Arts & Culture at ABAC
2024-2025 Season
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ABAC's Writers' Harvest
The Writers’ Harvest series features readings by invited authors, fostering a connection between the ABAC community, Tifton and the Tiftarea. Invited national and regional authors will be reading from their recently published works and selling signed copies of their recent books afterward. All events are in Bowen Hall Room 100 on the Tifton Main Campus.
Admission is a single canned good or non-perishable food item which will benefit the ABAC Food Pantry.
Cody Smith, poet
Monday, October 28, 2024 | 7:00 P.M.
Bowen Hall, Room 100, Tifton Main Campus
Cody Smith is the author of Gulf: Poems. His second book of poems, River Hymnal, is forthcoming in early 2025. He is the former Mississippi Review Prize and River Styx International Poetry Prize winner. His poems can be found in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Louisiana, he has gone on to live and write in many places, including Spokane, Washington, and Tallahassee, Florida. Currently, he lives in Central Florida where he works as an educator and poet.
John B. Edwards, author
Monday, February 10, 2025 | 7:00 P.M.
Bowen Hall, Room 100, Tifton Main Campus
John B. Edwards has over 45 years of law enforcement experience that covers general law enforcement functions at the local and state level. He is the author of four books and many national and international publications regarding criminal investigation, police operations, leadership, and management. He has received national awards and recognition from IACP and the BJA for operations and innovative programs and in 2014 was selected for the State of Georgia’s Governor’s Award in Public Safety for Outstanding Contribution to Profession. John currently travels throughout the United States lecturing for many federal, state, and local agencies, colleges and universities, and law enforcement associations regarding police and public safety operations, leadership, and management, and holds seminars based on his books, The Burden of Command and Homicide Investigative Praxis. He is also the author of the Sunlight over the Marshes a novel focusing on drug smuggling in coastal Georgia in the 1970’s, and Darkness under the Oaks, a novel about organized crime in Georgia.