By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate E.B. White, one of my favorite writers, used to say, “Simplify, simplify, simplify,” but that doesn’t mean that writing has to be simple, which is a different matter. Here’s a fine poem by Laurel Blossom of Edgefield, South Carolina, that’s been simplified into a pure, clean beauty. Red […]
A Summary by Leonard Todd January 1, 2023 “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” the very welcome new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, contains a disturbing error. I and the nine other men and women whose names appear at the end of this summary are drawing attention to it here in order to keep it from becoming an accepted part of the historicalrecord. Each of us listed […]
| Opinion J. DREW LANHAM ON 5/29/20 AT 10:31 AM EDT Used with permission of www.Newsweek.com Copyright© 2020. All rights reserved. I fell in love with birds as a boy, when gravity convinced me that I would never fly. Birds could, and I fell hard for them, spending most of my spare moments watching and wishing. […]
Edgefield Poet Laureate Laurel Blossom (right) of 2015-2017 Crowns the Youth Poet Laureate of 2016. Edgefield lost its Poet Laureate when Laurel and Leonard Todd went West to Los Angeles where they make their home, now. However, Laurel is continuing to publish out in California. Recently, The Los Angeles Review included three of her poems […]
Nathan Alan Kulp of Trenton won the First Place Blue Ribbon in the Couplet Contest sponsored by the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, Laurel Blossom. This contest brought together the two worlds of poetry and pottery as it drew from the renowned potter Dave Drake and his couplets put on his pots in the 19th century. […]
$100 First Prize to be Awarded the Winning Couplet The Fist Annual Couplets Contest, part of the POETRY MEETS POTTERY event to be held at the end of the month, closes this Friday, February 12, when all couplets must be delivered to The Clay Studio on Buncombe St. in Edgefield by the end of the […]
On Saturday past, the second weekend of Christmas events in Edgefield, music and poetry rang out over the square. Music even went down Main Street, as the Springfield Church Children’s Choir serenaded customers and shop keepers with Christmas tunes. Later the Springfield Children’s Choir performed on stage, along with the W. E. Parker Choir. […]
Poetry Floats My Boat Dear Editor: I’m so very pleased and proud that the “Poetry Floats My Boat” float in the Edgefield Christmas Parade was given first place as Most Original Float! Thank you to the judges for this great honor! Many, many thanks to everybody on and off the Poet Laureate Committee who helped […]
The Edgefield Community Development Association (ECDA) invites everyone to Home for the Holidays by enjoying our “Christmas is for Kids” on the Square in Historic Edgefield on Saturday, December 12, 2015. Activities begin at 11:00 a.m. with Santa on the square for photo opportunities and to listen to wish-list from the kids. The W.E. Parker […]
Library News: Storytime Saturday, October 10, at 11:30 a.m. Also Showing “It’s A Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.” Open Mic Night Thursday, October 15, at 6:30 Please come out to showcase your talents: Be a Comedian, Play an Instrument, Sing(Rap) a Song, Recite Poetry/Reading, etc. Stop by the Edgefield County Public Library to Sign-Up and get ready to Entertain or […]