Showing posts with label Maren Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maren Mitchell. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Maren Mitchell Poems Published


 NCWN-West member Maren O. Mitchell has poems published in: 

Tar River Poetry, Vol. 62, No. 1, Fall 2022, "I have no earth-shaking news, my friend Janice." 
The Lake, an online UK journal, January 2023 issue, "Quantum Beats" and "To My Husband in the Time of Covid-19."
POEM, November 2022 issue, "Black Is Not the Lack of Light" and "We are all stray cats."
Twelve Mile Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2022, "Hickory Tree."

Her poems appear in The Antigonish Review, The Cortland Review, The Comstock Review, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, Hotel Amerika, The South Carolina Review and Southern Humanities Review. Three poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her nonfiction is Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide, (Line of Sight Press). Her chapbook, "In my next life I plan...," is forthcoming from dancing girl press. She lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia.


Thursday, August 19, 2021

Congrats, Maren Mitchell

 Poet, Maren Mitchell is published in Cider Press Review, Volume 23, Issue 3. 

Read about her and read two of her poems here.

 


Monday, June 14, 2021

Poet, Maren Mitchell writes and publishes poetry

 Our Netwest Rep in Georgia, Maren Mitchell has been creating and publishing poetry. The following are published or going to be published soon. Congrats, Maren. 


POEM
: "On reflection," and "Camouflage" in the May issue.

The Lake (UK): "Two is the ideal number" and "The problem I have with the present" currently online in the June issue.
 
Slant: A Journal of Poetry: "Daily we say goodbye" in the summer (annual) issue.

Twelve Mile Review: "Leftovers and Aging Vegetables" in the first issue of this new journal.

Cider Press Review: "Depression, Viewed Objectively" and "Fecundity" in the August issue (online).

Comstock Review: "My End Plan" in August in their 35th Anniversary Issue. 

Terrapin Books' The Strategic Poet: "In Praise of the Potato"

Chiron Review: "Lost and Found" in an upcoming issue. 

Tar River Poetry: "Bears, Ants and Avocados" in the Spring Issue.

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Congrats to Maren Mitchell

 Maren O. Mitchell has two poems, "Pale first cousin to red," and "Gray," appearing in The Antigonish Review, Volume 50, Numbers 201-02, Spring/Summer 2020. The editorial office of The Antigonish Review is located at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.


Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Maren Mitchell is the new Georgia representative for NCWN-West


NCWN-West is delighted to announce that Maren O. Mitchell, who lives in Young Harris, Georgia is our new representative for NCWN-West in the north Georgia region. Rosemary Royston, who served as representative and as program coordinator in the past resigned to become treasurer. She is taking the place of the late Newt Smith, our treasurer since 2009.


Maren Mitchell is a well-published poet who is now holding a poetry group that meets monthly at the library in Young Harris. I have heard much praise from those attending. Maren is giving extra time to assist poets with publishing tips.  As many as twelve or thirteen people are joining this group each month. Contact the library for date and time of meetings. 

You can find Mitchell's professional profile at:
https://netwestmembers.blogspot.com/2015/05/maren-o-mitchell.html

You can contact Mitchell at: marenomitchell@gmail.com

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

More Good News about our Members



Please not this correction on our Newsletter:
The correct email for Charley Pearson is this:  www.charleypearson.com


Maren O. Mitchell’s two poems, “L” and “P, the arm and hand pose,” appear in Chiron Review, Issue #111, Spring 2018, and her poem, “Stitching Dollars Together,” appears in The Cortland Review, Issue 80, online currently with audio, http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/80/mitchell.php.

I enjoyed hearing Maren Mitchell read her powerful poem in The Cortland Review.

Friday, August 3, 2018

Mitchell & Ricketson at Writers' Night, August 10

Come join us to hear these highly published local poets.  Participate in open mic too! 

Union County Community Center, Blairsville,  GA    



Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Maren Mitchell poems published

Maren O. Mitchell 's poem, "Watching Water," is published in Still: The Journal, #23 Winter 2017, in Poetry Sampler: River, and two poems, "Lois Hampton, Striptease Artiste, Expatriate, Paris" and "Lois Hampton, Homesick Striptease Artiste" in Wild Goose Poetry ReviewAppalachian Heritage has published her poem, "Tree Watching" in the Winter 2017 issue.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Writers' Night Out Returns April 10

Hope to see everyone after the long winter. We're springing forward with a special program with a prestigious guest: Ronald Moran, award-winning poet and former professor/dean at Clemson University. And a very special local writer: Maren Mitchell.

We're back on Fridays (the second of each month), due to popular demand. Also, The View Grill has a new menu, so come at 6 pm for food/drink/friendly chat.

Featured reader bios:
Ronald Moran has published 12 collections of poetry, the most recent being The Tree in the Mind (Clemson University Press, 2014); two books of criticism (one coauthored); and more than 500 poems, essays, and reviews in many journals, including Connecticut Poetry Review, Emrys Journal, Evening Street Review, Louisiana Review, Northwest Review, South Carolina Review,  Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal.  He has won several awards and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Moran’s writings and memorabilia about them are archived in Special Collections of the James B. Duke Library at Furman University.  He lives in Simpsonville, SC.
Maren Mitchell’s poems have appeared in many journals, including The South Carolina Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Humanities Review, The Classical Outlook, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Skive (Australia), Town Creek Poetry, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and The Arts Journal, Red Clay Reader Vol. 4. Her work has been, or is forthcoming, in anthologies such as The Southern Poetry Anthology, V: Georgia, The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Negative Capability Press Anthology for Georgia Poetry. Mitchell’s nonfiction book, Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide (Line of Sight Press, 2012), is available at the Curiosity Shop bookstore in Murphy, NC, and on Amazon. A native of North Carolina, Mitchell lived in Bordeaux, France; Kaiserslautern, Germany; and throughout the southeast U.S.  She now lives with her husband in Young Harris, Georgia.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Maren O. Mitchell Featured At Writers' Night Out Sept 13



Come hear Maren Mitchell, prize-winning, nationally published poet and author of Beat Chronic Pain: An Insider’s Guide.

Writers’ Night Out

Friday, Sept 13

Brothers Willow Ranch Restaurant, Young Harris, GA
(upstairs private room, park in back and walk in via the ramp)
  • 6:00-7:00 eat dinner or munchies and socialize (come early to order dinner)
  • 7:00-ish announcements and featured reader
  • Break
  • 7:45-ish Open mike, sign up at door, limit 3 minutes per poetry or prose reader (Please time yourself at home, let's make it fair to everyone. Prose readers can often eliminate some details and still captivate the audience with their piece).

Maren’s Bio:

Maren O. Mitchell’s poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, The Classical Outlook, Town Creek Poetry, Appalachian Journal, Red Clay Reader #4, The Arts Journal, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Pirene’s Fountain and elsewhere. Her work is included in The Southern Poetry Anthology, V: Georgia; Sunrise from Blue Thunder; Nurturing Paws; and Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, and is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika. Her nonfiction book is Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide (Line of Sight Press, 2012), and is available at the Curiosity Shop bookstore in Murphy, NC, and on Amazon.

Mitchell has taught poetry at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC, and catalogued at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. In 2012 she received 1st Place Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Georgia Poetry Society. For over twenty years, across five states, she has taught origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.

A native of North Carolina, in her childhood Mitchell lived in Bordeaux, France, and Kaiserslautern, Germany. After moving throughout the southeast U.S., she now lives with her husband in Young Harris, Georgia.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

NIEMAN CHATS WITH LOCAL POETS AND OTHERS




Valerie Nieman, author of Blood Clay, a novel Netwest member Joan Howard said she “can’t put down” inspired and informed those who came to the Author Chat and Tea at Moss Memorial Library on Friday afternoon. Nieman set the casual mood by forgoing a lectern and sitting in a chair with the group of mostly poets, reading from her new novel and her poetry book, Wake Wake Wake, asking questions and answering questions.

The author told us of her experience in all forms of writing, showing the large number of books she has published, including a book of short stories, Fidelities.
"I'm just an old journalist,” Nieman told us. She received her degree in journalism from West Virginia University.
She said her years of writing for newspapers taught her to tighten up her prose, use words sparingly, no fat, just lean sharp language.
That is what we all aim for in our fiction. During a break for refreshments, each member of the audience had an opportunity to speak with Nieman personally.

Poet Maren Mitchell, said, “An accomplished author of poetry, short stories and novels, she was a delight to listen to, and so comfortable and informative to talk with. I'm so glad I went to hear and meet Valerie Nieman.”

I am reading Blood Clay on my Nook, and it is a page turner. The book tells the story of Tracy, a teacher, who has moved to the North Carolina tobacco farming country and witnesses a brutal attack by dogs belonging to her neighbor. Like anyone new in a community Tracy’s actions are questioned by the local people.

“I so enjoyed Valerie Nieman's tea on Friday--her intelligent and friendly discussions and the high lyricism of her poetry. She is an author of wide knowledge and grace.” Joan Howard commented.

Thanks to Mary Fonda, librarian at Moss Library, for opening the doors for our Author Chat and Tea. It must have been the “tea” that turned our men writers away. A new resident of Murphy said she saw the article in the newspaper and knew she had to come. “I am pleased to meet so many interesting and intelligent women.” She said.

Writers Circle sponsored this event, free to the public, and we hope to do more programs like this if we have enough interest among writers and poets in the area. I like to take an opportunity to learn something new, and I do, every time I talk with or hear an author or poet speak.


Valerie Nieman is presently an assistant professor of English and Journalism at North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro, NC.  She is also an editor for Prime Numbers online literary journal. She teaches at John C. Council Folk School. 
















http://valerienieman.blogspot.com/

Sunday, August 21, 2011

COFFEE WITH THE POETS Hayesville, August gathering

Once again we had a full house for Coffee with the Poets at Cafe Touche' in Hayesville.
Joan Howard of Hiawassee and Athens, GA was one of the featured readers.
From Brevard, NC, Susan Lefler, author of a new poetry book, Rendering the Bones,
was also featured.


Bob Groves agreed to be photographer for the day and the following are some photos he made of those who enjoyed the social aspect of the morning.



Joan Howard and Glenda Barrett

Brenda Kay Ledford and Maren Mitchell



                       Bob Grove reading at open mic. He gave me the camera while he read.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Mitchell and Newton read poetry October 8






WRITERS’ NIGHT OUT FEATURES TWO POETS, OCTOBER 8

Writers’ Night Out will feature poets Maren O. Mitchell and Clarence Newton followed by an Open Microphone for those who’d like to share their own poetry or fiction.

The event takes place October 8 at 7:00 p.m. in Wilson Lecture Hall at Young Harris College, Young Harris, Georgia.

Maren O. Mitchell has worked as a proofreader, managed a group home, taught poetry at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC, and catalogued at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. A North Carolina native, she now lives in Towns County, GA with her husband and two cats. Her poetry publishing credits include Red Clay Reader, The Richmond Broom, The Arts Journal, Appalachian Journal, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review and the anthology, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge.


Clarence Newton, who lives in Hiawassee, GA, puts both humor and wisdom into his writings. Once a guest writer for several newspapers, he has turned his love of writing toward poetry. He has studied under former Poet Laureate of Georgia Bettie Sellers and under poet and resident writer at John C. Campbell Folk School, Nancy Simpson. His work appears in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge. After a long career in aviation, Clarence now finds inspiration in the things of retirement, such as fishing, gardening, and birding.


Writers’ Night Out takes place the second Friday evening of every month from 7-8:30 p.m. Formerly at Mountain Perk Coffee House in Hiawassee, the event now takes place at Young Harris College in Wilson Lecture Hall, which is located in the Goolsby Center on the campus. Parking is free.



Those interested in reading at the Open Mic may sign up at the event. Each writer will have three minutes to read fiction or poetry. The evening is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Writers’ Night Out coordinator, Karen Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.