Spread the word! Award winning poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Cynthia Cruz
will read from their works Jennifer Michael Hecht at the Salt Lake Public
Library on November 15th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series.
is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Her
first poetry book, The Next Ancient World won the Poetry Society of America's
2002 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her most recent poetry book, Funny, won
the University of Wisconsin's 2005 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and Publisher's
Weekly called it Âone of the most original and entertaining books of the
year. Her books on history and philosophy include Doubt: A History
(HarperCollins, 2003) and The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism
and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), which won the Phi Beta Kappa
Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Her next book, The
Happiness Myth, is coming out with HarperCollins in 2007. Hecht teaches at
The New School University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband John, their
son, Max and their new baby daughter, Jessie.
Cynthia Cruz was born in Germany and raised in Northern California. She holds
degrees from Mills College (B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.). Her
poems have appeared in Paris Review, Boston Review, GRAND STREET, AGNI,
Chelsea, Pleiades, the New Orleans Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Black
Warrior Review and others, and are anthologized in Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love
Poems by Younger Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. She is
the recipient of several residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She
lives in New York City.?
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, and
audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.
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University of Montana Professor Joanna Klink will read from her work with poet
Claire Hibbs at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November
8th at 7:00.
Joanna KlinkÂs first book, They Are Sleeping, won the Contemporary Poetry
Series through the University of Georgia Press and was published in 2000. Her
second collection, Circadian, is forthcoming from Penguin in May of 2007.
These poems take as their guiding vision circadian clocks, the internal time
clocks of organisms that regulate rhythms of sleeping and waking. Affected by
the presence and withdrawal of light, these clocks influence, among other
things, the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps
blood, and the migratory patterns of birds.
Klink is also writing a book-length lyric meditation titled You. A hybrid of
formsÂprose poem, essay, biography, collageÂYou is at once an introduction to
the life and poetry of Paul Celan; an extended reflection on CelanÂs search
for a reader; an exploration of the strangeness of poetry in general; and a
defense of the obscure or difficult poem in an age in which more
straightforward poems tend to be popular. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe
WriterÂs Award in 2003, Klink teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University
of Montana.
Claire Hibbs Cheff lives outside of Arlee, Montana where she regularly
encounters bears, coyotes and cows on the dirt road winding up the canyon to
her home. She was educated at Dartmouth College and at the University of
Montana, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught in
Oakland, California, on the Navajo Nation, and at the University of Montana.
She is passionate about giving all children the opportunity to attain an
excellent education regardless of economic or cultural background and has
worked as a Program Director and Program Design Specialist for Teach for
America. She is currently working on her first book of poems
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, and
audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by a reception for
the authors.
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