CITY ART AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESS RELEASE
APRIL 20, 2005
TRIBUTE TO CRAIG CROWTHER
A Tribute to poet and musician Craig Crowther will be held at the City Art
reading series on Wednesday, April 20. The Tribute begins at 7:00 p.m. at The
Salt Lake Main Public Library, 209 East 500 South. The program is free and
open to the public.
TRIBUTE PROGRAM
Musicians, poets, and friends will gather to pay tribute to the memory of
Craig Crowther who died on October 5, 2003. Musicians from the Cowdaddies, The
Smiths Bros. Dirt Band, and the Craig Crowther Band will perform. Poetry in
commemoration and by Crowther will be read. Tribute participants include
Harold Carr, Kennard Machol, Rex Flinner, Randy Smith, Josh Crowther, Sandy
Anderson, Charles Potts, Miriam Murphy, Hector Ahumada, Jose Knighton and
Sherm Clow.
CRAIG CROWTHER
Craig Crowther was a musician, poet and an outdoor adventurer. He was one of
those rare people whom everyone considered their best friend. He played guitar
and sang in three bands: The Smiths Bros. Dirt Band, The Craig Crowther Band
and The Cowdaddies. In the most recent, The Cowdaddies, his voice was the
center. Fellow bandmember Harold Carr says: "The guitar, fiddle or bass
players could send subs to a gig and the music would work. But if he couldnt
make it, there were no Cowdaddies."
The author of 2 books of poetry, his work is mischievous and funny, with a
sensitivity to the Western landscape. He was the editor of Concours, the
Westminster College literary magazine in the 1970s. He went on to help
organize with Charles Potts the Underwater Poetry Festival and publish a group
of poetry books under the press name Litmus, including one of Charles
Bukowskis first books of poetry. He kept the plates, and used to joke about
printing up another batch of "first editions" so he could retire.
Crowther was a founding member of Word Affair in the 1970s, and City Art in
the 1980s. As a printerhe helped many local poets to publish their work. All
the City Art publications were made possible under his tutorage.
Born on September 25, 1946, Crowther started college at Southern Utah
University where he organized the first campus protest in Utah. He finished
his education at Westminster College, and served one year in Vietnam. His
interests were reflected in his occupations: he owned a printing business,
started an outdoor wilderness touring service, performed music professionally,
and worked for the state of Utah as manager of e-Publishing.
His legend as a river runner continues. Many are the tales of him navigating
his 18 foot raft through rapids on the Grand Canyon, Desolation and other
rivers in the West. And he never flipped his raft! One of Crowthers favorite
phrases was "divide the number of days you sleep outdoors by the number of
days in the year. That is your happiness quotient."
CITY ART PROGRAMS ARE MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY:
The Salt Lake Arts Council/Art Barn
The Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake Countys Zoo, Arts, & Parks Program
The Salt Lake Public Library
Audience Donations
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Harold Carr: 322-2777
Sandy Anderson: 277-1510
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Utahs Poet Laureate Ken Brewer and Utah State University Professor Michael
Sowder will read from their work on Wednesday April 13th at 7:00 P.M. in the
fourth floor conference room of the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Ken Brewer was named Utah's poet laureate on January 24, 2003. He retired from
Utah State University after 32 years in the English Department as a teacher of
writing. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Utah Arts.
Brewer has published numerous books, including The Place In Between,
Limberlost Press, 1998 (Poems); Lake's Edge, Woodhedge Press, 1997 (Poems);
Hoping for all, Dreading Nothing, Slanting Rain Press, 1994, A Fine Art Book
of Poems with Woodcuts by Harry Taylor; To Remember What is Lost, USU Press,
1982 (ISBN# 0-87421-114-X), 68pp. Re-issued in paperback, 1989 (ISBN#
0-87421-143-3); The Collected Poems of Mongrel, Compost Press, 1981, 48pp;
Round Again: A Cycle of Poems, published under a grant from the Utah Institute
of Fine Arts, 1980, 50 pp; Sum of Accidents, Chapbook Series, Alliance for the
Varied Arts, 1977, 24pp; and Places, Shadows, Dancing People, USU Monograph
Series, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1969, pp. 31-47, with Tom Lyons, Joyce Wood and
Robert Wood.
Brewer has also published over 300 individual poems.. Many of these have been
in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Kansas Quarterly, New York Quarterly,
Kentucky Poetry Review, Writer's Forum, Weber Studies, Blue Unicorn, River
Styx, Contemporary Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Hollow Spring Review,
Westigan Review, Puerto del Sol, Hanging Loose, South Dakota Review, Western
Humanities Review, Dry Crik Review, Ellipsis and others. Brewer's essays have
appeared in Ellipsis and Weber Studies and his criticism and reviews have
been published in Literary Magazine Review, Rocky Mountain Review and Western
American Literature Journal.
Michael Sowder won the 2004 T.S. Eliot prize for his book The Empty Boat. His
poems have appeared in CutBank, The Evansville Review, Green Mountains Review,
The GSU Review, Poem, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and South Carolina
Review among others. Sowder also published the chapbook A Calendar of Crows.
The reading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt
Lake City Arts Council: the Utah Arts Council: Zoo, Arts and Parks: and
Audience Donations.
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Jackson Connor and Michael McLane will read from their work at the Salt Lake
City Library Main Branch on April 6th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Jackson Connor is a graduate student in fiction at the University of Utah.
Michael McLane was born and lives in Salt Lake City. In 2002, he
graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in English and a B.A. in
Anthropology. He has been a member of the board for City Art in Salt Lake
City and for the last two years he has been the co-president of the
organization. From 1999 to 2004 he served on the board of Writers @ Work
which included chairing the Young Writers @ Work Conference from 2002-2004.
Since 2000, he has served as an adjunct faculty member for the Sawtooth
Writers Conference in Stanley, Idaho a conference geared toward at-risk
youth. His latest project is a collaborative effort with fellow poet Chris
Leibow called Cabaret Voltage, a showcase of poets, musicians, and visual
artists which takes place twice a month at The Urban Lounge in Salt Lake.
His poems have appeared in Byline, Arsenic Lobster, and The City Art
Journal.
The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. The event is free
and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts
Council, the Utah Arts Council, Zoo, Arts , and Parks, and audience donations.
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