For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Danielle
Dubrasky and Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 3rd, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Danielle Dubrasky and Kelly Kathleen Ferguson will read from their
works on Wednesday, May 3rd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library
as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the
public.
Danielle Beazer Dubrasky’s poetry has been published in Salt Front, Contrary Magazine, Quill&Parchment, Sugar House Review and by Red Butte Press. Her chapbook “Ruin and
Light” won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition. She has been a
finalist for White Pines Press, a semi-finalist for Backwaters Press and Elixir
Press, and a fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is also a two
time recipient of the Utah Arts Council first place award in poetry. She is the
poetry editor for Contemporary Rural
Social Work journal and has developed a curriculum of poetry writing
exercises to be used in poetry therapy groups. An associate professor of
Creative Writing at Southern Utah University, Danielle is also the director of
the SUU Tanner Center. She grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has spent
the last 20 years in southern Utah.
If Twin
Peaks can reboot, then Kelly Kathleen
Ferguson might yet be a grunge superstar. She is the author of My
Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself. Her work has appeared in New
England Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, mental_floss magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in
Cedar City, Utah where she teaches at Southern Utah University.
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.
Joel Long