Local writers CarolLynn Jones and Mary Ricketson will read from their work at the Literary Hour Thursday, May 18, at 7 pm in the Keith House Living Room of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. The Literary Hour is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West and is free and open to everyone.
CarolLynn Jones |
Mary Ricketson
Mary Ricketson is an award-winning poet, mental health counselor, and blueberry farmer who lives in Murphy. Her published collections are “I Hear the River Call My Name,” “Hanging Dog Creek,” “Shade and Shelter,” “Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian,” “Keeping in Place,” and “Lira, Poems of a Woodland Woman,” and “Precious the Mule.” Ricketson won first place in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national poetry contest. Inspired by nature and her role as a mental health counselor, her poems reflect the healing powers of nature, a path she follows from Appalachian tradition, with the surrounding mountains as midwife for her words. She is also known for her monthly column, “Woman to Woman,” which runs in “The Cherokee Scout.”
Writer and poet Glenda Beall, coordinator for NCWN-West, will host the
event. The Literary Hour at the folk school started in 1995 and is offered every third Thursday of the month through November. “Our goals for the Literary Hour at the folk school are to bring local writers and any member of NCWN who is in the area to the campus to share their work,” Beall said.
The John C. Campbell Folk School offers classes in folk arts and crafts and storytelling. For information about the school, you can find its webpage and contact information at https://www.folkschool.org/. Students and faculty of the school are welcome to attend the readings.
I look forward to this event. Both of these writers will give outstanding readings.
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