The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains: Essays on Journeys Past and Present

If you love the southern Appalachians and Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard and Gary Snyder, read this beautifully written and deeply thought-provoking book.

--Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain

June 21, 7:00 PM, Macon County Public Library, Franklin, NC

 Brent Martin will read from his new book: The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains: Essays on Journeys Past and Present

Announcement of newest Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo

Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 info@poets.org

Please join us in congratulating our Chancellor Joy Harjo on being named our nation’s newest Poet Laureate! Harjo was elected an Academy Chancellor earlier this year and received the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry in 2015. As a poet, a teacher, and a literary leader Joy Harjo has touched many lives and many communities. She now has what is one of the largest platforms a poet can aspire to and it is a well-deserved honor. We're thrilled for Joy and for the nation on this historic appointment. We’ve enjoyed wonderful partnerships with our Poets Laureate. Since the position was created in 1937—a year after our organization was incorporated—more than half of the poets in this esteemed role have been Academy Chancellors. We look forward to continuing our tradition of celebrating our nation’s Poet Laureate and supporting Joy however we might. Read this special Q&A with Joy about her new role.  Learn more about Joy Harjo. Read poems by Joy Harjo.

DAVID JOY - novelist speaks in Waynesville, NC at Blue Ridge Books June 22nd

Saturday, June 22nd, 3:00 PM - BLUE RIDGE BOOKS - WAYNESVILLE, NC

Each year books are sold at the Friends of the Library Annual Meeting. This year’s speaker is a local author with international acclaim—David Joy. 

David has published 3 novels and a memoir, as well as numerous essays and stories for national publications such as The New York Times Magazine. Joy’s most recent novel, The Line that Held Us won the Southern Book Prize for fiction.

An excellent interview about David Joy who is a presenter for A Day for Writers.

https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article216273940.html