April is Poetry Month! SWAG Writers (The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues in April with a reading by poets Stephen Cushman (Riffraff, LSU Press 2011), Sara Robinson, and Leah Naomi Green.
The reading will take place on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. at the AVA Restaurant & Wine Bar (formerly The Darjeeling Café), 103 W. Beverley St., Staunton. The reading is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
This event is the latest public reading sponsored by SWAG organizers who hope to elevate the profile of area writers and promote the literary arts in Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County by providing a forum for local and visiting authors to share their work. The group is made up of professional, aspiring, and hobby writers who also host a monthly mixer where members meet to network and socialize and read short excerpts of their work at an open mic. Writers interested in joining the group can contact Cliff Garstang at [email protected].
About the Featured Authors:
Stephen Cushman has published four collections of poetry, Riffraff (LSU, 2011), Heart Island(David Robert Books, 2006), Cussing Lesson (LSU, 2002), and Blue Pajamas (LSU, 1998), as well as two books of criticism, Fictions of Form in American Poetry (Princeton University Press, 1993) and William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure (Yale University Press, 1985), and a book about the Civil War, Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (University Press of Virginia, 1999). He is general editor of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, published in August 2012. His poems have appeared in various literary quarterlies and journals, including American Scholar, Poetry, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Five Points, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, and Yale Review. His forthcoming book is The Red List: A Poem (LSU, 2014). He is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Sara Robinson is the author of Two Little Girls in a Wading Pool (Cedar Creek, 2012). She has also published in the online journal of the Poetry Society of Virginia and Piedmont Virginian magazine. Her poetry also will appear in the 2013 Blue Ridge Anthology. Her memoir, Love Always, Hobby and Jessie (2009) is about her famous photographer father. Born and raised in Elkton, VA, she makes her home near Charlottesville, VA and is a member of the Virginia Writers’ Club, The Blue Ridge Writers’ Chapter, The Poetry Society of Virginia, the Academy of American Poets, and the National League of American Pen Women.
Leah Naomi Green’s poems have appeared in The Squaw Valley Review and Dirtcakes Literary Journal, among other places, and her chapbook, The Ones We Have, was recently published by Flying Trout Press. She is the recipient of many honors, including the Flying Trout Press Award, the Dirtcakes Poetry Award, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize and the University of California Humanities Center International Travel Grant. Green received her MFA from the Poetry Workshop at The University of California, Irvine, and teaches writing and environmental studies at Washington and Lee University. She lives in Rockbridge County where she and her partner, Ben, grow food and homestead on 80 acres.
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