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Danielle Deulin and Timothy O'Keefe At City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Writers Danielle Cadena Deulen and Timothy O’Keefe at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 20th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Timothy O’keefe and Danielle Cadena Deulen will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on April 20th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. . Timothy O'Keefe's first book Goodbye Town was published by Field Press as the winner of the 2010 Field Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Indiana Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, Barrow Street, Blackbird, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Pool, and elsewhere. He has been awarded scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Tin House Writer's Workshop. He received an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and, currently, is a teaching fellow in the PhD Creative Writing program at the University of Utah. Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize (edited by Enid Shomer) and will be published with the University of Arkansas Press in spring 2011. Her first collection of essays, The Riots, won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction (judged by Luis Alberto Urrea) and will be published with the University of Georgia Press. Formerly, she was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has received three Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry prizes (2007 , 2008, 2010) and a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, and has appeared most recently in Smartish Pace, Best New Poets 2009, and The Indiana Review. Her essays are forthcomingin The Iowa Review and American Literary Review. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and currently lives in Salt Lake City where she is a PhD candidate in English at 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, X-Mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Brenda Miller and Teresa Jordan at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Writers Brenda Miller and Teresa Jordan at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 13th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Brenda Miller and Teresa Jordan will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on April 13th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. . Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Her newest collection of essays, Blessing of the Animals, was released by Eastern Washington University Press on February 1, 2009. Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review. Miller’s last collection includes two Pushcart Prize winning essays (“Blessing of the Animals” and “Raging Waters”). "Table of Figures" was named a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays, 2009 and selected for inclusion in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, by W.W. Norton. A book of new and selected essays is forthcoming as is a collaborative book on spiritual practices in writing. Miller is a Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review. She lives in Bellingham, WA, with her dog Abbe and her cat Madrona, both of whom are acting as muses for her next book. Teresa Jordan was raised as part of the fourth generation on a ranch in the Iron Mountain country of southeastern Wyoming. An author and visual artist, her books include the ranching memoir, Riding the White Horse Home; the classic study of women who work on the land and in the rodeo, Cowgirls: Women of the American West; and two illustrated journals, Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind, and Field Notes from Yosemite: Apprentice to Place, as well as other books. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband, musician and public radio producer Hal Cannon. 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. 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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Note: Barbara Duffey to read with Christopher Patton this week!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Christopher Patton AND Barbara Duffey will read from his poems Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Christopher Patton and Barbara Duffey will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on April 6th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. . Christopher Patton's first book, Ox, was published by Signal Editions of Vehicule Press in 2007. Ox was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Prize. Patton's poems have appeared in Field, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review. The Antioch Review, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead, and were anthologized in The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. In 2000, he was awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry. Patton is Ph.D. Candidate in Poetry at the University of Utah. Barbara Duffeyis a Ph. D student in poetry at the University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in Barrelhouse, Blue Mesa Review, Epicenter, Faultline, and the Indiana Reviewand are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner. 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. 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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Christopher Patton at City Art April 6th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Christopher Patton will read from his poems Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 6th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Christopher Patton will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on April 6th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. . Christopher Patton's first book, Ox, was published by Signal Editions of Vehicule Press in 2007. Ox was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Prize. Patton's poems have appeared in Field, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review. The Antioch Review, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead, and were anthologized in The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. In 2000, he was awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry. Patton is Ph.D. Candidate in Poetry at 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, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. 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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