On Thursday October 18, at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell Folk
School and NC Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour. At this
event, NCWN-West members will read at the Keith House on the JCCFS campus, in
Brasstown, NC. The Literary Hour is held on the third Thursday of the month
unless otherwise indicated. This reading is free of charge and open to the
public. This month's featured readers will be Glenda Barrett, Lucy Cole
Gratton, and Mary Michelle Brodine Keller.
Glenda Barrett, a native of Hiawassee, Georgia, is a poet,
writer, and visual artist. Her work has been widely published since 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 is the author of two poetry books, When the Sap Rises, published by
Finishing Line Press, in 2008 and The Beauty of Silence, published by Aldrich
Press, in 2017. Both books are available on Amazon.com. Glenda's artwork is
online at Fine Art America.
Lucy Cole Gratton is a retired CPA, moving to the mountains
after retirement. She was the Cherokee
Representative for NCWN-West for five years.
She facilitated the program at John Campbell Folk School during that
time. She has written for many years but
only in the past ten years has she been active in Poetry Critique and Prose
Critique. She has read at the Folk
School many times. Her poems have been
published in various media including on-line, print, her college magazine and
various small publications to which she enjoys.
Her focus is predominantly centered around the environment, incidents
and images of her home of 35 acres of woods on Lake Apalachia outside Murphy
NC. She has lived there for 20 years and
is in the process of moving to Stone Mountain outside of Atlanta GA.
Mary Michelle Brodine Keller, or Mary Mike as she is often
called by her friends, writes poetry, essays and short fiction. She draws her
subject matter from things she sees or experiences, putting meaning to them.
She is also a visual artist, painting in oil, water color and pastels. She likes to think of her poetry as painting
with words. Her poems have been published in The Mountain Lynx, and in
anthologies: Freeing Jonah III and IV, Lights in the Mountains, Echos Across the Blueridge, Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains and various other publications. She calls
herself a reader. She reads to others in a variety of settings. She finds that
more satisfying than publication, as it is a shared experience.
What a great evening, listening to Lucy, Glenda Barrett and Mary Mike Keller reading their original work. My guest was blown away with all the talent here in our mountains. Thanks to everyone.
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