For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Lisa Fay
Coultey and Craig Dworkin to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Lisa Fay Coultey and Craig Dworkin will read from their works on Wednesday, November 5th
at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art
Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is
free and open to the public.
Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of Errata
(Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2015), winner of the Crab
Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, and In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), winner
of the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has been awarded a
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, scholarships from the
Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, an Academy of American Poets Levis
Prize, and has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse,
Gulf Coast, and Best of the Net 2013. Her prose has appeared recently in Poets & Writers and Passages North. She holds a PhD in
Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah and is an Assistant
Professor at Snow College.
Craig Dworkin is the author of over a half-dozen books of
poetry, including The Perverse Library (Information As Material, 2010), Motes
(Roof Books, 2011), and The Crystal Text (Compline, 2012). His work has been
shown this year at the Whitney Museum, The ICA (Boston) and The Whitechapel
Gallery (London), with a film currently screening at The Museum of Contemporary
Art (Denver). Recent poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, 1913: a Journal of
Forms, BOMB magazine, and have been selected for inclusion in the new Norton
Anthology of Postmodern Poetry. A critical book on media theory called No Medium was published by MIT press.
City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique
forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first
three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City
Public Library.
City Art is
sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,
the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the Utah
Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.