Afternoon of Poetry & Prose with Terry L. Norton

Name: Afternoon of Poetry & Prose with Terry L. Norton
Start: 2025-09-14T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-14T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Bakhita Arts, 902 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC, United States, South Carolina 29730

Schedule

Sun Sep 14 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Bakhita Arts, 902 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC, United States, South Carolina 29730 | Rock Hill, SC

Join us for an afternoon of stories with Terry L. Norton! As our featured guest, Terry's presentation at the Bahkita Arts Center will derive from his 2024 book, Monkey Tales Around the World, and will focus on how human beings have portrayed monkeys and apes in folk stories from different global cultures. After the featured presentation, we will break for refreshments, book sales, and socializing. All guests are invited to share for the open reading to follow!
This event is FREE and open to the public. (Donations appreciated.)
Learn more about our featured guest:
Terry L. Norton is a retired professor from Winthrop University. He served for twenty-seven years on the faculty of the Richard W. Riley College of Education, where he taught courses in literacy methods and diagnosis, children’s literature, and young adult literature. He had previously served on the English faculties of Clemson and Francis Marion Universities. He is the author of journal articles on multiculturalism, storytelling, the teaching of reading and writing, and children’s and young adult literature. His books, written by himself or coauthored, include the following:

1) Cooking with Mother Goose (Southern Early Childhood Association, 1997)
2) Fifty Literacy Strategies for Beginning Teachers, 1-8 (Pearson Education, 2004)
3) Cherokee Myths and Legends: Thirty Tales Retold (McFarland, 2014)
4) Trickster Tales of Southeastern Native Americans: Stories from the Creek, Natchez, Seminole, Catawba, and Cherokee (McFarland, 2023)
5) Monkey Tales Around the World: A Folklore Anthology (McFarland, 2024)

He is currently working on a book with the prospective title The Trickster Tricked: Tales of Deceivers Deceived.