SPRING 2013

National Poetry Month Feature: 4/19 http://www.yvonne-brown.com/blog.html

A NEW SLAVE NARRATIVE...
COMING  SPRING  2013

---

NEWS...

*FALL

** Mermaids and Merwomen in Black Folklore: A Fiber Arts Exhibition

City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Historic Charleston, SC
34 Prioleau Street Charleston, SC 29401
843.259.8108
www.CityGalleryatWaterfrontPark.com
*SUMMER 2012

** Museum of Fine Arts Writers Workshops
http://www.mfah.org/learn/literary-events/

** Poem Selected in 200 Poems About New Mexico

** Writers In The Schools

*DECEMBER

** Winner of the 2012 Great Educators Award

** Featured in  Great Educators Workbook: 30 Days to Restoration

** Paper Accepted by The Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association


*NOVEMBER

** Nominee For Great Educators Award

** Featured Author at Lanier Middle School Book Fair

** Signed Items Auctioned at A Celebration Of Story Gala (Writers In The Schools)


*OCTOBER

** ARTlines: An Ekphrastic Poetry Competition Juror (Announced) 
/news.html

*SEPTEMBER

** Live in Latvia Tour

** News and Press in Latvia:

http://www.vissnotiek.lv/urbana-poezija/ (TV) 
http://www.diena.lv/diena-tv/izklaide-makslas/latvija-plaukst-jauns-zanrs-dzejas-sacensibas-13903301(Diena TV)
http://www.facebook.com/usembassyriga?filter=2http://urbanpoetry.lv/maxla-maxlinieki/van-g-garrett/
http://www.kultura.riga.lv/public/38520.html

** Writers in the School's Students Published: 
http://offcite.org/2011/08/31/writers-in-the-schools-summer-creative-writing-camp-mixtape


*AUGUST

** "100 Creatives," Houston Press (link under "Houston Press")

** An Interview With Poet Van G. Garrett by Ran Walker http://ishotmytypewriter.blogspot.com/

** The Poets' Corner, Taping for the Blind/Sight Into Sound

** ZURI: Selected Love Songs (chapbook) is Available on Kindle, Nook, iPad, and Smart Phones

** Public Poetry Reading

 ** Houston Press 

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/08/100_creatives_van_g_garrett.phphttp://digitalissue.houstonpress.com/publication/index.php?i=77556&m=&l=&p=24&pre=&ver=swf

** National Public Radio (NPR)** Classical 91.7 FM and KUHF 88.7 FM Interview and Reading http://www.thefrontrow.org/_code/houston_public_radio-search_results.php?data=van%20g.%20garrett&s=0http://www.thefrontrow.org/

 ** Songs in Blue Negritude Available at Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston) http://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/

*JULY

** Pre-production on ZURI: Selected Love Songs Chapbook

** Profiled in Houston Lifestyles & Homes Magazine (Facebook Edition)

*JUNE

** Signed with Cap & Sneakers Studios

** Writers-in-the-Schools (Houston)


*MAY

** Phati'tude Literary Magazine: Celebrating Black History Through Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to Today http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=phati%27tude&x=12&y=19


*APRIL

** Summer Literary Seminar Fellowship Award (Montreal)

** Potomac Review, Issue 49 http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/alt.aspx?id=18937


* MARCH

** LOVERS, SAINTS, AND SINNERS TOUR (PART 2)

** The Colonnade: The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College and State University     **http://www.gcsunade.com/2011/03/03/using-art-to-raise-awareness/


* FEBRUARY

** “COLLAB for AWARENESS”  Georgia College and State University** Wharton Journal-Spectator, National Black History Month Feature (Feb. 16th)


* JANUARY

** LOVERS, SAINTS, AND SINNERS TOUR


* DECEMBER

** Carpe Articulum: Literary Review (Winter Quarter, Dec 2010-Feb 2011)

** SNOWBIRD TOUR
Fort Lauderdale, FL

* NOVEMBER

** Artist Development


* OCTOBER

** Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity. Volume 12

http://organizations.bloomu.edu/connect/fall2010/1%20Intro%20Fall%20(6)_Layout%201.pdf
Published at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)


* SEPTEMBER

** Reverie:  Midwest African American Literature, 2010 Annual, Volume 4

** Reverie Book Trailer on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxSYW4kp2E

** Cooking Up South: Entertaining with Soulful Recipes, Poems and Remembrances
ISBN-10: 1888018976ISBN-13: 978-1888018974

** The Colonnade: The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College and State University


* SUMMER

** Van G. Garrett, BID Fellow in Italy. Read more: http://www.bookinaday.com/index.php?page=stories&category=01--Iscritto_Toscana_-oparen-Writing_Tuscany-cparen-&display=195

---