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This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony Adverse, met Heyward after moving to Charleston to teach. Together they founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which is still active today. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

Porgy is a groundbreaking novel that offers an intimate portrayal of African American life in the early 1900s South. Following Porgy, a disabled man struggling to survive in a racially segregated world, the novel explores love, community, and hardship in the vibrant setting of Charleston’s Catfish Row. A deeply moving and historically significant story.