For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Jean
Howard and Rebecca Mae to perform at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 19th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Jean Howard and Rebecca Mae will read
from their works on Wednesday, November 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the
Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public.
After living in Chicago
for 22 years, performance poet, Jean
Howard, returned to her hometown, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1999. Her poetry
has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Burning World, Spoon River Review, Chicago Tribune, Spoken Work
Revolution, and over one hundred other literary publications.
A participant in the
original development of the internationally acclaimed "Poetry Slam”, she
was awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative
work with photographer, Alice Hargrave.
Howard has performed her
poetry at hundreds of venues nationwide, with such diversity as Chicago’s Big
Goddess Powwow, the Guggenheim’s “Art of
the Motorcycle Exhibit” at the Field Museum, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary
Art, The Harold Washington Cultural Center, the Salt Lake Arts Festival, Utah
Humanities Book Festival, as well as churches, coffee shops, mortuaries, art
galleries, pet shops, festivals, biker bars and of course the infamous Green
Mill where the “Slam” began.
Currently, Jean has served on the Board of
Brolly Arts and the Advisory Board of Utah Arts Alliance. She organized the
annual National Poetry Video Festival in Chicago for eight years, with her own
award-winning video poems airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the
nation
Rebecca Mae has made a habit of staying alive since 1993. She plans on keeping
this healthy habit until it no longer seems necessary. When she is not drinking
coffee or smoking cigarettes Rebeca spends her time writing poetry and furiously
yelling at walls. This has worked out well for her, Rebeca has represented Salt
Lake City in the 2012 Woman of the World Poetry Competition and was a member of
the 2013 National Poetry Slam Team. In hopes of finding more poems to write and
more walls to yell at Rebeca became the President of the Non-Profit
organization The Wasatch Wordsmiths who strive to share the art of spoken word
where ever there are walls.
City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique
forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first
three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City
Public Library.
City Art is
sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,
the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the Utah
Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.