Catherine Carter to be Featured Reader for Mountain Wordsmiths

Catherine Carter

            During this ongoing time of COVID-19, NC Writers’ Network-West is still unable to hold in-person meetings, but we are maintaining an online presence with Mountain Wordsmiths, which meets the fourth Thursday morning of each month on Zoom. On Thursday, February 24, at 10:30 a.m., our guest reader will be noted poet Catherine Carter.

             Carter’s collections of poetry with LSU Press include The Memory of Gills (2006), The Swamp Monster at Home (2012), and Larvae of the Nearest Stars (2019); she has one chapbook with Jacar Press, Marks of the Witch.  Her poetry has won the North Carolina Literary Review’s James Applewhite Prize, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Award, Jacar Press’ chapbook contest; her poetry has also appeared in Orion, Poetry, Ecotone, RHINO, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Poetry South, Tar River Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others.

               Raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, she is now a professor of English at Western Carolina University.  On a good day, she can roll a whitewater kayak and re-queen a beehive; on less good days, she collects stings, rock-rash, and multiple contusions.

           NC Writers’ Network-West is continuing to stay in touch and use technology to share our writing. We will offer writing events and writing classes online until we can safely meet face-to-face again. Many wordsmiths are enjoying Zoom meetings because we are able to include poets and writers from other cities and states across the country.

    We welcome those who were regulars at Coffee with the Poets and Writers who met at Moss Memorial Library. Those wishing to attend Mountain Wordsmiths may contact Carroll Taylor at vibiaperpetua@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Also, those who wish to participate in Open Mic may sign up upon entering the meeting. We also welcome those who would simply like to listen to the beauty of wordsmithing.

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This article was written by Carroll S. Taylor, Author

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