Once each month, Poets and Writers Reading Poems and Stories is held at the Folk School in the Keith House Living Room. Two members of North Carolina Writers Network West read their original work for an audience of Folk School students and the community. These writers and poets come from all over the southwestern mountain area of North Carolina, north Georgia and South Carolina. The featured readers for this month's meeting are: Clarence Newton Clarence Newton of Hiawassee, Georgia will be the featured reader at Coffee with the Poets. Clarence puts both humor and wisdom into his writings. Once a guest writer for several newspapers, he has turned his love of writing toward poetry. He has studied under local poets Nancy Simpson and Betty Sellers. After a long career in aviation, Clarence now finds inspiration in the things of retirement such as fishing, gardening, and birding. William Everrett During his 30+ years of teaching ethics in theological seminaries and graduate schools, William Johnson Everett published seven books and many articles in English and German on ethical issues in religion and society. His teaching took him to Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Boston as well as Germany, India, and South Africa. In 2001 he turned to literary fiction, poetry, and woodworking as his main means of public expression. In his first work of fiction, Red Clay, Blood River, he has put his inter-continental experience in the service of a wide-ranging historical novel about connections between America?s ?Trail of Tears? and South Africa?s ?Great Trek.? Written from an ecological standpoint, in which Earth is the narrator, it explores struggles of estrangement, oppression, memory, and reconciliation. Readers can find out more at his blog: http://www.redclaybloodriver.com