ForImmediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Award-Winning Poet Alice Notleyto read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 8th,7:00—8:00 P.M.
PoetAlice Notley will read from her work on Wednesday, Wednesday November 8th at7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art ReadingSeries and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is free and open tothe public.
Born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, Alice Notley grew up in Needles,California. She received a BA from Barnard College in 1967, and an MFA from thethe Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969.
Shemoved about frequently in her youth (San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Essex,Chicago) and eventually married the poet Ted Berrigan in1972, with whom she had two sons. In the early 1970s, Notley settled in NewYork’s Lower East Side, where she was very involved in the local literary scenefor several decades. In 1979, she received a fellowship from the NationalEndowment for the Arts. After Berrigan’s death in 1983, she married the Britishpoet Douglas Oliver.
Thoughshe is often identified as a prominent member of the eclectic second generationof The New YorkSchool, her poetry also demonstrates a continuing fascination withthe desert and its inhabitants.
Notley’scollections of verse include Certain Magical Acts (Penguin,2016); Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (Wesleyan UniversityPress, 2011); Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (WeslyanUniversity Press, 2006), which was awarded the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize fromthe Academy of American Poets for the best book of the year; Disobedience (Penguin,2001), winner of the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize; Mysteriesof Small Houses (Penguin, 1998); Selected Poems of AliceNotley (Talisman House, 1993); Margaret and Dusty (CoffeeHouse Press, 1985); and Sorrento (Sherwood Press, 1984).
Hercollection How Spring Comes (Toothpaste Press, 1981) receiveda 1982 San Francisco Poetry Award. Other early titles include WaltzingMatilda (Kulchur Foundation, 1981), Alice Ordered Me To BeMade (Yellow Press, 1976), and 165 Meeting House Lane (“C”Press, 1971). She has also published Tell Me Again (Am HereBooks, 1982), an autobiography, and experiments with visual arts; her worksinclude collages, watercolors, and sketches.
Shehas said that her speech is the voice of “the new wife, and the new mother” inher own time, but that her first aim is to make a poem, rather than present a platformof social reform.
Notleyhas received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry andwas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2001, she received both an AcademyAward in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and thePoetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. In 2015, she was honoredwith the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She currently lives in Paris
This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading.
Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
