For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Cathy
Peppers with and Novelist Lillian-Yvonne
Bertram to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Idaho State University Poet Cathy Peppers will read
with music by Bob Picard and the
poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will read April 18th at the Salt Lake
City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Cathy Peppers and Bob Picard both grew up in the Midwest but now live on a
one-hundred-year-old farmstead in Southeast Idaho and teach at Idaho State
University. Cathy’s poems have
recently appeared in bear creek haiku and Sugar House Review and are otherwise
loosely collecting in a manuscript regressing forward / love poems in middle
age. Bob is a songwriter and
musician performing with his band Steelhead Redd; his music is available on
steelheadredd.com and iTunes. They
are currently experimenting with weaving their verses together under the
moniker p&p river and blues.
Lillian-Yvonne
Bertram has been a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholar, a
writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists’ Refuge, and is a Cave Canem alumna.
Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior
Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Narrative
Magazine, Subtropics,
and other journals. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary
Seminars poetry contest, has won the Gulf Coast
Magazine Donald
Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, and has received second place in Narrative Magazine’s poetry contest. Bertram is a graduate of
the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a 2009-2011 Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at
Williams College where she taught creative writing and literature. Her first
book, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, won the Red Hen Press 2010 Benjamin Saltman
Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine.
She
is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She reads
for the journals Arsenic Lobster
and Quarterly West and currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah,
with her partner and their cat, the inimitable Hipólito Yrigoyen aka CatMonster.
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