events

Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018
NASHVILLE
East Side Storytellin’ 138
(Live podcast recording
with Host Chuck Beard)
7-8:30 p.m.
The Post East in Historic Lockeland Springs
1701 Fatherland Street
Poet Laurie Vaughen with songwriters, The Danberrys

Listen to the entire show here via Soundcloud.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017
SEWANEE
Gailor Auditorium, University of the South
MFA Candidate Reading
(includes Laurie Perry Vaughen)
4:30 p.m. (Central Time)
The public is invited.

For a complete list of Sewanee School of Letters summer 2017 readings and events, click here.

Upcoming readings include Stephanie Pruitt, David Haskell, and poet/translator Alana Levinson-LaBrosse.

Monday, June 12, 2017
SEWANEE
Otey Memorial Parish (Nave)
“What Our Voices Carry: A Reading by Laurie Perry Vaughen, Sewanee School of Letters”
Intergenerational Dinner at 5:30; Reading at 6:30 (Central Time)
The public is invited.

Saturday, May 6, 2017
CHATTANOOGA
1:15 p.m.
Innovate Leadership Conference
Workshop & Reading:
‘The Poetic Imagination’
First Christian Church
650 McCallie Ave.
I will share my poems that explore metaphors often associated with faith practice and the sacred.

Sunday, April 30, 2017
CHATTANOOGA
Billie Holiday Tribute: JAM Fest 2017
Presented by Jazzanooga
‘Billie Holiday on the Radio’
with Chattanooga poet Laurie Perry Vaughen and Atlanta’s Three Way Mirror trio

READ MORE:
“Embracing Billy Holiday”
By Ernie Paik, for The Pulse

ATLANTA
“Sacred and Profane”
poet collaboration with artist
Kirsten Stingle
Artist reception, 6-8 p.m.
Signature Contemporary Craft

June 10, 2016
CHATTANOOGA
Poetry by Laurie Perry Vaughen
1467 Market St., 6 p.m.

April 9, 2016
TALLAHASSEE
Word of [South] Festival of Literature and Music 2016
“Billie Holiday on the Radio”

April 2, 2016
WINSTON-SALEM, NC
‘A Gathering of Poets’
Historic Brookstown Inn
Poem ‘Stone Mountain’ in the anthology, ‘A Gathering of Poets’ (Jacar Press, 2016)

February 16, 2016
ATLANTA
Georgia Center for the Book
Decatur Library, 7 p.m.
“Billie Holiday on the Radio”
Chattanooga poet Laurie Perry Vaughen
with Atlanta’s Three Way Mirror

Feb. 5, 2016
Charit-a-Bowl
Chattanooga Work Space Gallery
Collaboration with artists Lolly Durant and Susan Parks
Benefit for the Chattanooga Area Food Bank
Funded by ARTS Build

July 15, 2015
SEWANEE, TN
Sewanee School of Letters MFA Candidate Reading
University of the South
4:30 p.m. Gailor Auditorium

July 10, 2015
ATLANTA
Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
‘Billie Holiday on the Radio’
Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen with Atlanta’s
Three Way Mirror

November 7, 8, 9, 2013
CHATTANOOGA
Barking Legs Theater 20th Anniversary Celebration:
‘Come on in to My Kitchen’ (Robert Johnson)
‘Fine Silver’ by Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen

June 7, 2013
CHATTANOOGA
New Dischord Festival of Intermedia
Presented by Tim Hinck
‘Words & Shadows’ with guest artist/sculptor Jerome Meadows
5 p.m., Tanner Hill Gallery

Friday, July 13, 2012
CHATTANOOGA
Pecha Kucha CHA v. 11
Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen shares images of nature
green | spaces chattanooga; 63 East Main St. 6:30 p.m.

October 7, 2011
CHATTANOOGA
Wide Open Floor: multi-media variety
Presented by Barking Legs Theater
Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen with 12 other artists
1307 Dodds Ave. 8 p.m.
MEDIA: “The Performance Floor is Wide Open”

September 9-10, 2011
CHATTANOOGA
Emma Bell Miles Symposium on Southern Appalachian History and Culture
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

June 24, 2011
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
ASLE Biennial Conference: ‘Species, Space & the Imagination of the Global’
Panel: ‘Writing a Watershed’ with Catherine Meeks (creative nonfiction, UTC) and Katerina Prajznerova (scholarly research, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
ASLE is the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

March 24, 2011
CHATTANOOGA
Meacham Writer’s Workshop
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Reading: Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen
AUDIO: Poet Laurie Perry Vaughen

May 21-31, 2010
CHATTANOOGA
Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga presents ‘Columbinus’
with 8 original poems by Laurie Perry Vaughen
ETC, 1918 Union Ave.
MEDIA: ‘Ensemble Theater Examines Issues Surrounding Columbine Incident

May 29, 2010
CHATTANOOGA
‘Flight Lessons’ profile of poet Laurie Perry Vaughen
‘Birds Audubon Never Painted’
MEDIA: ‘Flight Lessons’ Profile

April 2009
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
University United Methodist Church at Syracuse University
Holy Week Reading & Workshop

April 3, 2009
CHATTANOOGA
Hartnell (Hartman-McConnell) Farm Dedication
Laurie Perry Vaughen with Wendell Berry and Clyde Edgerton (in Chattanooga for the biennial gathering of the Fellowship of Southern Writers)
Presented by Hixson UMC and St. Andrews Center
MEDIA: ’60 Acre Farm to be PreservMay 29, ed in Hixson’
DOCUMENTARY includes readings: Farm Dedication, Wild Clearing Productions