Saturday, December 12, 2009

Coffee With the Poets at Phillips and Lloyd Book Store on the square in Hayesville



Poet Dorothea Spiegel was featured and honored with a fond farewell at NC Writers' Network West's Coffee With the Poets on Dec. 9, 2009. She is leaving the area to live with a daughter in Tennessee.

Someone asked her, "How long have you been a member of N C Writers' Network West?"

Since the beginning." she answered.

It's true that Dorothea Spiegel was the first Georgia representative back during the founding days of the writing program that was established by N.C. W.N. to help the isolated, mountain writers of North Carolina and the north Georgia mountains.

Part of Coffee With the Poets also featured an open mic reading.

Karn Holmes reads a new poem




















Blue Ridge Poet Brenda Kay Ledford read a poem.
Founder of Coffee With the Poets, former Program Coordinator, read poems from her recently published poetry collection Now Might as Well Be Then, Finishing Line Press.

3 comments:

  1. It was another fun morning at the book shop. Thanks for posting the pictures, Nancy.

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  2. Nancy,
    Thank you for posting the photos. It was a fun gathering and I enjoyed everyone's poem. I sure will miss Dorothea. She's an excellent poet.

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  3. We beganCoffee with the Poems in 2007 and it has a continuous flow of poets, both members and non-members reading each month at Phillips and Lloyd Books on the square in our lovely little mountain town.
    Going downtown at this time of year, I love the white lights all around the square and the fully lighted tree in the Gazebo. I feel I've been transformed into a storybook setting.

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