ItÂs time to open presents from your City Art Secret Santa: You are the Secret
Santa. ItÂs open reading time. So unwrap your poems and prose and bring them
to the Salt Lake city Public Library at 7:00, Wednesday, December19th. Bring
some holiday cheer.
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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Poets Jean Howard and Sandy Anderson will perform and read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 12th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Award-winning video and performance poet, organizer, producer, and participant
in the original development of the internationally-acclaimed, ÂPoetry SlamÂ,
Jean Howard has poetry published in over seventy publications, including
Harper's Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and her own book, Dancing In Your
Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press).
She has performed her poetry on cable, public and network television and at
hundreds of venues nationwide, from the GuggenheimÂs exhibit at ChicagoÂs
Field Museum, to biker bars.
Currently, Jean serves on the Board of Slam Utah, Advisory Board of Utah Arts
Alliance, and as a consultant for the National Poetry Slam Board, after
serving as Director of ChicagoÂs National Poetry Video Festival for eight
years.
Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and
workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in
the 1960Âs, Word Affair in the 70Âs and 80Âs, and City Art in the 90Âs. She
has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given
workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners.. She was the 1997
recipient of the Salt Lake City MayorÂs Award in Literature, and the 1995
Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award. She has edited collections of poems by
Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three
collections of poetry by the disabled.
AndersonÂs chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by
Limberlost Press in 1998. Her book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published
by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Great and
Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and The Great Salt
Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which
won first place in the literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain
Collegiate Press Association, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She
has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News,
Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her
married name, Sandy Wilkerson and has served as a judging chairman for the
Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the 1970Âs .
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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Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and Fiction writer Lance Olsen will read
from their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library on December 5th at 7:00
P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Katharine Coles most recent collection of poems, Fault, will be published
(Red Hen Press) in 2008. Her second novel, Fire Season, was published by
Juniper Press. She has also published three collections of poems, most
recently The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Her work has appeared or
is forthcoming in such journals as The Paris Review, The New Republic, The
Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, and she has received awards
from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other
organizations. She is on the faculty of the Department of English at the
University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and
directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.
Lance Olsen is author of eighteen books of and about innovative fiction,
including, most recently, the novels Anxious Pleasures (Shoemaker & Hoard,
2007) and Nietzsche's Kisses (FC2, 2006). He serves as Chair of the Board of
Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's
best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. He is
also Associate Editor at American Book Review. He teaches at the University of
Utah.
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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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