Poets Heidi Hart and Tim Erickson will read from their work for the City Art
Reading Series on November 7h at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City LibraryÂs
Main Branch.
Heidi Hart received her MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is the author of the memoir Grace Notes: The Waking of a WomanÂs Voice
(University of Utah Press, 2004), a finalist for the Utah Book Award. Her
most recent book, the poetry collection Edge by Edge, appeared in 2007 through
the Toadlily Press Quartet Series. Other poems and essays have appeared in
Northern Lights, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Lumina, Ellipsis,
Pilgrimage, Irreantum, Monkscript, The Salt Flats Annual, The Cortland Review,
and Dialogue.
Hart is the recipient of a 2007 Utah Arts Council Individual Artist grant to
pursue a book-length essay project on intersections of art and violence. She
has worked as a poet-in-residence in public schools and correctional
facilities, and she teaches courses such as Spiritual Autobiography and Art of
the Essay through the University of UtahÂs Lifelong Learning program. A
musician as well as a writer, Heidi has a private voice studio in Salt Lake
City and is in training to provide harp and vocal music for the dying.
Tim Erickson earned his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence University. He
helped run the Speak Easy Poetry Series in New York City before returning to
Salt Lake City to go to graduate school in Education at Westminster College.
His poems recently appeared in Quarterly West.
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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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The reading IS Thursday.
Award-winning poet Molly Peacock will read from her poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 18 as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five
books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and
Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To
Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece
(both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor
of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public
World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from
the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton)
PeacockÂs latest project is a one-woman staged monologue in poems, ÂThe
Shimmering Verge, produced by Femme Fatale Productions, which she is
performing in theatres throughout North America.
She conducts quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public RadioÂs Here On
Earth with Jean Feraca, and has read her poetry at the Library of Congress,
the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and Harbourfront (Toronto)
as well as at numerous colleges, universities, and libraries. Currently she is
interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the
College Boards and Advanced Placement English.
A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives with her husband, a James Joyce
scholar, in Toronto. Born in Buffalo, New York, she received a B.A. magna cum
laude from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) and an M.A. with honors from The
Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council
on the Arts Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best
American Poetry.
Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets Corner (Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine, New York City) and former President of the Poetry Society
of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and
buses throughout North America. Currently she is on the faculty of the
Spalding University low residency Master of Fine Arts Program. She works with
poets and writers throughout North America privately one-to-one.
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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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The reading IS Thursday.
Award-winning poet Molly Peacock will read from her poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 18 as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five
books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and
Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To
Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece
(both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor
of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public
World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from
the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton)
PeacockÂs latest project is a one-woman staged monologue in poems, ÂThe
Shimmering Verge, produced by Femme Fatale Productions, which she is
performing in theatres throughout North America.
She conducts quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public RadioÂs Here On
Earth with Jean Feraca, and has read her poetry at the Library of Congress,
the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and Harbourfront (Toronto)
as well as at numerous colleges, universities, and libraries. Currently she is
interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the
College Boards and Advanced Placement English.
A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives with her husband, a James Joyce
scholar, in Toronto. Born in Buffalo, New York, she received a B.A. magna cum
laude from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) and an M.A. with honors from The
Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council
on the Arts Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best
American Poetry.
Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets Corner (Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine, New York City) and former President of the Poetry Society
of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and
buses throughout North America. Currently she is on the faculty of the
Spalding University low residency Master of Fine Arts Program. She works with
poets and writers throughout North America privately one-to-one.
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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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Award-winning poet Molly Peacock will read from her poems at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 18 as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five
books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and
Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To
Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece
(both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor
of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public
World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from
the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton)
PeacockÂs latest project is a one-woman staged monologue in poems, ÂThe
Shimmering Verge, produced by Femme Fatale Productions, which she is
performing in theatres throughout North America.
She conducts quarterly poetry circles on Wisconsin Public RadioÂs Here On
Earth with Jean Feraca, and has read her poetry at the Library of Congress,
the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and Harbourfront (Toronto)
as well as at numerous colleges, universities, and libraries. Currently she is
interested in how young adults connect to poetry through her work with the
College Boards and Advanced Placement English.
A transplanted New Yorker, she now lives with her husband, a James Joyce
scholar, in Toronto. Born in Buffalo, New York, she received a B.A. magna cum
laude from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton) and an M.A. with honors from The
Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Among her awards are Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council
on the Arts Fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The
Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best
American Poetry.
Former Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets Corner (Cathedral Church of
St. John the Divine, New York City) and former President of the Poetry Society
of America, Peacock is one of the creators of Poetry in Motion on subways and
buses throughout North America. Currently she is on the faculty of the
Spalding University low residency Master of Fine Arts Program. She works with
poets and writers throughout North America privately one-to-one.
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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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Writer Poets Michael McLane and Michael Lavers will read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, October
10 as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Michael McLane hails from 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 was
a member of the board for City Art in Salt Lake and served as co-president
from 2003-2005. From 1999 to 2004 he served on the board of Writers @ Work
including chairing the Young Writers @ Work Conference from 2002-2004. From
2000-2004 he served as an adjunct faculty member for the Sawtooth Writers
Conference in Stanley, Idaho a conference geared toward at-risk youth. He was
co-founder with poet Chris Leibow of Cabaret Voltage, a collaborative showcase
of poets, musicians, and visual artists which takes place twice a month at The
Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Interim, Colorado Review, Arsenic Lobster, The Salt Flats Annual and The City
Art Journal. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at
Colorado State University.
Michael Lavers is from Edmonton Alberta, Canada and is a Senior at Brigham
Young University in Provo, Utah. He is the winner of the 2007 Vera Hinckley
Mayhew Poetry Contest at BYU. Michael is pursuing a double major in English
and Russian, and after graduation plans to pursue an MFA degree in creative
writing. His first published poem is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry.
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,
X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by
an open reading.
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