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Shira Dentz and Stacy Kidd at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Poets Shira Dentz and Stacy Kidd will read from their work on October 21stat the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the third floor conference room. Shira Dentz's book, door of thin skins, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press, and her book, black seeds on a white dish, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Her chapbook, Leaf Weather, was recently published by Tilt Press. Her poems appear in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Field, Western Humanities Review, and jubilat, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, and NPR. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets' Prize,The Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah. Before leaving for Iowa and Salt Lake City, she worked for many years as a graphic artist designing music ads in New York City, and taught English in an inner city public high school. Stacy Kiddis in the PhD Program in Creative Writing at the U of Utah and Poetry Editor for Quarterly West. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Fugue, Spoon River Poetry Review and WITNESS. 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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Jerry VanIeperen and Esther Lee at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Writers Jerry VanIeperen and Esther Lee will read from their work on October 14that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. Jerry VanIeperen lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is one of the founders/editors of the Sugar House Review and formerly worked as an editor for Petrogylph. He is a winner of Utah State University's creative writing contest and recently earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska. His poems have appeared in Black Rock & Sage, Bring the Ink, Scribendi, and The City Art Journal. Esther Lee received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from IndianaUniversity where she served as Editor-in-Chief for Indiana Review. She's been awarded the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize; twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and nominated for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She used to work as Editor-in-Chief for Tea Party magazine in SanFrancisco and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature at theUniversity 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Lance Larsen and Nicole Sheets at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Writers Lance Larsen and Nicole Sheets will read from their work on October 7that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. Lance Larsen (PhD, University of Houston) is the author of two poetry collections: Erasable Walls and In All Their Animal Brilliance, the latter of which won the Tampa Review Prize. His poems have appeared in New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Grand Street, New England Review, Times Literary Supplement, Kenyon Review, New Republic, The Pushcart Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from the First 30 Years, and elsewhere. In 2005, he co-directed a semester-long study abroad program in London and taught creative nonfiction. A professor of English at BYU, he currently serves as associate chair. Former poetry editor at Gulf Coast, he has received grants and awards from The Cultural Arts Council of Houston, the Joseph Campbell Society, the Utah Arts Council, Sewanee, and Writers at Work. He is married to Jacqui Larsen, a painter and mixed-media artist. Nicole Sheets’ essays and book reviews have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Pilgrimage, and Quarterly West, and an essay is forthcoming in the anthology Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical (Cascade Press, 2009). Sheets is a past winner of the Utah Writers’ Contest, sponsored by Western Humanities Review, and the Richard Scowcroft Prize in prose, from the University of Utah Department of English. Sheets has written for several newspapers and magazines in her home state of West Virginia and for Ziarul de Garda, a weekly newspaper in the Republic of Moldova. Before moving to Utah, Sheets taught English in Moldova as a Peace Corps volunteer. For the last five summers, she’s been on the faculty of the West Virginia Governor’s Honors Academy, a program for high school seniors, where she’s taught cooking, creative writing, and a little bit of yoga. Sheets lives in Salt Lake City and is finishing up a Ph.D. in creative writing 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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