What does the SD Festival of Books Offer Poets?

As many of you know, the annual SD Festival of Books is approaching this weekend, and it intends to brings writers and readers together. I was just reading through the various events and noting which ones I wanted to attend, and I just thought it might be useful to talk about the specific poetry events in a post before the weekend comes.

 

Friday Poetry Events

1:00-1:45 Mirror Neurons & Poems of Loss & Elegy with Lee Ann Roripaugh

Where? SDSU Student Union: Pasque Room

2:00-2:45 The Good Medicine of Poetry of Presence with Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby Wilson

Where? SDSU Student Union: Pasque Room

8:15-9:30 Open Mic- SDSPS

Where? Performing Arts Center: Fishback Studio Theater

Complete Friday Schedule

 

Saturday Poetry Events

9:00-9:45 The Sea Is My Ugly Twin: A Reading with Marcella Remund

Where? Brookings Arts Council Main Gallery

10:00- 10:45 Loon in Late November: A Reading with Freya Manfred

Where? Brookings Arts Council Main Gallery

10:00-10:45 Readings From the Expanded Oakwood Magazine with Patrick Hicks and other Contributors

Where? Brookings City Council Building: Council Chambers.

11:00-11:45 Poetry as Conservation, Conservation as Poetry with Kevin Cole

Where? Brookings Arts Council Main Gallery

12:00-12:45 A Reading with South Dakota Poet Laureate Lee Ann Roripaugh

Where? Brookings Arts Council Main Gallery

2:00-2:45 Readings by the Women Poets Collective– Darla Biel, Barbara Duffey, Jeanne Emmons, Lindy Obach, Marcella Remund, Christine Stewart, Norma C. Wilson

Where? First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary

3:00-3:45 Celebrating Poetry of Presence: A Reading with Phyllis Cole-Dai, Ruby Wilson, Freya Manfred, Joyce Sutphen, and Marianne Zarzana

Where? First United Methodist Church: Sanctuary

4:30-6:00 SDSPS Annual Meeting

Where? First United Methodist Church: Room 204

Complete Saturday Schedule

 

We would love to see our members enjoy these events.

Featured image by Thomas Hawk, under the creative commons license on Flickr.

 

 

 

 

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