Nicole Walker and Matt Batt will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public
Library Main Auditorium on May 18th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series. Besides the open reading/buffet on
June 1st (plan your hot dish early) this is the last feature reading of the
season.
Nicole Walker is working toward her Ph.D. at the University of Utah where she
teaches and is the editor of Quarterly West magazine. Her work has appeared in
Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, New American Writing, Barrow Street,
Seneca Review, and is forthcoming in Salt Hill, Bellingham Review and the Iowa
Review.
Originally from Wisconsin, Matthew Batt is currently working towards a
graduate degree in creative writing at the University of Utah where he
is the nonfiction editor for Quarterly West. His fiction and
nonfiction has appeared in The Isthmus, Another Chicago Magazine, The
San Francisco Chronicle, Ohioana, and Soundings East and is forthcoming
in Tin House. He is at work on a memoir called My Life as a House
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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Margot Singer and Pam Balluck will read from their prose at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch in the fourth floor conference room on Wednesday,
May 11th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series.
Margot Singers recent fiction and creative nonfiction has been published or
is forthcoming in Shenandoah, AGNI, Third Coast, The North American Review,
The Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She recently received
Shenandoah's Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay, and has been nominated
several times for a Pushcart Prize. She is currently completing a doctorate
in creative writing at the University of Utah, and will start a new job as
Assistant Professor of fiction writing at Denison University (in Granville,
Ohio) in the fall.
Pam Balluck was born in New York City and grew up in Southern California and
Northwest Montana. She dropped out of college in the late 1970s and went back
to school in the 1990s, completing her B.A. in English/Creative Writing at the
University of Montana at Missoula in 1998. She completed her M.F.A. in
Fiction writing at the University of Utah in 2000, and is currently a PhD
candidate in English/Fiction writing at the University of Utah. Her fiction
has been published in the Western Humanities Review, Quarter After Eight,
Square Lake, the Jabberwock Review, and most recently a short-short in The
Southeast Review. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2004.
The reading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt
Lake City Arts Council: the Utah Arts Council: Zoo, Arts and Parks: and
Audience Donations.
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Award winning poets Craig Arnold and Paisley Rekdal will read from their work
on May 4th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch in the
main auditorium.
An assistant professor of English at the University of Wyoming, CRAIG ARNOLD
has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar, an NEA grant recipient, a
Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton, and a resident at MacDowell Arts
Colony. His first book of poetry, Shells, was selected by W. S. Merwin as the
1998 volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets; his second, a suite of
mythological remixes entitled Made Flesh, is currently seeking a publisher.
Other poems have appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris
Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast and Open City. As a devoted student of
poetry as living performance, he has been featured at venues as various as
Chicagos Green Mill poetry slam, South By Southwest, and the KGB Bar Reading
Series in New York. This year, he is Visiting Writer at the University of
South Dakota. Acclaimed poet Thom Gunn says this of Arnold: Stylish, cool,
and elegant. He should have been a gang-leader. Arnold recently won the
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
Assistant professor at the University of Utah Paisley Rekdal is the author of
a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon 2000, Vintage
2002), and two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (University of Georgia Press
2000) and Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington University Press 2002).
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a
Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, a Contemporary Poetry Series Award
from the University of Georgia Press, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Wyoming
Council of the Arts Fellowship, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize from
Michigan Quarterly Review.
The reading is free and open to the public. It is made possible by funding
from the Utah Arts Council; the Salt Lake City Arts Council; Zoo, Arts, and
Parks; and the support of the Salt Lake Public Library.
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CITY ART AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESS RELEASE
APRIL 20, 2005
TRIBUTE TO CRAIG CROWTHER
A Tribute to poet and musician Craig Crowther will be held at the City Art
reading series on Wednesday, April 20. The Tribute begins at 7:00 p.m. at The
Salt Lake Main Public Library, 209 East 500 South. The program is free and
open to the public.
TRIBUTE PROGRAM
Musicians, poets, and friends will gather to pay tribute to the memory of
Craig Crowther who died on October 5, 2003. Musicians from the Cowdaddies, The
Smiths Bros. Dirt Band, and the Craig Crowther Band will perform. Poetry in
commemoration and by Crowther will be read. Tribute participants include
Harold Carr, Kennard Machol, Rex Flinner, Randy Smith, Josh Crowther, Sandy
Anderson, Charles Potts, Miriam Murphy, Hector Ahumada, Jose Knighton and
Sherm Clow.
CRAIG CROWTHER
Craig Crowther was a musician, poet and an outdoor adventurer. He was one of
those rare people whom everyone considered their best friend. He played guitar
and sang in three bands: The Smiths Bros. Dirt Band, The Craig Crowther Band
and The Cowdaddies. In the most recent, The Cowdaddies, his voice was the
center. Fellow bandmember Harold Carr says: "The guitar, fiddle or bass
players could send subs to a gig and the music would work. But if he couldnt
make it, there were no Cowdaddies."
The author of 2 books of poetry, his work is mischievous and funny, with a
sensitivity to the Western landscape. He was the editor of Concours, the
Westminster College literary magazine in the 1970s. He went on to help
organize with Charles Potts the Underwater Poetry Festival and publish a group
of poetry books under the press name Litmus, including one of Charles
Bukowskis first books of poetry. He kept the plates, and used to joke about
printing up another batch of "first editions" so he could retire.
Crowther was a founding member of Word Affair in the 1970s, and City Art in
the 1980s. As a printerhe helped many local poets to publish their work. All
the City Art publications were made possible under his tutorage.
Born on September 25, 1946, Crowther started college at Southern Utah
University where he organized the first campus protest in Utah. He finished
his education at Westminster College, and served one year in Vietnam. His
interests were reflected in his occupations: he owned a printing business,
started an outdoor wilderness touring service, performed music professionally,
and worked for the state of Utah as manager of e-Publishing.
His legend as a river runner continues. Many are the tales of him navigating
his 18 foot raft through rapids on the Grand Canyon, Desolation and other
rivers in the West. And he never flipped his raft! One of Crowthers favorite
phrases was "divide the number of days you sleep outdoors by the number of
days in the year. That is your happiness quotient."
CITY ART PROGRAMS ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY:
The Salt Lake Arts Council/Art Barn
The Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake Countys Zoo, Arts, & Parks Program
The Salt Lake Public Library
Audience Donations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Harold Carr: 322-2777
Sandy Anderson: 277-1510
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Utahs Poet Laureate Ken Brewer and Utah State University Professor Michael
Sowder will read from their work on Wednesday April 13th at 7:00 P.M. in the
fourth floor conference room of the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Ken Brewer was named Utah's poet laureate on January 24, 2003. He retired from
Utah State University after 32 years in the English Department as a teacher of
writing. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Utah Arts.
Brewer has published numerous books, including The Place In Between,
Limberlost Press, 1998 (Poems); Lake's Edge, Woodhedge Press, 1997 (Poems);
Hoping for all, Dreading Nothing, Slanting Rain Press, 1994, A Fine Art Book
of Poems with Woodcuts by Harry Taylor; To Remember What is Lost, USU Press,
1982 (ISBN# 0-87421-114-X), 68pp. Re-issued in paperback, 1989 (ISBN#
0-87421-143-3); The Collected Poems of Mongrel, Compost Press, 1981, 48pp;
Round Again: A Cycle of Poems, published under a grant from the Utah Institute
of Fine Arts, 1980, 50 pp; Sum of Accidents, Chapbook Series, Alliance for the
Varied Arts, 1977, 24pp; and Places, Shadows, Dancing People, USU Monograph
Series, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1969, pp. 31-47, with Tom Lyons, Joyce Wood and
Robert Wood.
Brewer has also published over 300 individual poems.. Many of these have been
in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Kansas Quarterly, New York Quarterly,
Kentucky Poetry Review, Writer's Forum, Weber Studies, Blue Unicorn, River
Styx, Contemporary Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Hollow Spring Review,
Westigan Review, Puerto del Sol, Hanging Loose, South Dakota Review, Western
Humanities Review, Dry Crik Review, Ellipsis and others. Brewer's essays have
appeared in Ellipsis and Weber Studies and his criticism and reviews have
been published in Literary Magazine Review, Rocky Mountain Review and Western
American Literature Journal.
Michael Sowder won the 2004 T.S. Eliot prize for his book The Empty Boat. His
poems have appeared in CutBank, The Evansville Review, Green Mountains Review,
The GSU Review, Poem, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and South Carolina
Review among others. Sowder also published the chapbook A Calendar of Crows.
The reading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt
Lake City Arts Council: the Utah Arts Council: Zoo, Arts and Parks: and
Audience Donations.
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Jackson Connor and Michael McLane will read from their work at the Salt Lake
City Library Main Branch on April 6th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Jackson Connor is a graduate student in fiction at the University of Utah.
Michael McLane was born and lives in Salt Lake City. In 2002, he
graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in English and a B.A. in
Anthropology. He has been a member of the board for City Art in Salt Lake
City and for the last two years he has been the co-president of the
organization. From 1999 to 2004 he served on the board of Writers @ Work
which included chairing the Young Writers @ Work Conference from 2002-2004.
Since 2000, he has served as an adjunct faculty member for the Sawtooth
Writers Conference in Stanley, Idaho a conference geared toward at-risk
youth. His latest project is a collaborative effort with fellow poet Chris
Leibow called Cabaret Voltage, a showcase of poets, musicians, and visual
artists which takes place twice a month at The Urban Lounge in Salt Lake.
His poems have appeared in Byline, Arsenic Lobster, and The City Art
Journal.
The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. The event is free
and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, the Utah Arts Council, Zoo, Arts , and Parks, and audience donations.
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Tonight at 7 in the main auditiorium of the Salt Lake City Public Library,
City Art hosts an evening with high school writers, so come out and hear what
pleasures of language and sentience the next generation has to offer.
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Wednesday, March 9, 7 pm, Downtown Library, SLC, Main Auditorium
Five Lectures at Midnight & Guitar a performance arts meditation
lectures include:
All Things Zapata, Andy Hoffmann
Coltranes Search, Tully Cathey
Could it be said, Lisa DeFrance
Interview with the Self, Steve Creson
Performance sponsored by the City Arts Reading Series
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Poetpouri
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28 Feb '05
This weeks reading for City Art will be a Poetpouri with writers Jennifer
Yates, Laura Kiechle, Miles Fuller, and Justin Scheurer on Wednesday, March
2nd at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M in the fourth
floor conference room.
While these are young poets and writers, each has power and passion in their
works. Jennifer Yates is a student at Copper Hills High School where she is
the editor of Chasms, Copper Hills award winning literary magazine. She has
published her poems there since she was a sophomore. She recently read for
Caberet Voltage at Kilby Court. Laura Kiechle is a student at Rowland
Hall-St. Marks where she is an editor for Pick One. Her poems have been
included in Pick One and Hanging Loose. She has also read for Caberet
Voltage. Miles Fuller is a student at Westminster College. He most recently
won the Academy of American Poets Prize for Westminster, and his work is
forthcoming in Elipsis. Justin Shuerer has been on the faculty for the
Sawtooth Writers Conferenece for at least five years. His fiction is hard
hitting and beautiful in that harshness.
These young writers will blow you away. Come out and see what hope the future
holds.
The City Art series is sponsored by the Salt Lake City Public Library, Zoo,
Arts and Parks, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Utah Arts Council and
audience donations.
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