For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Paisley Rekdel and Stephen Corey at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal and Poet, Writer, and Editor Stephen Corey will read from their work April 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Paisley
Rekdal is the author of a book of
essays, The Night My
Mother Met Bruce Lee, the hybrid-genre memoir Intimate, and four
books of poetry: A
Crash of Rhinos, Six
Girls Without Pants, The
Invention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye, which was a
finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize.
Her newest book of poems is Imaginary
Vessels, and her most recent work of nonfiction is a book-length
essay, The Broken
Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.
Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling
Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes,
the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems
and essays have appeared in The
New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The
New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series
(2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018), and on National Public Radio, among others.
She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and
editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate.
Stephen Corey has published ten collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003), and his first essay collection—Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural—was released in early 2017 by Mercer University Press. He has co-edited four books in three genres, including (with Warren Slesinger) Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press, 2001), as well as Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review (University of Georgia Press, 2012). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, among them Shenandoah, The American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers, and The Kenyon Review; his work has been reprinted in numerous anthologies, including Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction (W. W. Norton, 2005), and The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002 (2002); and he has been awarded writing fellowships from the arts councils of three states—Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia—as well as the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Excellence in Literary Editing from the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, for which he taught from 2006-2015. Since 2014 He has been the editor for the University of Georgia Press’s Georgia Review Books series, an irregular regular offering of new books and of subject-based anthologies of previously published GR material.
From 1977-83 Corey co-edited and subsequently edited The Devil's Millhopper, an independent poetry magazine he helped to found. Since 1983 he has been with The Georgia Review, serving variously as assistant editor, associate editor, acting editor, and, since 2006, editor.
Corey has taught at the University of Florida (where he earned his PhD in English) and at the University of South Carolina, and he has served as poet-in-residence or visiting poet/editor for a number of conferences and writing programs across the United States, including those sponsored by the University of Arizona, Binghamton University, and Vermont College. He is currently a member of the core faculty for the Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, based at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia.
Ranjan Adiga teaches creative writing classes at Westminster College. His works have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, among others. His stories explore lives of immigrant communities, their hopes and anxieties, as they assimilate into American culture. Ranjan is currently working towards completing his debut short story collection.
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.