For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Lynn Kilpatrick and Rob Carney to read at
City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writer
Lynn Kilpatrick and Poet Rob Carney will read from their works on Wednesday May
8th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Lynn Kilpatrick’s essay, “OC/D” was published in the latest
issue of Creative Nonfiction. Other
essays have appeared in Ninth Letter and Brevity. Her short story
collection, In the House, was
published by FC2. Her fiction has recently appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Hotel Amerika. She earned a PhD from the University of Utah, and
teaches at Salt Lake Community College. She lives with her husband and son and
German Shorthaired Pointer in Salt Lake City, She is currently working on
an untitled YA novel and a collection of essays called The Idaho Chronicles. An exhibit of her prose sonnets and blind
drawings by John Sproul is currently on display at the downtown branch of the
Salt Lake City Public Library.
Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He earned a BA in English from Pacific
Lutheran University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington
University before moving to south Louisiana to complete his PhD. He is the author of three books and
three chapbooks of poems, most recently Story Problems (Somondoco Press
2011) and Home Appraisals (Plan B Press 2012). He is a two-time recipient of the Utah Book Award for
Poetry, winner of the Pinyon Press National Poetry Book Award, and has been
interviewed on National Public Radio’s “The Poet and the Poem from the Library
of Congress.” His work has
appeared in Mid-American Review, Quarterly West, Redactions, Sugar House Review, Weber—The Contemporary West, Cave Wall,
and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction
Forward (2006). He is a
Professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake
City.
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.
April
3
Matt Mauch
Greg Brownderville
8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn)
Kate Greenstreet
Janet Holmes10
Dawn Lonsinger
Tasha Matsumoto
17
Hilda Raz
Aaron Raz Link
May
1
Brian Kubarycz
Pamela Balluck
8
Lynn Kilpatrick
Rob Carney
15
High School Night
June
5
Final Open Reading
Joel Long
