September Readings & Events

SEPTEMBER 4-6

DECATUR BOOK FESTIVAL

DOWNTOWN DECATUR

Natasha Trethewey, Patricia Smith, James Allen Hall, C. Dale Young and dozens of local poets will all be featured at the annual Decatur Book Festival. For a full schedule of the weekend events, visit www.decaturbookfestival.com. There will be poetry all day Saturday and Sunday on the Poetry Atlanta Stage at Java Monkey Coffee House. On Saturday night, there will be a slam at 8 p.m. and on Sunday night, Patricia Smith will read during the open mic at Java Monkey.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 8:15 PM

POETRY AT CALLANWOLDE

FEATURING ANN LYNN & LYNN PEDERSON

Ann Lynn's article about her poetry-writing workshops for female veterans appeared in the May/June Poets & Writers Magazine. Her poetry has been published in Poetry East, Many Mountains Moving, The Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere, and Finishing Line Press released her chapbook In the Butterfly House in 2009. She was featured at the New Trier Literary Festival in Illinois, and was a Southern Women Writers Conference Emerging Writers Contest finalist.
Lynn Pedersen, a resident of Atlanta, is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program. Her chapbook Theories of Rain was published by Main Street Rag in 2009 as part of the Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in New England Review, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, Palo Alto Review, Comstock Review, Chattahoochee Review and Ecotone. $5 General Admission, $3 Students/Seniors/Members. For more information call 404-872-5338. www.callanwolde.org.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 7:30 PM

MEMORIAL POETRY READING FOR TURNER CASSITY

CALLANWOLDE FINE ARTS CENTER

On Wednesday, September 16 at 7:30 pm, a poetry reading will be held in memory of Turner Cassity, poet and a co-founder of the Callanwolde Poetry Reading Series, to include Cassity's poems and other poems for the occasion. The public is invited to participate in the reading. The reading will be held in the Conservatory. Admission and parking are free. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, 980 Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30306, (404) 872-5338. For more information call Ruth Windham at (770) 591-5477, email cfacpoetry@gmail.com, or visit www.callanwolde.org. Another memorial event for Turner Cassity, to be held on the Emory campus, is planned for Thursday, September 24. See the details below.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 4:30 PM
MEMORIAL EVENT FOR TURNER CASSITY
WOODRUFF LIBRARY, EMORY UNIVERSITY
A celebration of the life and poetry of Allen Turner Cassity (1929-2009) will be held Thursday, September 24, 4:30 pm, Jones Room, Level 3, Woodruff Library, Emory University. Parking is in the Fishburne Deck. Please share word of this gathering among Turner’s friends and fans and invite them to join us. For more information, please contact Ginger Cain, Director of Library Public Programs, virginia.cain@emory.edu or (404) 727-3160. (www.emory.edu)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 7:00 PM

POETRY AT TECH

FEATURING: MARK HALLIDAY & ALLISON JOSEPH

ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

The 2009-10 season of Poetry at Tech kicks off with a free reading by these two acclaimed poets. The event will be held at the Academy of Medicine building, 875 West Peachtree St. (at the corner of 7th St.) Parking available behind the building and along 7th. www.poetry.gatech.edu.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 7:15 PM

POETRY ATLANTA PRESENTS...

KAREN HEAD, ROBIN KEMP & BOB WOOD

DECATUR LIBRARY

Poetry Atlanta presents a reading by these three fantastic poets in conjunction with Georgia Center for the Book. See the blog post about the books at poets at this link. The free reading is at the Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore St. www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.