For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Derek
Henderson and Chris Tanseer to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Derek Henderson and Chris Tanseer will read from their works on Wednesday, November 12th
at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art
Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free
and open to the public.
Derek Henderson is the author of two previous collections, Inconsequentia (with
Derek Pollard), and Thus &, an Erasure of the Sonnets of Ted Berrigan,
sections of which appear in the Anthology of Appropriation Literature. His
poems have been published in journals such as Fence, Volt, Witness, Bombay
Gin, and The Colorado Review. He currently teaches English at the
Walden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT.
Chris Tanseer grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received a BA from the
University of North Carolina at Asheville and an MFA in poetry from George
Mason University. Currently, he lives in Salt Lake City, UT, where he is a PhD
candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. He
serves as an editorial assistant at Sugar
House Review. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Best New Poets 2012, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Subtropics,
and Western Humanities Review.
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.