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by | August 26, 2012

Schedule of Events

Schedule of Events Fall 2012

 

Decatur Book Festival, www.decaturbookfestival.com

“Taking A Stand” with Michael O’Reilly, Senior Director, Member Advocacy

Amnesty International USA

Sunday September 2, noon, The Old Courthouse

 

Mermaid & Merwomen In Black Folklore: A Fiber Arts Exhibition

Poetry Reading, Saturday Sep. 8, 5 to 8 PM

City Gallery at Waterfront Park, 34 Prioleau Street, Charleston

Artists Opening Reception and release of the book BLACK MERMAIDS in VISION & VERSE.

Free Open to the Public

http://citygalleryatwaterfrontpark.com/galleryexhibitions/mermaids-and-merwomen-in-black-folklore-call-for-entry/

 

Poet Laureate Residency at Webb School, Bell Buckle, TN

Wednesday, October 24th – Friday October 26th

Featuring Marie Harris (NH), Lisa Starr (RI), Joyce Brinkman (IN), Carolyn Gomez-Foronda (VA), and Maggie Vaughn (TN).

 

Yall Fest (moderator) Sat. Nov. 10th 

The second annual YALLFest will bring forty-five acclaimed authors, including twenty-five New York Times bestsellers, to Charleston, S.C., Saturday, November 10th, 2012. Cassandra Clare (City of Bones), Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society), Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures), Kathy Reichs (Bones), Melissa de la Cruz (Blue Bloods series), and Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book Is Secret) are among the headliners. YALLFest is the largest festival in the South specifically geared toward Young Adult Literature.

YALLFest  Blue Bicycle Books, 420 King Street Charleston,S.C.   29403, yallfest.org   bluebicyclebooks.com   843.722.2666

“Some of Us” Art Show/Poetry Reading, 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 17.

The “SOME OF US ” artists will be having their annual exhibit of art and crafts at Peggy Howe’s studio, 1600 Home Farm Road Mt. Pleasant, SC, Sat. Nov. 17  poetry reading from 5 to 6 (wine and cheese served)

Poets Reading on Saturday from 5 to 6

Linda Annas Ferguson

Ann Herlong-Bodman

Susan Laughter Meyers

Rick Pfann

Deborah Lawson Scott

Susan Finch Stevens

Marjory Heath Wentworth

 

Annual Lowcountry Women Authors Book Signing on Sunday Dec. 9.

The event will be from 2pm-5pm at the Citadel Holliday Alumni House on Hagood Ave, Free and open to the public.

 

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by | April 16, 2012

He Taught Me How to Love the Blues, Memories of Writer Buddy Nordan

He Taught Me How to Love the Blues

Like everyone who knew Lewis “Buddy” Nordan, I was so sad to hear of his passing on Friday April 13th. Buddy was one of the truly great southern writers, and his novels and short stories were intensely original.  He has a sense of humor that crossed over into his writing. But his best known book, Wolf Whistle, deals with the murder of Emmett Till. I think it’s one of the best American novels ever written.  Born and raised in Mississippi, his work was characterized by what you might call “Mississippi magical realism.”  No one in the world wrote like Buddy Nordan.  He didn’t get a book published until he was 45, which is inspirational to say the least.  He got his PhD from Auburn, where his focus was Shakespeare.

When I think of Buddy I remember his stories, his endless collection of blues T-shirts, his charm and his wit. He dressed in jeans like a teenager, and he talked about music and film more than he talked about books. The first time I met him we were on the same program doing a reading for a fund raiser.  I had a migraine aura and was having a hard time seeing the poems I planned to read. “Stick with sex and death darlin’,” he said with his a sweet southern accent, “you’ll do just fine.”  I loved him the minute I met him. The last time I saw him was at The Virginia Center for the Arts. The last night of the residency, a bunch of us stayed up all night to watch movies like kids at a slumber party. I can’t remember what movies we watched; I just remember how much fun we all had together.  I always thought I’d see him one more time, but I count my lucky stars for all the wonderful memories I have of this completely irreplaceable man.

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