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Holiday Open Reminder for City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Holiday Open Reading at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 18th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art invites you to a holiday open reading on December 18th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library. Bring your cider and cookies, your poems, your prose, your open minds and hearts for a night of open readings. It is a potluck of literature, so it all depends on what you bring as your hot dish or your lovely desert. See you there. 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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Reminder: Joey Franklin and Wade Bentley Tonight at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

City Art Presents Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin will read and perform their work on December 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. He has four children and four grandsons. He enjoys hiking, writing, and playing with the aforementioned grandsons. His poems have been published or will soon appear in Green Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review, Rattle, Subtropics, Oberon, ARDOR, drafthorse, Clapboard House, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among others. His chapbook of poems, Askew, was recently published by Red Ochre Press. Joey Franklin is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University. His personal essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Florida Review, The Pinch, and other journals. His essay,"How to be a T-Ball Parent," won the 2011 Sport Literate Essay contest, and his first published essay, "Working at Wendy's," was recently anthologized in the 13th edition of the Norton Nonfiction Reader. 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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Joey Franklin and Wade Bentley at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin will read and perform their work on December 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Wade Bentley teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. He has four children and four grandsons. He enjoys hiking, writing, and playing with the aforementioned grandsons. His poems have been published or will soon appear in Green Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Western Humanities Review, Rattle, Subtropics, Oberon, ARDOR, drafthorse, Clapboard House, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among others. His chapbook of poems, Askew, was recently published by Red Ochre Press. Joey Franklin is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University. His personal essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Florida Review, The Pinch, and other journals. His essay,"How to be a T-Ball Parent," won the 2011 Sport Literate Essay contest, and his first published essay, "Working at Wendy's," was recently anthologized in the 13th edition of the Norton Nonfiction Reader. 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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Alex Caldiero and Sian Griffiths at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Alex Caldiero and Sian Griffiths Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet and sonosopher Alex Caldiero and novelist Sian Griffith will read and perform their work on December 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities, Alex Caldiero makes things that appear as language or pictures or music, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is the author of numerous publications, visual and text-sound works, including Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press) and Sound Weave (Differential Records). He has appeared in various films, such as Trent Harris’ Plan Ten From Outer Space and Luna Mesa. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge, London/NY) and is the subject of the experimental documentary film The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in life…in sound (Dream Garden Press and OHO Media). He is Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University. Siân Griffiths lives in Ogden, Utah where she directs the Creative Writing Program at Weber State University. Her first novel Borrowed Horses was published this year by New Rivers Press. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Cave Wall, River Teeth, Versal, Court Green, and The Georgia Review, among many other publications. Versal nominated her story “What Is Solid” for a Pushcart Prize, and Janet Burroway included her poem, “Fistful,” in the third edition of Imaginative Writing. 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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