Here's Lynn's biography for tonight's reading.
Lynn Kilpatrick grew up in rural Iowa and suburban Idaho. She left Pocatello
as
quickly as possible and moved to Eugene to attend the University of Oregon.
She
earned her MA in poetry at Western Washington University, studying with the
poet Bruce Beasley. She completed her PhD in fiction at the University of Utah
in May 2004. Her poetry has appeared in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, and Salt
Hill. New fiction is forthcoming in Hawaii Review and Salt Hill. New
nonfiction
forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving and Brevity. She has completed a
collection of stories, The History of My Sex Life, and is at work on a novel
set in southeast Idaho, By Her Absence. She is Vice-President of Writers at
Work.
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Lynn Kilpatrick and Jennifer Tonge will reading from their works on Wednesday
January 19th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public library Main Branch in the fourth
floor conference space.
Jennifer Tonge holds an M.F.A. (1997) from the
University of Utah. Her awards include a Jay C. and
Ruth Halls Fellowship in Poetry from the Wisconsin
Institute for Creative Writing, a Work-study
Scholarship and a Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in
Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and
fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, The Ucross Foundation,
and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her work
has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies,
including Poetry, Ploughshares, The New England
Review, and Denver Quarterly. She lives in Salt Lake
City.
The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by an open
reading. 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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The reading for Karen Subach and Wayne Johnson has been canceled due to a
scheduling conflict with he writers. We will work to reschedule, but for
this week, you'll have to get your literary fix elsewhere.
Best,
Joel
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This week at City Art, Lara Candland and Susan Goslee will read from their
poems at 7:00 P.M in the fourth floor conference room at the Salt Lake City
Public Library Main Branch.
Both poets are graduate students in the Ph.D. program in creative writing at
the University of Utah.
The featured readers will be followed by the last open reading of 2004, so
bring your poems. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is
sponsored by Zoo, Arts, and Parks, the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City
Arts Council, and audience donations.
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Poet Lance Larsen will read from his work on December 8th at the Salt Lake
Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room.
Lance Larsen is the author of two collections of poems: Erasable Walls (New
Issues 1998) and In All Their Animal Brilliance (University of Tampa,
forthcoming 2005). Cover art on this second book by Jacqui Biggs Larsen.
Individual poems have appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic,
New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review, Southern Review, Orion, Poetry
Daily, The London Times Literary Supplement, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He has
received a number grants and prizes, including awards from the Cultural Arts
Council of Houston, Sewanee, and the Utah Arts Council. In 2003 he placed
first in the Writers at Work fellowship competition in nonfiction, and in 2004
he won a Pushcart Prize in poetry, for a poem that originally appeared in
Grand Street. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of Houston, where Richard
Howard directed his dissertation, and currently he serves as graduate
coordinator of English at BYU, where he's taught since 1993. This next
semester, winter 2005, he'll be teaching literature and creative writing as
part of a study abroad program in London.
Larsens reading will be followed by an open reading.
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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