"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...
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david lemieux
Feb 7, 202311 min read
"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...
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david lemieux
Jan 2, 202313 min read
"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...
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david lemieux
Dec 6, 202210 min read
"The Secret Ministry of Frost"
December 2022 Letter from the President
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david lemieux
Nov 3, 202212 min read
"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...
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david lemieux
Oct 2, 202211 min read
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...
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david lemieux
Sep 3, 202212 min read
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...
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david lemieux
Aug 2, 20228 min read
I Take My Poetry To Go
PSSC August letter from the President
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david lemieux
Jul 1, 20227 min read
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...
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david lemieux
Jun 2, 20229 min read
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...
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david lemieux
May 3, 202212 min read
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...
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david lemieux
Apr 11, 202217 min read
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...
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david lemieux
Mar 3, 202216 min read
Axiom Balderdash
Axiom Balderdash A Letter From the President There’s a saying: “March winds bring April showers. April showers bring May flowers.” I...
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david lemieux
Feb 11, 202213 min read
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...
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Jim Lundy
Jan 1, 202213 min read
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...
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Jim Lundy
Dec 1, 20219 min read
What's at the End of the COVID Tunnel?
A Letter From the President When I got my first job out of college and my own apartment, I fulfilled a childhood dream and bought an ant...
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Jim Lundy
Nov 1, 202112 min read
November Newsletter From The President
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” - Terry Pratchett Let me tell you about Peter Burke: I don’t...
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Jim Lundy
Oct 2, 202112 min read
Please Mister Postman, look and see. Is there a letter, a letter for me?
A Letter from the President Since they arrived by truck, I have spent a good deal of time in line at the Post Office mailing out signed...
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Jim Lundy
Sep 1, 202110 min read
What Goes Around, Goes Around. And Around
A Letter from the President It never had to be like this. Next week, I will be celebrating my second birthday during COVID times: limited...
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