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SUMMARY:An Evening with Poet Ray McManus\, Author of The Last Saturday in America
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning poet Ray McManus\, author of The Last Saturday in America\, on Thursday\, April 25\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Rhett House Inn’s garden (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort). This is an outdoor event. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout the book and author“These are poems about boys listening to men who were once boys who listened to men\, the blind leading the blind leading the blind through the dark. Some boys grow up. Some men never do. Ray McManus has chipped away at the pageantry and performance\, the stupidity of the lie\, the outright futility of it all…. The Last Saturday In America is\, ‘a song that pays homage / to a history of work we should’ve done better.’ Here’s hoping one day we do.” —David Joy\, author of Those We Thought We Knew\, from the introduction   \nFor fans of Americana music and a beer after mowing the lawn\, The Last Saturday in America confronts the long shadow of Southern masculinity. \nThe Last Saturday in America is set in a nation on the precipice of great change. Through examinations of suburban neighbors\, bullies\, gun violence\, and vasectomy appointments\, Ray McManus draws a portrait of American masculinity in the face of political division\, pandemic\, and cultural warfare. McManus’s speaker is caught between the way he was raised and the future he wants to see for who he is raising. He can no longer rely on what he thought he knew\, nor does he know what to do about it. The man rendered in these pages is a father\, a son\, a Southerner. And he is willing to burn it all down and start something new\, only to see that the new start he is looking for has been with him the whole time. \nRay McManus is the author of four books of poetry: Punch. (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Book of Poetry in North America)\, Red Dirt Jesus (selected by Alicia Ostriker for the Marick Press Poetry Prize 2011)\, and Driving through the country before you are born (winner of the South Carolina Book Prize in 2006)\, and a chapbook called Left Behind. He is the co-editor for the anthology Found Anew with notable contributors with South Carolina ties. His poems have been published in numerous journals such as Crazyhorse\, Prairie Schooner\, and POETRY magazine. He lives in South Carolina where he teaches for USC Sumter and serves as the Writer in Residence for the Columbia Museum of Art. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/759076086073511/
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LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, US
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SUMMARY:Leap Back in History for Leap Year - Bluffton: Then & Now by Paul Tollefson
DESCRIPTION:A visual look over the last 150 years using photographs\, videos\, and first hand accounts of the people\, places\, and things that helped shape Bluffton.”  \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/788326366527268/
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LOCATION:Bluffton United Methodist Church\, 101 Calhoun Street\, Bluffton\, SC\, 29910\, US
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SUMMARY:A Lowcountry Heart -- Pat Conroy Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held monthly beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. \nJanuary 25: South of BroadFebruary 21: My Reading Life  (rescheduled from February 22)March 28: The Death of SantiniApril 25: A Lowcountry Heart \nLearn more and register at: https://patconroybookclubatrhetthouseinn.eventbrite.com \nAbout Our Discussion LeadersDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S.  \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/681901043933584/
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LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, US
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