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Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Coviino at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino will read from their work on October17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. University of Utah Professor Jacqueline Osherow is the author of several collections of poetry, including Whitethorn, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Dead Men’s Praise. Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her work has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry. Peter Covino is the author of the poetry collections, both from Western Michigan University/New Issues Press, The Right Place to Jump(2012) and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), winner of the 2007 PEN/America Osterweil Award (http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/224/prmID/1482) and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Please see a recent review of his work here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bobby-elliott/on-peter-covinos-the-righ_b_190… Other reviews have appeared in such publications as American Poet(Academy of American Poets), The Journal, Small Press Review,and Quarterly Westamong others. His chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001), won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize; and recent poems have been published or are forthcoming both in America and Italy in such places as the American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, Gulf Coast, Interim, Lo-Ball, Leggendaria, New Orleans Review, The Paris Review, tutteStorie, The Yale Review, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing,among others. Covino’s newer work reflects a growing concern with Italian historical influences, issues of environmental impingement, contemporary art, and visual and poetic experimentation. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 21 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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Linda Aldrich and Miles Fuller at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Writers Linda Aldrich and Miles Fuller to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 10th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Linda Aldrich and Miles Fuller will read from their works on October 10th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Linda Aldrich grew up in New Hampshire and graduated from the University of New Hampshire, Florida State University (MA Theatre Arts), and Vermont College (MFA/ Poetry). She was director of the Young Conservatory and a member of the repertory at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and later was Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado. Her poetry chapbook, Foothold, was published in 2008, and her full collection, March and Mad Women was published August 2012 by Word Tech (Cherry Grove Collections). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, among them Crazy Woman Creek, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, The Denver Quarterly,Ellipsis, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, Snake Nation Review, The Best of Write Action, and Words and Images. Her poem “Woman-without-Arms” won the Emily Dickinson Award 2000 from Universities West Press. She currently lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband David, where she continues to teach and is on the board of trustees for the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA). Miles Fuller teaches at Westminster College. He studied Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. His poetry and prose have received accolades through the Academy of American Poets, AWP, a Pushcart nomination, Honorable Mention in Best American Essays, and most recently, Fuller won the 2010 Alligator Juniper Essay Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, The Portland Review, and Ellipsis. In addition, while working as an instructor at the University of Iowa, Miles Fuller’s students named him, “Captain Fuller,” reiterating his position as the saltiest and most nautically-aware writer in American letters. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Michael Gills Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 21 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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Michael Gils and Mike Dorrell at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Mike Dorrell and Michael Gills to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 3rd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Mike Dorrell and Michael Gills will read from their work on October 3rd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Michael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A second collection, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, will be out from Texas Review Press in October, the title story of which just won Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. A novel, Go Love, will be published this fall by Raw Dog Screaming Press. A third collection of stories, Eternally Yours, is currently on the market. Gills has published more than forty short stories, received 25 Pushcart nominations, appeared in multiple Best of the South publications and held the Randall Jarrell Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Gills holds additional degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah where he earned the Ph.D. His fiction is forthcoming in New Madrid, Boulevard and The Texas Review. Other stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, Quarterly West, The Oxford American, Salt Hill, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Humanities Review, McSweeney’s, Verb, New York Stories, New Stories From The South and elsewhere. A Utah Established Artist grant recipient, Gills is currently Associate Professor/Lecturer of writing and core faculty for the Honors College at the University of Utah. Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES, PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC for BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE OLD CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike is the Dramaturg for The Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work. He has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has been published in small magazines in Wales. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Michael Gills Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 21 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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