Poets Ned Snell and Chris Ames will reading from their poems February 20th at
the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
N. Colwell Snell graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in
English. He is immediatge past president of the Utah State Poetry Society and
chancellor of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, where he
serves as chair of the College/University Poetry Competition. He edited the
2005 Utah Sings Volume VIII, an anthology of contemporary verse by Utah poets.
He was named Utah Poet of the Year for his manuscript Hand Me My Shadow,
which also won the 2007 Pearle M. Olsen book award. His poetry has appeared
in several anthologies and magazines, including ByLine Magazine, California
Quarterly, Bay Area Poets' Coalition, and
Weber Studies.
Chris Ames was born and raised in Salt Lake, then let loose upon the world.
He has spent years in Europe and Asia, working, traveling and learning (and
continuing to learn). He currently lives and works in Paris, but has never
forgotten his roots as a Utahn. He has published two books of prose in Japan
and contributed to countless magazines and anthologies from Beijing to
Budapest. His current work, SOME PEOPLE, from which he will read tonight,
appeared in Poland in 2005.
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, Xmission,
and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open
reading.
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Fiction writer Ron Carlson will read from his work February 13th at 7:00 at
the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel
Five Skies, selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Los Angeles
Times. His new book on writing fiction, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, was also
published in 2007. His selected stories is A Kind of Flying, (W.W. Norton
2003), and his short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker,
Gentlemen's Quarterly, Epoch, The North American Review and other journals, as
well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The
Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of
other anthologies. A graduate of the University of Utah, Mr. Carlson is
Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California,
Irvine. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
Fiction, and the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares.
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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Multi-talented Kathryn Cowles will read from her poems and play and sing her
own songs for the City Art Reading Series on February 6th at 7:00 P.M. at the
Salt Lake City LibraryÂs Main Branch.
Poet Kathryn Cowles is a graduate student in Creative Writing at the
University of Utah. She has recent poems in Colorado Review, Hawaii
Review, and Pleiades, and her first book manuscript, Eleanor, Eleanor,
not your real name, was a semifinalist this fall in the Eastern
Washington Press book prize and the Saturnalia book prize. Kathryn
co-chairs the Working Dog reading series and is co-editor of poetry
for Quarterly West.
Musician Kathryn Cowles started playing guitar when she was 12 because
everyone else in her family played piano, including her mother, a
classical piano teacher, and her father, a blues keyboardist. She
writes and sings her own songs.
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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