On
Thursday evening, August 17, 2017 at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, and North
Carolina Writers Network-West will co-sponsor The Literary Hour, an hour of poetry and prose reading in the
library of Keith House. This event is held on the third Thursday of the month, unless
otherwise indicated. It is free of
charge and open to the public, and the reading will be followed by an open Mic. Poets Glenda Council Beall and Glenda Barrett,
with poet and prose writer Jo Carolyn Bebe, will be the featured readers. This month is unique in that we have three members
of NCWN-West entertaining during The
Literary Hour.
Glenda
Council Beall
Glenda Council Beall’s writing
has been published in numerous literary journals including, Reunions Magazine, Main Street Rag Poetry
Journal, Appalachian Heritage, Journal of Kentucky Studies and online journals, Your Daily Poem, Muscadine Lines: A
Southern Journal, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Wild Goose Poetry Review. Robert
Brewer, editor at Writers Digest published one of her essays online. She read
her work with Carol Crawford on the Writer's Radio Program, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Her
poems have been anthologized in The
Southern Poetry anthology: Volume VII: North Carolina 2014, Lights in the Mountains, The Best of Poetry
Hickory Series, 2011, Kakalak: North Carolina Poets of 2009, and Women’s
Spaces, Women’s Places, among others. Her poems have won awards in the
James Still Poetry Contest and the Clay County NC Poetry Contest. Her poetry Chapbook, Now Might as well be Then, is available at Finishing Line Press.
She
serves as Program Coordinator of North Carolina Writers’ Network West She is
also a Clay County Representative for NCWN-West, and in that capacity she hosts
Coffee with the Poets and Writers once each month.
Glenda Barrett
Glenda
Barrett, a native of Hiawassee, Georgia is an artist, poet and a visual
writer. Her work has been widely
published in magazines, anthologies and journals. These include Country Women, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Farm and Ranch Living, Wild
Goose Poetry Review, Deep South Magazine, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Woman’s
World, Greensilk Journal and others.
Barrett's Appalachian artwork is for sale on fineartamerica.com
and her poetry chapbook, When the Sap Rises, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008. She now has a full-length poetry book titled, The Beauty of Silence, that was published in July of this year by Aldrich
Press, and is available on Amazon.com
Jo Carolyn Bebe
Jo
Carolyn Beebe is a native of Mississippi. Many of her poems and
stories are based on her recollections of conversations with her grandparents.
Her Grandmother Anderson said, "The Bartletts are kin to Daniel Boone.
They came through the Cumberland Gap with him." Great-grandfather Ricks
showed her a greasy circle in his front yard where no grass would grow.
"This is where the Indians cooked their food," he told her.
She
also has her own memories of life in a small, rural town. Her story, "The
Way You Hypnotize a Chicken," really happened when she and a friend
hypnotized one of Grandmother's hens. And where else but in a small town could
two little girls play in the funeral home and pick out their everyday casket
and their Sunday casket?
Jo
Carolyn has been published in Main
Street Rag, Clothes Lines, Women's Spaces Women's Places, Lonzie's Fried
Chicken, Lights in the Mountains, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge and by
Abingdon Press. She has been most gratified with her family
history book The Beekeepers and Sons of
Ander.
She
is a graduate of Miami University, Oxford and has been a resident of Towns
County for 21 years.
