This free public event brings together a diverse group of South Carolina’s poets in celebration of the power of the language arts to heal, inspire, and educate in our communities.
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PR Contact: Jonathan Haupt
jonathan@patconroyliterarycenter.org
PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER TO HOST POETS RESPOND TO RACE PROGRAM FEATURING SEVEN ACCOMPLISHED SOUTH CAROLINA POETS
“In the vast repository of language, the poets never shout at you when you pass them by. Theirs is a seductive, meditative art. They hand you a file to cut your way out from any prison of misrule…. The poets of the world occupy a place of high honor in my city of books.”—Pat Conroy, My Reading Life
BEAUFORT, SC — The Pat Conroy Literary […]
In partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the Newberry Opera House is proud to present a special night in honor of the late Southern icon Pat Conroy. The evening will feature Conroy’s widow and fellow novelist Cassandra King interviewed by author and ETV radio host Walter Edgar. The event will be recorded for Walter Edgar’s Journal on SC ETV Radio. A portion of the ticket will benefit to the new Pat Conroy Literary Center.
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Friday, Oct 28, and Saturday, Oct 29, 2016 – 1:00-6:00 p.m.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center invites you to attend our OPEN HOUSE hours during the Historic Beaufort Foundation’s Fall Festival Weekend. […]
Hundreds of Pat Conroy fans, friends, and family members gathered in Beaufort, SC on Saturday night, October 22 for the closing ceremony of the inaugural Pat Conroy Literary Festival. The program, which took place in the auditorium of the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Center for the Arts, was intended to share information about the new nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, formed last April as a living legacy to the beloved writer Pat Conroy (The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, A Lowcountry […]
The Pat Conroy Literary Center invites you to attend our OPEN HOUSE hours during the Historic Beaufort Foundation's Fall Festival Weekend. Meet Pat Conroy's Daufuskie Island student Sallie Ann Robinson; and four of his Story River Books writers, Ellen Malphrus, Bernie Schein, Maggie Schein, and John Warley; and newly named Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt.
“Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary.”
— Pat Conroy, My Losing Season
I laugh when I read this snippet of Pat’s memoir because, like all his commentary on writing, it is so true, so wise and so very Conroy.
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