Past Readings at McLeod

Glenis Redmond
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, April 28, 2019, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Glenis Redmond is Poet-in-Residence both at The Peace Center for the Performing Arts in Greenville, SC, and at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ, as well as a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist. Among her awards are a Cave Canem fellowship, the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival competition, and the Plattner Award. She has published three poetry collections, What My Hand Say (Press 53, 2016), Under the Sun (Main Street Rag, 2008), Backbone (Aqyil, 1997), and two CDs, Monumental and Glenis on Poetry.

Roger Reeves
Saturday, June 8, 2019, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, June 9, 2019, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected "Kletic of Walt Whitman" for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. He earned his PhD the University of Texas-Austin, where he is now an associate professor. His forthcoming On Paradise from W.W. Norton follows King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).

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Calendar 2017-2018

Kendra Hamilton
Saturday, June 17, 2017, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, June 18, 2017, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Kendra Hamilton, a Charleston native, is a professor of English and Director of Southern Studies at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC. Her poetry appears in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. A Cave Canem fellow, Dr. Hamilton’s recent art reflects her research into the lives of people enslaved at McLeod.

Kwoya Fagin Maples
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, October 22, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Kwoya Fagin Maples, a graduate Cave Canem fellow, is a Charleston native now teaching in Louisiana, whose manuscript, Mend, treats the lives of enslaved women forced to be medical research subjects.

Gary Jackson
Saturday, March 17, 2018, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, March 18, 2018, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He was featured on 2013’s "New American Poets" by the Poetry Society of America, and his poems have appeared in Callaloo, Tin House, 32 Poems, Crab Orchard Review, and Shattered: The Asian-American Comics Anthology, and is the recipient of both a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship. He joined the Department of English at the College of Charleston in 2013.

Len Lawson
Saturday, April 7, 2018, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, April 8, 2018, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Len Lawson, of Sumter SC, hosts Cave Canem retreats in SC and is an advocate and organizer of discussions on race. He is studying toward the Ph.D. degree in Pennsylvania. His chap book, Before the Night Wakes You, was just published by Finishing Line Press.

Marilyn Nelson
Friday, June 1, noon-1 p.m., Lowcountry Senior Center
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 2-4 p.m., workshop at town hall
Sunday, June 3, 2018, 2-4 p.m., reading at McLeod

Marilyn Nelson, daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, a founding member of Cave Canem, and finalist for several National Book Awards, has composed extensively on the lives of African Americans, including Emmett Till, George Washington Carver, and a slave named Fortune.