David Bottoms at the Savannah Book Festival

The Poetry Society of Georgia is proud to sponsor David Bottoms at the Savannah Book Festival 2011!

Bottoms was born in Canton, Georgia in 1949. His first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was selected by Robert Penn Warren as the winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He received a fellowship at Florida State University, where he earned his Ph.D. In 1982 he took a teaching position at Georgia State University, and co-founded Five Points, a literary magazine. In 2000, Bottoms was appointed Georgia’s Poet Laureate.
The reading is at the Savannah Book Festival on Saturday February 19th at 3:30pm in the Jepson Boardroom. 121 Barnard St. You can contact us at poetryknows@gmail.com

You can check out further details of the Book Festival at: http://www.savannahbookfestival.org/
Be sure to support and partake in this event and keep the literary arts alive and well in Savannah.

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.

Jim Snowed in!!

Unfortunately, Jim Warner was unable to make it for the reading of January 27th. But we are trying to reschedule for May! We'll keep you posted.

We did have a great open mic session though! Thanks to all the poets who shared and Tony Morris read for us in Jim's place and a fantastic evening of poetry was concocted regardless of snow in the North! Thank you Tony!

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%.

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.

Free week at the Jepson

Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity!

Free week at the Jepson Center!

Tuesday, 16 November, 2010

Starts at 09:00 AM

Visitors enjoy a week of free admission to the Modern Masters, Kahlil Gibran, and No Ordinary Folk exhibitions at the Jepson Center, from November 13 - 19, 2010.

http://telfair.org/

Open mic!

The Poetry Society of Georgia is offering an Open mic session to open for our guest poets. So come out and grab the chance to preform your work in a great and historic location and then stay for a free poetry reading. Our guests come from across the US and we are very excited about our line up this year...

Thurs. Nov. 18th - Doris Davenport- Jepson Auditorium
Thurs. Jan. 27th - Jim Warner - Telfair Academy
Thurs. Mar. 10th - Linda Lee Harper - Jepson Auditorium
Thurs. Apr. 21st - Sanda Meek - Jepson Auditorium

Open mic starts at 7pm sharp and the poetry reading starts at 7:30pm
Open mic sessions are managed by the talented poetess, Vaughnette Goode-Walker.

email us at poetryknows@gmail.com with any questions, compliments or universal truths.

November Reading

We hope you will come out this Thursday night (the 18th of November) to the Jepson Center for a poetry reading by our guest, Doris Davenport.

Davenport is a performance poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Albany State University. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; Out of the Rough: Women's Poems of Survival and Celebration; Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers; and This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She has done more than 100 poetry performances and workshops and has taught at several colleges and universities, including Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Davenport received her B.A. in English from Paine College, her M.A. in English from SUNY-Buffalo, and her Ph.D. in African American literature from the University of Southern California. Born and raised in Gainesville and Cornelia, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia, she currently lives in Albany, Georgia.

At 7pm we are inviting local poets to take the stage in the auditorium for 20 minutes of open mic and grab the chance to read in an amazing building and connect and share with fellow writers and poets. Davenport's reading begins at 7:30pm, and thanks to The Booklady Bookstore, Davenport's books will be fore sale with a selection of previous poets' work after the reading.

We will also be selling our 'Poetry knows' canvas bags for $10.00 if you want to support the literary arts in Savannah and see the not-for-profit organization, The Poetry Society of Georgia, continue to offer you these services.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

121 Barnard Street Savannah GA 31401
please feel free to email us with any questions at poetryknows@gmail.com