Poets
Catherine Carter, Mary Ricketson, and Joan M. Howard will visit City
Lights Bookstore on Saturday, September 15, 2018, at 3:00 PM, for a poetry reading. The reading is free of charge and open to the public.
Catherine Carter
has written three collections of poetry and directs the English
Education program at Western Carolina University. Her work has appeared
in Poetry, Orion, Ploughshares, Cider Press Review, Cortland Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and Best American Poetry 2009, among others. Her full-length collections of poetry include The Swamp Monster at Home (LSU
Press, 2012) The Memory of Gills (LSU, 2006), and Larvae of the
Nearest Stars (forthcoming from LSU, fall 2019.
Mary
Ricketson of Murphy NC, has been writing poetry for 20 years; to
satisfy a hunger, to taste life down to the very last drop. She is
inspired by nature and her work as a mental health counselor. Her poetry
has been published in Wild Goose Poetry Review, Future Cycle Press, Journal of Kentucky Studies, and the anthologies, Lights in the Mountains, and Echoes Across the Blue Ridge. Her two collections are Freeing Jonah, and her chapbook I Hear the River Call My Name.
Joan Howard is a retired teacher who lives in Hiawassee and Athens GA. Her poetry has been published in Poem,
The Road Not Taken: The Journal of Formal Poetry, the Aurorean, Lucid
Rhythms, Victorian Violet, The Wayfarer, The Deronda Review and other literary journals.She has two books: Death and Empathy: My Sister Web and Jack, Love and the Daily Grail.
Event date: Saturday, September 15, 2018 - 3:00pm
Event address: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC 28779
Great program, great venue and I hope all who live within driving distance of City Lights Bookstore will attend.
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