Lisa Bickmore and Kimberley Johnson will read from their poems at 7:00 P.M. on
November 16th at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art reading
series.
Before going on to complete a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature at Berkeley,
Kimberly Johnson earned MFAs at Johns Hopkins and the U. of Iowa. She is
the author of Leviathan with a Hook and the forthcoming A Metaphorical
God, as well as a verse translation of Virgil's Georgics. She has
published poems and essays in periodicals including The New Yorker, The
Southern Review, Arion, and Studies in Puritan American Sprituality,
and her awards include an NEA Fellowship, and Eisner Prize, a Barish Prize,
and a McKay Prize for Latin translation.
Lisa Orme Bickmore is a professor of English at Salt Lake Community College.
She has published in scholarly and literary journals, received a Utah Arts
Council award for poetry, and was an invited guest participant in the
prestigeous Westminster College poetry series.
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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Jeff Metcalf, Cheryl Collins, Gael Newman Pardi and and Richard Severy will
present their work at the Salt Lake Public Library on November 2nd 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 ìat riskî 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 ìThree Comedians in Purgatory was performed in
Nice, France and recently, his play ìWhere To?î 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.
Cheryl Collins was intuitively drawn to nature, photography, Art and poetry.
Creative writing has always been a favorite and writing has been a constant
source of grounding and self-therapy throughout her life. She attended
Brigham Young University . Collins is also a glass artist and has designed
glass and steel outdoor sculptures, including ìHealing towers at the main
entrance of the IHC hospital in St. George.
In 2001 Gael Newman Pardi graduated, magna cum laude from Mills College with a
degree in English and Creative Writing. Gael has written many short stories
and has recently completed a novel for the young adult reader about AmericaÃs
disillusionment with the Vietnam War. Gael is a partner in an interior design
firm that specializes in creating tranquil environments in hospitals for
cancer patients. She resides in Oakland, California.
Richard Severy - Raised in the UK on the Goon Show, Monty Python, Fawlty
Towers etc. Law degree, Bristol University. Discovered Beckett, Pinter,
Bunuel, Ray, Bergman, and then Dennis Potter and Mike Leigh. Tried to write
novel. Failed. Got married. Became attorney. Had 3 beautiful daughters.
Dropped out. Tried to write novel. Failed. Divorced. Became attorney again.
Met present wife, American Pop Artist, Jann Haworth. Inherited 2 more
beautiful daughters. Dropped out again. Tried to write novel again.
Failed(again). Became teacher. Had beautiful son. Wrote kidsà book. Did
self-sufficiency thing on small farm in Somerset. Wrote 8 more kidsà books (
published by Julia MacCrae, Methuen and Collins) Came to Sundance, Utah.
Taught writing at local State College. Wrote several adult novels. CouldnÃt
get them published. Mislaid agent. Went to Sundance Film Festival every year.
Got inspired by independent films and Sundance Institute Lab events. Did 2 day
seminar on screen-writing with Dan Decker. Bought expensive Movie Magic
Screen-writer program. Wrote Dirty Girls. Entered it in Filmmakers/Radmin
Screen-writing ContestÃ
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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Writers Katharine Coles and Joel Long will read from their work at the Salt
Lake City Public Library on October 19th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Katharine Coles' second novel, Fire Season, was just published by Juniper
Press. She has also published three collections of poems, most recently The
Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Her work has appeared or is
forthcoming in such journals as The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon
Review, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, and she has received awards from the
National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other organizations. She
is on the faculty of the Department of English at the University of Utah,
where she teaches creative writing and literature and directs the Utah
Symposium in Science and Literature.
Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes was published in 2005 by Elik Press. His
poems have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham
Review, Poet Lore, Sou'wester, Apostrophe, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs,
Rhino, Spoon River Poetry Review, Seattle Review, and Monteserrat Review,
among others. Poems are forthcoming in Salt Flats. His poems have been
anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and
Fresh Water. He won the Sherwin Howard Award in 2004 for his poems in Weber
Studies. Long currently teaching creative writing and English at Rowland
Hall-St. Mark's. He is the founder of the Lake Effect Writers Conference and
the President of the City Art reading series.
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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Breyten Breytenbach will read Friday October 21st at 7pm at the downtown
library auditorium.
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Known as the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language, Professor
Breytenbach's verse volumes include /The Iron Cow Must Sweat /(1964) and
/Footscript /(1976). His paintings portray surreal human and animal
figures, many of whom are shown in captivity. A recent exhibit of his
prints and paintings were displayed at NYU's La Maison Francaise in Fall
2002.
A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished
painter, activist and writer of more than 30 books of poetry. In
addition, he has authored numerous novels, short story compilations,
essays and dramatic works.
A committed opponent of apartheid, Professor Breytenbach established the
resistance group "Okhela" for which he wrote the platform. From 1975-
1982, he was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary
confinement in South African prisons. His most renowned work is the
four-volume memoir of this odyssey. /A Season in Paradise /(1973), /The
True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist /(1983), /Return to Paradise
/(1991), and /Dog Heart: A Memoir /(1999) have been translated into more
than a dozen languages.
He has been honored with numerous literary and art awards, including the
APB Prize, CAN Award (five times) Allan Paton Award for Literature,
Rapport Prize, Hertzog Prize, Reina Prinsen-Geerling Prize, Van der
Hoogt Prize, Jan Campert Award and Jacobus van Looy Prize for Literature
and Art.
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Melanie Rae Thon will read from her fiction and Ken Critchfield will play bass
with other jazz musicians as part of the City Art REading Series on Wednesday
October 12th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library.
Melanie Rae Thon is the Author of Sweet Hearts, Iona Moon, Girls in the Grass
and First, Body. She is a professor of English at the University of Utah.
The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by an open
reading.
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Poets Jim Barnes and Amanda Pecor will reading from their poems on October 5th
at the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City
Art Reading Series.
Amanda Pecor is originally from Macon, Georgia, and has studied at Williams
College and Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her work has
appeared in American Poetry Reveiw, The Paris Review, and the New England
Review. Her poem "A Product of Evolution, I Invest in a Mutual Fund" has
appeared in the anthology The Body Electric.
Jim Barnes is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and Editor of
The Chariton Review. His many books of poems include Visiting Picasso (Univ.
of Illinois Press, 2006), On a Wing of the Sun (Univ. of Illinois Press,
2001), Paris (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997), The Sawdust War (Univ. of
Illinois Press, 1992) which won the Oklahoma Book Award, 1993, La Plata
Cantata (Purdue Univ. Press, 1989), and The American Book of the Dead (Univ.
of Illinois Press, 1982). He is also the author of On Native Ground: Memoirs
and Impressions (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1997). which won the American Book
Award 1998. He has won the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts among his many other honors.
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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Performance poets Alex Caldiero and Melissa Bond will perform at the Salt Lake
Public Library on September 21st at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Melissa Bond is the recepient of the 2002 Mayor's
Award for the Literary Arts and has spent the last
decade spearheading several youth performance and
literary programs. She co-founded S.L.U.T. (Salt Lake
Underground Theater) which had a brief but thrilling
stint reciting poetry to unsuspecting business people
downtown. She's also been seen in a pink hoop skirt
and cateye glasses reciting Charles Simic's "Breasts"
as part of the Pink Poetry Revival. She occasionally
collaborates with local musicians and swears that
she's going to learn the bass someday soon.
For the past three years she has taught creative
writing and performance workshops through Art Access
and she is finally getting around to her first
chapbook which will be put out by Elik Press sometime
next year.
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).
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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Utah StateÂs Christopher Cokinos Star Coulbrooke will read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on September 14th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Christopher Cokinos, Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Environment and Society, has an MFA in Writing from Washington
University in St. Louis, where he was a University Fellow. His BA in English
is from Indiana University. Woodley Press of Washburn University published
his poetry collection Killing Seasons in 1993 and Tarcher/Putnam published the
hardcover edition of his nonfiction book Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A
Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds in 2000. Warner Books published the
paperback in 2001. The book garnered wide attention from venues as diverse as
USA Today to Scientific American.
Cokinos is the winner of the 2001 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the
2002 Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writer. In 2003 he won a Whiting Writers
Award and the Fineline Award for lyric prose from Mid-American Review. In
2004, the College of Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences at Utah State
named Cokinos its Humanist of the Year. In 2003, he was award a Gardner
Fellowship from the Utah State Graduate School.
His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Poetry,
The Iowa Review, dislocate, Science, Birder's World and Shenandoah.
He is working on a new nonfiction book under contract with Tarcher/Penguin
titled The Fallen Sky: Seekers and Scientists in Pursuit of Shooting Stars.
For this book on meteorites and meteorite hunters, Cokinos has traveled 600
miles north of the Arctic Circle as well as to Antarctica, where he lived in a
tent for a month on the polar plateau while collecting meteorites with
scientists as part of the 2003-2004 Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Expedition. For that research he also won a National Science Foundation
Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Fellowship.
As a writer and teacher, Cokinos is interested in poetry, nature-and-science
writing, research-based creative nonfiction, lyric essays and aphorisms.
At Utah State he is editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature & Science
Writing and heads the English Department's Creative Writing Committee.
Star Coulbrooke first became acquainted with City Art in 1996 through her
teacher and mentor, Kenneth W. Brewer. She would like to thank Ken and City
Art
for giving her many opportunities since that time to be a good citizen-poet.
Star teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing
workshops,
hosts literary events, serves on arts and literary panels, helps judge writing
contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is
published in _Ellipsis_, _Sunstone_, _Poetry International_, Hunger Magazine_,
and
others, and she co-authored a chap book, _Logan Canyon Blend_, with Ken
Brewer. She lives in Smithfield with her Mitch, four dogs, and two cats.
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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Tonight at 7:00 P.M. City Art presents its annual Meltdown at the Salt Lake
City Public Library Main Branch in the fourth floor conference room. The
buffet of readers includes the following:
Alex Caldiero
Jeff Metcalf
Jacqueline Osherow
Nicole Walker
Francois Camoin
Andy Hoffman
Jennifer Tonge
Natasha Saje
Julie Paegle
Michael Sowder
Joel Long
Felicia Olivera
Diane Fouts
Lance Larsen
Nicole Walker
Bill Coles
Hector Ahumada
Hope to see you there.
Joel
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