One River, One Boat: Occasional Poems and Other Stories
South Carolina's sixth state Poet Laureate, she served from 2003 to 2020. In 2021, she received the South Carolina Governor's Award for the Arts.
Marjory Wentworth's compilation of work with subject matter spanning from war, to grief and loss, to politics, and more. Wentworth made national headlines when former SC Governor Nikki Haley removed her poem, "One River, One Boat" from her inauguration program schedule in 2015.
The Endangered: New and Selected Poems
South Carolina's fifth state Poet Laureate, she was a poet and educator who published her first poem at the age of six. She also composed poetry for formal state occasions, most notably for Governor Jim Hodges' inauguration - a poem that also celebrated the end of the millennium.
Not Set in Stone
South Carolina's fourth state Poet Laureate. An poet and educator, she also wrote plays and radio and television dramas.
Fast Freddie Frog, and Other Tongue-Twister Rhymes
South Carolina's third state Poet Laureate. He was a versatile poet, author, and educator who taught English at the University of South Carolina. He wrote poetry, translations, literary critism, books on teaching poetry, and popular children's books.
What the Wind Forgets: A Woman's Heart Remembers
South Carolina's second state Poet Laureate. She was a founding member of the Poetry Society of South Carolina and was the Curator of Public Instruction at the Charleston Museum.
Deep River: The Complete Poems of Archibald Rutledge
South Carolina's first state Poet Laureate. This volume contains: Heart of the wildwood -- Deep river -- Sonnets -- The valiant -- Mortal toils.
Humanitas Volume 9 2005
Humanitas is the literary journal for the Medical University of South Carolina. First produced in 1997, this literary journal shows how the university hospital system is a natural place to look for literature and art – as the arduous and heart-rending situations, frequent to the medical world, trigger creative expression. Medical staff are frequently placed in situations where they feel like Band-Aids applied over large gaping wounds, especially in times when their patients’ sufferings are in ways that they cannot help. Still there are many moments of joy.
The Cobra’s Apartment Is Disaster: A Statewide Poetry Anthology, 1978-79
Compiled by the South Carolina Arts Commission, this anthology is a collection of poems written by grade school students of all ages across South Carolina interspersed with poetry from professional poets across the Southeast. This anthology reveals the creative minds within each of us, especially within our children.
Pottery, Poetry and Politics: Surrounding the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave
On April 25, 1998, historians, collectors, literary scholars, and students met at McKissick Museum on the University of South Carolina’s campus to learn more about the life of the enslaved potter, David “Dave” Drake (ca. 1801- after 1870). The all-day symposium was the first academic forum to discuss not only the pottery of Drake but the political, cultural, and religious environment that shared this poet and master potter. The exhibit, also organized by McKissick Museum, examined Drake’s work as a turner in the pottery factories in Edgefield, South Carolina, for over thirty years.
