For our second round of Poetry @ The Public for Fall 2024, we are happy to announce a return visit by regional poet, Phillip Howerton and an introduction for a new-to-us poet, Catherine Moran!
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Join us for an afternoon of community and poetry on Sunday, October 20th. Doors open at 2:00 pm for a meet-and-greet with our authors and the enjoyment of light refreshments. We'll start readings at 2:30 pm to be followed by an audience Q&A.
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About the Poets:
Phillip Howerton
Phillip Howerton is a poet, teacher, editor, publisher, and proud native of the Missouri Ozarks. He earned a PhD in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is now a professor of English at Missouri State University-West Plains. Phillip’s work has appeared in numerous journals and books, such as American History through Literature, Arkansas Review, Christian Science Monitor, The Concord Saunterer, Encyclopedia of American Environmental Literature, Journal of Kentucky Studies, The Midwest Quarterly, Plainsongs, Red Rock Review, The South Carolina Review, Teaching American Literature, Thoreau Society Bulletin, and Writers of the American Renaissance.
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He is a co-founder and poetry editor of Cave Region Review, an associate editor of The Heartland Review, and has served as general editor of Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies. His initial poetry collection, The History of Tree Roots, was published by Golden Antelope Press in 2015, and his second book, Gods of Four Mile Creek, was released by Golden Antelope Press in October 2023. His edited work The Literature of the Ozarks: An Anthology was published by University of Arkansas Press in 2019, and received the 2019 Missouri Literary Award from the Missouri Library Association. Phillip is also the owner of Cornerpost Press, which published Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry, a collection featuring the work of nine poets from Missouri and Arkansas.
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Catherine Moran
Cathy Moran is a native of North Little Rock whose life experiences have taken her to the outer reaches of the world. But Arkansas has been the magnet which has consistently drawn her back. After graduating from Webster College in St. Louis, she was a high school English teacher for twenty years. Five of those were at St. Anne’s Academy in Ft. Smith, two at Catholic High in Little Rock, and the remainder at Mount St. Mary’s Academy in Little Rock. In addition to her teaching duties, she was a faculty advisor for the school newspaper and coach of girls’ basketball. Following her retirement from the classroom, Cathy worked at the Arkansas Municipal League for another twenty years, codifying laws for the cities in Arkansas.
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Cathy is a highly decorated poet whose work has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Bitter Oleander, Kansas City Voices, and SLANT, among other literary journals. She is an active member of the Poet’s Roundtable of Arkansas and has twice won that organization’s top prize, the $1,000 Sybil Nash Award for Poetry. She has also won first-prize in the Dancing Poetry contest, sponsored by Artist Embassy International and the Poetic Dance Theatre in California.
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