New Voices:
Pasha Coffee House,
3914 St. Elmo Avenue,
Saturday, May 7
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Hot improvisational jazz meets the power of the spoken word. The Undoctored Originals include Dr. Jim Woodford, Keyboards, Dr. Bob Vogt, Saxophone, Billy Lowry, Drums, Ian Kibby, Euphonium, and Jack Gaillard, Congas.
Readings by Chattanooga area writers: Past participants have included Ray Zimmerman, Finn Bille, Jim Pfitzer, Bruce Majors, N.L. Diwan, Mary Wier, Julie Alexander, K.B Ballentine, E. Smith Gilbert, Christian J. Collier, Mark “Pork Chop” Holder, Bob Dombrowski, Marcus Ellsworth, and others.
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Immediately Before New Voices
Book Signing by
Ray Zimmerman, Executive Editor
Southern Light:
Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets
Pasha Coffee House – May 7
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Southern Light
What makes Southern Light Southern? This question is best answered by Ed Lindberg in the introduction to the book:
Introduction
The poets in this volume have one thing in common. All are native to or have spent some sizable portion of their lives in the distinct physical and cultural geography of the Southern United States. This book presents some of the best examples of poets currently working in the South. Some of these poets are well recognized while others are not widely known. Some are academicians; some shun the academy. Some are young; several are past sixty. In this volume we show the vigor and variety of contemporary Southern poets.
The label “Southern” can be expressed as a form of striking depiction supported by a certain perspective on the contents of the heart. A huge body of written work from poems to novels to songs continues to come from this geography. This intense flow of words may have some common source and influence. Some suggested origins of this diverse output of work have been religion, separatist politics, ethnicity, the language of the King James Bible, and Elizabethan English. Other components include land worked, struggled and fought for, the hard dignity of integrity, and various story telling forms and traditions.
I think whatever informs and impacts the lands of place and heart is the definition of what generates this considerable literary effort labeled “Southern”. A central component of important stories is the cost of things and how things come to be. If they are anything, good poems are stories and are put down to tell of what has come upon or to their writer from whatever source named or unnamed, nameable or unnamable. Experience is the heat that ferments the passion to tell.
Ed Lindberg
Introduction
The poets in this volume have one thing in common. All are native to or have spent some sizable portion of their lives in the distinct physical and cultural geography of the Southern United States. This book presents some of the best examples of poets currently working in the South. Some of these poets are well recognized while others are not widely known. Some are academicians; some shun the academy. Some are young; several are past sixty. In this volume we show the vigor and variety of contemporary Southern poets.
The label “Southern” can be expressed as a form of striking depiction supported by a certain perspective on the contents of the heart. A huge body of written work from poems to novels to songs continues to come from this geography. This intense flow of words may have some common source and influence. Some suggested origins of this diverse output of work have been religion, separatist politics, ethnicity, the language of the King James Bible, and Elizabethan English. Other components include land worked, struggled and fought for, the hard dignity of integrity, and various story telling forms and traditions.
I think whatever informs and impacts the lands of place and heart is the definition of what generates this considerable literary effort labeled “Southern”. A central component of important stories is the cost of things and how things come to be. If they are anything, good poems are stories and are put down to tell of what has come upon or to their writer from whatever source named or unnamed, nameable or unnamable. Experience is the heat that ferments the passion to tell.
Ed Lindberg
Monday, April 25, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Launch
Winder Binder Gallery will host Robert Morgan, member of the fellowship of southern writers, winner of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a featured poet in Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets on Saturday, April 16 at 6:00 PM. Launch of the book will continue at 2:00 PM on Sunday, April 17, with reading by other contributors to the book (biographical sketches attached).
Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems and October Crossing. He has also published eight volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek and Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution. Winner of the Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the North Carolina Award, and the Appalachian Heritage Award, he has also received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller, also received the Southern Book Award. A nonfiction book, Boone: A Biography, received the Kentucky Book Award in 2008. A native of western North Carolina and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Morgan has taught since 1971 at Cornell University where he is now Kappa Alpha Professor of English.
Winder Binder Gallery and Book Store will host the book launch for Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets at 2:00 PM, Sunday, April 17. This launch will be part of their 4th Annual Faux Bridges Art and Literature Festival http://www.fauxbridges.com/
Faux Bridges also has a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=146361792098062
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ray Zimmerman znaturalist@yahoo.com
Ford, Falcon and McNeil, publishers, are pleased to announce the release of Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, a diverse collection of authors connected to the southern landscape. Each poet speaks, with a unique voice, of a land illuminated by the hot southern sun. Over 180 poems celebrate both regional traditions and life in the New South.
The collection begins with twenty poems reclaimed from out of print works by Robert Morgan and continues with poems by regional writers. Many of the works are published in this volume for the first time while others are well known and award winning.
Southern Light includes poems by: Robert Morgan, Penny Dyer, Bill Brown, Bruce Majors, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Rebecca Cook, Ray Zimmerman, E. Smith Gilbert, Helga Kidder, K. B. Ballentine, Finn Bille, and Dan Powers.
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Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems and October Crossing. He has also published eight volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek and Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution. Winner of the Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the North Carolina Award, and the Appalachian Heritage Award, he has also received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller, also received the Southern Book Award. A nonfiction book, Boone: A Biography, received the Kentucky Book Award in 2008. A native of western North Carolina and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Morgan has taught since 1971 at Cornell University where he is now Kappa Alpha Professor of English.
Winder Binder Gallery and Book Store will host the book launch for Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets at 2:00 PM, Sunday, April 17. This launch will be part of their 4th Annual Faux Bridges Art and Literature Festival http://www.fauxbridges.com/
Faux Bridges also has a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=146361792098062
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ray Zimmerman znaturalist@yahoo.com
Ford, Falcon and McNeil, publishers, are pleased to announce the release of Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, a diverse collection of authors connected to the southern landscape. Each poet speaks, with a unique voice, of a land illuminated by the hot southern sun. Over 180 poems celebrate both regional traditions and life in the New South.
The collection begins with twenty poems reclaimed from out of print works by Robert Morgan and continues with poems by regional writers. Many of the works are published in this volume for the first time while others are well known and award winning.
Southern Light includes poems by: Robert Morgan, Penny Dyer, Bill Brown, Bruce Majors, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Rebecca Cook, Ray Zimmerman, E. Smith Gilbert, Helga Kidder, K. B. Ballentine, Finn Bille, and Dan Powers.
Follow us on Faceboook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Southern-Light/159959427392604
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Book Launch
Winder Binder Gallery and Book Store will host the book launch for Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets at 2:00 PM, Sunday, April 17. This launch will be part of their 4th Annual Faux Bridges Art and Liuterature Festival http://www.fauxbridges.com/
Faux Bridges also has a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=146361792098062
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ray Zimmerman znaturalist@yahoo.com
Ford, Falcon and McNeil, publishers, are pleased to announce the release of Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, a diverse collection of authors connected to the southern landscape. Each poet speaks, with a unique voice, of a land illuminated by the hot southern sun. Over 180 poems celebrate both regional traditions and life in the New South.
The collection begins with twenty poems reclaimed from out of print works by Robert Morgan and continues with poems by regional writers. Many of the works are published in this volume for the first time while others are well known and award winning.
Southern Light includes poems by: Robert Morgan, Penny Dyer, Bill Brown, Bruce Majors, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Rebecca Cook, Ray Zimmerman, E. Smith Gilbert, Helga Kidder, K. B. Ballentine, Finn Bille, and Dan Powers.
Follow us on Faceboook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Southern-Light/159959427392604
Faux Bridges also has a Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=146361792098062
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ray Zimmerman znaturalist@yahoo.com
Ford, Falcon and McNeil, publishers, are pleased to announce the release of Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets, a diverse collection of authors connected to the southern landscape. Each poet speaks, with a unique voice, of a land illuminated by the hot southern sun. Over 180 poems celebrate both regional traditions and life in the New South.
The collection begins with twenty poems reclaimed from out of print works by Robert Morgan and continues with poems by regional writers. Many of the works are published in this volume for the first time while others are well known and award winning.
Southern Light includes poems by: Robert Morgan, Penny Dyer, Bill Brown, Bruce Majors, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Rebecca Cook, Ray Zimmerman, E. Smith Gilbert, Helga Kidder, K. B. Ballentine, Finn Bille, and Dan Powers.
Follow us on Faceboook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Southern-Light/159959427392604
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