Janisse Ray

"It's the story of what happens on a week-long trip down the river one spring, a trip I've dreamed of taking since I was a girl. However, just before we make the voyage, a strange and disturbing piece of mail arrives. The river journey becomes a way to accept a world that contains both good and evil. ... (more)The journey, like the river itself, is transformation."

Our ”Southern Poets Reading” evening presents three remarkably gifted writers well-known throughout our region and beyond: Janisse Ray, John Lane and Thomas Rain Crowe. All three are acclaimed for their lovely, insightful writings about nature and the environment. Janisse is a native Georgian whose ... (more)books include ”Ecology or a Cracker Childhood” and ”Drifting Into Darien,” and her new poetry collection, ”A House of Branches,” is informed by her life-long interest in wilderness preservation. John Lane is a South Carolinian who writes powerfully about the woods and wilds in many books and whose new volume of poetry, ”Abandoned Quarry,” marks him as ”the finest Southern landscape poet we have today.” Thomas Crowe is a native North Carolinian and author of a dozen books of prose and poetry, and his just-published book of popems ”Crack Light” illustrated by photographs speaks movingly to the ties between humans and the earth in his western North Carolina hill country.

Janisse Ray, the prize-winning and very popular Georgia author, will present a talk based on her acclaimed books Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land. Her work is included on the Georgia Center for the Book's list of ... (more)"25 Books all Georgians Should Read," and her talk is part of the "We the People" program funded through the Georgia Humanities Council. Her appearance is co-sponsored by the Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Library. (All Georgia Reads/"We the People" program)

Janisse Ray, the prize-winning and very popular Georgia author, will present a talk based on her acclaimed books Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land. Her work is included on the Georgia Center for the Book's list of ... (more)"25 Books all Georgians Should Read," and her talk is part of the "We the People" program funded through the Georgia Humanities Council. Her appearance is co-sponsored by the Moultrie-Colquitt County Public Library. (All Georgia Reads/"We the People" program.)