CULLOWHEE, April 2.—(11) At 7:30 p.m on Monday, April 2, the Western Carolina Visiting Writer Series will host five renowned poets from North Carolina who will read and talk to teachers in honor of National Poetry Month. The roundtable discussion will include local High School teachers, focusing on how to integrate poetry into everyday lesson plans. Both events will be (8) located in the Mountain Heritage Center. Both events are free (10) of charge. (1) “Students and teachers have a wonderful opportunity to make connections and to share ideas about writing and teaching poetry. We are lucky to be able to bring each of these very accomplished and extremely powerful writers,” said Mary Adams, who directs the Visiting Writer Series. (2) The featured poets at the event are scheduled to be: David Brendan Hopes – Hopes (3) is a resident of Asheville, NC. He (3)is author of two collections of poems, The Glacier’s Daughters and Blood Rose, as well as a work of nonfiction, A Sense of the Morning. He is the recipient of both the Juniper Prize and the Saxfrage Prize for his poetry. Katheryn Stripling Byer – Byer studied at UNC-Greensboro under nationally known poets Fred Chappell, Allen Tate, and Robert Watson. She (3)is poet-in-residence at Western Carolina University and (3) is author of three collections of poetry: Black Shawl, Wildwood Flower, and The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest. She received the 1992 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and (4) has been published in the Associated Writing Programs award series. Rick Chess – Chess (3) is the director of both the Creative Writing program and the Center of Jewish Studies at UNC-Asheville. His collection of poems is called Tekiah, and his individual poems (4) have been anthologized in Telling and Remembering: A Century of Jewish American Poetry and The Sacred Place. Jane (14) Meed– Mead (3) is a graduate of Vassar College, Syracuse University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She taught in many Universities in the San Francisco Bay area, and returned to Iowa to teach at the Summer Writing Festival. She has one poetry collection, The Lord and the General Din of the World, and her individual poems (4) can be found in places such as (6) The New York Times, Best American Poetry of 1990, American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly, Ploughshares, and The Antioch Review. Julie Fay - Fay (3) is a faculty member at East Carolina University, and she lives both on the Carolina coast and in Languedoc, France. Her volumes of poetry include The Woman Behind You and Portraits of Women. She was the Sarah Matthews Self Distinguished Writer at Converse College in January 2000. (12) There will be an opportunity for teachers to ask questions after the rountable discussion, and (12) there will be a booksigning and reception after the reading. (13)See you there!
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