May 14th Writer's Night Out ZOOM: Tips for Improving Your Writing, Karen Paul Holmes

James Crews is unable to join us tonight as planned, so here is our new program. 

For the Zoom link and to sign up for open mic,

 please email Glenda Beall: pcncwnwest@gmail.com  

What Can Writers of
Poetry & Prose Learn From 

Song Lyrics?
Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and more, even Gilbert & Sullivan...

Karen Paul Holmes
Reading & Craft Talk
Open Mic 

A longtime lover of words and beautiful writing, Karen Paul Holmes will share favorite song lyrics and point out how we can use similar techniques to improve our writing --  whether fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, or blog posts.  

Karen regularly teaches writing classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School. As a former Vice President-Marketing Communications at a global financial company, and now a freelance writer, Karen has also had articles published in business journals and has led writing workshops at international conferences.

Her poetry has  appeared in about 100 journals and anthologies, and her two books are No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin Books) and Untying the Knot (Aldrich Press). Karen says a dream came true when Garrison Keillor read her poem "Rental Cottage, Maine" on The Writer's Almanac. 

She'd love to hear you read at Open Mic, so if you haven't signed up, there's still time. 

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Open Mic
3-4 minute maximum of poetry or prose (2 poems only, please)

To sign up,  please send Glenda an email (with a sentence she can use to introduce you)  

pcncwnwest@gmail.com 

Rosemary Royston's Poem for Poetry Month

 

Dogwood Winter

Ants raid the bath, wasps claim the washroom

even as the cool of winter looms.

The forsythia sings against a chorus
of green, yet the hue of winter looms.

The bunting’s a blur of vibrant blue,
off-setting winter’s gray loom.

Calves nurse in the open field, chilled
as the nip of winter looms.

Blood buds of azaleas burst forth,
even though winter looms.

The creek hums a rain-filled song
oblivious to the winter that looms.

Rosemary, thyme, and sage grow
in the sunroom, even as winter looms.

Rosemary Royston, author of Second Sight (forthcoming 2021, Kelsay Press) and

Splitting the Soil (Finishing Line Press, 2014), resides in the northeast Georgia mountains with her family. Her poetry and flash fiction have been published in journals such as POEM, Split Rock Review, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry South, KUDZU, Literary Accents, and *82 Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Young Harris College.

https://theluxuryoftrees.wordpress.com/

 

 

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Rosemary Royston

https://theluxuryoftrees.wordpress.com/about/