This reading event presents Robert Priest featuring Dorothy Chan and Selena Chambers, the first 2018 poet resident for the 100 Thousand Poets for Change On Lake Jackson Residency Program-Tallahassee, FL.

ABOUT:
The 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE on LAKE JACKSON RESIDENCY PROGRAM, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

The 100 Thousand Poets for Change on Lake Jackson Residency Program, Tallahassee, Florida is a writer’s retreat, performance and teaching project. Poets and writers from around the world will be invited to stay on Lake Jackson for up to two weeks. They are welcome to bring writing projects to work on. They will have an opportunity to meet and read with poets from the Tallahassee literary community. Reading events will be scheduled by 100TPC at local venues during residency. Also, workshops and classroom visits at local schools will be arranged as part of a community outreach and cultural exchange. Participants in the Residency Program will contribute poetry and prose writings to the book project, "On Lake Jackson", to be published by 100TPC in collaboration with Big Bridge Press. This book project will explore the ecology, natural history and cultural history of the area and will collect impressions of Lake Jackson to share with writers and readers around the world.

ABOUT: LAKE JACKSON
Lake Jackson is a 4,000 acre shallow, prairie lake on the north side of Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, (about 7 miles from downtown). This ecosystem was designated as the Lake Jackson Aquatic Preserve for the primary purpose of preserving and maintaining the biological resources in their essentially natural condition. Lake Jackson is also designated an "Outstanding Florida Water" by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The expansive freshwater marshes and native submerged vegetation provide exceptional fish, waterfowl and wading bird habitat. Lake Jackson has two major depressions or sinkholes known as Porter Sink and Lime Sink that occasionally drain the lake. Lake levels have fluctuated from periods of being completely dry to a maximum elevation of 96 feet (29 m) above sea level. The lake is approximately 7.5 miles (12 km) long and its area is 6.2 square miles (16 km2). http://friendsoflakejackson.org/