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Monday, April 21, 2025
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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April 22, 2025 -Tuesday Talk: Pat Conroy as Nature Writer (An Earth Day Special Event)
Tuesday Talk: Pat Conroy as Nature Writer (An Earth Day Special Event)
“My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.”—Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides Honoring Earth Day, Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and poet Tim Conroy will discuss the nature writing of Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and more. From his obscure boyhood poetry to his beloved lyrical adult prose, Conroy wrote about the beauty of our natural world as both wondrous and perilous, using the [...]
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
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Friday, April 25, 2025
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April 25, 2025 -An Evening with Marjory Wentworth, Author of One River, One Boat
An Evening with Marjory Wentworth, Author of One River, One Boat
In honor of National Poetry Month, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Marjory Wentworth, past Poet Laureate of South Carolina, and author of One River, One Boat, on Friday, April 25, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort). Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. About the Book and Author Famously cut from Governor Nikki Haley’s inauguration in 2015, [...]
Saturday, April 26, 2025
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April 26, 2025 -Write Living Newspapers: A Poetry Workshop Led by Marjory Wentworth
Write Living Newspapers: A Poetry Workshop Led by Marjory Wentworth
Laurence Ferlinghetti wrote, “If you would be a poet, write living newspapers.” In this workshop we will consider the ways the occasion poem is often written to document or provide commentary on an event. Sometimes it is intended to be read or performed publicly, but not necessarily. There are no specific guidelines for occasion poems, except that they mark a specific occasion or situation. The poems can be long or short, serious or humorous, formal or experimental. We will look at several occasion poems together [...]
Sunday, April 27, 2025
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