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‘Out Of Wonder’ Aims To Inspire A New Generation Of Poets Heard on Morning Edition By Rachel Martin Kwame Alexander believes that wonder lies between…
Read More‘Out Of Wonder’ Aims To Inspire A New Generation Of Poets Heard on Morning Edition By Rachel Martin Kwame Alexander believes that wonder lies between…
Read MoreClick here to read the article. CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) The relatives and friends of the nine people murdered on June 17, 2015 are facing…
Read MoreMessage from the Mount Holyoke president: Dear members of the Mount Holyoke community, Season after season and year after year, the beauty of Mount…
Read MoreBy Stephanie Hunt Read it here Mother Emanuel tragedy June 17, 2015: a date that needs no explanation, at least in the Lowcountry—a time…
Read MoreBy Adam Parker. Read the story here. It began with a poem. And now the book “We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother…
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Read MoreBy TUT UNDERWOOD. Read and listen here. The slayings of nine worshipers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston a year ago was a wrenching…
Read MoreBy BY ERIN SHAW. Read it here. We have to think about how this happened,’ author of book on Charleston church massacre says “We…
Read MoreBy Dustin Waters. Read it here. On a Sunday afternoon, April 19, 2015, state Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney stood before a small crowd in…
Read MoreRead it here. By Marjory Wentworth, contributing editor | In our very first television interview about our book We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph…
Read MoreRead it here. The shooting by a white supremacist at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in June 2015 was a wakeup call for poet Marcus…
Read MoreRead it here. Editor’s Note: On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at…
Read MoreBy Lauren Markoe Read the full story here. CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) A few weeks after a young white gunman killed nine people at a…
Read MoreNot every state has a poet laureate, but Charleston’s Marjory Wentworth is South Carolina’s. She’s written numerous books and hundreds of poems, at various…
Read MoreFrom an article written by Adam Parker in the Post and Courier. Read it here. Strong words South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth had…
Read MoreClick here to see a video of Marjory reading “Holy City” on the BBC news website.
Read MoreRead the article here. In September 2002, two months after he was named poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka read at the Dodge…
Read MoreExploring Our Own Amazement: Three New Books from South Carolina New and Selected Poems by Marjorie Wentworth. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. 148…
Read MoreReview Date: July 15, 2011 Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan Pages: 256 Price ( Hardcover ): $27.00 Publication Date: October 1, 2011 ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-230-11233-9…
Read MoreSouth Carolina’s state newspaper is also covering the fallout over Hailey’s decision to cut my poem from the ceremony. Quoted from the article- “Clearly…
Read MoreTwo State Poets Laureate Tell All (in Prose) AUG. 3, 2014 To the Editor: Re “Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are…
Read MoreCharleston City Paper has a review up for my latest book, New and Selected Works. Elizabeth Pandolfi writes that “New and Selected Poems marks a…
Read MoreThe Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor TUESDAY Apr. 8, 2014 LISTEN DOWNLOAD Spring by Marjory Wentworth After the rain, outside the barred windows of the…
Read MoreOne Sheet New and Selected Schedule of Events for Spring-Fall 2014: Sunday March 23 4:00 p.m. Book launch/Reading with Lisa Starr, Blue Bicycle…
Read MoreWeek of June 17, 2013 Art inspired poetry (Listen to the segment) Clemson University creative writing professor Jillian Weise speaks with South Carolina’s Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth about…
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