Monday Night Poetry & Music

02/01/2025

It has just come to our attention that Arthur Newman, someone well known to the Monday Night crowd and the The Poetry Society of South Carolina passed away in November of last year. He was a kind, gentle man, full of life, art, and a thirst for life-long learning. Rest in peace, my friend, I am glad to have known you.

03/17/2022

Great readings coming up.

Here are three excellent opportunities for people to enjoy outstanding poetry around the state.

01/06/2022

Jim Lundy, former curator of Monday Night Poetry and Music, was interviewed for Walter Edgar's Journal. The show can be listened to now via podcast, and it will be broadcast on Friday on South Carolina Public Radio.

James Lundy's book, The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: 1920 to 2021, is a chronicle of the first 100 years of the oldest state poetry society in America, the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Founded in Charleston in 1920 by DuBose Heyward, John Bennett, Josephine Pinckney, Hervey....

01/02/2022

This week's newsletter from the Poetry Society of South Carolina reminisces about Monday Night Poetry & Music. Read it here:

In the mid twenty-aughts, approximately 2006, I was invited to an open mic in downtown Charleston that literally changed my life. By then I was already involved with the Poetry Society of South Carolina, but what I saw at “Monday Night Blues” was altogether different. The weekly… show (?), for...

11/18/2021

Jason Mott, who read for MNP&M on April 11, 2011, has won the National Book Award for his novel _Hell of a Book_. Our congratulations go out to him.

10/23/2021

https://www.postandcourier.com/columnists/on-its-100th-birthday-poetry-society-of-south-carolina-gets-a-romp-of-a-read/article_476cf3e6-31d4-11ec-a639-1f1f32d84d67.html

Poetry Society of South Carolina celebrates its centennial with a juicy, evocative publication.

09/26/2021

Rest in Peace, Horace. Mr. Mungin read for Monday Night on April 1, 2013.

Mungin spent decades in New York City, involved in the Black Arts Movement, and driving subway trains. He returned to South Carolina after he retired and became a regular participant

08/01/2021

Happy August everyone.

  There were times when it seemed like I would never be able to announce this, but my book about the history of the Poetry Society of South Carolina is finished. It has been a long slog. I began the actual writing process in January 2020, at the tail end of those long-ago, mask-less, hand-shaking,...

03/06/2021

Please take 5 minutes to complete this survey for the Poetry Society of South Carolina.

We need you to help us shape the Poetry Society for our second 100 years. Please take this short survey to help us to serve the needs of our members. This survey was included in the March Newsletter, but if you missed it there, you can take it with this easy link. We're having a drawing for a valuable prize. Once you take the survey, send an email to [email protected] saying you took the survey to enter the drawing (the survey is anonymous, so we won't know how to get in touch with you if you win unless you email us. Here's the link to the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L8NLVP7

09/11/2020

Tonight is the first reading of the 2020-2021 season of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: the start of our 100th season! Join this historic meeting online tonight.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), finalist for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015) and more...(see full event details in RSVP)