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Poetry @ The Public: Sandy Longhorn & Kai Coggin

2024-11-17 14:00:00 2024-11-17 16:00:00 America/Chicago Poetry @ The Public: Sandy Longhorn & Kai Coggin Join us for our final 2024 Poetry @ The Public! P@P is made possible by a partnership with The Slant and UCA. Faulkner County Library - Stage

Sunday, November 17
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-17 14:00:00 2024-11-17 16:00:00 America/Chicago Poetry @ The Public: Sandy Longhorn & Kai Coggin Join us for our final 2024 Poetry @ The Public! P@P is made possible by a partnership with The Slant and UCA. Faulkner County Library - Stage

Join us for our final 2024 Poetry @ The Public! P@P is made possible by a partnership with The Slant and UCA.

Cozy up with us for our final Poetry @ The Public for the season. Doors will open at 2:00 pm for a meet-and-greet with the authors and coffee, hot chocolate, and cookies. At 2:30 we'll hear selected works from our local poets, Sandy and Kai. For more information about the authors, see below.

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About the featured poets:

Kai Coggin is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and a recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her project Sharing Tree Space. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024). Kai is a Certified Master Naturalist, a K-12 Teaching Artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council, an Interchange Grant Fellow from the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry. 

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Sandy Longhorn is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at UCA, Associate Chair of the Department of Film Theatre, & Creative Writing, and Coordinator of the  Creative Writing Program. After earning an MFA in poetry from the University of Arkansas, Sandy worked briefly as a composition instructor at the University of Arkansas-Monticello before spending ten years teaching composition at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, Arkansas. During her time at PTC, she published her first three books. Blood Almanac, a collection of poems based on Longhorn’s MFA thesis, won the 2005 Anhinga Prize for Poetry (Anhinga Press 2006). Longhorn’s second collection, The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths, won the 2013 Jacar Press Full Length Book contest (Jacar 2013). The Alchemy of My Mortal Form won the 2014 Louise Bogan Award (Trio House Press 2015). In the fall of 2016, Sandy received the Porter Fund Literary Prize.

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talk |

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Faulkner County Library

Phone: (501) 327-7482

Hours
Mon, Dec 02 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Tue, Dec 03 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Wed, Dec 04 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Thu, Dec 05 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Fri, Dec 06 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Sat, Dec 07 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Dec 08 Closed

About the branch

The Conway library serves as the headquarters library for the county sytem of six libraries as well as the Faulkner County–Van Buren County Regional Library.

Upcoming Events

Sat, Dec 07, All day
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Sat, Dec 07, 9:00am - 11:00am
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Sat, Dec 07, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Mayflower Public Library

Mon, Dec 09, All day
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Faulkner County Library - Story Room

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Faulkner County Library - Story Room

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Thu, Dec 12, 10:00am - 10:30am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Thu, Dec 12, 10:30am - 11:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Thu, Dec 12, 10:30am - 11:30am
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Thu, Dec 12, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

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Thu, Dec 12, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
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Fri, Dec 13, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Sat, Dec 14, 3:00pm - 6:00pm
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Mon, Dec 16, All day
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Mon, Dec 16, 9:30am - 10:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Mon, Dec 16, 10:00am - 10:30am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Mon, Dec 16, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Stage

Mon, Dec 16, 10:30am - 11:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Mon, Dec 16, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Stage

Mon, Dec 16, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Tue, Dec 17, All day
Faulkner County Library - Lobby

Tue, Dec 17, 9:00am - 11:00am
Garden

Tue, Dec 17, 10:30am - 11:30am
Faulkner County Library

Tue, Dec 17, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 2
This event is full

Tue, Dec 17, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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Tue, Dec 17, 4:00pm - 6:30pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Tue, Dec 17, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Seminar Room
This event is full

Tue, Dec 17, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Mayflower Public Library

Wed, Dec 18, All day
Faulkner County Library - Lobby

Wed, Dec 18, 10:00am - 10:30am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Wed, Dec 18, 10:30am - 11:30am
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Wed, Dec 18, 10:30am - 11:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Wed, Dec 18, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Arkansas Room

Wed, Dec 18, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Wed, Dec 18, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Wed, Dec 18, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 2

Cancelled
Wed, Dec 18, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Garden

Wed, Dec 18, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Thu, Dec 19, All day
Faulkner County Library - Lobby

Thu, Dec 19, 9:00am - 11:00am
New venue Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Thu, Dec 19, 9:00am - 11:00am
Garden

Thu, Dec 19, 10:00am - 10:30am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Thu, Dec 19, 10:30am - 11:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Thu, Dec 19, 10:30am - 11:30am
Mayflower Public Library

Thu, Dec 19, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Garden

Thu, Dec 19, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 2

Cancelled
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Faulkner County Library

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Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

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Faulkner County Library - Program Space 2

Fri, Dec 20, All day
Faulkner County Library - Lobby

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Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Fri, Dec 20, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

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Mayflower Public Library

Sat, Dec 21, 9:00am - 11:00am
Garden

Sat, Dec 21, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Thu, Dec 26, 9:00am - 1:00pm
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Thu, Dec 26, 9:00am - 11:00am
Garden

Thu, Dec 26, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Garden

Thu, Dec 26, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Fri, Dec 27, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Fri, Dec 27, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Sat, Dec 28, 9:00am - 11:00am
Garden

Mon, Dec 30, 9:30am - 10:30am
Faulkner County Library - Program Space 1

Cancelled
Thu, Jan 02, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Faulkner County Library

Mon, Jan 06, 9:30am - 10:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Mon, Jan 06, 10:00am - 10:30am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Mon, Jan 06, 10:30am - 11:00am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room

Mon, Jan 06, 11:00am - 11:45am
Faulkner County Library - Story Room