TUSCUMBIA– Writers to Readers at the Helen Keller Public Library continues Sunday, May 5 in Tuscumbia with award-winning poets Jacqueline Allen Trimble and James E. Cherry. The free program begins at 2:00 p.m. and concludes by 3:30 p.m.
Both poets will read from their recent books and participate in a question/answer session afterwards with the audience. Pam Kingsbury, UNA Professor will moderate a follow-up discussion. A book sale and signing follows.
A past Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellow, Trimble will read from her book “American Happiness,
Jacqueline Allen Trimble
and Cherry will read from his latest collection “Loose Change” and other works.
Jacqueline Allen Trimble’s debut collection American Happiness (New South Books, 2016) received the 2016 Balcones Poetry Prize and was named best book of 2016 by the Seven Sisters Book Awards. A Cave Canem Fellow and a 2017 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellow. Trimble is a Professor of English and chairperson of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.
James E. Cherry
James E. Cherry has published six books of prose and poetry, including his novel Edge of the Wind (2016), and Loose Change: Poems (2013). He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Lillian Smith Book Award, and was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Fiction. Cherry teaches at the University of Memphis Lambuth (TN) where he recently contributed historical persona poetry to the Equal Justice Initiative’s work for Peace and Justice to memorialize three people of color from the area.
Writers to Readers at the Helen Keller Public Library continues June 28, during the annual Helen Keller Festival, with 2019 Harper Lee Award winning novelist Daniel Wallace and APTV BookMark host Don Noble for an evening event.
The Alabama 200 endorsed series is made possible with support from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Tuscumbia Kiwanis, Tuscumbia Civitans, and the Friends of the Helen Keller Public Library. The Alabama Writers’ Forum, Inc. is a cosponsor of the series. For information, call 256 383 7065 or visit www.writersforum.org
Media Release/Tammie Collins, Director/Helen Keller Public Library
