Mark Wagenaar and Rob Carney Reading
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Mark Wagenaar and Rob Carney will read from their works at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday March 9th at 7:00 as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Mark Wagenaar is the 2011 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, for his manuscript
‘Voodoo Inverso.’ He graduated from the University of Virginia’s MFA
program—where he won an Academy of American Poets Prize—and is a recent
transplant to Salt Lake City, where he's just begun a Ph.d in poetry at the
University of Utah. He has two chapbooks forthcoming from Finishing Line Press &
Pudding House. He is a winner of the Yellowwood Poetry Prize, & his poems appear
widely, including most recently in Subtropics, the SouthernReview, the New
England Review,/nor, theAntioch Review, 32 Poems, theNorth American Review,
theAmerican Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Tar River Poetry, & Poetry
East.
Rob Carneyis the author of two books—Weather Report (Somondoco P, 2006) and
Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts (Pinyon P, 2003), both winners of the Utah Book Award
for Poetry—and two chapbooks: New Fables, Old Songs (Dream Horse P, 2003) and
This Is One Sexy Planet (Frank Cat P, 2005). His writing has appeared in dozens
of journals, such as The National Poetry Review and Quarterly West and in the
anthology Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton, 2006). His reading and interview
for NPR’s “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” is available
online. He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives 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
