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Wentworth, left, and Singleton. Photos provided.

FOCUS: Wentworth, Singleton receive top state arts honors

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Former S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth of Mount Pleasant and Grammy Award-winning trumpet player Charlton Singleton of Charleston have received the state’s highest award for 2021 for arts achievement from the S.C. Arts Commission.

““It means a lot to me that Charlton and I are getting this honor at the same time,” Wentworth said today about the S.C. Governor’s Awards for the Arts. “We used to teach together at [Charleston County] School of the Arts. We’ve improved together. It’s been so much fun to watch his trajectory. Because he got it too, It just means so much more. It’s just sweeter.”

Singleton received the award for Artist of the Year, while Wentworth received a special award.

by Andy Brack · 02/15/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

NEW for 2/15: Local arts winners; National anxiety reduced; Safe Sounds

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Wentworth, Singleton receive top state arts honors
COMMENTARY, Brack: Return to government dullness lessens national anxiety
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
NEWS BRIEFS: Safe Sounds series returns to Firefly 15 shows starting March 19
FEEDBACK: Responding to recent column on Santee Cooper
MYSTERY PHOTO: A real tough one to identify
CALENDAR: Auction, museum hours, wild run, more

by Charleston Currents · 02/15/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Uncategorized

PALMETTO POEM: One River, One Boat

By Marjory Wentworth
Because our history is a knot
we try to unravel, while others
try to tighten it, we tire easily
and fray the cords that bind us.

by Palmetto Poem · 01/07/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

1/7, full issue: Neighborhood LRT benefits; Tax shell game; Palmetto Poem

IN THIS ISSUE | Jan. 7, 2019

FOCUS: Neighborhoods should benefit from Lowcountry Rapid Transit
COMMENTARY, Brack: Don’t play verbal shell games with tax reform
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCIWAY
PALMETTO POEM, Wentworth: One river, one boat
GOOD NEWS: On cloud study, new TUW CEO, more
FEEDBACK: Goodwill president thanks community
MYSTERY PHOTO: Looks like something under construction
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Coker College
CALENDAR: Charleston Jazz Festival set to start Jan. 24

by Charleston Currents · 01/07/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS, Wentworth: From Nuremberg to Pittsburgh

By Marjory Wentworth, contributing editor | In 2016, the lawyers from the International Criminal Court asked me to write a poem for the 70th Anniversary of the closing of the military tribunals at Nuremberg. At the time, I was finishing writing the book We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel, immersed in the unfathomable grief of the families and survivors. Charleston was still recovering from one of the worst hate crimes in American history

The links between racism and anti-Semitism are innumerable. In fact, the NAACP has Jewish roots. The organization was founded by both black and white civil rights activists, including a Jewish man named Henry Moskowitz. …

by Special to Charleston Currents · 11/12/2018 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news, My Turn

11/12: Mourning gun victims; S.C. House races; YallFest; More

IN THIS ISSUE | Nov. 12, 2018

FOCUS, Wentworth: From Nuremberg to Pittsburgh
COMMENTARY, Brack: S.C. House races need to be more competitive
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: S.C. Ports Authority
GOOD NEWS: Changes ahead at the S.C. House
PHOTO ESSAY: YallFest
FEEDBACK: Latest commentary was spot on
MYSTERY PHOTO: A bridge to somewhere
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sweetgrass baskets
CALENDAR: Gospel Christmas set for Dec. 1

by Charleston Currents · 11/12/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS, Wentworth: Always remember to proofread and spellcheck

By Marjory Wentworth, special to Charleston Currents | I am a poet, so you might think I’m going to talk about the knowledge that poetry can bring to the world and the inherent joys of being a writer, but I am speaking to you today from a different platform – as a mother whose three sons finished college not that long ago and as a professor who has taught college for many years. I have learned and continue to learn a great deal from my students, and I want to share some of this hard-earned knowledge with you.

Wentworth
Since I am a writer, I teach writing classes, as well as literature and public speaking. My students have to write a lot of essays; you too will have to write many essays at college. So, the title of my speech today is, Always Remember to Proofread and Spellcheck. These words may be familiar to you, but what does this have to do with you as you head off to college? More than you might think.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 06/04/2018 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news

A hand-operated ferry in Georgetown County from years ago. (More)

6/4, full issue: Graduation thoughts; House races; New poem

IN THIS ISSUE of Charleston Currents #10.30 | June 4, 2018

FOCUS, Wentworth: Always remember to proofread and spellcheck
COMMENTARY, Brack: 2018 brings more House contests, but not a lot more women
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
PALMETTO POEM, Peters: The Ravenel Bridge
WHAT WE LOVE: Tell us what you really love about the area
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Red brick building stands out on a sunny day
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ferries
CALENDAR, June 4+: City seeks input on West Ashley

by Charleston Currents · 06/04/2018 · 1 comment · Full issue

SC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marjory Wentworth, poet laureate

Editor’s Note: For the last five weeks, we’ve profiled South Carolina’s past poet laureates. Here is a look at our current poet laureate, who also is a contributing editor to Charleston Currents. Wentworth curates a monthly South Carolina-related poem in our Palmetto Poem section. S.C. Encyclopedia | Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on June 3, 1958, Marjory Heath Wentworth is the […]

by Charleston Currents · 10/30/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

COMMENTARY, Brack: Alexander offers a lesson of poetry’s power

Kwame Alexander was the keynote speaker of Saturday’s Black Ink, a gathering of four dozen writers celebrating African American writing in a six-hour book festival that filled the main library. The festival, now in its second year, reportedly did very well, with writers selling two or three times as many books to hundreds of attendees.

In a poignant talk about memories ranging from a boyhood spent selling books for his father to his mother’s recent death, Alexander kept his audience spellbound with his passionate, strong voice.

But an extended version of a relatively new poem, “Take a Knee,” cut to the core. It showed how a rat-a-tat-tat of common-day phrases starting with the word “take” can generate real emotion and lead, perhaps, to new ways of considering issues.

by Andy Brack · 09/25/2017 · 2 comments · Andy Brack, Views