On Thursday, August 22, 2019, at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell
Folk School and NC Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour. At
this event, NCWN-West members will read at the Keith House on the JCCFS campus,
in Brasstown, NC. This event is now held in the community room. The Literary
Hour is held on the third Thursday of the month unless otherwise indicated.
This reading is free of charge and open to the public. This month's featured
readers will be Kenneth Chamlee, Carol Crawford, and Karen Paul Holmes.
Kenneth Chamlee is Professor of English Emeritus at Brevard
College in North Carolina. His poems
have appeared in The North Carolina Literary Review, Cold Mountain
Review, Ekphrasis, The Greensboro Review and many
others. He won the GSU Review (Georgia
State University) National Writing Award in Poetry, ByLine Magazine's
National Poetry Chapbook Competition (Absolute Faith, 1999), and the Longleaf
Press Poetry Chapbook Competition (Logic of the Lost, 2001). In 2004 he won the Word Journal Poetry
Prize and in 2009 and 2016 he was a finalist in the Iowa Review Poetry
Contest.
Chamlee has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. His
poems have appeared in five editions of Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina
Poets and in 2017 he was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize.
Carol Crawford has published short fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry in the Southern Humanities Review, Appalachian Heritage,
the Concho River Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Journal of
Kentucky Studies, and others. Her latest essay, ”Deliveries,” was in the
April 2018 issue of Adelaide online magazine. She is owner of Carol
Crawford Editing and author of The Habit of Mercy, Poems about Daughters and
Mothers.
Crawford has taught workshops for the Dahlonega Literary
Festival, the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts
Association, the Red Clay Writers’ Conference, the Carrollton Writers’ Club,
and the Writers’ Circle. She has been program coordinator for the annual Blue
Ridge Writers’ Conference since its inception more than twenty years ago.
Karen Paul Holmes has two full-length poetry collections, No
Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin Books, 2018) and Untying the Knot
(Aldrich Press, 2014). In 2012, Karen received an Elizabeth George Foundation
emerging writer grant for poetry. She was chosen as a Best Emerging Poet in
2016 by Stay Thirsty Media. Publications include Prairie Schooner,
Valparaiso Review, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore and other
journals and anthologies. Holmes hosts a critique group in Atlanta and Writers’
Night Out in Blairsville, which she founded. She also teaches writing classes
at the Folk School, Writer’s Circle, and other venues.
A member of the North Carolina Writers' Network, the Atlanta
Writers Club, and the Georgia Poetry Society, Holmes has studied with poets:
Thomas Lux, Denise Duhamel, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, William Wright, Carol
Ann Duffy, and Nancy Simpson (whom she counts as her first poetry mentor).
For more information about this event, please contact Mary
Ricketson at: maryricketson311@hotmail.com.
