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, 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.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.
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Maureen Clark
Lisa Bickmore
City Art is proud to present its 2006 Meltdown on September 6th at 7:00 P,M.
at the Salt Lake Public Library. Some of UtahÂs best writers will read from
their works including the following:
Klancy de Nevers
Kimberly Johnson
Joel Long
Rebecca Lindenberg
Lynn Kilpatrick
Natasha Saje
Paisley Rekdal
Melanie Rae Thon
Jennifer Tonge
Jacqueline Osherow
Lance Larsen
Katharine Coles
Karen Brennan
Jeff Metcalf
The event is free and open to the public.
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Meltdown 06
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15 Aug '06
15 Aug '06
City Art 2006
Meltdown Ballot
Please vote for up to ten readers whom youÂd like to see perform for the
Meltdown this year on September 6th. You may write-in a reader if they are
someone who has been associated with City Art in the past. Please title your
e-mail ÂMeltdown 06Â. Instructions for subscribing to the e-mail list for
City Art follows the ballot. Forward this info to anyone who would benefit.
We will tabulate votes on August 19th and 20th.
Thanks, and Happy voting.
Joel Long, City Art
Meltdown Ballot
___Ahumada, Hector
___Ames, Chris
___Anderson, Sandy
___Arnold, Craig
___Balluck, Pam
___Barber, Phyllis
___Barnes, Jim
___Batt, Matt
___Berenson, Malcolm
___Bickmore, Lisa
___Bond, Melissa
___Brennan, Karen
___Caldiero, Alex
___Camoin, Francois
___Candland, Lara
___Carney, Rob
___Chapman, Jeff
___Clark, Maureen
___Coles, Bill
___Coles, Joan
___Coles, Katherine
___Connor, Jackson
___Coulbrooke, Star
___DeNevers, Klancy
___Eberth, Bob
___Fisher, Franklin
___Fouts, Diane
___Fuller, Miles
___Gills, Michael
___Goslee, Susan
___Hallstrom, Rich
___Hamblin, Laura
___Hart, Heidi
___Helms, Craig
___Hemley, Robin
___Hoffman, Andy
___Howard, Jean
___Jacques Sides, Dana
___Johnson, Kimberly
___Johnson, Wayne
___Ketzle, Paul
___Kilpatrick, Lynn
___Kocks, Dorothee
___Kranes, David
___Kubarycz, Brian
___Larsen, Lance
___Leibow, Chris
___Lindenberg, Rebecca
___Lisalata, Lisa
___Lison, Kathe
___Long, Joel
___McDonough, Roger
___McLane, Michael
___Metcalf, Jeff
___Minich, Jan
___Murdoch, Barbara
___Murphy, Miriam
___ Stansbury, Nicole
___Olivera, Felicia
___Olsen, Tara
___Osherow, Jacqueline
___Paegle, Julie
___Pecor, Amanda
___Place, Myke
___Ranschau, Beth
___Rasmussen, Pax
___Rekdal, Paisley
___Revell, Donald
___Saje, Natasha
___Sample, Susan
___Severy, Richard
___Scofield, Wendy
___Sinor, Jennifer
___Sowder, Michael
___Subach, Karen
___Swenson, Paul
___Tackacs, Nancy
___Torti, Sylvia
___Thon, Melanie Rae
___Tonge, Jennifer
___Walker, Nicole
___Wiggins, Lyle
___Yates, Jennifer
Other:
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list to find out about readings for this year. You may already be receiving
the mailings for the City Art Mailer, if not, please take a moment to put
yourself on the list so you can find out about all of our readings. Pass this
information to others. I will send all e-mails through this system this year.
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Go out and support Utah slam at some of these events.
>
> Complete Schedule for "Mayhem in the Mountains"
>
> Friday evening July 21st:
>
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> Boise vs. Salt City Slam, 7:30 pm @ Uprock, 342 South State St., SLC --
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>
> Saturday day July 22:
>
> BBQ at Liberty Park, 12:30 pm, vegan, vegetarian, and carnivorous delicacies
>
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> Saturday evening July 22:
>
> Palo Alto vs. Salt City Slam, 7:30 pm @ The Bridge, 511 South 200 West, SLC
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> Boise vs. Provo, 7:30 pm @ Cup of Joe
>
> $100 cash prize for victors of each bout
>
> Sunday day July 23:
>
> Sore Loser's Slam at Liberty Park, 11:00 a.m the two lowest scoring teams
> battle for copies of Taylor Mali's "How to Win a Poetry Slam" and both teams
>
> get a couple bucks for gas money and some binkies.
>
> Sunday afternoon July 23:
>
> top two scoring teams (scores are cumulative) battle it out in a ten-round
> final bout, event starts at 2:00 pm @ Sam Weller's Books, 254 S Main St --
> 801-328-2586
>
> Indy's:
>
> After the finals, the top two poets with the highest scores battle for a
> bitchin' trophy. two out of three rounds.
>
> *shae
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Wednesday, June 7th is the open reading, season finale of City Art at the Salt
Lake Public Library in the outdoor amphitheater at 7:00 P.M. Bring your poems
and prose and something to eat and drink and wow us with your oratory.
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City Art and the Utah Arts Council present a Tribute Reading for Poet Leslie
Norris.
>
>
> The Utah Arts Council is teaming up with the City Art Reading Series to
> host a "Tribute Reading" in honor of BYU poet-in-residence Leslie
> Norris at the Salt Lake City Main Library on Wednesday, May 17 at 7
> p.m.
>
> Readers will pay tribute to the poet by reading their favorite Norris
> poems. Featured readers include Joel Long, Jim Barnes, Lance Larsen,
> Mike Dorrell, Guy Lebeda, Scott Hatch and Danielle Dubrasky.
>
> Norris died at age 85 on April 6 from a cerebral hemorrhage following a
> stroke. Following his move to Utah in 1983, he taught creative writing
> at Brigham Young University, and retained the title of poet in residence
> after his retirement in 2003. Norris was considered one of the most
> important Welsh writers of the post-war period.
>
> For more information about the reading, contact Guy Lebeda, (801)
> 236-7553 or glebeda(a)utah.gov.
>
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>
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Writers Jennifer Sinor and Kathe Lison will read from their work at the Salt
Lake City Public Library Main Branch on May 3rd at 7:00 P.M. as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Kathe Lison is a Wisconsin native who has lived or traveled extensively in
France, Morocco and China. She has an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing
and will receive her M.F.A in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in
2006. Her essays or poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Alligator
Juniper, Clackamas Literary Review, Primavera, Under the Sun, Porcupine
Literary Magazine, Junction Magazine and A Closer Look, an anthology published
by McGraw Hill. Currently, she lives near Logan, Utah, where she teaches
academic and creative writing at Utah State University and does graphic design
for Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. She also
reviews literary magazines for Newpages.com. Currently, she's at work on a
book-length piece of nonfiction about her family entitled Still Under An
August Night: A Memoir of Murder and Love.
Jennifer Sinor's research focuses on women's lifewriting--non-canonical texts
produced by and about women. Her book, The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary
Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, (U of Iowa Press, 2000) is a blend of the
critical and the creative. It examines the diary of her great, great, great
aunt, a woman who homesteaded in Dakotas in the late nineteenth century. Her
creative work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Rosebud Literary Magazine,
Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment, and a chapbook
entitled Tazzini (Blue Scarab 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, and
audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.
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This one act night will be in the Auditorium!
Jeff Metcalf and his playwrights such as Tara Olsen, Liz Coleman, Beth
Ranschau and Jenn Sant from the University of Utah along with the Salt Lake
Acting Company will present an evening of one act plays at the Salt Lake
Public Library on April 26th and 7:00 P.M. in the A/B conference room as part
of the City Art Reading Series.
Jeff Metcalf recently retired from teaching Âat risk 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? 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.
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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Jeff Metcalf and his playwrights such as Tara Olsen, Liz Coleman, Beth
Ranschau and Jenn Sant from the University of Utah along with the Salt Lake
Acting Company will present an evening of one act plays at the Salt Lake
Public Library on April 26th and 7:00 P.M. in the A/B conference room as part
of the City Art Reading Series.
Jeff Metcalf recently retired from teaching Âat risk 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? 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.
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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Writer David Kranes will read from his new novel at the Salt Lake City Public
Library on Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00 P.M. in the downstairs conference
room as part of the City Art Reading Series.
David Kranes is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Utah.
His novels include Keno Runner, The National Tree, The Hunting Years. and
Margins; his short story, ÂCordials, won the 1996 Pushcart Prize, followed
the next year by Low Tide in the Desert: Nevada Stories, which won the Western
Heritage Award for Best Short Story. Two of his plays, Cantrell and Going In,
were published in Best American Short Plays, 1987, and Horay won the CBS
Playwrights Award. He served for fourteen years as artistic director of the
Sundance Playwrights' Lab.
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.
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