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Susan Lefler Interview 12-15-2011
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Susan Lefler lives and writes in Brevard surrounded by mountains
and a garden. Her first collection of poetry, Rendering the Bones,
was published by Wind Publications in the spring of 2011. Her
photographic history Brevard was published in 2004 by Arcadia
Publishing. Then and Now Brevard, also published by Arcadia, appeared
in December 2011. Her poems
have appeared in journals including Icarus International, Appalachian
Heritage, Pinesong, Asheville Poetry Review, Wind, Passager, Main
St. Rag, Pembroke Review, Pisgah Review, and Kakala. A
short story was published in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge in 2010
and
most recently, a poem in Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places,
2011. Susan is also a former editor of Smoky Mountain Living
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2011 Oscar
Arnold Young Award:
Honorable Mentions: Susan M. Lefler (Rendering the Bones)
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In a time when writing poetry
seems to be more about self-promotion than art, Susan Lefler's
first collection of poems brings us gently back to the transformation
that happens when poetry becomes a way of rendering one's
life...READ MORE
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Author of Wildwood Flower & Coming to Rest
Former Poet Laureate of North Carolina
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Rendering the Bones
is a living mandala that opens and opens at its center in
an endless dance of disappearance, transformation and reappearance,
"drawing life from so far back it's new." ...READ
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Diane Gilliam
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Instead
of drawing edges/ draw the heart of the thing: thus opens the
first poem of Susan Lefler's first collection, Rendering the
Bones...READ MORE
Cathy Smith Bowers, Poet Laureate of North Carolina |
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