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March 2016

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Australian poets Jen Webb, Jeri Kroll, and Paul Hetherington at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Australian poets Jen Webb, Jeri Kroll, and Paul Hetherington will present their work on April 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jen Webb is a Canberra-based writer who has been publishing, performing, presenting and exhibiting her work since 1992. Currently the director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra where she is also Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, she has taught creative writing for about 10 years, supervises research students in creative writing and other creative practices, and has worked as a book editor and arts manager. Prior to becoming an academic, Jen was an accountant and tax inspector. She is South African by origin, and has also lived in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, before settling in Australia. Recent publications include: Stolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (poetry chapbook, 2015); Watching the World: Impressions of Canberra (with Paul Hetherington; poems and photographs; 2015); Researching Creative Writing (scholarly book, 2015). Jen is completing an Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded investigation on poetry and creative excellence, and is working on two other ARC projects, both concerned with creative labour and career outcomes for creative arts graduates. Professor Jeri Kroll established the creative writing program – including the doctorate – at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. A former President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is also an award-winning poet who has published twenty-five titles for adults and young people. Criticism includes Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (Wakefield Press, 2013) and a verse novel, Vanishing Point (Puncher and Wattman, 2015), are recent books. A MainStage production of Vanishing Point was held at George Washington University in October 2014. The play was a winner in the 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and produced in January 2015 in Ohio. Vanishing Point was short-listed in the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards. Paul Hetherington is professor of writing at the University of Canberra and head of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) there. His poetry collection, Six Different Windows won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards and he was a finalist in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 international Aesthetica Creative Writing Competitions. He was shortlisted for the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He has has an abiding interest in the visual arts and edited the final three volumes of the National Library of Australia’s four-volume edition of the diaries of the artist Donald Friend. He is one of the founding editors of the international online journal Axon: Creative Explorations and a founding editorial committee member of the Meniscus journal. In 2002 he was the recipient of a Chief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and he was awarded one of two places on the 2012 Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland. He was recently awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome. 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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Julie Checkoway and Lance Larsen at City Art Wednesday March 9th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

City ArtPresents Julie Checkoway and Lance Larsen Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Julie Checkoway and Utah’sPoet Laureate Lance Larsen will present their work on March 9th atthe Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Julie Checkoway is a documentary filmmaker and the author of The Three-Year Swim Club, which has received wide critical praiseand has been on the Best Selling Sports Books list in The New York Times. Checkowayis also the author of the book Little Sister: Searching for the Shadow World ofChinese Women (Viking Penguin) and the editor of thebestselling Creating Fiction.Her writing has appeared in the NewYork Times, Salt LakeTribune, and HuffingtonPost. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, HuffingtonPost, and numerous anthologies. In 2001, she gave up tenureat the University of Houston (where she had been a professor and director ofthe creative writing program) and while producing and reporting radio storiesfor NPR’s Morning Edition and PRI’s ThisAmerican Life, she came across the story of artist BillyPappas. With the encouragement of her older brother, she set out tomake Waiting for Hockney,her first film. She graduated from Harvard College, the Iowa WritersWorkshop, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of aNational Endowment for the Arts individual artist grant and fellowships atwriters’ colonies, including Yaddo. She lives in Salt Lake City with herhusband and two daughters. Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, GeniusLoci, was recently published by University of Tampa Press. His earlier collections include BackyardAlchemy (2009), In All TheirAnimal Brilliance (2005), and ErasableWalls (1998). He holds a PhD from the University ofHouston. His work appears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review,Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart PrizeAnthology, Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Hisnonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays. He is currently working on Seventeen Waysto Float, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory,which won 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition. Hegrew up in Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving anLDS mission. He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walkson his hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food. Hesometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter andmulti-media artist. Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writingat BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair. He and Jacquirecently directed a study abroad program in Madrid. In 2012, he was namedto a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts 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 ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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