Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Joanna Straughn will read from their work at the
Salt Lake Public Library main branch on Wednesday October 18th at 7:00 P.M. as
part of the City Art reading series.
Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poems, Looking for Angels
in New York (1988) and Conversations with Survivors (1993) from University of
Georgia Press, With a Moon in Transit (1996) and Dead MenÂs Praise (1999)
from Grove Press and The HoopoeÂs Crown (2005) from BOA Editions. She has
been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner
Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well as a
number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in
many journals and anthologies, including The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry
(Thomson Wadsworth, 2006), Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill,
2004), The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Norton,
2001), Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (Norton, 2001), The Penguin
Book of the Sonnet (Penguin, 2001), The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American
Literature (Norton, 2000) and Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998). She is
Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of
Utah.
Joanna Straughn received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Utah. Her
first chapbook, Instinct debuts this Fall 2006 from Bright Hill Press;
Treadwell, New York. She has recently completed a juried residency at the
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. Originally from a small
town in west Texas, she has also lived in New York and Northern California, a
village in Germany, and on a farm in Oklahoma. Her poems have appeared in
journals including The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Asheville Poetry Review,
and Meridian among others.
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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Diane Fouts and Melissa Bond will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public
Library on October 11th at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch at 7:
P.M. as part of the City Art reading series.
Diane Fouts has been writing poetry in Utah for approximately 30 years now.
Her work reflects perplexing paradoxes, both internal and external, of life in
this state (of the union? of mind? of grace!).
Recent or soon-to-appear publications include appearances in Cilantro, a
web-based literary journal edited by Hector Ahumada, and Writing from the
Land, a CD journal from the Entrada Institute. Her poems have also appeared in
Glyphs I and II, anthologies of Moab writers--and way back when--in High
Country News and a long-defunct little magazine called Silver Vain. She's
currently working on a manuscript of 64 tiny poems about daily weather.
Melissa Bond published HUSH in 2006, a collection of poems, a short story and
a series of collages she put together while sitting hunched and cross-legged
on her bedroom floor. In February of this year she spent a month cleaning out
houses in New Orleans. From that time came the New Orleans Project, a
multi-media presentation that she developed with audiographer Beth Hoffman and
photographer Alice McNamara. The New Orleans Project premiered at the Utah
Arts Festival and went on to tour the San Francisco Bay Area in July. Bond was
given the Mayor's Artist Award for the Literary Arts in 2001 and is currently
at work finishing her quirky and long overdue experimental novel, Streamline
Jenny.
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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Diane Fouts and Melissa Bond will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public
Library on October 11th at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch at 7:
P.M. as part of the City Art reading series.
Diane Fouts has been writing poetry in Utah for approximately 30 years now.
Her work reflects perplexing paradoxes, both internal and external, of life in
this state (of the union? of mind? of grace!).
Recent or soon-to-appear publications include appearances in Cilantro, a
web-based literary journal edited by Hector Ahumada, and Writing from the
Land, a CD journal from the Entrada Institute. Her poems have also appeared in
Glyphs I and II, anthologies of Moab writers--and way back when--in High
Country News and a long-defunct little magazine called Silver Vain. She's
currently working on a manuscript of 64 tiny poems about daily weather.
Melissa Bond published HUSH in 2006, a collection of poems, a short story and
a series of collages she put together while sitting hunched and cross-legged
on her bedroom floor. In February of this year she spent a month cleaning out
houses in New Orleans. From that time came the New Orleans Project, a
multi-media presentation that she developed with audiographer Beth Hoffman and
photographer Alice McNamara. The New Orleans Project premiered at the Utah
Arts Festival and went on to tour the San Francisco Bay Area in July. Bond was
given the Mayor's Artist Award for the Literary Arts in 2001 and is currently
at work finishing her quirky and long overdue experimental novel, Streamline
Jenny.
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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Kimberly Johnson and Yale Prize winner Jay Hopler will read from their works
at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday October 4th at 7:00.
Jay HoplerÂs first book, The Killing Spirit, was published in 1996. His
first collection of poems, Green Squall, was awarded the 2005 Yale Younger
Poets Prize by Louise Gluck. He holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins
Writing Seminars and the Iowa Writers Workshop, and his work has appeared
recently in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, and The Kenyon Review, among
other publications. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at the
University of South Florida.
Kimberly Johnson holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing
Seminars, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and UC-Berkeley. Her first poetry
collection, Leviathan with a Hook, appeared in 2002, and her second has just
been
completed with the support of an NEA Fellowship. Her work has appeared
recently
in The New Yorker,The Harvard Review, and The Iowa Review.
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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