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Paisley Rekdal and Kirstin Scott at City Art Wednesday!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Paisley Rekdal and Kirstin Scott Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 18th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Paisley Rekdal and KirstinScott will read from their works on Wednesday, January 18th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother MetBruce Lee; a hybrid-genre memoir entitled Intimate; andseveral books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, TheInvention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye, which won theUNT Rilke Prize. Her newest book of poems, Imaginary Vessels,is out from Copper Canyon Press, and her latest book of nonfiction, TheBroken Country: On Trauma, A Crime and the Continuing Legacy of the Vietnam War wonthe AWP Nonfiction Prize and will be out in September 2017. Her work hasreceived the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship,an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the UNT Rilke Award, and inclusion inthe Best American Poetry series. She runs the web historyarchive project, Mapping Salt Lake City. Kirstin Scott is the author of the novel Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize forthe Novel and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize,the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. Her short stories haveappeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, PANK, Sonora Review,Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. 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. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Writers Resist Event
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

On Sunday, January 15th at 7 PM, please join us at The Mandate Press (1077 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City) for an evening of short readings by prominent and emerging Utah poets and writers as part of the national post-election Writers Resist movement to rekindle our citizens’ commitment to compassion, equality, free speech, and social justice. Writers Resist is a national network of writers working with PEN America to defend the ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democratic society. A $5-$15 donation is suggested at the door, though no one will be turned away. Books and broadsides will be available for purchase. All proceeds from the Utah Writers Resist event will go to the ACLU, which is devoted to preserving the civil liberties of all Americans.Featured writers at the Utah Writers Resist reading include: Will Bagley, Lisa Bickmore, Scott Carrier, Kate Coles, Nic Contreras, Craig Dworkin, Kimberly Johnson, Michael McLane, Chad Nielsen, Lance Olsen, Jose Soto, Danielle Susi, Michael Mejia, Jennifer Tonge, RJ Walker and more. Paisley Rekdal will host.Doors open at The Mandate Press at 6:40. For more information about Writers Resist and the more than 75 national and international reading events taking place on January 15th, please see www.writersresist.org. Joel Long

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Writers Resist on Sunday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

On Sunday, January 15th at 7 PM, please join us at The Mandate Press (1077 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City) for an evening of short readings by prominent and emerging Utah poets and writers as part of the national post-electionWriters Resist movement to rekindle our citizens’ commitment to compassion, equality, free speech, and social justice. Writers Resist is a national network of writers working with PEN America to defend the ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democratic society. A $5-$15 donation is suggested at the door, though no one will be turned away. Books and broadsides will be available for purchase. All proceeds from the Utah Writers Resist event will go to the ACLU, which is devoted to preserving the civil liberties of all Americans.Featured writers at the Utah Writers Resist reading include: Will Bagley, Lisa Bickmore, Scott Carrier, Kate Coles, Nic Contreras, Craig Dworkin, Kimberly Johnson, Michael McLane, Chad Nielsen, Lance Olsen, Jose Soto, Danielle Susi, Michael Mejia, Jennifer Tonge, RJ Walker and more. Paisley Rekdal will host.Doors open at The Mandate Press at 6:40. For more information about Writers Resist and the more than 75 national and international reading events taking place on January 15th, please see www.writersresist.org. Joel Long

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Katharine Coles and Joel Long at City Art Wednesday, January 11th.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Katharine Coles and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 11th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Katharine Coles and Joel Longwill read from their works on Wednesday, January 11th at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Katharine Coles’sixth collection of poetry, Flight, was published in2016 by Red Hen Press. Her fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (RedHen 2013), was written under the auspices of the U.S. National ScienceFoundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Ten poems from that book,translated into German by Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue ofthe journal Matrix; she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, andDutch. Her chapbook, Bewilder, was published in 2015 by the InternationalPoetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. She is also the co-PIon the Poemage project, which develops software for analyzing and visualizingsonic relationships in poetry; she has written a number of scholarly articlesand presentations based on this work. A professor at the University of Utah,she served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as theinaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Joel Long’s book WingedInsects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His books Lessonsin Disappearance and Knowing Time byLight were published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and SaffronBeneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Interim,Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, CrabOrchard Review, Bellingham Review,Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, The Pinch, Quarterly West, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place:ContemporaryPoems in Defense of Global Human Rights. 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. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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