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Throughout the year, the Poetry Initiative will host a range of activities for poets and for lovers of poetry throughout the state. With its many partnerships with organizations and institutions around South Carolina, the Poetry Initiative organizes, supports and promotes events that range from small workshops to high profile events like the annual SC Poets' Summit. |
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Event: Movin' with Poetry: Children's Poetry Workshop Poets from the South Carolina Poetry Initiative will feature a hands-on poetry workshop as a means for blending eye, word, and story. Using such tools as books in verse, illustrations, art supplies, and pen and paper, young bards will experience how the imagination can be moved into spaces that explore both the real and make believe world!
Event: United in This Way: Master Class Led by Poet Li-Young Lee
Space is limited to 30 seats
Event: United in This Way: Reception and Reading Featuring Poet Li-Young Lee Between two unknowns, I live my life. Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
Event: United in This Way: Transfigured by Music *Light Reception and Event is Free and Open to the public.
Event: A Cabaret of Words: A Poetry Reading Series *Event is Free and Open to the public Lights. Action. Music. Featuring award winning poets and a multitude of voices, *Book Signing to follow Reading Laurel Blossom is a prize-winning poet and her most recent book is Degrees of Latitude, a book-length narrative prose poem exploring the geography of a woman's life (). Earlier books include Wednesday: New and Selected Poems, The Papers Said, What's Wrong, and Any Minute, a chapbook, which was nominated for the Elliston Prize. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Billy Collins, editor) and in national journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Pequod, The Paris Review, The Carolina Quarterly, among others. Susan Meyers is active n the poetry societies of South Carolina and North Carolina, and is currently serving as president of Her book length collection, has been published by the after being selected by Terrance Hayes for the SC Poetry Initiative’s Poetry Book Prize. Keep and Give Away is also the winner of the Brockman-Campbell Book Award and the SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and other literary journals. Recent prizes include first place in the Yemassee and South Carolina Review poetry contests. Steve Gardner (Co-edited with William Wright The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Sarah Newman (University of South Carolina Second Year MFA Student) Bhavin Tailor (University of South Carolina Second Year MFA Student)
Event: Poetry Initiative Director Kwame Dawes is named 2008 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner/Governor’s Awards for the Arts Recipient Date: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 *The ceremony is free and open to the public
Event: South Carolina Poetry Initiative’s 2008 Chapbook Contest The University of South Carolina's outreach organization, the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, is proud to announce its third annual chapbook contest. This contest seeks to introduce a series of five chapbooks to South Carolina’s book reading public. The South Carolina Initiative produces all five books by selected poets as a work of art, presenting each publication with a distinctive design, with beautiful print values, and as part of an exclusive numbered series. The publications will garner statewide attention for poetry through readings, a book launch, and other promotional activities. The winning chapbook series will be selected and edited by Kwame Dawes. Manuscripts will be published by Stepping Stones Press and will be distributed by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. Click here for contest guidelines and information. Click for 2007 chapbook contest results.
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