This month’s readings extend slightly beyond Atlanta and include a reading in Rome, Georgia and a reading in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Karen Head hosts London Calling: A Benefit Extravaganza for Poet & Novelist Collin Kelley at 7:30 PM on Thursday, May 3rd. Attendees are invited to read their favorite Collin Kelley poems, or write one for/about him or London. Organizers will also have some items up for auction to support Kelley’s trip to read at London’s Southbank Centre. The benefit/reading will be held at Bound to Be Read Books (481-B Flat Shoals Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30316).
Poetry at Callanwolde hosts Katie Chaple and Gloria Lawson Sylvester at 8 PM on Wednesday, May 9th. The reading will be held at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center (980 Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30306). Tickets are sold at the door. $5 General Admission, $3 Students with ID, Seniors, and Members.
FUSEBOX art & word series hosts Matt Hart and Jenny Sadre-Orafai at 8 PM on Saturday, May 19th. The reading will be held at Front Gallery at Chenoweth.Halligan Studios (1800 Rossville Avenue, Suites 1 and 2, Chattanooga, TN 37404). The reading is free and open to the public.
Poetry Atlanta Presents hosts A Face to Meet the Faces Anthology poets Dan Albergotti, Stacey Lynn Brown, Collin Kelley, Adam Vines, Nagueyalti Warren, and L. Lamar Wilson at 7 PM on Tuesday, May 22nd. The reading will be held at the Toco Hills Library (1282 McConnell Drive, Decatur, GA 30033). The reading is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the reading.
Bound to be Be Read Books hosts A Face to Meet the Faces Anthology reading at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 23rd. The reading will be held at Bound to Be Read Books (481-B Flat Shoals Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30316). The reading is free and open to the public.
Poetry at The Music Room and Laura Carter host Katie Chaple, Dionne Irving, and Andrea O’Rourke at 8 PM on Tuesday, May 29th. The reading will be held at The Music Room (327 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30312). The reading is free and open to the public.
What’s New in Poetry hosts Dan Magers, Michelle Taransky, and Nate Pritts at 8 PM on Thursday, May 31st. The reading will be held on the first floor of the Emory University Bookstore (1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta, GA 30322). The reading is free and open to the public. Listen to last month’s reading with Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, and Jessica Smith here.
The 2012 Summer Poetry Series hosts Abigail Greenbaum at 7 PM on Thursday, May 31. The reading will be held on the the back courtyard of Schroeder’s New Deli (406 Broad Street, Rome, GA 30161). The reading is free and open to the public.
–Jenny Sadre-Orafai
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Texas Review Press‘ fifth volume in The Southern Poetry Anthology series is devoted to Georgia poets. Past volumes include South Carolina, Mississippi, Contemporary Appalachia, and Louisiana. Editors William Wright and Paul Ruffin compiled poetry from more than one hundred Georgia poets in the fifth volume, including former Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms, United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, current Georgia Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey among others. Some Atlanta poets in the anthology are Julie E. Bloemeke, Molly Brodak, Travis Denton, Karen Head, Rupert Fike, M. Ayodele Heath, Collin Kelley, Hilary Rogers King, Christopher Martin, Jim May, Sandra Meek, Ginger Murchison, Amy Pence, Chelsea Rathburn, Alice Teeter, Meyme Curtis Tucker, and Dan Veach.
