CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE FRIDAY NIGHT

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Carole Thompson           Glenda Beall                Mary Ricketson                                      Robert S. King         Scott Owens   FutureCycle Press Book Release    Please join us at City Lights Bookstore on Friday, March 23 at 7 p.m. for a double book launch.  FutureCycle Press will unveil its annual anthology of poetry and flash fiction as well as a new poetry collection from Scott Owens titled For One Who Knows How to Own Land.  Owens and a few of the contributors to the anthology will read some of their work.  Featured writers will be Glenda Councill Beal, Robert S. King, Scott Owens, Mary Ricketson and Carole Richard Thompson.

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TWO GEORGIA POETS WILL READ THEIR POEMS - DO NOT MISS THIS CHANCE TO HEAR ROBERT KIMSEY AND ROBERT S. KING

GEORGIA POETRY SOCIETY

with thanks to the Blue Ridge 

Mountains Arts Association

presents

Poetry Readings &

Workshop on Publishing

plus open mic, book raffle, 

book sales and signing

Where: Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association, 420 West Main St., 

Blue Ridge GA 30513

When: Friday, September 16, 2011, 6:30 pm 

• No Admission Fees, 

Free Refreshments 

Please join us for a two‐hour poetry festival featuring:A workshop 

focusing on publishing in the electronic age. Learn the latest ways to 

publish your work.

Readings by Robert W. Kimsey and Robert S. King.  Two widely 

published poets read from their books and new poems as well.

A raffle. Your chance to win poetry books.

An open mic. Bring one or two of your own poems 

to share with the audience. Please limit poems to a maximum of 

35 lines each.

Book sales and signing. If you have published 

a book or books of poetry, please bring copies to 

sell at this event. No fees involved.

About the Featured Poets

Robert W. Kimsey is a retired Technical Writer 

Illustrator and lives in McCaysville, GA. 

His poems  have been published in various poetry 

and web columns including Kudzu, Pegasus 

the Southern Ocean Review, NewSoutherner 

and various anthologies.

Robert S. King lives near McCaysville, GA. 

He has published poems in hundreds of magazines 

and anthologies including The Kenyon Review,  

Southern Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Midwest 

Quarterly, CaliforniaQuarterly, Chariton Review, 

Negative Capability, Slant, Sow's Ear, and many 

others.  He has also published three chapbooks 

(When Stars Fall Down asSnow, Garland  Press, 

1976; Dream of the Electric Eel, Wolfsong Publications, 

1982; and Traveller ’s Tale, Whistle Press, 1998) 

and two full‐length poetry  books 

(The Gravedigger’s Roots and The Hunted River, 

both from Shared  Roads Press, 2009).

Robert serves as President of the Georgia Poetry 

Society and is also Director  of FutureCycle Press.