Celebrate National Poetry Month as Georgia Poetry Society Presents:

Janice Townley Moore, Young Harris, Georgia

Ira E. Harrison, Decatur, Georgia

Jill Jennings, Woodstock, Georgia

Saturday, April 12, 2008, 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon
Robert Fulton Regional Library, 5090 Abbotts Bridge Rd., Johns Creek, GA

Janice Townley Moore
has published poetry in Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, The Cortland Review, Prairie Schooner, Chattahoochee Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her chapbook, Teaching the Robins, came out in 2005. Other poems appeared in numerous anthologies such as The Bedford Introduction to Literature, In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, and When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple. Former poetry editor of Georgia Journal, she currently teaches English and is Humanities Chair at Young Harris College.

Ira E. Harrison
has had poems in The Phoenix, The Pegasus, America Sings, Recapit, Scriptania, Here and Now, Context, All Around Us, New Millennium Writings, and The Reach of Song .With a Ph.D. from Syracuse University he is associate professor emeritus of University of Tennessee. He has won several poetry prizes. His works include Beautiful Black Women, Mothers: The Nine Black Mothers, POP: Poems on Parenting, Poetry & Prevention: A Little Ounce Is Worth, and SOSS: Sounds of the Sizzling Sixties.

Jill Jennings
After 16 years as a TV and print journalist, Jennings taught English and Latin in public schools for 16 years. With B.A. and M.A. degrees University of Georgia) in Latin and Greek, she writes poetry in Latin, French and English. She won three top awards in the 2008 Georgia Poetry Society contests. In the summer her first collection of poems, The Poetry Alarm Clock, will be available for sale on line and at booksellers.

Also open mic reading of one poem each by other poets, and Q. and A. on poetry writing .
For other details contact Robert Lynn at 770-876-2904 or robertllynn@comcast.net

Directions: Take Georgia 400 Exit 10 East on Old Milton Parkway/State Highway 120. Left at Kimball Bridge Road two miles. Go past Jones Bridge Road one block to library on left.