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GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 7 p.m.
Providence United Methodist Church
2810 Providence Road, Charlotte, N.C., 28211
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| March Program: Tony Morris |
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Tony Morris, Poet and Author
About the Author:
Morris's first book of poetry,
Fugue's End, won the 2004 May Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award, and was published by Birch Brook Press in September 2004. His poems have been awarded the Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, the Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award, and have been published in over fifty national journals, including: Spoon River Review, Hawai'i Review, Southern Poetry Review, River Styx, Meridian, The Sewanee Theological Review, South Dakota Review, Potomac Review, and many others.
"Tony Morris's
Pulling at a Thread is a tour de force cross-country car trip through America. From the first pulse of heartbreak and hope in "Radar Love" to the beautiful sonnets on the seasons at the end of the book Morris takes us on the terrifying and tender journey of the heart's road to wisdom. Parents grow old and die, children are born, lovers are lost and found in these lush and sensuous poems. There is a fullness and music that that will lift you up. Tony Morris is a true son of Whitman, but he has been nurtured by Dickinson. His voice is America singing."
~Barbara Hamby, author of Delirum
Publications:
Pulling at a Thread (Main Street Rag Press, 2015);
Back to Cain (The Olive Press, 2006); and two chapbooks,
Greatest Hits (Puddinghouse Press, 2012); and
Fugue's End (Birch Brook Press, 2004).
He teaches creative writing and journalism at Armstrong State University, in Savannah, GA, and serves as the associate editor of
Southern Poetry Review, and director of the Ossabaw Island Writers' Retreat.
http://www.charlottewritersclub.org/tony_morris
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POETRY CONTEST: Deadline is March 15, 2016
Contest is for poetry of fewer than 50 lines. Entries must be original and unpublished. Entry fee is $10 for members, $15 for non-members, $5 for undergrads. For complete information, go to CWC Contests and click on poetry contest. |
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Future News -- In April we our honored to have the Poet Laureate of North Carolina as our guest! You won't want to miss this event.
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Guest speaker for April will be noted poet and musician Shelby Stephenson.
Mr. Stephenson grew up on a small farm
near Benson, in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. "Most of my poems come out of that background," he says, "where memory and imagination play on one another. I have written many poems about the mules we worked until I was in the seventh grade and, after that-the tractor. My early teachers were the thirty-five foxhounds my father hunted. The trees and streams, fields, the world of my childhood-all that folklore-those are my subjects."
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Membership
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We welcome writers in all genres and forms to join our Charlotte-area literary community. Your membership in the Charlotte Writers' Club helps support writers, readers, and literacy at a critical time in our nation's and our city's history. Join
here.
Thank you for your support!
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Providence United Methodist Church
2810 Providence Rd.
Click
here for a map of the location.
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April 30, 2016 -
Gary Powell, Flash Fiction Workshop and Reading.
The cost of this workshop
is $25 for members and $35 for non-members.
Location:
The Warehouse Performing Arts Center - 9216 Westmoreland Road - Cornelius, NC
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
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| NONFICTION CONTEST NOTICE |
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Winners of the Nonfiction Contest:
1st Prize: Michelle Handler for 'Breasts'
2nd Prize: Tracy Himes for 'Betty and Bernice: My Mothers'
3rd Prize: Leslie M. Rupracht for 'My Rock'meeting.
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Elizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Opens: March 15.
Closes: May 17.
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016.
A short story between 1500-4000 words.
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"The true poet dreams being awake."
-Charles Lamb
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even can enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
-Lord Macaulay
"What can be explained is not poetry."
William Butler Yeats
"When the grasshopper gathers its strength to hop, it does not know where it will land. So it often is with poets."
-Gerald Brenan
"Writing is the only thing that, when I'm doing it, I don't feel I should really be doing something else."
-Gloria Steinem.
"You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure of writing."
-John Updike
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Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
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Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016
A short story between 1500-4000 words.Elizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016
A short story between 1500-4000 words.EElizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016
A short story between 1500-4000 words.lizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016
A short story between 1500-4000 words.Elizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016
A short story between 1500-4000 words.Elizabeth Simpson Smith Contest
Opens: March 15, 2016
Closes: May 17, 2016
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016
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