The North Carolina Poetry Society sponsors a monthly reading series at McIntyre’s Fine Books, a lovely independent bookstore located in Fearrington Village, which is in Chatham County, halfway between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro off of 15-501, featuring two to three NCPS members with books. They are always lively, entertaining, and for the past several years, poetry lovers have made the series a great success by continuing to come back each month.
Readings always begin at 2 pm on the fourth Sunday of each month.
This month’s event is on May 27, with featured readers Gail Peck, Blynn Field and Barry Reece.
The schedule for the 2012 series is set! The readers will be:
Jan 22: Tony Abbott, David Rigsbee, & Joanna Catherine Scott
Feb 26: Jo Taylor, Sally Logan, & Florence Nash
Mar 25: M. Scott Douglass, Valerie Nieman & Jodi Barnes
Apr 22: Maureen Sherbondy, Peter Makuck & John Hoppenthaler
May 27: Gail Peck, Blynn Field & Barry Reece
June 24: Malaika King Albrecht, Susan Lefler & Carolyn York
July 22: Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Richard Krawiec, & Stephanie Levin
Aug 26: Joe Mills, Mimi Herman, & Scott Owens
Sep 23: Claudine Moreau, David Radavich, & Katherine Soniat
Oct 28: Valerie Macon, DeDe Wilson, & Bud Caywood
For more information on McIntyre’s Fine Books, including its location, be sure to visit their website at http://www.fearrington.com/village/mcintyres.asp. We are lucky to have such a great bookstore host for this series!
Reader Biographies:
- Gail Peck is the author of three full-length collections and three chapbooks, most recently Counting the Lost, poems about WWII and the Holocaust. Her poems and essays have been published in numerous journals including The Southern Review, Greensboro Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, Mississippi Review, Rattle, Cave Wall, and Brevity, and her work has been widely anthologized.
- Blynn Field, a Kentuckian by birth and a North Carolinian for the last forty years, has reclaimed her love of reading and writing poetry since her retirement from high school French teaching. She has also served on the board of the Charlotte Writers Club. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies since 2004. Whale Watch Cottage, which came out from Main Street Rag Press in March, 2010 is her first published collection. This book revolves around a place in Maine, not far from where she and her husband, who died in 2007, and three children lived for a year and a half in the 1960s. The loves and longings are the same as those experienced anywhere, in any life, however.
- Barry Reece is author of two chapbooks of poetry and co-author of a book of poems written by members of the Fearrington Village Poets’ Corner group. He is also author or co-author of 40 textbooks devoted to interpersonal relations, leadership and communications. He was born on a small Iowa farm near Eldora, Iowa. Many of his poems reflect his agrarian roots. After a tour of duty in the U.S. Army he completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Nebraska. He spent 32 years as a college teacher and is currently Professor Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Barry currently divides his time between writing textbooks, writing poetry, and working on various antiwar projects. He is an active member of Veterans for Peace. He lives in Fearrington Village with his wife Vera and a spirited Lakeland terrier named Anna. - Malaika King Albrecht’s chapbook Lessons in Forgetting was published by Main Street Rag and was a finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and received honorable mention in the Brockman Campbell Award. Her newest book Spill was also published by Main Street Rag. Her poems have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies and have recently won awards at the North Carolina Poetry Council, Salem College and Press 53. She’s the founding editor of Redheaded Stepchild, an online magazine that only accepts poems that have been rejected elsewhere. She lives in Pinehurst, N.C. with her family and is a therapeutic riding instructor.
- C. Pleasants York has been an educator for 40 years, teaching all levels from Project Head Start to community college. She is the author of two poetry books, Pleasantries and Weaver of Destiny and a novel, Dream Within a Dream. Published in 2010 by Old Mountain Press, Dream Within a Dream is the story of a murder and its influence on three generations of girls growing up in the South. York’s work has been published in International Icarus, Pinesong, Main Street Rag, Iodine, Lone Wolf Review, Bay Leaves, Hummingbird, The Broad River Review, and North Carolina English Teacher. York is a collage artist who enjoys weaving, Schrenschnitte, collecting antique Valentines, and playing the dulcimer. The York family operates Little White Rabbit Pleasantries Company, selling arts and crafts at Carolina Artists’ Colony.
- Susan Lefler’s poems have appeared in Icarus International, Appalachian Heritage, Pinesong, Asheville Poetry Review, Wind, Passager, Main St. Rag, Pembroke Review, Pisgah Review, and Kakalak among other journals. Her short story, The Spirit Tree, first published by Appalachian Heritage, was anthologized in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, 2010. She is the author of Images of America, Brevard, Arcadia, 2004, and Brevard, Then & Now, Arcadia, 2011. She was formerly managing editor of Smoky Mountain Living. Her first collection of poems Rendering the Bones was released in April 2011 by Wind Publications. She grew up in Chapel Hill and has lived for many years in Brevard, N.C.
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