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Alex Caldiero and Gino Sky at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Gino Skyand Alex Caldiero to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 26th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Gino Sky will read from their works on Wednesday, April 26th at 7:00p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. This event is free and open to the public. Gino Sky is the author oftwelve books of poetry and short stories. His best known novel, Appaloosa Rising: The Legend Of The Cowboy Buddha, has been a cultnovel since its publication in 1980. During the Sixties, he co-edited aliterary magazine, Wild Dog, which publishedsuch writers as Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley,Denise Levertov, Diane Wakoski, Richard Brautigan, Rosalie Sorrels, AmiriBaraka, and many more from the "Beat" and "Sixties" periodof American Letters. Wild Dog was considered by The New York Public Library as one of thefinest underground mimeo magazines from that period. He worked in the CivilRights Movement including The Grape Pickers Strike with Cesar Chavez in Delano,California. His latest published book, Wild Dog Days, (Limberlost Press)is the history/story of Wild Dog, along with ahealing poem for the Vietnam War. He currently lives in Salt Lake City with hiswife, Barbara Jensen Sky, where he writes, draws, gardens, and maintains awoodworking shop. Teacher,polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Alex Caldiero is a powerful poet andperformer. Heis a maker of text-sound and visual works, installations, and publications,including SoundWeavewith ThetaNaught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Sonosuono (Elik Press), and Who is the Dancer/What is the Dance (saltfront).Raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY,he attended Queens College in Flushing, NY, and apprenticed to thesculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero hastraveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales,and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for thepreservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in theDictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of aNational Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour.Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and theSalt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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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Brad Roghaar and Ryan Ridge at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com BradRoghaar and Ryan Ridge to readat City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 19th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Ogden’s Poet Laureate Brad Roghaar and fiction writer Ryan Ridge willread from their works on Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt LakeCity Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is freeand open to the public. Brad Roghaar was named Ogden’s Poet Laureate in fall of 2016. Roghaar has instructed literature and writingat Weber State for the last thirty years. He has published one book of poetry titled Unraveling the Knot and isjust finishing up a second book titled Standof Aspen: Places of Healing. He is also currently writing the script— a"cinepoem"—for a film on wild horses in Utah. As if these projectsweren’t enough, he also serves on the editorial board for Rough Draft, is thefaculty advisor for Metaphor, and is the editor for Weber Studies. He was also Utah State Poet of the Yearin 1991, has served on the committee to select a state poet laureate and wasthe Utah Poetry Society Poet Laureate of 1992. RYANRIDGE holds a BA in English from the University of Louisville andan MFA in Fiction from the University of California, Irvine, where he was therecipient of the MacDonald Harris prize for fiction. He is the author offour books, including American Homes (Universityof Michigan Press, 2014), which was the Michigan Library Publishing Club’sinaugural book club pick. His fiction and essays have appeared inSantaMonica Review, Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, LosAngeles Review, Lumina, NERVE,DIAGRAM, PassagesNorth, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Ridge received the 2016Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction judged by Jonathan Lethem. An assistantprofessor at Weber State University, he edits the literary magazine Juked and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He ismarried to writer Ashley Farmer. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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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Gerda Saunders and Jennifer Tonge at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com GerdaSaunders and Jennifer Tonge to readat City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 5th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writer Gerda Saunders and Poet Jennifer Tonge will read from theirworks on Wednesday, April 5th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Libraryas part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to thepublic. GERDA SAUNDERS: In 2010, just before her sixty-first birthday, former literatureprofessor Gerda Saunders was diagnosed with microvascular disease, the secondleading cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s. At Saunders’ early retirementparty, her colleagues presented her with a beautiful leather-bound journal.Facing “the premature death of the mind,” she took to jotting down notes in thejournal about her daily misadventures– pots boiling dry on the stove, washingher hair twice in an hour, forgetting to bake a casserole. She would come tocall these scribblings her “Dementia Field Notes.” Saunders became an anthropologist assigned to observe one memberof a strange tribe, the Dementers. “Like a true scientist,” she writes, “Iwould be objective. No whining, wailing, or gnashing of the teeth. Just thefacts.” The result of Saunders’ extraordinary project – a sort of true-life“Sill Alice” – is MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: Field Notes on My Dementia (HachetteBooks, June 13, 2017), an unsparing, beautifully written memoir about Gerda’sexperience as an intellectual person aware that her brain is betraying her.MEMORY’S LAST BREATH is uncharted territory in the writing about dementia, adiagnosis one in nine Americans will ultimately receive. Gerda Saunders grew up inSouth Africa, where she obtained a B.S. from the University of Pretoria. In1984, she settled in Utah with her husband Peter and two children. Afterreceiving an English PhD from the University of Utah in 1996, she suffered thecorporate world before becoming the Associate Director of Gender Studies at heralma mater, also teaching gender studies and English. SMU Press published herstories Blessings on the Sheep Dog (2002), about which Nobel laureate J.M.Coetzee said, “With cool intelligence, laconic wit, and deep feeling, Saundersexplores the moral chaos of South Africa and the pain of a new generationof…exiles.” Now retired, she enjoys time with her husband Peter, children,grandchildren, and made-in-America family. She is writing a memoir, Telling WhoI Am before I Forget: My Dementia. An excerpt from the memo was published inthe Winter 2013 edition of The Georgia Review and in March 2014 republishedonline in Slate Magazine and the UK Independent. Jennifer Tonge’s poems haveappeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New England Review, Denver Quarterly, andelsewhere, and on Poetry Daily. She has received the Jay C. and RuthHalls Fellowship in Poetry from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, aWork-study Scholarship and the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry from theBread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, TheVirginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and The DjerassiResident Artists Program. She has served as poetry editor of QuarterlyWest, as president of Writers at Work, and on the board of City Art. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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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