Charleston Currents – Free Verse Festival

CALENDAR, Oct. 16+: Verse, drama and music — all this week!

Free Verse Festival: Charleston’s first poetry extravaganza will continue to run with lots of cool events through the end of the month. View events online at FreeVerseFestival.com.

To Kill a Mockingbird: Various times, Oct. 18 to Nov. 5, Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St., Charleston. Charleston Stage will perform a stage version of the literary classic by Harper Lee over two weeks in what is set to be an exciting performance. Nineteen cast members perform in the show, which offers tickets from $31 to $64 for adults. Purchase tickets here.

Colour of Music Festival: Oct. 18-22, Charleston. The fifth annual festival will offer an array of classical music to showcase the impact and historical significance of black classical composers and performers. More.

by Charleston Currents · 10/16/2017 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

CALENDAR, Oct. 2+: Free Verse Festival, MOJA, Star War Reads Day

Staff reports | There’s almost an event every day in Charleston’s first poetry extravaganza, Free Verse Festival, which runs through the end of the month.

Take a look at the varied calendar, including The Mayhem Poets on Sept. 29 at the Charleston Gaillard Center to the Poet Laureate Show, featuring our own Marjory Wentworth, on Oct. 6 at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.

by Charleston Currents · 10/02/2017 · Comments are Disabled · calendar

PALMETTO POEM: Stagnation (a letter 2 America)

By Marcus Amaker, poet laureate of Charleston, S.C.

Amaker (Image by Lisa Livingston)
America has built
too many monuments to war.
Man-made maladies
mounted on Mother Earth.
I’ve seen scars on the skin
of our country’s landscape –
blood-stained band aids
covering exposed bones;
a pain that has not healed.