“My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.”—Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
An encore presentation! Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and poet Tim Conroy will discuss the nature writing of Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and more. From his obscure boyhood poetry to his beloved lyrical adult prose, Conroy wrote about the beauty of our natural world as both wondrous and perilous, using the lowcountry not only as a setting but as the central character of his many books. This presentation will highlight representative examples of Conroy’s nature writing from across the span of his writing life, drawing attention to how Conroy’s relationship with nature is also ultimately a relationship with his deeply felt spiritual and humanistic faith.
The presenters will be assisted by students from DAYLO (the Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization), who will be reading from Pat Conroy’s work and sharing some original creative pieces in response.
This event will be held at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center (310 Okatie Hwy) on Tuesday, October 21 (Tim Conroy’s birthday), at 5:30 p.m. $10/person. To register, visit portroyalsoundfoundation.org and click the orange "Book A Program" button.
About Our Presenters
Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. Under Jonathan's leadership, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership.
Tim Conroy, the author of the collections Theologies of Terrain and No True Route, is a poet and retired educator. His work has appeared in Fall Lines, Blue Mountain Review, Jasper Magazine, Marked by the Water, Sheltered, Twelve Mile Review, Poetry on the Comet, The Post and Courier, Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth, DWG Anthology, and Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. In 2022, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines, Volume IX. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother’s honor.
You may also like the following events from Pat Conroy Literary Center:
- This Thursday, 24th July, 06:00 pm, An Evening with Bestselling Author Kiese Laymon - City Summer, Country Summer in Beaufort
- This Saturday, 26th July, 10:00 am, Lowcountry Children's Book Fair in Port Royal
- Next Saturday, 2nd August, 09:30 am, Monthly Teddy Bear Picnic Read-Aloud with DAYLO in Port Royal
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