Four poems from the North Carolina mountains

Photographed by Rimas Zailskas.
Read a poem by each of the four poets pictured on the cover of the current issue of Verve, a western North Carolina magazine for women, and who are featured in the article Poetic Justice.
The Storm
By Emöke Zsuzsánna B'RaczEmöke Zsuzsánna B'Racz is a Hungarian emigrant who moved to the U.S. in high school. She owns Malaprops bookstore in downtown Asheville and has published two books of poetry
Pear Moonshine
By Cathy Smith Bowers.Cathy Smith Bowers lives in Tryon, 30 minutes southeast of Hendersonville, and has published books of poetry including "The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas"" and "A Book of Minutes."
Use Your Inside Voice
By Glenis Redmond,Glenis Redmond is an Asheville performance poet, is a native of Greenville, South Carolina. In August she published a book, "Under the Sun."
Everbearing
By Pat Riviere-SeelPat Riviere-Seel, a longtime newspaper reporter and lobbyist, published her first collection of poems, "No Turning Back Now," in 2004. This poem is from her collection "The Serial Killer's Daughter."
by George W Frink
