For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Michael McGriff and Matthew Kirkpatrick to read at City
Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Michael McGriff and Matthew Kirkpatrick will read from their work on May 9th at
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He is a graduate of
the University of Oregon and the University of Texas. He is the author of the
poetry collections Dismantling the Hills (University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Home
Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). He is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and
Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010) and is
the translator of Tomas Tranströmer’s The
Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010). He has received a Lannan
Literary Fellowship, a Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation, and a Stegner
Fellowship from Stanford University. He has taught creative writing at Stanford
University and Wichita State University. His poetry, essays, and
translations have appeared in Bookforum, Slate, The Believer, The Wall Street
Journal, American Poetry Review,
and Poetry. He is the founding editor
of Tavern Books, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit publisher whose focus is reviving
out-of-print books and publishing books in translation.
Matthew Kirkpatrick is the author of the short story
collection Light without Heat (FC2, March
2012). His writing has appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, DIAGRAM,
and the Notre Dame Review, and is
forthcoming in Unsaid. He recently
finished his Ph.D. at the University of Utah.
He lives in Salt Lake City, UT with the writer, Susan McCarty. Together, they maintain a small
menagerie.
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
