Wild Words change: Laura Stott will read with Zack Haber, Monday at Antelope Is.
For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Zach Haber and Laura Stott to read for Wild Words:a special City Art summer event Antelope Island State Park Wednesday June 26th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. with a pre-reading event talk on the GreatSalt Lake at 5:30 Zack Haber and Laura Stottwill read from their works on Monday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. at the White RockCampground on Antelope Island as part of Wild Words: a City Art special summerevent. This event is free and open to the public. Please bring fold out chairs and plenty ofbeverages and snacks. Following thereading, stick around for the sunset. Note: there is an entrance fee for Antelope Island to help support thisbeautiful, unique state park. Great Salt Lake Talk: Prior to the reading, join us at 5:30PM for a discussion of the ecology of the area as well as the environmental andliterary history of the Great Salt Lake with Jaimi Butler from the Great SaltLake Institute and Michael McLane from Utah Humanities. Butlerand McLane have been leading daytrips to Antelope Island over thelast year in order to help visitors and residents better understand thecomplexities of the region and to integrate both science and the humanities inan understanding of place. ZackHaber is an organizer of poetics. Some of his work can befound in Datableed Zine, Armed Cell, The Capalino Review, 580 Split, ElevenEleven, Sierra Nevada Review and other places. His little book, if you want tobe one of them playing in the streets…, was published in 2014 by QuietLightning and Tiny Splendor. He’s hosted poetry readings and performancesthrough The Other Fabulous Reading Series and other projects in the Bay Areasince 2012. He works at Martin Luther King Elementary School in West Oakland.He’s currently writing a book called Horrible Places. Laura Stott is the author of thebook of poems, In the Museum of Coming and Going (New Issues Poetry &Prose, 2014). Her poems can also be found or are forthcoming in publicationssuch as Copper Nickel, Bellingham Review, Memorious, Cutbank, SugarhouseReview, Rock and Sling, Western Humanities Review, and All We Can Hold: Poemsof Motherhood. Laura’s summer project is her Blue Nude Migration manuscript, apoetry and painting collaboration with her sister, Katheryn Stott. She isan Instructor of English at Weber State University and is on the board for Writers@Work. The event is free and opento the public. City Art is sponsored bythe Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. WildWords is also supported by the Utah Humanities Council. Joel Long
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