Online events this week with Jackson rep Catherine Carter

Two online events this week will feature NCWN-West Jackson County representative Catherine Carter reading from her most recent collection, Larvae of the Nearest Stars (LSU Press, available through City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.)  

Tonight, December 3rd, at 7:00 p.m. EST, poet and editor Malaika King Albrecht and the journal Red-Headed Stepchild host a virtual book launch via Facebook and Zoom.  The event is listed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/1083638252032460/ and the direct Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83281179470  The event is followed by an Open Mic.  

On Sunday, December 6, at 3:30 p.m. EST, poet and editor Rose McClarney and the North Carolina Arboretum host a reading of various authors from the collection A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (UGA Press), a new literary and natural history anthology. The book combines natural history information, original art, and poems commissioned from some of the writers who make up another Southern Appalachian wealth, as great, perhaps, as its biodiversity—its rich literary community. This special programfeatures readings by a diverse group of poets who composed original work for the field guide and conversation about how the natural world inspires and informs their craft.

Catherine Carter’s collections of poetry with LSU Press include The Memory of Gills and The Swamp Monster at Home, and Larvae of the Nearest Stars (2019).  Her poetry has won the North Carolina Literary Review’s James Applewhite Prize, the NC Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Award, Jacar Press’ chapbook contest, and the inaugural Caldwell County Arts Council's WNC Poetry Contest, and has appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, Orion, Poetry, Ecotone, Tar River Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others.  She is a professor of English at Western Carolina University.