Now Available: Second Book by Karen Paul Holmes

"Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father’s Macedonian roots to her own maturity, to the life of a woman who is smart and well-read yet knows her way around a Coney Island hot dog..."

- Poet David Kirby

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"Her title may signal quantum physics, but it’s also how close this poet whispers in her reader’s ear."

- Poet Denise Duhamel

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Betty Jameson Reed has an essay included in Fifty over Sixty and a poem appearing in Lucidity Poetry Journal

Reed's essay, a personal narrative, has been included in Wayne H. Drumheller's Fifty over Sixty and her poem, "Food," appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Lucidity Poetry Journal.

Betty Jamerson Reed, a native of Western North Carolina, enjoys playing with words. Her poems have appeared in Lucidity Poetry Journal, Living with Grief, and Friends Journal, as well as anthologies such as Echoes across the Blue Ridge, (2010), It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree (2016), as well as in the special "Signature (2016) " and "Windows (2017)" anthologies of River Poets. Two of her poems appear in Mountain Mist (2017) 

She is also the author of two award-winning works of nonfiction: The Brevard Rosenwald School (2004) and School