The Jake Leg Stompers

Hambone Willie of The Jake Leg Stompers will entertain us at Carson's 94th Birthday Celebration on Saturday night, February 19, during the Conference.  We're billing the evening as "Supper at the Sad Cafe -- On a GOOD Night."  To register:  www.mccullerscenter.org

POET CLEOPATRA MATHIS TO READ ON MONDAY

Acclaimed poet CLEOPATRA MATHIS will give two readings on Monday, January 24:

4:00 PM at the Carson McCullers House, 1519 Stark Avenue in Columbus -- an informal reading and discussion.

7:30 PM at the Simon Schwob Memorial Library on main campus -- a formal reading.

Everyone is cordially invited to these free events.

Since 1982, Cleopatra Mathis has directed the Creative Writing Program at Dartmouth College, where she is the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor of the Art of Writing. She has published six collections of poetry, including What to Tip the Boatman?, which won the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poems in 2001. Other prizes for her work include the Peter Lavin Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets, the Robert Frost Resident Poet Award, the May Sarton Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. Her work appears frequently in magazines, anthologies, and textbooks, including The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, and The Southern Review. Mathis was born in Ruston, Louisiana. She graduated from Southwest Texas State University in 1970, taught high school for a while, then earned an MFA from Columbia University in 1978. The following year she published her first book of poems.

Interesting production in Canada ...

Look at this -- a production troupe in Canada is staging a play titled Smash Cut Freeze, inspired by the 1952 film version of The Member of the Wedding:
http://www.calgarysun.com/entertainment/columnists/2011/01/12/16853516.html

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE NOW POSTED ONLINE!

It's time now to register for our mid-February Carson McCullers Conference and 94th Birthday Celebration, which will feature scholarly presentations, discussions, tours, food, film, music and a special performance by Suzanne Vega. You know you don't want to miss out on the fun!  The complete schedule is here.