For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Zach Haber and Andy Farnsworth to read for WildWords: a special City Art summer event
Antelope Island State Park
Wednesday June 26th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. with a pre-reading event talk on the GreatSalt Lake at 5:30
Zack Haber and AndyFarnsworth will read from their works on Monday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. at theWhite Rock Campground on Antelope Island as part of Wild Words: a City Art specialsummer event. This event is free and open to the public. Please bring fold out chairs and plenty ofbeverages and snacks. Following thereading, stick around for the sunset. Note: there is an entrance fee for Antelope Island to help support thisbeautiful, unique state park.
Great Salt Lake Talk: Prior to the reading, join us at 5:30PM for a discussion of the ecology of the area as well as the environmental andliterary history of the Great Salt Lake with Jaimi Butler from the Great SaltLake Institute and Michael McLane from Utah Humanities. Butlerand McLane have been leading daytrips to Antelope Island over thelast year in order to help visitors and residents better understand thecomplexities of the region and to integrate both science and the humanities inan understanding of place.
ZackHaber is an organizer of poetics. Some of his work can befound in Datableed Zine, Armed Cell, The Capalino Review, 580 Split, ElevenEleven, Sierra Nevada Review and other places. His little book, if you want tobe one of them playing in the streets…, was published in 2014 by QuietLightning and Tiny Splendor. He’s hosted poetry readings and performancesthrough The Other Fabulous Reading Series and other projects in the Bay Areasince 2012. He works at Martin Luther King Elementary School in West Oakland.He’s currently writing a book called Horrible Places.
AndyFarnsworth is a comic, writer, and the host of what's your yarnworth? with Andy Farnsworth, a documentary podcast about the lives ofinteresting people in and around New York City. Please follow him on twitter.He has performed all over the US, England, and has been nominated for aPushcart Prize for his story “Five Minutes of Material.” As a comic, he onceopened for Doug Stanhope and Andy’s girlfriend at the time sat in the front rowwith two of her friends and heckled him. She was on drugs which was probablywhat led to the heckling, but still it remains a formative event from which hestill hasn’t totally recovered. Perhaps—a word not usually acceptable in thevernacular of standup—it is appropriate that his standup has been described as"a fun meltdown." What’s weird is that they still didn’t break up foranother couple months, him and the heckler girlfriend. She wasn’t a bad person.We all struggle with our demons. Andy included. But, one of his demons happensto be not knowing when to part with other people’s demons. (This may or may notbe important, but he is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing atthe University of Utah, but has been on a leave of absence for a very longtime. Left to introducer’s discretion whether or not this part is read.) Inconclusion: he finds that bios are tricky in that they can either be an outloud ego-stroking resume-type-thing that people either yawn and/or roll theireyes through. Or when they attempt to be funny or cryptic they end up fallingflat and then Andy Farnsworth blames the person who read his bio for itsfailure. Like the whole time he’s reading or performing he blames the personintroducing him and can’t really focus on his material. In double conclusion:As the person reading this bio, I [insert name here (please read phrase “insertname here” then say your name—also read phrase “‘insert name here then say yourname’”] apologize for any and all deficiencies, and ad libbing I may have attemptedin introducing Andy. Also a reminder that his podcast, what's your yarn worth?with Andy Farnsworth, a documentary podcast about the lives of interestingpeople in and around New York City, is available on iTunes, Stitcher, and onthe web at WhatsYourYarnWorth Dot Com.
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The event is free and opento the public. City Art is sponsored bythe Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. WildWords is also supported by the Utah Humanities Council.
Joel Long
