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| JOSEPH BATHANTI |
Congratulations to Joseph Bathanti, friend and poet from Western North Carolina.
He has been our featured guest on Netwest’s
Zoom programs and our one-day writing conference. Joseph is always so gracious
when we invite him. He will be inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame along with Ron Rash and Kaye Gibbons two authors who have written many excellent books and received many awards. There are several more outstanding writers on this list.
Bathanti was the Poet Laureate of NorthCarolina from 2012 to 2014 and has received both the North Carolina Award for
Literature and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. He is the author or editor of
more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism.
Since 2001 he has taught at Appalachian State University in Boone.
I hope Joseph will teach a poetry class for our NCWN-West poets in 2024. We would all gain so much from having him with us even if on Zoom.
