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Gerda Saunders and Jennifer Tonge at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com GerdaSaunders and Jennifer Tonge to readat City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 5th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writer Gerda Saunders and Poet Jennifer Tonge will read from theirworks on Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Libraryas part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to thepublic. GERDA SAUNDERS: In 2010, just before her sixty-first birthday, former literatureprofessor Gerda Saunders was diagnosed with microvascular disease, the secondleading cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s. At Saunders’ early retirementparty, her colleagues presented her with a beautiful leather-bound journal.Facing “the premature death of the mind,” she took to jotting down notes in thejournal about her daily misadventures– pots boiling dry on the stove, washingher hair twice in an hour, forgetting to bake a casserole. She would come tocall these scribblings her “Dementia Field Notes.” Saunders became an anthropologist assigned to observe one memberof a strange tribe, the Dementers. “Like a true scientist,” she writes, “Iwould be objective. No whining, wailing, or gnashing of the teeth. Just thefacts.” The result of Saunders’ extraordinary project – a sort of true-life“Sill Alice” – is MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: Field Notes on My Dementia (HachetteBooks, June 13, 2017), an unsparing, beautifully written memoir about Gerda’sexperience as an intellectual person aware that her brain is betraying her.MEMORY’S LAST BREATH is uncharted territory in the writing about dementia, adiagnosis one in nine Americans will ultimately receive. Gerda Saunders grew up inSouth Africa, where she obtained a B.S. from the University of Pretoria. In1984, she settled in Utah with her husband Peter and two children. Afterreceiving an English PhD from the University of Utah in 1996, she suffered thecorporate world before becoming the Associate Director of Gender Studies at heralma mater, also teaching gender studies and English. SMU Press published herstories Blessings on the Sheep Dog (2002), about which Nobel laureate J.M.Coetzee said, “With cool intelligence, laconic wit, and deep feeling, Saundersexplores the moral chaos of South Africa and the pain of a new generationof…exiles.” Now retired, she enjoys time with her husband Peter, children,grandchildren, and made-in-America family. She is writing a memoir, Telling WhoI Am before I Forget: My Dementia. An excerpt from the memo was published inthe Winter 2013 edition of The Georgia Review and in March 2014 republishedonline in Slate Magazine and the UK Independent. Jennifer Tonge’s poems haveappeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New England Review, Denver Quarterly, andelsewhere, and on Poetry Daily. She has received the Jay C. and RuthHalls Fellowship in Poetry from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, aWork-study Scholarship and the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry from theBread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, TheVirginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and The DjerassiResident Artists Program. She has served as poetry editor of QuarterlyWest, as president of Writers at Work, and on the board of City Art. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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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Lance Olsen, Michael Mejia, with Video by Andi Olsen and composer Karen Power at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents an Evening of Art and Words with Lance Olsen, Michael Mejia, withVideo by Andi Olsen and composer Karen Power Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 22nd, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Joinus March 22nd at the Salt Lake City Public Library for an evening ofart and words, of artful words, featuring Michael Mejia reading from hisnovel-in-progress, TOKYO; and a special screening of a collaborative work bywriter Lance Olsen, video artist Andi Olsen, and Irish composer/sound artistKaren Power, which is based on Lance's forthcoming novel, DREAMLIVES OF DEBRIS(Dzanc Books, April 2017) as part of the City Art Reading Series. MICHAEL MEJIA is theauthor of the novel Forgetfulness (FC2). His fiction and nonfiction haveappeared in many journals and anthologies, including Notre Dame Review, AGNI,DIAGRAM, Angels of the Americlypse, and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father HeAte Me. He has received a Literature Fellowship in Prose from the NEA and agrant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Editor-in-chief of WesternHumanities Review and co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, he teaches creativewriting at the University of Utah. LANCE OLSEN is author of more than20 books of and about innovative writing, including the novel Dreamlives ofDebris, forthcoming from Dzanc this April. His short stories, essays, andreviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, such asConjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Village Voice, BOMB,McSweeney’s and Best American Non-Required Reading. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize,D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient,as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory andpractice at the University of Utah and serves as chair of the Board ofDirectors at the independent press Fiction Collective Two, currently in its43rd year making fiction making trouble. ANDI OLSEN’s most recent project isa collaboration with Lance Olsen: There’s No Place Like Time. A multimodalnovel you can walk through, it takes the form of a real retrospective of videosdedicated to the career of an artist who never existed. An interplay of videos,texts, objects, & interventions, the installation explores the relationshipbetween the visual & the verbal as it redefines the page, the novel, &gallery space, while thematically investigating the problematics of identity construction& historical knowledge. Her ongoing project, Hideous Beauty, is a Cabinetof Wonders composed of short videos, assemblages, & collage texts exploringthe idea of monstrosity & the generative possibilities inherent in theprocesses of decay. Olsen’s videos have been exhibited in such venues as theAmerican Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore) & Greenhouse Berlin (Germany),& have screened at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival,Mütter Museum (Philadelphia), Revolving Museum (Lowell), & at literary andartistic events in Banff, Cologne, Münich, Paris, Rouen, Szeged, Warsaw, &across the United States. Her art has been exhibited & published around thecountry & abroad. KAREN POWER is an Irish composer,educator, improviser and academic who writes primarily for acoustic andelectroacoustic forces. In 2009 she completed a PhD in acoustic andelectroacoustic composition at SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre), Belfast, withProf. Michael Alcorn. Throughout her PhD, Karen’s works focused on the commonalitiesand individualities of both acoustic and electroacoustic composition aiming todevelop a more integrated language, which acknowledges and utilizes suchstrengths. Recently Karen has spent time in residency at The Arctic Circle, TheBanff Centre, Canada, The Guesthouse, Ireland, UCDavis, California, USA and in2015/16 be artist in Berlin through a DAAD Award. She has been composer inResidence with Galway Music Residency Program and Music Generation. Karen haswritten pieces for Bozzini Quator, Alarm Will Sound, SCAW, Carin Levine,ConTempo, the Ulster Orchestra, RTE Symphony Orchestra, Kate Ellis, Mmm Trioand Quiet Music Ensemble. She has been awarded national and internationalawards and honorary mentions for her work and has represented Irelandinternationally on a number of occasions. Karen’s installation work and herrecent interest in field recordings has taken her music across many genres andart mediums including: video, dance, film, painting, sculpture and glass. Thiscross-arts approach has enabled some of her more open-time music to bepresented in spaces like galleries, parks, warehouses and houses, which offeraudiences choice in how and when we listen. Last year Karen developed her firstradio art work, which was premiered live to air on RTE Lyric fm. This piecehearspace has since travelled the world and has been heard on radio stationsfrom Australia to Germany. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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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Lara Candland AND Michael Gills
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Lara Candland and Michael Gills Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 8th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Poet Lara Candland and fictionwriter Michael Gills will read from her work on Wednesday, March 8th at theSalt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Michael Gills is author of three collections of shortfiction, including The House Across From the Deaf School (Texas Review Press,fall 2016), two novels, including Emergency Instructions (Raw Dog ScreamingPress 2017), and White Indians, a visionary memoir, part two of which isforthcoming. He is Associate Professor/Lecturer of Writing for the HonorsCollege at the University of Utah. Gills’ collected papers are archivedat Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives,The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lara Candland is the author of the poetry collectionsAlburnum of the Green and Living Tree (BlazeVox 2010) and the forthcoming TheLapidary's Nosegay (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado StateUniversity, January 2018). Candland is also an award-winning playwright andlibrettist whose work appears on many recordings and CD's with the SeattleExperimental Opera and the duo Lalage. 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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Lara Candland at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Lara Candland Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 8th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Poet Lara Candland will read from herwork on Wednesday, March 8th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M.as part of the City Art Reading Series. "Lara Candland is the author of the poetry collectionsAlburnum of the Green and Living Tree (BlazeVox 2010) and the forthcoming TheLapidary's Nosegay (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado StateUniversity, January 2018). Candland is also an award-winning playwright andlibrettist whose work appears on many recordings and CD's with the SeattleExperimental Opera and the duo Lalage. 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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Sara Eliza Johnson and Susannah Nevison at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Sara Eliza Johnson and Susannah Nevison Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 1st, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Sara Eliza Johnson andSusannah Nevison will read from their works on Wednesday, March 1st at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. SaraEliza Johnson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the NewEngland Review, Best New Poets 2009, Boston Review, CrabOrchard Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. She is the recipientof a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Winter Fellowship from the FineArts Work Center in Provincetown, and a work-study scholarship to the BreadLoaf Writers' Conference. Her first book, Bone Map, was selectedfor the 2013 National Poetry Series and will be published by Milkweed Editions. Susannah Nevison isthe author of Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), winnerof the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. New work can be found in, oris forthcoming from, Crazyhorse, 32 Poems, PublicPool, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she has been featuredon Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. She is therecipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers Conferenceand the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Currently, she is a Clarence Snow Fellowat the University of Utah, where she is a doctoral candidate. 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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Franklin Fisher and Tim Erickson at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

City Art Presents Franklin Fisher and Tim Erickson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 15th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Franklin Fisher and Tim Erickson will read from their works on Wednesday, February 15th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Franklin Fisher is a musician and writer living in Salt Lake City, and an emeritus professor of English at the University of Utah. His stories have appeared in the Iowa Review, Prism International, Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, Confrontation, Event, Massachusetts Review, Georgetown Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Underground Voices, and others. One story, entitled “Her New Last Name,” published in the Missouri Review, was awarded the William Peden Prize for the best story in that volume year. He published the novel Bones. Tim Erickson’s book Egopolis was published by Semi-city Editions in 2015. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Mudfish, and others. He is a creative writing teacher at Copper Hills High School and lives with his wife and daughter up the canyon beside Emigration Creek. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts 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. Joel Long

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Paisley Rekdal and Kirstin Scott at City Art Wednesday!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Paisley Rekdal and Kirstin Scott Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 18th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Paisley Rekdal and KirstinScott will read from their works on Wednesday, January 18th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother MetBruce Lee; a hybrid-genre memoir entitled Intimate; andseveral books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, TheInvention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye, which won theUNT Rilke Prize. Her newest book of poems, Imaginary Vessels,is out from Copper Canyon Press, and her latest book of nonfiction, TheBroken Country: On Trauma, A Crime and the Continuing Legacy of the Vietnam War wonthe AWP Nonfiction Prize and will be out in September 2017. Her work hasreceived the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship,an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the UNT Rilke Award, and inclusion inthe Best American Poetry series. She runs the web historyarchive project, Mapping Salt Lake City. Kirstin Scott is the author of the novel Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize forthe Novel and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize,the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. Her short stories haveappeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, PANK, Sonora Review,Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. 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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Writers Resist Event
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

On Sunday, January 15th at 7 PM, please join us at The Mandate Press (1077 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City) for an evening of short readings by prominent and emerging Utah poets and writers as part of the national post-election Writers Resist movement to rekindle our citizens’ commitment to compassion, equality, free speech, and social justice. Writers Resist is a national network of writers working with PEN America to defend the ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democratic society. A $5-$15 donation is suggested at the door, though no one will be turned away. Books and broadsides will be available for purchase. All proceeds from the Utah Writers Resist event will go to the ACLU, which is devoted to preserving the civil liberties of all Americans.Featured writers at the Utah Writers Resist reading include: Will Bagley, Lisa Bickmore, Scott Carrier, Kate Coles, Nic Contreras, Craig Dworkin, Kimberly Johnson, Michael McLane, Chad Nielsen, Lance Olsen, Jose Soto, Danielle Susi, Michael Mejia, Jennifer Tonge, RJ Walker and more. Paisley Rekdal will host.Doors open at The Mandate Press at 6:40. For more information about Writers Resist and the more than 75 national and international reading events taking place on January 15th, please see www.writersresist.org. Joel Long

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Writers Resist on Sunday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

On Sunday, January 15th at 7 PM, please join us at The Mandate Press (1077 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City) for an evening of short readings by prominent and emerging Utah poets and writers as part of the national post-electionWriters Resist movement to rekindle our citizens’ commitment to compassion, equality, free speech, and social justice. Writers Resist is a national network of writers working with PEN America to defend the ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democratic society. A $5-$15 donation is suggested at the door, though no one will be turned away. Books and broadsides will be available for purchase. All proceeds from the Utah Writers Resist event will go to the ACLU, which is devoted to preserving the civil liberties of all Americans.Featured writers at the Utah Writers Resist reading include: Will Bagley, Lisa Bickmore, Scott Carrier, Kate Coles, Nic Contreras, Craig Dworkin, Kimberly Johnson, Michael McLane, Chad Nielsen, Lance Olsen, Jose Soto, Danielle Susi, Michael Mejia, Jennifer Tonge, RJ Walker and more. Paisley Rekdal will host.Doors open at The Mandate Press at 6:40. For more information about Writers Resist and the more than 75 national and international reading events taking place on January 15th, please see www.writersresist.org. Joel Long

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Katharine Coles and Joel Long at City Art Wednesday, January 11th.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Katharine Coles and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 11th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Katharine Coles and Joel Longwill read from their works on Wednesday, January 11th at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Katharine Coles’sixth collection of poetry, Flight, was published in2016 by Red Hen Press. Her fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (RedHen 2013), was written under the auspices of the U.S. National ScienceFoundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Ten poems from that book,translated into German by Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue ofthe journal Matrix; she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, andDutch. Her chapbook, Bewilder, was published in 2015 by the InternationalPoetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. She is also the co-PIon the Poemage project, which develops software for analyzing and visualizingsonic relationships in poetry; she has written a number of scholarly articlesand presentations based on this work. A professor at the University of Utah,she served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as theinaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Joel Long’s book WingedInsects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His books Lessonsin Disappearance and Knowing Time byLight were published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and SaffronBeneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Interim,Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, CrabOrchard Review, Bellingham Review,Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, The Pinch, Quarterly West, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place:ContemporaryPoems in Defense of Global Human Rights. 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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