Here was the schedule for this year's Litchfield Tea & Poetry Series.
A special thank you to all the poets who read!
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2017 Litchfield Tea
& Poetry
3 – 4 p.m., first Thursday of the month, Jan. –
Apr.
Waccamaw Neck Branch Library
41 Saint Paul Place, Pawleys
Island, SC
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Please join us for our eleventh year of
the Series!
Book signing after the
reading
Refreshments: tea &
homemade confections by Deloris Roberts
Brief reading/writing
recommendations in “Poet to Poet”
Free & open to the
public
January 5 – Brookgreen Gardens: Nights of a Thousand
Candles (CLASS, 2016). Editor
Linda Ketron and photographer Anne Swift Malarich will talk about the experience of
publishing this beautiful book celebrating Christmas and the winter holiday
season at Brookgreen Gardens. Several contributors will
read a selection of their poetic responses to the book’s images.
February 2 – Jennifer Bartell; Len Lawson
Jennifer Bartell teaches at Spring Valley High School in Columbia. She has an MFA from the University of South Carolina; and her poetry has
appeared in Callaloo, Pluck!, and the museum of americana, among others.
Len
Lawson is
the author of the chapbook Before the Night Wakes 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 Central Carolina Technical College.
March 2 – Jonathan Kevin Rice; open mic
Jonathan KEVIN Rice, of Charlotte, is a poet and visual
artist. His most recent poetry collection is Killing Time (Main Street
Rag, 2015). He is also the founding editor of Iodine Poetry Journal.
Open mic will follow Jonathan’s reading. All who attend
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!
April 6 – Kate Daniels; Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry
Nationally
known poet KATE DANIELS, professor and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University, is the author of
several poetry collections—the latest, A Walk in Victoria’s Secret. 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 Hard Lines: Rough South
Poetry (University of South Carolina Press, 2016). Introducing her
will be co-editor Daniel Cross
Turner, who will also talk about the anthology’s focus. Author George Singleton describes Hard
Lines as “a wonderful selection of writers
wrestling with, and extolling, the most intricate, beautiful, and perplexing
aspects of our South.”
Cosponsored by
Waccamaw Neck Branch Library
&
The Poetry Society of South Carolina
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For further info about the events,
contact series facilitators
or Libby Bernardin at
libbypoet@gmail.com
