LAWRENCE — The Poets Laureate of Lawrence, a monthly series taking place every 4th Tuesday of the month, will feature Dan Carpenter on Sept. 22 from 6:30 – 8:30 at the Lawrence Art Center, 4437 N. Franklin Rd. He will be reading from his new book, The Art He’d Sell For Love. Following his reading, there will be an open reading.
Carpenter is an Indianapolis resident, a freelance writer and a contributor to Indianapolis Business Journal, StatehouseFile.Com and other publications. He has published poems in Poetry East, Illuminations, Pearl, Xavier Review, Southern Indiana Review, Maize, Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island and other journals. A book of his poems, More Than I Could See, was published in 2009 by Restoration Press; and one of his poems was included in And Know This Place (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2011), the first comprehensive anthology of work by Indiana-connected poets.