For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Neeli Cherkovski and Lisa Bickmore at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Neeli Chekovski and Lisa Bickmore will read from their work April 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Neeli
Cherkovski was born in Los
Angeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal State
Los Angeles). He is the
author of many books of poetry, including Animal (1996), Leaning
Against Time (2005), From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). He
is the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between
Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). He has also published bilingual editions in Austria, Mexico, and
Italy. A facsimile edition of one of his notebooks was published by
Viviani Edizione in Verona, Italy. Cherkovski also wrote biographies
of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski,
as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His
papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Cherkovski received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack
Mueller Festival in Fruita, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974.
Lisa Bickmore is the author of three books of poems as well as video work. Among her honors are the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015, and the 2014 Antivenom Prize for her second book, flicker. Her third book, Ephemerist, is out this year. She is professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center.
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.