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Joan Cockerell New, who earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College, is also the author of Knocking Down Pears, which was published by Nightshade in 1990.

Raised in Nash County, hers is the strongest woman’s voice among the Farm Poets of Eastern North Carolina, which also includes A. R. Ammons, Shelby Stephenson, James Applewhite, and Marty Silverthorne.