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Finding their inspiration everywhere from Landrum's northern mountain views to the southernmost streets of rural Woodruff, two dozen poets present Spartanburg's definitive poetic landscape in Still Home: The Essential Poetry of Spartanburg, a forthcoming book by the Hub City Writers Project to be released March 20. With masterful language and unfailing Southern sentiment, the poets of Still Home represent the coming-of-age of a new generation of contemporary Southern writers, channeling the natural beauty of the Carolina landscape, and tackling the tragedies and comedies of everyday life. Still Home is edited by Rachel Harkai, Hub City's 2008 Writer-in-Residence, and designed by Emily Smith, Hub City's 2007 Writer-in-Residence.Through sometimes real and sometimes imagined visions of the past, this collection's exploration of the elements that define a place condenses the cycles of natural history from their grander scope within all of recorded time down to the everyday events of a single life. Here, these Spartanburg poets invite us into their kitchens, their yards, and sometimes, even into the homes of the unknowing next-door neighbor whose hanging blinds have been left ajar. Hub City will host a book release celebration and reading at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 20 in the Showroom at Hub-Bub, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Avenue in downtown Spartanburg. Teachers of language arts and creative writing are invited for a special meet-and-great with the poets at 5 p.m. that day. Still Home will sell for $12 and will be available on www.hubcity.org, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other outlets. Hub City publishes two kinds of books: those that educate people about the place they live, and literary works (poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction) by emerging authors in this region. The organization generally publishes two to three titles a year but has published as many as four and as few as one. For more information, visit www.hubcity.org. (Image provided by Hub-Bub.)
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