For Immediate
Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
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Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang to read
at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Matthew Minicucci & Gaylord Brewer at City Art
Wednesday 4 October 2017 7:00
PM Wednesday 4 October 2017 9:00
PM
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For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Matthew Minicucci
and Gaylord Brewer to read at City Art
Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October
4th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
CITY ART PRESENTS MATTHEW MINICUCCI AND
GAYLORD BREWER. MINICUCCI’S IS THE AUTHOR OF TRANSLATION AS WELL AS THE
RECENTLY RELEASED COLLECTION SMALL GODS FROM NEW ISSUES PRESS. BREWER’S MOST
RECENT PUBLICATION IS A COOKBOOK/MEMOIR, THE POET'S GUIDE TO FOOD, DRINK, &
DESIRE.
Small Gods
draws from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the natural
sciences, mathematics and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate and
mourn the mutability of love and the vulnerabilities of attachment.
Matthew
Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State
University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry
Prize, and Small Gods from New Issues Press in 2017. He is the recipient of
fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick Poetry
Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also
received his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous
journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Gettysburg Review,
Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among
others.
Gaylord
Brewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately
delightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, the
poet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire to
create something substantially different and sustained.Since food “had been
increasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had been
asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual
memoir took shape.
Gaylord
Brewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a PhD from Ohio State
University. He currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where he
founded and for twenty-one years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His most
recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, &
Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, Spring 2015). He has published 900 poems in
journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford
Introduction to Literature.
This event is made possible with support
from City Art and Utah Humanities.
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.
This event is made possible with support from City Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
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.
Joel Long