For Immediate Release

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City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

David Tippets and John Sebba to read at City Art

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

Wednesday November 13, 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Writers David Tippets and John Sebba will read from their works on Wednesday November 13th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

David Tippetts has published memoir in Montana Magazine, Permafrost, Memoir, Rosebud, and Weber Studies as well as fiction in Sling and Stone and the Whitefish Review. He won honorable mention in the 2004 New Millennium Fiction Competition. He chairs the Writer’s Critique Group at the Salt Lake City Library and is an active member of several literary organizations. He is retired and lives in American Fork, Utah.

In his award-winning book Yossi, Yasser, & Other Soldiers, Jon Sebba writes poems about the impact of war from the perspectives of both the combat soldier and the bystander. His subjects are drawn from first-hand reports - his own experiences and those of other soldiers, from news reports, and his vision of what peace may look like. In addition to the Six-Day War and its aftermath, he draws material from WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, and from Afghanistan (Russian and American). He writes to describe for the civilian, the truth about war. Above all he writes to encourage other soldiers to talk, and to urge all readers to reject the cost and the conflict in all its forms.

Sebba was born in South Africa, educated as a geologist in Israel and as a civil engineer in the U.S. When the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War began, he was married with an infant child. As an Israeli reservist, he was mobilized to fight in Jerusalem. His wife and son huddled in a bomb shelter. After he was demobilized the effects of this and other wars sank in. He realized what a poor means war offers for finding peace. He is driven to share what he has learned.

City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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.

Dave Tippets

Jon Sebba

Mike White

Janine Josephs

December

Sian Griffiths

Alex Caldiero

Wade Bentley

Joey Franklin

Holiday Open Reading

Joel Long