For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som, and Susan Goslee
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday Arpil 20th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som,
and Susan Goslee will present their work on April 20th at the Salt
Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Brandon Som is the author of The Tribute
Horse (Nightboat Books), winner of the 2015 Kate Tufts Discovery
Award, and the chapbook Babel's Moon (Tupelo Press), winner of
the Snowbound Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in LitHub,
Octopus Magazine, Indiana Review, and Black Warrior Review. A
former fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, he is currently the
Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College. In the fall,
he will be joining the creative writing faculty at the University of
California, San Diego.
Joshua
Rivkin's poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Virginia
Quarterly Review, Slate, Best New Poets, and
elsewhere. He has received a winter fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown, a Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford, a work-study scholarship
from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy.
He is currently working on a nonfiction book about the life and art of Cy
Twombly.
Susan Goslee’s
poems have appeared in such journals as West
Branch, Cimarron Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and Salamander. She teaches at Idaho State
University.
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