March 5th at 7pm at the Hurricane Community Center, in the Bryce Canyon Room, Rob Carney will present a poetry reading.  He is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Book of Sharks (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which received the 2019 Artists of Utah Magazine (15 Bytes) Book Award for Poetry. And four more books are forthcoming soon: Facts and Figures (poetry), The Last Tiger Is Somewhere (new poems by Carney and the poet Scott Poole), Call and Response (poetry), and Accidental Gardens (42 flash essays about the environment, politics, and poetics). In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, and many others, and he writes a regularly featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain.org. He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.

 

This event is supported in part by Utah Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts.