Award-winning poet Jared Stanley will read poetry and screen a short video of his work in the art world at a 7 p.m. reading Sept. 23 in the Niemann Media Theatre.

Mr. Stanley attended the University of California-Berkeley and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He serves on the faculty of the Writing Program at the University of California-Merced.
 His poems have appeared in Conduit, Gutcult, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, horse less review and Zoland Poetry Annual #3, as well as in the chapbooks In Fortune (Dusie Press) and The Outer Bay (Trafficker Press).

His book Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing, 2009), is the winner of the Crashaw Prize.

From the publisher: "Comprised of lyrics, mock journal entries, prose portraits and odes. Book Made of Forest answers the 'summons and challenge' of being both human and animal, urban and rural, cultured and philistine, formal and ruinous, willful and acted-upon. Jared Stanley strikes at the absurd thingness of things, rings out their histories, traces their loss in the 6th extinction, figures his voluminous overhearing into poems rhetorical and fragmented, mournful and comedic. People skulk, animals talk, trash multiplies. Contemporary California — its art, scavengers, landscapes, weeds, pollution — effects its lyric smudges. Yet Book Made of Forest finds them all inexplicably desirous. For when the weather is found man-made, a function of our emotions, the pathetic fallacy returns, not as a symptom of undue personal imposition onto the landscape, but as the collective by-product of not having any god to blame. Without a deity, Book Made of Forest is the naked almer — 'I'll wear any greeting from dirt, as if a hide'—finding its vision in the midst of things that simply happen."