For Immediate Release

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

Utah’s Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and Novelist Carol Anshaw to read at City Art

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

Wednesday April 4^th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Utah’s Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and Novelist Carol Anshaw will read fro their works on April 4^th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Utah’s Poet Laureate Katharine Coles’ books include the novels FIRE SEASON and THE MEASURABLE WORLD and four collections of poems, FAULT, THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION, A HISTORY OF THE GARDEN, and THE ONE RIGHT TOUCH. Her fifth collection, FLIGHT, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2013. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in THE PARIS REVIEW, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE KENYON REVIEW, IMAGE, upstreet, and POETRY, among many other journals. Her poems have been included in numerous public arts projects, including Salt Lake City's Passages Park, for which she served on the design team; and NUMBERS AND MEASURES (www.asci.org/digital2001/bliss/bliss.htm), an installation by Anna Campbell Bliss in the Leroy Cowles Mathematics Building at the University of Utah. Her ongoing collaboration with visual artist Maureen O?Hara Ure (www.art.utah.edu/arthome) has resulted in two major installations and two artist's books, BEAST and SWOON. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other organizations; in 2010, she traveled to Antarctica to write poems under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. She is on the faculty of the English Department at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and, with mathematician and biologist Fred Adler (www.math.utah.edu/~adler), co-directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature (www.scienceandliterature.org), which she originated in 2001. In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Utah's Poet Laureate. In addition to her position at the University of Utah, she served in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.

Carol Anshaw is the author of the novels Seven Moves, Aquamarine and Lucky in the Corner. She has won the Carl Sandburg, Society of Midland Authors, and Ferro-Grumley awards for fiction, and has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award three times. Her latest novel, Carry the One, is forthcoming from Simon and Schuster on March 6, 2012.

Her short fiction has been anthologized, and published in various periodicals including VLS, Story and Tin House. Her stories, “Hammam” and “Elvis Has Left the Building” were chosen for inclusion in Best American Short Stories of 1994 and 1998 respectively. “Hammam” was read on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” series. Her latest story, “The Last Speaker of the Language,” is just out in the fall 2011 issue of New Ohio Review/NOR. Anshaw is a past fellow of the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago and Amsterdam with her partner, Jessie Ewing.

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.

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