For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Melissa Bond to perform at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 20th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writer
Melissa Bond will read from their works on Wednesday February 6th at the Salt
Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Bio
from Melissa Bond:
The
espresso version, in third person:
1.
Never was a skinny girl, always was a small girl, always had to jump.
2. Wrote on her mattress at night, burning adolescent smoke and fire.
3. It started here, with heat and brooding and a Jim Morrison crush, big as a
movie.
4. Years pass: She teaches addicts and hurt children the love of the pen.
5. She writes a chapbook called Hush to talk about addiction, the slosh and
snuff that nearly rubbed her out.
6. Years pass: She writes articles and stories about people that burn. Bright.
7. Sometimes too bright, but heat attracts her.
8. Becomes an editor at a shiny magazine, the Wasatch Journal.
9. Two years and the journal folds as the country is folding.
10. Then a baby comes, faster than a speedball.
11. Another.
12. Who knew she would be like spring in this sallow time?
13. These children, these little sprouts.
14. And the boy child is different, has more chromosomes than most boys, has a
soft heart.
15. A rocket ship.
16. Her voice explodes with Afterbirth.
17. She will shout from the stage.
18. These poems, this blood-letting.
19. She will shout as an offering.
20. You will hear her.
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.
March 27th
Katharine Coles
Peggy Shumaker
Matthew Batt
Joel Long
