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September 19, 2026
Special guest appearance with author and poet Karen Carter
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 10:30 AM
Title: Deep Dive
Author Karen Carter will be in store beginning at 10:30 AM to visit with customers and sign books.
About the Book:
Karen Carter’s Deep Dive reveals healing and hope. A memoir in poetry, these poems
travel from the safe space of therapy in Oklahoma, where the poet plunges into an ocean of grief
and hits rock bottom. She develops courage during decades of adulthood, exploring a path
through redemptive suffering. In the sanctuary of her front porch in rural North Carolina and in
the remote everydayness of a schoolteacher during COVID, she sits with sorrow. She takes a
deep dive into the ordinary, natural world and experiences the inner and outer world joined
together without shame. Finally, at the Outer Banks, North Carolina, the victim tosses the loss
and the pain of violence done to her body and mind into the sea. Finding spiritual power to rise
from trauma’s depth, the poet cherishes new life in the present and hope in all eternity.
About the Author:
Karen Carter is a poet, writer, and educator and presently teaches high school English and
Creative Writing. Recently, her poetry has appeared in Tiny Seed, The Write Launch, The
Bluebird Word. Her debut poetry collection, Deep Dive, is available through Querencia Press
(2024). She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Find her online at
www.KarenCarterPoetry.com
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Jeffrey L. Smith received a BA degree in Public Administration from Elon University. In 1986 he returned to
Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.