Cost: Pay-what-you-can, with free tickets available
Warren said in an email that the Avid Poetry Series is a part of the storeâs effort to make literature accessible to the Athens community. The Poetry Series is ongoing and occurs about once a month, so poets with recently published works can read and discuss their poems.
âAvid hosts poets from here in Athens and across America to open room for free-to-the-public conversations on the history and current state of poetics and why poetry is important to us as readers and/or writers,â Warren said.
Lanham, one of the poets speaking at Tuesdayâs event, is a birder, naturalist and professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University. In his poetry collection, âSparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts,â he describes his relationship with the outdoors while reflecting on his experiences as a Black birder.