A Celebration of Georgia Poets

Join us for a poetry reading in honor of National Poetry Month, featuring readings from Georgia poets Alice Friman, Andrea Jurjević, Christopher Martin, and Laura McKee. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested.

This event will take place on the Fourth Floor of Decatur Library. The library closes at 6 p.m. on Fridays. We'll open the rear door on the top level of the parking deck at 6:30 for the event. There will be a 30-minute window where you won't be able to get into the building. There is a two-level free parking deck behind the library, as well as other parking options throughout Decatur.

More about the Poets:

Alice Friman’s eighth collection of poems is On the Overnight Train, a New & Selected from LSU Press. Her last books, also from LSU, are Blood Weather, The View from Saturn, and Vinculum which won the Georgia author of the year in poetry. She's a recipient of many prizes including three from The Poetry Society of America and two Pushcart Prizes as well as being included in Best American Poetry. She's been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Plume, Poetry East, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and many others. Her website is alicefrimanpoet.com.

Andrea Jurjević is a Croatian poet, writer and literary translator. She is the author of two poetry collections and a chapbook: In Another Country, winner of the 2022 Saturnalia Books Prize; Small Crimes, winner of the 2015 Philip Levine Prize; and Nightcall, which was the 2021 ACME Poem Company Surrealist Series selection. Andrea’s book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.

Christopher Martin is author of the poetry collection Firmament (Wandering Aengus Press, 2024), which won the Wandering Aengus Book Award, and the essay collection This Gladdening Light (Mercer UP, 2017), which won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Memoir and the Will D. Campbell Award.

L.S. McKee is the author of Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, winner of the 2022 Zone 3 First Book Award in Poetry, selected by Tiana Clark. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Currently, she is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Georgia and lives in Athens, GA. You can learn more about her work at www.lsmckee.com.