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First Thursdays, January through May
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Waccamaw Higher Education Center
160 Wilbrook Boulevard
Pawleys Island, SC 29585
Book signing after the reading
Refreshments: homemade confections by Deloris Roberts
Free and open to the public
843-349-4032
Co-sponsored by
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at
Coastal Carolina University, and
PSSC
January 7
Kurtis Lamkin
Kora player
Kurtis Lamkin has performed in concerts halls, prisons, and universities, radio and television shows, and was one of the poets in Bill Moyers’
Fooling with Words television special
. His animated poem “The Foxes Manifesto” aired for two years on PBS. His poems are anthologized in
Elements of Literature, The Paterson Review, and
New City Voices. He is currently touring with his CD,
Magic Yams.
February 4
Barbara G. S. Hagerty and Ray McManus
Barbara G.S. Hagerty is author of
The Guest House (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her poems, essays, and columns have appeared in a wide variety of national and regional publications. A member of Richard Garcia's Long Table Poets workshop in Charleston, she holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from The Johns Hopkins University.
Ray McManus is the author of two collections of poetry:
Left Behind (Stepping Stones Press) and
Driving through the country before you are born (USC Press, 2007), winner of the SC Poetry Book Prize. His poetry has appeared in many journals throughout the United Sates and Canada. He is an Assistant Professor of English at USC Sumter.
March 4
Libby Bernardin and Colleagues
Libby Bernardin conducts four poetry workshops a year for OLLI. She is the author of
The Book of Myth (Stepping Stones Press, 2009), and her work appears in
Notre Dame Review, Kakalak, and other journals. She is retired from teaching English at the University of South Carolina and serves on the board of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
Reading with Libby are colleagues and members of the OLLI poetry workshops: Nancy Jean Hill, Susan Scheno, George Sharwell, Bob Jones, Charlotte Hedler, Michelle Ott, Susan Clancy, and Anne Pott.
April 1
Pat Riviere-Seel and Jim Lundy
Pat Riviere-Seel is the author of
The Serial Killer’s Daughter (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2009), which won the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, and
No Turning Back Now (Finishing Line Press, 2004). A former political reporter for The Fayetteville Observer, she received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She and her husband live in Asheville, NC.
Jim Lundy, current PSSC president, whiles away his time as a poet, songwriter, and longtime emcee of Monday Night Blues, a weekly literary and music event in Charleston. He has authored two chapbooks:
All I Can Be is Myself (2006) and
Funny, in the Trenchant Way of Brilliant Men (2009). He uses humor and storytelling in his work to explore the human condition.
May 6
Sheridan Hough and Daniel Nathan Terry
Sheridan Hough is the author of
The Hide (Inleaf Press, 2007). Her poetry has also appeared in
Kakalak 2009: Anthology of Carolina Poets and many literary magazines. In 1983 she won a poetry scholarship from the National Society of Arts and Letters. She is Professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston.
Daniel Nathan Terry is the author of
Capturing the Dead (NFSPS Press, 2008), winner of the Stevens Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in
The MacGuffin, Weber: The Contemporary West, The Adirondack Review, Kakalak, and
Oberon. He is enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington, where he also teaches.
