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Beacon Salon – David Kirby and Barbara Hamby
David Kirby (National Book Award winner) and Barbara Hamby (James Dicky Prize for Poetry) tell their students that the best mind you can have is the mind of the writer. Writers are magpies. We pick up shiny objects in our beaks and then fly home and put them in a certain order and show early drafts to others and incorporate (or ignore) what they say. But isn’t that what a scientist does as they set up an experiment or a lawyer as they prepare an argument for a jury or a chef as they try out a new dish? It’s all one mind. We just call it the mind of the writer.
Beacon Salon – Dylan Thuras
“Finding Wonder in the World” The world can feel bleak. There are more things to worry about than we can hold in our heads. Yet, we also live in a world filled with wonder, joy, surprise, and delight. And the stories we tell ourselves about the places we live and the larger world hide deep […]
Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker
Beacon Salon – Sarah Lohman
“Historical Female Poisoners” First comes loves, then comes marriage, then comes … a little bit of rat poison in their coffee cup. When love goes wrong, out comes the Victorian obsession with female poisoners: delicate and seductive, these ladies made headlines in the age of yellow journalism for offing their lovers with poisoned food. Come […]
Beacon Salon – Core Ensemble
Lake Deaton United Methodist Church Of Ebony Embers-Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance Celebrating the music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance era in New York City, “Of Ebony Embers” examines the lives of three outstanding, but very different African American poets — Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay —as seen through the eyes of […]
Beacon Salon – Darlyn Finch Kuhn
Turning Adversity into Art Darlyn Finch Kuhn will illustrate that it’s the difficult moments in life that shape our character, become fuel for self-expression, and ultimately inspire artistic expression in others. Sharing excerpts from her poetry and prose, Kuhn will show the benefits of paying close attention to pain, sharing the universal through the specific, […]
Beacon Salon – Frank Stanfield
How to cover the craziest crime story without going crazy yourself (allegedly). The slaying of the parents of a vampire cultist in Eustis in 1996 sparked international headlines, especially when the couple’s 15- year-old daughter left with the group. Was she a victim or a participant? The debate continues to this day. Based on Frank […]
