For ImmediateRelease Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com J Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang to readat City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 · MAP Matthew Minicucci & Gaylord Brewer at City Art Wednesday 4 October 2017 7:00PM Wednesday 4 October 2017 9:00PM IN 21 HOURS PROMOTETHIS EVENT-30% Map › Salt Lake City Art › Matthew Minicucci & Gaylord Brewer at City Art 57 ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Matthew Minicucciand Gaylord Brewer to read at City Art Salt LakePublic Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October4th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. CITY ART PRESENTS MATTHEW MINICUCCI ANDGAYLORD BREWER. MINICUCCI’S IS THE AUTHOR OF TRANSLATION AS WELL AS THERECENTLY RELEASED COLLECTION SMALL GODS FROM NEW ISSUES PRESS. BREWER’S MOSTRECENT PUBLICATION IS A COOKBOOK/MEMOIR, THE POET'S GUIDE TO FOOD, DRINK, &DESIRE. Small Godsdraws from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the naturalsciences, mathematics and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate andmourn the mutability of love and the vulnerabilities of attachment. MatthewMinicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent StateUniversity Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick PoetryPrize, and Small Gods from New Issues Press in 2017. He is the recipient offellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick PoetryCenter, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he alsoreceived his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerousjournals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Gettysburg Review,Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, amongothers. GaylordBrewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediatelydelightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, thepoet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire tocreate something substantially different and sustained.Since food “had beenincreasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had beenasked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusualmemoir took shape. GaylordBrewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a PhD from Ohio StateUniversity. He currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where hefounded and for twenty-one years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His mostrecent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, &Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, Spring 2015). He has published 900 poems injournals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The BedfordIntroduction to Literature. This event is made possible with supportfrom City Art and Utah Humanities. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. The event is free and opento the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt LakeCity Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. The event is freeand open to the public. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts,and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long