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City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

Katharine Coles and Lance Olsen at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday February 13th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.

            Writers Katharine Coles and Lance Olsen will read from their work February 13th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Field Work Project, bringing together science and literature. 

Katharine Coles is the author of Look both Ways: A Double Journey Along My Grandmothers Far-Flung Path.  Her sixth collection of poetry, Flight, was published in 2016 by Red Hen Press. Her fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), was written under the auspices of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Ten poems from that book, translated into German by Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue of the journal Matrix; she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. Her chapbook, Bewilder, was published in 2015 by the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. She is also the co-PI on the Poemage project, which develops software for analyzing and visualizing sonic relationships in poetry; she has written a number of scholarly articles and presentations based on this work. A professor at the University of Utah, she served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

LANCE OLSEN is author of more than 25 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, the novel Dreamlives of Debris. My Red Heaven, the novel he will read from this evening, will appear in January 2020. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah, where he directs the creative writing program.

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.