Last week, Professor Rhonda Pettit allowed me the opportunity to interview Cathy Smith Bowens, a writer and a teacher of writing at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, who was at RWC to do a poetry reading. Bowens also participates in writers conferences and workshops around America and some even in Canada. She currently has three books released, which are all collections of her poems: “The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas,” “Traveling in Time of Danger,” and “A Book of Minutes.”
She describes her family as a major inspiration to her poetry. She also explained that language was an inspiration. She defines language as “the attempt of human beings to articulate thought and emotion between each other.”
She also has a fourth book being released soon, titled “The Inviting Image.” She explained that this book is her putting all elements of writing together: her discussions, conversations, and public speaking, to name a few.
Bowens also gives advice to “not show your feelings but to shine a light, write into mystery of an inviting image, and to not necessarily put your feelings on the paper.