Ed Madden with Cora Schipa (In Person/On Zoom)
Fri, Mar 17
|Gage Hall (Unitarian Church)
Everyone, former Poet Laureate of Columbia, Ed Madden, has graciously agreed to read for us in lieu of Jill McDonough, who had to cancel for now. Zoom links and more information are provided in "About the Event." Ed Madden is the author of five books and four chapbooks of poetry.


Time & Location
Mar 17, 2023, 7:00 PM
Gage Hall (Unitarian Church), 4 Archdale St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Guests
About the event
Ed Madden is the author of five books and four chapbooks of poetry, most recently A pooka in Arkansas, which was selected for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, and Ark, a book about his father’s last months in hospice care. He is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches Irish literature, queer studies, and creative writing. Ed served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia, SC, 2015-2022. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica, Brazil.
A pooka in Arkansas has a release date of March 15.
Selected by Timothy Liu for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Growing up gay in rural culture, one learns to be a shapeshifter. One learns that some stories can…
Schedule
1 hourEd Madden's Poetry Reading
Gage Hall
1 hour 30 minutesEd Madden's Workshop
Gage Hall