For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
City Art Presents Z.G. Tomaszewskiand Paisley Rekdal
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October 16th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
City Art ispleased to welcome Z.G. Tomszewski and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal onWednesday, October 16th at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room of the CityLibrary.
Z.G. Tomaszewski has three published works;"River Nocturne," “All Things Dusk ” an International Poetry Prizewinner selected by Li-Young Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press in2015 as well as the chapbook “Mineral Whisper” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Tomaszewskicurrently resides in the midwest lending his hands to preventative maintenancein historical spaces. Because traveling tends to offer such a wealth ofcreative inspiration and fresh perspective, he spends much of his free timeapplying for artist residencies, reading (and re-reading) books from hisprivate home-library, occasionally stopping to write on hiking trails andgiving readings as well as poetry lectures when time allows. When there’s apause in that routine, Tomaszewski can be found making music, tending to thegarden, listening to the porch chimes with his lips to a cup of perfumed greentea, rummaging through thrift stores with a ponderous agenda and going for longdrives exercising his northern-eyes pointing out every red-tail hawk, deer andsandhill crane in sight to his lover.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book ofessays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir,Intimate; and six books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants;The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 KingsleyTufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist forthe 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award; andNightingale. She is also the author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime,and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Appropriate: A Provocation, a book-lengthessay examining cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.
Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship,the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a CivitellaRanieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, PushcartPrizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative NonfictionPrize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays haveappeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The KenyonReview, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series(2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. Sheteaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor ofthe community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was namedUtah’s Poet Laureate.
This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities.
Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund.
The eventis free and open to the public.
Joel Long
