The Writer’s Center welcomes poets Catherine Arnold (The Apple Tree) and Richard Smith (Beyond Where Words Can Go) for a virtual reading.
FREE & open to the public. RSVP below.
Catherine Arnold grew up in Cheshire, in the northwest of England. Having fallen in love with painting, she moved to the United States to study at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating from the MFA program, she exhibited and taught widely, receiving awards from The Royal Academy of Arts, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Flintridge Foundation, and The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. While making her living as an artist, she also wrote, torn between the equally seductive demands of words and color. Over the years, the need to write became increasingly urgent. Arnold’s poems and prose have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, Natural Bridge, The Ekphrastic Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. Her debut collection, Receipt for Lost Words, was awarded the 2022 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and published by Bauhan Publishing. Arnold lives with her family in Western Massachusetts.
Richard Smith‘s first book, Not a Soul but Us, won the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was released in 2022 by Bauhan Publishing. The book is a story in sonnets about a twelve-year-old shepherd boy orphaned and abandoned during the mid-14th-century plague pandemic. In spring 2026, Bauhan will publish Richard’s Beyond Where Words Can Go—another historical narrative in sonnets, tracing a group of Tudor-era Benedictine monks before, during, and after Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. Richard is a psychologist with a clinical practice in Washington, D.C.
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