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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy as Nature Writer -- Presented by Jonathan Haupt & Tim Conroy
DESCRIPTION:“My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.”—Pat Conroy\, The Prince of Tides \nAn encore presentation! 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 lowcountry not only as a setting but as the central character of his many books. This presentation will highlight representative examples of Conroy’s nature writing from across the span of his writing life\, drawing attention to how Conroy’s relationship with nature is also ultimately a relationship with his deeply felt spiritual and humanistic faith.  \nThe presenters will be assisted by students from DAYLO (the Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, who will be reading from Pat Conroy’s work and sharing some original creative pieces in response.  \nThis event will be held at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center (310 Okatie Hwy) on Tuesday\, October 21\, at 5:30 p.m. $10/person. To register\, visit portroyalsoundfoundation.org and click the orange “Book A Program” button. \nAbout Our Presenters\nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press\, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. Under Jonathan’s leadership\, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark\, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum\, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. \nTim Conroy\, the author of the collections Theologies of Terrain and No True Route\, is a poet and retired educator. His work has appeared in Fall Lines\, Blue Mountain Review\, Jasper Magazine\, Marked by the Water\, Sheltered\, Twelve Mile Review\, Poetry on the Comet\, The Post and Courier\, Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth\, DWG Anthology\, and Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. In 2022\, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines\, Volume IX. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother’s honor.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-as-nature-writer-presented-by-jonathan-haupt-tim-conroy/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, US
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Firing the Clay: A Poetry Workshop Led by Tim Conroy
DESCRIPTION:In this two-hour writing workshop led by Tim Conroy\, poets will explore approaches to revision\, considering the content and sound of each word\, line\, and stanza of each poem. Do you need to lower expectations to generate your first draft? Do you allow the poem to discover its true beginning? Do the prepositional phrases stall the poem into a nosedive? Do your verbs disappoint your poems? Are the adverbs really necessary? Does the poem need its current chronology? Have you played Jenga with the poem to discover its own vision? Does the reader glide across the poem’s dance floor? The workshop challenges the poet to break habits and let revision bring tomorrow’s light and lens to the poem. \nThe workshop aims to clarify and challenge our identity as poets\, to elevate poems through improving habits and engaging in playful revision\, to risk failure from disassembling and reassembling for the chance to discover what the clay can reveal\, and to forget expectations for an opportunity to find the soul\, form\, and sound of a better poem. This workshop seeks the poem that’s revealed only through the act of revision\, while gladly admitting that some poems fall from the sky from pencils of light. We take solace in rigorous revision\, knowing if we break it\, we can return to its best version or shove the poem in the sock drawer for a month. \nLocation and Cost: This is an in-person writers workshop\, held at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Martime Center (310 Okatie Hwy). Limited to 15 participants with advance registration required; $45/person. https://Firingtheclayworkshop.eventbrite.com \nTools for the Workshop: Bring your lucky pen or pencil\, highlighter\, and a notebook for brainstorming and revising activities. Please print copies of 3 poems that need revising. Let’s maneuver\, choose\, experiment\, distill\, rejoice\, and operate. \nRecommended Readings:\nWriting in the Lineage of Poetry by Miriam Sagan \nArt and Fear: Observations on the Perils of Art Making by David Bayles and Ted Orland \nThe Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young \nThe Art of Writing by Lu Chi’s Wen Fu\, translated by Sam Hamill \nDisclosure: This workshop wouldn’t have been possible without the insights and poems of the poet Georgia Popoff who inspires countless poets to examine their revision practices. Georgia Popoff’s books include Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities (Tiger Bark Press\, 2015)\, The Doom Weaver (Main Street Rag Publications\, 2008)\, and Coaxing Nectar From Longing (Hale Mary Press\, 1997). \nAbout Our Instructor: Tim Conroy\, the author of the collections Theologies of Terrain and No True Route\, is a former special educator. His poems have been included in numerous journals\, compilations\, and anthologies. His poems often explore themes of family and nature\, incorporating philosophical elements. In 2022\, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines\, Volume IX. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, established in his brother’s honor\, Tim recently moved with his wife Terrye to the beautiful town of Beaufort\, South Carolina.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/firing-the-clay-a-poetry-workshop-led-by-tim-conroy/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, US
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:The Prince of Tides Book Club Discussion -- Presented by Jonathan Haupt & Ellen Malphrus
DESCRIPTION:“Wholeness. It all comes back. It’s all a circle.”–Pat Conroy\, The Prince of Tides \nPat Conroy’s 1986 masterwork The Prince of Tides is the quintessential lowcountry novel\, beloved by millions as their point of entrance into the lush southern geography\, lyrical voice\, and complex interweaving of fact and fiction which define the author’s literary legacy.  \nJoin Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and USC Beaufort English professor and Writer in Residence Ellen Malphrus for a book club discussion of the novel\, its major themes\, its 1991 Academy Award-nominated film adaptation\, its place in the Conroy literary canon\, and its lasting impact on lowcountry literature and lore.  \nThis event will be held at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center (310 Okatie Hwy) on Tuesday\, September 9\, at 3:00-4:30 p.m. Attendees are encourage to read or re-read the novel prior to the event to better facilitate the book club discussion. $10/person. To register\, visit portroyalsoundfoundation.org and click the orange “Book A Program” button. \nAbout Our Presenters\nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press\, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. Under Jonathan’s leadership\, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark\, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum\, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. \nDr. Ellen Malphrus is a professor of English and the Writer in Residence at the University of South Carolina Beaufort\, where she was honored as the 2022 Professor of the Year. Malphrus is the author of the novel Untying the Moon\, a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, and the author of poetry\, creative prose\, and scholarly work published in Poetry South\, Haight Ashbury Review\, Natural Bridge\, James Dickey Review\, Southern Literary Journal\, William & Mary Review\, Blue Mountain Review\, Fall Lines\, Review of Contemporary Fiction\, Weber—the Contemporary West\, and Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies.  \nAbout The Prince of Tides (from the publisher):\nSet in New York City and the low country of South Carolina\, The Prince of Tides opens when Tom\, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling\, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister’s suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the most gifted poets of her generation\, and both the cadenced beauty of her art and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to the too-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled offices and luxurious restaurants of New York City\, Tom and Susan Lowenstein\, Savannah’s psychiatrist\, unravel a history of violence\, abandonment\, commitment\, and love. And Tom realizes that trying to save his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself. \nWith passion and a rare gift of language\, Pat Conroy moves from present to past\, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from World War II through the final days of the war in Vietnam and into the 1980s\, drawing a rich range of characters: the lovable\, crazy Mr. Fruit\, who for decades has wordlessly directed traffic at the same intersection in the southern town of Colleton; Reese Newbury\, the ruthless\, patrician land speculator who threatens the Wingos’ only secure worldly possession\, Melrose Island; Herbert Woodruff\, Susan Lowenstein’s husband\, a world-famous violinist; Tolitha Wingo\, Savannah’s mentor and eccentric grandmother\, the first real feminist in the Wingo family. \nPat Conroy reveals the lives of his characters with surpassing depth and power\, capturing the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country and a lost way of life.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/the-prince-of-tides-book-club-discussion-presented-by-jonathan-haupt-ellen-malphrus/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, US
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SUMMARY:Lowcountry Children's Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s annual Lowcountry Children’s Book Fair will be held on Saturday\, July 26\, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion (310 Okatie Hwy). A dozen local and visiting writers will be on hand with books for sales and signing\, along with art activities and readings throughout the day.  \nPresented in partnership between the Conroy Center\, the Port Royal Sound Foundation\, the Storybook Shoppe children’s bookstore\, and DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, this free community event is made possible by the generous support of Oyster Cay Collection of Beaufort. \nAngela May\, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Islanders middle-grade novels\, will be reading at 11:00 a.m. National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman will host a special Read with a Ranger program at noon. Michael B. Moore will read from his debut children’s book\, Freedom on the Sea\, inspired by the life of Beaufort’s iconic historical figure (and Moore’s ancestor) Robert Smalls at 1:00 p.m.  \nDAYLO student volunteers will be hosting read-alouds and bookmark art projects throughout the day\, and local artist Hank Herring will also be teaching free art projects and Lowcountry Wind Symphony will be offering music projects as well. A food truck will be available midday. The Maritime Center will also be freely open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. \nOther participating authors and artists include Joy Corley\, author of Percy Goes Camping…Maybe; Margie Cowles Hamner\, Magic Ball of Light\, Mary T. Jacobs\, author of the Big Daddy Series; Martha Jaworowski\, author of Sports at First Sight; Carole Marsh\, author of the Real Kids\, Real Places series; Emma McClure\, author/artist of Beautiful Beaufort: A Coloring Book; Nancy Merrill\, author of Elf Dust; Ryan Q. Milling\, author of Bob’s Truck; Robin Prince Monroe\, author of The Glades; Susan Montanari\, author of My Dog’s a Chicken; Susan Diamond Riley author of the Delta & Jax Mysteries; Katherine Robinson\, author of The Crabs on Calhoun; and Beryl Title\, author of Adventures of Roxy the Unicorn. The Storybook Shoppe will have additional local books available for sale.  \nAbout the Featured Authors\nAngela May is the co-author of The Islanders\, a New York Times bestselling middle-grade novel series created with Mary Alice Monroe. The first book in the series\, The Islanders\, earned several honors\, including the South Carolina Children’s Book Award nominee and the Triple Crown Award. Angela is a lowcountry native who now lives in Mount Pleasant with her husband and their two children.  \nMichael Boulware Moore is the great-great grandson of Robert Smalls\, whose heroic journey from slavery to the U.S. Congress is the inspiration for Moore’s first children’s picture book\, Freedom on the Sea. He served as the founding president of the International African American Museum in Charleston\, and he is a frequent keynote speaker for universities\, conferences\, museums\, and other organizations across the country. He lives in Charleston with his family.  \nLearn more about the Pat Conroy Literary Center at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org. Learn more about the Port Royal Sound Foundation at www.portroyalsoundfoundation.org.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/lowcountry-childrens-book-fair-2/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, US
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