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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Poetry Series to feature Poet Joe Wilkins
DESCRIPTION:Joe Wilkins will be guest poet at the Third Thursday reading on November 20\, at Pebble Hill in Auburn. Book sales and refreshments will be available beginning at 6:00. The program will begin at 6:30 with a brief open mic reading followed by Wilkins’s presentation. Those wishing to read a brief poem in the open mic segment should arrive early and sign up. \nWilkins teaches creative writing at Linfield University in Oregon. He has published two novels\, a memoir\, and five collections of poetry\, the most recent of which is Pastoral\, 1994.  \n  \nThe Third Thursday Literary Series is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities\, the Department of English and Southern Humanities Review in the College of liberal Arts at Auburn University\, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. \n  \nAll Third Thursday readings are free and open to the public.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/third-thursday-poetry-series-to-feature-poet-joe-wilkins/
LOCATION:Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities\, 101 S. Debardeleben St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849-5637\, United States
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SUMMARY:Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Event in Auburn
DESCRIPTION:The annual Auburn Witness Prize program in the Third Thursday Literary Series\, will be October 23 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum on South College Street in Auburn. The event is scheduled for 5 – 7 p.m.\n\nNicole Sealey\, this year’s Witness Prize judge\, and Hana Widerman\, the Witness Prize winner\, will both read from their work.\n\n                 \nNicole Sealey                                                                                    Hana Widerman\n\nThe Witness Prize reading is sponsored by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Supporters of the Third Thursday Literary Series include The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities\, the Department of English and Southern Humanities Review in the Auburn College of Liberal Arts\, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.\n\n\n5:00 – A tour of Radical Naturalism: Lyric Birdscapes\, a current museum exhibit combining Audubon prints and poetry \n6:00 – Book signing by Sealey; auditorium seating opens \n6:30 – Poetry reading begins \nEvents are free\, and surely there will be plenty of auditorium seating\, but if you want to be sure of a spot\, you may RSVP to https://jcsm.auburn.edu/event/auburn-witness-poetry-prize/
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/auburn-witness-poetry-prize-event-in-auburn/
LOCATION:Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University\, 901 S. College St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nancy Owen Nelson and Harry Moore at Pebble Hill
DESCRIPTION:Join poet Nancy Owen Nelson and author Harry Moore for a reading at Auburn University’s Pebble Hill. \nNancy Owen Nelson earned her BA from Birmingham-Southern and her MA and PhD from Auburn University. Her poems have been published in The South Dakota Review\, Graffiti Rag\, What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest\, The MacGuffin\, A Cloud of Possibility\, Oberon\, and This/That/Lit online journal. Published books include her memoirs\, Searching for Nannie B: Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women (2015) and Divine Aphasia: A Woman’s Search for Her Father (2021); her poetry chapbook\, My Heart Wears No Colors (2018); and her poetry book\,Portals: A Memoir in Verse (2019). In 2019\, her poem “Africatown\,” was awarded second place for free verse in the Alabama Writers Conclave competition. \nRecipient of the 2014 Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers\, Harry Moore is the author of the poetry collection Bearing the Farm Away (Kelsay Books\, 2018) and four chapbooks: What He Would Call Them(Finishing Line Press\, 2013); Time’s Fool: Love Poems (Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press\, Huntsville\, AL\, 2014); Retreat: A Way Forward(Finishing Line Press\, 2017); and Beyond Paradise: The Unweeded Garden (Main Street Rag\, 2020). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sow’s Ear Poetry Review\, Plainsongs\, Xavier Review\, Pudding Magazine\, Main Street Rag\, South Carolina Review\, Blue Unicorn\, Slipstream\, Anglican Theological Review\, Ponder Review\, and other journals.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/nancy-owen-nelson-and-harry-moore-at-pebble-hill/
LOCATION:Pebble Hill\, 101 S. Debardeleben St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36830\, United States
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Poetry Series featuring Virginia Poet Jim Peterson
DESCRIPTION:The next Third Thursday Poetry reading\, featuring Virginia poet Jim Peterson\, will be at 6:30 p.m.\, on January 18\, at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities on Debardeleben Street in Auburn (Pebble Hill). Open bar and hors d’oeuvres available beginning at 6 p.m. Prior to Jim’s reading\, there will be a brief open mic session for local poets.\nThe Third Thursday Poetry Series is supported by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center\, the Auburn University Department of English\, OLLI at Auburn University\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/third-thursday-poetry-series-featuring-virginia-poet-jim-peterson/
LOCATION:Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities\, 101 S. Debardeleben St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36849-5637\, United States
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