This Wednesday, July 19, 2017, poet Glenda Barrett will read at Coffee with the Poets and Writers, at 10:30 AM, at the Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson Street, Hayesville, NC. This event is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network-West, and is open to the public. An open mic for all attendees will follow Barrett's reading.
Glenda Barrett, a native of
Hiawassee, Georgia, is an artist, poet, and writer. Her work has been
widely published yearly since her first writing class in 1997 and has
appeared in: Woman's World, Farm & Ranch Living, Country Woman,
Chicken Soup for the Soul, Journal of Kentucky Living, Nantahala Review,
Rural Heritage, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Kaleidoscope Magazine and many more.
Barrett's poetry chapbook, When the Sap Rises,
was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008. She has completed two
more books since that time, a book of poetry with Kelsay Books, The Beauty of Silence, available on Amazon, and a book of Appalachian essays. Glenda
worked many years in various healthcare system jobs and retired due to a
form of Muscular Dystrophy.
She is very grateful to be able to
devote her time to the two things she loved as a child, painting and
writing. She has two grown children and lives with her husband of
forty-two years in the North Georgia mountains.
Barrett is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network-West. For more information on this event, contact Glenda Council Beall, Program Coordinator of NCWN-West, at 828-389-4441.
Loved your reading, Glenda!
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