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| Poet Mary Ricketson |
Original art by local and regional artists will be available for $50., music by Heidi Holton, and samples of pizza and beer by Hoppy Trout Brewing Co., Andrews, NC. Mary will talk about poetry and display her books.
On May 5, 2017, poet Mary Ricketson will be the featured author at the Curiosity Shop Bookstore, Valley River Ave, Murphy NC, during the first Friday art walk of the year, the Murphy Art Walk, held from 5-8 PM.
Mary
Ricketson of Murphy NC, has been writing poetry for 20 years; to satisfy a
hunger, to taste life down to the very last drop. She is
inspired by nature and her work as a mental health counselor. Her poetry has been published in Wild Goose Poetry Review, Future
Cycle Press, Journal of Kentucky Studies, Lights in the Mountains,
Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Freeing Jonah, her chapbook I Hear the River Call my Name, and her poetry book Hanging Dog Creek. She is the Cherokee County Representative
for the North Carolina Writers Network-West, and is the president of Ridgeline
Literary Alliance.
She
won the gold medal for poetry in the 2011 Cherokee County Senior
Games/Silver Arts and silver medal for 2012 and 2013, and first place
in the 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national
poetry contest.
She
writes a monthly column, "Women to Women", for The Cherokee Scout, Murphy's newspaper. She is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, an
organic blueberry farmer, and is currently working on a new
collection of poetry.
