Brent Martin
Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy
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I serve as the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy. We maintain a 112 mile long National Recreation Trail and offer outings, educational programs, and volunteer opportunities. My wife and I also own Alarka Expeditions, a nature and art based for-profit that offers a variety of outdoor experiences, including cultural and natural history kayaking trips, birding outings, and nature based art programs.
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I live in the Cowee community in western North Carolina and operate out of the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in the Cowee-West's Mill National Historic District. I am the author of three chapbook collections of poetry and of The Changing Blue Ridge Mountains: Essays on Journeys Past and Present; A Hikers Guide to Georgia and North Carolina's Bartram National Recreation Trail, and George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, winner of the 2022 Wolfe Memorial Literary Prize. My poetry and essays have been published in the North Carolina Literary Review, Pisgah Review, Tar River Poetry, Chattahoochee Review, Eno Journal, New Southerner, Kudzu Literary Journal, Smoky Mountain News and elsewhere. I am a recipient of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Southern Environmental Leadership Award and served for two years as the North Carolina Poetry Society’s Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the West. You can see more about my work at www.blueridgebartram.org and www.alarkaexpeditions.org
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