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Holiday Open Reading at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

City Art presents its annual holiday open reading Wednesday December 15th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library. So dust the snow off your poems and scrape the layers of ice off your prose and come down and share your work during the season of sharing. Bring some holly shaped cookies and some Almond Roca and perhaps a little spiced cider, hmmm. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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A.J. Martine and Aniko Safran
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com A.J. Martine and Anikó Sáfrán Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers A.J. Martine and Anikó Sáfránwill read from his works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 8th at 7:00. A.J. is a western born man raised on a ranch on the Colorado Plateau by human wolves. He was nurtured by that landscape which has become a major character in his writing, his counselor, solace, and goad. A.J. was born and raised in the twentieth century, mentored by his grandfather who refused to leave the nineteenth, and writes about it from a twenty-first century perspective. He has Published non-fiction, poetry, and fiction in several magazines and journals such as the Idaho Review, Wazee Journal, Circa, Rocky Mountain Review, Salt Lake Magazine, Catalyst, and Glimmer Train. A.J. is the current chair of Writers @ Work. Anikó Sáfrán is a Salt lake City poet, photographer and film maker. She has read recently as part of the free jazz ensemble Seraphim. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Derek Henderson and Raphael Dagold at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Poets Derek Henderson and Raphael Dagold Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 1st 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Derek Henderson and Raphael Dagold will read from his works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 1 at 7:00. Derek Henderson lives, writes and teaches in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife, kids, cats and dog, and where he has recently completed his PhD in poetry at the University of Utah. He is co-author, with Derek Pollard, of Inconsequentia (BlazeVox, 2010) and author of the forthcoming Thus & (If P Then Q, Summer 2011). His work has appeared in Fence, Colorado Review, VOLT, Black Warrior Review, Bombay Gin and Witness, and other equally neat places. At the moment, his favorite quote from Ted Berrigan: "There is no such thing as a breakdown." A graduate student at the University of Utah, Raphael Dagold is a writer, teacher, photographer, and cabinet maker in Portland, Oregon. His poems and other writings have appeared in such journals as Quarterly West, Frank, Indiana Review, two girls review, Shirim, Washington Square, and others. Two short prose fictions appear in Northwest Edge iii: The End of Reality, and his photographs have won awards from the Berkeley Jewish Museum and have appeared in several publications. Dagold has won fellowships and residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Literary Arts, Inc., The Vermont Studio Center, and other institutions. He has taught writing and literature at Lewis and Clark College, Mt. Hood Community College, and in the Writers-in-the-Schools program of Literary Arts, Inc. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Dorthee Kocks and Melissa Bond at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poets Dorthee Kocks and Melissa Bond Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Dorhtee Kocks and Melissa Bond will read from his works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 17th at 7:00. Dorothee Kocks’s The Glass Harmonica is a story about America’s first pop star and her husband, an itinerant merchant of erotica. The novel debuts this fall from a Rosa Mira Books, a new ebook company publishing worldwide from a cottage in New Zealand. Kocks talked about the experience of being courted by ebook revolutionaries at the 2010 Utah book Festival panel, “eBooks for Traditional Book Lovers.” Her previous works include the Accordion Monologues, prose performance piecesfeaturing a sequined red accordion, and the non-fiction book, Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America (University of California Press, 2000). The novel was generously supported by numerous artist residencies and by a Utah Arts Council publicationprize. She earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown Universityand taught at University of Utah. She was editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Wasatch Journal, which proudly published many local poets featured by City Arts. She lives in Salt Lakewith her husband Mark Etheridge. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Note: the Shari Zollinger, Shanan Ballam reading is October 13th!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Poets Shanan Ballam and Shari Zollinger read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 13 7:00—9:00 p.m. Poets Shanan Ballam and Shari Zolinger will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday October 13th at 7:00. Shanan Ballamearned her MFA in Poetry Writing from The University of Nebraska’s low-residency program in 2007. One of her poems, “Red Riding Hood to Grandmother,” was nominated by Indiana Review for inclusion in The Best New Poets Anthology 2009. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, includingIndiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, cream city review, Tar River Poetry andCalyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. Her full-length poetry manuscript was a finalist for the 2010 May Swenson Poetry Award. Her first chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August 2010. She teaches poetry writing and academic writing at Utah State University, where she is also a Co-Director of the Intermediate Academic Writing Program. She lives in Wellsville, Utah with her husband, two dogs, and three cats. Native of Utah, Shari Zollinger has worked in the trenches of independent bookselling for over ten years. She has a BS in History from Utah State University and Certificate of Completion from the Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan where she spent six years of her life. Shari Zollinger’s poems have appeared in the Sugar House Review, 9Handed (a chapbook), and a Helicon West broadside. Her inspiration for poetry among many other things comes from travelling. She was fortunate to spend this last year visiting many different countries including England, Israel, Sweden, Indonesia and France. She just returned from living in Paris where she was working on a manuscript inspired by the sculptor, Auguste Rodin. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Shanan Ballam and Shri Zolinger
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Poets Shanan Ballam and Shari Zollinger read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 6 7:00—9:00 p.m. Poets Shanan Ballam and Shari Zolinger will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday October 13th at 7:00. Shanan Ballamearned her MFA in Poetry Writing from The University of Nebraska’s low-residency program in 2007. One of her poems, “Red Riding Hood to Grandmother,” was nominated by Indiana Review for inclusion in The Best New Poets Anthology 2009. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, includingIndiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, cream city review, Tar River Poetry andCalyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. Her full-length poetry manuscript was a finalist for the 2010 May Swenson Poetry Award. Her first chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August 2010. She teaches poetry writing and academic writing at Utah State University, where she is also a Co-Director of the Intermediate Academic Writing Program. She lives in Wellsville, Utah with her husband, two dogs, and three cats. Native of Utah, Shari Zollinger has worked in the trenches of independent bookselling for over ten years. She has a BS in History from Utah State University and Certificate of Completion from the Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan where she spent six years of her life. Shari Zollinger’s poems have appeared in the Sugar House Review, 9Handed (a chapbook), and a Helicon West broadside. Her inspiration for poetry among many other things comes from travelling. She was fortunate to spend this last year visiting many different countries including England, Israel, Sweden, Indonesia and France. She just returned from living in Paris where she was working on a manuscript inspired by the sculptor, Auguste Rodin. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Lara Candland and Christian Asplund at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poet and singer Lara Candland and composer Christian Asplund perform for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 6 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Poet and singer Lara Candland and composer Christian Asplund will perform on Wednesday October 6 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Utah-based poet and singer, Lara Candland and composer-performer Christian Asplund have evolved a unique style of performance involving an ethereal and lush mix of speech, singing, live sampling, looping, layering, drones, and electronics. They will draw from poems in Candland's recently published Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree and her recently completed chapbook about surgery Physic at the Table. Lara Candland’s book Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree was just released from BlazeVox. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, The Colorado Review, Barrow Street, Greatcoat, Fine Madness, The Quarterly and other journals. Her pamphlet, Tongue Child was published by the University of South Carolina’s Palanquin/TDM series. She has been a finalist in The Motherwell, Hudson, and St. Lawrence book awards. She has also been the recipient of an AWP Intro Award, She is a founder and the librettist for Seattle Experimental Opera, and a finalist in the Genesis Prizes. Her opera, Sunset with Pink Pastoral with husband and composer Christian Asplund, was performed by Almeida Opera in London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Candland has taught poetry, college writing, food writing and fiction writing at various colleges and universities around the country as an itinerant grad student/follower of a grad student, and is currently exploring the intersection between written down works and live improv with electronic sampling. Christian Asplund is a Canadian-American composer-performer based in Utah where he is Composer-in-Residence at Brigham Young University. He has degrees from University of Washington, Mills College, and Brigham Young University where his teachers have included Stuart Dempster, John Rahn, Joel-Francois Durand, Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, Thea Musgrave, and Meyer Kupferman. He cofounded Seattle Experimental Opera which has produced seven of his operas. He has performed with such musicians as Christian Wolff, Eyvind Kang, Larry Polansky, Daniel Good, Francois Houle, Michael Bisio, Robert Reigle, Gino Robair, and Phil Gelb in a variety of venues and recordings in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His scores are published by Frog Peak Music. Asplund is also an active scholar and has published articles and chapters on music theory and critical theory. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Max Werner and Ken Critchfield at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Writer Maximillian Werner and Musician and Performance Artist Ken Critchfield will read and perform from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday September 15th at 7:00. Maximilian Werner lives in Salt Lake City and teaches writing at the University of Utah. His poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in several journals and magazines, including Matter Journal: Edward Abbey Edition, The North American Review, Yale Anglers' Journal, ISLE, Weber Studies, Fly Rod and Reel, Puerto del Sol, and Columbia. He is also an Academy of American Poets prize winner. Mr. Werner's book Black River Dreams won the 2008 Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition for Nonfiction: Book and was published in January by Barclay Creek Press. Ken Critchfield is a psychologist (Ph.D. from University of Utah in 2002), bassist, and composer. His musical work involves experimental forms developed to explore aspects of dialogue, personality, and meaning. The CD "Foundation," produced in 1997 with the help of a Utah Arts Council/NEA grant involved use of extreme structure (e.g., rigid and minimalist compositional forms) to explore how organic, human elements impose themselves as "errors" relative to expectation with just the two "voices" of drums and bass. More recent work with the group "Seraphim," has involved use of free improvisation among a group of musicians and poets, allowing structure, pattern, and meaning to emerge in a very different musical context. Some of this work has been captured on the CD titled "Hearing Voices". The focus on patterns that emerge through dialogue parallels Dr. Critchfield's specialty area in psychology which involves focus on how personality and identity emerge from relatedness with others. This will be his third time performing for City Arts across the past decade or so, itself representing an interesting meditation on possible convergences between pattern and meaning found in literary forms, and those found in human "sound-making" more generally. This particular performance will involve new material involving solo improvisation on upright bass, followed by opportunities for audience discussion about the experience. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Matthew Kirkpatrick and Miles Fuller at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Writers Matthew Kirkpatrick and Miles Fuller will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday September 8 at 7:00. Matthew Kirkpatrick's fiction has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, Copper Nickel, Redivider, Gargoyle, the Notre Dame Review, Diagram, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Utah Writers contest, judged by Ben Marcus, and was included in the 2010 Best of the Web anthology and the 2009 &Now Awards anthology. He has been awarded a fellowship to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Miles Fuller is an MFA candidate in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. His poetry and prose have received accolades through the Academy of American Poets, AWP, a Pushcart nomination, Honorable Mention in Best American Essays, and most recently, Fuller won the 2010 Alligator Juniper Essay Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, The Portland Review, and Ellipsis. In addition, while working as an instructor at the University of Iowa, Miles Fuller’s students have named him, “Captain Fuller,” reiterating his position as the saltiest and most nautically aware writer in American letters. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Meltdown 2010
by CityArt＠thelibrary 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

City Art will present its annual meltdown on Wednesday, September 1st at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. This year’s event will again feature some of Utah’s favorite writers as voted for by the audience of City Art including the following:, Pam Balluck Joel Long Rachel Marsten Jacqueline Osherow Melanie Rae Thon Katharine Coles Star Coulbrooke Kimberly Johnson Natasha Saje Jennifer Tonge Lance Olsen Michael McLane Rob Carney Lance Larsen Francois Camoin 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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