Mary Ricketson on the Program to Read at CWP June 13

Coffee with the Poets will have two Netwest featured readers this month, June 13, 10:30 a.m. Mary Ricketson is also on the program Wednesday with Maren Mitchell.

Mary Ricketson’s poetry has been published in her chapbook, I Hear the River Call My Name, Lights in the Mountains, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Freeing Jonah IV, Freeing Johah V, and Wild Goose Poetry Review, Future Cycle Press, Your Daily Poem, various magazines and blogs, and in Disorgananza, a private collection distributed among family and friends. She won the gold medal for poetry in the 2011 Cherokee County Senior Games/Silver Arts and silver medal for 2012. She won first place in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest national poetry contest.

Mary writes a monthly column, Woman to Woman, for The Cherokee Scout. She is a long time member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. Mary says she writes to satisfy a hunger, to taste life all the way down to the last drop. She gains perspective from family and friends, her Appalachian home, and her life’s work as a counselor. Writing poetry places her in kinship with her own life.

Mary Ricketson is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Murphy, North Carolina. She brings more than thirty years experience to her work, with twenty-five years in private practice. She is a founding board member of REACH. She has a special interest in women’s issues, victims of abuse, and family and couple relationships. She offers innovative ways to effect change in difficult life patterns, including Journey to Intuition and Neurofeedback. She is listed in Who’s Who in America.

Come out to hear Mary and Maren share their delightful poetry at Coffee with the Poets on Wednesday, June 13.

Liar's Bench -- FREE Showings on June 9th

Hey Liars Bench fans. Just wanted you to know that we have a special treat for you this Saturday in downtown Waynesville. As a part of the second-annual Appalachian Lifestyle Celebration we're going to play
not one, but two free-admission performances for you inside Main Street Perks (next to the old Whitman's Bakery, now City Bakery). First performance starts at 1 pm. The better parking will probably be either in the town parking garage and/or in the city parking behind main street.

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Maren O. Mitchell reads this month at Coffee with the Poets

Maren O. Mitchell

A member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network West is featured each month at Coffee with the Poets. Maren Mitchell, outstanding poet and native of North Carolina, will read Wednesday, June 13, 10:30 a.m. at Café Touche, 82 Main Street in Hayesville, NC.
Anyone who enjoys writing and reading poetry is welcome to come and listen or read an original poem or short prose piece. The prose can be fiction or non-fiction of no more than 1000 words.

I’ve known Maren Mitchell for a number of years. We partnered in Nancy Simpson’s class on putting together a chapbook. Maren’s poetry makes us think about things we might have never thought about before. She has a unique way of seeing the world around her. While growing up, she lived in Bordeaux, France and Kaiserslautern, Germany. Presently she teaches origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, North Carolina. She lives nearby in Young Harris, Georgia with her husband and two cats.

Coffee with the Poets at Cafe Touche

Kudos to Mary Ricketson

Mary Ricketson's poem, “Lost in the Roar of Big Santeetlah” was published in Your Daily Poem, June 2. “Building the House on Hanging Dog Creek, “ was published in Wild Goose Poetry Review in May.  “Ten O'Clock,”  won the silver medal in the Cherokee County Senior Games/Silver Arts, 2012, and  “To My Only Child,” and “Born to Walk,” were published in Future Cycle Press earlier this year.

Kudos to Deanna Klingel

Good news from Deanna Klingel: On Sunday at Canton Arts Festival in Canton, Georgia, Tracy Ruckman of Write Integrity Publishing, presented me with a contract for Cracks in the Ice.Today it is official. Cracks in the Ice, YA Fiction, is the story of the niece of a mafia boss whose dream of Olympic skating stardom is shattered by mafia war and by her own poor judgement. After spiraling into depression and alcoholism, God's love comes to her through those who still love her, and help her to find forgiveness, repentance, and a victory other than the gold she'd envisioned years earlier. The book will be out in the fall.

June Folk School Readings DATE CHANGE

Netwest is always pleased to be able to have member readings at the John C. Campbell Folk School.  Due to a schedule change at the Folk School, please mark your calendar accordingly: the date of the reading at the John C. Campbell Folk School in June is Thursday, June 28 (no longer the 21st), 7pm, Keith House.  Linda Smith and Brenda Kay Ledford will be the featured readers. 

Netwest News Kudos

Thanks goes to our great newsletter editor, Karen Paul Holmes.  She will be relinquishing her volunteer role as editor (but staying with us!), and while the newsletter is in transition, I am posting information recently submitted.  So read about your fellow writers below and celebrate with them.  If you are interested in taking over the duty of the newsletter please contact me at rosemary28rr@gmail.com.  Thanks, Karen, for years of great work!! 

JC Walkup, Penny Morse, and Buffy Queen, co-publishers and editors of fresh...stories, poems, ideas, a twice-yearly published literary magazine distributed throughout Western NC, want to let all Netwest authors know that they are seeking short stories, poems and commentaries loosely relating to the theme "the elements: wind, water, air, earth and fire". If anyone wishes more information, contact JC at jcwalkup@bellsouth.net or Penny at fairlight_inc@hotmail.com or Buffy at jafrabq@aol.com. The next issue of fresh will be published in late spring/ early summer.

Brenda Kay Ledford’s poem, “Art Quilting,” appeared in Wild Goose Poetry Review, winter issue, 2012.  Her poem, "The Rock," was published in fresh magazine (issue IV).  Brenda Kay Ledford was the featured poet in The Poets Art Issue #45.

Janice Moore’s manuscript titled “Windows Filled with Gifts” was selected as a semifinalist for the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize presented by the University of Arkansas Press. Moore appeared as one of three featured poets reading original works at the Poetry Road Show presented by the Georgia Poetry Society and the University Press of North Georgia in Dahlonega, April 14.

Jack J. Prather announces his new book, Twelve Notables in Western North Carolina. Visit www.futurenowpublishing.com to view the book cover and photos of the 12 Notables, who are:

 

• Rev. Dr. Dan Matthews, O.B.E. - Waynesville

Priest at Ground Zero on 9-11 / Recipient Order of the British Empire

• Musician David Holt - Fairview

Grammy winning Musician-Storyteller / PBS-TV and NPR-Radio Hostf

• Captain Ray F. West, Jr., USNR, Ret. - Flat Rock

Moldova World Childrens Fund Founder / UNCA Distinguished Alumnus

• Judge Harry C. Martin – Biltmore Forest

Former NC and Cherokee Supreme Court Justice / Honorary Cherokee

• Olson Huff, MD, FAAP - Black Mountain

Founding Medical Director of Mission Children’s Hospital, Asheville

• Glenis Redmond – Asheville

Hall of Fame Performance Poet / Kennedy Center Teaching Artist

• Douglas M. Orr, Ph.D. – Black Mountain

President Emeritus Warren Wilson College / Author / Musician

Billie Ruth Sudduth – Bakersville

Basket Artist / Smithsonian Collection / 1st Female NC Living Treasure

• Matthew J. Hayes, M.D. - Hendersonville

Pioneer of National Emergency Medical Services / ACEP Fellow

• Joe Epley, APR - Tryon

Global Public Relations Leader / UNC Journalism School Hall of Fame

• Richard Ritter – Bakersville

Glass Artist / NC Living Treasure 2011 / Governor’s Award as Fire Chief

• Julyan Davis - Asheville

Southern Art Oil Painter / Galleries on East-West Coasts and Europe

Prather is donating a portion of book proceeds to the new Young Writers Scholarship he founded at Warren Wilson College scholarship.

To e-mail Jack J. Prather: prathergroup@aol.com

Betty Reed’s “Grandmother’s Pattern” was published in the winter 2011 of Lucidity Poetry Journal.

Martha O. Adams presented It’s Your Resume’ Caves; 18 Wheelers; Beetles & the Blues on April 16 at the Henderson County Library. In advertising She her program, she said, “I’ve been digging deep this year for poems that will resonate in your bones. I promise new poems that fly like bats from great grandmother’s cave; poems that capture events and sounds like July 4th fireworks; poems that finger the pain of impending loss, and make acquaintance with wee spiders in my garden. I’ll be bringing back a strong favorite; the poem “Tommy and the Generals” from my collection What Your Heart Needs to Know. A new major poem “I Am the Great Granddaughter of the Kansas Soddy and Thundering Buffalo” will come even more alive for you through family treasures that will be on display.

From Robert S. King:

I thought you might like to know about a free Amazon service of benefit to writers.

If you have books for sale on Amazon, you can take advantage of Author Central, authorcentral.amazon.com. This allows you to set up an author page that links to all books you sell on Amazon. In addition, you can link to your blog posts easily; e.g., Blogspot articles. A nice bonus feature is the ability to post a public calendar of your events.It's a nice, neat package and is free. Simply go to the link above and create an author account, then follow the easy instructions to add content to your author page.

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A little free advertising never hurts!

 May 17 Liars Bench show Osley Bird Saunooke: "Colorful Chief of the

Cherokee" had a full house at Mountain Heritage Center.

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WRGC morning personality Roy Burnette did a great interview with Gary Carden on May 11. They talked about everything from Gary's new play "Outlander" (opens Saturday June 2 at the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville) to the next Liars Bench show about former Cherokee Chief Osley Saunooke, Thursday May 17 at 7:00 pm at WCUs Mountain Heritage Center. The Liars Bench Bunch looks forward to seeing you at the Liars Bench  in Burnsville Saturday June 2 at the Parkway Playhouse. Recently, The Liars Bench, in conjunction with the Mountain Heritage

Center, developed a grant proposal that was funded by the Jackson County Arts Council.  The North Carolina Arts Council works to make North Carolina The Creative State where a robust arts industry produces a creative economy, vibrant communities, children prepared for the 21st century and lives filled with discovery and learning. The Arts Council accomplishes this in partnership with artists and arts organizations, other organizations that use the arts to make their communities stronger and North Carolinians-young and old-who enjoy and participate in the arts. The Arts Council is a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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