Hungry Drovers Love Poetry

Furman University’s Special Collections and Archives is teaming up with The Hungry Drover on Saturday, August 18. Come for lunch and stay for a poetry reading, featuring poets from the newly-published anthology “Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005.”

Lunch 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM / Poetry Reading 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

The Hungry Drover is located at 2601 Tigerville Road in Travelers Rest.

Edited by Furman faculty members Gil Allen, Jeffrey Makala and Bill Rogers, “Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005” is a new anthology of the writings of 46 contemporary South Carolina poets. The anthology’s contents were previously published in national poetry journals, chapbooks or single-authored works. As such, the anthology is the best survey and summary of the writings of South Carolina poets since the previously-published 2005 Ninety-Six Press poetry anthology.

The Ninety-Six Press, established at Furman in 1991, has published over 20 volumes of poetry by South Carolina authors. It is now part of the South Carolina Poetry Archives in the Department of Special Collections and Archives in James B. Duke Library at Furman.

The South Carolina Poetry Archives contains the papers and manuscripts of over 20 South Carolina poets and a comprehensive collection of the published writings of all South Carolina poets.

Books will be available for purchase ($20) and signing during the August 18 reading.

 

 

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