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Showing posts with label poetry reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry reading. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The Literary Hour at John C. Campbell Folk School changed from Thusday 11/16/2017 to Wednesday, 11/15/2017, at 7:00 PM
Please be advised that The Literary Hour at John C. Campbell Folk School has been changed from Thursday, 11/16/2017, to Wednesday, 11/15/2017, at 7:00 PM.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
The Literary Hour will host local poets Linda G. Jones and Staci Lynn Bell on Thursday, November 16, 2017, at the John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, NC
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell
Folk School and NC Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary
Hour, an hour of poetry reading held at Keith House on the
JCCFS campus, in Brasstown, NC. This event is held on the third Thursday of the
month unless otherwise indicated. The reading is free of charge and
open to the public. This month's featured readers will be Staci Lyn Bell and Linda G. Jones.
Dr. Linda G. Jones joined the faculty of Young Harris College in 2009 and is currently an Associate Professor of Biology and Dean of the Division of Mathematics and Science. Most of her career was spent in biomedical research. She is now happy to be teaching students in the classroom and serving as a mentor for student research. One current research model is the Zebrafish embryo used for developmental and toxicological studies. She has a number of interests outside of the science classroom which include reading and writing poetry. Jones is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network–West and a participant in the NetWest poetry critique group.
Staci Lynn Bell, a Chicago native, has lived in Western North Carolina for the past 5 years. She relocated to South Florida, gaining popularity as a 25 year radio and television personality and passionate animal advocate. In 1988 her environmental essay won statewide acclaim in Florida. After retiring from broadcasting, Bell worked for many years training working dogs and rehabilitating rescues. Her poetry and prose have been published in several journals. Her short story “Cheyenne” took 2nd place and her poem, “Time” took 3rd place in the 2016 NC Cherokee/Clay Senior Games Sliver Arts. Bell is a member of the North Carolina Writer’s Network and Ridgeline Literary Alliance.
Dr. Linda G. Jones joined the faculty of Young Harris College in 2009 and is currently an Associate Professor of Biology and Dean of the Division of Mathematics and Science. Most of her career was spent in biomedical research. She is now happy to be teaching students in the classroom and serving as a mentor for student research. One current research model is the Zebrafish embryo used for developmental and toxicological studies. She has a number of interests outside of the science classroom which include reading and writing poetry. Jones is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network–West and a participant in the NetWest poetry critique group.
Staci Lynn Bell, a Chicago native, has lived in Western North Carolina for the past 5 years. She relocated to South Florida, gaining popularity as a 25 year radio and television personality and passionate animal advocate. In 1988 her environmental essay won statewide acclaim in Florida. After retiring from broadcasting, Bell worked for many years training working dogs and rehabilitating rescues. Her poetry and prose have been published in several journals. Her short story “Cheyenne” took 2nd place and her poem, “Time” took 3rd place in the 2016 NC Cherokee/Clay Senior Games Sliver Arts. Bell is a member of the North Carolina Writer’s Network and Ridgeline Literary Alliance.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Holmes & Krawiec at Writers' Night Out, September 8
Please join us for this reading featuring poet, author, playwright and founder of Jacar Press, Richard Krawiec, and poet, Karen Paul Holmes. Share your work at open mic, too! Union County Community Center, Blairsville, GA
Richard will also teach at Writers Circle in Hayesville the next day. See Glenda Beall's Writers Circle Blog for more information.
Richard will also teach at Writers Circle in Hayesville the next day. See Glenda Beall's Writers Circle Blog for more information.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Sneak Peak: Our Featured Poets for Writers' Night Out, Aug 12
Ginger Murchison has had poems featured three times on The Writers Almanac since April.
Hear Garrison Keillor read them: http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/ginger-murchison/
Ginger Murchison |
Ginger will read along with
Lynn Alexander
former Atlanta Review poetry editor
at
Writers' Night Out
Friday, August 12
7 p.m.
Union County Community Center
Blairsville, GA
Lynn Alexander |
Open Mic follows the featured readers
Both poets will have books for sale
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
COFFEE WITH THE POETS AND WRITERS
We had an interesting mix of writers and poets gather today at
Blue Mountain Coffee and Grill for our last meeting of the year. We don’t
meet in January and February because the weather is questionable in this area
during those winter months. We will begin in March on the second Wednesday, at
10:30 a.m. and our featured Netwest member will be Bob Grove, author of several books, including his memoir, Misadventures of an Only Child. Visit him online at bobgrove.org.
We had
visitors today from Murphy, NC and from Blue Ridge, GA. I was happy to see two writers from my classes at Tri-CountyCommunity College in Murphy, Kim Delaney and Larry Weas. I look forward to
teaching again in March 2015 at TCCC. The title of the class is Write Your Life
Stories. We will meet from 6 – 8 p.m. on Tuesday evenings. See www.glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.com
for more description of the class.
We gave away
five or six door prizes today – books and writing magazines. We talked about
how, as writers, we bond when we share our poems and stories with each other.
We get to know each other in a way that non-writers do not. Maren Mitchell said when she first read her work in public her
knees were shaking but now she could read before a thousand people and it would
not bother her. I hope all our beginning writers and poets hear that and know
that one day all their fears will disappear, and they will enjoy sharing their
work with others.
The program
was all open mic today and we heard stories, poems and essays from those
gathered around the table. I read a poem from Christmas Presence, an anthology edited by Celia Miles and Nancy Dillingham.
The poem, Southside Diner by Cecily Wells,
showed a glimpse of the loneliness of some people at Christmas time and made us
all feel grateful.
Some photos
of our day:
From left: Kim, Totsie, Maren, Joan, and Bill
Linda, Joan and Jim |
Not pictured, but present: Larry Weas and Louisa, Jim's wife.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
COFFEE WITH THE POETS AND WRITERS OCTOBER 8
Coffee with the Poets and Writers, a monthly literary event held at Blue Mountain Coffee and Grill, 30 NC Hwy 141, Murphy, NC will hold a reading at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 8. Two members of NCWN West, Bob Grove and Mary Michelle Brodine Keller, are featured on the program this month. The public is invited.
Bob Grove was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but now lives in the mountains of North Carolina. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Kent State University and his Master of Science at Florida Atlantic University. His diversified curriculum enabled him to teach courses in English, journalism, creative writing, physics, chemistry, biology and psychology.
Bob has been an ABC-TV public affairs director, an on-air personality, and the founder and publisher of Monitoring Times magazine. A prose critique facilitator for the North Carolina Writers’ Network West and an officer with the Ridgeline Literary Alliance, he has published seventeen books and hundreds of articles in sixteen national magazines.
Now retired after 35 years as founder of Grove Enterprises, an international supplier of radio communications equipment, Bob has more time to write. Most recently, he has published a mystery novella (Secrets of Magnolia Manor), his memoir (Misadventures of an Only Child), a collection of children’s stories (Adventures of Kaylie and Jimmy), and has written several flash fiction stories as well as some forgettable poetry. Bob’s public readings are popular as a performance art form, typified by his annual December reading, in costume and dialect, of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the John C. Campbell Folk School.His collected writings on technical topics are now available online, as is his Abnormal Psychology which he uses as a teaching text in continuing education classes. As an experienced auctioneer, he has also published a collector’s guide, Antiquing. All Bob’s publications are available on Amazon Kindle. Visit his website at www.bobgrove.org.
Mary Michelle Brodine Keller, a published poet and writer, and a seasoned genealogist lives in Hiawassee, GA. She served as publicity director for NCWN West and is on faculty at Writers Circle around the Table where she teaches a class, Bones to Flesh, writing about your ancestors.
In her writing, she draws inspiration from something she has seen or an incident that intrigues her — a casually spoken phrase becomes the cornerstone of an essay, short story or poem. She is a visual artist and paints in oil, water color and pastels. She is also a musician and plays piano, guitar and dulcimer.
Known to her friends as Mary Mike, her poems have been published in The Mountain Lynx, Freeing Jonah III and IV, and Lights in the Mountains. Her poem "As The Deer" was published in ECHOES ACROSS THE BLUE RIDGE Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Coffee with the Poets and Writers is open to the public at no charge. Bring a poem or short story and read at Open Mic. Those attending are invited to join the writers and poets for lunch and to enjoy a social hour.
This event is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network West. Contact NCWN West Representative, Glenda Beall, at 828-389-4441 or gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com for information.
Bob Grove was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but now lives in the mountains of North Carolina. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Kent State University and his Master of Science at Florida Atlantic University. His diversified curriculum enabled him to teach courses in English, journalism, creative writing, physics, chemistry, biology and psychology.
Bob has been an ABC-TV public affairs director, an on-air personality, and the founder and publisher of Monitoring Times magazine. A prose critique facilitator for the North Carolina Writers’ Network West and an officer with the Ridgeline Literary Alliance, he has published seventeen books and hundreds of articles in sixteen national magazines.
Now retired after 35 years as founder of Grove Enterprises, an international supplier of radio communications equipment, Bob has more time to write. Most recently, he has published a mystery novella (Secrets of Magnolia Manor), his memoir (Misadventures of an Only Child), a collection of children’s stories (Adventures of Kaylie and Jimmy), and has written several flash fiction stories as well as some forgettable poetry. Bob’s public readings are popular as a performance art form, typified by his annual December reading, in costume and dialect, of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the John C. Campbell Folk School.His collected writings on technical topics are now available online, as is his Abnormal Psychology which he uses as a teaching text in continuing education classes. As an experienced auctioneer, he has also published a collector’s guide, Antiquing. All Bob’s publications are available on Amazon Kindle. Visit his website at www.bobgrove.org.
Mary Michelle Brodine Keller, a published poet and writer, and a seasoned genealogist lives in Hiawassee, GA. She served as publicity director for NCWN West and is on faculty at Writers Circle around the Table where she teaches a class, Bones to Flesh, writing about your ancestors.
In her writing, she draws inspiration from something she has seen or an incident that intrigues her — a casually spoken phrase becomes the cornerstone of an essay, short story or poem. She is a visual artist and paints in oil, water color and pastels. She is also a musician and plays piano, guitar and dulcimer.
Known to her friends as Mary Mike, her poems have been published in The Mountain Lynx, Freeing Jonah III and IV, and Lights in the Mountains. Her poem "As The Deer" was published in ECHOES ACROSS THE BLUE RIDGE Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Coffee with the Poets and Writers is open to the public at no charge. Bring a poem or short story and read at Open Mic. Those attending are invited to join the writers and poets for lunch and to enjoy a social hour.
This event is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network West. Contact NCWN West Representative, Glenda Beall, at 828-389-4441 or gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com for information.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Coffee with the Poets and Writers in Far Western North Carolina
Coffee with the Poets and Writers, a monthly literary
event held at Blue Mountain Coffee and Grill, 30 NC Hwy 141, Murphy, NC will hold
a reading at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, September 10 by two outstanding published
poets, Carole Thompson of Blairsville and Peg Bresnahan of Transylvania County NC. The public is invited.
Carole Richard Thompson and her husband moved to
Blairsville, in the North Georgia mountains, 21 years ago. After being a
portrait artist for many years, she began to study writing, and joined the North Carolina Writer’s Network. She credits her love for writing to her friend and
mentor, Nancy Simpson, whose classes in creative writing and poetry have been
her greatest source of inspiration.
Her first short story, "A Bag of Sugar for
Paula," was published in The Liquorian Magazine, and also the
anthology, Christmas Presence, published by Catawba Press. Her story,
"The Uniform" appeared in the anthology, Clotheslines,
published by Catawba Press. Her essay, “The Common Thread” won the 1991 NSDAR
Best of Show and National Gold Honors Award in their National Heritage
Committee, Literature and Drama Division Contest.
Carole’s poetry has appeared in anthologies, A Sense of
Place, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, and Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places as
well as in poetry journals. In 2013, her poetry book, Enough, was published by
FutureCycle Press. The title poem, “Enough,” is a compliment to a long marriage
which endured ups and downs. She recalls wartime partings, letters, and phone
calls – never enough. But in the later years, being together every day is now
enough.
Peg Bresnahan’s second poetry collection, In a Country
None of Us Called Home, was recently published by Press 53. Peg is a member
of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She received her MFA in Poetry from
Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpeliar. Her work has been published in
numerous literary journals and anthologies.
She lives in Cedar Mountain, NC with husband, sculptor, Dan Bresnahan. She
says she moved to the mountains of western North Carolina and the land of
waterfalls from the Door County Peninsula of Wisconsin, exchanging what she
thinks of as the horizontal water of Lake Michigan for water that is
decidedly vertical.
Kathy Smith Bowers, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina
said of Peg’s latest book, "This is one of the most beautifully crafted
and moving collections I have read in a long time."
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Coffee with the
Poets and Writers is open to the public at no charge. Bring a poem or short
story and read at Open Mic. Those attending are invited to join the
writers and poets after the event as we pull tables together and enjoy a social
hour.
Coffee with the Poets and Writers is sponsored by North
Carolina Writers’ Network West. Contact NCWN West Representative, Glenda Beall,
at 828-389-4441 or gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com
for information.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
COFFEE WITH THE POETS AND WRITERS
2014 updated schedule
Second Wednesday of each month,10:30 a.m. Blue Mountain Restaurant in Peachtree near Murphy Medical Hospital and Tri-County College in Cherokee, County, NC. You might take home one of the door prizes offered each month.
Stay for lunch when we pull the tables together and visit.
MARCH 12 Deanna Klingel
APRIL 9– Brenda Kay Ledford
MAY 14 -- Lucy Gratton
and Joan Howard
JUNE 11 – Estelle Rice
JULY 9 -- Glenda Beall
AUGUST 13 -- Staci
Bell and Linda Smith
SEPTEMBER 10 – Carole Thompson
OCTOBER 8 – Mary Mike Keller and Bob Grove
NOVEMBER 12 -- Karen Holmes – Paul Schofield
DECEMBER – open mic
and sign up for next year
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