Saturday, January 22, 2011

Poetry Out Loud!



It was my pleasure to serve as one of the judges at Savannah Arts Academy for their Poetry Out Loud competition. The contestants were all very talented and put on wonderful performances. The Society has made them all honorary members and can't wait to see more of them on the poetry scene.

Trey Dugas won first place with his performance of Carl Sandburg's I am the People - the Mob and the runner up was Jack Wagner with his performance of Shakespeare's Blow Blow, the Winter Wind.

Thank you SAA for letting the society partake in such an awesome expression of poetry here in Savannah and good luck to Trey as he heads on to the State championships - We're behind you 100%.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Start 2011 with poetry!

Thursday January 27th 7pm - 8:30pm Poetry reading and Open mic session.

Jim Warner is the author of the poetry collection Too Bad It’s Poetry (Paper Kite Press). His poems have appeared in The HazMat Review, mid rib, Hecale, In The Arms of Words: Poetry for Disaster Relief (Sherman-Asher), and elsewhere. He is the Assistant Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs at Wilkes University.

Open mic for all poets begins at 7pm. Reading begins at 7:30pm. Admission is free so come support the literary arts in Savannah. Books and paraphernalia will be for sale after the reading


Telfair Academy at 121 Barnard St Savannah GA

contact poetryknows@gmail.com with any questions

This program is sponsored by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Weave - A - Dream and the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts.