For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Rebecca Lindenberg and Malachi Black to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Rebecca Lindenberg and Malachi Black will read from their work on March 14th at
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Rebecca
Lindenberg’s first poetry collection, Love:
an Index, is forthcoming from McSweeney’s in 2012. She is the recipient of
a 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship and a 2009- 2010
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. Her poetry, essays and criticism
appear most recently in The Best American
Poetry—2011, POETRY, The Believer, 32 Poems, Conjunctions, Huffington Post, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, No Tell Motel, Colorado Review, Denver
Quarterly and elsewhere. She teaches literature and creative writing at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Malachi
Black is a Vice Presidential Fellow in the University of Utah’s PhD program in
English with Creative Writing. He is the author of the limited edition
chapbook Echolocation (Float Press, 2010), and the forthcoming chapbook
Quarantine (Argos Books). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in
journals including Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, and Blackbird, as
well as several recent or forthcoming anthologies. A 2009 Ruth Lilly
Fellow, he has also received recent fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Texas at Austin’s
Michener Center for Writers, where he earned his MFA. He was the John
Atherton Scholar at the 2010 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
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.
Joel Long
