Tag: poetry reading

  • An Evening with the Poets

    An Evening with the Poets

    Marc Harshman presents a night of poetry at Taylor Books with Jesse Graves, youth poets from Poetry Out Loud and the WV Youth Laureate programs. Representing Poetry Out Loud is Carson Misch, and Clay Dusenbury will join as the current West Virginia Youth Poet Laureate.

    Date: Friday, October 10th
    Time: 6pm
    Location: Taylor Books, 226 Capitol St.

    Jesse Graves is the author of five poetry collections, including Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, and a collection of essays, Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place. His work received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and two Weatherford Awards in Poetry from Berea College. He teaches at East Tennessee State University, where he is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English.

  • An Evening with the Poets

    An Evening with the Poets

    October 18, 6pm
    Location: Taylor Books Annex Gallery, 226 Capitol St.

    Marc Harshman presents a night of poetry at Taylor Books with Steve Scafidi and youth poet from Poetry Out Loud, Willow Peyton. Joining them will be Youth Poet Laureate representatives, Caterina Occhione and Mariam Hamdan. 

    This event is free and open to the public.

    About Steve Scafidi 

    Steve Scafidi is the author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), For Love of Common Words (LSU 2006), The Cabinetmaker’s Window (LSU 2014), To the Bramble and the Briar (University of Arkansas Press, 2014) and a chapbook Songs for the Carry-On (Q Avenue Press, 2013). He has won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the James Boatwright Prize and the Miller Williams Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he has taught at several universities including, most recently, in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He works as a cabinetmaker and lives with his family in Summit Point, West Virginia.