Members of the Athens community are invited to attend a poetry reading and discussion at Cine Tuesday evening. UGA professor LeAnne Howe, Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature at the University of Georgia, and the Creative Writing Program will host writer and editor Brian Clements for a poetry reading and discussion. The event is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m and it is free and open to the public.
Clements co-edited Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. The volume features work by some of the best-known poets writing today., including: Billy Collins, Ocean Vuong, Naomi Shihab Nye, and UGA alumna Natasha Threthewey.
Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, and survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings. Clements is the founding Coordinator of the MFA program and Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Writing at Western Connecticut State University.
This event is sponsored, in part, by Avid Bookshop.
