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Julie Carr and Shira Dentz at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Julie Carr and Shira Dentz Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. University of Colorado poet Julie Carr and poet Shira Dentz will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday March 2nd at 7:00 as part of the City Art Reading Series. Julie Carr’s first collection of poetry, Mead: An Epithalamion (University of Georgia Press, 2004) was selected by Cole Swensen for the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Prize. Her other collections include Sarah — of Fragments and Lines (Coffee House Press, 2010), a National Poetry Series winner; 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2010), selected by Rae Armantrout for the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize; and Equivocal (Alice James Books, 2007). Her study of Victorian poetry and poetics is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. Carr is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the co-publisher, alongside her husband, Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press. She lives in Denver, Colorado and has three children. Shira Dentz is the author of a book of poems, black seeds on a white dish, a chapbook, Leaf Weather, and another full-length collection, door of thin skins, that is forthcoming. Her poems have appeared widely in journals such as APR, The Iowa Review, jubilat, and New American Writing, and have been featured on NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, The Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, andPainted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently Poetry Co-Editor of Quarterly West, finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Utah, and a Fellow at the Tanner Center for the Humanities in 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. Joel Long

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Reading with Two Bill Coles at City Art!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

William H. Coles and Bill Coles Reading Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art presents a night of two William Coles with Bill Coles and William H. Coles reading from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday February 9th at 7:00 as part of the City Art Reading Series. Bill Coles is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah. Born and raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he has lived in Salt Lake City with his wife Joan since 1956. He has been fully retired since 2001, and has turned his interests from differential equations and mathematical ecology to becoming a writer. So far his non-scientific writings have appeared in Catalyst, City Art, Salt Lake City magazine, and—here his memory fails him—perhaps a few other places. William H. Coles, MD, MS, has had work appear in the Chattahoochee Review and Miscellany. For eight years he reviewed poetry for the Journal of the American Medical Association and won the Callenwolde Prize (Atlanta) for best poem (”Unwed Girl”). He was finalist (short story) in the William Faulkner Creative Writing (2007) Competition short listed the novel (2007), previously, placed five times as a semi-finalist for novel (2004-2010), and a finalist (2006) for short story. He won both first and second place (two stories) in the Sandhills Writers’ Competition 2006. In 2008, seven stories placed as finalists in the Faulkner Competition, one as three equivalent winners. He was a finalist in the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He also wrote scripts for editorials and weekly radio segments on jazz for the NPR affiliate WBFO that were presented on air. He published Story in Literary Fiction: A Manual for Writer in 2007, and in 2008, Literary Story as an Art Form: A Text for Writers. In 2010 he published Facing Grace with Gloria and Other Stories. He won the Conrad Berens Award Competition for best film on a medical subject. He is a former ophthalmic surgeon specializing in ocular trauma who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife who is a pediatric retina surgeon and researcher. He has served as Department Chairman, State University of New York at Buffalo; Regent for the American College of Surgeons, President Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology. He has held academic appointments at Louisiana State University, Medical University of South Carolina, Emory University School of Medicine, and State University of New York at Buffalo where he is presently Professor Emeritus. He has lectured internationally on surgery, Georgian antique furniture, and jazz and recently presented the lectures, "How Humor Works in Literary Fiction" and "Narration in Literary Fiction: Making the Right Choices" at Kenyon College in 2009. 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. Joel Long ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html

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Scott Carrier and Katharine January
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Katharine January and Scott Carrier Reading Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Scott Carrier and poet Katharine January will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday February 2nd at 7:00 as part of the City Art Reading Series. Scott Carrier is an independent radio producer and writer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His radio stories have been broadcast on All Things Considered, This American Life, and The Savvy Traveler. His print stories have been published in Harper’s, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. A collection of his stories, Running After Antelope, will be published in March of 2001 by Counterpoint. Katherine January was born in New Mexico and grew up on a dairy farm in Northern Vermont. She put in academic time at Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and Georgia State University. She farms and writes in Bountiful, Utah where she lives with her good husband Michael and her bad dog Charley. In her spare time she works as a psychologist in a healthcare setting. She recently finished a children’s story, The Curmudgeon Under the Stairs, and is at work on a second volume of poetry. Poems have previously appeared in The Shenandoah Valley Writers’ Guild Showcase and The Potomac Guardian. The Blue Giraffe is her first full-length collection. 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. Joel Long

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