Mount Holyoke sets a poem to music
Message from the Mount Holyoke president: Dear members of the Mount Holyoke community, Season after season and year after year, the beauty of Mount…
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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…
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…
Talking to Hillary Clinton, on CNN
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PBS Newshour video: Marjory Wentworth and Marcus Amaker
A year after shooting, South Carolina poets offer healing Watch the episode below:
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…