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Adam Love and Michael Kroeshe at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Michael Kroesche and Adam Loveto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 6th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Michael Kroesche and Adam Love will read from their works on Wednesday February 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Michael Kroesche was born in Salt Lake City, UT. He received his BA from the Univ. of Southern California in 2008 and his MFA in Poetry from the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2011. His works include a chap book, Summer Hymnals, published by Elik Press in 2004, and his poems have appeared in Interim, The Chiron Review, The Breakwater Review, Cactus Heart, among others, and have also been incorporated into orchestral pieces. His short fiction has also appeared in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. He is recently returned to Salt Lake City after teaching for a year in Guangzhou, China. Adam Love is an emerging writer from Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Redlands and the University of San Diego, where he received a B.A. in Psychology. After college, he moved back to Salt Lake City and worked as tutor for AP English Literature students and the ACT/SAT tests. While tutoring, he pursed an MFA in poetry and creative non-fiction from Vermont College, and graduated in 2012. While at Vermont, he was a three-time nominee for the AWP Intro Award for Poetry. His work has appeared or is upcoming in MiPoesias, Conte, Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, UGLY Magazine, and Borderline. He is a finalist for the 2012 Tired Hearts Press Chapbook Contest series and received a nomination for the 2013 Pushcart Prize. He spends most of his free time in the mountains and rivers of Utah. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Jade Conlee 23 Rachel Marston Craig Dworkin February 6 Michael Kroesche Adam Love 13 Michael Mejia Kimberly Johnson 20 Sadie Hoagland David Kranes March 27th Lake Effect Reading Katharine Coles Peggy Shumaker Joel Long

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Craig Dworkin and Rachel Marston at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Craig Dworkin and Rachel Marstonto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 23rd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Craig Dworkin and Rachel Marston will read from their works on Wednesday January 23rd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Craig Dworkin is the author of over a half-dozen books of poetry, including The Perverse Library (Information As Material, 2010), Motes (Roof Books, 2011), and The Crystal Text (Compline, 2012). His work has been shown this year at the Whitney Museum, The ICA (Boston) and The Whitechapel Gallery (London), with a film currently screening at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver). Recent poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, 1913: a Journal of Forms, BOMB magazine, and have been selected for inclusion in the new Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry. A critical book on media theory is forthcoming next month from the MIT Press. Rachel Marston’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Collagist, American Fiction Volume 12, Sidebrow, Puerto del Sol, DIAGRAM, and other journals. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She is currently the Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center and on the board of Writers@Work. Her new novel project follows a family after they had their troubled son committed. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Jade Conlee 23 Rachel Marston Craig Dworkin February 6 Michael Kroesche Adam Love 13 Kimberly Johnson 20 Sadie Hoagland David Krane’s Joel Long

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Hector Aumada at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com HectorAhumdato read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 12th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Hector Ahumada will read from his work on Wednesday January 9th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Hector Ahumada, born in Santiago, Chile. Naturalized USA citizen. Salt Lake City, Mayor's Award, Literary Arts, 1996. Writers @ Work, Lifetime Achievement, Literary Arts, 2008. Some of his writings include: Great and Peculiar Beauty, Utah Writers Anthology, Gibb Smith publisher, Utah, 1995. Sun and Water Poems, Luna's Press, San Francisco, 2003. Highland Travelers, Elik Press, Salt Lake City, 2003. Earth and Air Poems, Elik Press, Salt Lake City, 2008. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English 23 Rachel Marston Craig Dworkin February 6 Michael Kroesche Adam Love 13 Kimberly Johnson 20 Sadie Hoagland David Krane’s Joel Long

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Holiday Open Reading
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Holiday Open Reading at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 19th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art invites you to a holiday open reading on December 19th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library. Bring your cider and cookies, your poems, your prose, your open minds and hearts for a night of open readings. It is a potluck of literature, so it all depends on what you bring as your hot dish or your lovely desert. See you there. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Fisher and Gills at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Franklin Fisher and Michael Gillsto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 12th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Franklin Fisher and Michael Gills will read from their work on Wednesday December 12th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Franklin Fisher is a writer and musician living in Salt Lake City. He has published fiction in a bunch of literary magazines including Prism International, the Missouri Review, Event, New Letters, Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Confrontation, and others. He has also published a novel, Bones. Michael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review. A second collection, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde, will be out from Texas Review Press in October, the title story of which just won Southern Humanities Review’s Hoepfner Prize for the best story published there in 2010. A novel, Go Love, will be published this fall by Raw Dog Screaming Press. A third collection of stories, Eternally Yours, is currently on the market. Gills has published more than forty short stories, received 25 Pushcart nominations, appeared in multiple Best of the South publications and held the Randall Jarrell Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. Gills holds additional degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah where he earned the Ph.D. His fiction is forthcoming in New Madrid, Boulevard and The Texas Review. Other stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, Quarterly West, The Oxford American, Salt Hill, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Humanities Review, McSweeney’s, Verb, New York Stories, New Stories From The South and elsewhere. A Utah Established Artist grant recipient, Gills is currently Associate Professor/Lecturer of writing and core faculty for the Honors College at the University of Utah. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English 23 Rachel Marston Craig Dworkin February 6 Michael Kroesche 20 Sadie Hoagland April 3 Matt Mauch Greg Brownderville 17 Hilda Raz Aaron Raz Link May 15 High School Night June 5 Final Open Reading

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Melanie Rae Thon and Sian Griffiths at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Melanie Rae Thon and Siân Griffithsto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 5th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Melanie Rae Thon and Siân Griffithswill read from their work on Wednesday December 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the novel The Voice of the River (September 2011) and In This Light: New and Selected Stories (June 2011). She is also the author of the novels Sweet Hearts, Meteors in August, and Iona Moon, and the story collections First, Body and Girls in the Grass. Thon’s work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992 and 2008), a Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005), and a fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center (2009). Thon's fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, and Farsi. Originally from Montana, Thon now lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches in the Creative Writing and Environmental Humanities programs at the University of Utah. Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah where she serves as assistant professor of English at Weber State University. Her work is published in Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, Cave Wall, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Clackamas Literary Review, Oregon Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Permafrost, Mary, Versal, Court Green, and The Georgia Review, among other publications. Her story “What Is Solid” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and Janet Burroway included her poem, “Fistful,” in the third edition of Imaginative Writing. His first novel, Borrowed Horses, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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Tuesday Next Week: Michael Hansen and Tim Erickson at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Michael Hansen and Tim Erickson to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Tuesday November 20th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Michael Hansen and Tim Erickson will read from their work on Tuesday, November 20th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Michael Hansen is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, where he edits Chicago Review. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Volt, Quarterly West, and Western Humanities Review, among other journals. Tim Erickson teaches college composition and creative writing at Copper Hills High School. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Mudfish, and others. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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Michael Sowder and Jennifer Sinor at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Michael Sowder and Jennifier Sinor to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Michael Sowder and essayist Jennifer Sonor will read from their work on November 14th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Poet and essayist Michael Sowder is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. He is the Chair of Creative Writing and the poetry editor of the literary magazine: Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. Sowder’s most recent book, House under the Moon is just out from Truman State Press. His first book, The Empty Boat, was chosen by Diane Wakoski from over 720 manuscripts to win the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize, was a finalist for the Utah Book Award, and several of its poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Sowder's creative nonfiction explores the natural world as well as the worlds of poetics and teaching, and appear widely in magazines journals throughout the country. His essays include the following: "The Work the Landscape Calls Us To," in Placing the Academy (USU Press 2007) (nominated for a Pushcart Prize); "The Chateau and the Chalkboard," an essay on writers as teachers, in Dislocate: The Literary Journal of the University of Minnesota (2006); "Place of Clear Light," an essay arising out of a visit to a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, in Salt Flats Annual (2007); “The Voice of the Wilderness,” in Snowy Egret (Fall 2002); “Radical Aesthetics in Walt Whitman, Jonathan Edwards, and American Beauty,” in Rendezvous (Fall, 2002); and Poet in Grizzly Gulch, a mountaineering essay, forth coming in The Wasatch Journal. Joel Long

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Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen and Nevada's Shaun Griffin at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen and Nevada Poet Shaun Griffin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Utah’s new Poet Laureate Lance Larsen and Nevada Poet Shaun Griffin will read from their work on November 7th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, Genius Loci, will be published in late 2012 by University of Tampa Press. His earlier collections include Backyard Alchemy (2009), In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005), and Erasable Walls (1998). He holds a PhD from the University of Houston. His work appears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays. He is currently working on Seventeen Ways to Float, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory which won 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition. He grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving an LDS mission. He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walks on his hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food. He sometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter and multi-media artist. Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writing at BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair. He and Jacqui recently directed a study abroad program in Madrid. In 2012, he was named to a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. SHAUN T. GRIFFIN is one of the Nevada’s finest poets. He has published seven books of poetry, three poetry anthologies, and one translation. For many years he has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center and published an annual journal of their work, Razor Wire. In 1995 he received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and in 2006 was awarded the Rosemary McMillan Lifetime Achievement in Art Award from Sierra Arts Foundation. Humanist, activist, and educator, Shaun Griffin has spent a lifetime building bridges where there were none for all members of the human com- munity. He is the co-founder and director of Community Chest, a non-profit agency serving children and families in northwestern Nevada since 1991, and the former founding director of the state's homeless education office. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 21 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Coviino at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino will read from their work on October17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. University of Utah Professor Jacqueline Osherow is the author of several collections of poetry, including Whitethorn, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Dead Men’s Praise. Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her work has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry. Peter Covino is the author of the poetry collections, both from Western Michigan University/New Issues Press, The Right Place to Jump(2012) and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), winner of the 2007 PEN/America Osterweil Award (http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/224/prmID/1482) and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Please see a recent review of his work here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bobby-elliott/on-peter-covinos-the-righ_b_190… Other reviews have appeared in such publications as American Poet(Academy of American Poets), The Journal, Small Press Review,and Quarterly Westamong others. His chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001), won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize; and recent poems have been published or are forthcoming both in America and Italy in such places as the American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, Gulf Coast, Interim, Lo-Ball, Leggendaria, New Orleans Review, The Paris Review, tutteStorie, The Yale Review, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing,among others. Covino’s newer work reflects a growing concern with Italian historical influences, issues of environmental impingement, contemporary art, and visual and poetic experimentation. 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. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 21 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long

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