About the book
Anything about memories/events from the past good,
bad, funny, or sad, etc or Summer time.
Sample of the work:
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Turning over grief like
soil
Jenny Bates
The first Mule I ever knew
Rosie, she was and here,
I hope I have her name correct
she kicked the eye right out
of my Grandpa’s socket.
He got a glass one he’d pop out
during card games and teaching
me to count, to throw me off
my concentration, because
though six years old, I was
good at rummy.
My Grandpa had a barn—
that’s where I met Rosie
three stories high it was!
built by the townsfolk and the
big family we had the biggest
in Montmorency County, MI.
I got my first kitten from the
second story of that barn
baled hay as high as you could see.
Still smell it if I try hard and he
lifted me right up to Rosie’s
nose because, my Grandpa kept
her you see to plow the few
acres he grew food for his family.
Had eight hundred acres in all, but
I liked best the ones he worked
with that cheeky Mule, deep furrows
of memory-grief, hard work,
wonder and peace. 
Jenny Bates, seven poetry books,
published in numerous NC and international journals. Presented at
the 2023 Ecopoetics and Environmental Aesthetics Conference, London.
Jenny was a judge for the Poetry in Plain Sight contest through the
NC Poetry Society, 2024. Her book of poems, ESSENTIAL,
Redhawk Publications 2023 has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize
2024. Her newest collection, From Soil and Soul is available
through Redhawk Publications. Jenny’s books are also available at
Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, Bookmarks, the Book Ferret and The
Book House in Winston-Salem, Scuppernongs in Greensboro, NC. |
Memories
Clipped to a Clothesline
C.
Pleasants York
It was a
labyrinth of cat briers and brambles—the backyard of the house
where I grew up in Sherwood Forest. Branches had fallen in the years
since my parents died, and leaves were piled high. I poked with my
toe to find rusted poles and wires wrapped each other—plastic-coated
cords and cables, the remnants of my mother’s clothesline.
Suddenly I was 14-years-old again, leaning over an oval wicker
basket, pulling out handfuls of damp clothes. Hanging on the
clothesline beside me was a canvas bag, printed in red with a
smiling lady, a box of soap flakes, and a wreath of clothespins
around her head. The bag overflowed with wooden clip clothespins,
spring loaded to attach at the corners of the clothes to keep them
flapping in the breeze in the warm sunshine.
I remember when Pappa’s weather radio squawked out a weather
report,. sixty per cent chance of rain meant we had a job to do! The
whole family would run outside and grab the clothes. Carefully we
would drape the wet clothes over the cans and boxes on the shelves
in the utility room waiting for them to dry.
My brother Frankie’s blue jeans were hung on stiff metal
stretchers, adjustable to fit numerous sizes. With stretchers, Mom
made sure that the seams were straight and the denim had absolutely
no wrinkles.
More memories of long ago are telegraphed by the wire. If I close my
eyes, I can see my mother coming around the corner of the house, her
hair crisp and curly from the heat of the laundry room. She stops at
the muscadine grape vine and grabs a few grapes, popping them into
her mouth. She carries a basket of wet laundry balanced on her hip.
She smiles, "Hey, Sweetie. Do you want to hang out?"
C.
PLEASANTS YORK of Sanford, NC, saw songs she sang while hanging out
clothes in the 1956 edition of "The Girl Scout Songbook".
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Dona Nobis Pacem"
and her version of "This Is the Way We Dry Our Clothes,"
were delightful. At Old Town School, York wore polka dotted blouses
dried in the sunshine. Her brother, Frankie, wore jeans without a
wrinkle. It was years before the Stearns Family bought a dryer. |
About the Authors
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Joan Barasovska
lives in Chapel Hill, NC. She serves as an officer on the Board of the North
Carolina Poetry Society and hosts a monthly poetry series at McIntyre’s Books
in Pittsboro. Joan has been nominated for Best of the Net and twice for a
Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Birthing Age (Finishing Line Press,
2018), Carrying Clare (Main Street Rag, 2022), and Orange Tulips (Redhawk
Publications, 2022).
Sam Barbee
has a new collection, Apertures of Voluptuous Force (2022, Redhawk
Publishing). He has three previous
poetry collections, including That Rain We Needed (2016, Press 53), a
nominee for the Roanoke-Chowan Award as one of North Carolina’s best poetry
collections of 2016. A two-time
Pushcart nominee, his poems recently appeared in Salvation South, Verse Virtual,
Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things; and on-line journals Dead Mule School of
Literature, American Diversity Report, and Medusa’s Kitchen.
Dorothy Barrow
was born in Zebulon, NC and loved to write from an early age. She graduated from
Wakelon high school at 16 and from Duke University at 20. She wrote her college
senior paper, thoughtfully, about the strengths and weaknesses of Mormonism.
Jenny Bates,
seven poetry books, published in numerous NC and international journals.
Presented at the 2023 Ecopoetics and Environmental Aesthetics Conference,
London. Jenny was a judge for the Poetry in Plain Sight contest through the NC
Poetry Society, 2024. Her book of
poems, ESSENTIAL, Redhawk Publications 2023 has been nominated for the
Pushcart Prize 2024. Her newest collection, From Soil and Soul is
available through Redhawk Publications. Jenny’s books are also available at
Malaprops Bookstore in Asheville, Bookmarks, the Book Ferret and The Book House
in Winston-Salem, Scuppernongs in Greensboro, NC.
Donna Beal is
a poet living in Hayesville, NC, and is a graduate of Winthrop University with
concentrations in Philosophy and Religion. She has been published in various
journals and is a member of the SistaWRITE network of poets founded by NC Poet
Laureate Jaki Shelton Green.
Glenda Beall
is the program coordinator for the NC Writers’ Network- West and also teaches
memoir writing online. She recently moved from Hayesville, NC to Georgia. Her
publishing credits include Poetry, Now Might as Well Be Then, a
collection of short stories, essays, and poems, co-authored with Estelle Rice, Paws,
Claws, Hooves, Feathers and Fins. She compiled a family history book,
Profiles and Pedigrees, Descendants of Tom Council.
S.G. (Sandy) Benson contributes regularly to OMP. Her work has appeared in magazines and
newspapers nationwide since 1971. She published her first book, My Mother’s
Keeper: One Family’s Journey Through Dementia in 2021. She released her
second book, Dear Folks, a collection of her dad’s letters home during
WWII, in 2024. She has two new books in the works. She lives in Warne, NC with
her husband, Barry, and a couple of bossy dachshunds.
Kerri Habben Bosman is a writer living in Cape Carteret, NC. She enjoys many creative
endeavors, including cooking, crocheting, gardening, and photography.
Wayne M. Bosman
is a retired auto mechanic living in Cape Carteret, NC. He coached baseball and
basketball in the Piedmont region of North Carolina for 20 years. He devotes
most of his time to fishing, reading, and writing.
Barbara Brooks,
a retired physical therapist is the author of 3 chapbooks The Catbird Sang,
A Shell to Return to The Sea, and Watercolors has had poems
published in The Piker Press, The Remington Review, The
Magnolia Review and most recently in Brillig micro mag journal. She
lives in Hillsborough, NC.
Harry Brown
holds degrees in English from Davidson College, Appalachian State University,
and Ohio University. He has
published six poetry collections and co-edited an anthology of Kentucky writing.
After teaching for over forty years in the Eastern Kentucky University
English Department, he has returned to NC and lives with his wife Alice in
Burlington.
Toby Bunton’s
credits include Winston-Salem
Writers’ POETRY IN PLAIN SIGHT PROGRAM, also three anthologies for Old
Mountain Press. In September 2023, his poem Mowing Mayberry was published as a finalist for Winston Salem
Writers’-Flying South 10th anniversary anthology. Most recently three poems
were included in the Heron XI Clan’s 2024 poetry collection. Toby is a UNCG
graduate in Literature. He is married with two children, and lives in Mt. Airy,
NC.
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Steve Cushman keeps
trying to write poems and stories, and every once in a while, he gets lucky.
But there’s a lot of typing and scratching and general head-shaking.
Somehow, along the way, he has published three novels and two full-length
poetry collections. Cushman lives in Greensboro where the grass is always a bit
greener.
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Betty Damm
was born and raised in Georgia, and despite her sojourns in the faraway lands of
Alaska, California, and Taiwan, her heart has always remained in the South. As
the story goes, she lives in Jacksonville, NC.
Polly Davis, Ed.D, is retired from the NC Community College System where she served as
an English department chair and an administrator. She served as a trustee for
the Cumberland County Library and Information Center and chairs its program
committee. She is the editor of Daddy Pa’s Diary, and Growing Up
Southern in Baconton Georgia and her memoir, Stumbling Toward
Enlightenment: A Wife’s Thirty-year Journey with Her Green Beret. She’s
an avid reader and supporter of the arts in North Carolina. Polly lives in
Webster, NC.
Tom Davis’
publishing credits include Poets Forum, The Carolina Runner, Triathlon Today,
Georgia Athlete, The Fayetteville Observer’s Saturday Extra, Shemom, A Loving
Voice Vol. I and II, Special Warfare.,
and Winston- Salem Writers’ POETRY IN PLAIN SIGHT program for 2013 and 2021.
He has authored several books. Tom, A retired Special Forces soldier, has
completed his memoir, The Most Fun I Ever Had With My Clothes On: A March
from Private to Colonel. He lives in Sylva, NC.
Nancy Dillingham is the author of over 20 works of poetry and short fiction as well as
coeditor of 4 anthologies of western North Carolina women writers. Recent poems
have appeared in Persimmon Tree, The Orchards Journal, and Cowboy
Jubilee. Recent publications include the chapbooks Evanescence of Spring,
Promise and No Time Like the Present: A Memoir in Essays.
Her forthcoming work includes Curves: Collected Stories and the
chapbook Longing. She lives
in Asheville, NC.
Sandra Dillingham’s work has appeared in Victoria Press and the anthology It’s
All Relative from the Tree from 50 WNC Women. Sandra was the editor of Haywood Press at Haywood
Community College for five years. Sandra
lives in Asheville, NC.
David Dixon
is a physician, poet, and musician who lives and practices in the foothills of
NC. His work has appeared in Rock
& Sling, The Northern Virginia Review, Connecticut River Review, FlyingSouth,
The Greensboro Review, Atlanta Review and elsewhere. He is the author of
“The Scattering of Saints” (Hermit Feathers Press, 2022).
Peggy Dugan French is a California girl with Minnesota roots. She has been the editor of
the small print zine Shemom since 1997. Her
work has appeared in Lilliput, bear creek haiku, Shemom and Whispers.
She has worn many hats over the years, but raising her children has been
one of her greatest pleasures. Peggy lives in Cardiff, CA, with her husband, cat
and wild garden and blogs at www.peggyduganfrench.com
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Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Night
Talks: New & Selected Poems (Press 53), a Finalist for the 2024
International Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in “American Life
in Poetry,” Rattle, The SUN, The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and
many others. Her numerous awards include the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus
Silver Book Award, and the Annals of Internal Medicine 2023 Poetry Prize. She
lives in Pfafftown, NC.
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deb y felio
writes from the foothills of Boulder, CO when she is not commuting to Denver.
She is published in various online and print anthologies including OMP’s Joy
to All and Down By the Sea.
Dena M. Ferrari
is a regular contributor to OMP. Her poetry is featured in Westchester Community
College of NY Phoenix (1975), Writers Alliance Poets World-Wide
anthologies has many of her published works. Dena’s own books, Poems
From the Hearth (2010) Come Closer My Dearies (2013), Charmed
Times Three (2015), and her newest book Wyld Earth Magick (2018)
shows diversified writing styles, leaving a Living Legacy for her grandchildren.
She and her husband, Peter live in Vass, NC.
Joanne Kennedy Frazer, a former justice and peace educator/ director for faith-based
entities, is published widely in journals, ezines, anthologies. Her second
chapbook, Seasonings (Kelsay Press) was nominated for the Eric Hoffer
Book Award. She lives in Durham,
NC.
Lynda Fredsell lives
in Greenville, South Carolina. She
has slowed down a bit, which is a good thing because she now has more time to
write for Old Mountain Press and the OLLI newsletter. She still enjoys Bible
study at her Presbyterian church and Learning in Retirement classes at Furman
University. When not shooing the squirrels off the bird feeders, she’s
hunkered down at her card table working another puzzle.
Alan Frutchey
grew up in the northeast and midwest, the youngest of three children. He is your
typical “renaissance man”, loving music, art and the outdoors over sports.
He currently lives in Woodstock, GA, and has been married fifty years with no
children. He has two undergraduate degrees and one post graduate degree and
spent his career in technology. He is now retired enjoying writing and learning
to play classical guitar.
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Bob Garrett
is a former contributor to the Old Mountain Press Anthology Series, with seven
contributions thus far. He enjoys the outdoors. He lives in Sylvester, Georgia.
Michael Gaspeny’s most recent books are Flight Manual: New and Selected Poems and
the novel A Postcard from the Delta. He has also published a novella in
verse, The Tyranny of Questions, and two chapbooks. He won the Randall
Jarrell Poetry Prize and the O. Henry Festival Short Story Competition. For
hospice service in his hometown, Greensboro, NC, he received The Governor’s
Award for Volunteer Excellence. (Grateful to TD and the OMP community).
James Gibson
(Northville, Michigan), private pilot, scuba diver, and auto industry retiree,
has another auto industry-theme manuscript, To Live or Die in Panama in
progress. His first five novels
featured Native American culture in the Anasazi Quest series. His eighth
novel, To Live or Die in Taiwan was published in 2018. Anasazi Princess
and Anasazi Journey are now available as E-Books on Amazon.com
Marian Gowan
is a regular contributor to Old Mountain Press anthologies. During her sixteen
years living in western NC, her work appeared in several southern publications.
She returned to western NY in 2017 to be near family.
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Mary Ellen Hammond lives in Almond, NC. For 27 years she was co-founder and editor at
Milestone Press, now a part of The University of Georgia Press. Her articles,
essays, and poetry have appeared in regional and national publications including
WNC Magazine, Our State Magazine, Welcome Home, and The Wall Street
Journal. In 2024 she was named an emerging poet in the North Carolina Poetry
Society’s Gilbert–Chappell Distinguished Poet Series.
Gloria Harrington has been a member of both the Georgia Poetry Association and John's
Creek Poetry Group for over ten years. Her poems have been published seven times
in the yearly anthology issues: “Reach of Song” and she have been published
multiple times in Old Mountain Press Anthologies. She placed 3rd in a national
poetry contest several years ago. She lives in Tucker, Georgia, and is a retired
teacher.
Debbie Hooper
is a professional photographer working on coffee table books using her poetry as
captions. You can see her photography on her website www.JoeBay.com
under Portfolio. She is happy to again be a NCWN member. She and her husband
are building a house in Andrews, NC.
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Terri Ingalls
is a storyteller, writer, actor, and tour guide. She has written and performed
three one-person shows: “Pearl, Your Mother,” “Flights of Imagination,”
and “Just Gertrude.” She draws from a background of theatre, art, and having
been a flight attendant and travel agent. Terri is working on her first book of
poetry and short stories. She holds a degree in Theatre from the University of
California and lives in Mount Airy, NC.
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Jill Jennings’
work has appeared in Atlanta Review; Oberon; Calamari; Reach of Song; Encore;
and Please See Me journals. Her 3 full-length books include The
Poetry Alarm Clock; Dead Man’s Flower; and Pineapple Wine: Poems of
Maui. Jill has served as Vice President, Interim President and Secretary of
the Georgia Poetry Society. The recipient of many awards including The U.S
Congressional Commendation, the GA native now lives in Fort Myers, FL
Jerry Judge
is the author of eight poetry books. He lives in Cincinnati, OH, and enjoys life
with his two fun-loving and unpredictable felines, Stormy and Spiderman.
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K. D. Kennedy, Jr. lived in Raleigh, NC. He published Eight Books (8) books of poetry,
short stories, and essays: Our Place On Time, Waiting Out In The Yard, For
Rhyme Or Reason, Progenitors: A Kennedy Genealogy, The Works Of
K. D. Kennedy, Jr., Poems Worth Remembering, Family...Forever’s
Lovesong, and Truth Instead. He also
published works in over forty anthologies and periodicals. His works were
published in all priveious54 Old Mountain Press Anthologies.
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Patsy Kennedy Lain continues to reside in Hubert, NC, with published works in 38 past Old
Mountain Press Anthologies and others including magazines and a local newspaper.
She has published three poetry collections, BACKROADS, FLASHBACKS,
BLENDED, one short story collection, SMORGASBORD, and recently
completed her sixth children’s book. Patsy
has received multiple awards and honors for her writings and paintings over the
years, and continues to write, paint and publish her works.
Cindy Larson,
is a native of Fargo, North Dakota. She and her husband, Jerry, lived in
Connecticut for 33 years. In 2000 they built their retirement home on Glassy
Mountain, South Carolina, and after 17 years moved to The Woodlands, a senior
living facility on the edge of beautiful Furman University, Greenville, SC. In
2021 they moved once again, now in Novi, MI. Family proximity won over winter
weather.
Patsy Kennedy Lain continues to reside in Hubert, NC.
She has published works in 39 Old Mountain Press Anthologies and others
including several magazines and a local newspaper. Patsy has three published poetry collections, BACKROADS,
FLASHBACKS, BLENDED, one short story collection, SMORSGASBORD, and
six children’s books. She is
currently working on her seventh child’s book.
Patsy has received multiple awards and honors for her writings as well as
paintings, and continues to write, publish her works and paint.
Brenda Kay Ledford is a seventh-generational native of Clay County, NC.
She preserves her mountain heritage through writing and storytelling.
Her work has appeared in all of the Old Mountain Press anthologies.
Her new children’s picture book,Christmas in the Matheson Cove,
was released this year. She blogs at:
http://blueridgepoet.blogspot.com.
K. A. Lewis graduated
from the Corcoran School of Art in 1986. Her work experience includes cake
decorating, jewelry sales, a hypnosis certification, being robbed at gunpoint,
and 32 years as a custom picture framer. She writes fantasy and SF, and her
poetry, flash memoir, and genre fiction have been published in 30 anthologies.
Katy and her husband live with four demanding cats in a small book-stuffed house
in Falls Church, VA.
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Preston Martin
has published poems in numerous journals and anthologies. He enjoys being in the
company of the writers in Old Mountain Press. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC.
Beth McNichol
is a freelance writer who began writing in a spare bedroom at her aunt's home in
West Virginia and chased the tiny thrills that came along with it to college in
Chapel Hill, N.C. She began her career in journalism at Sports Illustrated
in New York but prefers a city that sleeps when she does. She lives in Raleigh,
N.C., and publishes a weekly newsletter of life experiences and advice, Other
People’s Parents.
Celia Hooper Miles is a native of Jackson County who now lives and writes in Asheville,
NC. She taught at Brevard College and retired from Asheville-Buncombe Technical
Community College. Since then she has authored ten or eleven novels (available
on Kindle, amazon, and regional book stores). They feature Appalachia and
gristmills or the Scottish islands, with strong women characters. www.celiamiles.com
Mona Miracle,
born in Kentucky, was thrust onto Florida beaches at seven, but settled into her
mountain forever-home in Asheville in 1989. She was a featured presenter at South Florida Poetry Society,
and a four-category winner in Florida Freelance Writers Annual Competition.
She earned degrees at Univ. of Florida and Nova Univ.
Among her listings on Amazon is the novel Wesley’s Gift, set in
Asheville, Charlotte, and Tokyo, Japan.
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Linda O’Donnell lives
with a dog and a cat, gifted to her from her grandson, and her four horses on a
small farm on the outskirts of Jacksonville, North Carolina. A former Marine and
a retired language arts high school teacher, she now spends much of her time
volunteering to lead the Silver Scribblers Writing Group at her local Senior
Center.
Bev Ohler
grew up near NYC which provided her with
many good memories. She has spent most of her life in NC at Warren Wilson
College, where she taught and
designed in the Theater Department, directed festivals and shared her talents
with the chapel and many places on the campus. She continues to write and draw
and lives in Black Mountain with her dog, Callie.
Karen O’Leary is
a freelance writer from West Fargo, ND. She has published poetry, short stories,
and articles in a variety of venues including, Fine Lines, Frogpond, Setu,
Tipton Poetry Journal, New Earth
and Quill & Parchment. She has had work published in several Old
Mountain Press anthologies. Karen edited an international online journal called Whispers
http://whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com/ for 5 ½ years. She enjoys sharing the
gift of words.
Martha O’Quinn
has been a contributor to the OMP Anthologies for many years. It has been one of
many highlights in her life. She has also been privileged to have her poetry and
non-fiction prose published in a number of publications in the mountains of
North Carolina. Martha enjoys her
six great-grandchildren and lives near her daughter in Loganville, Georgia
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David W. Plunkett has just released The Blue House, a collection of poems about
dreams, loss and hope. He is also the author of two spy thrillers, Chessboard
and Poisoned Pawn. His poem
“Dance” will appear in an upcoming issue of POEM magazine, and
another “I will Wear Sandals with Socks” will appear in an anthology of
military related poetry later this year. A
retired attorney, David lives in Young Harris, GA, with his wife.
Michael Potts
teaches philosophy at Methodist University in Fayetteville and is
Priest-in-Charge at St. Maximus the Confessor Orthodox Mission in Coats, North
Carolina. He has authored or edited ten books, and three novels and three poetry
collections have been published. He lives with his wife, Karen, and six cats in
Coats, North Carolina.
Barbara Prince,
a Long Island native and UNC alumna, lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband,
Peter Murdza. Previously she ran a small historic library in snowy Etna, NH
where she enjoyed giving story times, story walks in a bird sanctuary, local
history programs and events involving ponies, pigs, turtles and llamas. She
currently is a rookie Girl Scout leader, having the time of her life canoeing,
building campfires and tying knots.
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Mary Ricketson’s
poems reflect the healing power of nature.
Published collections: I Hear the River Call My Name, Hanging Dog
Creek, Shade and Shelter, Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian, Keeping in
Place, Lira, Poems of a Woodland Woman, Precious the Mule, and Stutters,
A Book of Hope. She won first
place, 2011 Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest 75th anniversary national poetry
contest. She is a mental health
therapist in private practice in Murphy NC.
R. Lee Riley
is a member of Winston Salem Writers, with work appearing in Volume 3 and 10 of
its Flying South anthology series and Poetry in Plain Sight.
He’s additionally been published in previous anthologies of Old Mountain
Press. He’s also a working voice actor with audiobooks published on Audible.
Lee lives in Salisbury, NC and has earned multiple medals for his poetry in
Rowan County’s Silver Arts Festival.
Dwight Roth
is a retired elementary teacher from Eastern, NC. He lives in Monroe, NC with
his wife Ruth and publishes a poetry blog on Word Press. https://rothpoetry.wordpress.com/
He has poems published in Old Mountain Press poetry anthologies and North
Carolina Bards Anthologies. His self-published books of poetry as well as
children’s books that can be found on Amazon. Dwight lives with his wife Ruth
near Monroe, NC.
Maria Rouphail is
the author of three book collections. The 24-25 NCPS Gilbert-Chapell
Distinguished Poet for central North Carolina, she is currently at work on her
fourth collection, This Small House, this Big Sky. She lives in Raleigh
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Barbara Tate Sayre, an award winning artist and writer is a long time contributor to the
Old Mountain Press Anthology Series. She’s
a member of the British Haiku Society, the Haiku Society of America and the
Australian Haiku Society. She currently resides in Winchester, TN.
Paul Sherman
lives in North Carolina on the north side of Mt. Mitchell. He’s used the
pseudonym, F.I. Sherman, for many an unpublished poem; the coat of arms: a great
blue heron standing on a leg in the brook, rainbow bends in beak. On shore the
crooked sign reads, No Fishing.
Jane Shlensky,
a veteran teacher and musician, holds an MFA from UNC- Greensboro. Her recent
poetry and fiction have appeared in sundry magazines online and in print,
including Writer’s Digest, Pinesong, Kakalak, moonShine review, Speckled
Trout Review, and Nostos. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcarts four
times, and she was awarded the Poet Laureate award for 2023 from NCPS. She lives
in Bahama with two unruly cats. Her chapbook is Barefoot on Gravel.
David Snyder is
a hospital Dental Service Chief. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Davidson
College. He earned his DDS degree and completed his Advanced General Dentistry
Residency at UNC-CH. He lives in Asheville with his wife, Dr. Linda Hall.
Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal
essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies.
Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major
museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian selected only her photo to represent all teens from the
1950’s; a large showcase in its National Museum of American History featured
her photo. hand-designed clothing, and her costume sketches. ‘Girlhood’
exhibit opened 10-2020 and began touring Jan. 2023.
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Carroll S. Taylor is a writer, poet, and playwright. She is the author of two young
adult novels, Chinaberry Summer and Chinaberry Summer: On the Other
Side and two children’s books, Feannag the Crow and Ella’s
Quilt. Her poems and stories have appeared online and in anthologies. Her
latest book, a poetry collection entitled Facing Toward the East, was
published in June 2024. She and her husband Hugh live in Hiawassee, GA.
Rebekah Timms lives
in Greenwood, SC, about fifteen miles from where she was born. In her retirement
years she has published a memoir of her mother's life, a poetry collection, and
a poetry/prose collection. Rebekah enjoys writing and feels that her work is an
expression of her gratitude and joy of life. She has been a regular contributor
to OMP Anthologies since 2016.
Carolyn Tripp
lives in Travelers Rest, SC but grew up in MO with her two older sisters and,
over the years, a variety of pet cats. In Recollections of 1470 E. Stanford
she invites you into the family home to reminisce about life when times were
simpler.
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Elizabeth B. Watson, well mannered in keeping with her essay, accepts with pleasure the
invitation of Colonel Thomas Davis, Ret, to submit an original work to Old
Mountain Press based on the theme The Good Old Days. She’s grateful to
him for offering the authors featured in his anthologies an opportunity to be
recognized for their writing skills and creativity. The Watsons of Greenville,
SC have celebrated their 68th anniversary, which certainly links them to those
good old days.
Rebecca S. Watts
has had work published in Firewords Quarterly, Heron Clan X, SBLAAM,
Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, and several other print and online
publications. She was a public librarian in Peachtree City, GA, for nearly two
decades. She now lives in Chapel Hill, NC, where she facilitates a poetry group
at Seymour Center and enjoys poetry and art history classes via Duke’s OLLI
program.
William Wehunt
is a Zen Buddhist currently residing in Travelers Rest, SC. If he might borrow
from Robert Frost, he only wishes he were as “cursed with the gift of plain
speech” as Robert. He has found that his “best” work is at home with his
mid-twentieth-century heroes. Yeats and Graves, he yet dreams. He writes news
essay, edits, copy. His poetry blog is decemberfan.wordpress.com.
Barbara Ledford Wright, lives in Shelby, NC. She is a frequent contributor to the Old Mountain
Press Anthology series, and her prose appears in all except one. She enjoys
reading about the history of the United States. She writes stories about her
family during the good old days. Her work has been published in various journals
and anthologies.
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C.
Pleasants York of Sanford, NC, saw
songs she sang while hanging out clothes in the 1956 edition of “The Girl
Scout Songbook”. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Dona Nobis Pacem” and
her version of “This Is the Way We Dry Our Clothes,” were delightful. At Old
Town School, York wore polka dotted blouses dried in the sunshine. Her brother,
Frankie, wore jeans without a wrinkle. It was years before the Stearns Family
bought a dryer.
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