For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Dawn Lonsinger and Tasha Matsumoto to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 10th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poet
Dawn Lonsinger and Writer Tasha Matsumoto will read from their works on
Wednesday April 10th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part
of the City Art Reading Series.
dawn lonsinger is the author of two chapbooks, the linoleum crop and The Nested Object, as well as a full-length
collection of poems: Whelm, which won
the 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared
in such journals as American Poetry
Review, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica: A Magazine of Arts & Politics, and Indiana Review and
elsewhere. She received an MFA from Cornell University, and a PhD in Literature
and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she was a Burton Fellow
and Managing Editor of Western Humanities
Review. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, four Dorothy
Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, three Utah Arts Council Writing Awards, Smartish Pace’s Beullah Rose Poetry
Prize, and the Scowcroft Prize in Prose chosen by Lydia Yuknavitch. In August
she joins the creative writing faculty at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania,
which means she’ll be leaving Utah, which means she will miss the mountains,
the aspens, the desert of the real, and you.
Tasha Matsumoto teaches writing and fiction at the
University of Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, the
Collagist, Ninth Letter, Redivider, and elsewhere. Like Martha Stewart, she
enjoys baking cupcakes and has been arrested
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.
April
3
Matt Mauch
Greg Brownderville
8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn)
Kate Greenstreet
Janet Holmes10
Dawn Lonsinger
Tasha Matsumoto
17
Hilda Raz
Aaron Raz Link
May
15
High School Night
June
5
Final Open Reading
Joel Long