Poets Michael Sowder and Maria Melndez will read from their work at the Salt
Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, March 21st as part
of the City Art Reading Series.
Maria Melendez has published two collections of poetry: Base Pairs (Swan
Scythe Press, 2001) and How Long She'll Last in This World (University of
Arizona Press, 2006). Her essays and features have appeared in alternative
print venues such as Altar Magazine, Orion Afield, and Isotope, and several of
her essays on arts and activism have been broadcast as part of NPR's American
Democracy Project. She currently serves as Associate Editor for Momotombo
Press, an independent publisher producing works by emerging Latino writers,
and she co-coordinates Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse, a
traveling exhibition of contemporary Latino art and poetry. Her poetry and
fiction have appeared in such magazines as Barrow Street, International
Quarterly, and Ecological Restoration, and she is currently at work on a third
collection of poetry. She received her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from
UC Davis in 2000. From 2000-2003 she was awarded grants from the California
Arts Council in support of her work as writer-in-residence at the U.C. Davis
Arboretum, where she taught environmental writing workshops for the public.
In 2003, Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, appointed her Research
Fellow at the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership. She currently
lives in Logan, Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature
courses at Utah State University.
Michael SowderÂs most recent book of poetry, The Empty Boat, was
chosen by Diane Wakoski to win the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize. Nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize, the book was a finalist for the Utah Book Award, and poems
from it were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. The Emtpy Boat is available from
Truman State UP and Amazon. Click here for Diane Wakoski's comments.
Sowder's study of Walt Whitman's poetry, Whitman's Ecstatic Union:
Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass (NY: Routledge, 2005), examines
Leaves of Grass within the context of the antebellum culture of religious
conversion prevalent in nineteenth-century America, reading the ecstatic
experience of conversion as an event that could produce both believers and
heretics. In this context, Whitman's Ecstatic Union interprets Leaves of
Grass as a rhetorical, sermonic performance designed to convert readers into
Whitman's ideal of a "New American Personality."
He is a professor of English at Utah State University.
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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Connie Voisine will read from her poems and Marv Hamilton with perform his
Singer/songwriter Marv Hamilton learned to perform on March 14th at 7:00 P.M.
at the Salt Lake Public Library for the City Art reading series.
Connie Voisine was born and raised on the northernmost border between
French-Canada and Maine and received degrees from Yale University, University
of California at Irvine and University of Utah. Now she lives on the
southernmost border of Mexico and New Mexico. Her first book, Cathedral of the
North, won the AWP Award in poetry. Her second book, Dangerous for Girls, was
recently completed. The poems in this manuscript have been published in Slate,
Black Warrior Review, The Georgia Review, and other literary magazines. She
teaches poetry writing in the MFA program at NMSU and lives in Mesilla, New
Mexico, with her husband, writer Rus Bradburd.
Marv Hamilton learned to sing in the back seat of a '47 Buick while his
mother, who sang on the radio in the 30's, and father, a natural
whiskey-drinking baritone, harmonized in the front. Marv picked up his first
guitar in 1973 to play along with Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Crosby, Stills,
Nash and Young. He was 24 and a Vietnam vet. In 1988, Marv began to play,
write songs and perform with acoustic trio, "Vuja De". In 2000, Marv released
his debut solo album, "Wing and a Prayer" under his own indie label, "Best Dog
Records". Acoustic blues, ballads, breakup songs and "redrock eco-folk". A
psychotherapist, activist and tree-hugger, Marv is a three-time winner in Salt
Lake's prestigious KRCL/Founder's Title Folk and Bluegrass Performing
Songwriter Showcase. Marv was also a 2001 Kerrville Newfolk Finalist at
Kerrville, Texas. Steve Seskin says, "If you don't feel something when you
listen to Marv, you're probably dead". Susanne Milsaps of Salt Lake's KRCL
91FM and Magpie House Concerts Series chose "Wing and A Prayer" as best local
album of 2000 and says Marv's "the rootsy, earthy, teller of everyman's
story".
Marv's release of his 2d album, The Mind Will Follow, played to a sellout
crowd at the University of Utah in Oct 2006. Of Hamilton, Catalyst magazine
says, "Simply put, he's one hell of a storyteller". Of his new record, the
Salt Lake Tribune says "Hamilton's folk and acoustic blues songs, whether they
be love ballads, political dissections or odes to the mountains where he runs
with his dog, have earned him a reputation as one of Utah's finest
songwriters".
Paul Swensen, in the University of Utah's alumni magazine Continuum, says,
"His songwriting smells of the earth. He has an abiding respect for animals
and wildlife. He writes achingly beautiful love songs"" .
Marv has performed at concerts, coffeehouses, and house concerts, music and
arts festivals, peace rallies, restaurants and celebrations in Utah, Arizona,
Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Massachusetts, and Vancouver, B.C. sharing the stage
with Chuck Pyle, Steve Seskin, Cheryl Wheeler, Dave Alvin, Firefall and other
greats.
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High School writers from across the Salt Lake Valley and beyond will read from
their prose and poetry as part of City ArtÂs High School night at 7:00 P.M. at
the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs Main Branch on Wednesday, March 7th. Come out
and hear the promise of UtahÂs literary future.
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, and
audience donations.
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February 21st at the Salt Lake Public Library, City Art presents "Even Shadows
Pass: Meditations on the End of Time" readings with guitar/guitar with
readings by Andy Hoffmann, Tully Cathey, and Dan Boyer
Andy Hoffmann's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of
national literary journals, and his work has won awards and grants for
fiction and non-fiction from the Utah Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council
of the Arts, and the Associated Writing Programs. He has nonfiction
forthcoming from Salt Flats Review and Big Bridge, and a novella from
Cityful Press. He teaches at the University of Utah and publishes and edits
Elik Press, Salt Lake City.
Tully Cathey is an award winning guitarist, composer and music educator. The
CD Tully Cathey: Solo Guitar was released Summer 2007. As a professional
guitarist, he has performed for the concert stage, theater and dance. He has
composed extensively for KUED, the University of Utah's public television
station, including scores for "AIDS: The Quiet Cost," "The Last Cowboys,"
"Shades of Gray," and many others. His orchestra work "Disposable City" was
performed in Poland and the Ukraine in May, 2003, conducted by Robert
Debbaut. He teaches at the University of Utah.
Dan Boyer graduated from St. Johns College, Sante Fe, sang and plucked
guitar on the streets of Europe before landing a job as a baggage handler.
He is the current poet laureat of the Salt Lake International Airport.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt
Lake Public Library, the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake city Arts Council,
and the Zoo Arts and Parks Fund.
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City Art Presents "Paraside Lost" one of the great love stories of all time,
where courage, innocence and love come face to face with ultimate evil: a tale
of treason, subterfuge, seduction, lies, rape, murder and redemption. A
journey into the mind of John Milton narrated by David Lee, former poet
laureate of Utah, an old guy with a Texas accent.
Who: David Lee, former poet laureate of Utah
What: A Critical Analysis of John Milton's 17th Century epic poem, Paradise
Lost.
When: April 1-6, 2007 (Sunday - Friday evenings, excluding Wednesday)
Where: Unitarian Church, 13th East and 6th South, SLC, UT
How: To register email barbara.m(a)comcast.net or call 801-243-3549
Cost: $35.00 donation suggested
Deadline: March 15th Seating is limited so register early
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Poets Rob Carney and Laura Stott will read from their poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 14th as part
of the City Art Reading Series.
Rob Carney is an Associate Professor of English and Literature at Utah
Valley State College. He received a BA in English from Pacific
Lutheran University, an MFA in Poetry from Eastern Washington
University, and a PhD in English from the University of
Louisiana-Lafayette. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming
from journals such as Mid-American Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly
West, and many others. His collection New Fables, Old Songs won the
2002 Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Award. And his collection
Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts, winner of the 2003 Pinyon Press Poetry Book
Prize, received the Utah Book Award for Poetry in April 2004. He was
2003-04 Utah Arts Council Grant Recipient for Poetry and lives in Salt
Lake City.
Laura Stott resides in Salt Lake City where her recent accomplishments include
a discovering how to get onto the roof of her building. She is an obscure MFA
graduate from Eastern Washington University and currently teaches college
freshman and seniors who saved their English classes for their last semester.
She spends one third of the year in Alaska taking tourists into the
back-country for a living. Laura, her mother, and sister are on the brink of
some poetry and visual art collaborations. Publications include Quarterly
West, Sonora Review, The Laurel Review, Weber Studies, and LitRag.
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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Writers Alex Caldiero and Lynn Kilpatrick will reading from their works at the
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 7th
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Sonosopher, wordshaker, polyartist, and scholar of humanities and intermedia,
Alex Caldiero makes things that sometimes appear as language or pictures or
music,
and then again as the shape of your own mind.
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).
Lynn Kilpatrick earned her PhD in Creative Writing/Fiction from the University
of Utah and an MA in Poetry from Western Washington University. Her fiction,
poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Ninth Letter, Tin House, Denver
Quarterly, Salt Hill, Hawaii Review, Brevity and Spork. In 2005, her story
collection, The Infinite Cages, won First Prize in the Utah Arts Council
Original Writing Competition. She is currently desperately sending out two
short story collections, In The House, and When I Say Idaho. She is also
working, intermittently, on a novel set in Southeast Idaho, where she grew up.
She is the former Vice-President of Writers at Work, and she teaches creative
writing and composition at Salt Lake Community College. She lives in Salt Lake
City with her husband and son.
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 Sue Ranglack and Iris Moulton will reading from their works at the Salt
Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. January 24th as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Sue Ranglack was named 2006 Poet of the Year by the Utah State Poetry Society
(USPS), which will publish her collection Shouting from the Book of Orange.
Ranglack is working on a teaching certificate at the University of Utah. Last
year, Ranglack won a national college student competition sponsored by the
National Federation of State Poetry Societies. In addition, she won the
sweepstakes category at the USPS festival every year since 2001.
Iris Moulton was born and raised in Salt Lake City and has been a writer
longer than she has not. She competed in the National Poetry Slam in St. Louis
in 2004 on the Utah team, has performed at the Utah Arts Festival several
times, and published her first collection of poetry, where the echoes go, with
PUSH! Publications in 2005. She is currently a student of English and
Anthropology at the University of Utah and intends to graduate within the
year.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The reading will be
followed by an open mic reading.
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Lance Larsen and Jaqui Larsen will read from their works at on January 17th at
7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City Art
reading Series.
Lance Larsen, who holds a PhD from University of Houston, has published two
poetry collections, mostly recently IN ALL THEIR ANIMAL BRILLIANCE, which
won the Tampa Review Prize and three other awards. His work has appeared in
PARIS REVIEW, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, KENYON REVIEW, TLS, SOUTHERN REVIEW,
POETYRY DAILY, and elsewhere. He has won several awards, including prizes
from Writers at Work, Sewanee, Pushcart, and most recently a 2007 NEA
fellowship in Poetry. In 2005 he won the Utah Arts Council essay prize. He
teaches at Brigham Young University, where he serves as associate chair.
Jacqui Larsen, a painter and collagist, is originally from Syracuse, New York.
She has exhibited in several national juried shows across the
country, and has received numerous awards, including two Utah Visual Arts
Fellowships. Larsen has an MFA from BYU and has taught at both Northwest
College in Houston and at Brigham Young University . Her work is
represented by David Ericson Fine Art in Salt Lake City. In 2005 her Young
Adult novel, SCRAPOLA, won first place in the Utah Arts Council Creative
Writing Competition. A previous year, her Middle Grade novel SKYE, IN AND
OUT OF TUNE, was awarded an honorable mention.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The reading will be
followed by an open mic reading.
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Writers Cara Diaconoff and Derek Henderson will read from their works on
January 10th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of
the City Art reading Series.
Cara Diaconoff's story collection, Unmarriageable Daughters, is forthcoming
from Lewis-Clark Press in late 2006. She has published individual stories in
Indiana Review, Other Voices, South Dakota Review, and descant and has also
completed a novel, A Stranger to You, which is seeking a publisher. She is
currently writing a second novel, a work of historical fiction about an
American who spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. Diaconoff has
taught writing and literature as a lecturer at Texas Christian University and
as a Peace Corps volunteer at colleges in Russia. Currently, she is enrolled
in the Ph.D. program in English and creative writing at University of Utah.
Derek Henderson has lived in Salt Lake City with his wife and three (sometimes
four children) for almost four years. They are still daily fascinated by the
sight of mountains from their patio. His poems have been published or are soon
to be published in Fence, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, and GoodFoot, and
online with DIAGRAM, Word for/Word, GutCult and ActionYes. He has somewhere
around five or six manuscripts that he'd love people to see. At the moment,
his favorite quote is from George Oppen: "Yet I am one of those who from
nothing but man's way of thought and one of his dialects and what has happened
to me / Have made poetry."
City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The reading will be
followed by an open mic reading.
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