Come on out to Coffee with the Poets and Writers, fellow poets and prose writers!
When: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10:30 AM
Where: Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson St., Hayesville, NC. Phone #828-389-8401
What to bring: Something to read for open Mic.
Who is reading? That would be Catherine Carter who directs the English Education Program at Western Carolina University.
Catherine Carter: Born
on the eastern shore of Maryland and raised there by wolves and vultures,
Catherine Carter lives with her husband in Cullowhee, near Western Carolina
University, where she teaches in the English Education and Professional Writing
programs. Her most recent full-length collection is The Swamp Monster at Home (LSU, 2012); her first, The Memory of Gills (LSU, 2006) received
the 2007 Roanoke-Chowan Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association. Her chapbook Marks of the Witch won Jacar Press’ 2014
chapbook contest; other awards include the 2013 poetry award from Still: The Journal, the 2014 Poet
Laureate’s award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, placing twice in the
Asheville Poetry Review’s annual William Matthews Prize poetry contests, and
several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her
work has also appeared in Best American
Poetry 2009, Orion, Poetry, North
Carolina Literary Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Tar River Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She
does editorial work for Cider Press
Review and One.
Don't miss this great poet at Coffee with the Poets and Writers, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network-West. This event is scheduled the third Wednesday of each month at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC.
Catherine will be teaching a poetry workshop on May 6, 2017 at A Day for Writers, a writing conference in Sylva, NC, at the Jackson County Public Library. Her topic will be: 'Free Verse Isn’t’: Sound and Structure in Free Forms". Here is the link for A Day for Writers: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
