Poetry Society of Texas marks 100 years; one of founding members lived in Stephenville
Patty Barberee Hullett
Special to the E-T
The Poetry Society of Texas has scheduled its 100th Anniversary Celebration this year, and the organization boasts that one of its founding members was a one-time Stephenville resident Miss Jewel Wurtzbaugh.
Wurtzbaugh was later an English professor at Oklahoma University in Norman.
Founded on Nov. 5, 1921, in Texas, the seven Charter Members were Hilton Ross Greer of Dallas, Therese Lindsey of Tyler, Whitney Montgomery of Eureka, Karle Wilson Baker of Nacogdoches, Clyde Walter Hill of Dallas, Louella Styles Vincent of Dallas, and Jewell Wurtzbaugh of Stephenville, states an anniversary announcement from the organization.
KB Ballentine Is Winner Of February Writing Contest By Chattanooga Writers Guild Monday, March 15, 2021
KB Ballentine
KB Ballentine with her poem March was the winner of the February writing contest by the Chattanooga Writers Guild. The theme was Hope, and the judge was Finn Bille.
There were seven entries.
Edge of the Echo is scheduled to launch Ms. Ballentine’s seventh collection in the Spring of 2021 with Iris Press. Her earlier books can be found on Blue Light Press, Middle Creek Publishing and Celtic Cat Publishing. She is published in Crab Orchard Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, and other fine presses. Her work also appears in anthologies, including In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017).