Brenda Kay Ledford Published in Angels on Earth Magazine

Brenda Kay Ledford's article, "Angels Over Iraq," appeared in ANGELS ON EARTH MAGAZINE, May/June 2015 issue.  This is a publication by "Guideposts."

www.guideposts.org/Angels-on-Earth/Magazine

Hendersonville Open Mic Welcomes Guest

Patricia Vestal hosted the monthly Open Mic at the library in Hendersonville recently.

They had a special guest this month. Lisa Lopez Snyder, the current Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, read from her first novel, which she is finalizing.  

Pat thanks OM supporters Ken Fitch and Lana Hendershott who had met Snyder at a reception and told her about the event. Accompanying her, and providing some information on their program was a Ranger who works with the program. She is also a writer who is eager to attend and read at future OM events. For information on the program and Lisa Lopez Snyder go to http://www.nps.gov/carl/learn/news/wir.htm

Despite the smaller number of readers this month, the material read was excellent, some of it hilarious, some quite powerful, as is usually the case with this diverse group.

Announcements were made about the upcoming Bookfest at Blue Ridge Community College this week-end, April 24 and 25.  

The next Open Mic reading will be held at the library May 18.  To receive the monthly announcement for reader registration,  email opmiclit1@gmail.com.  Notices go out about a week prior to the reading which is the third Monday of each month.

Poet and visual artist, Laurence Holden featured in Shellman, Georgia exhibit

CENTER FOR ART AND REHABILITATIVE ENERGIES

SHELLMAN, GEORGIA

March 8 - May 3, 2015

Paintings and Illustrated Poems

"We  spend so much of our lives seeking to understand the patterns around us.

This I do too.

And then there is the gravity that bears upon all of them,

and us,

as well as the desire for ascension.

These paintings and poems are my way to understand this. "

- Laurence Holden

Here are a few selections from the exhibit:

"Rainy Mountain Dreaming," 2012

oil on canvas 49"h. x 39"w.

"Of Wintering Willows," 2013
acrylic on birch plywood.
48"h. x 36"w. x 2 3/4"d. 

"Seedlight:Under December Moon, Dreaming," 2014

oil on canvas  20”h. x 16”w. 

 

 

"Seedlight: In Winter's Evensong," 2014

oil on canvas 14"h. x 12"w.

"As We Pass Our Words"

Video: A Poetry Reading