tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575042710068155542024-03-12T17:30:41.206-07:00Living Above the Frost LineLiving Above the Frost Line is a dwelling place for practicing poets. It is the home of poet, Nancy Simpson. Above the Frost Line we give ourselves some extra growing time. Yes, we know the hard freeze will come, but until it arrives, we shall grow and share our poems.Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.comBlogger630125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-42175442722403023652017-09-25T08:51:00.000-07:002017-09-25T08:51:18.475-07:00LAST DAYS OF MY SUMMER GARDEN 2017<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilKTIf5Czx8kYypltOIBXfvfylFhyphenhyphena1iLBYEUrEnAkjWyFvtgLqmVI47NOdnFwxIwqohf0OKPqC6Pv7fL5CM17Kk_nJAHr2DVxucfqGG0WlteXY_I8JYlISe4uL2vYQ9ztMeUgcd0G3k/s1600/IMG_3489.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNyfWHS5uNhhmV4fv7-B1RUY5Lxn3H0mouM3MTWcbhvZsPTh26m0BH9hSPn-UYyDNrdLxYi6xA5h8O73w5ox7ZhbDoc-uzO2bWNOw8SCatMY-UsIE-E50qfZ_oEzslr38cJsEr_YZmsYY/s1600/100_3775.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNyfWHS5uNhhmV4fv7-B1RUY5Lxn3H0mouM3MTWcbhvZsPTh26m0BH9hSPn-UYyDNrdLxYi6xA5h8O73w5ox7ZhbDoc-uzO2bWNOw8SCatMY-UsIE-E50qfZ_oEzslr38cJsEr_YZmsYY/s320/100_3775.jpg" width="240" /></a><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilKTIf5Czx8kYypltOIBXfvfylFhyphenhyphena1iLBYEUrEnAkjWyFvtgLqmVI47NOdnFwxIwqohf0OKPqC6Pv7fL5CM17Kk_nJAHr2DVxucfqGG0WlteXY_I8JYlISe4uL2vYQ9ztMeUgcd0G3k/s320/IMG_3489.jpg" width="320" /><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Crape Myrtle ) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In many ways, this has been the hardest year of my life. Like my garden, the year is not finished yet.Here above the frost line, we are, as always, hoping for some extended growing time.</span><br />
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(Victory Rose and Diathesis)<br />
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(Playmates in my garden)<br />
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(Angel Wing Begonias) <br />
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(Sedem...Autumn Joy)<br />
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(Black-eyed Susan and ivy)<br />
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(Dallas with Cleome and also sunflowers)<br />
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(Potted Impatiens, Pink Begonias, and potato vine. <br />
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(Purple Coneflowers)<br />
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(An early morning blessing for all on Cherry Mountain)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> ....and a four leaf clover good wish for all of us.</span><br />
<br />Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-67603163041627049982017-05-24T09:15:00.001-07:002017-05-24T09:15:31.452-07:00Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize <span style="font-size: x-large;">Prize $1,000 for new book of up to 80 Pages</span><br />
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Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-88967549901099328382017-05-24T08:04:00.000-07:002017-05-24T08:04:57.672-07:00AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS CALLS FOR BOOK MANUSCRIPTS<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.autumnhouse.org/contest-submissions/">http://www.autumnhouse.org/contest-submissions/</a></span><br />
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Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-15599072149281113162017-05-06T12:24:00.001-07:002017-05-06T12:24:43.502-07:00HELLO AGAIN to all of my friends and family members <span style="font-size: x-large;">What has become of Nancy Simpson? </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Long Time No See. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">What happened to her? Answer: I am still here on Cherry Mountain. I was side-tracked for a while, but I am newly motivated to return to life and my blog "LIVING ABOVE THE FROST LINE." I am dedicted once again to the practice of poetry and to specific writing projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I woke up this morning singing the old song, "It's Satuday Morning. I'm going away with my friends...." with a brush-back of tears from my eyes because... no, I am not going away with my friends today.They are mostly all off to the NCWN West Writing Conference being held today in Sylva, NC. I cannot attend. It is the first NCWN West all day event I have ever missed. My good news is: there are still some things I can do, therefore I am returning to my writing and to your writing, with a stored up passion for the practice of Poetry again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-87886746015114294692017-05-06T11:26:00.000-07:002017-05-06T11:51:37.905-07:00SPRING RETURNS TO CHERRY MOUNTAIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-70499229986072610772016-10-23T12:22:00.000-07:002016-10-27T10:27:13.908-07:00THE BEST OF SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER ABOVE THE FROST LINE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">When one lives on a mountain as I do, Autumn and the season of the changing of the leaves is a long, drawn-out event beginning the first week in September and lasting through the first week in November or later. The joy is seeing each leaf change, one leaf at a time. And all the while, because we are situated "above the frost line" we have flowers blooming in our full sun perennial garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Atlanta newspapers usually announce Peak as occurring around the middle of October but for me, it seldom ever occurs here before the weekend after the 15th of October. Living near the North Carolina-Georgia state lines, I get even an extended season, for when all the leaves are going fast on the NC mountains, I can drive over to Hiawassee, Blairsville or Blue Ridge Georgia in November and see PEAK all over again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PHOTOS BELOW TAKEN OCTOBER 22, 2016 at Winding Stair Gap.( Highway 64 between Hayesville and Franklin, NC. and in our full sun perennial garden.</span><br />
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Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-33005563209214282072016-10-13T07:50:00.002-07:002016-10-13T07:57:56.341-07:00BOB DYLAN WON THE 2016 NOBEL AWARD FOR LITERATURE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">They lauded the 75-year-old music star "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: large;">With songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'," Dylan created anthems for the anti-war and civil rights movements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The literature honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, the others being prizes in chemistry, physics, medicine and the Nobel Peace Prize.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since 1901, the prize has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, according to Nobel's will, written "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." It is presented by the Swedish Academy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Commet: Bob Dylan's song that rises at the top as "poetry" therefore "literature" for me is "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN MY BLUE EYED SON" Also known as" A HARD RAIN'S A GONNA FALL." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw a white ladder all covered with water<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And what did you hear, my darling young one?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Who did you meet, my darling young one?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I met a young child beside a dead pony<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I met a white man who walked a black dog<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I met a young woman whose body was burning<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I met one man who was wounded in love<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I met another man who was wounded with hatred<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Welcome to our full sun perennial garden, situated on a mountain in the middle of a deciduous forest. August, 2016 has </span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>been bright in colors of red, purple, gold and other vivid shades: Red Salvia with Dusty Miller, Gloriosa Daisies, False Sunflowers, Purple Coneflowers and wild asters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Grow Flowers...That is what I do on Cherry Mountain when not growing poems."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> -- Nancy Simpson</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 18px;">Fairies, Sprites, Gnomes, Elves, Painters, Musicians, Sculptors, Poetry and Song will enliven 6 lovely gardens through which you could wander at your leisure. Could also enjoy delicate savories and classical guitar at High Tea, Copper Door Garden Patio. All proceeds were said to go towards CCHAC programming and support for the Old Jail Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Early on, my full sun perennial garden in the middle of a forest on a Clay County mountain, was considered for the tour they were calling “Art in the Mountain.” I was told my garden was exactly what they were looking for, however because I live on a county road that is not maintained by NC DOT, they decided it was best not to add my garden to the tour. I fully understood but was left broken-hearted. Those who know me, know the long and disheartening struggle I have had to get NC DOT to reclaim Old Cherry Mountain Trail and maintain this beloved old county road made by the Cherokee long ago. We have submitted petitions for road maintenance many times but were turned down each time because DOT is powerful and answerable to no one. As it turns out, I have maintained my road since the 1960s with only a little help. Last year, together three households paid $40,000 dollars to have the road repaired. I know we are not the only citizens of this county who cannot get road maintenance from DOT. NC DOT has preferred to send our allotted money to Asheville or Charlotte rather than help our local citizens. I must get over this. I know. I must. And I do have my ways to compensate for their short sightedness. Working in my full sun perennial garden is my best way to overcome my DOT disappointment.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Each garden featured different artists sharing their work, music, poetry readings, and will host a variety of woodland creatures: fairies, sprites, gnomes, elves, and possibly a troll or two. Here is list of gardens that were featured. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal;"><b>A- Clay County Native Botanic Garden:<br />
</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>This lovely new garden below our Old Jail Museum on US 64 business in downtown Hayesville features unique and beautiful area plantings chosen for their usefulness to early settlers and their beauty and ability to attract different species of birds and butterflies throughout the year. Listen to the sounds of Towns Creek along its boarder and possibly see hidden fairies, elves and other woodland creatures along the way. Sponsored by the CCHAC with a grant from Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, and created by talented area volunteers. <i>Guide: Beth Love </i></b></span></div>
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</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>This lovely “Pocket Park” created and maintained by the Clay County Master Gardeners 5 years ago is located behind the The Copper Door restaurant and Square One, across from the square in Hayesville. It features an array of florals and unusual perennial plants and a colorful mural designed and painted by the HHS art students.<br />
<i>Guide: Susan Patterson </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal;"><b>C- Slaton Garden, Downtown:<br />
</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Purchased by Wendy and Joe Slaton in 2004, this property at 122 Church Street, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>downtown Hayesville, was once an old service station with a just a few black walnut trees. Working with Linda Milt, Wendy developed a xeriscape landscape plan which uses slow-growing, drought-tolerant plants to conserve water, and to establish a waste-efficient garden with a variety of seasonal colors. Darlene Dickerson did the plantings and walks in 2012.<br />
<i>Guides: Wendy and Joe Slaton </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal;"><b>D- Country Garden, 232 Barlow Fields<br />
</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Three years ago May and Bill Atkinson transformed 232 Barlow Fields from a garage and gravel basic house into a picturesque home with country gardens and an inviting entrance. They cut back woods to create a large garden, added a multitude of flowers and plants, and totally redesigned the curb appeal to this delightful subdivision directly across from the entrance to Fires Creek.<br />
Guide: May <i>Atkinson </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>E- Clay County Schools Agricultural Program Gardens </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>205 Yellow Jacket Drive, opposite the Clay County Department of Education Building </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Visit the gardens the Hayesville students have designed and built under the direction of the program instructor, Chris Roberts. Incorporating agri-science and instilling a love for plants and farming, this program has built several raised vegetable beds, a strawberry patch, student-grafted apple trees, a 3</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; vertical-align: 8px;"><b>rd </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>grade cabbage patch, and they have quail eggs in the incubator.<br />
<i>Guide: Chris Roberts </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>F- Daylily Acres, 1440 Bob Penland Road </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Enjoy this gorgeous garden with more than 500 varieties of day lilies, some costing more than $100/plant. Joan and Clay Joppie began this garden in 2000 and it has continued to grow in size and color. Visitors who purchased tickets in advance will receive 2 free day lilies on their tour. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Guides: Joan and Clay Joppie </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Copper Door Restaurant: High Tea Garden Patio </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2 Sullivan Street, Downtown Hayesville </b></span></div>
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Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-29785188936058323432016-05-01T15:36:00.000-07:002016-05-10T14:13:37.191-07:00CELEBRATING NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AND CELEBRATING SPRING<span style="font-size: x-large;">On April 20, 2016 Nancy Simpson and other poets celebrated National Poetry Month at Coffee with the Poets, Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville (sponsored by NC Writers Network West.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Brenda Kay Ledford was also a featured poet. Both poets read springtime poems.This program was started by Glenda Beall during her tenure as Program Coordinator.(Photos taken by Lynn Hamilton Rutherford.)</span><br />
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<br />Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-92220855606221480762016-03-29T15:29:00.001-07:002016-03-29T15:29:04.438-07:00NEW POETRY BOOK BY HELEN LOSSE<br style="color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;" />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">If books of poetry were considered fitting contributions, Helen Losse's Every Tender Reed, would be among the most heartfelt gifts in a church offering plate. With a keen eye for craft, Losse takes readers on a personal pilgrimage—pondering everything from the beauty of God's creations to what it might feel like to “be consumed” in pursuit of spiritual purity. Written with fierce tenderness and the courage it takes to write poems both honest and true, this fine collection is a must read. —Terri Kirby Erickson, author of A Lake of Light and Clouds.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="color: #373e4d; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helen Losse's Every Tender Reed resonates with a tone of loving memory and forgiveness---a promise for the good life, the verses raising blinds on the dark to brighten songs born to all the world's beauty. Grace becomes a natural outgrowth of Imagination's repose. Red clover soft-lights the people; all of us are the ever-present tender reeds.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #373e4d; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"> —Shelby Stephenson, North Carolina Poet Laureate.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But, being honest, my dear writing friends, there is no better time for a writer to write than in Winter. As soon as I secure my "stuff" I will be back into the novel and the poems.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, I hope your writing time is smoother than mine.</span>Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-23560368242036313422015-11-27T12:15:00.004-08:002015-11-27T12:15:48.631-08:00Calling for poems about a Craft such as carving or pottery.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For over 30 years Gene Ellis was among the coordinators of the Poetry at Callanwolde reading series. In addition to scheduling and hosting monthly readings by mostly Georgia poets, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s he organized summer workshops and conferences which brought to Atlanta many distinguished American and British poets including Howard Nemerov, Anthony Hecht, Paul Muldoon, Philip Levine, Alice Walker, James Merrill and Adrienne Rich.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Carole Thompson recently received the 2nd place POETRY award for REACH OF SONG. Enjoy her poem, "ANTIQUING." It is a winner.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>A real treat this Friday night is having national award-winning poet </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #0012ff;"><b>Scott Owens </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>join us from Hickory, NC. His readings never disappoint. We're also lucky to have our own </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #0012ff;"><b>Glenda Beall </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>entertain us with her delightful poetry and stories. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Dinner or refreshment is available at </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #cb0000;"><b>The View Grill</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b> next door to the ballroom. The food is reasonably priced and yummy, but please allow lots of time to be served. Arrive by 6 pm or before, if possible. There's a deck with a fabulous view of the golf course and mountains. You can also bring food/drink into the ballroom from the grill. </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #cb0000;"><b>Featured reade:r </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>7:15, followed by open mic</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Scott will also teach one of his terrific poetry workshops at Writers Circle on Saturday. For more information, see </b><a href="http://glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.com/"><span style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000099; text-decoration: underline;"><b>http://glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.com/</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This month we are happy to have Janice Townley Moore as featured reader at Coffee with the Poets and Writers at Joe’s Coffee House, 82 Main Street, Hayesville, NC. We meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 12.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Janice facilitates the NCWN-West Poetry Critique group that meets monthly at Tri-County College in Murphy, NC.</span><span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">An Atlanta native, Janice recently retired from Young Harris College in Georgia where she was a professor of English for many years. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, ',', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Moore taught creative writing and poetry at YHC, and her special areas of interest include contemporary poetry and Southern literature.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, ',', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In addition to her teaching duties, she was chair of the YHC Humanities Division for eight years and served 12 years as poetry editor for the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Georgia Journal,</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Moore claimed first prize in the 2009 Press 53 Open Awards and was awarded first place in the Georgia Poetry Society's annual competition in 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, ',', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Her work has appeared in more than 60 esteemed journals, anthologies and textbooks, including</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Georgia Review</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">,</span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Southern Poetry Anthology: Contemporary Appalachia</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Contemporary Georgia Poets</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">,</span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Women Writing in Appalachia</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Southern Poetry Review</span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, ',', sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Janice Moore is author of <em>Teaching the Robins</em>, a poetry chapbook, published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. She is co-author of <em>Like a Summer Peach</em>, a great little book of recipes and poems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Coffee with the Poets and Writers includes an Open Mic session. This is open to the public and anyone with an original poem or short prose piece is welcome to share it. We ask that prose pieces be no longer than 1500 – 1800 words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Joe’s Coffee House is known for various kinds of coffee and tea. Water, soft drinks and bagels are available as well. Plan to stay for lunch with us at Angelo’s across the street. We want to get to know you.</span></div>
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Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-2409436716826076312015-07-01T15:04:00.000-07:002015-07-01T15:04:37.298-07:00NC WRITERS NETWORK WEST JULY UPDATE<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>NC Writers Network West - </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>updated July info for writers</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> interested in joining the NCWN West monthly poetry critique group. Also info about WRITERS NIGHT OUT, Join other writers, eat out and read your poems in the open mic reading.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tobd/~3/4_-yfMMnypw/change-of-venue-for-poetry-group-july.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">Change of venue for Poetry Group July 2nd</a>. 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Posted: 30 Jun 2015 08:21 PM PDT</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The NC Writers' Network-West Poetry critique group facilitated by Janice Moore will not be held at Tri-County College in Murphy this month -July. The college is closed for the holidays. The group will meet, however, at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, NC at 6:00 p.m. Anyone who has trouble with steps can enter at the end of the library across from the Post Office. Observers are welcome. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Posted: 30 Jun 2015 05:28 PM PDT</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Husband and wife writers, Jo Carolyn and John Beebe, will entertain the audience with their fiction, poetry, and memoir. An open microphone follows their reading for those who’d like to share their own writing. Writers’ Night Out, takes place at the Union CountyCommunity Center in Blairsville, GA on Friday evening, July 10. The event is free and open to the public. Food and drinks </span></div>
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Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857504271006815554.post-11830521794578062952015-06-18T13:21:00.001-07:002015-06-18T13:26:25.755-07:00Living Above the Frost Line: MATRIARCH, PATRIARCH and The Family<a href="http://nancysimpson.blogspot.com/2011/02/matriarch-patriarch-and-family.html">Living Above the Frost Line: MATRIARCH, PATRIARCH and The Family</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Here in the southern Appalachian mountains, we have endured two brutal winters and before that, some years of drought. It is with sadness I tell you that those beautiful trees on the old Flemming/McConnell property at the foot of Cherry Mountain that I named "Matriarch" and "Patriarch" have died and fallen. It breaks my heart to drive past chunks of their bodies scattered around. The younger trees are still there and still growing.</span>Nancy Simpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06468975663711270696noreply@blogger.com2