Savannah Native Returns Home to Promote Book


The Book Lady Bookstore will host a reception for, and reading by, Savannah-born poet, David Coney, author of You Are a Genius. The event, which is free and open to the public., will be held Friday, May 29th at 7 pm at 6 E. Liberty St., downtown Savannah.

David Coney, currently based in Atlanta and working as an aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin, is a native of Savannah and a graduate of Savannah State University.

He is the author of You

Are a Genius,

a book of poetry that, according to the author, was written over a twenty year span.

Paying homage to his early beginnings in Savannah, Coney’s poem, “What I Remember about Fellwood Homes”, embraces memories of a west Savannah upbringing.


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