Poet Sandy Anderson will read from her works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 2nd at 7:00 P.M. as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
Sandy
Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and
workshops since 1965. She was a founding
member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair in the 70’s and
80’s, and City Art in the 90’s. She has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has
given workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners. She has served as Poetry Co-ordinator
for the Utah Arts Festival and First Night, and Poetry Consultant to the Salt
Lake Arts Council. She is listed
in Literary Utah: A
Bibliographic Guide edited by Joyce Kinkhead and sponsored by the Utah
Council of teachers of English. She was the 1997 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in
Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award for continued
support of the literary community.
Anderson
has given readings at the First Night Celebration in Salt Lake City, the Utah
Arts Festival, Park City Arts Festival, the Utah Book Festival, the Underwater
Poetry Festival, the Saint Marks Arts Festival, the Somos series in Taos, New
Mexico, Colorado Springs and Trinidad in Colorado, the Limberlost Fandango in
and the Log Cabin in Boise, and the Rocky Mountain Writers Festival in
Pocatello, Idaho.
Anderson’s
chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by
Limberlost Press in 1998. Her
book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published by Ghost Planet Press in
1978. She is included in the
anthologies Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador
Anthology, and The Great Salt Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue
of Wasatch Front, which won first place in the literary magazine
category in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, and is a former
editor of City Art Journal. She has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News, Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid
Moon. Anderson teaches piano
under her married name, Sandy Wilkerson, and has served as a judging chairman
for the Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the
1970’s .
She
has edited collections of poems by Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy,
Willie Newbrough, and three collections of poetry by the disabled. She has been a screener for the May
Swenson poetry book contest for several years, and has helped organize the out
of town night of readings at the Rocky Mountain Poetry Festival in Pocatello. She has recently joined the 2006 Great
Salt Lake Book Festival Steering Committee as chair of the booksellers and
exhibitors.
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.
