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Pictures: Reading at Ebenezer Baptist Church
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Cherryl Floyd-Miller, a creative and business writer, is a Cave Canem Fellow alumna for poetry (1998-2000), a 1994-95 Indiana Arts Commission Associate Fellow for Literature, and serves as the editor for the Sonja Haynes Stone Fiction Competition sponsored by Carolina Wren Press. An award-winning journalist, Floyd-Miller has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" with Dr. Maya Angelou and has received a key to the city of Indianapolis for her achievements as a reporter and emerging artist. She facilitates poetry, creative workshops, and business writing consultation for corporate and organization clients. Floyd-Miller lives and writes in Atlanta.

Hugh Morton is a conservationist and photographer who is well known not only for his preservation of wild and scenic Grandfather Mountain but also for his devotion to preserving all aspects of North Carolina's environmental heritage.

Students from Starr's Mill High School, Peachtree City (15) who will read poems that were read on Stone Mountain and at the church. The students have been working on the poems in workshops at the school. Teacher: Syndey Sinbear

Megan Sexton is managing editor of Five Points. Her poems have been widely published in magazines including Poetry, Southern Review, Calyx, and others and anthologized in Claiming the Spirit Within (Beacon Press) and North of Walkulla (Anhinga). She is the recipient of the Agnes Scott College Writer's Award and an Individual Artist Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts.

Michele Kotler is the founding director of the Community~Word Project. She received her MFA in creative writing, poetry from the University of Michigan. Through her work with Community~Word, Michele has run collaborative creative expression workshops with young people from all over the country. She performs her poetry in New York City.