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.
