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John Domini, Scott Abbott, and Kevin Holdsworth at City Art, Wednesday the 19th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents John Domini, ScottAbbott, and Kevin Holdsworth Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 19th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers John Domini, Scott Abbott,and Kevin Holdsworth will read their work on October 19th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series. John Domini has won awards in allgenres, with fiction in Paris Review and non-fiction in The New York Times. The Times praised his work as"dreamlike... grabs hold of both reader and character," and AlanCheuse, of NPR's "All Things Considered," described it as "wittyand biting."Domini’s grants include an NEA Fellowship and an IowaMajor Artist Award. He has taught at Harvard, Northwestern, and elsewhere, andmakes his home in Des Moines. Scott Abbott: "This is not amemoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends,my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices areplural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.” Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to hisexploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 atthe age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing abouthimself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family thatforged the core of his identity. Winner of the book manuscript prize in creativenonfiction in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition, ScottAbbott is professor of humanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at UtahValley University. Kevin Holdsworth: In essays that combinememoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history ofthe land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utahis at the heart of the stories he tells here—about the people, the “survivorsand casualties” of the small, remote town—and is at the heart of his own story.Holdsworthalso explores history at a personal level: how Native American history ispreserved by local park officials; how Mormon settlers adapted to remote,rugged places; how small communities attract and retain those less likely tothrive closer to population centers; and how he became involved in localpolitics. He confronts the issues of land use and misuse in the West, from thelack of water to greed and corruption over natural resources, but alsoconsiders life’s simple pleasures like the value of scenery and the importanceof occasionally tossing a horseshoe. Kevin Holdsworth is the author of Big Wonderful:Notes from Wyoming and Good Water. His work has appeared in numerousperiodicals, including Cimarron Review, Post Road, Creative Nonfiction, andDenver University Law Review. In 2009 he was awarded the Wyoming Arts Councilcreative writing fellowship for fiction. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, andson, Chris, in south-central and southern Utah. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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City Art and 15 Bytes Host, Nancy Takacs, Wade Bentley, and Rob Carney tomorrow at 7.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

City Art and 15 Bytes Host, Nancy Takacs, Wade Bentley, and Rob Carney tomorrow at 7 at the Salt Lake City Public Library. Authors Nancy Takacs, Wade Bentley, and Rob Carney, the winner and finalists for the 2016 15 Bytes Book awards, read from their works. Nancy Takacs, winner of the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for poetry, will be joined by this year’s finalists, Rob Carney (for 88 Maps) and C. Wade Bentley (for What is Mine) for a reading and celebration of poetry. Takacs’ winning collection Blue Patina (Blue Begonia Press, 2015) was selected by judges assembled by 15 Bytes and charged with awarding a winner based on the nominees’ quality of writing/artistry; insight into Utah landscape and/or culture and/or the author’s connection to Utah (i.e., is or was a Utahn); and, finally, the indefinable quality that makes a book special and unforgettable The 15 Bytes Book Awards, currently in its 4th year, is a program of Artists of Utah and its monthly online magazine and blog, 15 Bytes. Categories include fiction, poetry and art book (next year creative nonfiction will be added). You can read the citations for two poetry finalists and the winner here, and the 15 Bytes review of the winning collection, Blue Patina, here. “[T]he natural world is deeply embedded in her language. Human existence coincides with the earth’s natural rhythms to create a spatial and temporal topography—what is routine in nature becomes ritual beneath the speaker’s observant eye.” –from the citation. About Nancy Takacs: A resident of Wellington, Utah, in Carbon County, Takacs is the author of three poetry chapbooks and two full-length books of poetry, Blue Patina and Preserves (City Art Press, 2004). In September, Finishing Line Press will release her collection Red Voice. Most recently she was awarded the Juniper Prize for her collection The Worrier. This event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, City Art, and Utah Humanities. Joel Long

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Simeon Berry and Heather Hirschi on Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Simeon Berry and Heather Hirschi Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Simeon Berry and HeatherHirschi will read their work on October5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. Simeon Berry won the 2013National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, AmpersandRevisited (Fence Books), and the 2014 National Poetry Series for hissecond book of poetry, Monograph (University of GeorgiaPress). He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares andwon a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. Helives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Heather Hirschi is an AssistantProfessor in the English Department at the University of Utah where she wasawarded the Excellence in Teaching Awardin 2010 and 2012. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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