Andrea Hollander Budy and Carlos Reyes will Read for City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednseday April 21 7:00-- 9:00 p.m.
Poets Andrea Hollander Budy and Carlos Reyes will read from
their work on Wednesday April 21st at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Born in Berlin, Germany, of American parents, raised in
Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University
and the University of Colorado, Andrea
Hollander Budy is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which
won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include the D. H. Lawrence
Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for prose memoir, the Runes Poetry Award, two poetry fellowships the National Endowment
for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Most recently Budy
received the 2008 Subiaco Award for Literary Merit for Excellence in the
Writing and Teaching of Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous
anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Grimm, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Her
work appears regularly in such literary journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, FIELD,
Five Points, Shenandoah, and Creative
Nonfiction. Since 1977 Budy has lived in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains near
Mountain View, where she and her husband Todd and their now-grown son Brooke
ran a bed-and-breakfast inn for fifteen years. For the past seventeen years she
has been the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the
Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Carlos
Reyes is a poet, translator and author who has been teaching poetry
writing in Oregon, Washington and Nevada schools since 1982. Four books and
nine chapbooks of his poetry have been published, as well as four books of his
translations, including Most recently Book of Shadows, Selected Poems as well
as the lyrical Poemas de la isla (Island
Poems) by Canary Island poet Josefina de la Torre (EWU Press, 2000) and At the Edge of the Western Wave.
Additionally, he is a book editor and publisher, and writes freelance reviews
of poetry books for the Willamette Week newspaper. When he's not traveling or
staying in his cottage in Ireland, he lives in Portland, Oregon.
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
