History of the PSSC and Film Screening of To Have a Name Worth Owning

The Poetry Society of South Carolina presents a fun afternoon in Aiken, SC. This event is free and open to the public, so bring a friend.

The presentation begins with a brief history of the Poetry Society delivered by its president, Jim Lundy. He will begin the event with a short history of the oldest state poetry society in America, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, founded in Charleston in 1920. Everyone from Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Ogden Nash, Billy Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Thornton Wilder, Robert Pinsky, and hundreds of others appeared before the membership over the last 104 years. The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina is fascinating and will be brought to life in a slideshow featuring gossip, morbidity, humor, scandal, heartbreak, intrigue, embezzlement, drama, and backstabbing.

Following that, we will enjoy a screening of the documentary…