Marjory Wentworth - Former Poet Laureate of South Carolina
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    • “One Hundred Thousand Names”
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Marjory Wentworth

Marjory Wentworth

    News & MediaJune 24, 2016<June 24, 2016

    Charleston Magazine: June 17, 2015: One of our City’s Darkest, and Most Illuminating, Days

    By Stephanie Hunt Read it here Mother Emanuel tragedy June 17, 2015: a date that needs no explanation, at least in the Lowcountry—a time…

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    BlogJune 20, 2016<June 20, 2016

    We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph

    Friends, It is heartbreaking to mark the one year anniversary of the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church with the massacre that occurred in…

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    News & MediaJune 20, 2016<June 20, 2016

    Post and Courier: `‘We Are Charleston’ a new book that puts Mother Emanuel shooting in context

    By Adam Parker. Read the story here. It began with a poem. And now the book “We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother…

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    News & MediaJune 20, 2016<June 20, 2016

    Talking to Hillary Clinton, on CNN

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    News & MediaJune 20, 2016<June 20, 2016

    PBS Newshour video: Marjory Wentworth and Marcus Amaker

    A year after shooting, South Carolina poets offer healing Watch the episode below:

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    News & MediaJune 16, 2016<June 16, 2016

    Charleston Writers Remember Emanuel Nine (SC Public Radio)

    By TUT UNDERWOOD. Read and listen here. The slayings of nine worshipers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston a year ago was a wrenching…

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    News & MediaJune 16, 2016<June 16, 2016

    Front page of The State newspaper

    By BY ERIN SHAW. Read it here. We have to think about how this happened,’ author of book on Charleston church massacre says “We…

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    Mother Emanuel: One Year Later (Charleston City Paper)
    News & MediaJune 16, 2016<June 16, 2016

    Mother Emanuel: One Year Later (Charleston City Paper)

    By Dustin Waters. Read it here. On a Sunday afternoon, April 19, 2015, state Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney stood before a small crowd in…

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    News & MediaJune 16, 2016<June 16, 2016

    WENTWORTH: New Charleston book grew after “my heart was broken” (Charleston Currents)

    Read it here. By Marjory Wentworth, contributing editor | In our very first television interview about our book We Are Charleston, Tragedy and Triumph…

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    News & MediaJune 16, 2016<June 16, 2016

    PBS Newshour: Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Read it here. The shooting by a white supremacist at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church in June 2015 was a wakeup call for poet Marcus…

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    Marjory’s Books

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    Poems

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    • NEW BOOK: One River, One Boat
    • Bio
    • Books
    • Updates
    • Schedule
    • News & Media
    • Poems
      • “One Hundred Thousand Names”
      • “Requiem For Rice”
      • “Reunion Beach”
      • “Bastille Day”
      • “One River, One Boat”
      • More Poems
    • Contact