Cedric Tillman's Blog - Posts Tagged "lilies"

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

Thanks to Melissa Hassard of Women Writers of the Triad for the invite to read at the Second Saturday reading series at Tate Street Coffee House. I'll be reading with poet Bianca Diaz, the author of a chapbook entitled No One Says Kin Anymore, which won the Robert Watson Poetry Award (Spring Garden Press, 2009). Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for the Best of the Net Anthology. Recent poems appear in San Pedro River Review, One, Lindenwood Review, Mount Hope, Border Crossing, Naugatuck River Review, and Redheaded Stepchild. She earned an MFA from George Mason University and is originally from Miami, FL. She now lives in Durham, NC, where she teaches high school English.

Here is a older review of her work:
http://www.storysouth.com/2010/09/bia...

Tate Street Coffee House is right beside the UNC-Greensboro campus. Show starts at 7:00pm for poetry (and sometimes music!) Features followed by an open mic.

I'll be reading with co-features Christopher Gaumer, Jessica Prescott, C.T. McGaha & Rusty Colton at twenty-two Sunday Oct. 25, 8 pm. Come through QC!

Open mic to follow.

https://www.facebook.com/twenty-two-9...

https://www.facebook.com/juggsmurf

I'll be reading at the ol' alma mater with Coen Crisp at 4 pm in Fretwell Hall, Room 290B. It's my first reading on campus since LILIES came out in '13. Come out (assuming you are sans a day job or think I'm worth quitting one for)! Copies of the book will be in tow.

Some newish work out in High Point University's Apogee ("who needs 'im", "Sundays on Rosehaven", "Luxury")

and Rove ("the flag")

http://www.highpoint.edu/library/file...

http://www.rovepoetry.org/

Thanks to Charmaine Cadeau Ward of High Point University (http://www.brickbooks.ca/bookauthors/...) & Elizabeth Barnett of Rove (http://jdbrecords.blogspot.com/2015/0...) for the opportunity.

Again- failed to post about it but I was thrilled to be reading w/ my sister, Cave Canem comrade & fellow American University MFA alum Venus Thrash, author of The Fateful Apple (Hawkins Publishing, 2014) at UNCCharlotte Center City on March 16. Venus is such a star- it's always a pleasure to hear her resonant voice and feel the passion she brings to a reading. I highly recommend The Fateful Apple and can't wait for her next one.

Thanks to the UNCC English & African Studies Depts, The Honors College (particularly Dr. Malin Pereira), Chancellor's Diversity Challenge Fund, Center City Campus, and grad student Kristen Stewart for all her work on our gorgeous promo flyer. And thanks to everyone that came out-it was good to see faculty like Dr. Janaka Lewis (English) & Dr. Chris Cameron (History) down at Center City.

Google these names and buy a book.

More on Venus here:
http://venusthrash.wix.com/venusthrash

I was honored to learn at the last minute that Dr. Leak, who I had for Af-Am Lit 22 years ago, was teaching Lilies in the Valley last week. It was an absolute treat to talk to the students and read poems that I rarely read or had never read. I sat in on both of last week's courses via Zoom and it was extremely gratifying to be a part of all the frank and intimate discussion that the poems elicited on topics from race and family to relationships and sexuality. This was only my second virtual class visit (h/t to poet/novelist Destiny Birdsong, who taught the book back in '14/'15 at Vanderbilt and invited me in remotely as well as in person.) I'm looking forward to getting up to the alma mater in person sometime this semester.