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<p><strong>Open Mic Night featuring poet Lola Campbell</strong></p>
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<p>In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce at 711 Bladen Street. The featured writer is poet Lola Campbell, author of Writings on the Wall.</p>
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<p><strong>Book Launch for Lynn Seldon</strong></p>
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<p>Pat Conroy praised Lynn Seldon’s debut novel Virginia’s Ring as “a triumph and a tour de force. He joins the distinguished ranks of our military academy graduates who have written about the life changing, fire tested tribe.”</p>
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<p>The Conroy Center will host a public drop-in launch event for Seldon’s new novel, <em>Carolina’s Ring</em>, from 5 to 7 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort. Free and open to the public.</p>
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<p><strong>An Evening of Art and Poetry with Yamamura, Francia</strong></p>
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<p>The Beaufort Arts Council and the Conroy Center will host art historian Midori Yamamura, speaking on Yoko Ono’s Painting to Hammer a Nail (1966), and poet Luis H. Francia, reading from his newest collection, <em>Thorn Grass</em>, on Friday, February 17, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Beaufort Arts Council at 921 Ribaut Road, Beaufort. Free and open to the public.</p>
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