Workshop with Bo Bryan
Sat, Dec 07
|Richland Main Library
Bo Bryan is the first poet laureate chosen to represent Myrtle Beach. As a literary craftsman, he is primarily self-taught, autodidactic through lifelong habit and innate love for the sounds of words. See "About the Event" for more info and for Zoom links!
Time & Location
Dec 07, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Richland Main Library, 1431 Assembly St, Columbia, SC 29201, USA
Guests
About the event
Bo Bryan was dyslexic as a child, moderately afflicted, however his impairment was never diagnosed. He had much difficulty learning to read, and was consequently considered of below average intelligence. The sounds of words equally fascinated and baffled him. The mysteries of language and the impact of words on human action and emotion—structuring phonetic patterns for maximum accuracy and clarity of intent—became an obsession. Until recently he had never called himself a poet, nor published a poem. “As I grew up in a carnival town, the only socially acceptable motive for a young man writing a poem was to mesmerize a pretty girl.” Otherwise mere passing contact with poetry was considered outside the manly purview. Reading poetry, let alone writing verse for pleasure, was anathema to a beach boy’s need for constant display of stud-like character. Even in later adulthood, it seemed necessary to hide to be a poet, even…