Poetry Society of South Carolina
Celebrating 100 Years!

Upcoming Events

First Reading for the 2022-2023 Season: Melissa Crowe!
Sep 09, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). See "Learn More" for more information about this wonderful poet. This is a two-day event. Melissa will read on Friday night, and on Saturday morning, she will provide a seminar.
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Han VanderHart Reading
Oct 14, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Han VanderHart is a genderqueer Southern writer living in Durham, North Carolina. They have poetry and essays published in The Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, AGNI and elsewhere.
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Jaki Shelton Green Reading
Nov 11, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina is a 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, and 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature.
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Tarfia Faizullah Reading
Feb 10, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf, 2018) and SEAM (SIU, 2014). Tarfia’s writing appears widely in the U.S. and abroad in the Daily Star, Hindu Business Line, BuzzFeed, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, and many more.
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Jill McDonough Reading
Mar 10, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Three-time Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough is the recipient of fellowships from the Cullman Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the Stegner Program. She teaches in UMass-Boston’s MFA program and two Boston jails.
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Yalie Saweda Kamara Reading
Apr 14, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Selected as the 2022-2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate (2-year term), she is the author of A Brief Biography of My Name (2018) and When the Living Sing (2017).
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Glenis Redmond Reading
May 12, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Glenis Redmond is a performance poet, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. She is the author of three books of poetry: Backbone (Underground Epics, 2000), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag, 2002), and What My Hand Say (Press 53, 2016)
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First Reading for the 2022-2023 Season: Melissa Crowe!
Fri, Sep 09
Charleston Library Society
Sep 09, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). See "Learn More" for more information about this wonderful poet. This is a two-day event. Melissa will read on Friday night, and on Saturday morning, she will provide a seminar.
RSVP

Han VanderHart Reading
Fri, Oct 14
Charleston Library Society
Oct 14, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Han VanderHart is a genderqueer Southern writer living in Durham, North Carolina. They have poetry and essays published in The Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, AGNI and elsewhere.
RSVP

Jaki Shelton Green Reading
Fri, Nov 11
Charleston Library Society
Nov 11, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina is a 2019 Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, and 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature.
RSVP

Tarfia Faizullah Reading
Fri, Feb 10
Charleston Library Society
Feb 10, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of two poetry collections, REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf, 2018) and SEAM (SIU, 2014). Tarfia’s writing appears widely in the U.S. and abroad in the Daily Star, Hindu Business Line, BuzzFeed, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, and many more.
RSVP

Jill McDonough Reading
Fri, Mar 10
Charleston Library Society
Mar 10, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Three-time Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough is the recipient of fellowships from the Cullman Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the Stegner Program. She teaches in UMass-Boston’s MFA program and two Boston jails.
RSVP

Yalie Saweda Kamara Reading
Fri, Apr 14
Charleston Library Society
Apr 14, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Selected as the 2022-2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate (2-year term), she is the author of A Brief Biography of My Name (2018) and When the Living Sing (2017).
RSVP

Glenis Redmond Reading
Fri, May 12
Charleston Library Society
May 12, 2023, 7:00 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Glenis Redmond is a performance poet, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. She is the author of three books of poetry: Backbone (Underground Epics, 2000), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag, 2002), and What My Hand Say (Press 53, 2016)
RSVP