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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: For the Love of Art: A Camp to Explore the Arts (ages 6-12) Date: Monday, August 3 - Thursday, August 6 (every day) Place: Columbia Museum of Art An interdisciplinary arts based camp hosted at the Columbia Museum of Art featuring poetry, studio art, and dance workshops, as well as tours of the Museum’s exhibits. Children are introduced to themes, including the senses, collage writing and visual art, circular and linear movement, and self-expression. Works crafted during this four day camp reflect each child’s interpretation of these themes through their own unique voice. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute, the South Carolina Poetry Initiative in partnership with the Columbia Museum of Art.
Event: PHOTOVOICE Date: Wednesday, April 1 Place: Russell House Ballroom You are cordially invited to a photography and creative writing exhibit focusing on the experiences of students with disabilities at the University of South Carolina. Through photographic images and the written word, Photovoice will offer an insider's view of the strengths displayed by this unique student population, as well as the challenges they face. If you have questions or need special accommodations, please contact Lauren Hastings at (803) 777-3656, hastings@mailbox.sc.edu.
Event: 2009 South Carolina’s Poetry Initiative’s Single Poem and Book Contest Awards Celebration Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009 Place: 80808 Vista Gallery *Free and open to the public. Poetry and Art join hands at an event that showcases the diversity of the artist’s palette, whether the artist is a studio artist or a poet. The South Carolina Poetry Initiative will be hosting its 2009 Single Poem Contest and Book Contest Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 11 at 80808 Vista Gallery. View the featured art exhibit, hear the work of nationally renowned poets, and catch the wave of excitement as this year’s winners of the SC Poetry Initiative’s Single Poem and Book Contest are announced. The event will take place amidst the stellar art of Nikolai Oskolkov and Olessia Maximenko, and will feature food, music, poetry, and a phenomenal multimedia art exhibit. Each artistic endeavor will address in its own way how the human spirit strives to survive, celebrate, and challenge the world in which it exists. The 2009 South Carolina Poetry Initiative’s Single Poem Contest is co-sponsored by The State newspaper. For full details on the Single Poem Contest and Book Contest and guidelines for the contest, check out the Poetry Initiative’s website or simply Google: South Carolina Poetry Initiative. The event will also be showcased on the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute website. For further information contact Charlene Spearen (cmspeare@mailbox.sc.edu) or Rachel Luria (luria@mailbox.sc.edu).
Event: Working With: Women, Nature & Creative Collaborations This event is sponsored by the SC Arts Institute, the USC Green Quad Learning Center for Sustainable Futures, and the USC Departments of English and Art.
Working With: Women, Nature & Creative Collaborations will be a day-long event featuring interdisciplinary arts based workshops and discussions to be funded by the University of South Carolina's Arts Institute. The University of South Carolina's Arts Institute has as one of its goals the commitment to encourage and oversee interdisciplinary projects in the arts by both creating and promoting programs that make arts more fundamental in the lives of USC students and the general public. It is with this in mind that this project will feature the work of three well-known women from the Lowcountry, this event will give students and faculty opportunities to meet, learn from and work with Mary Alice Monroe, a New York Times bestselling novelist, Marjory Wentworth, the Poet Laureate of South Carolina, and Mary Edna Fraser, a well-known artist and printmaker.
Event: 2008 Chapbook Awards Ceremony * We are now accepting submissions for the 2008 Chapbook Contest
Event: Carnival of the Animals Place: Koger Center General Public $16.00 *Sponsored by the University of South Carolina Arts Institute
Event: Fire and Transformation: Two-Part Adult Collage and Poetry Workshop *Workshops are Free and open to the public Facilitators: Charlene Spearen and Julia Koets
Event: Fire and Transformation: Two-Part Adult Collage and Poetry Workshop *Workshops are Free and open to the public Facilitator: Dawn Hunter **To Register Contact: Charlene Spearen (cmspeare@gwm.sc.edu)
Fire and Transformation: Workshop for Children *Facilitators: Dawn Hunter and Charlene Spearen
Event: Transformation and Fire: Two Artists, Two Poets *Free and open to the public Incorporating Art, Poetry, Japanese folklore, and the showcasing of Dale Chihuly’s: Seaforms blown glass exhibit, this event will feature collaborative drawings by renowned artist Dawn Hunter and emerging Carolina artist Natalie Askew. The instillation size drawings will blend together excerpts and entire length pieces composed by poet Charlene Spearen and Carolina senior MFA candidate in poetry, Julia Koets. Joining the group for an evening that will unveil provocative pieces of art will be award winning scene designist, Kimi Maeda. Have a glass of wine, something to sweeten the palate, and tour the artwork contained in the exhibit Transformation and Fire, the Dale Chihuly’s Seaforms exhibit, sit-in on a thought provoking round table discussion, and close the evening with the listening to poems that bring to life Japanese ghost tales that boast of the female spirit’s need to entice, confront, and reveal.
Event: 2008 Poets Summit: Servicing South Carolina Poets Open mic, complimentary lunch, and free & open to the public. "I do believe that when I encounter any group anywhere, that poetry is a vital force of the lives gathered there in the room." The fifth-annual Poets Summit brings together great poets and great audiences from around the state of South Carolina for a celebration and exploration of the power of poetry. On September 20th at the Columbia Museum of Art, beginning at 9:30 a.m., poets and poetry-lovers can come together to listen, write, share, and learn.
*Due to the anticipated high attendance, we are asking that you register for Naomi Shihab Nye’s workshop. For more information and to register for the morning workshop, contact Rachel Luria at luria@mailbox.sc.edu or call 777-5492. Workshop Agenda 9:00 AM : PI Committee Caucus Meeting
Event: AFTER SHOCKS: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events, Edited by Tom Lombardo Date: Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Book signing and reception will follow the reading. Anthologies will be available for purchase. Please join us for a reading to celebrate the publication of an important new poetry anthology, which includes 152 poems written by 115 poets from 15 nations. Featured are three U.S. Poets Laureates, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, a Whitbread Book of the Year winner, a Whitbread Poetry Award winner, two Lannan Award winners, and two Forward Prize winners. READINGS BY AREA POETS will include Paul Allen, Linda Ferguson, Richard Garcia, Barbara G.S. Hagerty, Kurtis Lamkin, Ed Madden, Susan Meyers, Marjory Wentworth, and Tom Lombardo, editor. The reception will feature music by Kurtis Lamkin and Paul Allen. "This anthology is of national and international significance. It is a collection that crosses and embraces all boundaries—culture, class, gender, and race. It takes us into the hardest places human beings have to go—the failures of personal relationships, loss of loved ones, genocide, racial oppression, addiction, loss of innocence, marginalization, and more. And, yet, each section moves, finally, toward a place of hope and dignity and resilience." For more information, please visit http://www.poetryofrecovery.com.
Event: Friends of Ed Madden Book Launch *Free and open to the public *Ed’s book: Signals was the winner of the 2007 South Carolina Poetry Initiative’s Book Contest. We are going to toast the book, maybe “roast” the poet a bit, hear Ed read some of the stunning pieces from the book as well as a reading by the winners of this year’s Single Poem Contest.
Event: Poetry School 101 50.00 Columbia Museum Members/ 60.00 Non-Museum Members
August 2nd: Thom Ward hosting workshops: **To Register Contact: Charlene Spearen (cmspeare@gwm.sc.edu)
Event: For the Love of Art : Excavating a Poem Summer Camp for Children Fee: 60.00 per student/50.00 Columbia Museum Members **To Register Contact: Charlene Spearen (cmspeare@gwm.sc.edu)
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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