Friday Evening, June 12
6:00: Social Hour (food/drinks optional)
7:00: Featured Readers
7:45: Open Mic
This month Kathleen Brewin Lewis and Patricia Percival
Thomas (Trish) will read from their chapbooks. Prose writers or poets wishing to participate in
the open mic can sign up at the door to read for three minutes.
Thomas is the
author of the chapbook, Bargain with the
Speed of Light, published by Kattywompus Press in 2015. The book tells the
story of a box of poems left by her brother after his death and how the
mysteries there led to her practice of poetry. Her poems also appear in Sixfold, The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol.
V: Georgia, Town Creek Poetry, Stonepile Writer's Anthology Volume II, and
other venues. In what Thomas says, “seems like a past life,” she graduated from
Duke University and the Emory University School of Law.
Lewis and Thomas
are both part of the Side Door Poets group originated by Karen Paul Holmes, who
also hosts Writers’ Night Out, which is a North Carolina Writers’ Network-West
program, open to the public. The
Union County Community Center is located at Butternut Creek Golf Course, 129
Union County Recreation Rd., Blairsville, Georgia 30512, off Highway 129 near
the intersection of US 76, phone (706) 439-6092. map here (note the Holiday Inn on the map is now a Comfort Suites). For more information, please contact Karen
Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.
Lewis and Thomas held us spellbound with their poetry last night. I really enjoyed both of them and also hearing our local poets and writers read at Open Mic. Thank you, Karen Holmes, for bringing these poets to us.
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