Jared Stanley
Jared Stanley is a poet and writer who often works with visual artists. Recent books include EARS (Nightboat, 2017), Shall (Black Rock Press, 2019), and Ignore the Cries of Empty Stones and Your Flesh Will Break Out in Scavengers (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2018). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Posit, Folder Magazine, and many others, and his work has been awarded The Saturnalia Prize, the Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship (with Sameer Farooq), and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Recent collaborative exhibitions have shown at the Lilley Museum (Reno), in collaboration with Sameer Farooq, Other Places Art Fair (San Pedro), Spring Break Art Fair (New York), and the Atheneum Art & Music Library (La Jolla), in collaboration with Matthew Hebert. He teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. He lives in Reno, Nevada.
BEACON 01-05 Launch with Jared Stanley
JARED STANLEY
September 17, 2022
2-4PM
RSVP to info@artspeak.ca
Please join us for an in-person launch with Jared Stanley. The author will read from his and Sameer Farooq’s BEACON 05 issue, The Blurry Hole and Other Stories.
We are excited to launch the first five installments of BEACON – a pamphlet series in ten issues. The first three BEACON issues—with authors Ruth Buchanan, Hong-Kai Wang, and Christina Battle—are available for purchase and pick-up/shipment. Issues four and five, by Justine A. Chambers, Jared Stanley and Sameer Farooq, are available for pre-order.
BEACON – a pamphlet series in ten issues focuses on how the commitment of artists’ to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice. The series will feature texts by artists whose practices engage with language and visual arts.
The Blurry Hole and Other Stories
‘BEACON – a pamphlet series in ten issues’ focuses on how the commitment of artists’ to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice. The series will feature texts by artists whose practices engage with language and visual arts.
Current issues:
01 – Ruth Buchanan
02 – Hong-Kai Wang
03 – Christina Battle
04 – Justine A. Chambers
05 – Sameer Farooq and
Jared Stanley
06 – Gelare Khoshgozaran