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07 Feb '06
07 Feb '06
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The 10th Annual Lake Effect Writers Conference for High School Writers and
their teachers will take place on February 10th, 2005 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm
at Salt Lake Community College South City Campus and the general public with
an evening reading at 7:00 pm that is free and open to the public. The
conference this year will feature Peter Rock, Nick Flynn and Mark Conway. The
students will interview each of the writers for the upper school literary
magazine.
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of
the novels Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival
Wolves. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale
University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He
has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs
College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories
and freelance writing have both appeared widely. He is the recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Nick Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New
York Times, and The Paris Review. He has written two collections of poetry:
Blind Huber and Some Ether. He also authored A Note Slipped Under the Door
with Shirley McPhillips. His poem, "Bag of Mice", won the "Discovery"/The
Nation Award in 1999 leading to the publication of his first book of poems,
Some Ether. In 2001, he won the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. Most
recently he wrote Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, an account of his
tumultuous early life and relationship with his father.
Mark Conway is the recipient of awards from the Aldrich Poetry Competition,
the Grolier Competition, and the McKnight Foundation. His work has appeared in
Agni, Bomb, The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie
Schooner. Conway's debut book, Any Holy City, maps a rich and mysterious
landscape haunted by ghosts-ghosts of the dead and the living, of addiction,
sacrifice, of loss and love. He lives in Avon, Minnesota.
Rowland Hall English teacher Joel Long founded the Lake Effect Writers
Conference was founded in 1997 to provide a forum for high school writers to
be in contact and learn from prominent, professional writers. The conference
has hosted Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, National Book Critics Circle
Award winner Stanley Plumly, MacCarther Fellow, Edward Hirsch, Utah Poet
Laureate David Lee and Wyoming fiction writer Pam Houston, among others.
The events are free and open to the public.
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Poets Lyle Wiggins and Chris Ames will reading from their poems February 8th
at the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Lyle Wiggins was born in Ogden, Utah where he grew up hiking nearby foothills
and canyons. He has worked as a musician, teacher, truck driver, custodian,
professional genealogist, small business owner, systems analyst, data
processing supervisor, and facility manager. He is currently Manager of
Library Services at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He, and his
wife, Jane, live in an old red brick house near the canyons he now hikes, and
where he loves to gather his children and grandchildren. His first published
works were narrative family histories written for celebrities and prominent
businessmen, but for the past thirteen years poetry has been his primary
creative passion.
Chris Ames was born and raised in Salt Lake, then let loose upon the world.
He has spent years in Europe and Asia, working, traveling and learning (and
continuing to learn). He currently lives and works in Paris, but has never
forgotten his roots as a Utahn. He has published two books of prose in Japan
and contributed to countless magazines and anthologies from Beijing to
Budapest. His current work, SOME PEOPLE, from which he will read tonight,
appeared in Poland in 2005.
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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On Wednesday January 18th at 7:00 City Art will present its Elizabethan Night
at the Salt Lake Public Library's main branch in conjunction with the
library's celebration of the life of Elizabeth the first. The evening will
feature readings of Elizabethan poems and poems inspired by the forms and
ideas of the period with guests including writers, Kimberly Johnson, Mike
Dorrell, Joel Long, Barbara Murdock, and Chris Leibo.
Kimberly Johnson earned earn an M.A. at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and
an M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She earned her Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley, where she specialized in Renaissance
literature, and specifically in seventeenth-century religious writings. Her
book-length collection of poems, _Leviathan with a Hook_ (Persea Books) was
published in 2002. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines,
including _The New Yorker_ and _Quarterly West_. Her current projects include
a critical book on self-feminization by male religious poets of the
seventeenth century, a verse translation of Virgil's _Georgics_, and a second
collection of poetry, tentatively entitled A Metaphorical God.
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.
Chris Leibow is the founder of Caberet Voltage and a Graduate student in
poetry at Antioch College.
Barbara Murdock retired in June after teaching creative writing,
English, and French for thirty years in the Salt Lake City School
District, twenty-seven of those years at East High where she was
adviser for Pencilings, East's art literary magazine and for Take Five,
an annual production of five student-written, one-act plays. Among her
recognitions are awards from The National Council of Teachers of
English, The Scholastic Writing Awards, and The National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts. In 1997 she was named Distinguished Teacher
by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the United
States Office of Education. In June, she received the Educator of
Excellence Award from Writers @ Work.
Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes appeared in 2005 from Elik Press. His poems
have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review,
Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, and Seattle Review and
anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and
Fresh Water.
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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Sylvia Torti and Barbara Murdock will reading from their works on Wednesday,
January 11 at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch.
Sylvia Torti's /The Scorpion's Tail/ won the 2005 Miguel Marmol Prize,
awarded annually by Curbstone Press for the best debut work in fiction
by a Latino/a writer. She is an Assistant Research Professor of Biology
at the University of Utah and currently is president of Writers at Work.
"/The Scorpion's Tail/ is a novel that is simultaneously compelling,
complicated and insightful. Sylvia Torti deftly unites disparate
elements and voices in this tale of the Zapatista rebellion of January
1, 1994, in Chiapas, Mexico-one of the most momentous events of the
beginnings of the twenty-first century. -Luis J. Rodriguez
Torti has written a compelling story of this sometimes-overlooked period
in Mexico's history--a story enriched by its honest and disparate points
Barbara Murdock retired in June after teaching creative writing,
English, and French for thirty years in the Salt Lake City School
District, twenty-seven of those years at East High where she was
adviser for Pencilings, East's art literary magazine and for Take Five,
an annual production of five student-written, one-act plays. Among her
recognitions are awards from The National Council of Teachers of
English, The Scholastic Writing Awards, and The National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts. In 1997 she was named Distinguished Teacher
by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the United
States Office of Education. In June, she received the Educator of
Excellence Award from Writers @ Work.
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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Lisa Linsalata will read from her writing on Wednesday, January 4 at 7:00 at
the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branc as part of the City Art reading
series.
Linsalata thinks of herself as a housewife poet, writing about the landscape
of long-term marriage, and growing up in an eclectic family. She also
writes about issues of shame around body and sexuality. She studied medieval,
renaissance, and baroque music on flute and recorder at Webster University
in Webster Groves, Missouri. Two of her poems, "The Likes of You" and
"Anniversary" have been made into short films by independent filmmaker Natalie
Avery. She's had the fortunate opportunity to spend one month at Norcroft, a
writing retreat for women in
Minnesota, and she's been an invited reader at a fundraiser for UCASA - Utah
Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She has benefited greatly from attending
the
Writers At Work workshop several times, and has enjoyed volunteering in
middle school and high school English classrooms.
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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I know what you really want--a break from all these drab holiday ordeals. Try
a less fattening ordeal with City Art's annual holiday open mic night!. Bring
some poems, prose, and wassal to the Salt Lake Library's main branch a/b
conference room on Wednesday, December 14th. We need you there. It's better
than egg nog, and i do like my egg nog, oh yes.
Peace,
Joel
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Writers Brian Kubarycz and Paul Ketzle will read from their work at the Salt
Lake City Public Library on Wednesday December 7th at 7:00 P.M. in the
downstairs conference room as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Paul Ketzle holds a Ph.D. in Fiction from the
University of Utah. He is the former managing editor
of Western Humanities Review, where he is currently a
contributing editor, and he serves on the planning
board for the Writers at Work conference. He teaches
for the LEAP program and the English Department at the
U. His fiction has appeared in Indiana Review and his
nonfiction in Continuum, Utah Business Magazine and
elsewhere. His most recent work includes a series of
essays that explore childhood memory and loss (from
which he plans to read tonight).
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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Are you interested in lurid yarns about the preadventures of Popeye?
Ne'er-do-wells who eat roadkill? A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in
Nazi Germany?
Then put your turkey leftovers back in the 'fridge, and get into the City
Library's auditorium in Downtown SLC for an hour of Twisted Tall Tales with
fiction writers Jim Ruland and Michael Gills, Nov. 27 from 3-4 pm.
An author book signing will follow.
The reading is free. See you there!
What: Twisted Tall Tales reading
When: November 27 at 3-4 pm
Who: Fiction writers Jim Ruland and Michael Gills
Where: Auditorium
Salt Lake Public Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Bios:
Michael Gills teaches writing at the University of Utah. His short sotry
collection, Why I Lie, tells the painful and hilarious story of a down home
Arkansas boy's efforts to make good. His novel "Go Love," is forthcoming.
Jim Rualnd is a NEA literature fellowship recipient. His short story
collection, Big Lonesome, is described as wildly imaginative tales of
Americas's past and present. He is a regular contributor to NPR's "Day to
Day."
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Forget the pies: you need poetry before the feast. Poet Anne Coray will read
from her work for a City Art pre-turkey poetry night at the Salt Lake Public
Library's main branch at 7:00 P.M. on November 23rd.
Anne Coray's debut book of poems, Bone Strings, was published by Scarlet
Tanger Books. She lives at her birthplace on remote Qizhjeh Vcna (Lake Clark)
in southwest Alaska. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Poetry,
Seneca Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Rattapallax, among others. She has
been a finalist with Carnegie-Mellon, Water Press & Media, Bright Hill Press,
as well as for the Frances Locke Memorial Award and Rita Dove Poetry Award.
For several years she worked for the Bilingual Program in the
Matanuska-Susitna Valley north of Anchorage. She lives with her husband,
Steve, and her dog, Zipper.
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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