Cedric Tillman's Blog - Posts Tagged "books"

Many thanks to Square Books in Oxford for stocking LILIES. Shout out to Eli Manning, Michael Oher and 'nem! Check them out if you're in the area.

Website
http://www.squarebooks.com/

LILIES
http://www.squarebooks.com/book/97809...

And don't forget ROPES, the offering from Ole Miss prof and Willow Books bredren Derrick Harriell, winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award (selected by my old classmate from American University, Sandra Beasley):

http://www.squarebooks.com/book/97809...

Lilies in the Valley

Ropes

Come catch me and a few friends-we'll be reading at Happy Accidents in Rock Hill, Sunday Aug. 9. Time TBA.

157 E Main St | Suite 300
Rock Hill, South Carolina
(803) 246-2725

Thanks to Adah Fitzgerald, new owner up at Main Street Books in Davidson, NC for stocking LILIES! It's a lovely little shop w/impressive poetry, religion & fiction sections (and other great inventory I'm sure, but those were my preoccupations ;) It's located in the heart of downtown across the street from the college. Check them out at http://www.mainstreetbooksdavidson.com.

Thank you to Penny Padgett and the folks at The Book Shelf up in Tryon, NC, for stocking LILIES this week. Tryon's right at the edge of the NC mountains, cute town w/ several bookstores in the downtown- and also the birthplace of Nina Simone. Went by her (way too neglected) birthplace, took some pics while I was up w/ the fam.

Nice selection of children's books too-was hard prying my girls away. Check 'em out.

http://www.tryonbookshelf.com/

I forgot to mention this here in the craziness of my move to the DC metro area that was going on at the time-but I had a great time meeting and reading with Janet Joyner and Sara Claytor (who I met at an earlier reading back in '16.) Thanks so much to Grace Ocasio (http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Sho...) for making the introduction and to Quail Ridge for having me.
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Sara Claytor, Cedric Tillman & Janet Joyner - An Afternoon of NC Poets

Our Sundry Poets program presents a trio of talented NC poets on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 2 pm. Carrboro's Sara Claytor, author of Memory Bones, shares from her latest, Waiting on Unknown Roads.

Cedric Tillman shares Lilies in the Valley. “Cedric Tillman’s poems are straightforward and full of rich details. These poems unfold with rhythm and resonate with remembering; they have much emotional appeal, depicting pop culture, family life, blues, violence, love, religion and history. Lilies In The Valley is a serious and daring book.”–Lenard D. Moore, author of Forever Home.

Winston-Salem's Janet Joyner presents Waterborne, winner of the 2015 Holland Prize. "Janet Joyner, in these powerful, musically sensuous poems, reaches into our innermost hearts; and as a result we are, I think, both deeper and more honest than we were before." - Anthony Abbott (The Angel Dialogues).

Our moderator is Jo Taylor.

Event date:
Sunday, December 4, 2016 - 2:00pm
Event address:
North Hills
4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road
Raleigh, NC 27609

I'm super excited and thankful to have a new poem entitled "Supremacy, or The Black Lifestyle" up at Pleaides. The poem was actually created from the writing/feelings/ideas that came from out of the tragic shooting of nine Bible study attendees at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston in 2015, as well as a quote from an article from the last election that came from an article written on a Ben Carson visit to NC. The first poem that came out of it all was "The Blood," which was published by Public Pool. The second is "Supremacy," here:

http://www.pleiadesmag.com/cedrictill...

Thanks for reading!