Award winning poet Kay Ryan will read her poems on a special night Thursday,
March 27th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including The Niagara River
(Grove Press, 2005); Say Uncle (2000); Elephant Rocks (1996); Flamingo
Watching (1994), which was a finalist for both the Lamont Poetry Selection and
the Lenore Marshall Prize; Strangely Marked Metal (1985); and Dragon Acts to
Dragon Ends (1983).
About her work, J. D. McClatchy has said: "Her poems are compact,
exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell
boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and
elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost."
Ryan's awards include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an
Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award, and three
Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American
Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997.
Ryan's poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry,
The Yale Review, Paris Review, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review,
Parnassus, among other journals and anthologies. She was named to the ÂIt
List by Entertainment Weekly and one of her poems has been permanently
installed at New YorkÂs Central Park Zoo. Ryan was elected a Chancellor of The
Academy of American Poets in 2006. Since l971, she has lived in Marin County
in California.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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CITY ART
March 20, 2008
Dear Friend of City Art,
With the coming of spring and a fine program of poets and writers coming up,
we thought we would give you the opportunity to make a contribution to City
Art.
City Art is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the literary arts, and is
unique in the state of Utah for the frequency and quality of its programs and
the loyalty of its audience. As you know, programs are free and open to the
public. We are asking for your help to supplement the funding we receive from
the Utah Arts Council, The Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake CountyÂs
Zoo, Arts, and Parks Program, which covers only 2/3 of our season expenses.
WeÂve already had an amazing season, and the weeks ahead offer opportunities
to hear some of Salt Lake CityÂs best literary voices, including Andy Hoffman
and fiction writer Nicole Stansbury. Utah poets Nancy Takacs and Jan Minich
will read together in April. And itÂs our privilege to host a special reading
by Kay Ryan on March 27, the day following her Branching Out lecture on Emily
Dickinson at the Main Library. Our fall season featured readings by Molly
Peacock, Gregory Orr, and Ethelbert Miller, all poets of national stature.
City Art readings always draw a varied, interested (and interesting!)
audience, and they end with an open reading where anyone with a poem or short
prose piece can try it out on appreciative ears.
City Art is a 501 (c)(3) corporation and therefore contributions are tax
deductible.
If you would like to make a contribution of any amount, you may send it to
City Art at 1416 Butler Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84102.
Sincerely,
Joel Long
President
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Non-fiction writer Brenda Miller will read her new work Wednesday, March 19th
at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002),
which was a finalist for the PEN American Center Book Award in Creative
Nonfiction. She has received four Pushcart Prizes, and her work has appeared
in numerous publications, including The Georgia Review, Utne Reader, Fourth
Genre, and The Sun. She is co-author of the textbook, Tell it Slant: Writing
and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). She serves as
editor-in-chief of The Bellingham 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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Fiction writer Nicole Stansbury and Poet Timothy OÂKeefe will read from their
work Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Stansbury received her Master's in fiction writing at the University of Utah.
She has written two books, "Places to Look for a Mother," and "The Husband's
Dilemma." In 2002, she was selected by Barnes and Noble for their "Discover
New Writers" series. She teaches senior English at Rowland Hall St. Mark's
this year and is completing a third book, "The Earth We Know."
Timothy O'Keefe's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird,
Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Forklift
Ohio,
Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, Pool, and elsewhere. He
has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Tin
House Writer's Workshop. He received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University,
and
is currently a PhD student at the University of Utah.
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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Writer Andy Hoffman will read from his new collection, The Professor Stories,
Wednesday, March 5th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Andy Hoffmann's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of
national literary journals, and his work has won awards and grants for
fiction and non-fiction from the Utah Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council
of the Arts, and the Associated Writing Programs. He has nonfiction
has appeared in Salt Flats Review and Big Bridge, and a novella from
Cityful Press. He teaches at the University of Utah and publishes and edits
Elik Press, Salt Lake City.
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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