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Lynn Kilpatrick and Joel Long at City Art February 3rd
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Lynn Kilpatrick and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 3rd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lynn Kilpatrick and JoelLong will present their work on February 3rd at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. LynnKilpatrick’s essays have appeared in CreativeNonfiction, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Ocean State Review. Hercollection of short stories, In the House, was published by FC2. Sheearned her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah, and she teachesat Salt Lake Community College. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine PressPoetry Prize. His books Lessons in Disappearance and Knowing Time by Light were published byBlaine Creek Press in 2010. Hischapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost werepublished from Elik Press. His poemshave appeared in Interim, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester,Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, ThePinch, Quarterly West, and SeattleReview and anthologized in AmericanPoetry: the Next Generation, EssentialLove, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense ofGlobal Human Rights. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. 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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Correction: Derek Henserson and Sara Caldiero tonight, January 16th!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Sara Caldiero-Oertli and Derek Henderson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 13th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Sara Caldiero-Oertli and DerekHenderson will present their work on January13th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. Sara Caldiero-Oertli was born in New York and migrated to Utah to grow up. Her proximity to wilderness has playeda major roll in inspiring her to teach, write and perform. She is an aspiringbook artist but most of her time is spent making and teaching poetry. Herwork is centered on the body and understanding language. She enjoys bringingpoetry to desert adventurers and drifters on the street. Her most recentpublication, "Snatch 'N' Sniff" is available at Ken Sanders RareBooks. Derek Henderson is the author of two previous collections, Inconsequentia (withDerek Pollard), and Thus &, an Erasure of the Sonnets of Ted Berrigan,sections of which appear in the Anthology of Appropriation Literature. Hispoems have been published in journals such as Fence, Volt, Witness, BombayGin, and The Colorado Review. He currently teaches English at theWalden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, 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: Derek Henderson and Sara Caldiero-Oerlti at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Sara Caldiero-Oertli and Derek Henderson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 16th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Sara Caldiero-Oertli and DerekHenderson will present their work on January16th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. Sara Caldiero-Oertli was born in New York and migrated to Utah to grow up. Her proximity to wilderness has playeda major roll in inspiring her to teach, write and perform. She is an aspiringbook artist but most of her time is spent making and teaching poetry. Herwork is centered on the body and understanding language. She enjoys bringingpoetry to desert adventurers and drifters on the street. Her most recentpublication, "Snatch 'N' Sniff" is available at Ken Sanders RareBooks. Derek Henderson is the author of two previous collections, Inconsequentia (withDerek Pollard), and Thus &, an Erasure of the Sonnets of Ted Berrigan,sections of which appear in the Anthology of Appropriation Literature. Hispoems have been published in journals such as Fence, Volt, Witness, BombayGin, and The Colorado Review. He currently teaches English at theWalden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, 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: Maureen Clark and Susan Howe at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Maureen Clark and Susan Howe to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 6th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Maureen Clark and Susan Howewill read from their work on January 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Libraryat 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Maureen Clark is on the faculty ofthe University of Utah in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies whereshe has been teaching for 13 years. She has been the director of the Universityof Utah Writing Center, a grant writer for the Rocky Mountain Care Foundationand a former president of Writers @ Work. She lives in Bountiful, Utah with herhusband Jon. Her poems have appeared in: Bellingham Review, ColoradoReview, Alaska Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, The SoutheastReview and Gettysburg Review,among other journals. She has written a poetrycollection titled Thin Hymn and amemoir titled Falling into Bountiful. Susan Howeis a contributing editor of Tar RiverPoetry and served for eleven years as the poetry editor of Dialogue. Her own poems have appeared insuch journals as The New Yorker, Poetry,The Southern Review, and PrairieSchooner. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published in 1997 and won the Charles ReddCenter Publication Prize. It also received the Association for Mormon Lettersaward in poetry for 1998. She completed a second collection of poems withFlorida poet Terri Witek, To Lie with aLandscape Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, 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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Holiday Open
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Holiday Open Reading at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 16th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art invites you to a holiday open reading on December 16th at 7:00 at theSalt Lake Public Library. Bring yourcider and cookies, your poems, your prose, your open minds and hearts for anight of open readings. It is a potluckof literature, so it all depends on what you bring as your hot dish or yourlovely desert. See you there. Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, 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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Stephen Tuttle and Mike Dorrell at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Stephen Tuttle and Mike Dorrell to read atCity Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Stephen Tuttle and MikeDorrell will read from their work on Wednesday December 2nd at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Stephen Tuttle lives in Provo andteaches at Brigham Young University. His fiction has appeared in TheGettysburg Review, Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review,and The Normal School. Mike Dorrell was born andbrought up in Swansea, Wales. Best known as a playwright, he is the author ofover a dozen plays for stage, radio and television including work for PainesPlough, Avon Touring, and BBC Radio 4. In Utah, both Salt Lake Acting Companyand Utah Contemporary Theatre have performed his work, and with the latter hedevised the Talking Wales series of monologues which was performed in unusualtheatre spaces including this library. Mike has first and seconddegrees from the Universities of London and Bristol, and has an M.A. in Britishand American Literature from the U. of U. He has taught both there and atWestminster College. He was Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company from 1999 to2008 and while there he helped develop new plays by Julie Jensen, Jeff Metcalfeand others. Mike learned his trade as anovelist by working as a freelance publisher’s reader, editor and rewrite man.With his former writing partner he wrote novels under a variety of pseudonymsincluding Rafe Quilty and Jericho Hood. When the BBC contacted him some years ago to ask him if he really wasthat Mike Dorrell who had novelized the Dick Barton Radio Series, he decided toreturn to mystery writing. Tonight, he will introduce his new literary mysteryseries, and a new Welsh detective, DCI Gwendraeth James. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art issponsored 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. 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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Laura Bylenok and Brian Kubarycz at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Laura Bylenok and Brian Kubarycz to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 18th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Laura Bylenok and BrianKubarycz will read from their work on Wednesday November 18th at theSalt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Laura Bylenok is the author of Warp, winner of the 2015 T.S. EliotPrize, and the prose chapbook a/0 (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2014).Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Pleiades, NorthAmerican Review, West Branch, and Guernica, among otherjournals. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writingat the University of Utah. Brian Kubarycz teachesIntellectual Traditions for the Honors College of the University of Utah. Hisfiction has appeared in The Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Black Warrior Review,Tarpaulin Sky, Unsaid, and other literary journals. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art issponsored 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. 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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Lauren Bylenok and Brian Kubarycz at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Lauren Bylenok and Brian Kubarycz to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 18th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lauren Bylenok and BrianKubarycz will read from their work on Wednesday November 18th at theSalt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Laura Bylenok is the author of Warp, winner of the 2015 T.S. EliotPrize, and the prose chapbook a/0 (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2014).Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, Pleiades, NorthAmerican Review, West Branch, and Guernica, among otherjournals. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writingat the University of Utah. Brian Kubarycz teachesIntellectual Traditions for the Honors College of the University of Utah. Hisfiction has appeared in The Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Black Warrior Review,Tarpaulin Sky, Unsaid, and other literary journals. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art issponsored 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. 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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No Reading due to Veterans Day tomorrow.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Due to the Veterans Day Holiday tomorrow, the library is closed, so there will be no City Art Reading. Joel Long

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Harmony Button and Jerry VanIeperin at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Harmony Button and Jerry VanIeperin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Harmony Button and JerryVanIeperin will read from their work on Wednesday November 4th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Harmony Button's work has been included inBest American Notable Essays of 2015, she has been nominated for Pushcart andBest of the Web awards, and she was awarded the Larry Levis Prize from theAcademy of American Poets. She is a contributing editor at Paper Tape Magazine,and you can find her work published in journals such as Colorado Review,Chicago Quarterly, Southwestern American Lit, Cobalt, Rock & Sling, Bayouand Drafthorse. She is currently the Academic Dean at the Waterford School inUtah. Jerry VanIeperen was, at best, aD minus English student in Junior High and High School. Then a computer glitchplaced him in the advanced creative writing class and his life altered. Hestudied journalism and won the annual creative writing contest for poetry atUtah State University. After earning an MFA in Writing from the University ofNebraska, he became a founding editor of the Sugar House Review. His poems haveappeared or are forthcoming in Redactions, Poetry City USA, Plainsongs, BlackRock & Sage, burntdistrict, Bridge Eight, and Working Stiff: an anthologyof professional wrestling themed literature and art, among others. He lives inUtah with his wife, two children, and a dog. He briefly considered writingmanifestos from a dark, windowless cabin in the heart of the Rocky Mountains,but felt his beard was not quite Nordic enough for such endeavors. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art issponsored 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. 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline OsherowPeter Covino 24 Cathy WagnerPaisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s PoetLaureate 14 Michael SowderJennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian GriffithsMelanie Rae Thon 12 Michael GillsFranklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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