NPL will be closed Thursday, July 4 for the Independence Day holiday. Our Fell Avenue lot bookdrop and off-site bookdrops will remain available. We will reopen at 9 am on July 5.
Poetry is Normal Presents Tim Hunt
Local poet Tim Hunt will be reading from his newest book, Western Where (Broadstone Books, 2024). Western Where explores the non-urban west as a zone where an imagined past, an actual past, and a hollowed-out present collide, leaving a where that is still there yet seemingly nowhere and everywhere.
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Tim Hunt is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Western Where (Broadstone Books). Hunt’s recognitions include the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Award, five Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for his 2018 collection Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes. His critical work includes two studies of Jack Kerouac (Kerouac’s Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction and The Textuality of Soulwork: Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Prose) and The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Originally from the hill country of northern California, he was educated at Cornell University and concluded his teaching career at Illinois State University where he was University Professor of English. He and his wife, Susan, live in Normal, Illinois.
Poetry is Normal Presents is supported by the Normal Public Library Foundation.
Registration is required. Space is limited.