Spring Into Poetry to offer community poetry celebration
Special to The Colonnade
The Rhetoric program at Georgia College & State University will host Spring Into Poetry, a free, live community celebration of poetry, on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium.
Spring Into Poetry, an annual poetry reading begun by Assistant Professor Dr. Scott Dillard in 2003, was modeled after the Favorite Poem Project, created in 1997 by Robert Pinsky, poet laureate consultant to the Library of Congress.
“Spring Into Poetry is a community celebration of poetry through a public reading of favorite and original poems,” Dillard said. “Our goal for this year’s event is to get 200 people to attend.”
The event, planned by Dillard’s upper-level RHET 2315 Voice for the Public Speaker class, is open to the public, and is educational. This year’s slogan is, “Beautiful words, beautiful season.”
According to Dillard, there will be approximately 30 readers at the event reciting their favorite poems or poems they have written. Readers include students from the RHET 2315 class, and others are selected on an invitation-only basis and are generally students, faculty and staff members.
This year’s invited speakers include Assistant Professor Dan Bauer, Associate Professor Dr. Ginger Carter, Professor Rob Viau, Temporary Instructor Danielle Wycoff, Counselor Susan Hendley, Assistant Professor of Music & Theater Marlene Johnson, and students Hetty White, Lauren Boyd and Bret Chatham.
“Spring Into Poetry is one of the favorite things that I do as an instructor at GC&SU,” Dillard said. “It is a good community event, it highlights the talents of my students and it puts a spotlight on texts we don’t often look at as exciting performance pieces.”
The Rhetoric program at GC&SU is part of the Department of English, Speech and Journalism and features three concentrations: cultural, organizational and public rhetoric.
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on Apr 22 2005. Filed under Other.
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