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: Brenda Kay Ledford Brenda Kay Ledford is a native of Hayesville, NC. She holds a Master of Arts in Education and is a certified teacher. She belongs to NC Writers’ Network, NC Poetry Society and is listed with A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. Her work has appeared in Our State, Country Extra, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Journal of KY Studies, and other journals. She received the Paul Green Award for her poetry chapbooks, Patchwork Memories, Shew Bird Mountain, and Sacred Fire. Carole Thompson Carole Thompson brings a vast background of experiences to her poetry. She lived the life of a military officer's wife for twenty nine years and now resides in the north Georgia mountains. Her poetry is about every day things we so often miss. She says of living here, "I felt I had started my life over again."