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Follow the Praying Mantis
A Letter from the President Hop in, everyone. We're following the praying mantis. According to an old French legend, a praying mantis can...
david lemieux
Aug 4, 202318 min read
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"Echoing Voices and Blue Water"
A Letter from the President Hello, everyone. Are you thinking of diving in? Is this the year your feet will rise from the diving board...
david lemieux
Jun 2, 20237 min read
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"The Rearview Mirror"
A Letter from the President Hello, friends. When was the last time you looked in a mirror? Robert Penn Warren, who read for the Poetry...
david lemieux
May 6, 202311 min read
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"What We Do, Let's Do With Boldness"
A Letter from the President Dear April Fools, We've come to the celebratory month for poetry and foolishness. We might as well be bold...
david lemieux
Apr 3, 202321 min read
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"Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries"
A Letter from the President Dear Bestsellers, On Sunday, I was a human book in the Human Library at the Camden Branch of the Kershaw...
david lemieux
Mar 3, 202314 min read
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"A Measured Place, Possibly with Stanzas"
A Letter from the President Dear Valentines, When my daughter, Jillian, was about five years old, she was asked to describe her parents...
david lemieux
Feb 7, 202311 min read
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"Brave Enough to See It"
A Letter from the President Happy New Year 2023! At the holiday party in December, I said it was a time for memories and wishes, and our...
david lemieux
Jan 2, 202313 min read
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"The Secret Ministry of Frost"
December 2022 Letter from the President
david lemieux
Dec 6, 202210 min read
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"Your Moments of Glad Grace"
A Letter from the President Hello, November --- and may the leaves falling around the poets and poetry lovers of South Carolina be a...
david lemieux
Nov 3, 202212 min read
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Coming to Sing in the Wood
A Letter from the President Hello from my backyard swing in Elgin, dear poets and poetry lovers of South Carolina and beyond. From the...
david lemieux
Oct 2, 202211 min read
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Tamara Miles
Sep 30, 20220 min read
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In the Spirit of Questioning
A Letter from the President Hello again, South Carolina poets and poetry lovers --- and also those folks who have joined us from around...
david lemieux
Sep 3, 202212 min read
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I Take My Poetry To Go
PSSC August letter from the President
david lemieux
Aug 2, 20228 min read
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Everybody Here's My Archaeologist
A Letter from the President Hello, poets and poetry lovers of South Carolina. What a living heritage we have in this membership. Some of...
david lemieux
Jul 1, 20227 min read
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I Did it My Way
A Letter from the President I wake up most mornings with a random song in my head. Sometimes it is relevant to what is happening that...
david lemieux
Jun 2, 20229 min read
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What a Long, Strange Trip It's been
Jim Lundy presiding over the 90th anniversary celebration on January 21, 2011. A Letter From the President Three years ago this month, I...
david lemieux
May 3, 202212 min read
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It's National Poetry Month (but you wouldn't know it from my letter)
Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, John Jacob Niles, Carew Rice, Tom House, Mimi Jolicoeur. A Letter From the President By my own...
david lemieux
Apr 11, 202217 min read
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Axiom Balderdash
Axiom Balderdash A Letter From the President There’s a saying: “March winds bring April showers. April showers bring May flowers.” I...
david lemieux
Mar 3, 202216 min read
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Everyone: Bring One
A Letter From the President A few years ago, when I was thinking about the Poetry Society’s perennial problem of needing to attract more...
david lemieux
Feb 11, 202213 min read
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Public Speaking: Fun or Terror?
A Letter From the President In the mid twenty-aughts, approximately 2006, I was invited to an open mic in downtown Charleston that...
Jim Lundy
Jan 1, 202213 min read
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