For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Joanna Klink
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 1st 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poet Joanna Klink will read from her
work on April 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Joanna Klink
earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins
University. Her collections of poetry include They Are Sleeping (2000), Circadian
(2007), and Raptus (2010). Her work has been included in numerous
anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry
(2011). Of her work, Klink has said: “In poems I am trying to find my bearings
through a world that at times feels remote and inchoate and struck blank with
noise. I would like to place myself in a field of deep attention, and out of
that attention come to feel and regard with more acute understanding what is
there. I write to be less hopelessly myself, to sense something more expansive
than where I speak from.”
Her new book is forthcoming from
Penguin in 2015.
Her honors and awards include a Rona Jaffe Fellowship and the Jeannette Haien
Ballard Writer’s Prize, among others. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at
Harvard University and teaches in the creative writing program at the
University of Montana.
Most featured
readings are 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, X-mission, and audience donations.