Poets Cynthia Zarin and Jacqueline Osher to Read at City
Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday December 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets
Cynthia Zarin and Jacqueline Osherow will read from their work December 7th at
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Cynthia Zarin is the author of four books of poems published by Alfred A.
Knopf,
including THE ADA POEMS which appeared last year, and THE WATERCOURSE,
which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for
poetry. She is a long time
contributor to the New Yorker ( where she was a staff writer from l984-l994,
and 2003-2009) as well as The New York Times and other magazines and journals;
her non-fiction has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Travel
Writing, and Best Food Writing. She is also the author of five books for
children. Among her awards and honors are the Ingram Merrill Award for
Poetry, the Peter I. B. Lavan Prize, the Georgia Book Award and the Parents Choice awards for writing for children, the Front
Page Award for Arts Journalism, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award in
Poetry. She is a current Guggenheim Fellow, and an Elector of the Poets' Corner at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York. Cynthia Zarin teaches at Yale, where
she is Senior Lecturer and the
Coordinator of the Concentration in Creative Writing in the Department of English,
and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. A book of essays, AN
ENLARGED HEART, is forthcoming from Knopf next year.
University
of Utah Professor Jacqueline Osherow is the author of several collections of
poetry, including Whitethorn, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Dead Men’s Praise. Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988),
was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series.
Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of
America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Her work has been anthologized in Twentieth
Century American Poetry (2003), The
Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish
American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry.
Most featured readings
are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts
Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst,
the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
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.
Joel Long
