Are you interested in lurid yarns about the preadventures of Popeye?
Ne'er-do-wells who eat roadkill? A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in
Nazi Germany?
Then put your turkey leftovers back in the 'fridge, and get into the City
Library's auditorium in Downtown SLC for an hour of Twisted Tall Tales with
fiction writers Jim Ruland and Michael Gills, Nov. 27 from 3-4 pm.
An author book signing will follow.
The reading is free. See you there!
What: Twisted Tall Tales reading
When: November 27 at 3-4 pm
Who: Fiction writers Jim Ruland and Michael Gills
Where: Auditorium
Salt Lake Public Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Bios:
Michael Gills teaches writing at the University of Utah. His short sotry
collection, Why I Lie, tells the painful and hilarious story of a down home
Arkansas boy's efforts to make good. His novel "Go Love," is forthcoming.
Jim Rualnd is a NEA literature fellowship recipient. His short story
collection, Big Lonesome, is described as wildly imaginative tales of
Americas's past and present. He is a regular contributor to NPR's "Day to
Day."
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Forget the pies: you need poetry before the feast. Poet Anne Coray will read
from her work for a City Art pre-turkey poetry night at the Salt Lake Public
Library's main branch at 7:00 P.M. on November 23rd.
Anne Coray's debut book of poems, Bone Strings, was published by Scarlet
Tanger Books. She lives at her birthplace on remote Qizhjeh Vcna (Lake Clark)
in southwest Alaska. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Poetry,
Seneca Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Rattapallax, among others. She has
been a finalist with Carnegie-Mellon, Water Press & Media, Bright Hill Press,
as well as for the Frances Locke Memorial Award and Rita Dove Poetry Award.
For several years she worked for the Bilingual Program in the
Matanuska-Susitna Valley north of Anchorage. She lives with her husband,
Steve, and her dog, Zipper.
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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Lisa Bickmore and Kimberley Johnson will read from their poems at 7:00 P.M. on
November 16th at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art reading
series.
Before going on to complete a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature at Berkeley,
Kimberly Johnson earned MFAs at Johns Hopkins and the U. of Iowa. She is
the author of Leviathan with a Hook and the forthcoming A Metaphorical
God, as well as a verse translation of Virgil's Georgics. She has
published poems and essays in periodicals including The New Yorker, The
Southern Review, Arion, and Studies in Puritan American Sprituality,
and her awards include an NEA Fellowship, and Eisner Prize, a Barish Prize,
and a McKay Prize for Latin translation.
Lisa Orme Bickmore is a professor of English at Salt Lake Community College.
She has published in scholarly and literary journals, received a Utah Arts
Council award for poetry, and was an invited guest participant in the
prestigeous Westminster College poetry 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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Jeff Metcalf, Cheryl Collins, Gael Newman Pardi and and Richard Severy will
present their work at the Salt Lake Public Library on November 2nd and 7:00
P.M. in the A/B conference room as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Jeff Metcalf recently retired from teaching ìat riskî high school students for
the past 30 years. The recipient of the Hunstman Award for Excellence in
Education, the National Council for Teachers of English Outstanding teacher
Award, the Writers at Work Lifetime Achievement Award and a Fulbright Memorial
Scholarship, Metcalf is now an Associate Professor of English at the
University of Utah. His play ìThree Comedians in Purgatory was performed in
Nice, France and recently, his play ìWhere To?î was performed as part of
Cabbies, Cowboys, and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin was performed during the
Winter Olympics by the Salt Lake Acting Company. Elik press published the
chapbook The Last Steelhead.
Cheryl Collins was intuitively drawn to nature, photography, Art and poetry.
Creative writing has always been a favorite and writing has been a constant
source of grounding and self-therapy throughout her life. She attended
Brigham Young University . Collins is also a glass artist and has designed
glass and steel outdoor sculptures, including ìHealing towers at the main
entrance of the IHC hospital in St. George.
In 2001 Gael Newman Pardi graduated, magna cum laude from Mills College with a
degree in English and Creative Writing. Gael has written many short stories
and has recently completed a novel for the young adult reader about AmericaÃs
disillusionment with the Vietnam War. Gael is a partner in an interior design
firm that specializes in creating tranquil environments in hospitals for
cancer patients. She resides in Oakland, California.
Richard Severy - Raised in the UK on the Goon Show, Monty Python, Fawlty
Towers etc. Law degree, Bristol University. Discovered Beckett, Pinter,
Bunuel, Ray, Bergman, and then Dennis Potter and Mike Leigh. Tried to write
novel. Failed. Got married. Became attorney. Had 3 beautiful daughters.
Dropped out. Tried to write novel. Failed. Divorced. Became attorney again.
Met present wife, American Pop Artist, Jann Haworth. Inherited 2 more
beautiful daughters. Dropped out again. Tried to write novel again.
Failed(again). Became teacher. Had beautiful son. Wrote kidsà book. Did
self-sufficiency thing on small farm in Somerset. Wrote 8 more kidsà books (
published by Julia MacCrae, Methuen and Collins) Came to Sundance, Utah.
Taught writing at local State College. Wrote several adult novels. CouldnÃt
get them published. Mislaid agent. Went to Sundance Film Festival every year.
Got inspired by independent films and Sundance Institute Lab events. Did 2 day
seminar on screen-writing with Dan Decker. Bought expensive Movie Magic
Screen-writer program. Wrote Dirty Girls. Entered it in Filmmakers/Radmin
Screen-writing ContestÃ
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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