A year after the Charleston church shooting, what has changed? (Religious News Service)
By Lauren Markoe Read the full story here. CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) A few weeks after a young white gunman killed nine people at a…
Gun Sense SC
It takes strength and commitment to the greater good to take action after a tragedy that could prevent it from happening again. GunsenseSC is…
Sheer Goodness
During the last ten months, Mother Emanuel historian and archivist Liz Alston has been astonished by the continual gestures of kindness she has witnessed…
etvradio: Poet Laureate Speaks To, and Sometimes For, the Palmetto State
Not every state has a poet laureate, but Charleston’s Marjory Wentworth is South Carolina’s. She’s written numerous books and hundreds of poems, at various…
Cultural impact: 2015 momentous for the arts in Charleston, on cusp of new era
From an article written by Adam Parker in the Post and Courier. Read it here. Strong words South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth had…
BBC – Poet Laureate writes dedication for Charleston victims
Click here to see a video of Marjory reading “Holy City” on the BBC news website.
IN DEFENSE OF THE POET LAUREATE – by By Nick Ripatrazone (Literary Hub)
Read the article here. In September 2002, two months after he was named poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka read at the Dodge…
Phebe Davidson poetry review
Exploring Our Own Amazement: Three New Books from South Carolina New and Selected Poems by Marjorie Wentworth. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. 148…