Catherine Carter returns to the Arboretum to read from her new book of poems, The Swamp Monster at Home. Born on the Eastern Shore and raised here by wolves and vultures, Carter now lives in Cullowhee, NC, with her husband near Western Carolina University, where she teaches in and coordinates the English education program. Her first full-length collection, The Memory of Gills (LSU, 2006), received the 2007 Roanoke-Chowan Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association; her poem “Toast” won the 2009 North Carolina Writer’s Network Randall Jarrell award. Her work has also appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Orion, and Best American Poetry 2009, among others.

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