Event will feature the announcement of this year’s Single Poem winners…the short list (top placement winners) and the long list to include the naming of the top twenty winners. In addition to this exciting news, there will be a featured reading by this year’s Book Contest judge, poet Elizabeth Alexander and the winners of the three previous year’s SC Poetry Initiative First Book Award: Susan Meyers, Keep and Give Away (2005 Winner, USC Press, 2006), Ray McManus, Driving through the Country before You Are Born (2006 Winner, USC Press, 2006), and Ed Madden, Signals (2007 Winner, USC Press, 2007).
Date: Saturday, April 26th
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Columbia Museum of Art
Corner of Hampton and Main
**Free and open to the public
2008 Single Poem Contest, Co-Sponsored by The State Newspaper, Judged by Gabeba Baderoon, Awards Are As Follows:
1st place 400.00
2nd place 300.00
3rd place 200.00
People Choice 100.00
Contact: Charlene Monahan Spearen
Program Coordinator
Arts Institute
University of South Carolina
(803) 777-5492
CMSPEARE@mailbox.sc.edu
