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Jared Stanley, a poet and writer who often collaborates with artists on installations and interventions in public spaces, will give a reading during the next Visiting Writers Series event at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in the Niemann Media Theatre.

Jared Stanley is the author of four collections of poetry, “So Tough,” “EARS,” “The Weeds,” and “Book Made of Forest,” as well as many chapbooks and pamphlets, most recently “The Blurry Hole” (with Sameer Farooq, Artspeak, 2022) and “SHALL” (Black Rock Press, 2019). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bennington Review, Harvard Review, VOLT, Folder Magazine,and many others. His awards include The Saturnalia Prize, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship (with Sameer Farooq), a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, as well as fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. Recent collaborative art exhibitions have shown at the Atheneum Art & Music Library (La Jolla), in collaboration with Matthew Hebert, and at the Lilley Museum (Reno), in collaboration with Sameer Farooq. He teaches in the MFA Program in creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno and lives in Reno, Nevada with an historian and their daughter.

This event is sponsored by the English Department, and all are welcome.