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Lola Haskins and Brenda Sieczkowski at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Writers Lola Haskins and Brenda Sieczkowski will read from their works on April 15th at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M.. Lola Haskins teaches poetry in Pacific Lutheran University's low residency MFA program. 2007 brings two new books: an advice book for people interested in poetry-- Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press), and Solutions Beginning with A, a collection of original fables about women, with images by Maggie Taylor,twice featured in Georgia Review (Modernbook). Ms. Haskins' in-print poetry collections include Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2004), Extranjera (Story Line, 1998), The Rim Benders (Anhinga, 2001), Hunger (University of Iowa Press, 1993-- winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize), Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (University Press of Florida, 1990/ second edition Betony Press, 1992), and Castings (Countryman Press, 1984/second edition Betony Press, 1992). Planting the Children, (University Press of Florida, 1983), though out of print, can be ordered from Ms. Haskins but Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful (State Street Press, 1990) is in fact out of print. BRENDA SIECZKOWSKI won the 2006 Writers at Work fellowship award for nonfiction. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Florida in 2001. She received a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Utah 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Cara Diacanoff and David Hawkins at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Writers Cara Diacanoff and David Hawkins will read from their works at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on April 8th. Cara Diaconoff is the author of a story collection, Unmarriageable Daughters (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008) and a novel, I’ll Be a Stranger to You, forthcoming from Juniper Press in 2009. Her stories have appeared individually in Indiana Review, Other Voices, South Dakota Review, and descant; her work has won fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Utah Arts Council, and the MacDowell Colony. She has taught creative writing as a lecturer at Texas Christian University, a Peace Corps volunteer at colleges in Russia, and, currently, as the Visiting Writer at Whitman College. She is working on her second novel. David Hawkins’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Chelsea, Poems & Plays, and The Southeast Review. His first book, Dark Adaptations, was selected by Allen Grossman as the first runner-up in the 2008 Bellday Books poetry prize and is the recipient of the ’08 Utah Arts Council prize for a collection of poems. He currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the University of Utah’s Writing Program. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Tony Hoagland Tonight at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Reminder: Award-winning poet Tony Hoagland will read from his poems to begin National Poetry Month at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on April 1st. Tony Hoagland is the author of three volumes of poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; and What Narcissism Means to Me, as well as a collection of essays about poetry, Real Sofistakashun, all by Graywolf Press. His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Ploughshares. Hoagland currently teaches in the poetry program at the University of Houston. He is the winner of the 2005 O.B. Hardison Jr. Prize, awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library; this is the only national prize to recognize a poet's teaching as well as his art. Hoagland also received the 2005 Mark Twain Award, given by the Poetry Foundation in recognition of a poet's contribution to humor in American poetry. Tony Hoagland's poems have been described as moving unerringly with wit and irony, like an arrow through its target—we, the readers—with exhilarating results. His poems sprint across the page and unexpectedly blow apart a single moment, exposing its contradictory nature—and often our folly. Hoagland explores the spiritual bereftness of American satisfaction, creating poetry that is scathing, funny, rich, and refreshingly intelligent. Steven Cramer writes of Hoagland's poems, "[They] grapple with selfhood and manhood, but they also consider the mysteries of the national identity—how the social and the personal mutually impinge." 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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