For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Jonathan Travelstead and
Kathline Carr to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October 25th,
7:00—8:00 P.M.
Jonathan
Travelstead and Kathline Carr will read from their works on Wednesday, October
25th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art
Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is free and
open to the public.
Winner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan
Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry in his
first two collections, How We Bury Our Dead and Conflict Tours. Travelstead
served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and
currently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having
finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on
an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru.
Kathline Carr, writer and visual artist, is the author of Miraculum
Monstrum, forthcoming from Red Hen Press and winner of the 2015 Clarissa
Dalloway Book Prize. Carr’s writing and art have appeared in Alexandria
Quarterly, Calyx, Connecticut Review, Hawaii
Review, Earth's Daughters and elsewhere; she has exhibited
in the Berkshires, New York City, Boston, Toronto, and at artSTRAND Gallery in
Provincetown. Carr received her BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College,
VT and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley
University. She lives in North Adams, Massachusetts with her husband and
sometimes-collaborator, figurative painter Jim Peters, and her youngest
daughter Mercedes.
This event is made possible with support from
City Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
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.