The end of a blog

The Poetry Society of Georgia has received funding to switch form a blog site to an active website. Therefore, this site will be kept as an archival record of entries but please direct yourself to our new website for current information and events. Thank you all for your support, subscriptions and interest.

www.poetrysocietyofgeorgia.org

Linda Lee Harper poetry Reading

The Poetry Society of Georgia would like to invite you to a free Poetry Reading by Linda Lee Harper on Thursday March 10th at 7pm.

Linda Lee Harper lives in Augusta, Georgia, and was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her BA & MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She taught there, University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s Continuing Education
program and at the University of South Carolina-Aiken.

Her work has appeared most recently in: The Georgia Review, Nimrod, The Seneca Review, Rattle, and 85 other journals. Her book “Kiss Kiss” was selected as the winner in
Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Open Competition for 2007.

The reading will be held at the Trinity Church, 225 West President Street, just across the street from the Jepson Art Center.

From 7pm to 7:30pm we invite local poets to share the stage in an open mic. Vaughnette Goode-Walker will be organizing the session. Harper's reading will begin at 7:30pm.

Feel free to check out our new website for any further details and future readings www.poetrysocietyofgeorgia.org

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.

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/