Caroline Rash presents Because the bullet arrives, in conversation with Ron Rash

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779 | Sylva, NC

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Caroline Rash will visit City Lights on Saturday, October 11th at 3:00pm to share her debut poetry collection, Because the bullet arrives. She'll be joined in conversation by New York Times bestselling author (and her father), Ron Rash.
Because the bullet arrives, the debut poetry chapbook from Caroline Rash, reckons with suffering and uncertainty in an age of noise, grief, and contradiction. The collection is a call toward resilience and a celebration of what keeps us going: the natural world, our people, and stubborn hope.
Caroline Rash is a writer, educator, and quilter. Her work has been published in North Carolina Literary Review, Fine Print, Connotation Press, and Decider. She serves as associate editor at the South Carolina Review and holds an MFA from Rutgers-Camden. Her creative nonfiction was selected as a finalist for the 2021 Alex Albright Prize. Find her at CarolineRash.com.
Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to the critically acclaimed novels The Risen, Above the Waterfall, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; five collections of poems; and seven collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Nothing Gold Can Stay, a New York Times bestseller, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Three times the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, his books have been translated into seventeen languages. He teaches at Western Carolina University.
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3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779

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