On Wednesday, September 19, 2018, at 10:30 AM, the
NCWN-West’s Coffee with the Poets and Writers (CWPW) will feature poet Brent
Martin. Martin’s wife, Angela Faye Martin, a singer-songwriter and artist will perform
after Brent’s reading. CWPW is held at the Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson
Street, Hayesville, NC. The reading and entertainment are free and open to the
public, and an open mic will follow the reading and performance.
Brent Martin is the author of three chapbook collections of
poetry, Poems from Snow Hill Road (New Native Press, 2007), A Shout in the Woods (Flutter Press,
2010), and Staring the Red Earth Down
(Red Bird Press, 2014), and is a co-author of Every Breath Sings Mountains (Voices from the American Land, 2011)
with authors Barbara Duncan and Thomas Rain Crowe He is also the author of Hunting for Camellias at Horseshoe Bend, a non-fiction chapbook published by Red Bird
Press in 2015.
Brent Martin’s poetry and essays have been published in the North Carolina Literary Review, Pisgah Review,
Tar River Poetry, Chattahoochee Review, Eno Journal, New Southerner, Kudzu
Literary Journal, Smoky Mountain News, and elsewhere. He lives in the Cowee
community in western North Carolina where he and his wife Angela Faye Martin
run Alarka Institute, a nature, literary, and art-based business that offers
workshop and field trips. He has
recently completed a two-year term as Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for
the West.
Angela Faye Martin is a singer-songwriter, artist, and
naturalist, and has worked for The Wilderness Society, Georgia Forestwatch,
Armuchee Alliance, and the Pacific Rivers Council. She has written and recorded
two lP's and one EP - One Dark Vine, Anniversary, and Pictures from Home, which was produced by Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
fame. She recently wrote and narrated the documentary, The Sad and Beautiful
World of Sparklehorse, which is currently screening internationally at various
film festivals and in the US.
When Angela Martin is not leading phenology and nature
outings in the wilds of the Great Smoky Mountains, she is drawing 'tree
portraits', writing songs, letters and spending time with her sagacious mutt,
'Isabella Queen of France.’
CWPW is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’
Association-West, which is a program of the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
For more information, please contact Glenda Beall at: 828-389-4447.
I look forward to this program with these two artists.
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