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Poets look at lossBy Bill Thompson (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The ultimate success of a poem resides not in how much the poet felt writing it, remarked John Ciardi, but in how much the reader feels in reading it. Those with even a particle of empathy in their souls will respond to the all-too-human concerns of the poetry of recovery. Readings by area poets will highlight an observance of the book "After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events" at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the main branch of Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun St. Poet readers include Paul Allen, Linda Annas Ferguson, Richard Garcia, Barbara G.S. Hagerty, Kurtis Lamkin, Susan Meyers, South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth and Columbia's Ed Madden. Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier. |
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Posted by STREETLAW on September 6, 2008 at 7 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If you have suffered a life-shattering event,
You surely have the right to vent,
The right to vent and rant and rave,
The right to crawl down in a cave,
And the right to remain silent.