April 2, 2020

Award-winning Poets Catherine Carter and Wayne Johns to Appear at ECU

April 13, 2020, 5:30-7:00 pm

Main Campus Student Center, Room 253

ECU’s Contemporary Writers Series presents award-winning North Carolina poets Catherine Carter and Wayne Johns.

Catherine Carter is the author of Larvae of the Nearest Stars (LSU Press, 2019), The Swamp Monster at Home (LSU Press, 2012), The Memory of Gills (LSU Press, 2007), and Marks of the Witch (Jacar Press, 2013). Her work has won the North Carolina Literary Review’s James Applewhite Prize, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Award, the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, Jacar Press’ chapbook contest, and the North Carolina Poetry Society’s poet laureate’s prize. Carter is a professor of English at Western Carolina University.

Wayne Johns’ first book of poems, Antipsalm, received the Editor’s Choice prize in Unicorn Press’ First Book Series and Honorable Mention for the 2019 Brockman-Campbell Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. He won the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2019 James Applewhite Poetry Prize. He is also the author of two chapbooks, The Exclusion Zone, which received the Rane Arroyo prize from Seven Kitchens Press, and An Invisible Veil Between Us, selected by David Trinidad for the Frank O’Hara chapbook prize. He teaches at Greensboro College.

The two will take the stage in the new Main Campus Student Center, Room 253, on Monday evening, April 13th at 5:30 pm.

A book-signing will follow the performance and can be purchased from the college bookstore, on the 1st floor of the building. You are urged to purchase your books before the reading. This event is free to the public and the ECU community, thanks to the Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center, the ECU Contemporary Writers Series, the Department of English, the Gender Studies Program, and the North Carolina Literary Review.

For more information, please contact John Hoppenthaler at HOPPENTHALERJ@ecu.edu.

Individuals requesting accommodation under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) should contact the ADA coordinator at least 48 hours prior to the event at 252-737-1018 or ada-coordinator@ecu.edu.