Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and Fiction writer Lance Olsen will read
from their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library on December 5th at 7:00
P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Katharine Coles most recent collection of poems, Fault, will be published
(Red Hen Press) in 2008. Her second novel, Fire Season, was published by
Juniper Press. She has also published three collections of poems, most
recently The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Her work has appeared or
is forthcoming in such journals as The Paris Review, The New Republic, The
Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, and she has received awards
from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other
organizations. She is on the faculty of the Department of English at the
University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and
directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.
Lance Olsen is author of eighteen books of and about innovative fiction,
including, most recently, the novels Anxious Pleasures (Shoemaker & Hoard,
2007) and Nietzsche's Kisses (FC2, 2006). He serves as Chair of the Board of
Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's
best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. He is
also Associate Editor at American Book Review. He teaches at the University of
Utah.
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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