I am rich in poets, if not in love ( tipping my hat to Josephine Humphreys for her novel, Rich In Love...), and I plan to introduce them over the next several weeks to readers of my blog. I will preview some of them beforehand, to whet your appetite, so today, let me begin with my friend Nancy Simpson. I met Nancy years ago when my daughter was only a few months old. She invited me to Hayesville to read, and of course I went, babe in arms, to the reading, where I met not only Nancy but also other writers who have been my friends for thirty years--Steve Harvey, Janice Townley Moore, Bettie Sellers, among others.
Here is Nancy, sitting on her porch with her dog Sasha. We read together last week at Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, for the NC Arts Council's Board of Directors.
Nancy has two manuscripts of poetry in circulation. Living Above the Frost Line is the one from which I'll be choosing poems to share with you. I find these poems both passionate and tightly controlled. I hope this manuscript finds a publisher soon.
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