For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Katharine Coles, Bill Coles, and Joan Coles
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 15th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Katharine Coles, Bill Coles, and Joan Coles will read from their
works Wednesday April 15h at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the
fourth floor conference room.
Katharine Coles’ fifth poetry
collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), was written under the
auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers
Program; ten poems from the book, translated into German by Klaus Martens,
appeared in the summer 2014 issue of the journal Matrix; she is currently being
translated into Spanish. Her sixth collection, Flight, is due out
in 2016. A professor at the University of Utah, she served from 2006 to
2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural director of
the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has received
grants and awards from the NEA, the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Bill Coles is a long-time professor of Mathematics at the
University of Utah. His prose has
appeared in Catalyst among other publications.
He has worked for years with Writers@Work from which
he receive the Advocate Award in 2004.
Joan Coles has published poetry in Tailwinds, Weber Studies, and
City Art Journal. She retired as a clinical psychologist at Valley Mental
Health Center. For many years, she has
served on the board of Writers@Work where she
also received the Advocate Award in 2004.
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.