Coffee with the Poets and Writers, Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 10:00 AM, at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC

Coffee with the Poets and Writers

Hayesville, NC

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016, 10:00 AM

MOSS MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Our first meeting this year of Coffee with the Poets and Writers will feature two members of the North Carolina Writers’ Network West.  This event will be held at the Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson St, Hayesville, NC 28904.

Joan Howard, well-published poet from Hiawassee, Georgia will share her poetry with us.  Her poems have been published in the Aurorean, Miller's Pond, The Road Not Taken:The Journal of Formal Poetry, Lucid Rhythms, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Eclectic Muse, Victorian Violet, the Deronda Review, Our Pipe Dreams, The Lyric, GPS The Reach of Song, a chapbook, Red Fox Run, and POEM.

Miriam Jones Bradley, from Henderson County, NC, is the author of a children’s book series, The Double Cousins Mysteries, a memoir, All I Have Needed-A Legacy for Life, and You Ain’t From Here, Are Ya, Reflections on Southern Culture from an Outsider. Miram' link is: http://www.miriamjonesbradley.com/

The latter is a collection of articles by Bradley, from a South Carolina newspaper. She will read and speak about her writing experience.

Glenda Beall, a Clay County Representative for NCWN West, facilitates this monthly event each year from March – December. 

Everyone is invited. You can meet other writers, learn about writing events in the area and read a short prose piece or a couple of poems during Open Mic. There is no charge.

Join some of us for lunch after the meeting at Angelo’s on the square.

We appreciate the Moss Library providing a room for us. Coffee with the Poets and Writers is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network West which is a program of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. 

For more information contact Glenda Beall, 828-389-4441.

Glenda Barrett and Bob Grove to read at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC,on Wed., March 16, 2016 at 7:00 PM

JOHN CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL READING, MARCH 16, 2016, AT 7:00 PM

On Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 at 7:00 PM, John Campbell Folk School and NC Writers Network West are sponsoring The Literary Hour, an hour of poetry and prose reading held at Keith House on the JCFS campus, 1 Folk School Rd, Brasstown, NC 28902. This is usually held on the third Thursday of the month but this month is an exception by holding it on the second Wednesday. The reading is free of charge and open to the public. Poet Glenda Barrett and writer Bob Grove will be the featured readers. Both of these authors are residents of the area and published extensively. It should be an entertaining evening. 

Glenda Barrett

Glenda Barrett, a native of Hiawassee, Georgia is an artist, poet and writer. Her work has been widely published in magazines, anthologies and journals. These include Country Women, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Farm and Ranch Living, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Deep South Magazine, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Woman’s World and Greensilk Journal. Her Appalachian artwork is for sale on Fine Art America.com website and her poetry chapbook, When the Sap Rises, published by Finishing Line Press is on sale at Amazon.com.

 


 

Bob Grove

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Bob now lives in the mountains of North Carolina. He earned his BA at Kent State University and his MS at Florida Atlantic University. 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 and an officer with the Ridgeline Literary Alliance, he has published seventeen books and hundreds of articles in sixteen national magazines.

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 has been awarded gold, silver and bronze medals in the Silver Arts literature competition.

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.

All Bob’s publications are available on Amazon Kindle, and you are welcome to visit him at bobgrove.org.


Contact: Lucy Cole Gratton, Cherokee County Representative –NCWN West

828-494-2914
lgratton@hughes.net 

CMA Poetry Workshop with Catherine Carter

NetWest member Catherine Carter will teach a poetry workshop for Cullowhee Mountain Arts from June 26-July 1.  This workshop will offer an opportunity for students to explore their relationship with the nonhuman through poetry; if we've ever been in a place that feels sacred, special, or magical, or had a relationship with animals or gardens, or cherished a secret sense of identification with Batman’s botanical nemesis Poison Ivy, we've participated in the construction of and the relationship with nature.  More, though, if we drive—if we eat—if we breathe, we're also interacting with the nonhuman, because all that we have and are, and all that we’ll ever have or be, comes from the world we inhabit.  This workshop will explore ways to articulate that relationship through language.  We’ll look at the ways in which accessible, enjoyable poems by authors like Robert Morgan, Mary Oliver, Ron Rash, and Sarah Lindsay engage with the nonhuman and with particular places, and we’ll write and revise our own poems about our own engagements with what’s not-us.  Weather permitting, we may go outside to practice the art of looking at what’s there; it’s surprising what you can see in a few minutes, if you pay attention.  Students should leave with new poems to work on and new inspiration for future work; all levels of writers are welcome.


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