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Takacs/Kingston at City Art with Reception
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Nancy Takacs and Colorado poet Katie Kingston will read from their poems on April 12th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City Art reading series. The event will be followed by a reception to be held at 187 North F Street. Katie Kingston has a chapbook, In My Dreams, Neruda (2005 Editors' Choice Award, Main Street Rag chapbook contest) and one forthcoming in 2006 from Sheltering Pines Press's chapbook contest, in which she was a semi-finalist. She is a recipient of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Poetry. Recent awards include second place for the Stephen Dunn Award, finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award, the Ruth Stone Prize, the Poetry Atlanta Review, as well as semi-finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize and the Main-Traveled Roads Press Poetry Book contest. She is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program. Currently, she lives and writes in CorazÃ³n de Trinidad, Colorado, located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. Nancy Takacs teaches English at the College of Eastern Utah. She has two books of poetry: Preserves by City Art Press, 2004; and a chapbook Pale Blue Wings by Limberlost Press, 2001. A chapbook, Juniper, is forthcoming from Limberlost Press. The recipient of a 2005 Ucross residency, The Discovery/Nation award, Two Individual Utah artist grants, and other residencies and poetry awards, she has also taught a poetry program for male inmates at the Central Utah Correctional Facility through the Utah Arts Council. Formerly from Bayonne, New Jersey, she lives in Wellington, Utah. Her poetry examines natural landscapes and their inhabitants, family violence, relationship, gender, and Catholicism. Her work also sometimes juxtaposes the landscapes of New Jersey and 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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Revell and Keelan at City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Poets Donald Revell and Claudia Keelan will read from their works on April 5th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City Art Reading Series. Donald Revell was born in the Bronx in 1954. A graduate of SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Buffalo, he has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, and Denver. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of English at the University of Utah. Editor of Denver Quarterly from 1988-94, he has been a poetry editor of Colorado Review since 1996. Along with his recent Pennyweight Windows: New & Selected Poems, Revell is the author of eight collections of poetry: My Mojave (Alice James, 2003); Arcady (Wesleyan, 2002); There Are Three (Wesleyan, 1998); Beautiful Shirt (Wesleyan, 1994); Erasures (Wesleyan, 1992); New Dark Ages (Wesleyan, 1990); The Gaza of Winter (University of Georgia Press, 1988); and From the Abandoned Cities (Harper & Row, 1983). He has also translated two volumes of the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire: Alcools (1995) and The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems (2004), both from Wesleyan. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Shestack Prize, the Gertrude Stein Award, the PEN Center USA Award for poetry, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Ingram Merrill and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundations. Donald Revell lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, poet Claudia Keelan, and their son, Benjamin. Claudia Keelan is the author of four collections of poetry, including Refinery, which won the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize, The Secularist, a winner in the 1997 Contemporary Poetry Series from the University of Georgia Press, Utopic, which won the 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books, and The Devotion Field 2005 PEN Center USA Award in Poetry Finalist. Her poetry has been anthologized in What Will Suffice: Contemporary Poets on the Ars Poetica and the 1997 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. Her criticism has been reprinted in the 1993 edition of Contemporary Authors. Ms. Keelan's honors include a 1990 Jesse Stuart Award for excellence in teaching; a 1991 fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico; a 1992 grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women; and in 1997 The Secularist was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. 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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Fwd: Peggy Shumaker Workshop
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

> Hi all. City Art is sponsoring a free community writing workshop, > "Poems, Paragraphs, and Brief Nonfiction," with Alaskan writer Peggy > Shumaker whom you may remember from Writers @ Work. It will be held at > the main SLC library from 2:00 to 5:00 on Saturday, March 25. It is > limited to thirty participants and is filling fast. The workshop is > open to teens and adults. If you or anyone you know would like to join > us for what is sure to be a wonderful adventure, please e-mail me, > barbara.m(a)comcast.net, or call Lisa at (801) 581-0081. Help spread > the word. Thanks. Barbara > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Dorothee Kocks/Peter Makuck
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Distinguished professor Peter Makuck and Fiction writing accordion player Dorothee Kocks will read from their work on March 15th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library's Main Branch as part of the City Art series. Peter Makuck is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University where he has edited Tar River Poetry since 1978. He has published three collections of poetry including Where We Live (BOA Editions, 1982), The Sunken Lightship (BOA Editions, 1990), and Against Distance (BOA Editions, 1997), three poetry chapbooks, two collections of short stories, and co-edited a book of essays, An Open World, on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris. His most recent book of short stories, Costly Habits (University of Missouri Press, 2002), was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1988 he was the recipient of the Brockman Award, given annually for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian, and the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum. His essays, reviews, stories, and poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, Poetry, and The Laurel Review. With his wife Phyllis, he lives on Bogue Banks, one of North Carolina's barrier islands. Once upon a time, there was a musical instrument - invented by Benjamin Franklin - that ravished its listeners, in a celestial way. Or so said a poet of the time. Come hear Utah Arts Council award winner Dorothee Kocks read from her new novel manuscript, a tale of France and the new United States, and of a woman who kept playing the instrument, even after it was banned. Set in 1802, the novel is called The Glass Harmonica, or, The Sensualist's Tale. 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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Fwd: OUTLAW BIBLE POET BUCKY SINISTER PERFORMING w/ Alex Caldiero!!!
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

--- Cabaret Voltage <cabaretvoltage(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > From: "Cabaret Voltage" <cabaretvoltage(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: OUTLAW BIBLE POET BUCKY SINISTER PERFORMING w/ Alex Caldiero!!! > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:55:53 +0000 > --------------------------------- Joining Bucky, will be ALEX CALDIERO WORDSHAKER, CURTIS JENSEN, IRIS MOULTON AND C.A. LEIBOW. Music will be peformed by THETA NAUGHT (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2…) Art will be shown by SRI WHIPPLE BUCKY SINISTER, author of Whiskey and Robots will be in Salt Lake City on March 8th at 7 pm to read from his book for the City Arts Reading Series held at the Main Branch Library. and then Headling later that evening at Cabaret Voltage Bucky Sinister is the author of Whiskey and Robots and King of the Roadkills. His work has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. A proud atheist and a recovering alcoholic, all he talks about is God and booze. He imagines himself as a literary cross between John Waters and Dog The Bounty Hunter. --------------------------------- With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and more. It's free! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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City Art and Cab Voltage: OUTLAW BIBLE POET BUCKY SINISTER PERFORMING w/ Alex Caldiero!!!
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

--- Cabaret Voltage <cabaretvoltage(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > From: "Cabaret Voltage" <cabaretvoltage(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: OUTLAW BIBLE POET BUCKY SINISTER PERFORMING w/ Alex Caldiero!!! > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:55:53 +0000 > --------------------------------- Joining Bucky, will be ALEX CALDIERO WORDSHAKER, CURTIS JENSEN, IRIS MOULTON AND C.A. LEIBOW. Music will be peformed by THETA NAUGHT (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2…) Art will be shown by SRI WHIPPLE BUCKY SINISTER, author of Whiskey and Robots will be in Salt Lake City on March 8th at 7 pm to read from his book for the City Arts Reading Series held at the Main Branch Library. and then Headling later that evening at Cabaret Voltage Bucky Sinister is the author of Whiskey and Robots and King of the Roadkills. His work has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. A proud atheist and a recovering alcoholic, all he talks about is God and booze. He imagines himself as a literary cross between John Waters and Dog The Bounty Hunter. --------------------------------- With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and more. It's free! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: from Metcalf-Writing in France!?
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

> > Got Writing Plans? > > Doing anything this summer? From June 12th to June 18th consider joining > award winning teachers and writers, David Kranes and Jeff Metcalf for the > 4th annual Creative Writing Conference at Le Lavandin Bed and Breakfast in > Provence, France. Become part of a wonderfully diverse community of writers > in an exquisite landscape in the heart of Provence. > > Le Lavandin Creative Writing Workshop offers beginning and advanced writers > a variety of literary experiences. A willingness to be playful, a sense of > humor and a love of the written word are absolutely essential qualifications > for all participants! > > For details about the particulars please look at our website: > > www.lelavandinprovence.com > > David Kranes & Jeff Metcalf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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High School Night
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

High School writers from across the Salt Lake Valley and beyond will read from their prose and poetry as part of City Art's High School night at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library's Main Branch on Wednesday, March 1st. Come out and hear the promise of Utah's 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Ken Brewer Tribute, 2/22/06
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

--- Guy Lebeda <GLEBEDA(a)utah.gov> wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:39:20 -0700 > From: "Guy Lebeda" <GLEBEDA(a)utah.gov> > To: "Guy Lebeda" <GLEBEDA(a)utah.gov> > Subject: Ken Brewer Tribute, 2/22/06 > > The City Art Reading Series & the Utah Arts Council's Literature Program > invote you to a "Tribute Reading" in honor of Utah's Poet Laureate Ken > Brewer at the SLC Main Library on Wednesday, February 22 at 7 pm. > > We want to give his friends & colleagues & readers a chance to celebrate his > life & poetry. > > Who: Partial list of participating Utah poets & writers: > Hector Ahumada > Sandy Anderson > Alex Caldiero > Chris Colinos > Katie Coles > Klancy deNevers > Diane Fouts > Joel Long > Nancy Takacs > Susan Sample > Ken Sanders > Michael Sowder > > What: Utah writers & poets will share memories of Ken Brewer & read their > favorite Brewer poems. > > > > Where: Salt Lake City Library, Main Branch, Auditorium > > > > When: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 7-9 p.m. > > Why: An opportunity for Utah's reading & writing communities to show their > love > & support for their Poet Laureate. > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Dorrell/Clark
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Writers Mike Dorrell and Maureen Clark will read from their recent works at the Salt lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday February 15th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Maureen Clark received an MFA from the University of Utah, Creative Writing Program. She received her BA from Westminster College where she was the editor of Ellipsis. She received her MFA from the University of Utah in 2003. She currently teaches writing at the U of U. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Colorado Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She is the former president of Writers @ Work. Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES, PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC for BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE OLD CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike is the Dramaturg for The Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work. He has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has been published in small magazines in Wales. 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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