Summary
Jared Stanley is a poet and writer who often works with artists. He is the author of four collections of poetry, So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024), winner of the Saturnalia Books Prize, EARS (Nightboat Books, 2017), The Weeds (Salt Publishing 2012), and Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing, 2009), winner of the Crashaw Prize for Poetry. His poetry and prose have appeared in many journals including Bennington Review, The New York Times, VOLT, Harvard Review, Triple Canopy, Poetry Daily and in the anthology Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for the Anthropocene (Wesleyan, 2018).
His awards include The Saturnalia Books Prize and The Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame as well as fellowships from the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. Born in Arizona, Stanley grew up in northern California and now lives in northern Nevada.
Research interests
- Creative writing (poetry)
- Contemporary poetics
- Ecopoetry and ecopoetics
- Interdisciplinary practice
Courses taught
- ENG 102
- ENG 304 A/B
- ENG 401B
- ENG 404 A/B
- ENG 708
- ENG 709
Notable exhibition or performances
- La Jolla Reading Room (with Matthew Hebert)
- Terma, Images from the Ear or Groin or Somewhere (with Sameer Farooq) The Lilley Museum of Art, 推荐杏吧原创, 2019
Publications
- So Tough (Saturnalia Books, 2024)
- EARS (Nightboat Books, 2017)
Education
- MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Iowa, 2004
- B.A., English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2001