Jared Carter Poetry

Carter to Read at Library of Congress, 9 December 2004

Jared Carter will read from his poetry at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening, December 9th, at 6:45 P.M. He will be introduced by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Admission is free and no tickets are required.

Also appearing on the same program will be Debra Magpie Earling, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Polson, Montana, and an associate professor at the University of Montana.

Both writers have been invited as part of a series of readings made possible by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. These programs take place at the Library of Congress and are recorded for the Library’s archive.

The program will begin at 6:45 P.M. in the Mumford Room, on the 6th floor of the James Madison Building, on Independence Avenue SE, between 1st and 2nd Streets.

For more information about poetry at the Library of Congress see the Poetry & Literature Center of the Library of Congress web site. For directions and maps to the facility see the Library of Congress Visitor's Center.