Angela Vogel, Jeanne Wagner, Jane West, Scott
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Discover additional excellent poetry resources available from Diane Lockward at her <a href="http://dianelockward.com/" target="_blank">website</a> and her <a href="http://dianelockward.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>.</span></div>
Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-39216361521054216602016-07-23T10:47:00.000-04:002016-09-03T11:35:14.991-04:00October 20-23: Pat Conroy Literary Festival, Beaufort, SCI'm looking forward to the <a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/index.html" target="_blank">Pat Conroy Literary Festival</a> in October. In the session I'm participating in I'll be reading, along with others, from the beautiful new anthology <i>Found Anew: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#clark" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Katherine Clark </a>•<a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#cox" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> Elizabeth Cox</a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#clark" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a>•<a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#cox" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#daise" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Ronald Daise</a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#clark" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a>•<a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#cox" style="color: #0099ff; 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font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Pam Durban</a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#clark" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a>•<a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#cox" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#evans" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Margaret Shinn Evans</a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#clark" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a>•<a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#cox" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#frank" style="color: #0099ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Dorothea Benton Frank</a><a href="http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/microsites/conroyfestival/presenters.html#clark" style="color: #0099ff; 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Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-31632347040903611242016-05-27T16:13:00.000-04:002016-05-27T16:13:16.301-04:002016 Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Series schedule<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Barbara G.S. Hagerty and I are happy once again this year to be coordinating the Piccolo Spoleto Sundown Poetry Series, which starts next Tuesday evening. What a roster of talented poets! If you're in the area, we'd love to see you at some of the events. Experience these magical moments at the historic Dock Street Theatre Courtyard, where the readings are free and open to the public, each followed by a lovely art gallery reception.</span></div>
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<b><i>Reception</i></b><i> at a
nearby art gallery after each reading
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Tue., May 31<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">–
<b>“From the Ward to the Word: Nurses as
Writers.”</b> Poetry performances by four award-winning and widely published
nurse writers coming from various locations to read for us: Cortney Davis,
Jeanne Bryner, Veneta Masson, and Muriel A. Murch. Lisa Kerr, facilitator.
Brief readings that showcase how nurses translate the mysterious moments they
share with patients and their observations of health care into artful poetry
and prose. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Co-sponsored
by the MUSC Writing Center and University Humanities Committee</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Wed., Jun. 1<span style="font-family: Arial;"> –</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <b>Dannye Romine Powell</b>, of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Charlotte</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">NC</span></st1:state></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">, is the author of four poetry
collections, including her latest, <i>Nobody
Calls Me Darling Anymore</i> (Press 53, 2015).<b> </b>Her awards include poetry fellowships from the NEA and the NC Arts
Council, as well as numerous book awards. She is a long-time columnist and book
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– <b>John Milkereit</b>,
of Houston TX, is the author of <i>A
Rotating Equipment Engineer Is Never Finished</i> (Ink Brush Press, 2015), as
well as two chapbooks published by Pudding House Productions. His work has also
appeared in </span><st2:sn><st1:place><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">San</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><st2:middlename><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Pedro</span></i></st2:middlename><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><st2:sn><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">River</span></i></st2:sn></st2:sn><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> Review, </span></i><st1:placename><st1:place><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Big</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><st1:placetype><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">River</span></i></st1:placetype></st1:placename><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> Poetry Review, </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">and other journals. A </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Charleston</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> native, he is
completing an </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">MFA</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> degree at Rainier Writing Workshop.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fri., Jun. 3 <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">–
<b>Jaki Shelton Green</b>, of Mebane, NC,
is the author of numerous poetry collections, including her latest, <i>Feeding the Light</i> (Jacar Press, 2014).</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Her work has also appeared
widely in publications such as <i>Essence
Magazine, Obsidian, </i>and <i>Poets for
Peace. </i>A highly regarded literary teacher and consultant, she was the
inaugural Poet Laureate of Piedmont NC and
2016 Writer-in-Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University. In 2014 she was
inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame.
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Tue., Jun. 7<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">
– <b>Nick Lindsay</b> is—at 89—a troubadour, expert builder, master storyteller,
and accomplished musician. Son of Vachel Lindsay and a longtime resident of </span><st1:placename><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Edisto</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Island</span></st1:placetype></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, he will read from his
book <i>Esau Lanier,</i> a lyrical
exploration of race, work, place, the natural world, and more. This epic poem
is rendered in Pushkin sonnets, telling of Nick’s African American friend and
co-worker Esau, with whom he built houses on Edisto Island in the mid-20<sup>th</sup>
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Wed., Jun. 8<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">
– <b>Jacqueline Johnson, </b>of Brooklyn,
NY, is the author of the award-winning poetry collections <i>A Woman’s Season</i> (Main Street Rag Press, 2015) and <i>A Gathering of Mother Tongues</i> (White
Pine Press, 1998). She is a Cave Canem fellow and has performed at numerous
venues, including the New York Center for Book Arts, St. Marks Poetry Project,
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Thur., Jun 9<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">
– <b>Laurel Blossom</b> is the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, SC. Her new
collection, <i>Longevity </i>(Four Way
Books, 2015) is a book-length narrative prose poem and companion piece
to her book <i>Degrees of Latitude. </i>Her earlier books are <i>Wednesday: New
and Selected Poems</i>; <i>The Papers Said</i>; <i>What’s Wrong</i>; and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"><i>Any Minute</i></a>. Her many awards include a fellowship from
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Fri., Jun 10<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">
– <b>Nikky
Finney,</b> of Columbia, SC, is the author of
four poetry collections, including her latest, <i>Head Off & Split</i> (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern U Press,
2011), winner of the National Book Award. She is also editor of the anthology <i>The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South</i>
(</span><st1:placetype><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Univ.</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Georgia Press</span></st1:placename></st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">, 2007) and cofounder of
the Affrilachian Poets. She is the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Southern
Letters and Literature at the </span><st1:placetype><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">University</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">South Carolina</span></st1:placename></st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Barbara G. S. Hagerty & Susan
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2017 applications available in the fall
of 2016 at </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.piccolospoleto.com</span></div>
<br />Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-44959842528988078882016-05-27T15:59:00.002-04:002016-05-27T16:13:59.058-04:00Looking back on the spring Poetry Society of SC Writers' Group workshop: Apr. 23<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second of three 2016 workshops of the Writers' Group of The Poetry Society of South Carolina (PSSC) was held about a month ago, and it was another stellar group. How I enjoy teaching these workshops! Below are the particulars about the logistics of the event and what we focused on while gathering for it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Free for PSSC/CLS members & CofC
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">(PSSC membership, $25 annually; new memberships
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including both large and small issues. Taking time to draw back and ask why the
poem exists and what it’s doing. Moving in close to look at all the movable
parts, stanza to syllable, molding and shaping to give the poem its art.
Discussion, revision activities, workshop packet.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2 or 3 copies of a relatively short poem of yours that is ready for revision</u>.</strong> The extra
copies are to allow you to mark up your poem for editing. Let’s spend time
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Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-32132897159029660932016-02-16T16:03:00.001-05:002016-02-16T16:25:18.488-05:00Remembering Carrie Allen McCray Nickens -- posted in the SC Writers' Workshop blog<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to the South Carolina Writers' Workshop for asking me to be a judge for their Carrie McCray Poetry Award this year and for posting a piece I wrote about Carrie, remembering a special visit with her. Carrie Allen McCray Nickens, we still miss you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://myscww.org/remembering-carrie-mccray/" target="_blank">Remembering Carrie McCray</a></span><br />
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<br />Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-66569723917543948442016-02-16T15:37:00.000-05:002016-02-16T16:22:10.969-05:00PSSC Writers' Group workshop, Sat., Feb. 27: "Digging Deeper--Revision"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you're a poet and will be in the Charleston, SC, area on February 27, please join us for the Poetry Society of SC (PSSC) Writers' Group workshop. Be sure to bring the draft of a poem you're working on and would like to deepen as you revise. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Digging Deeper: Revision"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charleston Library Society</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">164 King St., Charleston, SC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(PSSC membership, $25</span><br />
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on revising a poem by exploring its possibilities to the fullest. The goal is
to reopen the poem, to peel away its limitations and move beyond whatever is
obvious, to stutter over and over at crucial points in the poem—drilling down,
homing in from numerous angles, flying blind to work toward the poem’s deepest
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It will help me to plan if you can let me know that you're coming. Please leave me a quick comment at one of these places:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here on the blog</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Facebook, on the page "Writers' Workshop Series"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://poetrysocietysc.org/programs.html" target="_blank"> Poetry Society of SC</a> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks!</span>Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-83362601627662407992016-02-16T15:24:00.003-05:002016-02-16T16:26:18.018-05:00Deckle Edge Literary Festival, Feb. 18-21, Columbia, SC<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-stretch: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm honored to be a participant in the first Deckle Edge Literary Festival, the newly envisioned annual festival that came into being after the SC Book Festival announced last year that it would no longer be held. Bravo for the new tea--headed by Annie Boiter-Jolley and Darien Cavanaugh--who jumped in to serve the state's readers, book buyers, writers--the whole literary community!</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feb. 18-21</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Found Anew" panel, 3:30 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Read all about the </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="http://deckleedgesc.org/" target="_blank">2016 Deckle Edge Literary Festival</a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. Come join in the celebration of books and literature!</span></span></span><br />
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Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-46008155958881153712016-02-16T14:35:00.002-05:002016-02-16T16:27:33.853-05:00Furman University visit -- Nov. 3 and 4, 2015<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A huge thank you to professor and poet Bill Aarnes for inviting me to Furman University last fall to give a reading and visit with his poetry class for a discussion. The reading was held on the evening of November 3 in McEachern Lecture Hall. Besides students (whose presence is always a joy), I was delighted to see</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the audience </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">several good friends, who were so kind to come out for the reading: Nancy Dew Taylor & Maggie, Claire Bateman, Terri McCord & Brian Slusher, Gil & Barbara Allen--my gratitude to you all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The class visit the next afternoon was another joy. The students were eager to participate and had astute questions to ask me about my collection <i>My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass</i>, which they had read for the course. It was a class of about ten or eleven students, the perfect size for having a lively poetry discussion--and for learning from one another. Bill Aarnes has done an excellent job of bringing the class together into a close-knit group, which made my visit all the more enjoyable. Thank you again, Bill and student poets!</span><br />
<br />Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-63985079081299888362016-02-16T14:14:00.001-05:002016-02-16T14:36:16.684-05:00Looking back on the Queens Univ. MFA alumni weekend, Oct. 8 - 11, 2015<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a treat to return to Queens University of Charlotte campus for an alumni weekend this fall. I was pleased to be in a manuscript workshop masterfully taught by Jon Pineda, who teaches in the Queens MFA program. In the workshop with me were three other poets, with whom I enjoyed exchanging book manuscripts and feedback: Torie Dailey, Geoffrey Hall, and Lee Stockdale. We were a close-knit fivesome, learning much from Jon and his good advice for our manuscripts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also enjoyed being on a publishing panel with two other alumni, as well as running the open mic after dinner on Friday night. Here was the weekend's schedule:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thur., Oct. 8 Evening alumni reading: Clifford Garstang, Rebecca Gummere</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fri., Oct. 9 Publishing Panel: Clifford Garstang, Rebecca Gummere, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Susan Laughter Meyers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Craft Seminars </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sat., Oct. 10 Seminar</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lunch</span>Susan Laughter Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17852176276981306494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24790803.post-11921812332229647332016-02-16T13:48:00.000-05:002016-02-16T14:36:39.128-05:00A look back at the fall PSSC Writers' Group workshop, Oct. 24, 2015<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a smart group of poets were a part of the fall PSSC Writers' Group workshop! We meet 3-4 times a year to study craft issues and work on our own poems.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The Path of Surprise"</span></b></div>
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