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Holiday Open Reading for City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

City Art will host its annual holiday open reading on December 20th at 7:00 P,M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. Readers are invited to bring holiday cheer, poems, and prose and read for five minutes to other happy literature lovers. We hope to see you there for this yearly sharing of work and inspiration. 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Ahumada and Royal Heritage at City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Poet Hector Ahumada will read from his poetry along with a performance by musicians/ story tellers Maryam & Jose Bonilla and Royal Heritage on Wednesday, December 13th at 7:00 P,M. at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Hector Ahumada is the recipient of Salt Lake City, Mayor's Literary Award in Literature, 1996. He is the author of Sun and Water Poems/Poemas de Sol y Agua, Lunas' Press, San Francisco, 2003. The Highland Travelers/Los Viajeros del Altiplano, Elik Press, Salt Lake City, 2003. 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

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Metcalf/Coleman at City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Jeff Metcalf and Elizabeth Coleman will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, December 6th. Jeff Metcalf recently retired from teaching Âat riskÂ high school students for the past 30 years. The recipient of the Hunstman Award for Excellence in Education, the National Council for Teachers of English Outstanding teacher Award, the Writers at Work Lifetime Achievement Award and a Fulbright Memorial Scholarship, Metcalf is now an Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah. His play ÂThree Comedians in Purgatory was performed in Nice, France and recently, his play ÂWhere To?Â was performed as part of Cabbies, Cowboys, and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin was performed during the Winter Olympics by the Salt Lake Acting Company. Elik press published the chapbook The Last Steelhead. Elizabeth Coleman is a local writer completing a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Elizabeth works at the SLCC Community Writing Center where she directs the DiverseCity Writing Series. She most enjoys conducting youth writing workshops and has done so for UpNet, KRCL/SpyHop and Writers at Work. Predominantly, Elizabeth writes poetry, prose, and essay. 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. The reading will be followed by an open mic reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

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Cynthia Cruz/ Jennifer Michael Hecht at City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Spread the word! Award winning poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Cynthia Cruz will read from their works Jennifer Michael Hecht at the Salt Lake Public Library on November 15th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Her first poetry book, The Next Ancient World won the Poetry Society of America's 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her most recent poetry book, Funny, won the University of Wisconsin's 2005 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and Publisher's Weekly called it Âone of the most original and entertaining books of the year.Â Her books on history and philosophy include Doubt: A History (HarperCollins, 2003) and The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), which won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Her next book, The Happiness Myth, is coming out with HarperCollins in 2007. Hecht teaches at The New School University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband John, their son, Max and their new baby daughter, Jessie. Cynthia Cruz was born in Germany and raised in Northern California. She holds degrees from Mills College (B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.). Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Boston Review, GRAND STREET, AGNI, Chelsea, Pleiades, the New Orleans Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Black Warrior Review and others, and are anthologized in Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. She is the recipient of several residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York City.? 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Klink and Hibbs @ City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

University of Montana Professor Joanna Klink will read from her work with poet Claire Hibbs at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 8th at 7:00. Joanna KlinkÂs first book, They Are Sleeping, won the Contemporary Poetry Series through the University of Georgia Press and was published in 2000. Her second collection, Circadian, is forthcoming from Penguin in May of 2007. These poems take as their guiding vision circadian clocks, the internal time clocks of organisms that regulate rhythms of sleeping and waking. Affected by the presence and withdrawal of light, these clocks influence, among other things, the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, and the migratory patterns of birds. Klink is also writing a book-length lyric meditation titled You. A hybrid of formsÂprose poem, essay, biography, collageÂYou is at once an introduction to the life and poetry of Paul Celan; an extended reflection on CelanÂs search for a reader; an exploration of the strangeness of poetry in general; and a defense of the obscure or difficult poem in an age in which more straightforward poems tend to be popular. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe WriterÂs Award in 2003, Klink teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Montana. Claire Hibbs Cheff lives outside of Arlee, Montana where she regularly encounters bears, coyotes and cows on the dirt road winding up the canyon to her home. She was educated at Dartmouth College and at the University of Montana, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught in Oakland, California, on the Navajo Nation, and at the University of Montana. She is passionate about giving all children the opportunity to attain an excellent education regardless of economic or cultural background and has worked as a Program Director and Program Design Specialist for Teach for America. She is currently working on her first book of poems 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. The featured reading will be followed by a reception for the authors. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Talk more and pay less. Vonage can save you up to $300 a year on your phone bill. Sign up now. http://www.vonage.com/startsavingnow/

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Osherow and Straughn at City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Joanna Straughn will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library main branch on Wednesday October 18th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poems, Looking for Angels in New York (1988) and Conversations with Survivors (1993) from University of Georgia Press, With a Moon in Transit (1996) and Dead MenÂs Praise (1999) from Grove Press and The HoopoeÂs Crown (2005) from BOA Editions. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well as a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006), Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004), The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Norton, 2001), Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (Norton, 2001), The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (Penguin, 2001), The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature (Norton, 2000) and Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998). She is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Joanna Straughn received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Utah. Her first chapbook, Instinct debuts this Fall 2006 from Bright Hill Press; Treadwell, New York. She has recently completed a juried residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. Originally from a small town in west Texas, she has also lived in New York and Northern California, a village in Germany, and on a farm in Oklahoma. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Asheville Poetry Review, and Meridian among others. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Reminder Fouts and Bond @ City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Diane Fouts and Melissa Bond will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library on October 11th at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch at 7: P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. Diane Fouts has been writing poetry in Utah for approximately 30 years now. Her work reflects perplexing paradoxes, both internal and external, of life in this state (of the union? of mind? of grace!). Recent or soon-to-appear publications include appearances in Cilantro, a web-based literary journal edited by Hector Ahumada, and Writing from the Land, a CD journal from the Entrada Institute. Her poems have also appeared in Glyphs I and II, anthologies of Moab writers--and way back when--in High Country News and a long-defunct little magazine called Silver Vain. She's currently working on a manuscript of 64 tiny poems about daily weather. Melissa Bond published HUSH in 2006, a collection of poems, a short story and a series of collages she put together while sitting hunched and cross-legged on her bedroom floor. In February of this year she spent a month cleaning out houses in New Orleans. From that time came the New Orleans Project, a multi-media presentation that she developed with audiographer Beth Hoffman and photographer Alice McNamara. The New Orleans Project premiered at the Utah Arts Festival and went on to tour the San Francisco Bay Area in July. Bond was given the Mayor's Artist Award for the Literary Arts in 2001 and is currently at work finishing her quirky and long overdue experimental novel, Streamline Jenny. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Bond and Fouts at City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Diane Fouts and Melissa Bond will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library on October 11th at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch at 7: P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. Diane Fouts has been writing poetry in Utah for approximately 30 years now. Her work reflects perplexing paradoxes, both internal and external, of life in this state (of the union? of mind? of grace!). Recent or soon-to-appear publications include appearances in Cilantro, a web-based literary journal edited by Hector Ahumada, and Writing from the Land, a CD journal from the Entrada Institute. Her poems have also appeared in Glyphs I and II, anthologies of Moab writers--and way back when--in High Country News and a long-defunct little magazine called Silver Vain. She's currently working on a manuscript of 64 tiny poems about daily weather. Melissa Bond published HUSH in 2006, a collection of poems, a short story and a series of collages she put together while sitting hunched and cross-legged on her bedroom floor. In February of this year she spent a month cleaning out houses in New Orleans. From that time came the New Orleans Project, a multi-media presentation that she developed with audiographer Beth Hoffman and photographer Alice McNamara. The New Orleans Project premiered at the Utah Arts Festival and went on to tour the San Francisco Bay Area in July. Bond was given the Mayor's Artist Award for the Literary Arts in 2001 and is currently at work finishing her quirky and long overdue experimental novel, Streamline Jenny. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Yale Younger Poet winner @ City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Kimberly Johnson and Yale Prize winner Jay Hopler will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday October 4th at 7:00. Jay HoplerÂs first book, The Killing Spirit, was published in 1996. His first collection of poems, Green Squall, was awarded the 2005 Yale Younger Poets Prize by Louise Gluck. He holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and the Iowa WritersÂ Workshop, and his work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Kimberly Johnson holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the Iowa WritersÂ Workshop, and UC-Berkeley. Her first poetry collection, Leviathan with a Hook, appeared in 2002, and her second has just been completed with the support of an NEA Fellowship. Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker,The Harvard Review, and The Iowa 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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9/11 Poetry with City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

City Art will commemorate the shocking events of 9/11 with poetry about the atrocities of that day and response to the aftermath on September 20th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. The reading will feature readings by Donald Revell, Shira Dentz, Frank McEntire, Christopher Patton, Nathan Hauke, and Joan Coles among others. Christopher PattonÂs book XO is forthcoming from Vehicule Press. Donald Revell is Professor of Englishand is the author of eight collections of poetry including My Mojave and Arcady. Shira Dentz is a PhD candidate in Poetry at the University of Utah. She has poems in the Spring/Summer 2006 Tarpaulin Sky and fiction, "Life as an Abstract," in Big Bridge. Joan Coles has published poetry in Tailwinds, Weber Studies, and City Art Journal. For many years, she has served on the board of Writers@Work where she also received the Advocate Award in 2004. Nathan Hauke is a Ph.D. candidate in poetry at the University of Utah. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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