For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday February 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore will
present their work on February 17th at the Salt Lake City Public
Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Wyn Cooper is the
author of four books of poems, most recently Chaos is the New Calm. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Southern Review, AGNI,
and in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry. His poems have been turned into
songs by Sheryl Crow, David Broza, and Madison Smartt Bell, among others. He
has taught at Bennington and Marlboro colleges, and at The Frost Place. He
lives in Boston and Vermont, and works as a freelance editor of poetry,
fiction, and non-fiction. www.wyncooper.com
She
earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University. Currently,
she is a Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she
was the recipient of the SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2006. She
teaches writing of all sorts, as well as publication studies, and is one of the
founders of the SLCC Publication Center.
City Art is
longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all
genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each
month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local
as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers.
Most featured
readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,
Arts, and Park Fund.
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, X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long