The day’s events will begin with a Craft Talk at 12:00 PM in the Library Art Gallery at the Asa H. Gordon Library on the Savannah State University campus. This session will focus on poetic craft and offer students and community members an opportunity to engage directly with Seibles’s creative practice.
A public poetry reading will follow at 6:30 PM at The Book Lady Bookstore, located at 6 East Liberty Street in Historic Savannah. Both the craft talk and the evening reading are free and open to the public.
Free shuttle transportation for students to the evening reading will be provided. The shuttle will depart at 5:30 PM from behind Kennedy Hall. Students may reserve a seat by emailing [email protected] or may simply arrive at the meeting location at departure time.
Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia in 1955 and served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. His work explores a wide range of human experience, from the romantic and personal to the sociopolitical and mystical. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Seibles is the author of eight books of poetry, including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal. Fast Animal was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and received both the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award for Poetry. His 2017 book, One Turn Around the Sun, is an expansive examination of his immediate family and their social circumstances. In the past two years, Seibles has also written poems for public monuments, including one in Norfolk honoring the Norfolk 17, who integrated Virginia public schools, and another in Dallas addressing the history of race-based lynchings.
The Georgia Poetry Circuit is a consortium of ten Georgia colleges and universities that brings three poets of national and international reputation to member campuses each year. At each school, visiting poets present a free public reading and meet with creative writing students for workshops, talks, or extended question-and-answer sessions. The program provides Georgia residents with meaningful access to the literary arts while offering students valuable opportunities to interact with leading contemporary poets from the United States and abroad.
This event is made possible by Estuary Creative Writing Club, Savannah State’s Creative Confluence.
