Lanier Library Poetry Festival
Lanier Library will host internationally celebrated and award winning poet George Bilgere, who will be reading from his latest work at the library on Saturday, April…
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Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition
The 10th annual Poetry Competition named for Sidney Lanier at the Lanier Library in Tryon is accepting submissions through March 15. The final judge…
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Author and Wofford University professor John Lane reads and discusses his new book of poems, Anthropocene Blues: Poems.
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Join area writers as they present a 10-minute reading of their original work before an appreciative audience. The readings are limited to the first…
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Rhyme Scheming
Decades ago, Brevard College English professor Kenneth Chamlee, then an undergraduate at Mars Hill College, headed west. For him — a Greenville, S.C. native…
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National Poetry Month is over, and with it, Tryon’s ever-growing Lanier Library Poetry Festival, held in late April. But the word’s out all year…
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Poet Holly Iglesias has returned to the saints. “It’s a huge relief after writing about pipe bombs and Uzis in laundromats,” she says (see…
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