For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Paisley Rekdel and Stephen Corey at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Utah PoetLaureate Paisley Rekdal and Poet, Writer, and Editor Stephen Corey will readfrom their work April 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series.
PaisleyRekdal is the author of a book ofessays, The Night MyMother Met Bruce Lee, the hybrid-genre memoir Intimate, and fourbooks of poetry: ACrash of Rhinos, SixGirls Without Pants, TheInvention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye, which was afinalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize.Her newest book of poems is ImaginaryVessels, and her most recent work of nonfiction is a book-lengthessay, The BrokenCountry: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry TravelingFellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes,the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poemsand essays have appeared in TheNew York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, TheNew Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series(2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator andeditor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate.
Stephen Corey has published tencollections of poems, most recently ThereIs No Finished World (WhitePine Press, 2003), and his first essay collection—Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural—wasreleased in early 2017 by Mercer University Press. He has co-edited four booksin three genres, including (with Warren Slesinger) Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press, 2001), aswell as Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of TheGeorgia Review (University of Georgia Press, 2012). His poems, essays, andreviews have appeared in many periodicals, among them Shenandoah, The AmericanPoetry Review, Poets & Writers,and The Kenyon Review; his work hasbeen reprinted in numerous anthologies, including Short Takes: BriefEncounters with Contemporary Nonfiction (W. W. Norton, 2005), and The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002 (2002); and he has been awarded writingfellowships from the arts councils of three states—Florida, South Carolina, andGeorgia—as well as the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Excellence in LiteraryEditing from the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at PacificLutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, for which he taught from 2006-2015.Since 2014 He has been the editor for the University of Georgia Press’s Georgia Review Books series, anirregular regular offering of new books and of subject-based anthologies ofpreviously published GR material.
From1977-83 Corey co-edited and subsequently edited The Devil's Millhopper, an independent poetry magazine he helped tofound. Since 1983 he has been with The Georgia Review, serving variously asassistant editor, associate editor, acting editor, and, since 2006, editor.
Coreyhas taught at the University of Florida (where he earned his PhD in English)and at the University of South Carolina, and he has served as poet-in-residenceor visiting poet/editor for a number of conferences and writing programs acrossthe United States, including those sponsored by the University of Arizona,Binghamton University, and Vermont College. He is currently a member of thecore faculty for the Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA in Creative WritingProgram, based at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia.
RanjanAdiga teaches creative writing classes at Westminster College. Hisworks have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, among others. Hisstories explore lives of immigrant communities, their hopes and anxieties, asthey assimilate into American culture. Ranjan is currently workingtowards completing his debut short story collection.
Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Artis sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
Joel Long
