Poet and activist E. Ethelbert Miller will read from his works on Thursday,
November 29th at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He is the board chairperson of
the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He is a board member of The Writer's
Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine. Since 1974, he has been the director
of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. Mr. Miller is
the former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. and a former
core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars at ?Bennington He is
the author of the following books: Andromeda (1974)??The Land of Smiles and
the Land of No Smiles (1974)??Migrant Worker (1978)??Season of Hunger/Cry of
Rain (1982)??Where are the Love Poems for Dictators? (1986, reprinted in
2001)??First Light (1994) Whispers and Secrets, Fathering Words the Making of
An African American Writer, Buddha Weeping in Winter, How we Sleep on the
Nights We DonÂt Make Love.
He is the editor of the anthologies Synergy: An Anthology of Washington D. C.
, Women Surviving Massacres and Men (1977)?In Search of Color Everywhere
(1994)? and Beyond the Frontier (2002)?
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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Award winning poet Gregory Orr will read for the City Art Reading Series on
November 14th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City LibraryÂs Main Branch.
GREGORY ORR is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent of
which is Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon
Press, 2005). A tenth collection, How Beautiful the Beloved, will appear from
Copper Canyon Press in spring of 2009. Among his earlier volumes of poetry
are: The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (2002), Orpheus and Eurydice
(2001), City of Salt (Finalist, LA Times Poetry Prize), We Must Make a Kingdom
of It, The Red House, Gathering the Bones Together, and Burning the Empty
Nests.
He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two poetry fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003, he was presented with the Award
in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In addition, he has
also been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and
Violence.
He is also the author of a memoir, The Blessing (Council Oak Books, 2002),
which was chosen by PublisherÂs Weekly as one of the fifty best non-fiction
books of 2002.
His recent book, Poetry as Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002) an
extended meditation on the dynamics and function of the personal lyric, was
characterized by Adrienne Rich as Âa wise and passionate book. Earlier prose
collections include Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems
(University of Michigan Poets on Poetry), and Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction
to the Poetry (Columbia University Press). His personal essay was broadcast on
National Public RadioÂs ÂThis I Believe series in 2006 and included in the
anthology, This I Believe (Holt, Rinehart, 2007).
He is a Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he has
taught since 1975 and was the founder and first director of its MFA Program in
Writing. He served from 1978 to 2003 as Poetry Editor of the Virginia
Quarterly Review. He lives with his wife, a painter, and his two daughters in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
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.
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
The following brief Âessay was broadcast on National Public Radio the week of
February 20, 2006 on ÂMorning Edition or ÂAll Things Considered as part of
their ongoing ÂThis I Believe series (see their website after February 20 for
more details about the program, which is based on an Edward R. Murrow program
from the 1950s and has become the mot popular weekly broadcast on NPR).:
THIS I BELIEVE
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual
confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.
When I was twelve years old, I was responsible for the death of a younger
brother in a hunting accident. I held the rifle that killed him. In a single
moment, my world changed forever. I felt grief, terror, shame, and despair
more deeply than I could ever have imagined. In the aftermath, no one in my
shattered family could speak to me about my brotherÂs death, and their silence
left me alone with all my agonizing emotions. And under those emotions,
something even more terrible: a knowledge that all the easy meanings I had
lived by until then had been suddenly and utterly abolished.
Other traumatic events followed: When I was fourteen, my mother died
overnight and with no warning. When I was eighteen and a civil rights
volunteer in the Deep South, I was kidnapped by armed vigilantes and held in
solitary confinement for a week that seemed to stretch forever and that left
me confused, frightened, and disillusioned.
One consequence of traumatic violence is that it isolates its victims. It can
cut them off from other people, and it can also cut them off from their own
emotional lives until they go numb and move through the world as if only half
alive. As a young person, I found something to set against my growing sense of
isolation and numbness: the making of poems.
When I write a poem I process experience, I take whatÂs inside me the raw,
chaotic material of feeling or memoryÂand translate it into words and then
shape those words into the rhythmical language we call a poem. This process
brings me a kind of wild joy: before I was powerless and passive in the face
of my confusion, but now I am active: the powerful shaper of my experienceÂI
am transforming it into a lucid meaning.
Because poems are meanings. And even the saddest poem I write is proof that I
want to survive and therefore it represents an affirmation of life in all its
complexities and contradictions.
But I believe an additional miracle awaits me as the maker of poems, a miracle
that moves both poet and audience beyond survival and toward healing. Whenever
I read a poem that moves me, I know IÂm not alone in the world. I feel a
connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through
something similar to what IÂve experienced, or felt something like what I have
felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they
survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into
words and shape it into meaning and then to bring it toward me to share. And I
believe the gift of their poem enters deeply into me and helps me live.
Gregory Orr
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Poets Heidi Hart and Tim Erickson will read from their work for the City Art
Reading Series on November 7h at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City LibraryÂs
Main Branch.
Heidi Hart received her MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is the author of the memoir Grace Notes: The Waking of a WomanÂs Voice
(University of Utah Press, 2004), a finalist for the Utah Book Award. Her
most recent book, the poetry collection Edge by Edge, appeared in 2007 through
the Toadlily Press Quartet Series. Other poems and essays have appeared in
Northern Lights, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Lumina, Ellipsis,
Pilgrimage, Irreantum, Monkscript, The Salt Flats Annual, The Cortland Review,
and Dialogue.
Hart is the recipient of a 2007 Utah Arts Council Individual Artist grant to
pursue a book-length essay project on intersections of art and violence. She
has worked as a poet-in-residence in public schools and correctional
facilities, and she teaches courses such as Spiritual Autobiography and Art of
the Essay through the University of UtahÂs Lifelong Learning program. A
musician as well as a writer, Heidi has a private voice studio in Salt Lake
City and is in training to provide harp and vocal music for the dying.
Tim Erickson earned his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence University. He
helped run the Speak Easy Poetry Series in New York City before returning to
Salt Lake City to go to graduate school in Education at Westminster College.
His poems recently appeared in Quarterly West.
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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Poets Heidi Hart and Tim Erickson will read from their work for the City Art
Reading Series on November 7h at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City LibraryÂs
Main Branch.
Heidi Hart received her MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is the author of the memoir Grace Notes: The Waking of a WomanÂs Voice
(University of Utah Press, 2004), a finalist for the Utah Book Award. Her
most recent book, the poetry collection Edge by Edge, appeared in 2007 through
the Toadlily Press Quartet Series. Other poems and essays have appeared in
Northern Lights, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Lumina, Ellipsis,
Pilgrimage, Irreantum, Monkscript, The Salt Flats Annual, The Cortland Review,
and Dialogue.
Hart is the recipient of a 2007 Utah Arts Council Individual Artist grant to
pursue a book-length essay project on intersections of art and violence. She
has worked as a poet-in-residence in public schools and correctional
facilities, and she teaches courses such as Spiritual Autobiography and Art of
the Essay through the University of UtahÂs Lifelong Learning program. A
musician as well as a writer, Heidi has a private voice studio in Salt Lake
City and is in training to provide harp and vocal music for the dying.
Tim Erickson earned his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence University. He
helped run the Speak Easy Poetry Series in New York City before returning to
Salt Lake City to go to graduate school in Education at Westminster College.
His poems recently appeared in Quarterly West.
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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The reading IS Thursday.
Award-winning poet Molly Peacock will read from her poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 18 as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five
books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and
Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To
Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece
(both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor
of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public
World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from
the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton)
PeacockÂs latest project is a one-woman staged monologue in poems, ÂThe
Shimmering Verge, produced by Femme Fatale Productions, which she is
performing in theatres throughout North America.
She conducts quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public RadioÂs Here On
Earth with Jean Feraca, and has read her poetry at the Library of Congress,
the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and Harbourfront (Toronto)
as well as at numerous colleges, universities, and libraries. Currently she is
interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the
College Boards and Advanced Placement English.
A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives with her husband, a James Joyce
scholar, in Toronto. Born in Buffalo, New York, she received a B.A. magna cum
laude from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) and an M.A. with honors from The
Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council
on the Arts Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best
American Poetry.
Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets Corner (Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine, New York City) and former President of the Poetry Society
of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and
buses throughout North America. Currently she is on the faculty of the
Spalding University low residency Master of Fine Arts Program. She works with
poets and writers throughout North America privately one-to-one.
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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The reading IS Thursday.
Award-winning poet Molly Peacock will read from her poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 18 as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five
books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and
Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To
Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece
(both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor
of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public
World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from
the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton)
PeacockÂs latest project is a one-woman staged monologue in poems, ÂThe
Shimmering Verge, produced by Femme Fatale Productions, which she is
performing in theatres throughout North America.
She conducts quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public RadioÂs Here On
Earth with Jean Feraca, and has read her poetry at the Library of Congress,
the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and Harbourfront (Toronto)
as well as at numerous colleges, universities, and libraries. Currently she is
interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the
College Boards and Advanced Placement English.
A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives with her husband, a James Joyce
scholar, in Toronto. Born in Buffalo, New York, she received a B.A. magna cum
laude from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) and an M.A. with honors from The
Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council
on the Arts Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best
American Poetry.
Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets Corner (Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine, New York City) and former President of the Poetry Society
of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and
buses throughout North America. Currently she is on the faculty of the
Spalding University low residency Master of Fine Arts Program. She works with
poets and writers throughout North America privately one-to-one.
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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Award-winning poet Molly Peacock will read from her poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 18 as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five
books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and
Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To
Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece
(both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor
of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public
World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from
the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton)
PeacockÂs latest project is a one-woman staged monologue in poems, ÂThe
Shimmering Verge, produced by Femme Fatale Productions, which she is
performing in theatres throughout North America.
She conducts quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public RadioÂs Here On
Earth with Jean Feraca, and has read her poetry at the Library of Congress,
the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and Harbourfront (Toronto)
as well as at numerous colleges, universities, and libraries. Currently she is
interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the
College Boards and Advanced Placement English.
A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives with her husband, a James Joyce
scholar, in Toronto. Born in Buffalo, New York, she received a B.A. magna cum
laude from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) and an M.A. with honors from The
Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council
on the Arts Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best
American Poetry.
Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets Corner (Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine, New York City) and former President of the Poetry Society
of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and
buses throughout North America. Currently she is on the faculty of the
Spalding University low residency Master of Fine Arts Program. She works with
poets and writers throughout North America privately one-to-one.
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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Writer Poets Michael McLane and Michael Lavers will read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, October
10 as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Michael McLane hails from Salt Lake City. In 2002, he graduated from the
University of Utah with a B.A. in English and a B.A. in Anthropology. He was
a member of the board for City Art in Salt Lake and served as co-president
from 2003-2005. From 1999 to 2004 he served on the board of Writers @ Work
including chairing the Young Writers @ Work Conference from 2002-2004. From
2000-2004 he served as an adjunct faculty member for the Sawtooth Writers
Conference in Stanley, Idaho a conference geared toward at-risk youth. He was
co-founder with poet Chris Leibow of Cabaret Voltage, a collaborative showcase
of poets, musicians, and visual artists which takes place twice a month at The
Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Interim, Colorado Review, Arsenic Lobster, The Salt Flats Annual and The City
Art Journal. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at
Colorado State University.
Michael Lavers is from Edmonton Alberta, Canada and is a Senior at Brigham
Young University in Provo, Utah. He is the winner of the 2007 Vera Hinckley
Mayhew Poetry Contest at BYU. Michael is pursuing a double major in English
and Russian, and after graduation plans to pursue an MFA degree in creative
writing. His first published poem is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry.
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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Writer Dawn Marano and poet Nathan Hauke will reading from their works at the
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, October 3rd
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Dawn Marano served for several years as an editor at the University of Utah
Press. She is a co-author (with W. Scott Olsen, Wendy Bishop, and Douglas
Carlson) of When We Say We're Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, a work of
literary nonfiction, and of a recently completed memoir, Trusting the Edge
which won first place in the nonfiction book category of the 2005 Utah Arts
Council Original Writing Competition. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared
in several publications including Ascent and Terra Nova, and in the
anthologies The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World
(University of Utah 1996), and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal from W.
W. Norton & Company. Her work has been also cited among Notable Essays in The
Best American Essays. Her
Dawn frequently makes appearances and teaches at regional writing conferences
and through Lifelong Learning at the University of Utah. She regularly attends
other national gatherings, as well, such as The Associated Writing Programs
annual conference. Her extensive network of professional associations includes
other editors, publishers, literary agents, and nationally recognized authors.
Dawn Marano has been described by authors with whom she has worked as a
"writer's editor." Since she writes and publishes as well as edits, she brings
to authors and their manuscripts an insight born of years spent sitting at a
keyboard, wrestling with thoughts and with drafts and their revision.
Dawn is a co-author (with W. Scott Olsen, Wendy Bishop, and Douglas Carlson)
of When We Say We're Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, a work of literary
nonfiction, and of a recently completed memoir, Trusting the Edge which won
first place in the nonfiction book category of the 2005 Utah Arts Council
Original Writing Competition. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in
several publications including Ascent and Terra Nova, and in the anthologies
The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World (University of
Utah 1996), and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal from W. W. Norton &
Company. Her work has been also cited among Notable Essays in The Best
American Essays. Dawn frequently makes appearances and teaches at regional
writing conferences and through Lifelong Learning at the University of Utah.
Nathan Hauke lives in Salt Lake City where he is happily enrolled in the PhD
poetry program at the University of Utah. He has an MA in creative writing
from Central Michigan University (2004). His poetry has been published in New
American Writing, XANTIPPE, Parthenon West, Colorado Review, Twenty Six,
Electronic Poetry Review, Free Verse, Word For / Word, Gutcult, and the tiny.
His prose has appeared in Interim, Electronic Poetry Review, and Jacket.
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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Poets Alex Caldiero and John Talbot will reading from their works at the Salt
Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, September 12 as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
John Talbot is the author of _The Well-Tempered Tantrum_, a volume of poems,
and has published in such journals as The Yale Review, Poetry, The Iowa
Review, The Formalist, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, Quarterly
West, The Southwest Review, and many others both in the US and Britain. His
verse translations of the Greek poet Theocritus will appear in a forthcoming
Norton anthology of Greek poetry. He holds a PhD in ancient Greek and Latin
from Boston University, and is the author of many articles on the
relationship of ancient languages to modern literature.
Caldiero is on the Philosophy/Humanities faculty at Utah Valley State College
where he is Artist in Residence. He is the author of numerous publications,
CDs, and videos, including Various Atmospheres: poems and drawings (Signature
Books); Sphota Probe (CD), Ah Bh Gh (artist book), U Latti Di La Matri/The
Milk of the Mother (bi-lingual Sicilian poems, CSSSS, Catania), From Stone to
Star (Incurve Press), Or: Book O= Lights (artist book), Toy Blood (limited ed.
self-published), Words: Exterior/Interior (video, produced by Steve Olpin),
Illegible Tattoos (artist book),and recently, Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press).
Caldiero is anthologized in Text-Sound Texts (Richard Kostelanetz, ed.,
Morrow, NY), and featured in the Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge,
London/NY) and Utah: State of the Arts (Trudy McMurrin, ed., Meridian
International, Ogden, UT).
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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