Fault Line Reading reveals student talent
What do Alice Walker, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Leonardo DiVinci, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson and Pablo Picasso all have in common?
They are all writers, poets and artists who have put their mark on the world with their creativity, elegance, style and uniqueness in their individual ways. Their work is the mere essence of the world, people read, discuss and study their works.
There are writers, poets and artists on this very campus, Many are wondering where they are, how they can meet and hear or see some of their works. These talented young men and women belong to the Fault Line Reading Series.
According to Dr. Martin Lammon, professor of English and Fuller E. Callaway, Flannery O’Connor Chair in Creative Writing, the Fault Line Reading series features reading and art exhibitions programs by the Georgia College and State University students that are in the Creative Writing program and the Art Department.
“I’d say that this series is one of the best programs at GC&SU run by students, featuring students,” said Lammon. “I’m very proud of the Peacock’s Feet editors for taking on this series.”
The Fault Line Reading Series will be held every Wednesday night at 8:30 p.m. at Blackbridge Hall. Once the new coffeehouse, Soul Shine, opens downtown, the series will be held there every other Wednesday.
Myke Johns, coordinator of the fault line reading series, noticed how devoted last year’s audience was to the program. Johns would like to see a diversity that is beyond the English department, and he thinks that it will happen since there is an addition with art showings.
“We whiten teeth and freshen breath. Just one viewing of a Fault Line show might just save your life. We’re here to enlighten, to entertain … we’re here to care . seriously, we’re here to support the creative arts in the community as well as among the student body,” said Johns. “We’re
not the only game in town. There is an open mic Poetry Slam run by
Jason Mallony that’s held on the last Thursday of every month at Brewers. At the base of these readings of course are the artists and writers who are getting a forum in which to display their work to their peers and community.”
“The Fault Line Readers (though there is no official edict on this I know of) read their own work. The idea of the series is that writers and artists are afforded the opportunity to represent their own work to their community. Though last year there were a few tradition-benders, notably Steven Ford, who recited ‘The Great Salt Lake’ by Arlie Carstens from memory, and Minal Singh, who recited the ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ soliloquy from ‘Hamlet’ which was also recited from memory. As far as what I think of these people.we’re peers mostly, and the folks across the table during workshop or on either side of the mic at a reading may well be having a beer tonight later that week,” he said. “It all comes back to cultivating a sense of community amongst the creative minds here in Milledgeville. Despite the kind of Robert Frost-ian, isolated curmudgeon image that a lot of people tend to attach to writers, most artists I know are quite the movers and shakers about town–traveling, forming bands–basically getting involved with life in and outside of academic life. It’s a community I’m proud to be an active part of.”
Come out and show your spirit and support for The Fault Line Reading Series! Everyone on campus is welcome to attend, whether you’re an accounting or biology major! Indulge yourself in talent!
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on Sep 20 2002. Filed under Other.
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