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SPOTLIGHT ON POET MONIFA LEMONS BY OLIVIA MORRIS

by Jasper Posted on June 5, 2016

“When I think about where I was, it was just me, and my daughter, and a hundred flyers,” says Monifa Lemons, co-founder and director of The Watering Hole, a South Carolina-based poetry collective dedicated to poets of color. When she … Continue reading →

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Poems Flow with Your Cup of Morning Joe via River Poems from One Columbia and the office of the Poet Laureate

by Jasper Posted on April 6, 2016

    Local poets come together to create coffee sleeve poems about the historic flood and rivers of Columbia for national poetry month this April.   In conjunction with One Columbia for Arts and History, Ed Madden, the city of Columbia’s … Continue reading →

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