For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Janine
Joseph and Mike White to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 20th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets
Janine Joseph and Mike White will read from their works on Wednesday November 20th
at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
A finalist for the 2013 Tupelo Press Dorset
Prize, as well as the OSU/The Journal Award in Poetry and Alice James Books
Beatrice Hawley Award, Janine Joseph’s poems have appeared in Kenyon
Review Online, Painted Bride Quarterly, Asian American Literary Review, Best New Poets 2011, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, and
elsewhere. She also wrote a commissioned libretto, entitled “From My Mother’s
Mother,” for the Houston Grand Opera’s “Song of Houston: East + West” series.
Janine holds an MFA from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of
Houston, where she was a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. She has taught
creative writing, literature, and composition at the University of Houston and
New York University, as well as with Writers in the Schools, Community~Word
Project, and the Starworks Foundation. Janine is a recipient of a Paul and
Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, an Inprint/Barthelme Fellowship in
Poetry, a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Fellowship for Collaboration Among the
Arts, and an Academy of American Poets prize. She is currently an editor for Tongue:
A Journal of Writing & Art and is an Assistant Professor of
English at Weber State University.
Mike White is the author of HOW TO MAKE A BIRD WITH TWO HANDS, which won the 2011 Washington
Prize. White grew up in Montreal, and
lived in Canada until 2001. With a Bachelor's degree from The University of
Toronto and a Masters from McGill University, he headed south to the University
of Utah's doctoral program in Literature and Creative Writing. He served as the
poetry editor and editor- in-chief of Quarterly
West and teaches literature and creative writing courses at the University
of Utah. His poems have appeared in Poetry,
The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Field,
Witness, and many others. Work has also been featured online at Poetry Daily
and Verse Daily. He maintains ties with the Canadian literary scene, with poems
in Canadian journals such as The Malahat Review , The Dalhousie Review , and
The Fiddlehead.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah
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.
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Jon Sebba
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Mike White
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Alex Caldiero
11
Wade Bentley
Joey Franklin
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Holiday Open Reading
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