Award-winning poet and Robinson Jeffers scholar Tim Hunt will give a poetry reading on Friday, October 18, at 7 p.m. at Tor House (26304 Ocean View Ave., Carmel, 93923).  Admission is $15.  Seating is limited, so advanced reservations are required. Click on the Reservations button to purchase online. A reception will follow the reading.  For more information:  (831) 624-1813.

Hunt has published six collections of poetry, most recently, Western Where (Broadstone Books, 2024).  His collectionLiner Notes was the winner of the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award; his collection Fault Lines was a finalist for five book awards; and his poem "Lake County Elegy" received the Chester H. Jones National Poetry Prize.  He has also published four chapbooks of poetry, including Thirteen Ways of Talking to a Blackbird (2013) and Redneck Yoga (2010), both published by Finishing Line Press.

A fourth-generation Californian, Hunt had a distinguished teaching career at both Washington State University and Illinois State University.  A noted Robinson Jeffers scholar who currently serves as editor of the scholarly journal Jeffers Studies, he is the editor of the five volume The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, co-editor of Jeffers's The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts ..., and author of numerous articles on Jeffers.  He is also author of two studies of the work of Jack Kerouac.