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Novelist Alice Randall
Southern Festival of Books
Nashiville TN
October 15 2011

Novelist William Gay
Southern Festival of Books
Nashville TN
October 15 2011

Novelist Mary McLarey
Southern Festival of Books
Nashville TN
October 15 2011

Novelist Valerie Martin
Key West Literary Seminar
Key West FL
January 12 2012

James E.Cherry and Bill Brown

                                                                            Poet Bill Brown
                                                                  Southern Festival of Books
                                                                      Nashville Tennessee
                                                                          October 10, 2009

Yusef Komunyakaa and James E. Cherry

                                                                   Poet Yusef Komunyakaa
                                                                  Key West Literary Seminar
                                                                     Key West Florida
                                                                           January 14, 2010

Tim Wise and James E. Cherry

                                                                           Author Tim Wise
                                                                  Jackson Madison County Library
                                                                     Jackson Tennessee
                                                                           January 16, 2010

James E. Cherry

                                                                          Poetry Reading
                                                                  Key West Literary Seminar
                                                                     Key West Florida
                                                                           January 14, 2010

                                                                              Book Signing
                                                                  Southern Festival of Books
                                                                     Nashville, Tennessee
                                                                           October 10, 2009

                                                               Author Michael Eric Dyson
                                                                           Lane College
                                                                     Jackson Tennessee
                                                                           April 25 2009

                                                                        Poet Frank X. Walker
                                                                Affrilachian Poets Reception
                                                                      Jackson Tennessee
                                                                            March 7 2009

James Cherry, A.B. Spellman and Karen Spellman

CHERRY NOMINATED FOR NAACP IMAGE AWARD

LOS ANGELES - (January 7 2009) James E Cherry's collection of poems,
Honoring the Ancestors, has been nominated for a 2009 NAACP Image
Award. Published by Third World Press, Honoring the Ancestors pays
tribute to people, places and events that have shaped Cherry's
artistic development. The book was released in June 2008.

Others nominated in the Oustanding Literary Work-Poetry catagory are:
Nikki Giovanni, A.B. Spellman, Cornelius Eady and Yusef Komunyakaa.
The NAACP Image Awards celebrates the outstanding achievements and
performances of people of color in the arts as well as those
indivduals or groups who promote social justice through their creative
endeavors. Winners will be announced at the 40th NAACP Image Awards
Show on February 12th in Los Angeles with the ceremonies broadcast
live on FOX Networks.

Cherry, a fiction writer as well, is the author of Shadow of Light, a
novel. Both books are available on: jamesEcherry.com or at
bookstores.

                                                 Poet Norman Jordan and James E. Cherry
                                             Pre-Image Award Reception February 8 2009
                                                           Home of Ron and Judy Pennel
                                                                   Jackson, Tennessee

JAMES E. CHERRY DAY - February 3 2009

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                                 "James E Cherry Day"   February 3 2009
                                                           Jackson City Council City Hall
                                                                      Jackson, Tennessee

V Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Stage
Printer's Row Book Fair, Chicago, June 7 2008

     Randall Horton and James E. Cherry
Book Signing
                                                                         Poet Randall Horton
                                                                    New Haven Connecticut
                                                                           August 26 2009

ook Signing

Books-A-Million

Jackson Teee

I                                                                    Interview with Book TV
                                                                  Southern Festival of Books
                                                                       War Memorial Plaza
                                                                       Nashville Tennessee
                                                                          October 11 2008

                                                     Reading from Shadow of Light
                                                                  Southern Festival of Books
                                                                    Tennessee State Capitol
                                                                        Nashville Tennessee
                                                                           October 11 2008