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April 6, 2024
Join The Bookhouse in welcoming local poet, Terri Kirby Erickson!
About the Poet: Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of seven collections of poems (six with Press 53). Her work has received
multiple honors, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Nautilus Silver Book Award, and the International
Book Award for Poetry for her collection A Sun Inside My Chest. Her poems have appeared in numerous
journals, magazine, anthologies, and other publications, including her poem “Moon Walk” in NASA News
& Notes. Her latest collection is Night Talks: New & Selected Poems, published in 2023 by Press 53.
Nia Imani at The Bookhouse
100 Things to do in Winston-Salem Before You Die
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.