Award winning poet Kay Ryan will read her poems on a special night Thursday,
March 27th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including The Niagara River
(Grove Press, 2005); Say Uncle (2000); Elephant Rocks (1996); Flamingo
Watching (1994), which was a finalist for both the Lamont Poetry Selection and
the Lenore Marshall Prize; Strangely Marked Metal (1985); and Dragon Acts to
Dragon Ends (1983).
About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said: "Her poems are compact,
exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell
boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and
elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost."
Ryan's awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an
Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award, and three
Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American
Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997.
Ryan's poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry,
The Yale Review, Paris Review, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review,
Parnassus, among other journals and anthologies. She was named to the It
List by Entertainment Weekly and one of her poems has been permanently
installed at New Yorks Central Park Zoo. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets in 2006. Since l971, she has lived in Marin County
in California.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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