Author: CityArt at the library Date: To: City Art Subject: Jody Gladding, Yale Prize winner at City Art with Holly Simonsen
Yale Prize winner Jody Gladding will read from her poems
along with Salt Lake City writer Holly Simonsen at the Salt Lake City Public
Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, September 16th.
A widely published poet and translator, Jody Gladding’s
first book of poetry, Stone Crop,
won the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1993. The recipient of a Whiting Award
in 1997, her poems have appeared in The
Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni, and elsewhere. Her
translations from the French include such volumes as Evil and Exile by Elie Wiesel (Notre
Dame, 2000) with John Rothschild; The
Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes by Michel Pastoureau
(Washington Square, 2003); and The
Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono (Archipelago, 2004). She lives in
Vermont.
Holly
Simonsenearned her B.A. from Westminster College in Salt Lake City and is currently
working on her M.F.A. in poetry writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She works primarily off the page making
ecopoetic installations in collaboration with the Great Salt Lake. Her published poetry can be found in Ecotone,
Copper Nickel, Red Rock Review, and is forthcoming from NANOFiction.
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, XMission, and
audience donations. The featured
reading will be followed by an open reading.
