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Mill Hill by Molly Rice

$14.00

 

“‘I have breathed the dirt and lint/Like my parents did before me,’ Molly Rice declares in these hard-eyed yet poignant poems of a mill village childhood. She has resurrected a lost world and vividly rendered it to her readers. Bravo!”

–Ron Rash

 

“Molly Rice‘s voice in Mill Hill cuts through the cliches of growing up amidst both poverty and beauty. She has a steady eye and a quick turn of phrasing and syntax. That quickening, through language that knows precisely how to spin itself into poetry and when to cut the threads the poem has spun, keeps each of these poems vibrating on the page, much as I remember my grandmother’s treadle sewing machine singing its rhythm of creation.”

–Kathryn Stripling Byer, (past NC Poet Laureate)

 

“In ‘Mill Hill‘, poet Molly Rice recalls with great clarity, sometimes wistfully, both innocence and lost innocence, while deftly tackling the themes of family, loyalty, faith, and finally the irony and inherent ambiguity in growing up poor in a Western North Carolina industrial enclave known to the world as ‘Christmas Town, USA.’”

–Tim Peeler

Rating: *****  [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

Mill Hill

by Molly Rice

$14, paper

Molly Rice has held several residencies teaching poetry, film, storytelling, theatre, and ESL in hundreds of schools, colleges, and organizations in NC, United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia, and Hungary. While living in Ireland, she wrote and directed over thirty original plays and became a Pushkin Trust Artistfor the Duchess of Abercorn.  She wrote a teacher’s manual entitled Exploring the Lough – Creative Activities for the Primary School Classroom and was included in round the Lough, Lough Views, Shore Lines, and Sea & Shore children’s books.  She has been published in various webzines and magazines including Poetry Super Highway, Fortnight Magazine, The Stinging Fly, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, 2012 spring issue of Iodine Poetry Journal and Bloodshot: Journal of Contemporary Culture.  She was a contributor to a major anthology of poetry and art entitled, A Conversation Piece edited by Adrian Rice & Angela Reid (Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland).  She has been published in several anthologies including Voices and Vision: A Collection of Writings By and About Empowered Women published by the Women’s Resource Center of Hickory, The Best of Poetry Hickory edited by Scott Owens, and The Best of Final Friday Reading Series edited by Scott Douglas. Molly is currently a theatre teacher/director of the Tractor Shed Theatre and editor of the literary magazine “Indian Ink” at St. Stephens High School (SSHS).  In her five years at SSHS, she was chosen as SSHS’ Wachovia Teacher of the Year, made a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction, chosen as “Outstanding Director” North Carolina Theatre Conference 2009 & 2010, Teacher of the Year 2010, won League championship in the online creativity game The Media League, and won $30,000 in technology for her classroom for the winning music video in the eInstruction’s Classroom Makeover contest.  She is the district coordinator for the National Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest.  Molly currently resides in Hickory, North Carolina with her husband Irish poet, Adrian Rice and their young son Micah Wayne Freeman Rice.

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