Poets Sue Ranglack and Iris Moulton will reading from their works at the Salt
Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. January 24th as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Sue Ranglack was named 2006 Poet of the Year by the Utah State Poetry Society
(USPS), which will publish her collection Shouting from the Book of Orange.
Ranglack is working on a teaching certificate at the University of Utah. Last
year, Ranglack won a national college student competition sponsored by the
National Federation of State Poetry Societies. In addition, she won the
sweepstakes category at the USPS festival every year since 2001.
Iris Moulton was born and raised in Salt Lake City and has been a writer
longer than she has not. She competed in the National Poetry Slam in St. Louis
in 2004 on the Utah team, has performed at the Utah Arts Festival several
times, and published her first collection of poetry, where the echoes go, with
PUSH! Publications in 2005. She is currently a student of English and
Anthropology at the University of Utah and intends to graduate within the
year.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The reading will be
followed by an open mic reading.
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Lance Larsen and Jaqui Larsen will read from their works at on January 17th at
7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City Art
reading Series.
Lance Larsen, who holds a PhD from University of Houston, has published two
poetry collections, mostly recently IN ALL THEIR ANIMAL BRILLIANCE, which
won the Tampa Review Prize and three other awards. His work has appeared in
PARIS REVIEW, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, KENYON REVIEW, TLS, SOUTHERN REVIEW,
POETYRY DAILY, and elsewhere. He has won several awards, including prizes
from Writers at Work, Sewanee, Pushcart, and most recently a 2007 NEA
fellowship in Poetry. In 2005 he won the Utah Arts Council essay prize. He
teaches at Brigham Young University, where he serves as associate chair.
Jacqui Larsen, a painter and collagist, is originally from Syracuse, New York.
She has exhibited in several national juried shows across the
country, and has received numerous awards, including two Utah Visual Arts
Fellowships. Larsen has an MFA from BYU and has taught at both Northwest
College in Houston and at Brigham Young University . Her work is
represented by David Ericson Fine Art in Salt Lake City. In 2005 her Young
Adult novel, SCRAPOLA, won first place in the Utah Arts Council Creative
Writing Competition. A previous year, her Middle Grade novel SKYE, IN AND
OUT OF TUNE, was awarded an honorable mention.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The reading will be
followed by an open mic reading.
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Writers Cara Diaconoff and Derek Henderson will read from their works on
January 10th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of
the City Art reading Series.
Cara Diaconoff's story collection, Unmarriageable Daughters, is forthcoming
from Lewis-Clark Press in late 2006. She has published individual stories in
Indiana Review, Other Voices, South Dakota Review, and descant and has also
completed a novel, A Stranger to You, which is seeking a publisher. She is
currently writing a second novel, a work of historical fiction about an
American who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. Diaconoff has
taught writing and literature as a lecturer at Texas Christian University and
as a Peace Corps volunteer at colleges in Russia. Currently, she is enrolled
in the Ph.D. program in English and creative writing at University of Utah.
Derek Henderson has lived in Salt Lake City with his wife and three (sometimes
four children) for almost four years. They are still daily fascinated by the
sight of mountains from their patio. His poems have been published or are soon
to be published in Fence, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, and GoodFoot, and
online with DIAGRAM, Word for/Word, GutCult and ActionYes. He has somewhere
around five or six manuscripts that he'd love people to see. At the moment,
his favorite quote is from George Oppen: "Yet I am one of those who from
nothing but man's way of thought and one of his dialects and what has happened
to me / Have made poetry."
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The reading will be
followed by an open mic reading.
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