deborah fries  WRITER.   EDITOR.   PRINTMAKER.

So excited to be invited as an artist/writer in residence in 2024 at THE PEANUT FACTORY in Edenton, NC, and to share my love of poetry of place. 

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On the other side of that stand of trees is the south shore of the Albemarle Sound. These fields exist as part of the Spruill Farm Conservation Project, now a protected easement that shares access to the shoreline with the public.

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As a place, I first visited the north shore of the Sound as a diapered baby, and later as a teen, listening to the Supremes singing "Where Did Our Love Go?" from the concession stand sound system -- a day I will remember always because my guide to the beach that day later would die in Vietnam, his helicopter shot down over Gia Dinh.  

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I'm hoping that the workshop I give during my residency will evoke the kinds of rich sensory material that is available to us in the present and the past.

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Stay tuned for June 2024 dates and pre-workshop calls for submissions.

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