Coffee with the Poets and Estelle Rice

Coffee with the Poets

--Glenda Beall

As spring begins, so does our new season for Coffee with the Poets at Phillips and Lloyd Bookstore on the square in historical Hayesville, NC. Come and enjoy a couple of hours with writers and poets, eat some goodies and have coffee or tea, and read your own original poem at open mic.

Members of Netwest will want to come and hear our dear friend and long time member, Estelle Rice, read her poetry. Estelle has been home-bound for a long time with an ailing husband, so we don't have the opportunity to hear her beautiful work very often. Hope to see you all there on Wednesday.

Estelle Darrow Rice, writer and poet from Marble, NC is the featured reader at Coffee with the Poets at Phillips and Lloyd Books in Hayesville, NC Wednesday, March 9, 10:30 AM. Rice is the author of a book of spiritual poetry, Quiet Times, available at Phillips and Lloyd books and from the author. The book is in its second printing.

The anthologies, Lights in the Mountains and Echoes across the Blue Ridge included work by Estelle Rice. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines and journals. She says she writes light and often humorous fiction, but her poems contain more serious insight and meditations on life.

The public is welcome to this reading and there is no charge except for coffee and delicacies from Crumpett’s Dessertery offered at each gathering. Anyone who wants to bring an original poem is invited to sign up and read during the open microphone period.

The purpose of this event is to support poets and writers, to give them a forum to express themselves in verse, and to provide a pleasant and comfortable place to meet and share with others. It is also for anyone who enjoys poetry and wants to come and listen.

Coffee with the Poets is sponsored by NC Writers Network West. www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com.

Contact Glenda Beall, glendabeall@msn.com for more information.