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: Richard Argo Richard Argo, now retired from the Coast Guard, resides in Murphy, North Carolina. He is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His pieces have appeared in Carolina Country and Lights in the Mountains. He brings interest to everyday things in his musings. Richard is the facilitator of the Netwest Prose Critique Group. Jennifer McGaha Jennifer McGaha writes literary essays and nonfiction with an emphasis on environmental issues. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals and magazines including Wilderness House Literary Review, Pisgah Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Red Wheelbarrow, MoonShine Review, Smoky Mountain Living Magazine, Fried Chicken and Coffee and Muscadine Lines, and anthology, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge: Stories, Essays and Poems By Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains. She also won honorable mention in New Southerner's 2009 literary contest for her essay on environmental stewardship. Jennifer serves as nonfiction editor of the Pisgah Review, a national literary magazine based at Brevard College in Brevard, North Carolina.