For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

City Art Presents Jacqueline Osherow and Connie Voisine

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

Wednesday February 28th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

 

            Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Connie Voisine will present their work on  February 28th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Poet Connie Voisine grew up in Maine and earned a BA in American studies from Yale University. She lived in New York City, studying writing at the New School and the Writers Studio, before earning her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and PhD from the University of Utah. Her first collection, Cathedral of the North (2001), won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry, and her second, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream (2008), was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. Deploying a kind of lyric narrative, Voisine’s poems frequently feature speakers as they encounter contemporary culture in a variety of locations—including the American Southwest and Mexico. Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream was also influenced by medieval literature and the poetry of Marie de France. Voisine lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she is an associate professor of English at New Mexico State University and a director of La Sociedad para las Artes.

 

Jacqueline Osherow’s most recent book is Ultimatum from Paradise (LSU Press, 2014). She is currently working on My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple. She is also the author of Dead Men’s Praise, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Looking for Angels in New York among other collections.  Osherow has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the NEA and the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

 

City Art is longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers.

 

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.