On Wednesday, May, 17, 2017, 7:00 PM, two local poets will read at the John C. Campbell Folk School's, "The Literary Hour", at Brasstown, NC. Poets Joan M. Howard, and Rosemary Rhodes Royston will be reading selections of their poetry, and the public is invited.
Joan M. Howard’s
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.
Howard recently published a book of poetry, Death
and Empathy: My Sister Web, a tribute to her sister Webster, and to Howard's husband, Jack. The book focuses on
Howard’s grief and the gift of life itself, through nature, animals, travel and
love.
She is a former
teacher, member of North Carolina Writers' Network West, has studied German and
English literature. Howard goes birding and spends time in Athens, GA, and on the beautiful
waters of Lake Chatuge, in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Rosemary Rhodes Royston
holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, is a lecturer at Young Harris
College, Georgia, and is a Rep for North Georgia for the NCWN-West. Royston’s
poetry has been published in journals such as The Southern Poetry
Review, The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Coal
Hill Review, FutureCycle, STILL, New Southerner, and Alehouse. Her essays on writing poetry are included in Women and
Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets,
McFarland.
Royston’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she
was the recipient of the 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Award. Her chapbook, Splitting
the Soil, is available at Finishing Line Press.
Most recently, she received
Honorable Mention in the George Scarbrough Poetry Contest, Mountain Heritage
Literary Festival, along with her short fiction being selected as Honorable
Mention in the Porter Fleming Literary Awards, 2012. Royston blogs at The Luxury of
Trees.
The Literary Hour at JCCFS is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network-West.
The Literary Hour at JCCFS is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network-West.
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