Poetry Reading: Liz Countryman, Samuel Amadon, & Destiny Hemphill
Schedule
Sat Oct 12 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
So & So Books | Raleigh, NC
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Liz Countryman is the author of two books of poetry, Green Island, selected by Julie Carr for the 2022 Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Press, and A Forest Almost. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina and co-edits the poetry journal Oversound. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, and The Canary.Samuel Amadon's most recent collections are Listener and Often, Common, Some, And Free, and his new book, Divers, is forthcoming in 2026. He directs the MFA program at the University of South Carolina, where co-edits the poetry journal Oversound.
Destiny Hemphill is a chronically ill ritual worker and poet living on the unceded territory of the Eno-Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation (Durham, NC). Hemphill is the recipient of fellowships from Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House and Kenyon Review's Writers Workshop. She is the co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting with Lisbeth White and Tamiko Beyer and author of the poetry collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life. The poetry collection is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Prize. Poetry Magazine, Southern Cultures and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series have featured Hemphill's work. She served as an Inaugural Poetry Coalition fellow, a Kenan visiting writer in poetry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an inaugural Tin House reading fellow.
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Where is it happening?
So & So Books, 704 N Person St, Raleigh, NC 27604-1216, United States,Raleigh, North CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
