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Reading. Writers’ Night Reading Series. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center, 1 Nov. 2024.

Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry. Awarded by the Tennessee Arts Commission, June 2024.

Anthology publication. Central Avenue Then & Now: A Community Poetry Experience, an anthology including my poems “Aretalogy” from Body and Soul, and “On Mystical Experience.” Released April 2024.

Reading. First Thursday Review, Jackson-Montgomery County Library, 4 Apr. 2024.

Reading. Writers’ Night Reading Series. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center, 1 Sep. 2023.

“Contemporary Closet Dramas.” Reading from Livings. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, 24 Feb. 2023.

Down Into This Land, book signing. Light Path Books, 2 Apr. 2022.

Down Into This Land, book launch presentation. Jackson State Community College, 25 Mar. 2022.

“Ryan Guth and His Literary World.” Interview. Parrot Literary Corner, 3 Oct. 2021.

Reading from Livings. Brontë 2020 Conference, Brontë Parsonage Museum, 4 Sep. 2020.

Interview about Home Truths, with Keith Sherley. WNWS, Jackson, 30 Oct. 2018. Radio.

Interview about Home Truths, with Steve Bowers. JEA EPlus TV Channel 6, WTJS 93.1 FM, and Facebook Live, Jackson, 30 Oct. 2018. Television, Radio, Streaming.

Home Truths, Reading and Book Signing. Southern Festival of Books. Nashville, 12 Oct. 2018.

Home Truths, Reading and Book Signing. Noon Book Review, Jackson-Montgomery County Library, 5 Apr. 2018.

“Flash Fiction in Verse.” Reading from Livings. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, 24 Feb. 2018.

“Livings: From a Work in Progress.” Reading. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, 23 Feb. 2017.

Body and Soul, Reading and Book Signing. Honors Lunch and Lecture Series. Jackson State Community College, 20 Apr. 2016.

Body and Soul, Reading and Book Signing. University of Memphis Lambuth Campus, 12 Nov. 2015.

Body and Soul, Reading and Book Signing. Southern Festival of Books. Nashville, 11 Oct. 2015.