Poets Jean Howard and Sandy Anderson will perform and read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 12th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Award-winning video and performance poet, organizer, producer, and participant
in the original development of the internationally-acclaimed, Poetry Slam,
Jean Howard has poetry published in over seventy publications, including
Harper's Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and her own book, Dancing In Your
Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press).
She has performed her poetry on cable, public and network television and at
hundreds of venues nationwide, from the Guggenheims exhibit at Chicagos
Field Museum, to biker bars.
Currently, Jean serves on the Board of Slam Utah, Advisory Board of Utah Arts
Alliance, and as a consultant for the National Poetry Slam Board, after
serving as Director of Chicagos National Poetry Video Festival for eight
years.
Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and
workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in
the 1960s, Word Affair in the 70s and 80s, and City Art in the 90s. She
has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given
workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners.. She was the 1997
recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayors Award in Literature, and the 1995
Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award. She has edited collections of poems by
Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three
collections of poetry by the disabled.
Andersons chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by
Limberlost Press in 1998. Her book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published
by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Great and
Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and The Great Salt
Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which
won first place in the literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain
Collegiate Press Association, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She
has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News,
Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her
married name, Sandy Wilkerson and has served as a judging chairman for the
Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the 1970s .
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, and
audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.
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