PICKENS — The poetry of romance and the perfume of chocolate await all at Birchwood Center’s annual Valentine’s Program, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Pickens County Museum’s LaVonne Nalley Piper Auditorium at 307 Johnson St. in Pickens.

Celebrated writers-readers Tom Johnson and Harriett Richie will present about an hour of short and widely-varied poetic works, from ancient texts to first-reading new.

Though the collection is curiously tagged “All Out of Love,” the promise is for the usual fine reading, good humor and the abundance of chocolate — and it’s all free. Everyone is invited.