Event

March Forth on March Fourth

The Pat Conroy Literary Center will hold its second annual March Forth on March Fourth day of learning on Sunday, March 4th, at the Frissell Community House at Penn Center on St. Helena Island. Commemorating the second anniversary of Pat Conroy's death, March Forth on March Fourth will be a day-long embrace of nature, poetry, fiction, and fellowship among writers and readers in the heart of Conroy's beloved lowcountry.

March Forth on March Fourth will feature National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney, two-time Lillian Smith Award-winning novelist Anthony Grooms, master naturalist and memoirist J. Drew Lanham, poet and retired teacher Tim Conroy, and best-selling novelist Cassandra King Conroy.

SPONSORS
Presented in partnership with the Penn Center, this event is sponsored by a gift from Erin and Matt Devlin and by a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina.

REGISTRATION: $22 for all-day admission with an optional $18 for a box lunch catered by Debbi Covington.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10:00-11:30 a.m.: Nature walk at Penn Center led by J. Drew Lanham

Noon-1:30 p.m.: Welcome by Cassandra King Conroy, Tim Conroy's presentation on Pat Conroy's Great Love of Poetry, optional box lunches catered by Debbi Covington

1:45-3:00 p.m.: Nikky Finney's keynote poetry reading

3:00-3:30 p.m.: break and book signing

3:30-4:30 p.m.: Anthony Grooms' discussion of his novel The Vain Conversation

4:30-5:00 p.m.: book signing, opportunity to visit Pat Conroy's gravesite