City Art
Presents Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday December 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Wade Bentley and Joey
Franklin will read and perform their work
on December 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
Wade Bentley teaches writing
at Salt Lake Community College. He has four children and four
grandsons. He enjoys hiking, writing, and playing with the aforementioned
grandsons. His poems have been published or will soon appear in Green
Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities
Review, Rattle, Subtropics, Oberon, ARDOR, drafthorse, Clapboard House, and
Chicago Quarterly Review, among others. His chapbook of poems, Askew,
was recently published by Red Ochre Press.
Joey Franklin is an assistant
professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University. His
personal essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Florida Review, The Pinch,
and other journals. His essay,"How to be a T-Ball Parent," won the
2011 Sport Literate Essay contest, and his first published essay, "Working
at Wendy's," was recently anthologized in the 13th edition of the Norton
Nonfiction Reader.
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.
Joel Long