For Immediate Release

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

Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang to read at City Art

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

Wednesday September 27th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.

Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang will read from their works on Wednesday, September 27th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public.

Matthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.

Cooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.

Aby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds master’s degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.

This event is made possible with support from City Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.

Most featured readings are followed by an open reading.

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