Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino to read at City Art

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

Wednesday October 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino will read from their work on October17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

University of Utah Professor Jacqueline Osherow is the author of several collections of poetry, including Whitethorn, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Dead Men’s Praise. Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series.

Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

Her work has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry.

Peter Covino is the author of the poetry collections, both from Western Michigan University/New Issues Press, The Right Place to Jump (2012) and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), winner of the 2007 PEN/America Osterweil Award (http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/224/prmID/1482), and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Please see a recent review of his work here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bobby-elliott/on-peter-covinos-the-righ_b_1903554.html

Other reviews have appeared in such publications as American Poet (Academy of American Poets), The Journal, Small Press Review, and Quarterly West among others. His chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001), won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize; and recent poems have been published or are forthcoming both in America and Italy in such places as the American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, Gulf Coast, Interim, Lo-Ball, Leggendaria, New Orleans Review, The Paris Review, tutteStorie, The Yale Review, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing, among others. Covino’s newer work reflects a growing concern with Italian historical influences, issues of environmental impingement, contemporary art, and visual and poetic experimentation.

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.

Jesse Parent

Jean Howard

October

Mike Dorrell

Miles Fuller

Linda Aldrich

Jacqueline Osherow

Peter Covino

Cathy Wagner

Paisley Rekdal

November

Shaun Griffin

Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate

Michael Sowder

Jennifer Sinor

Michael Hansen

Tim Erickson

December

Sian Griffiths

Melanie Rae Thon

Michael Gills

Franklin Fisher

Holiday Open

January

Hector Ahumada

Katharine English

Joel Long