Labor Day Weekend: Karen Paul Holmes and many other poets and authors will appear at the largest independent book festival in the country. September 2-4. Full schedule is here: Decatur Book Festival
Writers' Night Out: Jim May To Read from His New Book
Friday, Sept. 9: Young Harris College professors, Chelsea Rathburn and James May, will read their award-winning poems at Writers' Night Out at 7 pm. at the Union County Community Center in Blairsville, GA.
The
married couple are both well-published poets who moved to the area from Atlanta
to teach English and creative writing at Young Harris College in 2013. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. (dinner
available for purchase upstairs in The View Grill but please arrive no later than 6) with the reading at 7 p.m.
in the ballroom. An open microphone follows for those who’d like to showcase
their own writing.
Rathburn is author
of two full-length poetry collections, A
Raft of Grief (Autumn House Press, 2013) and The Shifting Line, winner of the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, as well
as a poetry chapbook, Unused
Lines (Aralia Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in many
prestigious journals such as The
Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Threepenny
Review, Ploughshares, and New
England Review, and her prose has appeared in Creative Nonfiction. In 2009, she received a poetry fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts. She directs the creative writing program
at YHC.
May is the author
of Unquiet Things (Louisiana State
University Press, 2016). The winner of
the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award in 2016, his poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, New
England Review, New Ohio Review, The New Republic, Rattle,
The Southern Review and elsewhere. The former editor of New South,
he has received scholarships from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference,
Inprint, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar. In 2013, he won the Collins Award
from Birmingham Poetry Review.
