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Kick off the first day of Poetry Month with Narya Rose Deckard at her book launch! Her first collection of poetry Wolfcraft will debut locally at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in downtown Hickory on April 1 at 6:15 PM. The event is free and open to the public. Copies of her collection will be available for purchase and signing.
Deckard is winner of Broken Tribe Press’s MFA Graduate Award and has had poems published in Tiny Seed, Dead Mule, Eternal Haunted Summer, Kakalak, and other literary journals. She received her undergraduate degree from UNC Asheville and her MFA from Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville. She currently teaches writing at Lenoir-Rhyne as well as community writing classes through Redhawk Publication.
Playing off the content of some of her poems, Hickory poet and professor, Scott Owens, says of Deckard, “Maybe not so much a woman who knows something more but one who notices more, one who pays attention, one who listens to her intuition, hears better by listening to flowers tended by hands long turned into the flowers they tended, making her ink a conduit for silenced voices, giving language to knowledge that defies language, each line a sensory delight, each word in touch with truth on all the levels we’ve ever known.”
NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Greene comments, “‘Wolfcraft’ howls the alphabet into full lettered meadows with poetics inscribed on ‘the slow tongue of bone,’ delivering an intentional unfettered sensibility of craft embodied in voice that is decidedly female inside the beauty and juxtapositions of the natural world. This collection of poetry offers interrogations of vulnerability that are unapologetic reincarnations of celebration.”
After the book launch, Wolfcraft, released through indie publisher Broken Tribe Press, will also be available to purchase online April 2 through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop.org. For more information, visit Deckard’s website naryawithwings.com, email her narya.deckard@gmail.com, or find her on Facebook or Instagram @naryawithwings.