South Carolina's 1st Show For the People. Come enjoy a handpicked selection of Carolina's finest entertainers. If you're intersted in creating anything in SC... These are the people to connect with! Poetry - Music - Arts - Food Contact SCPromoProductions@gmail.comRead more
Presented by the Charleston Gaillard Education Initiative. Appropriate for Grades: 4th-12th. Click here to purchase tickets. “Let’s go see a poetry show.” That is a sentence rarely proclaimed and usually responded to with cringes and excuses. The Mayhem Poets are onRead more
Horace Mungin was born in Hollywood, South Carolina in 1941 and his family moved to New York City in 1946. In 1989 Mungin moved to Ridgeville, SC. Mungin started writing poetry in the mid-sixties during the genesis of the Black ArtsRead more
Tammaka Staley is a performance poet, activist, and teaching artist. A resident of Columbia, South Carolina, she has been writing and performing poetry for 10 years. Tammaka actively works in the community with poetry and youth organizations like OneWord Columbia,Read more
Join Grammy-nominated drummer and producer Quentin E. Baxter and Charleston poet laureate Marcus Amaker for a night of poetry and jazz. Joining Amaker on stage will be local and regional poets who were a part of the Poetic Jazz Society, a group of writersRead more
Jeffrey Guillaume (aka Mr. Emotional The Poet) is a native of Newark, New Jersey, and currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina. Guillaume discovered his love for the performing arts at Benedict College, where he received a Bachelor of Science inRead more
Featuring Marjory Wentworth (poet laureate of South Carolina), Ed Madden (poet laureate of Columbia, SC) and Marcus Amaker (poet laureate of Charleston, SC). MARJORY WENTWORTH’s poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize five times. Her books of poetry include Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity,Read more
Ron Rash, award-winning author of Serena, says about Kimberly Simms: “she writes with eloquence and empathy about an important part of Southern history – too often neglected.” Kimberly’s literary voice is rooted in the Southern tradition of storytelling, informed by herRead more
Featuring Ann Herlong-Bodman, Dennis Ward Stiles and Maria Martin. Ann Herlong-Bodman is the author of the chapbook Pulled Out of Sleep, and her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Atlanta Review, The Cortland Review, and The South Carolina Review. AfterRead more
An open mic poetry event for elementary, middle and high school students! Email bowlink@ccpl.org to register yourself or your student. Space is limited. Hosted by Charleston Poet Laureate Marcus Amaker.
