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Melanie Rae Thon and Eric Robertson at Finch Lane this Thursday.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

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Reminder: Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som, and Susan Goslee at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som, and Susan Goslee Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday Arpil 20th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som,and Susan Goslee will present their work on April 20th at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Brandon Som is the author of The TributeHorse (Nightboat Books), winner of the 2015 Kate Tufts DiscoveryAward, and the chapbook Babel's Moon (Tupelo Press), winner ofthe Snowbound Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in LitHub,Octopus Magazine, Indiana Review, and Black Warrior Review. Aformer fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, he is currently theAnne Newman Sutton Weeks Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College. In the fall,he will be joining the creative writing faculty at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego. JoshuaRivkin's poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, VirginiaQuarterly Review, Slate, Best New Poets, andelsewhere. He has received a winter fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Centerin Provincetown, a Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford, a work-study scholarshipfrom the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy.He is currently working on a nonfiction book about the life and art of CyTwombly. Susan Goslee’spoems have appeared in such journals as WestBranch, Cimarron Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and Salamander. She teaches at Idaho StateUniversity.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. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Reminder: Alex Caldiero and Joey Franklin at City Art on Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

City ArtPresents Michael McLane and Andy Hoffmann Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 13th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Alex Caldiero and JoeyFranklin will present their work on April 13th at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. AlexCaldiero: sonosopher, polyartists, and scholar of Humanities and intermedia. He makes things that at times appear as language or music or images, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is a makar (a maker) of movement, text-sound, visual work, and installations. In addition to numerous performative works, published works include Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/ Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), sonosuono, a book of memories, language, i-(e-)mmigration (Elik Press), and Some Love (Signature Books). He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, society for the preservation of Sicilian language and culture, and featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London), the poetry anthology Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages, El Cerrito, CA), and the forthcoming anthology Dove Song, on Mother in Heaven. He is the subject of a full-length experimental documentary Alex Caldiero …in sound…in life. Caldiero is senior artist in residence, the Philosophy/ Humanities Dept. at Utah Valley University. Joey Franklinis the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married(Universityof Nebraska Press, 2015). His essays and articles have appeared in Poets& Writers, Gettysburg Review,The Norton Reader,and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Brigham YoungUniversity in Provo, Utah, and is currently working on a memoir about thesaints and scoundrels hiding in his family tree.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. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Reminder: Australian Poets at City Art, April 6th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Australianpoets Jen Webb, Jeri Kroll, and Paul Hetherington will present their work onApril 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the CityArt Reading Series. Jen Webb is a Canberra-based writer who has been publishing, performing,presenting and exhibiting her work since 1992. Currently the director of theCentre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra whereshe is also Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, she has taughtcreative writing for about 10 years, supervises research students in creativewriting and other creative practices, and has worked as a book editor and artsmanager. Prior to becoming an academic, Jen was an accountant and tax inspector.She is South African by origin, and has also lived in New Zealand, Canada andthe UK, before settling in Australia. Recent publications include: StolenStories, Borrowed Lines (poetry chapbook, 2015); Watching the World:Impressions of Canberra (with Paul Hetherington; poems and photographs; 2015);Researching Creative Writing (scholarly book, 2015). Jen is completing anAustralian Research Council (ARC)-funded investigation on poetry and creativeexcellence, and is working on two other ARC projects, both concerned withcreative labour and career outcomes for creative arts graduates. Professor Jeri Kroll established the creative writing program – including thedoctorate – at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. A former Presidentof the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is also anaward-winning poet who has published twenty-five titles for adults and youngpeople. Criticism includes Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research andPedagogy (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Research Methods in Creative Writing(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems(Wakefield Press, 2013) and a verse novel, Vanishing Point (Puncher andWattman, 2015), are recent books. A MainStage production of Vanishing Point washeld at George Washington University in October 2014. The play was a winner inthe 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and produced inJanuary 2015 in Ohio. Vanishing Point was short-listed in the 2015 Queensland LiteraryAwards. Paul Hetherington is professor of writing at the University of Canberra andhead of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) there. His poetrycollection, Six Different Windows won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’sBook Awards and he was a finalist in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 internationalAesthetica Creative Writing Competitions. He was shortlisted for the 2013Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He hashas an abiding interest in the visual arts and edited the final three volumesof the National Library of Australia’s four-volume edition of the diaries ofthe artist Donald Friend. He is one of the founding editors of theinternational online journal Axon: Creative Explorations and a founding editorialcommittee member of the Meniscus journal. In 2002 he was the recipient of aChief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and he was awarded one of twoplaces on the 2012 Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland. He was recently awardedan Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsoredby the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the SaltLake 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 UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission,and audience donations. Joel Long

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