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City Art and Cab Voltage: OUTLAW BIBLE POET BUCKY SINISTER PERFORMING w/ Alex Caldiero!!!
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

--- Cabaret Voltage <cabaretvoltage(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > From: "Cabaret Voltage" <cabaretvoltage(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: OUTLAW BIBLE POET BUCKY SINISTER PERFORMING w/ Alex Caldiero!!! > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:55:53 +0000 > --------------------------------- Joining Bucky, will be ALEX CALDIERO WORDSHAKER, CURTIS JENSEN, IRIS MOULTON AND C.A. LEIBOW. Music will be peformed by THETA NAUGHT (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2…) Art will be shown by SRI WHIPPLE BUCKY SINISTER, author of Whiskey and Robots will be in Salt Lake City on March 8th at 7 pm to read from his book for the City Arts Reading Series held at the Main Branch Library. and then Headling later that evening at Cabaret Voltage Bucky Sinister is the author of Whiskey and Robots and King of the Roadkills. His work has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. A proud atheist and a recovering alcoholic, all he talks about is God and booze. He imagines himself as a literary cross between John Waters and Dog The Bounty Hunter. --------------------------------- With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and more. It's free! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: from Metcalf-Writing in France!?
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

> > Got Writing Plans? > > Doing anything this summer? From June 12th to June 18th consider joining > award winning teachers and writers, David Kranes and Jeff Metcalf for the > 4th annual Creative Writing Conference at Le Lavandin Bed and Breakfast in > Provence, France. Become part of a wonderfully diverse community of writers > in an exquisite landscape in the heart of Provence. > > Le Lavandin Creative Writing Workshop offers beginning and advanced writers > a variety of literary experiences. A willingness to be playful, a sense of > humor and a love of the written word are absolutely essential qualifications > for all participants! > > For details about the particulars please look at our website: > > www.lelavandinprovence.com > > David Kranes & Jeff Metcalf __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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High School Night
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

High School writers from across the Salt Lake Valley and beyond will read from their prose and poetry as part of City Art's High School night at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library's Main Branch on Wednesday, March 1st. Come out and hear the promise of Utah's literary future. 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Ken Brewer Tribute, 2/22/06
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

--- Guy Lebeda <GLEBEDA(a)utah.gov> wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:39:20 -0700 > From: "Guy Lebeda" <GLEBEDA(a)utah.gov> > To: "Guy Lebeda" <GLEBEDA(a)utah.gov> > Subject: Ken Brewer Tribute, 2/22/06 > > The City Art Reading Series & the Utah Arts Council's Literature Program > invote you to a "Tribute Reading" in honor of Utah's Poet Laureate Ken > Brewer at the SLC Main Library on Wednesday, February 22 at 7 pm. > > We want to give his friends & colleagues & readers a chance to celebrate his > life & poetry. > > Who: Partial list of participating Utah poets & writers: > Hector Ahumada > Sandy Anderson > Alex Caldiero > Chris Colinos > Katie Coles > Klancy deNevers > Diane Fouts > Joel Long > Nancy Takacs > Susan Sample > Ken Sanders > Michael Sowder > > What: Utah writers & poets will share memories of Ken Brewer & read their > favorite Brewer poems. > > > > Where: Salt Lake City Library, Main Branch, Auditorium > > > > When: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 7-9 p.m. > > Why: An opportunity for Utah's reading & writing communities to show their > love > & support for their Poet Laureate. > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Dorrell/Clark
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Writers Mike Dorrell and Maureen Clark will read from their recent works at the Salt lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday February 15th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Maureen Clark received an MFA from the University of Utah, Creative Writing Program. She received her BA from Westminster College where she was the editor of Ellipsis. She received her MFA from the University of Utah in 2003. She currently teaches writing at the U of U. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Colorado Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She is the former president of Writers @ Work. Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES, PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC for BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE OLD CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike is the Dramaturg for The Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work. He has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has been published in small magazines in Wales. 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Lake Effect
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Sorry if you got this twice. Please send this to anyone you think might be interested. The 10th Annual Lake Effect Writers Conference for High School Writers and their teachers will take place on February 10th, 2005 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at Salt Lake Community College South City Campus and the general public with an evening reading at 7:00 pm that is free and open to the public. The conference this year will feature Peter Rock, Nick Flynn and Mark Conway. The students will interview each of the writers for the upper school literary magazine. Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of the novels Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This is the Place, and Carnival Wolves. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared widely. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Nick Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. He has written two collections of poetry: Blind Huber and Some Ether. He also authored A Note Slipped Under the Door with Shirley McPhillips. His poem, "Bag of Mice", won the "Discovery"/The Nation Award in 1999 leading to the publication of his first book of poems, Some Ether. In 2001, he won the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. Most recently he wrote Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, an account of his tumultuous early life and relationship with his father. Mark Conway is the recipient of awards from the Aldrich Poetry Competition, the Grolier Competition, and the McKnight Foundation. His work has appeared in Agni, Bomb, The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Conway's debut book, Any Holy City, maps a rich and mysterious landscape haunted by ghosts-ghosts of the dead and the living, of addiction, sacrifice, of loss and love. He lives in Avon, Minnesota. Rowland Hall English teacher Joel Long founded the Lake Effect Writers Conference was founded in 1997 to provide a forum for high school writers to be in contact and learn from prominent, professional writers. The conference has hosted Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Stanley Plumly, MacCarther Fellow, Edward Hirsch, Utah Poet Laureate David Lee and Wyoming fiction writer Pam Houston, among others. The events are free and open to the public. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Chris Ames/Lyle Wiggins@City Art
by cityart＠mailman.xmission.com 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Poets Lyle Wiggins and Chris Ames will reading from their poems February 8th at the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lyle Wiggins was born in Ogden, Utah where he grew up hiking nearby foothills and canyons. He has worked as a musician, teacher, truck driver, custodian, professional genealogist, small business owner, systems analyst, data processing supervisor, and facility manager. He is currently Manager of Library Services at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He, and his wife, Jane, live in an old red brick house near the canyons he now hikes, and where he loves to gather his children and grandchildren. His first published works were narrative family histories written for celebrities and prominent businessmen, but for the past thirteen years poetry has been his primary creative passion. Chris Ames was born and raised in Salt Lake, then let loose upon the world. He has spent years in Europe and Asia, working, traveling and learning (and continuing to learn). He currently lives and works in Paris, but has never forgotten his roots as a Utahn. He has published two books of prose in Japan and contributed to countless magazines and anthologies from Beijing to Budapest. His current work, SOME PEOPLE, from which he will read tonight, appeared in Poland in 2005. 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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