Writers and poets in the far western mountain area of North Carolina and bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee post announcements, original work and articles on the craft of writing.
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Maren Mitchell poems published
Maren O. Mitchell 's poem, "Watching Water," is published in Still: The Journal, #23 Winter 2017, in Poetry Sampler: River, and two poems, "Lois Hampton, Striptease Artiste, Expatriate, Paris" and "Lois Hampton, Homesick Striptease Artiste" in Wild Goose Poetry Review. Appalachian Heritage has published her poem, "Tree Watching" in the Winter 2017 issue.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Local poet Brenda Kay Ledford to read at Coffee With the Poets and Writers, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 10:30 AM, at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC
Coffee
with the Poets and Writers, a monthly literary event held at Moss Memorial
Library, 26 Anderson Street, Hayesville, NC, will hold a reading at 10:30 AM, Wednesday,
April 19, 2017. Brenda Kay Ledford, award winning poet and native of Clay
County is featured on the program this month.
Ledford
is a seventh-generational native of Clay County. She was an honor graduate of
Hayesville High School, earned her MA in Education from Western Carolina
University, and received a diploma of highest honors in Creative Writing from
Stratford Career Institute.
Ledford's
work has appeared in many journals including Our State, Woman's World, Country Extra, Chicken Soup for
the Soul, Angels on Earth, 30 Old Mountain Press anthologies,
and Blue Ridge Parkway Silver Anniversary Edition coffee-table
book.
Ledford is listed with A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, North Carolina
Literary Map, North Carolina Storytelling Guild, and Who's Who in
America. She has appeared on the "Common Cup," talk show on Windstream
Communication's cable television and has interviewed on "The
Blue Sky Show" on WJUL/WJRB Radio Station. Additionally, Ledford gives regional poetry
readings.
We
welcome the public to join us at Coffee with the Poets and Writers. Please listen and enjoy, or read a poem or short prose
piece at Open Mic. We are a friendly audience. After the meeting, we go out to
lunch and invite our guests to join us.
NCWN-West
is a program of the largest literary organization in the state of North
Carolina, The North Carolina Writers' Network. Contact Glenda Beall,
828-389-4441 or gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com
for more information.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Local Poet Mary Ricketson to be featured at two Western North Carolina Events, April 14th and May 5th, 2017
Poet Mary Ricketson |
Original art by local and regional artists will be available for $50., music by Heidi Holton, and samples of pizza and beer by Hoppy Trout Brewing Co., Andrews, NC. Mary will talk about poetry and display her books.
On May 5, 2017, poet Mary Ricketson will be the featured author at the Curiosity Shop Bookstore, Valley River Ave, Murphy NC, during the first Friday art walk of the year, the Murphy Art Walk, held from 5-8 PM.
Mary
Ricketson of Murphy NC, has been writing poetry for 20 years; to satisfy a
hunger, to taste life down to the very last drop. She is
inspired by nature and her work as a mental health counselor. Her poetry has been published in Wild Goose Poetry Review, Future
Cycle Press, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Lights in the Mountains,
Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Freeing Jonah, her chapbook I Hear the River Call my Name, and her poetry book Hanging Dog Creek. She is the Cherokee County Representative
for the North Carolina Writers Network-West, and is the president of Ridgeline
Literary Alliance.
She
won the gold medal for poetry in the 2011 Cherokee County Senior
Games/Silver Arts and silver medal for 2012 and 2013, and first place
in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national
poetry contest.
She
writes a monthly column, "Women to Women", for The Cherokee Scout, Murphy's newspaper. She is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, an
organic blueberry farmer, and is currently working on a new
collection of poetry.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Writers' Night Out Features Newton Smith & Robert Lee Kendrick
Our 2017 Season Opens on April 14 in Blairsville, GA
You're invited to hear poems from two
Ph.D. poets who have new, highly acclaimed books: Newton Smith will read from his Camino Poems: Reflections on the Way,
and Robert Lee Kendrick from his Winter
Skin. After the featured readers, there's an open microphone for anyone wanting to share their own poems or prose. All this takes place at 7 pm on April 14 at the beautiful Union County Community Center. Please note, we will be meeting in a first floor conference room this month rather than the ballroom, and the grill will not be open for dinner until May.
Of the two books, celebrated North Carolina author, Ron Rash,
says: “Newt Smith’s spiritual journey is rendered with such attentiveness and
fidelity that we become his fellow travelers. We too share the pain and effort
but above all the wonder, and are reminded that in matters of the spirit the
journey and destination can be one,” and “Robert Lee Kendrick’s poems transport
the reader into the deep, dark souls of his narrators, but the elegance of his
language gives the poems a rough, hard-earned grace.”
Smith, who lives in Tuckasegee, NC, received his Ph.D. from
University of North Carolina. He's the treasurer of NCWN-West and a retired professor who taught creative writing,
poetry and literature at Western Carolina University. He has been published
widely in literary magazines including Southern
Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ann Arbor Review, Poetry Review, Main Street
Rag, and others. Smith now devotes his time to travel, gardening, Buddhist
studies, mindfulness practices, and hiking in nature, especially in the Smoky
Mountains. During his 2014 pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago he wrote a
poem every day reflecting on the physical body, nature, and the spiritual.
Kendrick also has a Ph.D., earned from the University of
South Carolina. He grew up in Illinois and Iowa, but now calls Clemson, South
Carolina home, where he lives with his wife and their dogs. His poems have
appeared in top journals, such as Tar
River Poetry, Xavier Review, Louisiana Literature, South Carolina Review, The
James Dickey Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His
chapbook, Winter Skin, was released in 2016 by Main Street Rag Publishing.
Writers’ Night Out is a free monthly event, sponsored by North Carolina Writers’
Network-West. It takes place on the second Friday of the month, April through
November. Open mic readers sign up at the door and can read for three minutes each. The Union County Community Center (map here) is located at Butternut Creek Golf Course at 129 Union County Recreation
Rd., Blairsville, Georgia 30512, off Highway 129 near the intersection of US
76, phone (706) 439-6092. Food is available for purchase in The View Grill, but
please arrive by 6 pm to get served. For
more information, please contact Karen Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Clay County Historical and Arts Council and the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West co-sponsor a Poetry and Song Writing Lyric Contest for Clay County, NC Middle and High School
The Clay County
Historical and Arts Council and the North
Carolina Writers’ Network-West are please to announce that they are co-sponsoring a Poetry and Song Writing Lyric Contest for Clay County schools Hayesville Middle School
and Hayesville High School. There are 3 prizes in each category at each
school.
This contest began March 2017 and continues until April 5, 2017
The winners will be
announced at the schools on April 17,
2017
A presentation will be given at the Hayesville High School
Auditorium on April 25, 2017 at 6:30
PM
Rosemary R. Royston |
Judges are:
Rosemary Royston—Poetry (NCWN-West Representative for North Georgia, and author of Splitting the Soil)
Rob Tiger—Song Writing Lyrics
Brian Kruger—Song Writing Lyrics
Wyatt Esplain—Song
Writing Lyrics
Contacts for this
event are:
Reba Beck, Clay County Historical and Arts Council
828-361-5783
Joan Gage, North Carolina Writers’ Network-West
828-389-3733
Friday, March 24, 2017
North Carolina Poetry Society hosts 15th annual Spring Literary Festival at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC, on Mon., April 3, 2017and Walk into April, Sat., April 8, 2017 at Barton College, Wilson, NC
Western North Carolina poets participating in the Gilbert-Chappell
Distinguished Poet Series will be reading their work at the 15th annual
Spring Literary Festival at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee on
Monday, April 3, 2017, at the A. K. Hines University Theater from 12-1 p.m.
Poets reading include Pat Riviere-Seel, the region’s Distinguished Poet
for 2016-17, and four student poets: Mary Coggins, Benjamin Cutler,
Jade Shuler, and Cathy Sky. The student poets will read again at area
public libraries on April 5, April 18, April 20, and May 8. For further
information, contact Pat Riviere-Seel.
Walk into April will take place on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Barton College in Wilson, NC. The North Carolina Poetry Society and the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series again celebrate our state’s accomplished poets. This year’s event features Bruce Lader and Beth Copeland as well as Amber Flora Thomas, Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Down East. The program runs from 9:45 until 3:00. For more information contact Rebecca Godwin or Marty Silverthorne.
You can find the North Carolina Poetry Society's blog at: http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org
Walk into April will take place on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Barton College in Wilson, NC. The North Carolina Poetry Society and the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series again celebrate our state’s accomplished poets. This year’s event features Bruce Lader and Beth Copeland as well as Amber Flora Thomas, Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for Down East. The program runs from 9:45 until 3:00. For more information contact Rebecca Godwin or Marty Silverthorne.
You can find the North Carolina Poetry Society's blog at: http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org
Monday, March 13, 2017
Don't miss The Literary Hour at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, March 16,2017 at 7:00 PM
Joan Howard: Her poetry has been published in The Lyric, The Road Not Taken: The Journal of Formal Poetry, Lucid Rhythms, Victorian Violet, Our Pipe Dreams, Aurorean, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Miller's Pond, the 2012 Georgia Poetry Society's anthology Reach of Song, POEM, Wayfarer, and others.
Joan is a former teacher, a current member of North Carolina Writers' Network-West, and has studied German and English Literature. Howard goes birding and kayaking and spends time in Athens, Georgia, and the beautiful waters of Lake Chatuge in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Bob Grove: Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Bob now lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Including studies at Cleveland State University, Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of South Florida, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Kent State University and his Master of Science degree at Florida Atlantic University. His diversified curriculum enabled him to teach courses in English, journalism, creative writing, general science, physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, space science and psychology.
Bob has been an ABC-TV public affairs director, an on-air personality, and the founder and publisher of Monitoring Times magazine. A prose critique facilitator for the North Carolina Writers Network and a director of the Ridgeline Literary Alliance, he has published 19 books and hundreds of articles in 21 magazines.
Now retired after 35 years as founder of Grove Enterprises, an international supplier of radio communications equipment, Bob has more time to write. He has published a mystery novella (Secrets of Magnolia Manor), his memoir (Misadventures of an Only Child), a collection of children’s stories (Adventures of Kaylie and Jimmy), and has written several flash fiction stories as well as some poetry. He has been awarded several gold medals in the North Carolina Silver Arts literature competition.
Bob’s public readings are popular as a performance art form, typified by his well attended annual reading, in costume and British dialect, of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the John C. Campbell Folk School. He has been a featured speaker at 14 national conventions and a U.S. Congressional committee.
His collected writings on technical topics (Antenna Basics, Antenna Anthology and Ask Bob) are now available online, as is his informative Abnormal Psychology which he uses as a teaching text in continuing education classes, and Antiquing: A Collector’s Guide for appraising and auctioneering.
Several of Bob’s books are available on Amazon Kindle, and a sampling of his shorter works may be viewed on his website: bobgrove.org.
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