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Re: Bill's memorial
by CityArt＠thelibrary 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

City Art Joel Long On Friday, November 20, 2020, 11:05:42 AM MST, Joel Long <joelthomaslong57(a)gmail.com> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Katharine Coles <katharine.coles(a)utah.edu> Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:15 AM Subject: Re: Bill's memorial To: Joel Long <joelthomaslong57(a)gmail.com> Thanks again— Dear Friends, Family, and Colleagues, Many of you will be aware that Bill Coles passed away on February 16 of this year. An in-person memorial continues to be impractical under current conditions. Accordingly, please join us for a celebration online of Bill’s life on Saturday, December 5th, at 4 pm. We are assembling a short program with a small number of formal speakers. Following those remarks, we will open the event to toasts, reminiscences, and thoughts of Bill from all assembled. The Zoom Meeting ID is 93276804903 (https://utah.zoom.us/j/93276804903) Again the time is 4 pm, Saturday, December 5. Please forward this information to any and all who knew Bill and would have an interest. For correspondence about the event, please use billcolesmemorial(a)gmail.com. Please see https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=william-j… for Bill’s obituary. If you have 14 spare minutes, the following is a link to Bill reading “Country Music,” one of the short stories he wrote in retirement (https://youtu.be/IrzUwus1XS4) Sincerely, The Coles Family Billcolesmemorial(a)gmail.com

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Go Learn At-Home Speaker Series: The Stranger I Become: essays in reckless poetics
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

University of Utah College of HumanitiesYrfertsftmeSiprfmdmgdayf aeeaont 1cg1:55 eisSsnoreAdeM · Thursday | November 19 | 12 pm MTGo Learn At-Home Speaker Series: The Stranger I Become: essays in reckless poeticsKatharine Coles will read and answer questions on essays from her forthcoming collection, The Stranger I Become: essays in reckless poetics. The goal of the essays is to represent poetic process (in reading, in writing, in thinking) as active within the context of an ordinary life lived in and through poetry, which becomes a kind of perceptual lens through which she experiences the world, as well as the vehicle through which she processes her experiences. Populated not only with poems but also with friends, relatives, and various creatures wild and domestic, the essays move through Coles’ house and yard, her neighborhood, and through other cities domestic and foreign, which, alongside the poems that inhabit her, make up the fabric of her experience. Katharine Coles has published seven collections of poems, most recently Wayward (Red Hen Press, 2019). Her memoir, Look Both Ways, was released in 2018 by Turtle Point Press, which will also publish The Stranger I Become: essays in reckless poetics in 2021 and Solve for X, a new collection of poems. She has received awards from the NEA, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah.Register here: https://bit.ly/2HZHsQa#UofU #UniversityofUtah | | | | Log into Facebook | Facebook Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. | | | Joel Long

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City Art Virtual Reading Series: New Readings by Paisley Rekdal, Aimee Parkison, Nathan Hauke and more
by CityArt＠thelibrary 22 Apr '20

22 Apr '20

City Art Virtual Reading Series continues! Please like the series on Facebook and subscribe to the City Art Channel on Youtube. City Art is a reading series in Salt Lake City that is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. With the Pandemic, we are moving online to create the City Art Virtual Reading Series to keep people safe and feed their hunger for language and the human story. Current readings on the City Art SLC Facebook page and the City Art Virtual Reading Series on Youtube include , Paisley Rekdal, Kimberly Johnson, Lisa Fay Coutley, Nathan Hauke, Katharine Coles, Lance Olsen, Marty Williams, Trish Hopkinson, and David Baker, among others. Readings keep coming, so check back in both places to see these and the new readings! City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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No Reading this week, but March 18th Poets Alice Friman and Heidi Hart to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poets Alice Friman and Heidi Hart to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 18th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Alice Friman and Heidi Hart will read from their works on Wednesday March 18th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. ALICE FRIMAN'S seventh collection of poetry is Blood Weather, forthcoming from LSU in the fall of 2019. New work appears in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, Gettysburg Review, and Plume. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize and included in Best American Poetry, she is professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis and now lives in Milledgeville, GA, where she was poet-in-residence at Georgia College. Heidi Hart teaches German and English courses at Weber State University. She is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in German Studies from Duke University (2016). Heidi has received an ACLS-Mellon Fellowship, a Freie Universität Exchange Fellowship in Berlin, and a Planetary Thinking curriculum-development grant at Utah State University, where she completed a postdoc and received the Sustainability Educator Award in 2018. She has directed study abroad programs in Germany and Scandinavia and has coordinated the Anthropocene Working Group at Utah State, co-organizing an interdisciplinary conference in 2019. Her research combines politically inflected music, literature, and film, with a growing focus on environmental media. She has two recently released monographs, one on Hanns Eisler's activist art songs and another on music in climate-crisis narrative. Heidi is currently writing on planetary listening and coordinates the Ecopoetic Salon, a curatorial platform for artists and researchers in the environmental humanities. City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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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Ravi Shankar and Brad L. Roghaar at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poets Ravi Shankar and Brad L. Roghaar to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 4th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Ravi Shankar and Brad L. Roghaar will read from their works on Wednesday March 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Ravi Shankar is the author, editor, translator or publisher of over 15 books, including "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" called a "an admirable volume" by Claudia Rankine in The New York Times, W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East and Beyond", called "a beautiful achievement for world poetry" by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and most recently, "The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems," called the work of "one of America's finest younger poets" by the late Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen. Founding editor of Drunken Boat and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, he has taught around the world, including at Columbia University, City University of Hong Kong and Fairfield University, and appeared on NPR, BBC, PBS and in such publications as the Paris Review, Financial Times, Chronicle of Higher Education and Caravan. He currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney and is investigating the legacy of Puritanism on shaping the American criminal justice system. Brad L. Roghaar is Faculty Emeritus at Weber State University where he taught literature and creative writing for over 30 years. He is former Editor of Weber Studies: voices and viewpoints of the contemporary west. He currently serves as Ogden, Utah’s first Poet Laureate. Roghaar’s poetry has appeared in many journals and magazines. His first book, Unraveling the Knot: Poems of Connection, won the Pearle M. Olsen award, and he was named Utah Poet of the Year. His latest manuscript, A Simple Stand of Aspen Trees, is a collection of poems dealing with places of retrieval. Brad recently returned from China where he was invited to read his poems as part of the 2016 International Scholars Forum at Shanghai Normal University.Avid travelers and backpackers, Brad and his wife, Sharon, have travelled and trekked in over 38 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle-East, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Nepal. Brad and Sharon live in their hometown, Ogden, Utah, where Brad continues pursuing his passions for writing, travelling, backpacking, and skiing. City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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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Poets Kim Welliver and Lisa Roullard to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poets Kim Welliver and Lisa Roullard to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 19th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Kim Welliver and Lisa Roullard will read from their works on Wednesday February 19th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Kim Welliver lives in Utah, where her day job is as a para educator for special needs children. Night a and weekends find Her stealing bits of time to write. Much of Her work explores, and often rewrites, fairytales, and history, with an eye towards loosing the bonds of the girls/women corsetted by gendered roles. Her poetry has won awards, including first place for her, collection of poems Thriving. She has been published in print and online publications, including Rock & Sling, Mid-american Review, Night Picnic, Sidereal, Healing Muse, Corvid Queen, Palette, Duende, Fairy Tale Review, Rust and Moth, and others. Born and raised in Seattle, Lisa Roullard holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in various magazines as well as on busses in Boise, Idaho, as part of Poetry in Motion. In 2013 she won the Utah Original Writing Competition for poetry. Her chapbook, An Envelope Waiting, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Lisa enjoys baking, hiking, and traveling, and for the past several years has been trying her hand at writing children’s picture books. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her family where as often as possible she walks in the rain. City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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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Poets Brenda Sieczkowski and Derek Henderson to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poets Brenda Sieczkowski and Derek Henderson to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Brenda Sieczkowski and Derek Henderson will read from their works on Wednesday February 12th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Derek Henderson teaches English, P.E., Creative Writing, Henry David Thoreau, “Culture” in the 21st Century, “Digital Business Applications” (whatever the hell that is), at the Walden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. He is the author of two books of poetry and is co-author (with Derek Pollard) of *Inconsequentia.* His work has been anthologized in *Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature* and *They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing*. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, son, and various pets, and misses his six other children, who have diaspora’d themselves across the state and country. Brenda Sieczkowski is an Assistant Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College. Her poems and award-winning creative essays have appeared widely in print and on-line journals, including The Colorado Review, The New England Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Diagram, The Florida Review, Bone Bouquet, The Seneca Review, Western Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Sidebrow, and Subtropics among others. She has published two chapbooks, Wonder Girl in Monster Land (dancing girl press) and Fallout & Flotation Devices (Little Red Leaves Textile Series). Like Oysters Observing the Sun, her full-length poetry collection, was published by Black Lawrence Press. City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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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David Kranes and Jeff Metcalf to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com DavidKranes and Jeff Metcalf to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Fiction writers David Kranes and JeffMetcalf will read from their works on Wednesday February 5th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. David Kranes is a writer of seven novels andthree volumes of short stories—most recently, (novel) Making The Ghost Dance (2005) and (stories) The Legend’s Daughter (2013). His 2001 novel, The National Tree,was made into a film by Hallmark, which aired in November 2009. His short fiction (appearing in suchmagazines as Esquire, Ploughshares,Transatlantic Review) has won literary prizes and has beenanthologized. Over 40 of his plays havebeen performed in New York and across the U.S. (in theaters such as The Actors’Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club,Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park), and his Selected Plays was published in 2010. His most recent theater venture wascontributing a play to an evening (with the prompt of “bravery”) of six shortplays—3 by American playwrights, 3 by Iraqi playwrights. He has written for radio, film and for dancecompanies. The opera, Orpheus Lex, for which he wrote thelibretto, was performed at New York City’s Symphony Space in February of2010. In his second (or is it third?)life, Mr. Kranes, travels and consults in the casino industry. Jeff Metcalf is the author of Wacko’sCity of Fun Carnival, Requiem for the Living, and the play A SlightDiscomfort. He is an award-winning writerand teacher, as well as the director of a nonprofit aimed to grant underservedpopulations access to higher education. Metcalf lives in Salt Lake City, Utahwhere he teaches literature and playwriting in the English Department and inthe Honors College at the University of Utah. A recipient of the 2016Taft-Nicholson Artist-in-Residence Award, 2014 Distinguished Teacher AwardUniversity of Utah, the 53rd Utah Arts Council Award for Creative non-fiction(Requiem for the Living, University of Utah Press), the 2008 Career TeachingAward from the University of Utah, the Huntsman Award for Excellence inEducation, a Fulbright Memorial Scholar Award, the National Council of EnglishTeachers Award, the Lifetime Advocacy Award from Writers @ Work, grants fromboth the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Arts Council and numerous otherteaching awards. His most recent work, Hope, Heart and the Humanities, acollaboration with four other professors, will be released in November by theUniversity of Utah Press. Metcalf’s play, A SlightDiscomfort, about his own prostate cancer, has been continuously performedsince its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in October of 2008. ‘ASlight Discomfort’ has been broadcast on National Public Radio, Radio West, andperformed in Croatia, Spain, Italy, Turkey and in fifteen states. He is hard atwork on a series of fly-fishing essays as well as a book on social justice ineducation. When he is not writing, Metcalf can be found fly-fishing the greattrout waters of the West. City Artis sponsored by the Utah 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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David Kranes and Jeff Metcalf to read at City Art, Feb. 5th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com DavidKranes and Jeff Metcalf to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Fiction writers David Kranes and JeffMetcalf will read from their works on Wednesday February 5th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. David Kranes is a writer of seven novels andthree volumes of short stories—most recently, (novel) Making The Ghost Dance (2005) and (stories) The Legend’s Daughter (2013). His 2001 novel, The National Tree,was made into a film by Hallmark, which aired in November 2009. His short fiction (appearing in suchmagazines as Esquire, Ploughshares,Transatlantic Review) has won literary prizes and has beenanthologized. Over 40 of his plays havebeen performed in New York and across the U.S. (in theaters such as The Actors’Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club,Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park), and his Selected Plays was published in 2010. His most recent theater venture wascontributing a play to an evening (with the prompt of “bravery”) of six shortplays—3 by American playwrights, 3 by Iraqi playwrights. He has written for radio, film and for dancecompanies. The opera, Orpheus Lex, for which he wrote thelibretto, was performed at New York City’s Symphony Space in February of2010. In his second (or is it third?)life, Mr. Kranes, travels and consults in the casino industry. Jeff Metcalf is the author of Wacko’sCity of Fun Carnival, Requiem for the Living, and the play A SlightDiscomfort. He is an award-winning writerand teacher, as well as the director of a nonprofit aimed to grant underservedpopulations access to higher education. Metcalf lives in Salt Lake City, Utahwhere he teaches literature and playwriting in the English Department and inthe Honors College at the University of Utah. A recipient of the 2016Taft-Nicholson Artist-in-Residence Award, 2014 Distinguished Teacher AwardUniversity of Utah, the 53rd Utah Arts Council Award for Creative non-fiction(Requiem for the Living, University of Utah Press), the 2008 Career TeachingAward from the University of Utah, the Huntsman Award for Excellence inEducation, a Fulbright Memorial Scholar Award, the National Council of EnglishTeachers Award, the Lifetime Advocacy Award from Writers @ Work, grants fromboth the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Arts Council and numerous otherteaching awards. His most recent work, Hope, Heart and the Humanities, acollaboration with four other professors, will be released in November by theUniversity of Utah Press. Metcalf’s play, A SlightDiscomfort, about his own prostate cancer, has been continuously performedsince its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in October of 2008. ‘ASlight Discomfort’ has been broadcast on National Public Radio, Radio West, andperformed in Croatia, Spain, Italy, Turkey and in fifteen states. He is hard atwork on a series of fly-fishing essays as well as a book on social justice ineducation. When he is not writing, Metcalf can be found fly-fishing the greattrout waters of the West. City Artis sponsored by the Utah 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.

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Paul Ketzle and C. Derick Varn to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Paul Ketzle and C. DerickVarn to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 22nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Paul Ketzle and C. Derick Varn will read from theirworks on Wednesday, January 22nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities CouncilBook Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Paul Ketzle is the author of The Late Matthew Brown, TheLate Matthew Brown is a satire of race and bureaucracy and the struggle tobuild meaningful relationships while living within two worlds at once, the OldSouth and the New. The novel won firstprize in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Prize for the Novel. He received his doctorate in literature andcreative writing from the University of Utah and a master’s in creative writingfrom Florida State University. Formerly an editor of Quarterly West and at WesternHumanities Review, he currently teaches in the Honors College at the Universityof Utah and resides in Salt Lake City with his wife, Marcia, and two incredible(and wonderfully challenging) daughters. C. Derick Varn is a poet and teacher now living in SouthSalt Lake. He works for Zero Books as a reader of theory and nonfiction and wasa poetry reviewer for the Hong Kong Review of Books. He serves as a podcastco-host and co-producer for Pop the Left. He co-founded and edits the onlineliterary journal, Former People. Derick has spent most of the last decadeabroad: first in South Korea, then in Northern Mexico, and Egypt. He currentlyteaches at West Jordan High School and has a collection, Apocalyptics, out fromUnlikely Books Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, theSalt 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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