Nancy Simpson

Two poems

BIO

Nancy Simpson is the author of three poetry collections: Across Water, Night Student and most recently Living Above the Frost Line, New and Selected Poems published 2010 at Carolina Wren Press. She also edited Echoes Across the Blue Ridge (anthology 2010).She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a B.S. in Education from Western Carolina University. She received a N.C. Arts Fellowship and co founded NC Writers Network West, a non profit, professional writing organization serving writers living in the remote mountains west of Asheville and the North Georgia Mountains. For more than thirty years she has been know as "beloved teacher” to thousands of young writers.

Simpson’s poems have been published in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, New Virginia Review, Prairie Schooner and in other literary magazines. Her poem, "Night Student” was reprinted in the anthology Word and Wisdom, 100 Years of N.C. Poetry and in Literary Trails of N.C. (2008)Seven of her poems poems are featured in Southern Appalachian Poetry, a textbook anthology published at McFarland Press. The Southern Poetry Review, Armstrong College in Savannah, Georgia included one of her poems in their 50th Anniversary issue, Don't Leave Hungry. Her poem "Carolina Bluebirds” was included in The Poets Guide to Birds ( Anhinga 2009) an anthology edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser.

Nancy Simpson lives in Hayesville, NC.Through 2010 she served as Resident Writer at the John C. Campbell Folk School.Presently she teaches Poetry Writing at the Institute For Continued Learning at Young Harris College.

The poet's website is located at http://www.nancysimpson.blogspot.com.

You may contact the poet at nance@dnet.net.

Note: "First Responder" is part of FutureCycle Press' special anthology, American Society: What Poets See.

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First Responder

Years Later - Still the Old Dream