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
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
We would love to see our members enjoy these events.
Featured image by Thomas Hawk, under the creative commons license on Flickr.