Pat Conroy Great Love for Poetry and the Kick-Start National Poetry Month Reading
Hilton Head Island Branch Library 11 Beach City Road, Hilton Head, SC, United StatesPat Conroy (1945–2016) wrote that “the poets of the world occupy a place of high honor in my city of books.” Pat’s brother Tim, a poet and retired educator, explores Pat’s lifelong relationship with poetry as a reader, as a self-described failed poet, and as a writer who found a creative outlet for the rhapsody and rhythms of poetry in his iconic lyrical and descriptive prose. Featuring eight local poets, the fifth annual Kick-Start Poetry Month Reading offers an opportunity to gather in celebration of the written and spoken word. April is National Poetry Month, a time for reading, writing, and sharing poetry...