For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Patrick Madden and Joshua Rivkin at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Patrick Madden and Joshua
Rivkin will read from their work on March 11th at the Salt Lake City Public
Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the Art Reading Series. Note, there will not be a reading next week,
but there will be four nights in April for National Poetry Month including
Joanna Klink on April 1st.
Patrick Madden’s first book, Quotidiana (University of Nebraska Press,
2010), won book of the year awards from ForeWord Reviews, Independent
Publisher, and the Association for Mormon Letters, and his essays have been
published widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American
Spiritual Writing and The Best Creative Nonfiction. In late 2015,
Nebraska will publish his second book, Sublime Physick, and Georgia will
publish his edited anthology After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover
the Essays. A two-time Fulbright Fellow to Uruguay, he teaches at Brigham
Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts and curates the online
anthology of classical essays at www.quotidiana.org.
Joshua Rivkin's poems and essays have appeared in the New
Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Best New Poets, and
elsewhere. He has received a winter fellowship from the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown, a Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford and a
Fulbright fellowship to Italy.
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.