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Paul Ketzle and Susan Howe at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Paul Ketzle and Susan Howe to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Paul Ketzle and Susan Howe will read from their work on February 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Paul Ketzle holds a Ph.D. in Fiction from theUniversity of Utah. He is the former managing editor of Western Humanities Review, where he has been a contributing editor. He teaches for the LEAP program and the English Department at the U. His fiction has appeared in Indiana Review and his nonfiction in Continuum, Utah Business Magazine and elsewhere. Susan Howe is a contributing editor of Tar River Poetry and served for eleven years as the poetry editor of Dialogue. Her own poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published in 1997 and won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize. It also received the Association for Mormon Letters award in poetry for 1998. She has just completed a second collection of poems with Florida poet Terri Witek, To Lie with a Landscape 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

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Poet Craig Dworkin and Guitarist Joshua Payne at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Craig Dworkin to read and Joshua Payne to play at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 18 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet/writer Craig Dworkin will read from his work and jazz guitarist Joshua Payne will perform on January 18th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Craig Dworkin is the author of five books of poetry: Motes (2011), The PerverseLibrary (2010), Parse (2008), Strand (2004), and Dure (2004). He has also edited five collections, including, most recently, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (with Kenneth Goldsmith). He teaches at the University of Utah, where he curates the on-line archive Eclipse <http://english.utah.edu/eclipse>.. Joshua Payne is from Alpine, Utah. He is a street musician and has performed all over downtown Salt Lake City and in the subway system in New York City. Joshua plays a custom guitar hand-made by his old best buddy Ryan Thorell. Check out some of the Joshua Payne Orchestra: http://www.joshuapayneorchestra.com/index.php/video 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

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Natalie Young and Stephen Tuttle at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Writers Natalie Young and Stephen Tuttle will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday January 11th at 7:00. Stephen Tuttle joined the faculty of Brigham Young University in 2006, the same year he completed his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. He teaches courses in creative writing, fiction writing, and American literature. As a writer, he focuses on short fiction, and his stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Colorado Review, and other venues. Natalie Young is a co-founder, editor and graphic designer for the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. Natalie received a BFA in art from Utah State University and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. Recent and forthcoming publications include Tar River Poetry, A capella Zoo, Terrain.org, Chiron Review, The Dos Passos Review, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and specs, among others. She spends her days making pictures on the computer and her nights with a pug, a mutt and a Nano. 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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