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The North Shore is home to a prolific community of authors whose ties-to the area and to one another-run deep. By Julie Batten Notable titles by North Shore authors Kevin CareyKevin Carey is a writer-not a very famous one (yet), but like so many writers, a man who "writes because I can't imagine not writing." As an English professor at Salem State University and the author of a new volume of poetry that just came out last spring, The One Fifteen to Penn Station, he'll be the first to tell you that "poetry starts in the gut, not in the head."Carey writes about growing up in Revere, playing basketball with a high school team that slayed giants,
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