Dance Performance May 4
Louise Runyon will present two new works!
Sunday, May 4, 5 p.m.
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Emory University
Louise Runyon will present two new dance pieces, a solo called "Garden Peace" and a duet with Tom Bell called "Unseated."

Alice Lovelace & Louise Runyon, Revisited!

Poetry Reading plus Discussion:

The Arts and Activism

Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.
Charis Books & More

Louise Runyon and Alice Lovelace first performed together 27 years ago in a dance/poetry show they created called Women at Work. These veteran Atlanta artists have recently re-teamed; join them as they perform their work and entertain questions/answers/ discussion on their evolution as artists and activists!

Lovelace, known as Atlanta’s “grandmother of performance poetry,” has played leadership roles in the Southern Collective of African-American Writers, Neighborhood Arts Center, Alternate Roots and the Arts Exchange, and was lead organizer of the first-ever United States Social Forum, held in Atlanta this past summer (http://www.alicelovelace.com/). Runyon, the first woman to work at Atlantic Steel since WWII, began her arts career writing and choreographing about the steel plant. A dancer as well as poet, Runyon is Artistic Director of Louise Runyon Performance Company.

Lovelace is known primarily as a political poet and Runyon as a personal poet, but both have deep roots in the arts and activism. Both poets explore the mother/daughter relationship but from very different family situations and cultures. Runyon will sign her new book, LANDSCAPE / Fear & Love and will also read from her children’s book, Petunias In The Window, the true story of her mother’s 42-year struggle to save her New York apartment building from demolition.

Scroll down for more info about Runyon's LANDSCAPE / Fear & Love, including sample poems, reviews and info on how to order!

Louise Runyon Poetry Reading with Rupert Fike!

Sunday, April 6,

2 p.m.

Wordsmiths Books

545 N. McDonough Street (note new location!)
Decatur, GA 30030, 404-378-7166

www.wordsmithsbooks.com

Directions: Wordsmiths has moved to the old SunTrust building, on Decatur Square just opposite DeKalb County Courthouse. From Church Street and Ponce de Leon, go south on Church Street (toward Agnes Scott), passing the MARTA station on your R; take your next R onto Trinity and your next R again onto N. McDonough. Park in the lot to the R of Wordsmiths, or in the diagonal parking in the middle of the street.

Louise will read from her new book, LANDSCAPE / Fear & Love (scroll down for ordering info and sample poems). She will be joined by the very popular, funny, and self-effacing Rupert Fike. Rupert is the author of numerous published poems and of Voices From The Farm, which concerns life in a large spiritual community in the 1970s. His poems deal with personal and collective experience of the 60s and 70s and are not to be missed!

A new review of both of Louise's books!

*** "As fluid as any dance movement, Reborn is a body of free-verse prose poems that is confidently recommended to any and all poetry enthusiasts... Also very highly recommended and memorable reading is Louise Morgan Runyon's latest volume of published poetry, LANDSCAPE: Fear & Love." -- Midwest Book Review