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Jeanie Thompson will present a workshop for young writers that will focus on their voices, in this moment, and draw on poets who spoke of their times in a similar way. Participants will gain techniques for figurative language and write poems to share and for critique as time allows.

Sponsored by the Jackson, TN Griot Writing Group, and sponsored by a CARES Arts Grant from Humanities Tennessee.

By Invitation Only—Jeanie Thomspon will be teaching the “jazz-saturated stories” of Albert Murray. An NEH summer seminar at Tuskegee University. 

• Friday, July 10 2020

• Tuskegee University (by invitation)

The event is not open to the public. For more information about Tuskegee University’s NEH project, contact Zanice Bond at zbond@tuskegee.edu.

Read Alabama 200: A book talk on The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller.

This event is part of the J. L. Moran Arts and Lectures Series. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Contact: Professor Ramona Hyman rhyman@oakwood.edu / 256-337-4175. 

Free event / open to the public.

Book talk on The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller.

Books will be available for sale and signing.

Contact: 256-341-0562

Free event/open to the public.

A book talk on The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller.

Books will be available for sale and signing.

Contact Cynthia Garwich for information about attending if you are not a resident of Vestavia Village Senior Living Center: cgarwick@townvillagevestaviahills.com

Jeanie Thompson will speak at the Huntsville Literary Association’s annual banquet, Thursday, May 23, 2019. A booksigning will follow.

Huntsville Country Club

2601 Oakwood Avenue, Huntsville, AL
6:30 Social; 7:00 Dinner

http://hlahsv.org/Events/banquet/meals-purchase

Jeanie Thompson presents the annual Helen Keller lecture at the HKPL during the week of the Helen Keller Festival in Tuscumbia. A book-signing follows.  Free and open to the public.  Contact: HKPL (256) 383-7065

http://www.youseemore.com/HelenKeller/default.asp

For information about all events of the HK Festival, go to: https://helenkellerfestival.com/site/

Opening Reception for on-site installation of Wayne Sides’ photography and collage based on "The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller" by Jeanie Thompson. On view through August 31. Free and open to the public during regular library hours. Contact: HKPL (256) 383-7065

http://www.youseemore.com/HelenKeller/default.asp

Jeanie will speak about The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller in relation to the Scripture of the Series:  2 Corinthians. The theme of today’s program is complaint and the topic is activism. Information: 251-342-1550 or email sconnell@springhillpresbyterian.org

Reading and book signing at coffeehouse-style monthly reading series hosted by Auburn University’s Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art. Free and open to the public. 901 S College Street, Auburn, AL 36849. Info: bishogs@auburn.edu

Alabama poets Harry Moore, Jeanie Thompson, and Jacqueline Allen Trimble read from their latest works while the musicians of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra perform underscores drawn from the chamber works of composers such as Bernstein, Barber, Dvořák, and William Grant Still. Books for sale following the program. Ticketed event. https://www.hso.org/concerts/alabamas-storytellers/

Writing workshop with The Griot Collective of West Tennessee at the Jackson Madison County Library, 433 D. Lafayette St., Jackson TN.  38301 from 10 a.m. to noon. To register, contact: James E Cherry at cherry@jamesecherry.com. Poetry reading open to the public at 1 p.m. at the library to follow. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 22, reading in poetry venue at The 2017 Alabama Book Festival. For complete schedule and other details: www.alabamabookfestival.org. Free and family friendly event in Historic Old Alabama Town.

AUM sponsors Four Mondays of Poetry during April each year. This reading is open to the public, free, and books will be available for purchase. Supported by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Auburn University at Montgomery. Call 334 221 5013 for details.

Featured presenter in the Gordy Lectures at "The W" on "The Making of The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller." Open to the public. http://www.muw.edu/honors/forum

Join me for a reading from THE MYTH OF WATER: POEMS FROM THE LIFE OF HELEN KELLER paired with wine-tasting at The Stone Market in Gadsden, Alabama. Books will be available for purchase and signing. 120 Chestnut Street, 256-546-9299