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Debra Monroe at City Art this Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Debra Monroe Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 24th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Debra Monroe will presenttheir work on February 24th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M.as part of the City Art Reading Series. Debra Monroe, author of six books and University of Utah graduate,will read from her lastest book, which has been described as "perfect,earthy and self-deprecating and funny" (Sara Nelson, Omnivoraciious);"a vibrant, tough, fascinating look at women shifting classes andplaces," (Anna March, Rumpus); "blunt and salty and smart"(Houston Chronicle); and "a love story, with poetry and fiction more thanany person" (Chicago Tribune). 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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Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore willpresent their work on February 17th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Wyn Cooper is theauthor of four books of poems, most recently Chaos is the New Calm. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Southern Review, AGNI,and in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry. His poems have been turned intosongs by Sheryl Crow, David Broza, and Madison Smartt Bell, among others. Hehas taught at Bennington and Marlboro colleges, and at The Frost Place. Helives in Boston and Vermont, and works as a freelance editor of poetry,fiction, and non-fiction. www.wyncooper.com Lisa Bickmore is the author of twobooks of poems: flicker, whichwon the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press;and Haste (Signature Books,1994). Herpoetry, scholarship, and video work have been published in Glass: A Journal ofPoetry; Tar River Poetry; Sugar House Review; SouthWord; Caketrain; Hunger Mountain Review; Terrain.org; Bite Size Poemsproject (Utah Arts Council); Quarterly West; The Moth; MappingSLC.org; Fire in thePasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets; andelsewhere. In 2015, her poem 'Eidolon' was awarded the BallymaloeInternational Poetry Award. Sheearned a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University. Currently,she is a Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where shewas the recipient of the SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2006. Sheteaches writing of all sorts, as well as publication studies, and is one of thefounders of the SLCC Publication Center. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. 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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Reminder: Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 10th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas willpresent their work on February 10th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Since shespearheaded the first literary magazine--Satori-- at her first college, Lin Ostler has been the engaged inwriting, reading and sharing poetry. With a fresh B.A. degree in English andFrench, she taught literature in Edmonton, Alberta for a while, then helpedestablish Marmalade Hill “free” school in Salt Lake City, taught in a college inVermont, and has guided writers’ workshops through various agencies of UtahArts, all the while being a Yoga Instructor for over 40 years, a mother for 35.Ostler’s work hasbeen danced, manifest and incorporated into multi-cultural collaborations such as“Moving the Stone” and “Emergents--Tracks in the Motherline” since her initialaward-winning poem--Woman, the Pioneer-- illustrating a dance piece in1971.Several times since 2010, she has placed in the Iron Pen Marathon, as shedid in the 1995 Utah Arts Original Writing competition.Most recently,Ostler has been asked to read with her international group of poet friend, theFaraway Poets, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ojai, California. George JishoRobertson of London says of her poetry: “This is the authentic voice of beingalive... it inspires with its lived particularity and lucidly involveddetachment - truly from the Apex embracing the senses and creativeintelligence. Your feeling for the texture and sound of words is elegant andmoving.” Gray Thomas grew up in Salt Lake City, UT.For the past several years, he has been involved with the Salt Lake Cityperformance poetry community. He has been a member of five Salt Lake City slamteams, reaching semi-finals twice. He has represented Salt Lake City twice atthe Individual World Poetry Slam. He co-founded the University of Utah PoetrySlam Team (YouSpeak) and the non-profit Wasatch Wordsmiths. He received his BAin English from the University of Utah, and is currently a graduate student ofWestminster College’s Strategic Communications program. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. 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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Lynn Kilpatrick and Joel Long at City Art February 3rd
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Lynn Kilpatrick and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 3rd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lynn Kilpatrick and JoelLong will present their work on February 3rd at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. LynnKilpatrick’s essays have appeared in CreativeNonfiction, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Ocean State Review. Hercollection of short stories, In the House, was published by FC2. Sheearned her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah, and she teachesat Salt Lake Community College. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine PressPoetry Prize. His books Lessons in Disappearance and Knowing Time by Light were published byBlaine Creek Press in 2010. Hischapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost werepublished from Elik Press. His poemshave appeared in Interim, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester,Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, ThePinch, Quarterly West, and SeattleReview and anthologized in AmericanPoetry: the Next Generation, EssentialLove, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense ofGlobal Human Rights. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. 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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