Nicole Walker and Matt Batt will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public
Library Main Auditorium on May 18th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series. Besides the open reading/buffet on
June 1st (plan your hot dish early) this is the last feature reading of the
season.
Nicole Walker is working toward her Ph.D. at the University of Utah where she
teaches and is the editor of Quarterly West magazine. Her work has appeared in
Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, New American Writing, Barrow Street,
Seneca Review, and is forthcoming in Salt Hill, Bellingham Review and the Iowa
Review.
Originally from Wisconsin, Matthew Batt is currently working towards a
graduate degree in creative writing at the University of Utah where he
is the nonfiction editor for Quarterly West. His fiction and
nonfiction has appeared in The Isthmus, Another Chicago Magazine, The
San Francisco Chronicle, Ohioana, and Soundings East and is forthcoming
in Tin House. He is at work on a memoir called My Life as a House
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.
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Margot Singer and Pam Balluck will read from their prose at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch in the fourth floor conference room on Wednesday,
May 11th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series.
Margot Singers recent fiction and creative nonfiction has been published or
is forthcoming in Shenandoah, AGNI, Third Coast, The North American Review,
The Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She recently received
Shenandoah's Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay, and has been nominated
several times for a Pushcart Prize. She is currently completing a doctorate
in creative writing at the University of Utah, and will start a new job as
Assistant Professor of fiction writing at Denison University (in Granville,
Ohio) in the fall.
Pam Balluck was born in New York City and grew up in Southern California and
Northwest Montana. She dropped out of college in the late 1970s and went back
to school in the 1990s, completing her B.A. in English/Creative Writing at the
University of Montana at Missoula in 1998. She completed her M.F.A. in
Fiction writing at the University of Utah in 2000, and is currently a PhD
candidate in English/Fiction writing at the University of Utah. Her fiction
has been published in the Western Humanities Review, Quarter After Eight,
Square Lake, the Jabberwock Review, and most recently a short-short in The
Southeast Review. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004.
The reading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt
Lake City Arts Council: the Utah Arts Council: Zoo, Arts and Parks: and
Audience Donations.
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Award winning poets Craig Arnold and Paisley Rekdal will read from their work
on May 4th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch in the
main auditorium.
An assistant professor of English at the University of Wyoming, CRAIG ARNOLD
has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar, an NEA grant recipient, a
Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton, and a resident at MacDowell Arts
Colony. His first book of poetry, Shells, was selected by W. S. Merwin as the
1998 volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets; his second, a suite of
mythological remixes entitled Made Flesh, is currently seeking a publisher.
Other poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris
Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast and Open City. As a devoted student of
poetry as living performance, he has been featured at venues as various as
Chicagos Green Mill poetry slam, South By Southwest, and the KGB Bar Reading
Series in New York. This year, he is Visiting Writer at the University of
South Dakota. Acclaimed poet Thom Gunn says this of Arnold: Stylish, cool,
and elegant. He should have been a gang-leader. Arnold recently won the
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
Assistant professor at the University of Utah Paisley Rekdal is the author of
a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000, Vintage
2002), and two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press
2000) and Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002).
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a
Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award
from the University of Georgia Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming
Council of the Arts Fellowship, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from
Michigan Quarterly Review.
The reading is free and open to the public. It is made possible by funding
from the Utah Arts Council; the Salt Lake City Arts Council; Zoo, Arts, and
Parks; and the support of the Salt Lake Public Library.
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