Fiction writer Mary Corinne Powers will read from her work and folk
singer/songwriter Ken Shaw will perform at the Salt Lake Public Library at
7:00 P.M. on May 2nd.
Ken began performing satirical folk music in New England coffeehouses during
the early 1980Âs, drawing inspiration from such iconoclasts as Tom Lehrer,
Lenny Bruce, and Phil Ochs. After graduating from college in Â84, he moved
his act to Utah. His big break came in 1990 when he performed with Utah
Phillips and Pete Seeger at the 75th anniversary of Joe HillÂs execution in
Sugarhouse Park. Since then, he has performed on radio and television, as
well as opening concerts for such artists as Nanci Griffith, Loudon
Wainwright, Greg Brown, Patty Larkin, Allison Krauss, Mark OÂConnor, Christine
Lavin, Peter Rowan, Chuck Pyle, John Gorka, Steve Forbert, Cosy Sheridan, and
even the Neville Brothers. In his spare time, Ken teaches chemistry and
biology at a local high school.
Fiction Writer Mary Corinne Powers feels it's creepily Karl Malone-ish to talk
about herself in the third person. She lives with her three brilliant sons and
more moronic quadrapeds than is technically reasonable or healthy. She has an
unnatural aversion to lima beans. It's a texture thing. She teaches English
at Waterford School and has published fiction recently in Salt Flats Annual.
Read here story here: http://www.saltflatsannual.com/pdf/MaryPowers.pdf.
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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Fiction writer Gerda Saunders and Poet Shira Dentz will read from their works
on April 18th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
Shira Dentz's poems and stories have appeared in journals including
American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly,
Field, Western Humanities Review, Seneca Review, Chelsea, Aufgabe,
LIT, Electronic Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Painted Bride
Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, How2, Barrow Street, The Journal,
Diner, Tarpaulin Sky, Pinstripe Fedora, Diagram, Luna°, Can we have
our ball back?, Web del Sol, Gargoyle, Phoebe, St. MarkÂs Poetry
Project Newsletter, Big Bridge, Outsider Ink, So to Speak, Black
Zinnia, and Cimarron Review. and on the Poetry Daily website. Her
poetry has aired on NPR, and she has been the recipient of Poetry
Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards,
Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride
Quarterly's Poetry Prize. In addition, she has received fellowships
from from Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Squaw
Valley Writers Community, and the MacDowell Arts Colony. She lived
and worked for many years as a graphic artist in New York City, is a
recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently is a
doctoral candidate at the University of Utah.
Gerda Saunders is currently the Associate Director of the Gender Studies
Program at the University of Utah and now and then teaches creative writing
for the English Department. She is the author of the short story collection
Blessings on the Sheepdog (SMU Press, 2002), which tells the stories of
characters who grew up in apartheid South Africa. She is currently working on
two novels: she is revising The Last Pietà of MichelAgniolo, which received
the Utah Arts Council Publication Prize in 2000. The story focuses on
Maddaluzza, a contemporary of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo, who
tries to forge a life as an artist in spite of the fact that no such life was
available to a woman in the sixteenth century. Maddaluzza gives an account of
the making of MichelangeloÂs last sculpture, now known as the Rondanini Pietà .
The piece consists of Mary, in a standing position, holding upright the body
of the dead Christ. Several weeks before Michelangelo was to die, he made a
major change: he cut off the ChristÂs head and fashioned a new head and
shoulders out of the marble that remained between the two figures. In 1974,
the art historian Bruno Mantura found the original head built into a monastery
wall in RomeÂs Trastevere district. Maddaluzza tells how it came to be carried
there after the artistÂs death.
GerdaÂs other novel in progress is titled People of the Mouth, and tells the
story of the last known Bushman painter, !Kerre, who, in 1850, was killed by a
white farmer who mistook his paint horn for a hunterÂs quiver. Fearing
revenge, the farmer dumped !KerreÂs body in an ash pit, thereby dooming the
painter to an afterlife on the moon rather than be reunited with his relatives
in the Hole in the SkyÂaccording to Bushman mythology, only those who were
properly buried have access to the Hole in the Sky. On the moon !Kerre lives
as a hunter-gatherer, much as he did on earth. Together with similarly
dishonored Bushmen who share his fate, he tries to influence events on earth
in order to get a proper burial for his own remains and those of his new
acquaintances, who include Sarah Baartman and Bukha. Sarah Baartman was
exhibited in Europe during the early nineteenth century as the Hottentot
Venus; after she died when only in her twenties, her body was dissected by the
famous anatomist George Cuvier and her genitalia displayed in the Museum of
Man in Paris. !KerreÂs other close moon companion, Bukha,
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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Fiction writer Gerda Saunders and Poet Shira Dentz will read from their works
on April 18th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
Shira Dentz's poems and stories have appeared in journals including
American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly,
Field, Western Humanities Review, Seneca Review, Chelsea, Aufgabe,
LIT, Electronic Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Painted Bride
Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, How2, Barrow Street, The Journal,
Diner, Tarpaulin Sky, Pinstripe Fedora, Diagram, Luna°, Can we have
our ball back?, Web del Sol, Gargoyle, Phoebe, St. MarkÂs Poetry
Project Newsletter, Big Bridge, Outsider Ink, So to Speak, Black
Zinnia, and Cimarron Review. and on the Poetry Daily website. Her
poetry has aired on NPR, and she has been the recipient of Poetry
Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards,
Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride
Quarterly's Poetry Prize. In addition, she has received fellowships
from from Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Squaw
Valley Writers Community, and the MacDowell Arts Colony. She lived
and worked for many years as a graphic artist in New York City, is a
recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently is a
doctoral candidate at the University of Utah.
Gerda Saunders is currently the Associate Director of the Gender Studies
Program at the University of Utah and now and then teaches creative writing
for the English Department. She is the author of the short story collection
Blessings on the Sheepdog (SMU Press, 2002), which tells the stories of
characters who grew up in apartheid South Africa. She is currently working on
two novels: she is revising The Last Pietà of MichelAgniolo, which received
the Utah Arts Council Publication Prize in 2000. The story focuses on
Maddaluzza, a contemporary of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo, who
tries to forge a life as an artist in spite of the fact that no such life was
available to a woman in the sixteenth century. Maddaluzza gives an account of
the making of MichelangeloÂs last sculpture, now known as the Rondanini Pietà .
The piece consists of Mary, in a standing position, holding upright the body
of the dead Christ. Several weeks before Michelangelo was to die, he made a
major change: he cut off the ChristÂs head and fashioned a new head and
shoulders out of the marble that remained between the two figures. In 1974,
the art historian Bruno Mantura found the original head built into a monastery
wall in RomeÂs Trastevere district. Maddaluzza tells how it came to be carried
there after the artistÂs death.
GerdaÂs other novel in progress is titled People of the Mouth, and tells the
story of the last known Bushman painter, !Kerre, who, in 1850, was killed by a
white farmer who mistook his paint horn for a hunterÂs quiver. Fearing
revenge, the farmer dumped !KerreÂs body in an ash pit, thereby dooming the
painter to an afterlife on the moon rather than be reunited with his relatives
in the Hole in the SkyÂaccording to Bushman mythology, only those who were
properly buried have access to the Hole in the Sky. On the moon !Kerre lives
as a hunter-gatherer, much as he did on earth. Together with similarly
dishonored Bushmen who share his fate, he tries to influence events on earth
in order to get a proper burial for his own remains and those of his new
acquaintances, who include Sarah Baartman and Bukha. Sarah Baartman was
exhibited in Europe during the early nineteenth century as the Hottentot
Venus; after she died when only in her twenties, her body was dissected by the
famous anatomist George Cuvier and her genitalia displayed in the Museum of
Man in Paris. !KerreÂs other close moon companion, Bukha,
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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Poets Janet Holmes and Paisley Rekdal will read from their works at the Salt
Lake City Public Library on April 11th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Janet Holmes is author, most recently, of F2F (University of Notre Dame
Press, 2006). Her previous books include Humanophone (UNDP, 2001) and
The Green Tuxedo (UNDP, 1998). She is director and editor of Ahsahta
Press, an all-poetry press at Boise State University, where she also
teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Assistant professor at the University of Utah Paisley RekdalÂs most recent
book of poems, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope was published by the Pitt
Poetry Series in February She is the author of a book of essays, The Night My
Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000, Vintage 2002), and two books of poetry, A
Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press 2000) and Six Girls Without Pants
(Eastern Washington University Press 2002). Rekdal is the recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Village Voice Writers on the
Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia
Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming Council of the Arts Fellowship, and
the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from Michigan Quarterly 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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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