Writers Katharine Coles and Joel Long will read from their work at the Salt
Lake City Public Library on October 19th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Katharine Coles' second novel, Fire Season, was just 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.
Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes was published in 2005 by Elik Press. His
poems have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham
Review, Poet Lore, Sou'wester, Apostrophe, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs,
Rhino, Spoon River Poetry Review, Seattle Review, and Monteserrat Review,
among others. Poems are forthcoming in Salt Flats. His poems have been
anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and
Fresh Water. He won the Sherwin Howard Award in 2004 for his poems in Weber
Studies. Long currently teaching creative writing and English at Rowland
Hall-St. Mark's. He is the founder of the Lake Effect Writers Conference and
the President of the City Art reading series.
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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Breyten Breytenbach will read Friday October 21st at 7pm at the downtown
library auditorium.
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Known as the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language, Professor
Breytenbach's verse volumes include /The Iron Cow Must Sweat /(1964) and
/Footscript /(1976). His paintings portray surreal human and animal
figures, many of whom are shown in captivity. A recent exhibit of his
prints and paintings were displayed at NYU's La Maison Francaise in Fall
2002.
A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished
painter, activist and writer of more than 30 books of poetry. In
addition, he has authored numerous novels, short story compilations,
essays and dramatic works.
A committed opponent of apartheid, Professor Breytenbach established the
resistance group "Okhela" for which he wrote the platform. From 1975-
1982, he was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary
confinement in South African prisons. His most renowned work is the
four-volume memoir of this odyssey. /A Season in Paradise /(1973), /The
True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist /(1983), /Return to Paradise
/(1991), and /Dog Heart: A Memoir /(1999) have been translated into more
than a dozen languages.
He has been honored with numerous literary and art awards, including the
APB Prize, CAN Award (five times) Allan Paton Award for Literature,
Rapport Prize, Hertzog Prize, Reina Prinsen-Geerling Prize, Van der
Hoogt Prize, Jan Campert Award and Jacobus van Looy Prize for Literature
and Art.
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Melanie Rae Thon will read from her fiction and Ken Critchfield will play bass
with other jazz musicians as part of the City Art REading Series on Wednesday
October 12th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library.
Melanie Rae Thon is the Author of Sweet Hearts, Iona Moon, Girls in the Grass
and First, Body. She is a professor of English at the University of Utah.
The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by an open
reading.
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Poets Jim Barnes and Amanda Pecor will reading from their poems on October 5th
at the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Amanda Pecor is originally from Macon, Georgia, and has studied at Williams
College and Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her work has
appeared in American Poetry Reveiw, The Paris Review, and the New England
Review. Her poem "A Product of Evolution, I Invest in a Mutual Fund" has
appeared in the anthology The Body Electric.
Jim Barnes is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and Editor of
The Chariton Review. His many books of poems include Visiting Picasso (Univ.
of Illinois Press, 2006), On a Wing of the Sun (Univ. of Illinois Press,
2001), Paris (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997), The Sawdust War (Univ. of
Illinois Press, 1992) which won the Oklahoma Book Award, 1993, La Plata
Cantata (Purdue Univ. Press, 1989), and The American Book of the Dead (Univ.
of Illinois Press, 1982). He is also the author of On Native Ground: Memoirs
and Impressions (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1997). which won the American Book
Award 1998. He has won the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts among his many other honors.
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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