n conjunction with Earth Day 2009, The Georgia Review will hold readings, present music and serve refreshments on April 22 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the State Botanical Garden’s Cecil B. Day Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
“The botanical garden’s beautiful environs will provide an ideal setting to celebrate the Review’s newly released spring 2009 issue,” said Stephen Corey, editor. “It includes an important special feature entitled ‘Culture and the Environment-A Conversation in Five Essays,’ which is comprised of new work by Scott Russell Sanders, Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Gessner, Reg Saner and Lauret Edith Savoy.”
Coleman Barks, retired UGA professor and internationally acclaimed poet and Rumi translator, will read from his own work and from the new issue. He will be joined on the program by Milledgeville-based poet Alice Friman, a regular voice in the pages of the Review, and by Athens artist Terry Rowlett, whose striking new paintings grace the cover and interior of the spring issue. Rowlett will discuss the creation of his works, several of which will be on display.
A reception will follow on the ground floor of the Chapel. Tours of the new flower garden will be available from 4:30-5:30 p.m., and the garden’s numerous trails will be open.
