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Star Coulbrooke at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com USU poet Star Coulbrooke Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday February 17 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Star Coulbrooke will read from her work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Teresa Jordan was forced to cancel her reading that was scheduled for tonight due to family circumstances. Star Coulbrooke teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing workshops, hosts literary events, serves on arts and literary panels, helps judge writing contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is published in Ellipsis, The Teacher’s Voice, City Art Journal, Sugar House Review, Tertula Magazine, Sunstone, Poetry International, Hunger Magazine, and others She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press), with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. Her work has appeared in the anthologiesA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Hooves and Standing: Poetry by Idaho Women. In 2008, her manuscript, River Once Removed, won finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine), and second place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest. Star directs the USU Writing Center and teaches writing workshops. She lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs. 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. Joel Long

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Madden and Sample at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Poet Susan Sample and Essayist Patrick Madden will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 10th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Patrick Madden first book, Quotidiana, a collection of essays that was runner-up in the 2007 AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction, will be published in early 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press. He has published individual essays in The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Portland Magazine, and many other journals, plus some of these essays have been anthologized in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007 and The Best Creative Nonfiction vol. 2 or noted in the back of The Best American Essays. Susan Sample, a Salt Lake City resident, has a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Her poetry has won awards in two recent Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competitions; her fiction won an award in Redbook magazine’s Young Writers Contest. She has published in literary journals, with her poems most recently appearing in The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Ellipsis, Salt Flats Annual and City Art Journal. Since 2002, Susan has led poetry workshops for the Arts Council at the Youth Transplant Kamp, teaching teenagers who’ve survived organ transplants. She also has taught poetry to children and adults for World Hospice Day at the Huntsman Cancer Center, and to patients with kidney disease and their families. At the University of Utah School of Medicine, where she is a program associate in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities. 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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Bickmore (poet) Jackson (cello) at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Poet Lisa Bickmore will read from her poems, and Cellist Nicole Jackson will perform at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 3rd as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lisa Bickmore's work has appeared in Mudfish, Quarterly West, Hunger Mountain Review, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, and elsewhere. Her first book, Haste, was published by Signature Books. She teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. Nicole Jackson has won awards as a soloist in the Music Teachers National Association and Rostropovich International competitions. She has performed across Europe and the US. She has served on the faculty at Waterford School, Brigham Young University and Weber State University and currently teaches privately. She has performed as Principal Cello with Ballet West and has performed with the Utah Symphony. Jackson has performed on dozens of recordings including Brahms with the Escalante Trio, Film da Fronteira with Zone Azul, Sisters at Play with Claudine Bigelow, Mood Swings with David Stoker, Wings of Song with Jenny Oaks, and Sketches with Kurt Bestor. 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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