Jared Carter to sign new book in Zionsville
[Zionsville, Indiana] Poet Jared Carter will be signing copies of his new book of poems during the annual Brick Street Market in Zionsville on Saturday, May 19th.
From 1 to 3 p.m. Carter will be greeting old friends and new acquaintances at Black Dog Books on Main Street in the heart of Zionsville’s commercial district.
The new book, A Dance in the Street, the prize-winning poet’s fifth collection, was published in April by Wind Publications in Nicholasville, Kentucky. His previous book of narrative poems, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, came out from Wind in 2006.
Carter, an Elwood native who now lives in Indianapolis, says he can remember Zionsville from the early 1950s, when his father, a contractor, used to do maintenance work at the nearby Rock Island Refinery on Road 100.
“In those days there was a wonderful mom-and-pop-style lunch room in Zionsville, just off Main Street,” he says, “and if my dad’s crew was working in the neighborhood, we always found a way to show up there for lunch.”
Carter’s new collection, with its mix of lyric and narrative poems, is in many ways similar to him first book, Work, for the Night Is Coming, which received the Walt Whitman Award in 1980 and was published by Macmillan in 1981.
He is the recipient of a number of national awards and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A digital press kit containing additional information will be sent to any interested party. Prospective reviewers may wish to consult Carter‘s blog, Rushing the Growler, or his web site, Jared Carter Poetry. Both contain background material about his earlier books.
The author’s digital photograph may be obtained online from the Indiana Historical Society. Additional photographs may be downloaded from Google Images or from Picsearch.
A Dance in the Street may be ordered directly from Wind Publications, from local booksellers such as Black Dog Books, or from on-line vendors such as Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com.
For further information, please go online to BlackDogBooksIN.com or contact jaredrcarter at gmail.com. (Don’t forget the r between the two names.)
The author of more than 40 collections of poetry and poetics, Anne Waldman is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement, and has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, working there for 12 years.
