Athens, GA Writing Community Upcoming Events (Late March - Mid April, 2011)

3/28/11 @ 6pm -  Live Poets Society Open Mic, located at Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.)
Poetry open mic, Every Other Monday (alternating with Goodbye open mic at Dog Ear Books)
Email for more info:  ColAthPo@gmail.com

3/30/11 - Presentation: “Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues”. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, English Department, and the Inst. for African American Studies. Michael Gray, the author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and Song & Dance Man III: The Art Of Bob Dylan, uses records and rare footage to show how hugely Dylan has been inspired by the blues and how much of its poetry has been smuggled inside his own, highly influential writing. 4:00 p.m. 101 Miller Learning Center. Contact: 706-542-1561
Link to UGA's Calendar:  www.uga.edu/mastercalendar/

3/30/11 - Lecture. Sponsored by the department of Romance Languages and other partners. Speaker: Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Chapel. Contact: lorgiag@uga.edu
Link to UGA's Calendar:  www.uga.edu/mastercalendar/



4/1/11 - Reading by Touring Poet Brian Turner. Sponsored by The Georgia Review and the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, a first-person account of the Iraq war, won a number of major awards. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to include one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000. His second poetry book, Phantom Noise, was released by Alice James in the Spring of 2010. Turner has recently been selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows for 2009. 7:00 p.m. Cine, 234 West Hancock Ave. Contact: 706-542-3481, davidi@uga.edu 
Link to UGA's Calendar:  www.uga.edu/mastercalendar/



4/4/11 @ 7pm - Goodbye Poetry Open Mic, located at Dog Ear Books (162 W. Clayton St.)
Poetry open mic, Every Other Monday (alternating with L.P.S. at Flicker)
Link for more info:  www.DogEarBooks.com

4/6/11 @ 8pm - Word of Mouth, located at The Globe (199 N. Lumpkin St.)
Poetry open mic, 1st Wednesday of every month, has a featured reader.
Link for more info:  AthensWordOfMouth.com

4/15/11 - Projected Release Date of Proetry, Athens' Community Literary Magazine.
Location & time TBA.  The magazine will be on sale at Dog Ear Books & other locations around Athens.