For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
David G.
Pace and Rob Carney to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday September 23rd, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers David G. Pace and Rob Carney will
read/perform from their works on Wednesday, September 23rd 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.
David G. Pace is the author of Dream
House on Golan Drive. He has
published in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought,
ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Association
for Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues to
follow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine.
88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4th
full-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around in
the New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's about
the times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughing
and telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurative
cul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays,
challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed home
foreclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21st
century fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed by
fellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit:
http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-our-minds-wguest-rob-carney
Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of the
Utah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and three
chapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work has
appeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction
Forward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.
He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake
City. 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.
Joel Long