Buxton Books is excited to host the reception for Piccolo Spoleto’s Sundown Poetry Series. After the reading, we invite you back to the bookstore for wine, conversation and a book signing.
Readings begin at 6:00 pm at Washington Square Park (80 Broad Street). Once the reading concludes, head around the corner to Buxton Books to share a glass of wine with the featured poet and fellow event attendees. While you’re here, grab a signed, personalized copy of the featured title!
We always have such a fun time hosting these receptions and hope you’ll join us!
Danielle DeTiberus // Tuesday, May 28th
Danielle DeTiberus lives in Charleston, SC, where she teaches creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in Academy of American Poets, Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, River Styx, Waxwing and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in Entropy, Hunger Mountain Review, and The Los Angeles Review. Her work has been featured in Verse Daily, the Best American Poetry anthology, and The Missouri Review’s special Project Muse collection Ascendant: Seven Promising Poets.
Jessica K. Hylton // Wednesday, May 29th
Jessica K. Hylton holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and works at Coastal Carolina University. Her books include Gag Order, The Great Scissor Hunt, and the forthcoming collection Scatter; or, James Joyce Always Makes Me Think of Boobs. She is the program director for the Poetry Society of South Carolina and runs the Funky Fish Camp Reading Series at Between the Antlers in Georgetown.
Joey Tucker // Thursday, May 30th
Mr. Enlightenment was born in the small town of Walterboro, SC. He is an author and spoken word poet that has been performing and reading for audiences in the southeast since 2010. In 2009, he released his first chapbook, Walletz & Pursez. In 2023, he released Flicker Poetry.
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor // Thursday, May 31st
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a renowned Trinidadian immigrant poet and author of seven poetry collections, including her most recent, The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022). Cheryl’s verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, tributing her son Malik (aka Phife Dawg), was awarded the 2021 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.
Lola Haskins // Tuesday, June 4th
Lola Haskins’ fourteenth collection of poetry, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press 2023), was named Poetry Book of the Year by Southern Literary Review. Past honors include four book prizes, two narrative poetry prizes, the Florida’s Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America.
Ray McManus // Wednesday, June 5th
Ray McManus is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Last Saturday in America, and Punch. His poems have been published in numerous journals. In 2023, Ray received the South Carolina Governor’s Awards for the Arts — the highest honor the state gives in the arts.
Regina YC Garcia // Thursday, June 6th
Regina YC García is a DAR American Heritage award-winning poet, professor and language artist from Greenville, NC. A finalist in the Charlotte 2024 Lit/South Award, a two time James Applewhite Semifinalist, and a Pushcart Prize Nominee, she is also widely published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her chapbook, The Firetalker’s Daughter, was published by Finishing Line Press in March, 2023.
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Katherine Williiams // Friday, June 7th
Katherine Williams (BA 1978 CofC), originator of Poetry at McLeod, presenting illustrious Black poets at a former Southern cotton plantation where the lives of the once-enslaved are researched, announces her first collection, The Devil Cruises Pacific Coast Highway (Kelsay). The Pushcart nominee’s poems appear in Spillway, Measure, SC Review, and elsewhere.