Video: Southern Voices at Hoover Public Library

Tickets are now on sale for Hoover [Ala.] Public Library's Southern Voices: A Celebration of Writing, Music, and Art being held February 19-22.

The festival includes an exhibit of artwork by Pamela Watters, concerts by Louden Wainwright III, and presentations by Adriana Trigiani, Greg Iles, Tasha Alexander, Mary Kay Andrews, Daniel Omotosho Black, Patti Callahan Henry, Ronald M. Gauthier, and Alabama author Daniel Wallace.

See the Southern Voices Web site for more details.

Audios from the 2007 festival and videos from the 2008 festival are available for streaming at the Web site. These presentations are also available for download at the Hoover Library Live multimedia blog.

Frye Galliard, Southern Voices, 2008, video (large file, may have long download time; Google Video, QuickTime, Windows Mediaplayer versions)

Joshilyn Jackson, Southern Voices, 2007, audio (play in window, play in popup, or download to your computer)

Charles J. Shields (biographer of Harper Lee), Southern Voices, 2007, audio (play in window, play in popup, or download to your computer)

Charles J. Shields, Southern Voices, 2007, brief video (play in window, play in popup, or download to your computer)

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

March 2009: Southern Literary Trail Events

The Web site for the Southern Literary Trail has posted schedules for March 2009 events in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Check the schedules for local activities, or plan a trip around your favorite Southern writer(s).

Events include tours, lectures, panel discussions, films, theatrical performances, storytelling, concerts, exhibits, and book signings. Some require admission fees, but many are free.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Reminder: Lewis Nordan Symposium Coming Up on Friday, January 23

Just a reminder:

The CMDCAH Symposium on the life and work of Alabama writer Lewis "Buddy" Nordan will be held on Friday, January 23, at the Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

Nordan himself will deliver the keynote address, "Don't Cry for Me, Itta Bena," at 7 PM on Friday evening. He will be introduced by writer Clyde Edgerton, who will also sing his rendition of Nordan's "Sugar Among the Chickens."

This year, the Symposium will also be available as a live Webcast. Online attendees can see and hear the presentations in real time and ask questions of the speakers via a chat window. (This system is optimized for PC users; Mac users may experience difficulties.)

Log in to the Nordan Symposium "conference room" as a guest.

The Symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, see the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities' Symposium page.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

Video: Alabamians on Southern Spaces

Southern Spaces is a free online scholarly journal from the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University. The journal publishes multimedia essays and presentations on "the real and imagined places of the American South."

Some of the videos found on Southern Spaces will be of special interest to Alabamians. These are available in Real Media, Windows Media, and QuickTime versions.

Natasha Trethewey, poem "Elegy for the Native Guards"

Natasha Trethewey, poem "Theories of Time and Space"

Jake Adam York, seven poems

Jake Adam York, four poems

John Howard, lecture on memoir by Alabamian Ben Duncan

Minnie Bruce Pratt, poem "No Place"

Minnie Bruce Pratt, lecture

Gwen Patton, tour of the Civil Rights Archive at Trenholm State Technical College

William Christenberry, lecture on the influences on his art

Wayne Flynt, lecture on Alabama's regions

Susan Pace Hamill, lecture on Alabama's timber and its influence on the state's economy

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape