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
 
 
 
Lisa Bickmore is the author of two books of poems: flicker, which won the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press; and Haste (Signature Books, 1994).
 
Her poetry, scholarship, and video work have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Tar River PoetrySugar House ReviewSouthWordCaketrainHunger Mountain ReviewTerrain.orgBite Size Poems project (Utah Arts Council); Quarterly WestThe MothMappingSLC.orgFire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poetsand elsewhere. In 2015, her poem 'Eidolon' was awarded the Ballymaloe International Poetry Award
 
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