Come hear Maren Mitchell,
prize-winning, nationally published poet and author of Beat Chronic Pain: An Insider’s Guide.
Writers’ Night Out
Friday, Sept 13
Brothers Willow Ranch Restaurant, Young Harris, GA
(upstairs private room, park in back and walk in via the ramp)
(upstairs private room, park in back and walk in via the ramp)
- 6:00-7:00 eat dinner or munchies and socialize (come early to order dinner)
- 7:00-ish announcements and featured reader
- Break
- 7:45-ish Open mike, sign up at door, limit 3 minutes per poetry or prose reader (Please time yourself at home, let's make it fair to everyone. Prose readers can often eliminate some details and still captivate the audience with their piece).
Maren’s Bio:
Maren O. Mitchell’s poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, The Classical Outlook, Town Creek Poetry, Appalachian Journal, Red Clay Reader #4, The Arts Journal, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Pirene’s Fountain and elsewhere. Her work is included in The Southern Poetry Anthology, V: Georgia; Sunrise from Blue Thunder; Nurturing Paws; and Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, and is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika. Her nonfiction book is Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide (Line of Sight Press, 2012), and is available at the Curiosity Shop bookstore in Murphy, NC, and on Amazon.
Mitchell has
taught poetry at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC, and catalogued at
the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. In 2012 she received 1st Place
Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Georgia Poetry Society. For over twenty
years, across five states, she has taught origami, the Japanese art of paper
folding.
A native of
North Carolina, in her childhood Mitchell lived in Bordeaux, France, and
Kaiserslautern, Germany. After moving throughout the southeast U.S., she now
lives with her husband in Young Harris, Georgia.
Karen, thanks for posting this. Glad you are using your author privilege.
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