Leslie
Ullman and Phyllis Barber to read
at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poet
Leslie Ullman and fiction writer Phyllis Barber will read from their works on
Wednesday September 11the at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
Leslie
Ullmanis the
author of three poetry collections: Natural Histories, which won the
Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1979; Dreams by No One's Daughter,
which was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 1987, and Slow Work
Through Sand, from University of Iowa Press as co-winner of the 1997
Iowa Poetry Prize. She has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowships, and her poems have appeared in magazines such as Poetry, The
Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Puerto Del Sol, and Blue Mesa Review,
as well as numerous anthologies. Her poetry reviews have appeared in Kenyon
Review and Poetry Magazine. She directs the MFA Program with a
bilingual option at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches
workshops in poetry, creative non-fiction, fiction, and beginning creative writing,
and literature courses in contemporary American poetry. She also is on the
faculty of the Vermont College MFA Program. She lives on ranchland in Southern
New Mexico.
Phyllis Barber is the author
of eight books of fiction and creative nonfiction, including How I Got
Cultured (winner of the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1991), Raw
Edges: A Memoir, and a forthcoming book, To the Mountain: Memoir of a
Mormon Seeker, from Quest Books (May, 2014). She has recently retired from
the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program where she taught for
many years, was one of the founders of the Writers at Work Conference, and was
inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2005. She has recently
returned to Utah where she resides in Park City.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah
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
