Seat in the (Pleasant) Shade: Poetry Reading Featuring Athens Inaugural Poet Laureate

The summer poetry series "Seat in the Shade" kicks off in poetry month with a slate of local writers that include Athens first named poet laureate. The first Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) Poet Laureate will be announced on April 27, 2021, at the live, webinar reading. The selected poet laureate must be an Athens Clarke County resident who will serve for a two-year term. 

This event is part of the "Something More Pleasant" series of events connecting Athens readers to Roz Chast's book, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? This series is funded by the NEA Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest

Link for viewing: https://youtu.be/6isAhQ_RRZI

This event will be hosted by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, a professor in the University of Georgia College of Education and member of the UGA Arts Council and Athens Cultural Affairs Commission. Collaborated with Athens Clarke County Library and Wilson Center, the Seat in the Shade webinar will also feature new members of the Poetry Educators Collective: Ann Marie Satterfield, Briana Ranck, Casey Boersma, Elizabeth Dubberly, Katherine Baker Johnson, Saurabh Anand, and Yixuan Wang.