Dead Poets Society of South Carolina

Dead Poets --- LIVE, in Charleston!

The list of poets reading for the historic 1st Dead Poets Bash of South Carolina is shaping up. Here is the current lineup of star poetry power. We need someone to read Timrod!

Harriet Rigney - Louisa Cheves Stoney

Katherine Williams - Louisa McCord

Linda Ferguson - Josephine Pinckney’s “The Hag.”

Marjory Wentworth - Bennie Lee Sinclair

Deborah Dickey – James Dickey

Mary Harris – Beatrice Witte Ravenel

Oliver Bowman – DuBose Heyward?

Post & Courier Getting Charleston Prepped

The Post & Courier ran a story on page 2 today to let folks know that the Grand Tour is on the way to Charleston.

You can hear more about the tour from a Canadian Broadcast radio interview.

Dedgar the Poemobile was very happy last night -- we paid a visit to Poe, at his grave. Hunter Wentworth told Edgar that he used to live on Poe's house (apartment) on Sullivan's Island. The two had a nice chat.

Dead Poets Grand Tour Coming to CHARLESTON

Mark you calendars for Thursday, May 13th, when the Dead Poets Grand Tour 2010 comes to Charleston for the first South Carolina Dead Poets Bash!

Your hosts will be the Poetry Society of South Carolina and the S.C. Poet Laureate, Marjory Wentworth. You won't want to miss this historic event, as news of a new literary holiday will be announced at the reading.

Grand Tour T-shirts Now Available

T-Shirts, Hats, Beach Bags & Buttons now available on the Dead Poets Grand Tour Store.

Louisa S. McCord: essayist and poetess

Yet another resident of Magnolia Cemetery was touched by the Muses. Louisa. S. McCord was mostly known as an essayist, but she also wrote the drama "Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy in Five Parts"

You can read more about her in the book "Louisa S. McCord:Poems, Drama, Biography, Letters (Southern Texts Society)