Catherine Carter, a WCU professor and poet, will read from and discuss her collection of poetry, Memory of Gills, at City Lights Bookstore at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 16. The Coffee with the Poet gathering is an ongoing series held every third Thursday of the month and is cosponsored by City Lights Bookstore and NetWest.

Carter’s first volume of poetry exudes a genuinely classical quality: clear-eyed, intelligent, unsentimental, self-aware, and witty in the fullest and best sense.

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