Lisa Bickmore and Sandy Anderson to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday February 8th 7:00—9:00
P.M.
Poets
Lisa Bickmore and Sandy Anderson will read from their work on February 8th
at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Lisa Bickmore's work has appeared in Mudfish, Quarterly West, Hunger Mountain
Review, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, and elsewhere. Her first book, Haste, was published by Signature
Books. She teaches writing at Salt Lake Community
College.
Sandy Anderson has been published in Weber Studies, Eclectica, Stickman Review,
Sugarhouse Review, Harpur Palate, Forge, and has work forthcoming in Ellipsis. Ghost Planet Press published
her book At the Edge in White Robes in
1978, and her chapbook Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, is
available through Limberlost Press. Her poetry is included in the anthologies:
New Poets of the American West, edited
by Lowell Jaeger and Great and Peculiar
Beauty edited by Terry Tempest Williams and Thomas Lyon. Her awards include
the Salt Lake City Mayor's Award in Literature in 1997, and the Writers at Work
Writing Advocate Award in 1995. She has been involved in the literary community
since the 1960s, and is a founder of City Art. She has been artist in
residence at several local high schools and given workshops to many different
groups, including veterans and the disabled. She recently edited and
published her fourth anthology of work by those with disabilities. She
lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, two dogs and two guinea pigs.
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.
Joel Long