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Esther Lee and Nathan Hauke at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Poets Nathan Hauke and Esther Lee will read from their poems at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday January 21st at 7:00. Esther Lee received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University where she served as Editor-in-Chief for Indiana Review. She's been awarded the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize; twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.Her poems and articles have appeared in Ploughshares, Verse Daily, Salt Hill, Good Foot, Cream City Review, Hyphen, Born Magazine, among others. Her chapbook, The Blank Missives, was published by Trafficker Press in 2007. Her poetry manuscript, Little Lung Damage, has recently been a finalist or semi-finalist for several prizes, including the Prairie Schooner Prize, New Issues's Green Rose Prize, Pleiades Press, as well as for the "Discovery"/The Nation Award and Vassar Miller Prize. She used to work as Editor-in-Chief for Tea Party magazine in San Francisco and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature at the University of Utah. Nathan Hauke lives in Salt Lake City. His poetry has been published in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review; EOAGH; Forklift, Ohio; Free Verse; Greatcoat; Gutcult; Interim; New American Writing; Parthenon West; Reconfigurations; The Tiny; Twenty Six; Word For/ Word; and XANTIPPE. His prose has appeared in Electronic Poetry Review, Interim, and Jacket. 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.

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Peter Cole and Jacqueline Osherow at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Award winning poets Peter Cole and Jacqueline Osherow will read from their poems at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday January 14th at 7:00. The recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Peter Cole has published three books of poetry, Rift (Station Hill); Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press); and, most recently, Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions). A fourth volume, What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1989, was also recently published by Shearsman Books in the UK. Cole has worked intensively on Hebrew literature, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew poetry. In 1988 he started the ambitious project of translating into English texts by Shmuel HaNagid, whose lyrical work had always been considered untranslatable. Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid, published by Princeton U. Press (1996), received the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Translation. Cole was granted a TLS translation award for Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also by Princeton U. Press (2001), an equally challenging translation of the philosopher, poet, and mystic, who was a younger contemporary of Shmuel HaNagid. Cole has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1998 Modern Language Association Translation Award. J’Accuse received the 2004 PEN-America Award for Poetry in Translation. He was a visiting fellow at Yale University’s Whitney Center for the Humanities in the fall of 2006. Cole is also the founder and co-editor of Ibis Editions, a small press devoted to the publication of Levant-related literature. Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957. He began studying Hebrew in Jerusalem in 1981 and has since divided his time between Israel and the United States. Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poetry. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Twentieth Century American Poetry, The Wadsworth Anthology of Poety and The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Poetry, Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998), The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The New Yorker, Paris Review and many others. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah. 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.

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Holiday Open Reading for City Art--Come!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

City Art presents its annual holiday open reading Wednesday December 17th 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. 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.

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Glick and Bond at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Melissa Bond and Robert Glick will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 10 at 7:00. Robert Glick is a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah and fiction editor of the Amsterdam-based literary journal Versal. He received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley and his MA in Performance Art from San Francisco State University. Recent fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Passages North. Melissa Bond is the recipient of the 2002 Mayor’s Artist Award for the Literary Arts and City Weekly’s Best Poet in Motion 2006. Four months after Hurricane Katrina, she and two other artists went to New Orleans to help clean and tear down houses. While there, the three of them photographed and interviewed residents and created the New Orleans Project, a multi-media exhibit that has been shown all over Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Bond has performed her poetry throughout Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Francisco, Asheville, N.C. and Austin, TX. Her first book of poems, Hush, was published by Elik Press. 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.

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Cowles and Shipley at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Ely Shipley and Kathryn Cowles will read from their new books of poetry at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 3rd at 7:00. Ely Shipley’s first book of poems, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, and will be published in the spring of 2008. He also won “The Utah Writer’s Award in Poetry” from The Western Humanities Review and “The Virginia Faulkner Award” from Prairie Schooner. His poems appear in The North American Review, Willow Springs, Florida Review, Phoebe, The Greensboro Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diagram, Barrow Street, LTTR and Bloom. He has taught creative writing, literature, and gender studies as a graduate student at Purdue University and the University of Utah, and frequently facilitates workshops with LGBTQ youth groups. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, where he is a PhD candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Utah. Kathryn Cowles is finishing up her doctoral work in poetry at the University of Utah. (She's defending her dissertation Maps and Transcripts, in about a week!) Her first book, Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name, won the Brunsman Poetry Book Prize and was published by Bear Star Press in September. She has had poetry and nonfiction published in Colorado Review, Plieades, Hawai'i Review, Octopus Magazine, and other journals. 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.

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Dressler/Kilpatrick at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Writers Mylene Dressler and Lynn Kilpatrick will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 19th at 7:00. Mylène Dressler’s novel, The Medusa Tree, was praised in 1997 as “haunting” and “splendid” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler, and as a “lyrical and clearly envisioned debut” by Ms. Magazine. She soon followed it with The Deadwood Beetle, named by the Christian Science Monitor as one of its Best Books of 2001 and by the Women’s Press as one of its Great Books by Women Writers; and then with The Floodmakers (2004) her comic hybrid of play and novel. Dressler has been a faculty member or a visiting writer at the University of Texas at Austin, the National Autonomous University of Chiapas, the University of Groningen, Rice University, and the University of St. Thomas, among others. Her honors and awards include the Fulbright Fellowship, the Paisano Fellowship in Fiction, and the Fellowship in Writing from the McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia, which allowed her to live in the home of the late Carson McCullers, and complete work toward her newest international novel, The Wedding of Anne Frank. She makes her home in Texas and in the canyon country of southern Utah, where she lives with her traveling companions, her husband and a red-and-white border collie. Lynn Kilpatrick's work has appeared in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, spork, and Salt Hill. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She teaches writing in Salt Lake City. Kilpatrick, won first place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition for her short story collection, "The Infinite Cages.” Her collection of stories, In The House, is forthcoming (2010) from FC2. 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.

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Miles Fuller and Lance Newman
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Writers Lance Newman and Miles Fuller will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 12th at 7:00. Lance Newman is Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City, where he teaches courses in Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a guide since 1991, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005), Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006), and of Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (Romantic Circles, 2006). His poems have appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Beloit Poetry Journal, Dusie, Pemmican, Zyzzyva, Streetnotes, nthposition, Perigee, unsplendid, identity theory, Fringe, New CollAge, Blue Collar Review, Poets Against the War, and elsewhere. His free chapbook, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007), is available on request. Miles Fuller is a graduate of Westminster College in Salt Lake City. At Westminster he served as Poetry and Visual Art editors for the national literary journal Ellipsis. As a poet and essayist, Miles Fuller’s work is unnecessarily fixated on the literary themes of loss, death, and intense awkwardness in social settings. Regardless of his predictable obsessions, Miles’ poems and essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, The Portland Review, and Ellipsis. In addition, he won an AWP Intro Award for Poetry in 2007, and has received two Academy of American Poets Prizes. 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.

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Maureen Clark and Harmony Button at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

sorry this is late. Writers Maureen Clark and Harmony Button will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 3rd at 7:00. Maureen Clark’s poetry has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, The Southeast Review and Gettysburg Review, among other literary journals. She has written two poetry collections; Premature Autopsy and A Year in Bountiful, and has recently completed a memoir titled Between the Gods. Maureen currently teaches academic writing through the University of Utah Writing Program and Creative Writing with the university’s Lifelong Learning Program. She began her work as an editor with Ellipsis: Literature & Art at Westminster College. She also worked for a time as a reader for Quarterly West. Maureen completed a residency at Vermont Studio Center in May 2007 and her manuscript, Premature Autopsy, was one of the semi-finalists for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize in 2007. Maureen was the president of Writers at Work from 1999-2000 and now serves on the advisory board of that organization. Harmony Button completed an MFA in Poetry from University of Utah in 2007. Although a New York native, she has remained in Utah to teach middle and upper school English, History and Creative Writing at The Waterford School. Unwilling to entirely relinquish her east coast citizenship, she lives a double life as an English teacher in Phillips Exeter Academy's summer school program. As a poet, she continues to write much, occasionally showing up in publications such as AfterImage, Prick of the Spindle, and Mantis Review. 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.

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by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

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TIVO the Debate: cityart reading tonight
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

--- On Wed, 10/15/08, kimberly johnson <kimberly.johnson71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > From: kimberly johnson <kimberly.johnson71(a)gmail.com> > Subject: cityart reading tonight > To: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com > Cc: stephen_tuttle(a)byu.edu > Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 9:17 AM > dear joel-- > > thinking about the date tonight, and wrote this in good > humor. feel free to send out to the city art list if you > think it'll help. > > kim > > > > THE GREAT DEBATE > > CityArt reading series > Wednesday, October 15, 7pm > Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch > > Your mind is made up. Your vote is not going to change. > Why subject yourself to the rhetoric of yet another politcal > performance when you can cast a vote for the future of > literary culture? Which genre rules: fiction or poetry? > > Join us as the debate plays out in the work of two writers: > fiction visionary Stephen Tuttle and poetry warrior > Kimberly Johnson. > > Stephen Tuttle joined the faculty of Brigham Young > University in 2006, the same year he completed his PhD in > Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. > He teaches courses in creative writing, fiction writing, and > American literature. As a writer, he focuses on short > fiction, and his stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, Black > Warrior Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The > Colorado Review, and other venues. > > Kimberly Johnson's most recent collection of poetry is > "A Metaphorical God." She also is author of > "Leviathan with a Hook" and translator of an > edition of "Georgics" by the ancient Roman poet > Virgil. She has published poems and essays in The New > Yorker, The Southern Review, Arion, and Studies in Puritan > American Spirituality. She has received a National Endowment > for the Arts Fellowship, Eisner Prize, Barish Prize, and > McKay Prize for Latin Translation. A graduate of the > University of Utah, Johnson has master's degrees from > Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa, and a > doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. She > teaches writing at Brigham Young University.. > > Come and cast your ballot: the future of the arts hangs on > your chad.

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