For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Lara Candland and Michael Gills
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 8th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Poet Lara Candland and fiction
writer Michael Gills will read from her work on Wednesday, March 8th at the
Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Michael Gills is author of three collections of short
fiction, including The House Across From the Deaf School (Texas Review Press,
fall 2016), two novels, including Emergency Instructions (Raw Dog Screaming
Press 2017), and White Indians, a visionary memoir, part two of which is
forthcoming. He is Associate Professor/Lecturer of Writing for the Honors
College at the University of Utah. Gills’ collected papers are archived
at Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Lara Candland is the author of the poetry collections
Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree (BlazeVox 2010) and the forthcoming The
Lapidary's Nosegay (The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State
University, January 2018). Candland is also an award-winning playwright and
librettist whose work appears on many recordings and CD's with the Seattle
Experimental Opera and the duo Lalage.
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.
Joel Long