Poets Heidi Hart and Tim Erickson will read from their work for the City Art
Reading Series on November 7h at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Librarys
Main Branch.
Heidi Hart received her MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is the author of the memoir Grace Notes: The Waking of a Womans Voice
(University of Utah Press, 2004), a finalist for the Utah Book Award. Her
most recent book, the poetry collection Edge by Edge, appeared in 2007 through
the Toadlily Press Quartet Series. Other poems and essays have appeared in
Northern Lights, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Lumina, Ellipsis,
Pilgrimage, Irreantum, Monkscript, The Salt Flats Annual, The Cortland Review,
and Dialogue.
Hart is the recipient of a 2007 Utah Arts Council Individual Artist grant to
pursue a book-length essay project on intersections of art and violence. She
has worked as a poet-in-residence in public schools and correctional
facilities, and she teaches courses such as Spiritual Autobiography and Art of
the Essay through the University of Utahs Lifelong Learning program. A
musician as well as a writer, Heidi has a private voice studio in Salt Lake
City and is in training to provide harp and vocal music for the dying.
Tim Erickson earned his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence University. He
helped run the Speak Easy Poetry Series in New York City before returning to
Salt Lake City to go to graduate school in Education at Westminster College.
His poems recently appeared in Quarterly West.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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