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Poet Laureate

Marjory Wentworth


Marjory WentworthMARJORY WENTWORTH was born in Lynn, Massachusetts.  Educated at Mt. Holyoke College and Oxford University, she received her M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from New York University.  Her poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.

Ms. Wentworth teaches poetry in an arts and healing program for cancer patients and their families at Roper Hospital in Charleston, S.C.  She serves on the Board of Directors for the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts (LILA), The Poetry Society of S C, and the University of SC Poetry Initiative.  She writes a poetry column for THE CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER .  Ms. Wentworth works as a publicist.  She lives in Mt. Pleasant, SC with her husband Peter and their three sons Hunter, Oliver, and Taylor.

Noticing EdenNoticing Eden, a collection of poems, was published by Hub City Writing Project in 2003. Her next collection, Despite Gravity, was published in  2007 by Ninety-Six Press. She was appointed  Poet Laureate of South Carolina by Governor Mark Sanford in 2003.

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Marjory's Spring Schedule

South Carolina Book Festival
February 22-24, 2008
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center
Columbia, SC

Jonathan Green Week
Poetry and Jazz (reading) Monday March 3rd  6:30 – 8:30 PM
Charleston County Main Library Auditorium
68 Calhoun Street, Charleston
Seeking the Spirit: Poetry and Jazz inspired by the art of Jonathan Green
Noted area poets, along with musicians from the Charleston Jazz Initiative, will use words and music to explore the significance and impact of art on our daily lives, particularly Green’s featured work “Seeking.”
Friday March 7 at 7:00 PM

NYU Creative Writing Program
Spring 2008 Reading Series
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
58 West 10th Street, New York, NY 10011

Richland County Library “A Cabaret of Words” 
March 18th 6:30 p.m. 
Columbia, SC
Featured Poets - Michael Bengal and Marjory Wentworth

Split This Poetry Festival Rock
March 20-23, 2008
Washington DC
Panelist “The Poet as Political Appointee” and “Writing in a Warrior Culture”

The Southern Poetry Anthology Reading
March 29 at 2:00 PM
Charleston Country Public Library
68 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC

Block Island Poetry Project Workshops
April 3-6
Session 1:  “Poetry as Resilience”
Taha Muhammed Ali, Peter Cole, Carolyn Forche and Marjory Wentworth

"Evening with the Laureates"
Lisa Starr, Susan Deborah King and Marjory Wentworth
April 8
Rye Free Reading Room
1061 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY

Dedication of papers at The SC Poetry
April 11th
Archive 3:00 PM
Furman University in the James B. Duke Library, Greenville, SC 

Poetry Reading Leopard Forest Coffee House in Travelers Rest, SC at 7:00p.m.
Marjory Wentworth will be reading the poetry of former SC Poet Laureate Bennie Lee Sinclair as well as her own work Workshop 10:00 - 12:00 Traveler’s Rest
April 12

Yale Reparatory Theater
Poetry Reading to celebrate National Poetry Month and benefit CT Food Bank
April 19th

Friends of The Berkeley Country Library
April 29th Tuesday 7:30 PM

The Southeastern Writers Conference
June 15-June 19, 2008
St. Simon’s Island, GA
Southeasternwriters.com

National Poet Laureate Meeting
September 14-18
Block Island, RI