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The stars have aligned...
Saturday afternoon, June 5th, 2010
3 PM
Lincolnton cottage of Katie Henderson Selph.
The
afternoon begins at three p.m with a craft, jewelry, and poetry book
sale.
Artists
include:
Inge Hanson
Kathryn Berkowitz
Katie Henderson Selph
Pamela Wise
and others.
Linda will read at four
followed by tea and conversation until six.
(Personalized directions available on RSVP)
More information at:
http://www.spaceplace.us/
A resident of Lincolnton, NC for twenty-one years, from 1976-1997, Linda Annas Ferguson was the owner of The Next Edition, a book store and gift shop, previously located at 110 East Main Street. During that time she served local organizations including Lincoln Cultural Center, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, Lincoln Apple Festival, and Lincoln Arts Council.
June 8, 2010
POETRY HICKORY
29 2nd Street NW
TASTE FULL BEANS COFFEEHOUSE
DOWNTOWN HICKORY
http://www.tastefullbeans.com/WhoAreWe.html
http://poetryhickory.wordpress.com/
Linda will be reading with poet David Rigsbee and will have the musical accompaniment of Rick Ramseur.
David Rigsbee, who teaches at Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, NC, has a new
book out from
Cherry Grove Collections,
and this is what the editor of the series as to say about his work: The elegant poems of David Rigsbee’s
Two Estates evoke
landscape and history, art and memory, in densely sculpted lines. David is the author of six previous collections, including
Cloud
Journal (Turning Point Books, 2008) and The Dissolving
Island (BkMk Press, 2003). His work has appeared in The
American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker,
The Ohio Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Southern
Review, and many others. He is the recipient of grants and awards from
The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Virginia Commission on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown, and The Academy of American Poets.
Rick Ramseur
After recently retiring from a career in tool manufacturing, Rick Ramseur now devotes much of his time to his two passions - music and magic. He plays a variety of instruments including harmonica, saxophone, hammer dulcimer, steel drum, acoustic bass as well as an assortment of rather exotic instruments such as the ocean harp and musical saw. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and performs regularly at schools, churches, and corporate events.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Charleston, SC
Past Readings, Panels and Events
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010, 8:00 pm
POETRY READING
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Press 53 presents an evening of poetry featuring:
Charleston poet Linda Annas Ferguson
Poet Laureate of South Carolina, Marjory Heath Wentworth
Atlanta poet Alexa Selph
Macon poet Austin Segrest
and poet laureate of Georgia, David Bottoms.
Experience an evening of poetry in the unique setting of the
Callanwolde Library.
$5 General Admission, $3 Students/Seniors/Members. For more information
call
404-872-5338.
980 Briarcliff Road, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30306
(404) 872-5338
http://www.callanwolde.org/events/index.html
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center is located between the Virginia-Highland and Druid Hills neighborhoods of Atlanta, approximately 2 miles east of Midtown. Situated on 12 acres of lush, landscaped grounds on Briarcliff Road, Callanwolde is only 1 mile from Emory University and approximately 3 miles west of Decatur. Other points of interest near Callanwolde are The Carter Center (1 mile), Fernbank Museum of Natural History (1 mile), Atlanta Botanical Gardens and Piedmont Park (2 miles), and The Fox Theatre (2 miles).
Decatur Cemetery
May 12, 2010
Poets Reading:
Linda Annas Ferguson
Marjory Wentworth, SC Poet Laureate
May 13, 2010
Linda Ferguson - Josephine Pinckney’s “The Hag.”
Harriet Rigney - Louisa Cheves Stoney
Katherine Williams - Louisa McCord
Marjory Wentworth - Bennie Lee Sinclair
Deborah Dickey – James Dickey
Mary Harris – Beatrice Witte Ravenel
Oliver Bowman – DuBose Heyward?
Time TBA
University of Colorado
Auraria campus
Tivoli Student Union #440/540
Reading
from the anthology:
Beyond
Forgetting: Poetry & Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease
Friday, April 9, 2010
6 – 7:30 pm
http://www.ahec.edu/campusmaps/AHEC3D.pdf
Contributors reading:
Linda Annas Ferguson,
Arlene Ang, Nina Corwin, Rachel Dacus,
Carolyn Dahl, Lorene Delany-Ullman,
Drew Myron, Jim Natal, Sean Nevin, Cate
Wiley, Andrena Zawinski, and
Holly Hughes, editor.
For more information, check the website:
www.beyondforgettingbook.com
AWP 2010 CONFERENCE
BOOK SIGNING
PRESS 53 REVIEW BOOTH
Friday, April 9, 2010 1:30-2:30 pm
Colorado Convention Center
Denver, Co.
Reading and Book Signing
5:30 pm, March 19, 2010
Lincoln County Art Crawl
Court Street Grille
113 Court Square
Lincolnton, NC
Check out more about it at: http://www.spaceplace.us/
Tuesday, February 23,
2010
Main Branch Poetry Series
Reading with
Linda Annas Ferguson
Michael Lythgoe,
and Scott Owens
Circular Church
Lance Hall
150 Meeting Street, Charleston SC 29401
http://libraryliteraryadventures.blogspot.com/
South Carolina Book Festival
Sunday, February 28, 2010,
Reading and book signing
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
1101 Lincoln Street
Columbia, SC
11:30 am – 12:20 pm
Book signing following presentation: Main Exhibit Hall
Presenting with Marjory Wentworth, Susan Meyers, and Linda Lee Harper
Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 3:00pm
Quail Ridge Books and Music
2522 Wade Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27607
919-282-1588 (800-672-6789)
Linda Ferguson presents DIRT SANDWICH
Terri Erickson brings us TELLING TALES OF DUSK.
Eric Weil reads from RETURNING FROM MARS.
6:30 PM (This reading has been rescheduled for June 8, 2010: See above)
January 12 , 2010
POETRY HICKORY
29 2nd Street NW
TASTE FULL BEANS COFFEEHOUSE
DOWNTOWN HICKORY
http://www.tastefullbeans.com/WhoAreWe.html
Jim Clark, musician, poet and professor at Barton College, books include "Dancing on Canaan's Ruins," "Handiwork," and "Notions."
(Hear Jim perform) http://www.myspace.com/buriedland
and Linda Annas Ferguson, author of Dirt Sandwich, (PRESS 53)
Directions to Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse
From I-40 driving
west into Hickory
Take Exit 125
Turn right at top of ramp onto Lenoir Rhyne Boulevard.
At the construction blockade (4th light), turn left onto Tate Boulevard.
After 3 lights, turn right onto 2nd St. SW (There's a "Downtown Shopping" Sign).
Cross the tracks, go past the parking lot and the alley, and Taste Full Beans
will be on your left. Look for the Poetry Sig
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=210043454&blogId=488896533
Born in Byrdstown, Tennessee, midway between Music City and the Smoky Mountains, Jim Clark grew up on a farm on the Cumberland Plateau surrounded by music, from the unadorned a capella harmonies of the Church of Christ, to the old-time country of his father's guitar and mandolin playing. Majoring in English at Vanderbilt University, he was much influenced by the legacy of the Fugitives and Agrarians - poets such as Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, and Allen Tate, noted for their focus on the connection between literature and the land and their scathing critique of the modern industrial mindset. He continued his education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he received an M.F.A. in creative writing, and the University of Denver, where he received his Ph.D. in modern literature and creative writing. Pursuing a balance between the creative and the scholarly, Clark has published two books of poems, Dancing on Canaans Ruins and Handiwork; written a play, The Girl with the Faraway Eye, staged at the Portland Actors Conservatory Theatre, Portland, Oregon; edited Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece; and served as an editor of such literary journals as The Denver Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, and The Vanderbilt Poetry Review. His most recent book is Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany. Much in demand as a reader of his own work and a workshop leader, Clark nevertheless felt something was missing in his professional life. So, in 1995, he began combining his talents as a singer and musician with his abilities as a writer and an interpreter of his own work, resulting in a unique multi-disciplinary performance of poetry and stories rooted in the Appalachian foothills of his birth and complementary old-time mountain music played on the guitar, banjo, mountain dulcimer, and autoharp. This cross-fertilization of genres culminated in his recording a CD, Buried Land, featuring poems and music, much of it related to the flooding of his parents' family farms in the 1940s by the TVA Dale Hollow Dam project. Clark is currently the Elizabeth H. Jordan Professor of Southern Literature and Writer-in-Residence at Barton College, in Wilson, North Carolina, where he is Director of The Barton College Creative Writing Symposium and an editor of the literary journal Crucible. He is also a member of the band The Near Myths: http://www.myspace.com/nearmyths
Sunday,
November 22
2:00
p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Mt Pleasant Towne Centre
1600 Palmetto Grande Drive
Charleston, SC
(former Tweeter space near Bed, Bath and Beyond)
3rd Annual
Lowcountry Women Authors
Holiday Book Signing
Linda will sign copies of her fifth collection of poetry, Dirt Sandwich,
(Press 53) with over 50 women authors at one location. Come meet your favorite
local writer and get your purchase personally signed! Nationally known authors
include: Nathalie Dupree, Sue Monk Kidd, Cassandra King, Ann Kulze, MD, Mary
Alice Monroe, Nicole Seitz, Marjorie Wentworth & Many more!
With Barnes & Noble, Mt. Pleasant
$10 at the door
Light refreshments provided by Chili's
Friday, October 30, 2009
4-6 pm
Furman University
Linda Annas Ferguson’s new collection of poetry, Dirt Sandwich, will be on exhibit at Furman University Special Collections Library as part of their new exhibit, “Archives of Babel.” Her book will be open to her poem “Tower of Babel” There is a reception Friday, October 30, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM, with an introductory talk at 4:30. http://library.furman.edu/specialcollections/archives_babel.htm
Dirt Sandwich
Linda Annas Ferguson
Linda Annas Ferguson’s Dirt Sandwich
contains poems that grapple with experience of separation from
language. In “The First Word,” we are brought back to Adam’s guttural
breaths that had not yet found the palette, pharynx, tongue, and lips of
language. “The Tower of Babel” introduces the linguistic conundrum of
incongruities of meaning after
words have left our mouths.
Sullivan’s Island goes Stark Raven Mad
What: Five poets read works by Poe and original works inspired by him
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009
Where: Poe’s Tavern, 2210 Middle St., Sullivan’s Island
“Stark Raven Mad,” the University of South Carolina Arts Institute’s month long celebration of Edgar Allan Poe, comes to the Lowcountry with two free events on Sullivan’s Island – where a young Poe spent a year in the U.S. Army.
On Oct. 28 at Poe’s Tavern, five S.C. poets will read works by Poe and original works inspired by his writings, including “The Gold Bug,” his 1843 short story that is set on Sullivan’s Island. Book signing to follow.
About the Poets:
Dennis Ward Stiles grew up on a farm in northwest Illinois. He graduated from the USAF Academy in 1964, and spent 30 years in the Air Force as a pilot and military diplomat. Much of his military career was overseas. He has published in many journals and anthologies. Pudding House issued his fifth chapbook, Humdinger, in 2007. His book The Fire In Which We Burn, was published by Main Street Rag in 2009
Emily Abedon is a freelance writer and poet whose work has appeared in Redbook, Travel Holiday, Parents, Child, Coastal Living, and Cosmo Girl. Former Home Editor and frequent contributor to Charleston Magazine, Emily currently writes for Grandparents.com, and is the Executive Producer of the documentary, State of Disrepair. She coordinates Mary Ford Writes, a volunteer creative writing program at Mary Ford Elementary School. She has been haunted by Edgar Allan Poe since 1979, when her fifth-grade teacher, Mr. Kellogg, read The Black Cat out loud to his class.
Marjory Wentworth’s poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize three times. Her books of poetry include Noticing Eden and Despite Gravity. Her children’s story, Shackles, was published in2009. Her third collection of poems, The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle is forthcoming in 2010. Marjory teaches poetry to cancer patients and their families in a program at Roper Hospital called “Expressions of Healing.” She also teaches in a poets-in-the schools program at Burke High School in Charleston, SC. She is the Poet Laureate of South Carolina. For months, after Hurricane Hugo, she and her family lived in the Poe or Gingerbread House on Sullivan’s Island while they waited for the house to be repaired.
Ellie Maas Davis: Educated at Southern Methodist University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, Ellie Maas Davis has written extensively on the environment and issues of human rights. She serves as an acquisitions editor for Joggling Board Press and sits on the board of directors of the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts, in addition to curating Charleston's longest running weekly literary series, Monday Night Blues. Published in a number of anthologies and journals, she is the author of The Humours of Folly and often reviews books for The Post and Courier.
Linda Annas Ferguson is the author of five collections of poetry: Dirt Sandwich (Press 53, Sept. 2009) Bird Missing from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions, 2007); Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk (Finishing Line Press, 2006); Last Chance to Be Lost (Kentucky Writers’ Coalition, 2004); and It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing (Palanquin Press, University of S.C. Aiken, 2002). She was a featured poet for the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series. Her work is archived by Furman University Special Collections in the James B. Duke Library.
Both events are free, and all who attend will receive a copy of “Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.”
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Poe’s birth – an appropriate time to revisit his work as part of The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings communities together to read, discuss, and celebrate literature; find out more about it at
7
PM, Friday, September 11, 2009
Guest Author
Poets in the Forest
Leopard Forest Coffee
Company
319 S. Main St.
Travelers Rest, SC 29690
http://www.trilliumartscentre.org/
Promoting the
arts in northern Greenville county
Sunday, September 13, 2009
3 PM
Poetrio
Malaprop's
Bookstore/Cafe
55
Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Tel: (828) 254-6734
Linda will read with poets John Hoppenthaler, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (Carnegie Mellon Poetry);
and Terri Kirby Erickson, Telling Tales of Dusk (Press 53)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
5:30-7:30 PM
Dirt Sandwich Book Debut Party
Blue Bicycle Books
420 King Street
Charleston, SC 29401
September 28, 2009
8 PM
Monday Night Blues
EAST BAY MEETING HOUSE
159 E. Bay St.
Charleston, SC
Book release reading from Dirt Sandwich (Press 53)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
6 PM
Press 53 Wine and Words Festival
Shakespeare & Company Books
Le Select Cafe
210 North Main
Street
Kernersville, NC 27284
http://www.shakespeareinkernersville.com/index.php
Sat. October 17, 2009
Main Library (10am-12)
Seminar
From Desk Drawer to Print: Putting together a chapbook with Linda Annas Ferguson
Linda Annas Ferguson, author of
five poetry collections, will guide you through the process of organizing your
poems for publication.
Concentrating on the essential scaffolding of a
manuscript, including layout and design, she will also share tips on submitting
to editors, ideas for your book cover, as well as marketing the finished
product. A list of potential publishers and library resources will be available
to take home with you to start you on your way.
Charleston County Public Library
68 Calhoun Street, Charleston SC 29401
843-805-6949
http://libraryliteraryadventures.blogspot.com/
Linda will read with poet Susan Meyers at:
McIntyre's Fine Books at Fearrington
2000 Fearrington Village Center
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Website: http://www.fearrington.com/VILLAGE/MCINTYRES.ASP
July 23, 2009: 7 PM
919-542-2121
An English library setting with a fireplace, wing backed chairs and clusters of cozy rooms perfect for browsing
The shops at Fearrington are located in beautiful Chatham County - just minutes from Pittsboro and Chapel Hill, NC
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 4:30 pm
The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon
B. Chapin Art Museum
3100 South Ocean Boulevard
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
phone 843.238.2510
As part of the program presented by Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina's poet laureate, Linda will read with other poets from their ekphrastic poems written to the painting, The Seeking, by renowned artist, Jonathan Green. The art museum, in conjunction with the English Department at coastal Carolina University, offers a series of literary topics for discussion. The public has an opportunity to hear from and interact with coastal Carolina University's English Department faculty and guest lecturers in an intimate setting at the Art Museum.
All the poets reading will be published in an upcoming anthology of poems written to the painting,
The Seeking.
POETRY HICKORY
Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse
29 Second St. NW (Downtown)
Hickory, NC
Reading by Linda Annas Ferguson
6:30 PM, Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Poetry Hickory is sponsored by The Main Street Rag Publishing Company. For further information, contact Scott Owens at asowens1@yahoo.com.
Linda will be reading with Lissa Hamilton, a long time friend. Lissa has been an active participant in the Hickory poetry community for years, often exploring the relationship between art and poetry. She has participated in art/poetry shows and projects with artist, Vae Hamilton, and has taught at Appalachian State University.
CENTER FOR WOMEN
HOLIDAY BOOK SIGNING BY 50 AUTHORS
THE CITADEL
Citadel Holiday Alumni House
Hagood Avenue, Charleston SC 29403
Host: CENTER FOR WOMEN
Cosponsor: BARNES AND NOBLE
Telephone: 843-763-7333
Sunday: 2:00-5:00 PM, November 23, 2008
Poets who will take part include Linda Annas Ferguson, Marjory Wentworth, Susan Meyers, and Carol Ann Davis. Sponsored by the Center for Women and Barnes and Noble, this annual event will feature a culmination of women authors from the Lowcountry, including authors such as Sun Monk Kidd, Mary Alice Monroe, Nathalie Dupree, and Beth Webb Hart.
Reading by 11 contributors from the anthology: After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events
JOSEPH BETH BOOKSELLERS
4345 Barclay Downs Dr.
Charlotte, NC 28209
(704) 602-9800
Sunday, November 9 at 2 PM
List of contributors who will be reading in Charlotte:
Linda Annas Ferguson (Charleston, SC, a native of Hickory, NC)
Anthony Abbott (Davidson, NC)
Cathy Smith Bowers (Tryon, NC)
Genie Cotner (Charlotte, NC)
Val Nieman (Greensboro, NC)
Gail Peck (Charlotte, NC)
Barbara Presnell (Lexington, NC)
Rhett Iseman Trull (Greensboro, NC)
Terri Wolfe (Charlotte, NC)
Susan Meyers (Summerville, SC, a native of Albemarle, NC)
Ed Madden (Charleston, SC)
Introductions by Tom Lombardo, Editor
October 4, 2008
CATAWBA COLLEGE
Salisbury, NC
Poetry Council of North Carolina
Linda has been asked to read at this event to honor her book, Bird Missing from One Shoulder, which won an honorable mention in the OSCAR ARNOLD YOUNG BOOK AWARD
SOUTH CAROLINA POETRY INITIATIVE
(University of South Carolina)
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/poetry/
WORKSHOP FACULTY:
LINDA ANNAS FERGUSON
THOM WARD (BOA EDITIONS)
SHEILA TOMBE
Workshop: Personal Narratives and the Poem
Columbia Museum of Art
Corner of Hampton and Main
Columbia, SC
$50.00 Columbia Museum Members/ $ 0.00 Non-Museum Members
Linda Annas Ferguson will teach a poetry workshop, “Personal Narratives and the Poem” for the South Carolina's Poetry Initiative's weekend program along with Thom Ward, Poet and Editor from BOA Editions, and Poet Sheila Tombe will also host workshops.
Linda's program will take place on Saturday, August 2. She will present a reading from her work and sign copies of her books following her presentation.
Event Details:
August 1-3, 2008
August 1: 6:30-8:00 PM
August 2: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
August 3: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Featuring
August 1
Reception and Reading by Thom Ward, Poet and Editor from BOA Editions
August 2: Thom Ward hosting workshops:
1. “Getting that Book, Chapbook, Poem Published”
2. “Telling It Slant: The Prose Poem”
August 2
Poet Linda Ferguson hosting a workshop
“Personal Narratives and the Poem”
August 3
Poet Sheila Tombe hosting a workshop
“The Shapes of Poems”
To Register Contact:
Charlene Spearen cmspeare@gwm.sc.edu
Carrie Young carrie_eleanor@yahoo.com
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun St
Charleston, SC
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 7 PM
Linda will read with poets published in the new anthology: After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events
Other poets reading will be: Paul Allen (Charleston), Elizabeth Bernadin (Georgetown, SC), Richard Garcia (Charleston), Barbara Hagerty (Charleston), Kurtis Lamkin (Charleston), Ed Madden (Columbia, SC), Susan Meyers (Summerville, SC), Marjory Wentworth (Mt. Pleasant, SC), and editor Tom Lombardo (Atlanta).
NORTH
CAROLINA POETRY SOCIETY
The Weymouth Center
Southern Pines, NC
September 20, 2008, 10 AM
Linda has been asked to read at this event to honor her book, Bird Missing from One Shoulder, which won an honorable mention in the NCPS BROCKMAN CAMPBELL BOOK AWARD
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
Finishing Line Press Poetry Reading
September 23, 2008, 7 PM
Linda will read with poets Phebe Davidson, Carol Peters, Terri McCord, and Barbara Hagerty, all authors of Finishing Line Press.
HAPPY BOOKSELLER
4525 Forest Dr.
Columbia, South Carolina 29206
Poetry Reading and Signing by:
LINDA ANNAS FERGUSON, MARJORY WENTWORTH, RAY MCMANUS, AND SUSAN MEYERS
Phone: (803) 782-2665 - Toll Free: (800) 787-1503
Thursday, June 12 - 6:00 pm
Linda will be a featured poet at:
PICCOLO SPOLETO
SUNDOWN POETRY SERIES
City Gallery, Waterfront Park
34 Prioleau Street
Charleston, SC
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
BARNES AND NOBLE
278 Harbison Blvd
Columbia, SC 29212
[
In the shopping center on the south side of
Harbison Boulevard, 1/4 mile west of I-26 (exit
103).]
Linda will be reading with 6 other poets Saturday from 2-5 P.M.
(READING AT 2 PM, SIGNING TO FOLLOW)
Linda Annas Ferguson
Kwame Dawes
Susan Meyers
Ray McManus
Charlene Spearen
Ed Madden
Fred Dings
Linda Annas Ferguson will read with other area poets in celebration of International Earth Day at:
Poetry for the
Planet
CITY GALLERY
Waterfront Park
34 Prioleau Street
Charleston, SC
7 p.m., Thursday, March 20, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Coastal Conservation League, the Sophia Institute, and the City of Charleston
http://www.thesophiainstitute.org/
Linda Annas Ferguson will teach a workshop at:
CHARLESTON COUNTY PULIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
WORKSHOP: Publishing a First Book of Poetry: The Business Side of Getting into Print
http://libraryliteraryadventures.blogspot.com/
Sat. March 29
Main Library (10am-12 noon)
If you are serious about writing poetry, you might be ready to begin thinking about getting your words into print. Author Linda Annas Ferguson will share her experiences in working with four different publishers. Topics will include contests, fees and expenses, independent publishers, university presses, permissions, cover art, photography, acknowledgments, blurbs, proofreading and being proactive with the creation and marketing of your book. Participants will also be provided with resource materials, including a list of presses to send their work.
Linda Annas Ferguson will join poets 27 poets in reading from:
The Southern Poetry
Anthology: South Carolina
Saturday, March 29, 2008
2-4 P.M.
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun St
Charleston, SC 29401
http://libraryliteraryadventures.blogspot.com/
Other poets reading at this event are: Paul Allen, Fred Bassett, Libby Bernardin, Farley Briggs, Stephen Corey, Phebe Davidson, Richard Garcia, Linda Lee Harper, Melanie Harris, Tom Johnson, Ed Madden, Terri McCord, Ken McCullough, Maurine Meleck, Susan Meyers, Rick Mulkey, Warren Slesinger, Brian Slusher, Charlene Spearen, Susan Finch Stevens, Ceille Baird Welch, Marjory Wentworth, Katherine Williams, Thomas Davis Lisk, Dennis Ward Stiles, and Harriet Rigney.
BARNES AND NOBLE
Sunday, February 10, 2008
2:00 pm
Mt. Pleasant Towne Centre
1716 Towne Centre Way, Mt. Pleasant
MT PLEASANT, SC
http://storelocator.barnesandnoble.com/storedetail.do?store=2973
Linda Annas Ferguson will read with poets Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate for the state of South Carolina, Susan Meyers, winner of the 2007 SIBA (Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association) Award in Poetry, Carol Ann Davis, editor of the Crazyhorse Literary Journal.
SOUTH CAROLINA BOOK FESTIVAL
February 22-24, 2008
Full details at: http://www.scbookfestival.org/
Presentation: Saturday, February 23, 2008
Linda Annas Ferguson
Phebe Davidson
Marcus Sakey
A. J. Hartley
Janna McMahan
Tito Perdue
Sunday, February 24, 2008: 12:45 – 1:35 pm
Linda Annas Ferguson
Ray McManus
Carol Ann Davis
Phebe Davidson
Moderator: Susan Meyers
Monday, March 3 2008
5:00-7:00 P.M.
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun St
Charleston, SC
http://libraryliteraryadventures.blogspot.com/
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LOWCOUNTRY WOMEN AUTHORS HOLIDAY BOOK SIGNING
Sunday, December 2, 2007
2:00-5:00 pm
Presented by the Center for Women and Barnes and Noble of Mt. Pleasant, SC
The Citadel Holliday Alumni House
Hagood Avenue
Citadel Campus
Charleston, SC
(Admission $10 at the door, light refreshments included)
All authors signing are
|
Author Name |
Book Title |
|
Joyce Coakley |
Sweetgrass Baskets and Gullah Tradition |
|
Stacey Crew |
The Get Organized Guide for New Moms |
|
Ruth Cupp |
Portia Steps Up to the Bar |
|
Carol Ann Davis |
Psalm |
|
Nathalie Dupree & Marion Sullivan |
Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp and Grits |
|
Linda Ferguson |
Bird Missing from One Shoulder |
|
Cathy Forrester |
At Home-Charleston |
|
Dottie Benton Frank |
The Christmas Pearl |
|
Mary Edna Fraser |
A Celebration of The World's Barrier Islands |
|
Nikki Hardin & Caitlin McPhilipps |
PMS- Problems Men Started |
|
Beth Webb Hart |
Grace at Low Tide / Adelaide Piper |
|
Josephine Humphries |
Nowhere Else on Earth |
|
Fran Hawk |
The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie's Coin |
|
Trish Hutchison (co-author) |
Girlology/ Hang-Ups, Hook-Ups, and Hanging Out |
|
Harriet McBryde Johnson |
Accidents of Nature/ Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life |
|
Allison Keller |
While You Were Away, Daddy |
|
Sue Monk Kidd |
The Mermaids Chair /The Secret Life of Bees / Firstlight |
|
Ann Kulze |
Dr. Ann's 10 Step Diet |
|
Dorothy Perrin Moore |
Island in the Storm/ Careerpreneurs |
|
Susan Romaine |
Cornices of Charleston |
|
Nicole Seitz |
The Spirit of Sweetgrass |
|
Sue Shankle & Barbara Melton |
What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online? |
|
Toby Smith |
Goofy Things Girls Do To Get Guys |
|
Sally Hughes Smith |
The Circle: A Walk with Dementia/ Rosebud Roams Charleston |
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Shari Stauch |
Precision Pool |
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Mary Caroline Walker |
Managing Life with Kids |
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Andrea Weathers |
Hermy the Hermit Crab Goes Shopping |
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Marjory Wentworth |
Noticing Eden/ Despite Gravity |
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Mary Whyte |
Alfreda's World / An Artist's Way of Seeing |
THE WRITER'S CENTER
4508 Walsh Street,
Bethesda, Md. 20815
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
7:30-9:30 pm
301-654-8664
http://www.writer.org/events/index.asp
Linda will read with Visiting Poets from South Carolina. They are:
CAROL ANN DAVIS (Editor of Crazyhorse) was graduated
from Vassar College, which later awarded her the W. K. Rose Fellowship, and from
the MFA Program in Poetry Writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
She directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the College of
Charleston, where she is Associate Professor and where, with Garrett, she edits
Crazyhorse. Her book Psalm is new from Tupelo Press.
KWAME SENU NEVILLE DAWES (Distinguished Poet in
Residence of the University of South Carolina and Director of the South Carolina
Poetry Initiative) was born in Ghana in 1962 and grew up in Jamaica where he
attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona. He
studied and taught in New Brunswick on a Commonwealth Scholarship to Canada.
Since 1992 he has been teaching at the University of South Carolina. He is a
Professor in English on the Columbia campus. His critical articles on
literature, theater and film have been published widely. Dawes has published
eight collections of poetry, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree 1994--Winner of the
Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, UK) Resisting the Anomie (Goose
Lane 1995), Prophets (Peepal Tree 1995). Jacko Jacobus, (Peepal Tree 1996),
Requiem, (Peepal Tree 1996) a suite of poems inspired by the illustrations of
African American artist, Tom Feelings in his landmark book The Middle Passage:
White Ships/Black Cargo, and Shook Foil (Peepal Tree 1998) a collection of
reggae-inspired poems. His most recent collection, Midland, was recently awarded
the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize by the Ohio University Press (2001). In 2001,
Dawes was a winner of a Push Cart Prize for the best American poetry of 2001.
In 2000, Dawes published several new titles including a book of interviews with
contemporary West Indian poets, Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Caribbean Poets
(University of Virginia Press 2000). In December of 2002, Dawes published three
new titles. His ground-breaking study of the lyrics of Bob Marley, Bob Marley:
Lyrical Genius was published by Sanctuary Publishing. Peepal Tree published his
first book of fiction, a collection of stories titled A Place to Hide and Other
Stories, and New and Selected Poems, a selection of poems published between 1994
and 2001. Dawes is now awaiting the publication of a novel set in Jamaica
(Bivouac) (Peepal Tree 2005).
Dawes’ essays and reviews on Caribbean Literature, African American Literature,
Black British Literature, African Literature and issues of race and identity
have appeared in such publications as Ariel, Bomb, World Literature Today,
Essence Magazine, Emerge Magazine, Poetry Review, World Press Review, Critical
Quarterly, West Coast, The Washington Post, London Review of Books, the Journal
of West Indian Literature, African American Review, Fuse, African Affairs: The
Royal Society of African Studies, DoubleTake Magazine, The Atlanta Review, The
Mississippi Review, Wasafiri, The Caribbean Writer, Calalloo, Critique and the
Journal of Caribbean Literatures. He has appeared regularly on radio and
television in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and the United
States. In December of 1997, a full-page feature of Dawes appeared in the
Atlanta Journal and Constitution which gave attention to Dawes’ work as a poet
and as a researcher into the lives of African Americans in Sumter, SC.
In 1987 Dawes was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa’s writing
program. In 1997 he was appointed as an Associate Fellow of the University of
Warwick. Dawes is now Series Editor of a special book series of Caribbean plays
for Peepal Tree Books. Kwame Dawes, former director of the MFA program at the
University of South Carolina, is the coordinator of a Minority Visiting Writers
Series sponsored by the University of South Carolina. Kwame Dawes is the
Criticism and co-Poetry Editor of Obsidian III, a leading African American
literary journal. Dawes is the programmer for the Calabash International
Literary Festival held in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, each year.
LINDA ANNAS FERGUSON
is the author of four collections of poetry including Bird Missing
from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions); Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk
(Finishing Line Press); Last Chance to Be Lost (Kentucky Writers’
Coalition); and It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing (Palanquin Press,
University of S.C. Aiken). She was the 2005 Poetry Fellow for the South Carolina
Arts Commission and served as the 2003-04 Poet-in-Residence for the Gibbes
Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C. A recipient of the Poetry Fellowship of the
South Carolina Academy of Authors, she was recently appointed to the Academy’s
Board of Governors. Her work has
appeared in 2006 Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets; A Millennial
Sampler of South Carolina Poets; Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows;
and is forthcoming in The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina
(Texas Review Press); and Beyond
Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease
(Kent State University Press). She
has been a featured poet at the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series; South
Carolina Book Festival; the South Carolina Poetry Initiative of the University
of South Carolina; Piccolo Spoleto’s Sundown Poetry Series, Charleston, S.C.;
Isothermal College Writers' Workshop; the Weymouth Center for the Arts and
Humanities, Southern Pines, N.C. and other venues. Her songs were performed in
"Indigo Jazz," a presentation by the Low Country Heritage Society in conjunction
with the College of Charleston School of the Arts.
lindaannasferguson.com
SUSAN
MEYERS (Winner of the 2007 Southern Independent
Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry) is the author of Keep
and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006), which won the
inaugural South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, sponsored by the SC Poetry
Initiative. It also won the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell
Book Award. Her chapbook Lessons in Leaving received the 1998 Persephone Press
Book Award. Her work has also appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Tar
River Poetry, and other journals, as well as the online sites Poetry Daily and
Verse Daily. She is a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the South Carolina
Academy of Authors. A long-time writing instructor, Meyers has an MFA from
Queens University of Charlotte. She has served as poet-in-residence at the
Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and as a mentor for creative writing students
at the Charleston County School of the Arts. She is a past president of the
North Carolina Poetry Society and the current president of the Poetry Society of
South Carolina. She lives, with her husband Blue, in the rural community of
Givhans, SC.
MARJORY WENTWORTH (Poet Laureate of South Carolina)
was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Educated at Mt. Holyoke College, she received
her M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from New York University.
Her poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has been
nominated for The Pushcart Prize three times. Noticing Eden, a collection of
poems, was published by Hub City Writing Project in 2003. Her most recent
collection, Despite Gravity, was published in fall 2007 by Ninety Six Press.
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
Cafritz Arts Center
Takoma Park/Silver Springs Campus
7600 Takoma Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912
December 5, 2007
6:00 P.M.
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/tphome/
Linda will read and sign copies of her books with authors Marjory Wentworth (Poet Laureate of SC); SUSAN MEYERS (Winner of the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry); and CAROL ANN DAVIS (Editor of Crazyhorse)
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
October 30, 2007
7 p.m.
Linda Annas Ferguson and Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate, will read from their work and sign copies of their books
DREAMALOT BOOKS
123 B South Goose Creek Blvd.
Goose Creek, SC 29445
843-572-4188
October 3, 2007
Booksigning
Roper Saint Francis Healthcare
LOWCOUNTRY SENIOR CENTER
865 Riverland Drive
Charleston, SC 29412
843-762-9555
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
POETRY SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: Featured Poet
Second Presbyterian Church
342 Meeting
Street
Charleston, SC
Friday, September 14, 2007
Linda and Rick Mulkey will read from their work. Book signing and refreshments to follow.
Rick Mulkey, author of Toward Any Darkness, (Word Press)
Linda will be reading from her new full-length book, Bird Missing from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions)
“With each new book, Rick Mulkey’s poems have become richer and deeper. Now, in
Toward Any Darkness, he takes us to that middle ground between the phantasmal(miracles, psychics, alternative worlds, ghosts, UFOs: ‘Some days I know my entire life /is an attempt to break the laws of physics’) and the solid, textured evidence of the
everyday: a sorghum field, a ’73 Chevy, a child’s turtle-shaped pool, the clasped hands of parental love. He takes us, I mean to say, to our own lives. And he allows us to
reconsider them in language that’s by turns luminous, wry, elegiac, celebratory, and sometimes just plain old luscious.” —Albert Goldbarth
EAST BAY MEETING HOUSE
159 E. Bay St.
Charleston, SC
Book Release Reading and Signing for: Bird Missing from One Shoulder
Monday, July 16, 2007
8:00 P.M.
Linda will read from her new full-length book released from WordTech Editions
For more information about the book:
http://www.wordtechweb.com/ferguson.html
or contribute to WordTech's blog:
http://www.kevin-walzer.com/blosxom.cgi/
BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY
Beaufort, SC
PURE POETRY
Luncheon & Poetry
$25.00
Friday, June 15, 2007
12 noon- 2 p.m.
Beaufort, SC
Poetry Reading and Signing by:
Linda Annas Ferguson
Janet Carr Hull
Marjory Wentworth
Susan Meyers
Dennis Ward Stiles
Karen M. Peluso
Patricia Bee
Sheila Tombe
Tickets available: Bay Street Trading: 843-524-2000
Sponsors: Beaufort County Library & Bay Street Trading
CLICK HERE FOR BIOS, PHOTOS, AND MORE INFORMATION
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH TEA ROOM
98 Wentworth St.
Charleston SC 29401
(843) 723-4575
June 5, 2007
Book signing during the Spoleto Festival
Linda Annas
Ferguson will sign copies of her books from 11:00 am - 2:30 pm
The Grace Church Tea
Room offers wonderful homemade lunches and desserts during the Spoleto
Festival, which takes place in Charleston during late May and early June.
The proceeds for this event will go to the church's Outreach Program.
OTRANTO ROAD REGIONAL LIBRARY
Otranto Rd.
North Charleston, SC
6:30 PM
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Linda Annas Ferguson, Marjory Wentworth, Susan Meyers, Dennis Ward Stiles, and Ed Madden, members of the Poetry Society of South Carolina, will be reading from their own works and other memorable selections.
(The Otranto Road Regional Library is near Northwoods Mall, off Rivers Avenue)
Contact: (572-4094) 2261 : http://www.northcharleston.org/departments/culturalarts_af_individualevents.aspx
WACCAMAW HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER
Division of Coastal Carolina University
Highway 17 at 160 Willbrook Boulevard
(behind the Hampton Inn in Litchfield, SC)
March 19, 2007: 3 pm
Linda and poet Dennis Ward Stiles will read from their work as part of an afternoon reading and discussion, followed by tea and the opportunity to acquire signed editions of their books. No fee to attend
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Poetry at Noon Series
Thomas Jefferson Building
Mary Pickford Theater: 3rd Floor
WASHINGTON, DC
Linda will read from her work on the subject of "Forgiveness."
March 13, 2007: 12 Noon
SOUTH CAROLINA BOOK FESTIVAL
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
Columbia, SC
Saturday, February 24, 2007: 4:30 pm
Sunday, February 25, 2007: 4:15 pm
Pure Poetry Group Reading
with Linda Annas Ferguson, Phebe Davidson, Cassie Premo Steele, Dennis Ward Stiles, Michael Lythgoe and Janet Carr Hull
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
McMaster Art Gallery
1615 Senate Street
December 4, 2006
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Reception preceding the event
Free and open to the public
Linda will be a supporting poet, along with Marjory Wentworth, SC Poet Laureate, and poet Richard Garcia and Ray McManus for the
book launch for Susan Meyers, the winner of the 2005 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize for her book:
Keep and give away.
For more information, please contact
USC’s South Carolina Poetry Initiative:
Charlene Monahan Spearen
Program Coordinator
Arts Institute
University of South Carolina
(803) 777-5492
MONDAY NIGHT BLUES POETRY SERIES
East Bay Coffee House
(between McCrady's and South End Brewery)
159 E. Bay St.
Charleston, SC
Monday, November 13, 2006: 8 p.m.
Linda Annas Ferguson and Phebe Davidson both have new chapbooks of poetry forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Linda's new collection, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, is available June 30, 2006 and Phebe Davidson's The Drowned Man is due August, 2006. They will both read from their new collections.
CHARLESTON
COUNTY LIBRARY
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
Linda will read with authors and visual artists from the 2006 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets
October 21, 2006 2:00 p.m.
2006 SOUTH CAROLINA POETRY INITIATIVE SUMMIT
(Division of the University of South Carolina)
Poetry Panel Moderator: Linda Annas Ferguson
Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, SC
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Panel members: Ryan Van Cleave, John Lane, Susan Meyers, and Michelle Reese
Panel Discussion: "Winning the Publishing Wars"
Contact:
Charlene Monahan Spearen
Program Coordinator
Arts Institute
University of South Carolina
(803) 777-5492
CMSPEARE@gwm.sc.edu
CHARLESTON COUNTY LIBRARY
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Saturday, September 9, 2006: 3:00 p.m.
Linda will read and sign books with poet Dennis Ward Stiles. Denny is the author of 4 collections of poetry.
His chapbook, A Strange Wind Rises, is new from Pudding House Press
MONDAY NIGHT BLUES POETRY SERIES
159 East Bay Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Monday, July 24, 2006: 8:00 p.m.
The Arboretum
3327 Pineville-Matthews Road
Charlotte, NC 28226
704-341-9365
Wednesday, July 5, 2006: 7:30 p.m.
Readings from: 2006 Kakalak, an Anthology of Carolina Poets
HARFORD POETRY AND LITERARY SOCIETY
Rockfield Manor
501 Churchville Road, Bel Air, Maryland
April 4, 2006
1 p.m.
410-877-1625
Linda will read from her new work, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, July, 2006 and Bird Missing from One Shoulder, to be published by Word Tech Editions, July, 2007.
BARNES AND NOBLE
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 1 p.m.
Poetry Extravaganza
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC
Linda Annas Ferguson & Susan Meyers
Poetry reading and book signing
Tuesday, April 26, 2006
7:00 PM
LILA (Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts) and The Charleston Country Library Celebrate National Poetry Month
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 CALHOUN ST., CHARLESTON, SC
March 4, 2006
2:00-4:00 P.M.
Linda will be reading & signing along with other poets from the anthology:
A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry
Ninety-Six Press, Furman University
SOUTH CAROLINA BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday & Sunday, February 25 & 26, 2006
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
Columbia, SC
Pure Poetry
4:20 until 5:00 pm
Readings by:
Linda Annas Ferguson, author of Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, July, 2006
Marjory Wentworth, poet-laureate of South Carolina and author of Noticing Eden
Patricia Gray, director of Poetry at Noon series, Library of Congress and author of Rupture
Ellen Rachlin, author of Waiting for Here (Finishing Line Pres)
Janet Carr Hull, author of The World: Poetic Connections
Kay Day, author of Poetry for Your Pleasure
Dorothy Fletcher, author of The Week of Dream Horses
and round-robin readings at the PURE POETRY booth at the book festival at various times on Saturday and Sunday
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
GERMANTOWN CAMPUS
Library Reference Room
Humanities Building
20200 Observation Drive
Germantown, MD 20876
7:00 PM
FEBRUARY 15, 2006
MARJORY WENTWORTH, Poet-Laureate for the state of South Carolina and
LINDA ANNAS FERGUSON, a dual resident of Baltimore, Md and Charleston, SC.
will read from their poetry and sign copies of their books at:
FURMAN UNIVERSITY
2 Hour Class Visit
Upper Division Course in Contemporary Literature
Textbook: A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry
November 28, 2005
HARFORD COUNTY LIBRARY
Abingdon Branch
Bel Air, Maryland
Saturday, November 5, 2005
7-11 pm
Linda will be reading for the event: Harford Treasures: An Evening in the Stacks
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MONDAY NIGHT BLUES READING SERIES
East Bay Coffee House
(between McCrady's and South End Brewery)
159 E. Bay St.
Charleston, SC
Monday, September 26, 2005: 7:30 PM
Linda Annas Ferguson, along with 13 poets featured in the anthology,
A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry by Ninety-Six Press of Furman University
will read from their work. A book signing will follow the reading.
Contact: Ellie Davis: 843-437-1958
SOUTH CAROLINA POETRY INITIATIVE SUMMIT
Division of the University of South Carolina
September 23-24, 2005
"Southern Voices and the Southern Vision"
Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, SC
Saturday Morning: 9:00 a.m., September 24:
Linda will be reading & signing along with other poets from the anthology:
A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry
Ninety-Six Press, Furman University
COFFEE UNDERGROUND READING SERIES
1 East Coffee Street, Greenville, SC
(right off Main Street downtown)
Sunday, August 28, 2005: 7:30 P.M.
Linda Annas Ferguson will take part in a reading and signing celebrating the release of the anthology A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry by Ninety-Six Press of Furman University. She is one of the 45 poets featured in the new anthology.
THE OPEN BOOK BOOKSTORE
110 South Pleasantburg Drive
Greenville, SC
Saturday, July 16, 2005, 6:00 P.M.
Linda Annas Ferguson will take part in a reading and signing celebrating the release of the anthology A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry by Ninety-Six Press of Furman University. She is one of the 45 poets featured in the new anthology.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center
7:30, Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Linda will take part in a joint reading with Paul Allen and Carol Ann Davis, editors of Crazy Horse literary journal to celebrate the release by Hub City Press of Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows. Introductions by Marjory Wentworth, poet laureate for the state of South Carolina.
http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/
SOUTH CAROLINA BOOK FESTIVAL
Columbia, SC
February 19-20, 2005
http://www.schumanities.org/bookfestival/authors.html
Linda Annas Ferguson will serve on a panel with Kwame Dawes, Jan Bailey, and John and Betsy Teter reading and signing for the new anthology: TWENTY: South Carolina Poetry Fellows, to be released at the festival. Five of Linda's poems will appear in the anthology published by Hub City Press. Below is Hub City's website with a synopsis of the book, which can be ordered from their site:
http://www.hubcity.org/bk_twenty.htm
" In February 2005, in time for the South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia, Hub City will release TWENTY: South Carolina Poetry Fellows. This book is a collection of the work of contemporary poets who have received the state’s highest literary honors. Each one presents five poems and writes an introduction about his or her life as a poet. Kwame Dawes, English professor at USC and founder of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, is the editor. The book, which will sell for $19.95, is produced in a partnership with the South Carolina Arts Commission."
MONDAY NIGHT BLUES READING SERIES
East Bay Coffee House
Charleston, SC
8:00 PM, December 20, 2004
HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Reading Series
Harford Community College
401 Thomas Run Road
Bel Air, Maryland 21015
College Library
7:30, Monday, November 8, 2004
Contact:
Colleen Webster
Associate Professor of English
410-836-4280
CWebster@harford.edu
TOWSON UNIVERSITY
TOWSON, MARYLAND
2004
University class visit
SOUTH CAROLINA POETRY INITIATIVE SUMMIT
(Division of the University of South Carolina)
Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, SC
September 10-11, 2004
11:00 am - 12 noon: Panel: The Value of Poetry Prizes, Contests, and Awards:
Strategies for Submitting Work to Poetry Contests:
Panel: Linda Annas Ferguson, Stacy Smallwood, David Miller
http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/poetry/general.htm
The South Carolina Poetry Initiative is a center for the promotion, celebration, and production of poetry based at the University of South Carolina. To accomplish its goals, the Poetry Initiative has established partnersips with a wide cross section of art organizations and private and public sector organizations. It is a statewide organization that works with libraries, writing and performing poetry in the state of S.C. population.
HARFORD POETRY AND LITERARY SOCIETY
Rockfield Manor
501 Churchville Road
Bel Air, Maryland
410-877-1625
Tuesday, August 24, 2004: 1 p.m.
MONDAY NIGHT BLUES READING SERIES
145 Calhoun Street (2nd floor above Millennium Music)
Charleston, SC
Monday, March 29, 2004: 7 p.m.
At 7 pm, just before the show, is Monday Night Blues' "Red Pen Hour,"
a discussion for writers and people who aren't writers.
Featured musician will be Travis Kline.
Art on display: Photography by Thomas Bohrnstedt's.
For more information, call coordinator Ellie Davis at 843-437-1958,
email:
edavis@flash.net
WORKSHOPS
SOUTH CAROLINA POETRY INITIATIVE
(Division of the University of South Carolina)
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/poetry/
Faculty: Linda Annas Ferguson,Thom Ward (BOA Editons), and Sheila Tombe
Workshop: Personal Narratives and the Poem
Columbia Museum of Art
Corner of Hampton and Main
Columbia, SC
$50.00 Columbia Museum Members/ $ 0.00 Non-Museum Members
Linda Annas Ferguson will teach a poetry workshop, “Personal Narratives and the Poem” for the South Carolina's Poetry Initiative's weekend program along with Thom Ward, Poet and Editor from BOA Editions, and Poet Sheila Tombe will also host workshops.
Linda's program will take place on Saturday, August 2. She will present a reading from her work and sign copies of her books following her presentation.
Event Details:
August 1-3, 2008
August 1: 6:30-8:00 PM
August 2: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
August 3: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Featuring
August 1
Reception and Reading by Thom Ward, Poet and Editor from BOA Editions
August 2: Thom Ward hosting workshops:
1. “Getting that Book, Chapbook, Poem Published”
2. “Telling It Slant: The Prose Poem”
August 2
Poet Linda Ferguson hosting a workshop
“Personal Narratives and the Poem”
August 3
Poet Sheila Tombe hosting a workshop
“The Shapes of Poems”
To Register Contact:
Charlene Spearen cmspeare@gwm.sc.eduCarrie Young carrie_eleanor@yahoo.com
Linda Annas Ferguson will teach a workshop at:
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
WORKSHOP: Publishing a First Book of Poetry: The Business Side of Getting into Print
http://libraryliteraryadventures.blogspot.com/
Sat. March 29
Main Library (10am-12 noon)
If you are serious about writing poetry, you might be ready to begin thinking about getting your words into print. Author Linda Annas Ferguson will share her experiences in working with four different publishers. Topics will include contests, fees and expenses, independent publishers, university presses, permissions, cover art, photography, acknowledgments, blurbs, proofreading and being proactive with the creation and marketing of your book. Participants will also be provided with resource materials, including a list of presses to send their work.
ISOTHERMAL COLLEGE
Spindale, NC
Workshop and Reading:
Saturday April 3, 2004: 10:00 a.m.-4 p.m.
Writing Outside the Box: 59 Ways to Write a Poem:
Whether a seasoned or beginning poet, we often find ourselves before a blank page, bartering with language. Sometimes it takes a while before the poem takes on its energy. In this workshop we will explore ways to allow the images to invade us, to uncomplicate the process and let the words find what they have in common. We will explore together the many techniques and perspectives that can open us up to inspiration and take us beyond our ordinary expectations of ourselves.
Full workshop details at:: http://www.isothermal.cc.nc.us/
Contact Information: Kathy Ackerman, Isothermal Community College, Spindale, NC
PREVIOUS READINGS & APPEARANCES
PICCOLO SPOLETO FESTIVAL
Charleston, SC
LOWCOUNTRY HERITAGE SOCIETY
Charleston, SC
BURROUGH-CHAPIN ART MUSEUM
Myrtle Beach, SC
POETRY SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston, SC
SOTTILE THEATER
Charleston, SC
"Indigo Jazz" song debut, Low Country Heritage Society & College of Charleston School of the Arts.
Songs performed by Tommy Gill and Ann Caldwell
MARY EDNA FRASER ART STUDIO
Charleston, SC, Book Debut, It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing
STUDIO AT PHOEBE PEMBER HOUSE
Charleston, SC, "Poetry of Place" : Featured reader
CHARLESTON FAMILY 6
Charleston, SC "September 11th" 1st Anniversary Reading
BARNES & NOBLE
West Ashley
Charleston, S.C.
HAMPTON PLANTATION
Georgetown, SC "Santee Spring" Low Country Heritage Society
MONDAY NIGHT BLUES READING SERIES
Cafe Lana, Charleston, S.C.: Featured readerSIERRA CLUB
Charleston, S.C.: Featured reader
POETRY SOCIETY OF GEORGIA
Savannah, Georgia
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR POETRY THERAPY
"At the Crossroads of the Humanities and Healing" Charleston, S.C.
GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART
Spirit of Place, Charleston, S.C.
SOUNDSTAGE
Hickory, N.C.
BLUE HERON POETRY SERIESLitchfield, S.C.: Featured reader
LEES MCRAE COLLEGEBanner Elk, NC
Spiritual Life Retreat
PEGGY HOWE ART STUDIO
"Some of Us" : Featured reader
CIRCULAR CHURCH
"The Pieta" with artist Peggy Howe
CRAMERTON JR. HIGH SCHOOL
Cramerton, N.C.: "Visiting Writers Reading
LINCOLNTON JR. HIGH SCHOOL
Lincolnton, N.C.: "Visiting Writers Reading
BATTLEGROUND SCHOOL
Lincolnton, N.C.: "Visiting Writers Reading
WARLICK PARK DEDICATION
Lincolnton, N.C. : Presentation of dedication poem written for the event
LOWCOUNTRY AIDS SOCIETY
Charleston, S.C.: Featured reader
PRISCILLA BOOK CLUB
L incolnton, N.C.: Featured reader
Shows
Weymouth Center of the Arts and Humanities: Southern Pines,
N.C.: "Vision and Voice": One month exhibition of framed
poetry written to art in conjunction with artist Lou dePaolis, Syracuse,
NY.
Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery: "Italian Fragments:
Images and Poetry": Charleston County Library: Two months exhibit of framed
poetry in conjunction with artist Peggy Howe
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