September 14
Linda Annas Ferguson and Rick Mulkey
October 12
Cherryl Floyd-Miller and Kendra Hamilton
November 9
Carol Ann Davis and Sheila Joan Tombe
December 14
Holiday Party
January 11
Open Mic, Jim Lundy, Emcee
February 8
Alice Friman
March 14
Sebastian Matthews
April 11
Sandra Meek
May 9
Annual Forum, Lavonne J. Adams, Commentator
Special Events:
October 20
Seminar, "Tension & the Power of the Poem," led by Cathy Smith Bowers, at Coffee Underground, Greenville; co-sponsored by PSSC and The Emrys Foundation. Vera Gomez, coordinator.
March 8
Induction of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., into the South Carolina Academy of Authors, at the Citadel. Sponsored by the SC Academy of Authors, co-sponsored by PSSC and the Citadel.
March 15
Seminar, "Space Is the Place: Using Classic Film Techniques to Deepen a Sense of Place in Poetry," led by Sebastian Matthews, at the College of Charleston. Barbara Burnet and Tim Taylor, coordinators.
May 3
Workshop, "Metaphor," led by Cathy Smith Bowers, at DeBordieu Colony Beach Club, Georgetown; Dennis Ward Stiles, coordinator.
May 8
Reading, "Lowcountry Poets: A Reading by Nine PSSC Members," an event in the 2008 North Charleston Arts Festival, at the Otranto Road Regional Library, North Charleston. Carol Peters, coordinator.
May 30
Southern Literary Festival of Piccolo Spoleto, "Poetry and Parties in the Roaring Twenties," presented by Oliver Bowman and Harriet Popham Rigney, at the Charleston Library Society, Charleston. Co-sponsored by the Charleston Library Society. Ann Herlong-Bodman, coordinator.
May 31
Charleston Poetry Walk of Piccolo Spoleto. Dennis Ward Stiles, coordinator.
Main Branch Poetry Series
Monthly poetry readings that began in January at the Charleston County Public Library. Co-sponsored by PSSC, Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts (LILA), and the Charleston County Public Library. Carol Peters, Michel Hammes, and Marjory Wentworth, coordinators.
Poetry at the Senior Center
Monthly lectures and workshops led at the James Island Senior Center by Poetry Society Board members.
September 8, 2006
Michael H. Lythgoe
October 13, 2006
Vera Gomez
November 10, 2006
Richard Garcia
December 8, 2006
Holiday Party & Reading (members only) at Oliver Bowman's House
January 12, 2007
Open Mic: Ellie Davis, Emcee, City Gallery at Waterfront Park
February 9, 2007
Kwame Dawes
March 9, 2007
Ray McManus and Susan Meyers
April 13, 2007
Katherine Smith
May 11, 2007
Annual Forum, Gil Allen, Commentator
Special events:
September 16, 2006
Publishing Seminar, 'Putting a Poetry Book Together,' with Ryan Van Cleave, at The Showroom, Spartanburg, SC, co-sponsored by PSSC and Hub City Writers Project
March 10, 2007
Publishing Seminar, 'Submitting to Poetry Journals,' with Ray McManus, at the College of Charleston
June 2, 2007
Poetry Workshop at DeBordieu, 'Making Tension Work for You,' with Cathy Smith Bowers, in Georgetown, SC
June 9, 2007
Charleston Poetry Walk, a Piccolo Spoleto event
September 9
Kurtis Lamkin (Charleston)
October 14
Richard Garcia, Dennis Ward Stiles, Marjory Wentworth and Katherine Williams (Charleston) Four Poets & a Season
November 11
Fran Quinn (Indiana)
December 9
Holiday Party & Reading, members only, Jim and Harriet Rigney’s house
January 13
Open Mic, City Gallery at Waterfront Park
February 10
Dan Albergotti (Coastal Carolina University, Conway)
March 10
Carrie Allen McCray (Columbia) Reading, and 'Literary Figures I Have Known'
April 14
Ryan Van Cleave (Clemson), 'Reading & Putting a Book Together'
May 12
Annual Forum, Richard Garcia, commentator, and Oliver Bowman, reader
Special events:
October 8
Jerri Chaplin Workshop: 'Poetry as Healer' at Trott’s Cottage on Cumberland Street, Charleston
April 15
Seminar, 'Putting a Poetry Book Together,' with Ryan Van Cleave, at Education Center, College of Charleston
April 22
Participant, National Poetry Month Poetry Extravaganza, at Barnes & Noble, Mt. Pleasant
Jun. 10
Charleston Poetry Walk, a Piccolo Spoleto event
Jun. 28
Carolina Day Parade
Spring 2006
PSSC provided judges for the Gibbes Museum of Art’s Poets & Painters Program.
September 10
Seabrook Wilkinson (Charleston), 'A discussion of eighteenth-century Charleston poetry'
October 8
Richard Garcia, and Katherine Williams (Charleston), 'Contemporary Poetry Informed by Religion: Poems of prayer, praise, adoration, faith and doubt'
November 12
Matthew Brennan, winner of the 1999 Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred.
December
Member's Christmas Party & Reading
January 14
Open mic
February 11
Tom House (NC), poetry and music
March 11
Chris Forhan (Auburn Univ.)
April 8
Claire Bateman (Greenville)
May 13
Annual Forum, Paul Allen, commentator
Special events:
April 30
National Poetry Month Poetry Extravaganza, Barnes & Noble, Mt. Pleasant
June 11
Charleston Poetry Walk, a Piccolo Spoleto event
PSSC provided judges for the Gibbes Poets & Painters Program student competition.
September 12
William Snyder, Jr.
October 10
Dr. James Kibler (University of Georgia)
November 14
Dr. Cathy Chance Harvey (New Orleans)
December 5
Nick Lindsay
Christmas Party, members only
January 9
Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate
February 13
Dr. James Hutchisson & Harlan Greene, 'Renaissance in Charleston, Art and Life in the Lowcountry, 1900-40'
March 12
Dr. Paul Allen (College of Charleston)
April 9
Dr. Jim Clark (Barton College, Wilson, NC)
May 14
Annual Forum/Business Meeting
Special events:
May 8
“The Hatman Speaks” reading, co-sponsored by the Lowcountry Heritage Society and the Charleston Museum
June 12
Charleston Poetry Walk, a Piccolo Spoleto event
PSSC provided judges for the Gibbes Poets & Painters Program student competition.
September 13
Barbara Randall Clark
October 11
Phebe Davidson (Aiken)
November 8
Linda Annas Ferguson
December 6
Christmas Readings/Party at Gibbes Museum, members only
January 10
Open mic
February 14
William Aarnes (Furman)
March 14
Cathy Smith Bowers (Charlotte, NC)
Special Event
April 4
Henry Taylor (VA), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Gibbes Museum Rotunda
April 11
Student Reading
May 9
Annual Business Meeting & Forum
(prize winner: “Gym” by Dennis Ward Stiles)
Special events:
March 29
Workshop at DeBordieu/Georgetown, led by Paul Allen, co-sponsored by NCPS
May 31
Charleston Poetry Walk
PSSC provided judges for the Gibbes Poets & Painters Program
September 14
Rosemary Daniell
October 12
Shelby Stephenson (NC)
November 9
Robert Jordan (Jim Rigney), novelist
December
Christmas Party, Gibbes Museum Rotunda, members only
January 11
Open mic
February 8
Jessica Bundschuh, College of Charleston
March 8
Dennis Ward Stiles (Charleston)
April 12
Fred Chappell (Greensboro)
May 10
Annual Business Meeting & Forum
Special events:
March 21
PSSC provided judges for Gibbes Poets & Painters Program competition
April 13
Charleston Poetry Walk, a Piccolo Spoleto event
May 4
Workshop at DeBordieu/Georgetown, led by Jessica Bunschuh on “New and Unusual Ways to Generate Poetry,” co-sponsored by NCPS
September 8
Carol Furtwangler (James Island)
October 6
Richard Berlin
November 10
Margaret Rabb
December 8
Christmas Party, members only
January 12
Elon G. Eidenier (Durham, NC)
February 9
Carol Ann Davis, CofC
March 9
Paul Allen, College of Charleston
April 6
John Bennett Memorial Program
May 11
Annual Business Meeting & Annual Forum
Special event:
May 12
Anthony Abbott (Davidson College) Workshop at Brookgreen Gardens, co-sponsored by NCPS
September 10
Donelle Ruwe
October 21
Judy Goldman (Charlotte, NC)
November 10
Susan Ludvigson, Gibbes Museum
December 3
Christmas Party, Gibbes Museum
January 14
Dan Ladinsky (Myrtle Beach)
February 11
Kathleen Thompson (Savannah, GA)
March 10
Michael Chitwood (Chapel Hill, NC)
April 14
Margaret Lally
May 12
Annual Business Meeting & Annual Forum
Special events:
December
Awards Night, Student Competition, co-sponsored by the Gibbes Museum of Art
January
Centenary of William Gilmore Simms, co-sponsored by the William Gilmore Simms Society
May 6
Workshop at DeBordieu/Georgetown, led by Dannye Romine Powell, co-sponsored by NCPS
May 19
Diane Wakoski, co-sponsored by College of Charleston
September 11
Jean Nordhaus, winner of Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Competition
October 8
Rebecca McClanahan (Charlotte, NC), held at the Gibbes Museum rotunda
November 13
Susan Meyers (Georgetown) & Diana Pinckney (Charlotte, NC)
December 6
Christmas Party, members only
January 8
Open mic
February 12
John Lane (Spartanburg)
March 12
Phebe Davidson (Aiken)
April 9
Carolyn Beard Whitlow (Greensboro, NC)
May 14
Annual Business Meeting & Annual Forum
September 12
Debra Kaufman, winner of Kinloch Rivers Chapbook Competition
October 10
Nick Lindsay
November 14
Linda Karges-Bone, poet and professor at Charleston Southern University
December 12
Christmas Party, City Gallery, Dock Street Theatre, members only
January 9
Jim Clark, poet and professor, University of Georgia
February 13
Jeff Schwaner and Mary Winifred Hood
March 13
Melissa Morphew (Bishopville)
April 10
James Kibler, poet and professor, University of Georgia
May 8
Annual Forum and business meeting
Special events:
February
Maxine Kumin reading, co-sponsored by College of Charleston
March 15
Collation in honor of SC Acad. of Authors, co-sponsored by Low Country Heritage Society
May
Workshop at Debordieu/Georgetown, conducted by Thomas L. Johnson, co-sponsored by NC Poetry Society
May
Poetry-as-Therapy workshop, led by Oliver Bowman, co-sponsored by Piccolo Spoleto
September 13
Marjorie Elizabeth Pealse, 'Interviews with Poets of the ‘30s and ‘40s
October 11
Mary Hood
November 8
William Baldwin, novelist and poet
December 13
Christmas Party, members only
January 10
Open Reading, members only
February 14
David Aiken, 'On Charleston Writers'
March 14
James M. Hutchisson on DuBose Heyward
April 11
Alice Cabaniss, Charleston teacher and poet
May 9
Annual Forum and Business Meeting
Special events:
November 2
Workshop in Anderson, conducted by Starkey Flythe
March 16
Collation, by John Bennett, for SC Academy of Authors, at the Margaret Petterson Gallery
May 3
PSSC/NCPS workshop at DeBordieu/Georgetown led by Bennie Lee Sinclair, South Carolina Poet Laureate
June 7
Workshop featuring “found” poetry, led by Thomas L. Johnson, held at Second Presbyterian Church fellowship hall
September 8
Constance Pultz, winner of the Kinloch Rivers Chapbook competition
October 13
Gilbert Allen (Furman)
November 10
Gordon Bell (Spartanburg) and Matthew Montana (Nashville, TN), co-authors of Whispers of Madmen
December 8
Christmas Party, City Gallery, Dock Street Theatre
January 12
75th Anniversary of PSSC gala, The Confederate Home, 62 Broad St.
February 9
Open mic
March 8
Jim Clark (Georgia)
April 12
Jacqueline Markham, author of Chinababy (chapbook)
May 10
Annual Forum, showcasing recent work by members of The Writers’ Group
Special events:
March
Collation at the Marty Whaley Adams Gallery
April
Poetry workshop at DeBordieu/Georgetown, in collaboration with NC Poetry Society
September 9
Mary Elizabeth Parker, winner of the 1993 Kinloch Rivers Memorial Chapbook Competition
October 14
Michael McFee (Chapel Hill, NC)
November 11
R. T. Smith (VA), judge of Kinloch Rivers chapbook prize
December 9
Christmas Party, City Gallery of the Dock Street Theatre
January 13
Margaret Lally, Citadel professor
February 10
John Andrew Hamilton Prize awarded ($100) by audience vote
March 10
Paul Rice (Conway)
April 14
Linda Lee Harper (Aiken)
May 12
Annual Forum, by Writers’ Group
Special event:
March 19
Collation at the home of John Bennett, Jr., part of Writers’ Conference
September 10
The John Andrew Hamilton Prize Competition, audience-judged
October 8
Linda Lee Harper (Aiken)
November 12
Carrie McCray (Columbia)
December 10
Bring a Poem Night: Christmas party
January 14
Ted Graf (Columbia)
February 11
Open Reading—audience participation
March 11
Debra Daniel (Blythewood), 1993 SCAC Poetry Fellow
April 8
Michael Chitwood (Chapel Hill, NC)
May 13
The Writers’ Group: Annual Spring Forum
Special events:
March 19
Literary Tour in cooperation with The Preservation Society
March 20
A collation at the home of John Bennett, Jr., to honor the Writers’ Conference, sponsored by The College of Charleston
May 28
Elaine Bresler’s 7th Annual Poetry-as-Therapy Workshop, in cooperation with Piccolo Spoleto
September 11
Judge L. Mendel Rivers, Jr., reading from his favorite poetry
October 9
John Andrew Hamilton Competition, winner selected by audience
November 13
Quitman Marshall (Columbia)
December 13
Bring a Poem Night: Christmas Party
November 22
Special Event
Rabbi Rosenthal, dramatic reading of Jewish poetry
January 8
Cecile Goding (Florence)
February 12
Jean McKinney & Liz Newall (Anderson)
March 12
Open mic
April 9
Stephen Gardner (Columbia)
May 14
The Writers’ Group: Annual Spring Forum
Special events:
April 22
Second Literary Tour, collaboration with The Preservation Society (First Tour was in fall of 1992)
June 5
Poetry-as-Therapy workshop, conducted by Elaine Bresler
(in cooperation with Piccolo Spoleto)