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Linda Annas Ferguson will teach a poetry workshop, “Personal Narratives and the Poem” for the South Carolina's Poetry Initiative's  weekend program along with Thom Ward, Poet and Editor from BOA Editions, and Poet Sheila Tombe will also host workshops.

Linda's program will take place on Saturday, August 2.  She will present a reading from her work and sign copies of her books following her presentation.

Event Details:

Poetry School 101

Charlene Spearen cmspeare@gwm.sc.edu

Carrie Young  carrie_eleanor@yahoo.com

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Reading by poets published by Finishing Line Press

Poets reading will include: Linda Annas Ferguson, Carol Peters, and Terri McCord

Charleston County Public Library

68 Calhoun Street

Charleston, SC

(Time to be announced)

Past Readings, Panels and Events

HAPPY BOOKSELLER

Other poets reading at this event are: Paul Allen, Fred Bassett, Libby Bernardin, Farley Briggs, Stephen Corey, Phebe Davidson, Richard Garcia, Linda Lee Harper, Melanie Harris, Tom Johnson, Ed Madden, Terri McCord, Ken McCullough, Maurine Meleck, Susan Meyers, Rick Mulkey, Warren Slesinger, Brian Slusher, Charlene Spearen, Susan Finch Stevens, Ceille Baird Welch, Marjory Wentworth, Katherine Williams, Thomas Davis Lisk, Dennis Ward Stiles, and Harriet Rigney.

BARNES AND NOBLE

Sunday, February 10, 2008

2:00 pm

Mt. Pleasant Towne Centre

1716 Towne Centre Way, Mt. Pleasant

MT PLEASANT, SC

(843) 216-9756

http://storelocator.barnesandnoble.com/storedetail.do?store=2973

Linda Annas Ferguson will read with poets Marjory Wentworth, Poet Laureate for the state of South Carolina, Susan Meyers, winner of the 2007 SIBA (Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association) Award in Poetry, Carol Ann Davis, editor of the Crazyhorse Literary Journal.

SOUTH CAROLINA BOOK FESTIVAL

Full details at: http://www.scbookfestival.org/

Seeking,  2006
Oil on Canvas, 72"  x  60" 
(c) Jonathan Green
Collection of the Mepkin Abbey
 

 

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January 31, 2008

Poetry Out Loud:

Ashley Hall School, 172 Rutledge, Charleston, SC

Judges: Linda Annas Ferguson & Nick Bozanic

The Lowcountry Women Authors Holiday Book Signing

2:00-5:00 pm

Presented by the Center for Women and Barnes and Noble of  Mt. Pleasant, SC

(Gift wrapping available)

All authors signing are

THE WRITER'S CENTER

http://www.writer.org/events/index.asp

Linda will read with Visiting Poets from South Carolina. They are:

CAROL ANN DAVIS (Editor of Crazyhorse) was graduated from Vassar College, which later awarded her the W. K. Rose Fellowship, and from the MFA Program in Poetry Writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the College of Charleston, where she is Associate Professor and where, with Garrett, she edits Crazyhorse. Her book Psalm is new from Tupelo Press.

KWAME SENU NEVILLE DAWES (Distinguished Poet in Residence of the University of South Carolina and Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative) was born in Ghana in 1962 and grew up in Jamaica where he attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona. He studied and taught in New Brunswick on a Commonwealth Scholarship to Canada. Since 1992 he has been teaching at the University of South Carolina. He is a Professor in English on the Columbia campus. His critical articles on literature, theater and film have been published widely. Dawes has published eight collections of poetry, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree 1994--Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection, UK) Resisting the Anomie (Goose Lane 1995), Prophets (Peepal Tree 1995). Jacko Jacobus, (Peepal Tree 1996), Requiem, (Peepal Tree 1996) a suite of poems inspired by the illustrations of African American artist, Tom Feelings in his landmark book The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo, and Shook Foil (Peepal Tree 1998) a collection of reggae-inspired poems. His most recent collection, Midland, was recently awarded the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize by the Ohio University Press (2001). In 2001, Dawes was a winner of a Push Cart Prize for the best American poetry of 2001.
In 2000, Dawes published several new titles including a book of interviews with contemporary West Indian poets, Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Caribbean Poets (University of Virginia Press 2000). In December of 2002, Dawes published three new titles. His ground-breaking study of the lyrics of Bob Marley, Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius was published by Sanctuary Publishing. Peepal Tree published his first book of fiction, a collection of stories titled A Place to Hide and Other Stories, and New and Selected Poems, a selection of poems published between 1994 and 2001. Dawes is now awaiting the publication of a novel set in Jamaica (Bivouac) (Peepal Tree 2005)
Dawes’ essays and reviews on Caribbean Literature, African American Literature, Black British Literature, African Literature and issues of race and identity have appeared in such publications as Ariel, Bomb, World Literature Today, Essence Magazine, Emerge Magazine, Poetry Review, World Press Review, Critical Quarterly, West Coast, The Washington Post, London Review of Books, the Journal of West Indian Literature, African American Review, Fuse, African Affairs: The Royal Society of African Studies, DoubleTake Magazine, The Atlanta Review, The Mississippi Review, Wasafiri, The Caribbean Writer, Calalloo, Critique and the Journal of Caribbean Literatures. He has appeared regularly on radio and television in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and the United States. In December of 1997, a full-page feature of Dawes appeared in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution which gave attention to Dawes’ work as a poet and as a researcher into the lives of African Americans in Sumter, SC. In 1987 Dawes was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa’s writing program. In 1997 he was appointed as an Associate Fellow of the University of Warwick. Dawes is now Series Editor of a special book series of Caribbean plays for Peepal Tree Books. Kwame Dawes, former director of the MFA program at the University of South Carolina, is the coordinator of a Minority Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the University of South Carolina. Kwame Dawes is the Criticism and co-Poetry Editor of Obsidian III, a leading African American literary journal. Dawes is the programmer for the Calabash International Literary Festival held in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, each year.


LINDA ANNAS FERGUSON is the author of four collections of poetry including Bird Missing from One Shoulder (WordTech Editions); Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk (Finishing Line Press); Last Chance to Be Lost (Kentucky Writers’ Coalition); and It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing (Palanquin Press, University of S.C. Aiken). She was the 2005 Poetry Fellow for the South Carolina Arts Commission and served as the 2003-04 Poet-in-Residence for the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C.  A recipient of the Poetry Fellowship of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, she was recently appointed to the Academy’s Board of Governors. Her work has appeared in 2006 Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets; A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poets; Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows; and is forthcoming in The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina (Texas Review Press); and Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press). She has been a featured poet at the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series; South Carolina Book Festival; the South Carolina Poetry Initiative of the University of South Carolina; Piccolo Spoleto’s Sundown Poetry Series,  Charleston, S.C.; Isothermal College Writers' Workshop; the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, N.C. and other venues. Her songs were performed in "Indigo Jazz," a presentation by the Low Country Heritage Society in conjunction with the College of Charleston School of the Arts.     lindaannasferguson.com

SUSAN MEYERS (Winner of the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry) is the author of Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006), which won the inaugural South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, sponsored by the SC Poetry Initiative. It also won the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell Book Award. Her chapbook Lessons in Leaving received the 1998 Persephone Press Book Award. Her work has also appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Tar River Poetry, and other journals, as well as the online sites Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors.  A long-time writing instructor, Meyers has an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She has served as poet-in-residence at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and as a mentor for creative writing students at the Charleston County School of the Arts. She is a past president of the North Carolina Poetry Society and the current president of the Poetry Society of South Carolina. She lives, with her husband Blue, in the rural community of Givhans, SC.

MARJORY WENTWORTH (Poet Laureate of South Carolina) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Educated at Mt. Holyoke College, she received her M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from New York University. Her poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize three times. Noticing Eden, a collection of poems, was published by Hub City Writing Project in 2003. Her most recent collection, Despite Gravity, was published in fall 2007 by Ninety Six Press.

MONTGOMERY COLLEGE

Takoma Park/Silver Springs Campus

7600 Takoma Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/tphome/

Linda will read and sign copies of her books with authors Marjory Wentworth (Poet Laureate of SC); SUSAN MEYERS (Winner of the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry); and CAROL ANN DAVIS (Editor of Crazyhorse)

March 19, 2007:  3 pm

Waccamaw Higher Education Center

Division of Coastal Carolina University

Highway 17 at 160 Willbrook Boulevard

(behind the Hampton Inn in Litchfield, SC)

Linda and poet Dennis Ward Stiles will read from their work as part of an afternoon reading and discussion, followed by tea and the opportunity to acquire signed editions of their books. No fee to attend

March 13, 2007:  12 Noon

Library of Congress

Poetry at Noon Series

Thomas Jefferson Building

Mary Pickford Theater: 3rd Floor

Linda will read from her work on the subject of "Forgiveness."

Date: December 4, 2006

University of South Carolina

McMaster Art Gallery,

1615 Senate Street

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

*Reception preceding the event

Free and open to the public

Linda will be a supporting poet, along with Marjory Wentworth, SC Poet Laureate, and poet Richard Garcia and Ray McManus for the

book launch for Susan Meyers, the winner of the 2005 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize for her book:

Keep and give away.

For more information, please contact

USC’s South Carolina Poetry Initiative:

Charlene Monahan Spearen

Program Coordinator

Arts Institute

University of South Carolina

(803) 777-5492

Monday, November 13, 2006:  8 p.m.

Monday Night Blues

Linda Annas Ferguson and Phebe Davidson both have new chapbooks of poetry forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Linda's new collection, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, is available June 30, 2006 and Phebe Davidson's The Drowned Man is due August, 2006.  They will both read from their new collections. 

October 21, 2006  2:00 p.m.

Linda will read with authors and visual artists from the 2006 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets 

Saturday, September 23

Contact:

Saturday, September 9, 2006:  3:00 p.m.

Charleston County Library

68 Calhoun Street

Charleston, SC 29401

Linda will read and sign books with poet Dennis Ward Stiles.  Denny is the author of 4 collections of poetry.

His chapbook, A Strange Wind Rises, is new from Pudding House Press

Monday, July 24, 2006: 8:00 p.m.

Monday Night Blues Poetry Series

159 East Bay Street

Charleston, SC 29401

Wednesday, July 5, 2006: 7:30 p.m.

Readings from: 2006 Kakalak, an Anthology of Carolina Poets

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
The Arboretum
3327 Pineville-Matthews Road
Charlotte, NC 28226
704-341-9365

April 4, 2006

1 p.m.

HARFORD POETRY AND LITERARY SOCIETY

Rockfield Manor

501 Churchville Road, Bel Air, Maryland

410-877-1625

Linda will read from her new work, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, July, 2006 and Bird Missing from One Shoulder, to be published by Word Tech Editions, July, 2007.

Saturday, April 22, 2006, 1 p.m.

Poetry Extravaganza

Tuesday, April 26, 2006

7:00 PM

Charleston County Library

68 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC

LILA (Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts) and The Charleston Country Library Celebrate National Poetry Month      

March 4, 2006

2:00-4:00 P.M.

CHARLESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

68 CALHOUN ST., CHARLESTON, SC

Ninety-Six Press, Furman University

SOUTH CAROLINA BOOK FESTIVAL

Saturday & Sunday, February 25 & 26, 2006

Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center

Columbia, SC

Pure Poetry

4:20 until 5:00 pm

Readings by:

Linda Annas Ferguson, author of Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, July, 2006

Marjory Wentworth, poet-laureate of South Carolina and author of Noticing Eden

Patricia Gray, director of Poetry at Noon series, Library of Congress and author of Rupture

Ellen Rachlin, author of Waiting for Here (Finishing Line Pres)

Janet Carr Hull, author of The World: Poetic Connections

Kay Day, author of Poetry for Your Pleasure

Dorothy Fletcher, author of The Week of Dream Horses

and round-robin readings at the PURE POETRY booth at the book festival at various times on Saturday and Sunday

MARJORY WENTWORTH, Poet-Laureate for the state of South Carolina and

LINDA ANNAS FERGUSON, a dual resident of Baltimore, Md and Charleston, SC.

November 28, 2005

Saturday, November 5, 2005

Monday, September 26, 2005:  7:30 PM

September 23-24, 2005

A Millennial Sampler of South  Carolina Poetry

Ninety-Six Press, Furman University

Sunday, August 28, 2005:  7:30 P.M.

Coffee Underground

1 East Coffee Street, Greenville, SC (right off Main Street downtown)
 

Linda Annas Ferguson will take part in a reading and signing celebrating the release of the anthology A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry by Ninety-Six Press of Furman University. She is one of the 45 poets featured in the new anthology.

Saturday, July 16, 2005, 6:00 P.M.

The Open Book Bookstore

(110 South Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, SC)

Linda Annas Ferguson will take part in a reading and signing celebrating the release of the anthology A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry by Ninety-Six Press of Furman University. She is one of the 45 poets featured in the new anthology.

College of Charleston: Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center

7:30, Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Linda will take part in a joint reading with Paul Allen and Carol Ann Davis, editors of Crazy Horse literary journal to celebrate the release by Hub City Press of Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows.  Introductions by Marjory Wentworth, poet laureate for the state of South Carolina.  http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/

South Carolina Book Festival

Columbia, SC

February 19-20, 2005

http://www.schumanities.org/bookfestival/authors.html

Linda Annas Ferguson will serve on a panel with Kwame Dawes, Jan Bailey, and John and Betsy Teter reading and signing for the new anthology: TWENTY: South Carolina Poetry Fellows, to be released at the festival.  Five of Linda's poems will appear in the anthology published by Hub City Press.  Below is Hub City's website with a synopsis of the book, which can be ordered from their site: 

http://www.hubcity.org/bk_twenty.htm

" In February 2005, in time for the South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia, Hub City will release     TWENTY: South Carolina Poetry Fellows. This book is a collection of the work of contemporary poets who have received the state’s highest literary honors. Each one presents five poems and writes an introduction about his or her life as a poet. Kwame Dawes, English professor at USC and founder of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, is the editor. The book, which will sell for $19.95, is produced in a partnership with the South Carolina Arts Commission."

Monday Night Blues

Bel Air,  Maryland  21015

September 10-11, 2004

Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

South Carolina Poetry Initiative Summit

11:00 am - 12 noon:  Panel:  The Value of Poetry Prizes, Contests, and Awards:

Strategies for Submitting Work to Poetry Contests:

Panel: Linda Annas Ferguson, Stacy Smallwood, David Miller

The South Carolina Poetry Initiative is a center for the promotion, celebration, and production of poetry based at the University of South Carolina.  To accomplish its goals, the Poetry Initiative has established partnersips with a wide cross section of art organizations and private and public sector organizations.  It is a statewide organization that works with libraries, writing and performing poetry in the state of S.C. population.

Tuesday, August 24, 2004: 1 p.m.

Harford Poetry and Literary Society

Rockfield Manor

501 Churchville Road, Bel Air, Maryland

410-877-1625

Monday, March 29, 2004: 7 p.m.

email: edavis@flash.net

Workshops

Workshop and Reading:

Writing Outside the Box: 59 Ways to Write a Poem:

Whether a seasoned or beginning poet, we often find ourselves before a blank page, bartering with language. Sometimes it takes a while before the poem takes on its energy. In this workshop we will explore ways to allow the images to invade us, to uncomplicate the process and let the words find what they have in common.  We will explore together the many techniques and perspectives that can open us up to inspiration and take us beyond our ordinary expectations of ourselves.

Full workshop details at:: http://www.isothermal.cc.nc.us/

Contact Information:  Kathy Ackerman, Isothermal  Community  College, Spindale, NC

kackerman@isothermal.edu

Previous Readings & Appearances:

Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC

Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum: Myrtle Beach, SC

Poetry Society of South Carolina: Charleston, SC

Sottile Theater: "Indigo Jazz" song debut, Low Country Heritage Society & College of Charleston School of the Arts.

Songs performed by Tommy Gill and Ann Caldwell

Mary Edna Fraser Art Studio: Charleston, SC, Book Debut, It’s Hard to Hate a Broken Thing

Studio at Phoebe Pember House: Charleston, SC, "Poetry of Place" featured reader

Charleston Family Y: Charleston, SC "September 11^th"

Barnes & Noble Bookstore: Charleston, S.C.

Hampton Plantation: Georgetown, SC "Santee Spring" Low Country Heritage Society