Book Launch: Carolyn Guinzio's A Vertigo Book with a reading by Davis McCombs

Schedule

Fri Oct 08 2021 at 06:00 pm

Location

Two Friends Books | Bentonville, AR

Poet and artist, Carolyn Guinzio, has published a new collection of poetry called A Vertigo Book. She will be reading from her new collection and will be joined by poet Davis McCombs.
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of seven collections: A VERTIGO BOOK, (The Word Works, 2021) winner of the Tenth Gate Poetry Prize, HOW MUCH OF WHAT FALLS WILL BE LEFT WHEN IT GETS TO THE GROUND? (Tolsun Books, 2018), OZARK CROWS (Spuyten-Duyvil, 2018), SPINE (Parlor Press, 2016), SPOKE & DARK, (Red Hen, 2012), selected by Alice Quinn as winner of the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize, QUARRY (Parlor Press, 2008), and WEST PULLMAN (Bordighera, 2005), winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Harvard Review, Agni, Boston Review, Bomb, Blackbird and many other journals. She co-edited the online project YEW: A Journal of Innovative Writing & Images By Women. Her films have been official selections at the Cadence Film Festival, where Ozark Crows won a Jury Award, Newlyn Film Festival (U.K.), Reel Poetry Houston, Nur Box (Canada), Poetry Film & Video Symposium and the Fayetteville Film Festival. Her photographs have appeared on the covers of the numerous poetry books and literary magazines including Conjunctions, December, and New American Writing.
A Chicago native, she has lived in the Ozark Mountains just outside Fayetteville, AR since 2002. She is married to the poet Davis McCombs, and they have two children.
Davis McCombs was born and raised in Kentucky. He received a BA in 1993 from Harvard University and an MFA in 1995 from the University of Virginia. From 1996 to 1998, he attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Between 1991 and 2001, he also worked as a park ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park.
He is the author of lore (University of Utah Press, 2016), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize; Dismal Rock (Tupelo Press, 2007), winner of the Dorset Prize; and Ultima Thule (Yale University Press, 2000), selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
McCombs’s poetry is known for its exploration of his native Kentucky’s landscape and history. Linda Gregerson writes, “With infinite patience and luminous particularity, Davis McCombs unearths the traces of those-who-have-passed-before-us through the material world.”
He has received fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation. He directs the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Two Friends Books, 1000 SE 5th Street, Bentonville, United States
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