Come on out to Coffee with the Poets and Writers, fellow poets and prose writers!
When: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10:30 AM
Where: Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson St., Hayesville, NC. Phone #828-389-8401
What to bring: Something to read for open Mic.
Who is reading? That would be Catherine Carter who directs the English Education Program at Western Carolina University.
Catherine Carter: Born
on the eastern shore of Maryland and raised there by wolves and vultures,
Catherine Carter lives with her husband in Cullowhee, near Western Carolina
University, where she teaches in the English Education and Professional Writing
programs. Her most recent full-length collection is The Swamp Monster at Home (LSU, 2012); her first, The Memory of Gills (LSU, 2006) received
the 2007 Roanoke-Chowan Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association. Her chapbook Marks of the Witch won Jacar Press’ 2014
chapbook contest; other awards include the 2013 poetry award from Still: The Journal, the 2014 Poet
Laureate’s award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, placing twice in the
Asheville Poetry Review’s annual William Matthews Prize poetry contests, and
several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her
work has also appeared in Best American
Poetry 2009, Orion, Poetry, North
Carolina Literary Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Tar River Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She
does editorial work for Cider Press
Review and One.
Don't miss this great poet at Coffee with the Poets and Writers, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network-West. This event is scheduled the third Wednesday of each month at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC.
Catherine will be teaching a poetry workshop on May 6, 2017 at A Day for Writers, a writing conference in Sylva, NC, at the Jackson County Public Library. Her topic will be: 'Free Verse Isn’t’: Sound and Structure in Free Forms". Here is the link for A Day for Writers: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Writers and poets in the far western mountain area of North Carolina and bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee post announcements, original work and articles on the craft of writing.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
We're Back: Writers' Night Out 2017 Schedule
This little guy won't be reading but you can! |
Union County Community Center
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Blairsville, GA
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2nd Fridays of the month at 7 pm
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Reading followed by open mic
Here's our calendar:
April 14: Robert Kendrick and Newton Smith
May 12: Diana Anhalt
June 9: Glenda Beall
July 14: Christopher Martin
Aug 11: Tribute to Tom Lux + humorous poetry open mic
Sept 8: Andrea Jurjevic and Jason Allen
Oct 13: Natalie Grant
Nov 10: Dana Wildsmith
Open mic follows for poetry or prose readers (3 minutes each)
Contact Karen Paul Holmes for more info
kpaulholmesATgmailDOTCOM
Monday, February 27, 2017
Kakalak Poets Read at City Lights on March 11
SYLVA, NC – CITY LIGHTS BOOK STORE
3 E. Jackson Street, Sylva, NC 28779
Saturday, Mar. 11, 3:00 PM
828-586-9499. Hosted by Eon Alden
The editors of Kakalak 2016, Anthology of Carolina Poets, are holding a reading of poets published in the anthology on Saturday, March 11 in Sylva, NC. Richard Taylor, who has co-edited this publication for years, will be there, along with other editors, some of whom will take the reins with Kakalak 2017 when Richard moves on to other endeavors. It is expected to be a real celebration of this anthology, past, present and future. I look forward to being there and to reading my poem published in the 2009 edition.
Kakalak is an annual publication of poetry and art by North and South Carolina writers and artists. All work is selected through an annual contest which has a May deadline. Guidelines for the next upcoming contest are posted on the MSR website now.
Poets who will read their poems published in the 2016 edition and in former editions are:
- Staci Bell
- Beverly Finney
- Catherine Carter
- Kelly Lenox
- Kenneth Chamlee
- Kelly Lenox
- Chris Laskowski
- Susan Lefler
- Peg Bresnahan
- Jeannette Reid
- Glenda Beall
- Lynn Santy Tanner
The anthology is published by Main Street Rag.
KAKALAK Contact Person, Richard Taylor, rtaylor947@aol.com
SBN: 978-1-59948-598-0, 150 pages, Cover price $15.00
Friday, February 24, 2017
Registration and Schedule Links for A Day for Writers
A Day for Writers - May 6, 2017 -
Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, NC
A one day writing conference for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's literature, and anyone who wants to publish their writing. Please find links for registration and schedule below.
Registration Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Schedule Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html
Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, NC
A one day writing conference for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's literature, and anyone who wants to publish their writing. Please find links for registration and schedule below.
Registration Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Schedule Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html
Friday, February 17, 2017
Paul Donovan, member of NCWN-West for many years, passed away.
Paul Donovan, poet, from Murphy, NC, published an autobiographical book of poetry, Ramblings of an Idiot, and is published in journals and anthologies including Lights in the Mountains. He spent his time since becoming aware of the healing art of Reiki, writing poetry and essays from a more
spiritual prospective. Paul was the host of Fireside Friday, a monthly reading sponsored by the Curiosity Book store at the Shoppes of Murphy. Some years before, as NCWN-West Rep for Cherokee County, he held a reading each month at Shoebooties restaurant.
Paul also initiated the first Netwest anthology, Lights in the Mountains, with his ideas for a poetry anthology by local poets. For many years he conducted the annual essay and poetry contest for high school students of Cherokee County. He was well liked and it seemed easy for Paul to collect funds from local businesses in Murphy to award cash prizes to the student winners.The winners of the contests and their parents were guests for a dinner at Shoebooties each spring.
From the early days of Netwest, Paul was active and a loyal member. In more recent years, his writing turned to personal essays about his childhood and growing up in Pennsylvania. He enrolled in a class on memoir at Tri-County Community College and his classmates enjoyed his stories.
If you knew Paul and would like to add to this post, just leave a comment. If you don't have a gmail account, you can easily publish as anonymous. Write your name in your comment or leave it anonymous.
We will miss Paul. Condolences to his lovely wife, Ann.
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Paul Donovan, Ramblings
of an Idiot Main
Street Rag, 1999
Eroding
Conversation
I
feel the inner confusion
Much deeper than what
I’ve
ever felt before
Control is just a word
until
you lose it
It’s like the babbling brook
that
slowly erodes the
unmovable force
that
once was me
the rains come
the
brook gets higher,
the
erosion continues
perhaps there is peace,
if
I should decide to go with
the
flow.
That would be nice, but
for
some ungodly reason
I
can’t
I just can’t
Shattered Mirror
Sometimes,
I feel as though I am a mirror
others
look into and take out what is
best
in me
leaving the rest behind,
the
shattered unwanted pieces that
are
me too.
MISTY SHADOWS
Morning
mist
clinging
to my window,
like
a salamander
to
the wall
of
a swimming pool
sensing
his demise.
Peering
through the dense fog,
seeing
only dark shadows,
trying
to make sense
of
a fuliginous world,
I realize,
my
tears are adding
to
the darkness.
I may never
again
see the light of day,
as it once was.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Open Mic reading at John C. Campbell Folk School, tonight at 7:00 PM
Sponsored by the NCWN-West and the John C. Campbell Folk School
One Folk School Road
Brasstown, NC 28902
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