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Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang to readat City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday September 27th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Matthew Coopermanand Aby Kaupang will read from their works on Wednesday, September 27th 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.
Matthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. Heis the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winnerof the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago forthe Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth asthe Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, ASacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.
Cooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working withsuch varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol EckertCollective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadiancomposer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-foundedthe collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene.Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, mostnotably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet AbyKaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoingprojects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir ofAbilities. The two often perform together.
Aby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins PoetLaureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little"g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such aTransparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable(Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT,Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds master’s degrees inboth Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.
This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading.
The event is freeand open to the public. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts,and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
