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A poetry weekend
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
April, rather than September, is National Poetry Month (and also the cruelest month, as we know), but for some reason Atlanta is overflowing with poetry events this weekend. I’m just going to list them, but if someone goes to any of these and would like to report back on how it went, we would love to hear from you.
Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar and Alan Shapiro will open the new season of Poetry at Tech at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Clary Theater on the Georgia Tech campus.
Beth Gylys & Friends will read from her new collection, “Matchbook”** at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Troy Moore Library, General Classroom Building at Georgia State.
Voices Carry 4: An Evening of Poetry and Spoken Word is Poetry Atlanta’s fourth annual reading, with a nice line-up of locals, at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Cosmopolitan Gallery in Candler Park.
“My Body is a Candle Touched With Fire” is a benefit performance for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Six poets will perform poetry and spoken word with an emphasis on Iraq. Free, but it’s a fund-raiser. 7:30 p.m. Monday at Actors Express, 887 W. Marietta St.
Also, on a less poetic but no less worthy note, novelist and playwright Phillip DePoy will be at Book Exchange in Marietta from 2-4 p.m. Saturday. His play about the AJC’s Celestine Sibley, “Turned Funny,” has been a big ongoing hit at Theatre on the Square in Marietta, and he’s now working on a Sibley sequel, “Christmas at Sweet Apple.”
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By Collin
September 23, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this
Thanks for promoting these events, Phil. There were standing room only crowds at both Beth Gylys’ reading at Georgia State University and at Voices Carry at Composition Gallery. There were so many people at Voices Carry that we had to bring out pillows for the floor and others stood in the back. A really great night of poetry and spoken word!