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Twenty
South Carolina Poetry Fellows
Edited by Kwame Dawes
ISBN: 1-891885-39-1 Paperback
180 pages, 6 x 9
Publication Date: January 2005
$20.00
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"This robust collection does not
present a simplified vision of contemporary
South Carolina poetry--let's be thankful
for that. Instead the poets here-from
songwriter to novelist; from university
professor to military veteran; from native
to exile-offer a wealth of distinct
and resonating viewpoints."
-Terrance Hayes, author of Hip
Logic, National Poetry Series
TWENTY:South Carolina Poetry Fellows,
is not just another poetry collection. Here,
20 Palmetto State writers who have received
the state's highest honor in creative
writing present five of their favorite poems
and tell readers what these works reveal
about their lives as poets.
The poets include: Paul Allen, Jan Bailey,
Cathy Smith Bowers, Jessica Bundschuh, Stephen
Corey, Robert Cumming, Debra Daniel, Carol
Ann Davis, Curtis Derrick, Linda Ferguson,
Starkey Flythe, Angela Kelly, John Lane,
Susan Ludvigson, Terri McCord, John Ower,
Ron Rash, Paul Rice, Warren Slesinger, and
Kathleen Whitten. Each has won a Poetry
Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts
Commission during the period 1977-2004.
The book's introduction is written
by editor Kwame Dawes, poet-in-residence
at the University of South Carolina and
director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative,
a statewide organization that promotes and
celebrates the reading, writing, and performing
of poetry across South Carolina.
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