For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Poets Jay Hopler and
Kimberly Johnson Read for City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednseday March 17 7:00-- 9:00 p.m.
Yale Prize poet Jay Hopler and BYU Professor Kimberly
Johnson will read from their work on Wednesday March 17th at the Salt Lake
Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and he
has earned degrees from New York University, The Johns Hopkins University
Writing Seminars and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared,
or is forthcoming, in numerous magazines and journals including
The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and The New Yorker.
His book of poems, Green Squall (Yale University Press, 2006) was chosen by
Louise Glück as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets
Award. Green Squall also received the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges
Association New Writers Award, a 2006 Florida Book Award [Silver Medal in the
Poetry Category], a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award [Bronze Medal
in the Poetry Category] and a 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book
News. He also has been the recipient of a Marfa Residency Fellowship
from the Lannan
Foundation and a Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles
Whiting Foundation.
The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire, his first book, was
published in the United States and Europe by The Overlook Press and Canongate
Books in 1996. His next book, The Yale Anthology of Younger American
Poets, will be published by Yale University Press in 2010. He is
Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing/Poetry) at the University of
South Florida and divides his time between Tampa and Salt Lake
City where he lives with his wife, the poet, Kimberly Johnson.
Kimberly Johnson's first collection of poetry, Leviathan
with a Hook, was published by Persea Books in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded a
Creative Writing Fellowship from the the National
Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second
collection, A Metaphorical God, published by Persea in 2008. [1] Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, and
The Yale Review, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published
in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly
articles on seventeenth-century literature.
Her translation of Virgil's "Georgics" was
published in 2009 by Penguin Classics.
She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance
literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete
sermons.
Kimberly Johnson earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns
Hopkins Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers'
Workshop, and a PhD in 2005 from UC-Berkeley.
She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance
literature at Brigham Young
University (BYU)
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
