David Pace and Rob Carney
ForImmediate 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 willread/perform from their works on Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. at theSalt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and theUtah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to thepublic. David G. Pace is the author of DreamHouse on Golan Drive. He haspublished in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought,ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Associationfor Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues tofollow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine. 88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4thfull-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around inthe New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's aboutthe times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughingand telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurativecul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays,challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed homeforeclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21stcentury fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed byfellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit:http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-our-min... Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of theUtah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and threechapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work hasappeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash FictionForward. 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 LakeCity. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series andprovides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs oneach of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at theSalt Lake City Public Library. City Art issponsored 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 UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long
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