Susan Meyers was one of two poets who were featured during Poetry at Paperwhites last Saturday.

The event was sponsored by the Edgefield Regional Arts to raise money for the Theatre Project. Meyers, the author of a book, “Keep and Give Away,” is also author of “Lessons in Leaving,” a chapbook selected by Brendan Galvin for the 1998 Persephone Press Book Award.

Her poems have appeared in “Southern Review,” “Crazyhorse” and “Tar Review Poetry.” She is featured online at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and has an MFA from Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. She grew up in North Carolina and now lives in Givhans and is a writing instructor.

Award-winning poet Ray McManus also recited one of his poems during the Poetry at Paperwhites last Saturday sponsored by the Edgefield Regional Arts as a benefit to raise money for the Theatre Project. McManus received his MFA in poetry and his PH.D. in composition and rhetoric from USC.

His poems have appeared in “Nimrod,” “Crazyhorse,” “Jabber Wock,” “Natural Bridge,” “Los Angeles Review,” “Cold Mountain Review,” and other journals and anthologies.

He won the 1997 Academy of American Poets Award, the 2000 James Dickey Award in Poetry and the 2002 Academy of S.C. Author’s Fellowship.