Comments on: It’s Literally Wednesday: News from the Decatur Book Festival! http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/06/20/its-literally-wednesday-news-from-the-decatur-book-festival/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Parker Cross http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/06/20/its-literally-wednesday-news-from-the-decatur-book-festival/#comment-239021 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:39:11 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23710#comment-239021 That’s where they do the ceremonial transfer of the national rhyming dictionary.

]]> By: JC http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/06/20/its-literally-wednesday-news-from-the-decatur-book-festival/#comment-238949 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:38:01 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23710#comment-238949 Book signing for Author Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times Correspondent, June 26, 2012, 6:30 p.m. The event will be held at The National Archives at Atlanta, 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, Georgia 30260.

Rachel Swarns will be speaking and signing copies of her new book, “American Tapestry the Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama”. Books will be available for purchase on-site from Barnes & Noble Southlake.

http://www.claytoncountyga.gov/community/book-signing-registration.aspx

]]> By: AMB http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/06/20/its-literally-wednesday-news-from-the-decatur-book-festival/#comment-238849 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:41:28 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23710#comment-238849 So it’s not The Poet Laureate is dead; Long live the Poet Laureate?
Maybe they could decide with a cage match…or a limerick-off.

]]> By: brianc http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/06/20/its-literally-wednesday-news-from-the-decatur-book-festival/#comment-238831 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:38:53 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23710#comment-238831 Her term officially begins in September :
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/natasha-trethewey-is-named-poet-laureate.html

]]> By: Dave http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/06/20/its-literally-wednesday-news-from-the-decatur-book-festival/#comment-238825 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:10:10 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23710#comment-238825 Natasha Trethewey will be giving a reading in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. on September 13th. I do not know if she will be sworn in (or anointed or knighted or ordained or inaugurated) at that time or if it becomes official at some prior time in a less ceremonial fashion. Brianc’s speculation that Ms. Trethewey may be the Poet Laureate Elect may be correct.

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