Z-ARTS & ZION NATIONAL PARK PRESENTS
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Reading and Performance by
Jason Gray
Poet, Writer, Photographer
Thursday, June 22, 2023 – 7:00pm
Canyon Community Center – Springdale
Free Event

Poet and June Zion National Park Artist in Residence, Jason Gray, will discuss his time in the park and read from his two books of poetry as well as from new work written during his time in residence.

About the Author: Jason is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Prize (Ohio UP). He has also published two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry
Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other places. He has also reviewed poetry, nonfiction, and fiction for The Southern Review, The Missouri
Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized and reprinted on Verse Daily. Besides writing, he spends time taking pictures of things. By day, he works as the associate editor for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP).

Books will be available.