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Ron Carlson at City Art/Utah Book Festival Wednesday at 7:00 PM
by CityArt＠thelibrary 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Oct 28, 2015, 7:00 pm Author Ron Carlson Venue Salt Lake City Public Library Main Library 210 E 400 S Salt Lake City , UT 84111-2804 Map [+] Description Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine," as part of the City Art series in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library. In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world. In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft. Ron Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California. Joel Long

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Craig Dworkin at The King's English October 29
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Craig Dworkin | Alkali and Chapter XXIV Join author Craig Dworkin for a special reading and signing of his two newest works, Alkali and Chapter XXIV.Alkali collects six works, including two desert pastorals describing the sonic and luminescent landscape surrounding the Great Salt Lake.A brief description of Chapter XXIV: In 1761, Laurence Sterne published The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Chapter XXV of the fourth volumn opens:No doubt, Sir, —there is a whole chapter wanting here—and a chasm of ten pages made in the book by it.A jump in pagination confirms Chapter XXIV is missing. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Sterne’s birth, here is the absent chapter—a single signature designed to fit neatly into the first edition ( R &J Dodsley, 1761). Craig Dworkin’s interpolated text uses all historically consistent English words in which the letters f and s can be interchanged and result in a legitimate word. Each sentence is based on grammatical constructions found elsewhere in Sterne’s novel.The type, ITC Founders Caslon, includes seven pre-existing ligatures and seven bespoke long-s ligatures created by the book designer. The project was letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on handmade paper including a custom Red Butte Press watermark. A typographically illustrated cover utilizes the placement of each dash that appears in the text and externalizes the 18th century typesetters’ practice of using any available foundry dashes. The varying dash length and humorous interplay of the letters f and s call attention to potentialities of punctuation, spelling, and meaning. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Alkali or Chapter XXIV from The King's English.GET YOUR COPY NOW! Preorder your signed copy of Alkali or Chapter XXIV today, by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized. Event date: Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pmEvent address: The King's English Bookshop1511 South 1500 EastSalt Lake City, UT 84105 Joel Long

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Bethany Schultz and Jonathan Travelstead at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Poets Bethany Schultz and Jonathan Travelstead will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series. Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation (Anhinga, 2014), which won the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her work has been selected to appear in Best American Poetry 2015 and has appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, New Orleans Review, and River Styx. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Idaho State University. Winner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry. How We Bury Our Dead is a narrative work which follows a single speaker as he jumps from one intense situation to the next in order to avoid his mother’s struggle with cancer. An Air Force firefighter, he volunteers to accompany his unit to Kuwait, and, after returning and still unable to cope, he hitchhikes his way across Alaska before finally going home. Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a fulltime firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru. This event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art. Joel Long

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Reminder: Kirsten Jorgenson and Nathan Hauke at City Art tonight
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com KirstenJorgenson and Nathan Hauketoread at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 7, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Kristen Jorgenson and Nathan Hauke will read from their works on Wednesday, October 7that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public. Kirsten Jorgenson is from Salt Lake City, UT via Chicago, IL. Sheis the author of two chapbooks, Deseretand Accidents of Distance, andco-author of the poetics chapbook, Country Music. Her work can be found in oris forthcoming from The AndNow Awards, Blazevox, Denver Quarterly, Diagram,Drunken Boat, Dusie, Horse Less Review, Keyhole, Sidebrow and We Are So HappyTo Know Something. She has an MA in British and American Literature from theUniversity of Utah and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University ofAlabama. Along with Nathan Hauke, she is co-editor of Ark Press and co-curatorof the Ark Press Summer Reading Series. Nathan Hauke was born and raised inrural Michigan. His first book, In theMarble of Your Animal Eyes, was published by Publication Studio. He is alsothe author of chapbooks: Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now, S E W N, and In theLiving Room. His poetry has most recently been published in American Letters& Commentary, Dusie, Peaches and Bats, Real Poetik, Spittoon, Typo, and WeAre So Happy To Know Something. Two of his poems, “Deerfield (1)” and “ASurface. A Shore or Semi-transparency of Glass,” were selected to be a part ofThe Arcadia Project Anthology edited by GC Waldrep and Joshua Corey. Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of theUtah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and threechapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work hasappeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash FictionForward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt LakeCity. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series andprovides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs oneach of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at theSalt Lake City Public Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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David Pace and Rob Carney
by CityArt＠thelibrary 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com David G.Pace and Rob Carney to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 23rd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers David G. Pace and Rob Carney willread/perform from their works on Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. at theSalt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and theUtah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to thepublic. David G. Pace is the author of DreamHouse on Golan Drive. He haspublished in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought,ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Associationfor Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues tofollow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine. 88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4thfull-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around inthe New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's aboutthe times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughingand telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurativecul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays,challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed homeforeclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21stcentury fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed byfellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit:http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-… Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of theUtah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and threechapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work hasappeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash FictionForward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt LakeCity. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series andprovides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs oneach of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at theSalt Lake City Public Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Janine Joseph and Eric Howerton at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com JanineJoseph and Eric Howerton to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 9th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Janine Joseph and Eric Howerton willread from their works on Wednesday, September 9th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt LakeCity Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the UtahHumanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Janine Joseph is the author of Driving Withouta License (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize.Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Best American ExperimentalWriting, Kenyon Review Online, Hyphen, Best New Poets,Zócalo Public Square, and elsewhere. Her commissioned work for theHouston Grand Opera (HGOco) stage includes a libretto, From My Mother's Mother,and a song cycle, "On This Muddy Water": Voices from the Houston ShipChannel. She holds an MFA from New York University and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Houston. Janine lives in Ogden, UT, where she is an AssistantProfessor of English at Weber State University. Eric Howerton is a graduate of the University ofHouston’s Ph.D. in Creative Writing Program, an avid skiier, and vocalist forCrisis in Consciousness, a loud-music project based in Salt Lake City. Heteaches English at Weber State University, is a Vice President and Board Memberfor Writers@Work, and is a former fiction editor for Gulf Coast. His work hasappeared in Juked, The VOLTA blog, PANK online, The Masters Review, NightTrain, Driftwood Press, and others. His novel—RedRedRedRed—received anhonorable mention from the Utah Division of Arts & Humanities 2014 OriginalWriting Competition and, after a few more edits, will be on shelves sooner thanyou think.City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Meltdown on September 2nd
by CityArt＠thelibrary 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Meltdown Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 2nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art will present its annual meltdown on Wednesday,September 2nd at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. This year’s meltdown includes Shanan Ballam,Pam Balluck, Lara Candland, Rob Carney, Raphael Dagold, Lynn Kilpatrick, JoelLong, Adam Love, Michael McLane, Jacqueline Osherow, Natasha Saje, Laura Stott,Jennifer Tonge, Jerry VanIeperen, and Mike White , among others. The meltdown includes the top vote-gettersamong Utah writers and so offers fifteen to twenty of the best literary figuresof the state reading for five minutes each. It traditionally begins the City Art Reading series, which meets thefirst three Wednesdays of every month from September through June. City Art is SaltLake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for theliterary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first threeWednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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Get your votes in today for Meltdown 2015
by CityArt＠thelibrary 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

City Art Meltdown 2015 Meltdown Ballot Please vote for up to ten readers whom you’d like to seeperform for the Meltdown this year on September 2nd. You may write-in a reader if he/she issomeone who has been associated with City Art in the past. Please title youre-mail “Meltdown 2015”. Instructionsfor subscribing to the e-mail list for City Art follows the ballot. Forward this info to anyone who wouldbenefit. We will tabulate votes onAugust 21st. Please send your votes to joeltlong(a)yahoo.com. Thanks, and Happy voting. Joel Long, City Art Meltdown Ballot ___ Alexander, Jessica___ Anderson, Karin___ Beilin, Caren___ Christensen, Shen___ Coulty, Lisa Fay___ Gaudry, Molly___ Gibbs, Jenn___ Kane, Jean___ Martine, AJ___ Payne, Jessica___ Rivkin, Josh___Roullard, Lisa ___Taylor , Natalie____Jordan, Teresa____McAullife, Sheena___Ahumada, Hector___Anderson, Sandy___Baird, Nancy___Ballam, Shanan___Balluck, Pam___Barber, Phyllis___Bentley, Wade___Berenson, Malcolm___Bickmore, Lisa___Blankenship, Wendy___Bond, Melissa___Bradley, DeNorris___Button, Harmony___Caldiero, Alex___Candland, Lara___Carney, Rob___Carr, Harold___Chard, Mario___Clark, Maureen___Coles, Bill___Coles, Joan___Coles, Katherine___Coulbrooke, Star___Dagold, Raphael___Day, Meg___DeNevers, Klancy___Dworkin, Craig___Eberth, Bob___English, Katharine___Erickson, Tim___Fouts, Diane___Franklin, Joey___Funda, Evelyn___Gills, Michael___Griffiths, Sian___Hallstrom, Rich___Hamblin, Laura___Hawkins, David___Hoagland, Sadie___Hoffman, Andy___Houghton, Dawn___Howard, Jean___Howe, Susan ___Howerton, Eric___Hunt, Shelley___Jacques Sides, Dana___Johnson, Kimberly___Johnson, Sara Eliza___Johnson, Wayne___Josephs, Janine___Ketzle, Paul___Kilpatrick, Lynn___Kocks, Dorothee ___Kranes, David___Kubarycz, Brian___Larsen, Lance___Leibo, Chris___Liederbach, Nate___Linsalata, Lisa___Long, Joel___Love, Adam___Madden Patrick___Marano, Dawn___Martine, A.J.___Matsumoto, Tasha___McGriff, Michael___McLane, Michael___Mejia, Michael___Metcalf, Jeff___Minich, Jan___Murdoch, Barbara___Newman, Lance___Olivera, Felicia___Olsen, Lance___Osherow, Jacqueline___Ostler, Lin___Pace, David___Palmer, Michael___Patton, Christopher___Paul, Jacob___Peppers, Cathy___Place, Myke___Rasmussen, Pax___Rekdal, Paisley___Saje, Natasha___Sample, Susan___Saunders, Gerda___Scott, Kirstin___Sebba, Jon___Sieczkowski, Brenda___Simonsen, Holly___Sinor, Jennifer___Snell, Ned___Sowder, Michael___Stansbury, Nicole___Stevenson, David___Stott, Laura___Stradley, Shawn___Subach, Karen___Takacs, Nancy___Tanseer, Chris___Thomson, Hillary ___Thon, Melanie Rae___Tippets, Dave___Tonge, Jennifer___Torti, Sylvia___Tuttle, Stephen___van Ieperen, Jerry___Wagenaar, Mark__Watterson, Jaclyn___Werner, Maximilian___White, Mike___Wiggins, Lyle___Yates, Jennifer___Young, Darlene___Young, Natalie___Zollinger, Shari Other: E-mail list: Theseare the instructions for getting on the City Art e-mail list to find out aboutreadings for this year. You may alreadybe receiving the mailings for the City Art Mailer, if not, please take a momentto put yourself on the list so you can find out about all of our readings. Pass this information to others. I will send all e-mails through this systemthis year. Subscribingto the City Art mailing list allows you to receive an email reminder in advance of each performance. Tosubscribe to the list, follow theseinstructions: 1) Go tohttp://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cityart 2) Enteryour email address and your name. 3) Clicksubscribe. 4) Aconfirmation email will be sent to the email address you entered. To confirm your subscription, you *must*reply to the message. It is not necessary to modify the body of the messagebefore replying. 5) A finalconfirmation message will be sent to you. If you do not receive aconfirmation message welcoming you to the list, you have not been subscribed and you should ask forassistance. This is anannounce-only list; you can expect to receive only one or two messages permonth during the City Art season. Please do not reply directly to messages sentfrom this list, there is a possibility that they will not be seen. If you haveany questions or if you need help subscribing or managing your subscription. Joel Long

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Meltdown Time of Year: Vote
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

City Art Meltdown 2015 Meltdown Ballot Please vote for up to ten readers whom you’d like to seeperform for the Meltdown this year on September 2nd. You may write-in a reader if he/she issomeone who has been associated with City Art in the past. Please title youre-mail “Meltdown 2015”. Instructionsfor subscribing to the e-mail list for City Art follows the ballot. Forward this info to anyone who wouldbenefit. We will tabulate votes onAugust 21st. Please send your votes to joeltlong(a)yahoo.com. Thanks, and Happy voting. Joel Long, City Art Meltdown Ballot ___ Alexander, Jessica___ Anderson, Karin___ Beilin, Caren___ Christensen, Shen___ Coulty, Lisa Fay___ Gaudry, Molly___ Gibbs, Jenn___ Kane, Jean___ Martine, AJ___ Payne, Jessica___ Rivkin, Josh___Roullard, Lisa ___Taylor , Natalie____Jordan, Teresa____McAullife, Sheena___Ahumada, Hector___Anderson, Sandy___Baird, Nancy___Ballam, Shanan___Balluck, Pam___Barber, Phyllis___Bentley, Wade___Berenson, Malcolm___Bickmore, Lisa___Blankenship, Wendy___Bond, Melissa___Bradley, DeNorris___Button, Harmony___Caldiero, Alex___Candland, Lara___Carney, Rob___Carr, Harold___Chard, Mario___Clark, Maureen___Coles, Bill___Coles, Joan___Coles, Katherine___Coulbrooke, Star___Dagold, Raphael___Day, Meg___DeNevers, Klancy___Dworkin, Craig___Eberth, Bob___English, Katharine___Erickson, Tim___Fouts, Diane___Franklin, Joey___Funda, Evelyn___Gills, Michael___Griffiths, Sian___Hallstrom, Rich___Hamblin, Laura___Hawkins, David___Hoagland, Sadie___Hoffman, Andy___Houghton, Dawn___Howard, Jean___Howe, Susan ___Howerton, Eric___Hunt, Shelley___Jacques Sides, Dana___Johnson, Kimberly___Johnson, Sara Eliza___Johnson, Wayne___Josephs, Janine___Ketzle, Paul___Kilpatrick, Lynn___Kocks, Dorothee ___Kranes, David___Kubarycz, Brian___Larsen, Lance___Leibo, Chris___Liederbach, Nate___Linsalata, Lisa___Long, Joel___Love, Adam___Madden Patrick___Marano, Dawn___Martine, A.J.___Matsumoto, Tasha___McGriff, Michael___McLane, Michael___Mejia, Michael___Metcalf, Jeff___Minich, Jan___Murdoch, Barbara___Newman, Lance___Olivera, Felicia___Olsen, Lance___Osherow, Jacqueline___Ostler, Lin___Pace, David___Palmer, Michael___Patton, Christopher___Paul, Jacob___Peppers, Cathy___Place, Myke___Rasmussen, Pax___Rekdal, Paisley___Saje, Natasha___Sample, Susan___Saunders, Gerda___Scott, Kirstin___Sebba, Jon___Sieczkowski, Brenda___Simonsen, Holly___Sinor, Jennifer___Snell, Ned___Sowder, Michael___Stansbury, Nicole___Stevenson, David___Stott, Laura___Stradley, Shawn___Subach, Karen___Takacs, Nancy___Tanseer, Chris___Thomson, Hillary ___Thon, Melanie Rae___Tippets, Dave___Tonge, Jennifer___Torti, Sylvia___Tuttle, Stephen___van Ieperen, Jerry___Wagenaar, Mark__Watterson, Jaclyn___Werner, Maximilian___White, Mike___Wiggins, Lyle___Yates, Jennifer___Young, Darlene___Young, Natalie___Zollinger, Shari Other: E-mail list: Theseare the instructions for getting on the City Art e-mail list to find out aboutreadings for this year. You may alreadybe receiving the mailings for the City Art Mailer, if not, please take a momentto put yourself on the list so you can find out about all of our readings. Pass this information to others. I will send all e-mails through this systemthis year. Subscribingto the City Art mailing list allows you to receive an email reminder in advance of each performance. Tosubscribe to the list, follow theseinstructions: 1) Go tohttp://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cityart 2) Enteryour email address and your name. 3) Clicksubscribe. 4) Aconfirmation email will be sent to the email address you entered. To confirm your subscription, you *must*reply to the message. It is not necessary to modify the body of the messagebefore replying. 5) A finalconfirmation message will be sent to you. If you do not receive aconfirmation message welcoming you to the list, you have not been subscribed and you should ask forassistance. This is anannounce-only list; you can expect to receive only one or two messages permonth during the City Art season. Please do not reply directly to messages sentfrom this list, there is a possibility that they will not be seen. If you haveany questions or if you need help subscribing or managing your subscription. Joel Long

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Fw: Kirstin Scott at TKE reading Thursday, June 11
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Joel Long On Saturday, June 6, 2015 2:36 PM, "kirstins(a)xmission.com" <kirstins(a)xmission.com> wrote: Hi friends, Pardon the group email. This year I'm one of the guest writers at the Writers@Work Conference. So as part of that, I'll be giving a public reading at The King's English bookstore on Thursday, June 11, at 7:30. I'd love to see you there (but understand if you can't make it, of course!). I'm going to read from my novel in progress--see how that goes over. What else? Well, I'm attaching a pdf of conference events; there are several readings and other events open to the public that you might want to check out. Also: the address book I've maintained over the years is woefully inadequate (Sean's is WAY better), so feel free to share the invite with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks and happy summer! Kirstin

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