20th anniversary Voices Carry reading
I'm e xcited to announce the lineup for the 20th anniversary Voices Carry reading on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Decatur Library. The poets: Cecilia Woloch, Alice Lovelace, Tania Rochelle, Kodac Harrison, and Theresa Davis. I’ll be hosting and reading a few poems, too. Please RSVP for free tickets at this link . The event will be hosted by Georgia Center for the Book and Poetry Atlanta . Voices Carry originally began in 2004 as an event sponsored by the now-defunct Atlanta Book Festival. The organizer, the late Chante Whitley-Head, asked me to work with Poetry Atlanta to create an event in commemoration of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. That first Voices Carry – and, yes, it is named after the Til Tuesday song – was held at The Carter Center in Atlanta and moved to numerous locations around the city before finding a permanent home at the Decatur Library under the auspices of Georgia Center for the Book. Over the last two decades, we've hosted luminaries like Jericho Brown, Natas
