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Martha met Tony eight years ago when he showed up for open mic night at her Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café in California. A year later, the soulmates tied the knot on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe in a very memorable service. “Our seven-week-old son John was the only person in attendance,” Martha laughs, “and he screamed through most of it!” The lyrical lovers have recently relocated to Tony’s hometown of Greenville, where they continue to share their “Poetic Symmetry” in area coffee houses and at cinader.com.

Martha: “Tony Mims is an agent of change. Everything he touches grows. I have grown and our love has expanded ever outward since we met.”

Tony: “I love my wife as a person first; we are best friends. What I love about her the most is that she is her own person, natural and free. We met doing poetry, and our relationship together is like living our life together through the words of a love poem.”