For Immediate Release

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

Adam Giannelli and Kase Johnstun to read at City Art

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

Wednesday September 20th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.

Adam Giannelli and Kase Johnstun will read from their works on Wednesday, September 20th 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.

Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.

Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of recently released "Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis", which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places, as well as having mentions in the Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. It was recently awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Coldnoon: Travel Writing and Traveling Poetics, Like The Wind, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His forthcoming article about family will appear in Southwest, the magazine. He is the co-editor/author of "Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front” (The History Press), which was name the Salt Lake Tribune’s book of the month for August 2014. He is the literary chair for the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee, he was named to Ogden’s 40 under 40 three weeks before he turned 40 in 2015 and hosts a literary podcast called LITerally where he interviews authors about all things publishing and writing. In January 2016, he was the artist in residence at JIWAR International Artist Residency in Barcelona, Spain.

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