Coffee with the Poets and Writers
(CWPW) will feature poet Richard Montfort Cary and writer Marcia Hawley Barnes
on Wednesday, September 18, at 10:30 a.m. at the Moss Memorial Library in
Hayesville, NC.
The event is free and open to the public. An open mic will
follow the presentations. Bring a poem or a short prose piece to participate.
CWPW is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network-West (NCWN-W) which also
includes writers in Towns, Union, Fannin, and Rabun Counties in Georgia.
Cary began writing poetry in high
school and continues to this day. In
1964, he received a BFA in Theatre Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He
spent six years in regional theatres, before moving year-round to Nantucket
Island MA, to become a designer & builder of custom homes. In 1985, he
founded Actors Theatre of Nantucket, the Island’s professional theatre company,
and served as Artistic Director for twenty years. He retired in 2004 and moved
to Asheville.
In 2017, Cary and his artist wife
Cheryl moved to Hayesville, to an older house still under renovation, which
they share with their two lively dogs. His son is a comedy writer in Hollywood
CA. His daughter is an actress and
script supervisor.
Besides being an accomplished
harmonica player, Cary’s claim to fame is his great aunt, Olive Dame Campbell,
founder of The John C Campbell Folk School. In March 2019, he played Harry
Baker in Neil Simon’s “Come Blow Your Horn” at the Peacock Performing Arts
Center.
Born
in Tacoma, Washington, Marcia Barnes’ early life was in sight of the mountains of the
Pacific Northwest. She studied liberal
arts at the University of Puget Sound and design at the University of Houston She received a BFA from the University of South Florida. Further studies in Spanish and French
languages were at Hillsborough Community College, University of Tampa, Macon
State College, and Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia. In 2014, she earned a Doctor of Christian
Theology degree from the International Miracle Institute, Pensacola, Florida.
Following a career in marketing,
Barnes began writing in 2004. She has
written and illustrated a heritage cookbook, The Little Book of Secret Family Recipes; her poetry was published
in 2015, in Stone, River, Sky, An
Anthology of Georgia Poems.
Tobijah
was Barnes’ first children’s book to be published; the sequel, A Day with Tobijah, was published in
2019. Barnes also writes a monthly book
review for the Clay County Progress in Hayesville, North Carolina.
Ms. Barnes is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network and enjoys participating in its local events. She is also a frequent visitor to libraries where she reads to children and shares the adventures of Tobijah and his friends. The author lives in Towns County, Georgia.
Ms. Barnes is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network and enjoys participating in its local events. She is also a frequent visitor to libraries where she reads to children and shares the adventures of Tobijah and his friends. The author lives in Towns County, Georgia.
For more information
about this event, please contact Glenda Beall at: glendabeall@msn.com.
