Coffee
with the Poets and Writers, a monthly literary event held at Moss Memorial
Library, 26 Anderson Street, Hayesville, NC, will hold a reading at 10:30 AM, Wednesday,
April 19, 2017. Brenda Kay Ledford, award winning poet and native of Clay
County is featured on the program this month.
Ledford
is a seventh-generational native of Clay County. She was an honor graduate of
Hayesville High School, earned her MA in Education from Western Carolina
University, and received a diploma of highest honors in Creative Writing from
Stratford Career Institute.
Ledford's
work has appeared in many journals including Our State, Woman's World, Country Extra, Chicken Soup for
the Soul, Angels on Earth, 30 Old Mountain Press anthologies,
and Blue Ridge Parkway Silver Anniversary Edition coffee-table
book.
Aldrich
Press published her poetry book, Crepe Roses, which won the 2015
Paul GreenMultimedia Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians. Ledford has received this award nine times for her books, her collections of oral
history on Southern Appalachia, and her blogs: http://blueridgepoet.blogspot.com
and http://historicalhayesville.blogspot.com.
She also won the North Carolina Press Association's Journalism Contest Award
for her feature on the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1999.
Ledford is listed with A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, North Carolina
Literary Map, North Carolina Storytelling Guild, and Who's Who in
America. She has appeared on the "Common Cup," talk show on Windstream
Communication's cable television and has interviewed on "The
Blue Sky Show" on WJUL/WJRB Radio Station. Additionally, Ledford gives regional poetry
readings.
We
welcome the public to join us at Coffee with the Poets and Writers. Please listen and enjoy, or read a poem or short prose
piece at Open Mic. We are a friendly audience. After the meeting, we go out to
lunch and invite our guests to join us.
NCWN-West
is a program of the largest literary organization in the state of North
Carolina, The North Carolina Writers' Network. Contact Glenda Beall,
828-389-4441 or gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com
for more information.