I Hear the River Call My Name

Submitted Photo Mary Ricketson

Mary Ricketson will sign of her new chapbook of poems at Murphy Public Library, Thursday Feb. 28, beginning at 5PM. She will read at 5:15. I Hear the River Call My Name is published by Finishing Line Press, and illustrated by her husband, artist Bill Killen.

Ricketson lives in a hand made house in the woods where she planted and maintains an organic blueberry farm. Some poems reflect her close bond with the earth, 'At Home on Hanging Dog Creek,' 'At Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest,' 'I Hear the River Call My Name,' which is the Hiawassee River.

Gardeners will relate to 'Garden,' 'April Planting,' and 'August in Blue,' which sing of sweat and joy. Other poems reflect connections with people.

Ricketson is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor here in Murphy, with thirty years of experience, twenty in private practice. A founding member of REACH, she has a special interest in woman's issues, victims of abuse, and family and couple relationships. Listed in Who's Who in American Women, she offers innovative ways to change difficult life patterns including Journey to Intuition and Neurofeedback.

Although this is her first book, her poetry has been published previously in Light in the Mountains, Freeing Jonah IV, Freeing Jonah V, and the privately published Disorgananza. She wrote a Woman to Woman column in the local paper for twelve years. She will be a featured poet March 20 at the Campbell Folk School readings.

The public is invited to the reading at Murphy Public Library, 11 Blumenthal Street, 837-2417.

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