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Adam Love and Martin Balgach at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Adam Loveand Martin Balgach to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 3rd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Adam Love and Martin Balgach willread from their works on Wednesday, December 3rd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt LakeCity Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the UtahHumanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. AdamLove is the author of Another Small Fire (Tired Hearts Press). His writingis upcoming/appears in Black Tongue Review, Split Lip Magazine, AmpersandReview, Cream City Review, Revolver, the Missouri Review, among other journals.He lives in Salt Lake City where he directs the Literary Arts portion of theUtah Arts Festival and spends his free time among the mountains and westernrivers. He holds and MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Martin Balgach isthe author of Too Much Breath (Main Street Rag). His writing has appeared inThe Bitter Oleander, Cream City Review, Fogged Clarity, Rain Taxi, andStirring, among other journals. He holds an MFA from the Vermont College ofFine Arts, works in publishing, and lives with his wife and son in Colorado. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Fw: [University of Utah Creative Writing Program] The writer and editor Kevin Prufer will be...
by CityArt＠thelibrary 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Joel Long On Saturday, November 22, 2014 7:55 AM, Paisley Rekdal <notification+m3kv-7__(a)facebookmail.com> wrote: #yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:link, #yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:visited {border:1px #CCCCCC solid !important;}#yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:active, #yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:hover {border:1px #3B5998 solid !important;}#yiv7694279632 .yiv7694279632uiScaledImageContainer {overflow:hidden;}Facebook | | | Paisley Rekdal posted in University of Utah Creative Writing Program | | | Paisley Rekdal | 7:55am Nov 22 | The writer and editor Kevin Prufer will be reading for us this Monday at noon in LNCO 2110. Free and open to the public! Let everyone know! | | | | View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment. | |

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Jean Howard and Rebecca Mae at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com JeanHoward and Rebecca Mae to perform at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 19th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Jean Howard and Rebecca Mae will readfrom their works on Wednesday, November 19th at 7:00 p.m. at theSalt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. After living in Chicagofor 22 years, performance poet, JeanHoward, returned to her hometown, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1999. Her poetryhas appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Burning World, Spoon River Review, Chicago Tribune, Spoken WorkRevolution, and over one hundred other literary publications. A participant in theoriginal development of the internationally acclaimed "Poetry Slam”, shewas awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborativework with photographer, Alice Hargrave. Howard has performed herpoetry at hundreds of venues nationwide, with such diversity as Chicago’s BigGoddess Powwow, the Guggenheim’s “Art ofthe Motorcycle Exhibit” at the Field Museum, Chicago’s Museum of ContemporaryArt, The Harold Washington Cultural Center, the Salt Lake Arts Festival, UtahHumanities Book Festival, as well as churches, coffee shops, mortuaries, artgalleries, pet shops, festivals, biker bars and of course the infamous GreenMill where the “Slam” began. Currently, Jean has served on the Board ofBrolly Arts and the Advisory Board of Utah Arts Alliance. She organized theannual National Poetry Video Festival in Chicago for eight years, with her ownaward-winning video poems airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around thenation Rebecca Mae has made a habit of staying alive since 1993. She plans on keepingthis healthy habit until it no longer seems necessary. When she is not drinkingcoffee or smoking cigarettes Rebeca spends her time writing poetry and furiouslyyelling at walls. This has worked out well for her, Rebeca has represented SaltLake City in the 2012 Woman of the World Poetry Competition and was a member ofthe 2013 National Poetry Slam Team. In hopes of finding more poems to write andmore walls to yell at Rebeca became the President of the Non-Profitorganization The Wasatch Wordsmiths who strive to share the art of spoken wordwhere ever there are walls. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Derek Henderon and Chris Tanseer at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com DerekHenderson and Chris Tanseer to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Derek Henderson and Chris Tanseer will read from their works on Wednesday, November 12that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is freeand open to the public. Derek Henderson is the author of two previous collections, Inconsequentia (withDerek Pollard), and Thus &, an Erasure of the Sonnets of Ted Berrigan,sections of which appear in the Anthology of Appropriation Literature. Hispoems have been published in journals such as Fence, Volt, Witness, BombayGin, and The Colorado Review. He currently teaches English at theWalden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. Chris Tanseer grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received a BA from theUniversity of North Carolina at Asheville and an MFA in poetry from GeorgeMason University. Currently, he lives in Salt Lake City, UT, where he is a PhDcandidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Heserves as an editorial assistant at SugarHouse Review. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming inBest New Poets 2012, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Subtropics,and Western Humanities Review. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Fw: Lisa Fay Coultey and Craig Dworkin at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Joel Long On Monday, October 27, 2014 10:25 PM, Joel Long <joeltlong(a)yahoo.com> wrote: ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Lisa FayCoultey and Craig Dworkin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lisa Fay Coultey and Craig Dworkin will read from their works on Wednesday, November 5that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public. Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of Errata(Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2015), winner of the CrabOrchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, and In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), winnerof the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has been awarded afellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, scholarships from theBread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, an Academy of American Poets LevisPrize, and has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse,Gulf Coast, and Best of the Net 2013. Her prose has appeared recently in Poets & Writers and Passages North. She holds a PhD inLiterature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah and is an AssistantProfessor at Snow College. Craig Dworkin is the author of over a half-dozen books ofpoetry, including The Perverse Library (Information As Material, 2010), Motes(Roof Books, 2011), and The Crystal Text (Compline, 2012). His work has beenshown this year at the Whitney Museum, The ICA (Boston) and The WhitechapelGallery (London), with a film currently screening at The Museum of ContemporaryArt (Denver). Recent poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, 1913: a Journal ofForms, BOMB magazine, and have been selected for inclusion in the new NortonAnthology of Postmodern Poetry. A critical book on media theory called No Medium was published by MIT press. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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