Tim Lewis launched The Virginiad, an epic work of poetry, song, culture, and craft, at a reception in Charlottesville on October 9, 2008. The scope of The Virginiad ranges from First Contact in 1607 to the present day and traces the history of Virginia through the eyes of the common people. Lewis read from his work and took questions from the audience.
Lisa Williams, winner of the Rome Prize in Literature, read to an audience at the New Dominion Bookshop on October 1, 2008, from her latest collection of poems, Woman Reading to the Sea. This collection was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the Barnard Prize.
1:00 “Woman Reading to the Sea”
4:30 “Intoxication at Carmel-by-the-Sea”
7:30 “Horizontally, I Moved”
11:30 “Farthest Flame”
14:00 “Jellyfish”
16:30 “Anatomy of a Skylark”
18:30 “Field”
20:00 “Geometry”
21:30 “Bell Tower”
22:30 “Chimes”
24:00 “Suggestive Grove”
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On Friday, April 11, 2008, poet Kevin McFadden spoke to a capacity audience at the New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville. McFadden read from his book, Hardscrabble, a Poetry Series Selection of the Virginia Quarterly Review.
McFadden’s poetry delights in wordplay and in finding new meanings in well worn words. Join him as he reads from Hardscrabble.
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