On Wednesday January 18th at 7:00 City Art will present its Elizabethan Night
at the Salt Lake Public Library's main branch in conjunction with the
library's celebration of the life of Elizabeth the first. The evening will
feature readings of Elizabethan poems and poems inspired by the forms and
ideas of the period with guests including writers, Kimberly Johnson, Mike
Dorrell, Joel Long, Barbara Murdock, and Chris Leibo.
Kimberly Johnson earned earn an M.A. at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and
an M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She earned her Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley, where she specialized in Renaissance
literature, and specifically in seventeenth-century religious writings. Her
book-length collection of poems, _Leviathan with a Hook_ (Persea Books) was
published in 2002. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines,
including _The New Yorker_ and _Quarterly West_. Her current projects include
a critical book on self-feminization by male religious poets of the
seventeenth century, a verse translation of Virgil's _Georgics_, and a second
collection of poetry, tentatively entitled A Metaphorical God.
Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the
upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE
IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in
April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and
acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a
comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays
for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES,
PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC
for
BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE OLD
CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the
Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American
Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike is the Dramaturg for
The
Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work.
He
has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has
been published in small magazines in Wales.
Chris Leibow is the founder of Caberet Voltage and a Graduate student in
poetry at Antioch College.
Barbara Murdock retired in June after teaching creative writing,
English, and French for thirty years in the Salt Lake City School
District, twenty-seven of those years at East High where she was
adviser for Pencilings, East's art literary magazine and for Take Five,
an annual production of five student-written, one-act plays. Among her
recognitions are awards from The National Council of Teachers of
English, The Scholastic Writing Awards, and The National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts. In 1997 she was named Distinguished Teacher
by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the United
States Office of Education. In June, she received the Educator of
Excellence Award from Writers @ Work.
Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes appeared in 2005 from Elik Press. His poems
have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review,
Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, and Seattle Review and
anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and
Fresh Water.
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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Sylvia Torti and Barbara Murdock will reading from their works on Wednesday,
January 11 at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch.
Sylvia Torti's /The Scorpion's Tail/ won the 2005 Miguel Marmol Prize,
awarded annually by Curbstone Press for the best debut work in fiction
by a Latino/a writer. She is an Assistant Research Professor of Biology
at the University of Utah and currently is president of Writers at Work.
"/The Scorpion's Tail/ is a novel that is simultaneously compelling,
complicated and insightful. Sylvia Torti deftly unites disparate
elements and voices in this tale of the Zapatista rebellion of January
1, 1994, in Chiapas, Mexico-one of the most momentous events of the
beginnings of the twenty-first century. -Luis J. Rodriguez
Torti has written a compelling story of this sometimes-overlooked period
in Mexico's history--a story enriched by its honest and disparate points
Barbara Murdock retired in June after teaching creative writing,
English, and French for thirty years in the Salt Lake City School
District, twenty-seven of those years at East High where she was
adviser for Pencilings, East's art literary magazine and for Take Five,
an annual production of five student-written, one-act plays. Among her
recognitions are awards from The National Council of Teachers of
English, The Scholastic Writing Awards, and The National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts. In 1997 she was named Distinguished Teacher
by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the United
States Office of Education. In June, she received the Educator of
Excellence Award from Writers @ Work.
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 Linsalata will read from her writing on Wednesday, January 4 at 7:00 at
the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branc as part of the City Art reading
series.
Linsalata thinks of herself as a housewife poet, writing about the landscape
of long-term marriage, and growing up in an eclectic family. She also
writes about issues of shame around body and sexuality. She studied medieval,
renaissance, and baroque music on flute and recorder at Webster University
in Webster Groves, Missouri. Two of her poems, "The Likes of You" and
"Anniversary" have been made into short films by independent filmmaker Natalie
Avery. She's had the fortunate opportunity to spend one month at Norcroft, a
writing retreat for women in
Minnesota, and she's been an invited reader at a fundraiser for UCASA - Utah
Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She has benefited greatly from attending
the
Writers At Work workshop several times, and has enjoyed volunteering in
middle school and high school English classrooms.
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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