This one act night will be in the Auditorium!
Jeff Metcalf and his playwrights such as Tara Olsen, Liz Coleman, Beth
Ranschau and Jenn Sant from the University of Utah along with the Salt Lake
Acting Company will present an evening of one act plays at the Salt Lake
Public Library on April 26th 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 Âat risk 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 ÂThree Comedians in Purgatory was performed in
Nice, France and recently, his play ÂWhere To? 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.
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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Jeff Metcalf and his playwrights such as Tara Olsen, Liz Coleman, Beth
Ranschau and Jenn Sant from the University of Utah along with the Salt Lake
Acting Company will present an evening of one act plays at the Salt Lake
Public Library on April 26th 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 Âat risk 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 ÂThree Comedians in Purgatory was performed in
Nice, France and recently, his play ÂWhere To? 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.
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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Writer David Kranes will read from his new novel at the Salt Lake City Public
Library on Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00 P.M. in the downstairs conference
room as part of the City Art Reading Series.
David Kranes is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Utah.
His novels include Keno Runner, The National Tree, The Hunting Years. and
Margins; his short story, ÂCordials, won the 1996 Pushcart Prize, followed
the next year by Low Tide in the Desert: Nevada Stories, which won the Western
Heritage Award for Best Short Story. Two of his plays, Cantrell and Going In,
were published in Best American Short Plays, 1987, and Horay won the CBS
Playwrights Award. He served for fourteen years as artistic director of the
Sundance Playwrights' Lab.
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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Nancy Takacs and Colorado poet Katie Kingston will read from their poems on
April 12th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of
the City Art reading series. The event will be followed by a reception to be
held at 187 North F Street.
Katie Kingston has a chapbook, In My Dreams, Neruda (2005 Editors' Choice
Award, Main Street Rag chapbook contest) and one forthcoming in 2006 from
Sheltering Pines Press's chapbook contest, in which she was a semi-finalist.
She is a recipient of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in
Poetry. Recent awards include second place for the Stephen Dunn Award,
finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award, the Ruth Stone Prize, the Poetry
Atlanta Review, as well as semi-finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda
Prize and the Main-Traveled Roads Press Poetry Book contest. She is a graduate
of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program. Currently, she lives and
writes in Corazón de Trinidad, Colorado, located in the foothills of the
Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range.
Nancy Takacs teaches English at the College of Eastern Utah. She has two books
of poetry: Preserves by City Art Press, 2004; and a chapbook Pale Blue Wings
by Limberlost Press, 2001. A chapbook, Juniper, is forthcoming from Limberlost
Press. The recipient of a 2005 Ucross residency, The Discovery/Nation award,
Two Individual Utah artist grants, and other residencies and poetry awards,
she has also taught a poetry program for male inmates at the Central Utah
Correctional Facility through the Utah Arts Council. Formerly from Bayonne,
New Jersey, she lives in Wellington, Utah. Her poetry examines natural
landscapes and their inhabitants, family violence, relationship, gender, and
Catholicism. Her work also sometimes juxtaposes the landscapes of New Jersey
and Utah.
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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Poets Donald Revell and Claudia Keelan will read from their works on April 5th
at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Donald Revell was born in the Bronx in 1954. A graduate of SUNY-Binghamton and
SUNY-Buffalo, he has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa,
Alabama, and Denver. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of English at the
University of Utah. Editor of Denver Quarterly from 1988-94, he has been a
poetry editor of Colorado Review since 1996. Along with his recent Pennyweight
Windows: New & Selected Poems, Revell is the author of eight collections of
poetry: My Mojave (Alice James, 2003); Arcady (Wesleyan, 2002); There Are
Three (Wesleyan, 1998); Beautiful Shirt (Wesleyan, 1994); Erasures (Wesleyan,
1992); New Dark Ages (Wesleyan, 1990); The Gaza of Winter (University of
Georgia Press, 1988); and From the Abandoned Cities (Harper & Row, 1983). He
has also translated two volumes of the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire:
Alcools (1995) and The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems (2004), both
from Wesleyan. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Shestack Prize, the
Gertrude Stein Award, the PEN Center USA Award for poetry, as well as
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Ingram
Merrill and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundations. Donald Revell lives in
Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their son,
Benjamin.
Claudia Keelan is the author of four collections of poetry, including
Refinery, which won the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize, The
Secularist, a winner in the 1997 Contemporary Poetry Series from the
University of Georgia Press, Utopic, which won the 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award
from Alice James Books, and The Devotion Field 2005 PEN Center USA Award in
Poetry Finalist. Her poetry has been anthologized in What Will Suffice:
Contemporary Poets on the Ars Poetica and the 1997 Anthology of Magazine Verse
& Yearbook of American Poetry. Her criticism has been reprinted in the 1993
edition of Contemporary Authors. Ms. Keelan's honors include a 1990 Jesse
Stuart Award for excellence in teaching; a 1991 fellowship from the Helene
Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico; a 1992 grant from the Kentucky Foundation
for Women; and in 1997 The Secularist was nominated for the Los Angeles Times
Book Award. 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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