Coast Lines: A Poetry Anthology Reading and Signing (Featuring 4 Writers!)

On June 12th, at 6-7 PM, Hub City Bookshop will host not one, but four writers - Thomas L. Johnson, Deno Trakas, Daniel Cross Turner, and John Lane. All of these contributors to Coast Lines: A Poetry Anthology have history in Spartanburg, and they're excited to share some of their latest work in a wonderful evening of poetry. 

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About the Book

Lovely inside and out, Coast Lines: A Poetry Anthology features over 140 works by 50 poets exploring the manifold beauty and diversity of the South Carolina coastal plain accompanied by over 50 stunning photographs of the region’s distinctive ecologies and wildlife.

About the Contributors

Thomas L. Johnson has been publishing prize-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since the 1970s. A book of his poems, The Costume, was published in 2011, and his most recent collection appears in Worlds Unmasked (CLASS 2021), a book of haiku and photographs produced in collaboration with his daughter Miranda. Among his other books are two volumes of vintage photographs: Camera Man’s Journey (2002) and A True Likeness (1986), which won the Lillian Smith Book Award. Johnson has served on the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors since 1987.

Deno Trakas recently retired after a long career as Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Wofford College. He has published dozens of short stories and poems in journals and anthologies; two chapbooks of poetry; a memoir, Because Memory Isn’t Eternal: A Story of Greeks in South Carolina; and a novel, Messenger from Mystery. These days he spends his time teaching part time, writing (two novels in progress), reading, editing, playing tennis, walking his friendly Dobermann, and visiting his beloved rambunctious grandchildren.

Daniel Cross Turner (Vanderbilt, Ph.D.) has published five books: a poetry collection, Riding Light (CLASS); a scholarly monograph, Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South (University of Tennessee Press); a poetry anthology featuring 77 contemporary poets, Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (USC Press); an essay collection, Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (LSU Press); and a poetry anthology exploring coastal ecologies and wildlife from 50 poets, Coast Lines (CLASS). A Spartanburg native, he lives in Murrells Inlet. Visit danielcrossturner.com.

John Lane is the author of many books of poetry and prose. He has won the Louisville Review Prize and Prairie
Schooner’s Glenna Luschei Award. His Abandoned Quarry: New & Selected Poems won the SIBA (Southeastern Independent
Booksellers Alliance) Poetry Book of the Year prize in 2012. A co-founder of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, SC, Lane also taught creative writing and environmental studies at Wofford College for over three decades. In 2014, he was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors and his literary papers are part of the The Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World at Texas Tech University.