Writers Lance Newman and Miles Fuller will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 12th at 7:00.
Lance Newman is Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City, where he teaches courses in Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a guide since 1991, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005), Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006), and of Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (Romantic Circles, 2006). His poems have appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Beloit Poetry Journal, Dusie, Pemmican, Zyzzyva, Streetnotes, nthposition, Perigee, unsplendid, identity theory, Fringe, New CollAge, Blue Collar Review, Poets Against the War, and elsewhere. His free chapbook, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007), is available on
request.
Miles Fuller is a graduate of Westminster College in Salt Lake City. At Westminster he served as Poetry and Visual Art editors for the national literary journal Ellipsis. As a poet and essayist, Miles Fuller’s work is unnecessarily fixated on the literary themes of loss, death, and intense awkwardness in social settings. Regardless of his predictable obsessions, Miles’ poems and essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, The Portland Review, and Ellipsis. In addition, he won an AWP Intro Award for Poetry in 2007, and has received two Academy of American Poets Prizes.
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.
