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Nancy Simpson's LIVING ABOVE THE FROST LINE, New and Selected Poems was published by Carolina Wren Press (N.C. Laureate Series, 2010.) She is the author of ACROSS WATER and NIGHT STUDENT, State Street Press, still available on WWW at Alibris and Books Again. Her poems have been published in Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review and other literary magazines. "Carolina Bluebirds" was published in THE POETS GUIDE TO THE BIRDS, Anhinga Press). "Grass" was reprinted in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Southern Poetry Review: DON'T LEAVE HUNGRY ( U.of Arkansas Press.) Seven poems were reprinted in the textbook, SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN POETRY,(McFarland.) Two poems were published in SOLO CAFE, Two more poems were published in SOLO NOVO."In the Nantahala Gorge" was published in Pisgah Review. "Studying Winter" was reprinted in Pirene's Fountain Anthology and "The Collection" in Collecting Life Anthology. Most recently, Southern Poetry Review Edited by James Smith, published "Our Great Depression," and The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. VII: NORTH CAROLINA,Edited by William Wright, reprinted "Leaving in the Dead of Winter."

Saturday, October 26, 2013

WRITERS’ NIGHT OUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH NCWN WEST


KAREN PAUL HOLMES ANNOUNCES: 

Our last Writers’ Night Out for 2013 features
Katie Chaple & Travis Denton (highly accomplished and entertaining poets)


Writers’ Night Out
Friday, Nov 8, 2013
Brothers Willow Ranch Restaurant, Young Harris, GA
Private Room upstairs (can access by ramp from upper parking lot) 

6:00-7:00 eat dinner or munchies and socialize (come early to order dinner)
7:00-ish announcements and featured reader
Break 
7:45-ish Open mike, sign up at door, limit 3 minutes per poetry or prose reader (Please time yourself at home, let's make it fair to everyone. Prose readers can often eliminate some details and still captivate the audience with their piece).

Travis and Katie are husband and wife who both teach at universities: Katie at Univ of W. Georgia and Travis at Georgia Tech, where he's poet Tom Lux's right hand man. 
Please see press release attached for their bios. 


More Information

Food and beverage service begins at 6:00 p.m. (optional and self-pay) with the free program following at 7:15. The public is welcome, and can sign up at the door for the open microphone. 

GUEST READERS:

Chaple is the author of Pretty Little Rooms (Press 53, August 2011), winner of the 2012 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry through Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She teaches poetry and writing at the University of West Georgia and edits Terminus Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Antioch Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mead, New South, Passages North, StorySouth, The Rumpus, Washington Square, and others.
Denton is the Associate Director of Poetry @ TECH as well as a McEver Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech. He is also founding editor of the literary arts publication, Terminus Magazine. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies, such as Mead, The Atlanta Review, The Greensboro Review, Washington Square, Forklift, Rattle, Tygerburning, Birmingham Poetry Review, and the Cortland Review. His second collection of poems, When Pianos Fall from the Sky, was published in October 2012 by Marick Press.
Writers’ Night Out is sponsored by NC Writers Network-West and takes place monthly from March through November on the second Friday at Brother’s Willow Ranch Restaurant, 6223 Hwy 76 West, Young Harris, phone 706-379-1272. The event takes place in the private room upstairs, accessible via stairs inside the restaurant or ramp (no stairs) from the upper parking lot. For open microphone, each reader of prose or poetry has three minutes (strictly enforced to allow for everyone). For more information, please contact Karen Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.


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