For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Award-Winning Poet Alice Notley
to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 8th,
7:00—8:00 P.M.
Poet
Alice Notley will read from her work on Wednesday, Wednesday November 8th at
7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading
Series and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is free and open to
the public.
Born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, Alice Notley grew up in Needles,
California. She received a BA from Barnard College in 1967, and an MFA from the
the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969.
She
moved about frequently in her youth (San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Essex,
Chicago) and eventually married the poet Ted Berrigan in
1972, with whom she had two sons. In the early 1970s, Notley settled in New
York’s Lower East Side, where she was very involved in the local literary scene
for several decades. In 1979, she received a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. After Berrigan’s death in 1983, she married the British
poet Douglas Oliver. Though
she is often identified as a prominent member of the eclectic second generation
of The New York
School, her poetry also demonstrates a continuing fascination with
the desert and its inhabitants. Notley’s
collections of verse include Certain Magical Acts (Penguin,
2016); Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (Wesleyan University
Press, 2011); Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Weslyan
University Press, 2006), which was awarded the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from
the Academy of American Poets for the best book of the year; Disobedience (Penguin,
2001), winner of the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize; Mysteries
of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998); Selected Poems of Alice
Notley (Talisman House, 1993); Margaret and Dusty (Coffee
House Press, 1985); and Sorrento (Sherwood Press, 1984). Her
collection How Spring Comes (Toothpaste Press, 1981) received
a 1982 San Francisco Poetry Award. Other early titles include Waltzing
Matilda (Kulchur Foundation, 1981), Alice Ordered Me To Be
Made (Yellow Press, 1976), and 165 Meeting House Lane (“C”
Press, 1971). She has also published Tell Me Again (Am Here
Books, 1982), an autobiography, and experiments with visual arts; her works
include collages, watercolors, and sketches.
She
has said that her speech is the voice of “the new wife, and the new mother” in
her own time, but that her first aim is to make a poem, rather than present a platform
of social reform.
Notley
has received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry and
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2001, she received both an Academy
Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the
Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. In 2015, she was honored
with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She currently lives in Paris
This event is made possible with support from
City Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
Most
featured readings are followed by an open reading.
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