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City Art Presents Lance Olsen, Lindsey Drager, and Michael Mejia
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Lance Olsen, LindseyDrager, and Michael Mejia Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lance Olsen, Lindsey Drager, and Michael Mejiafrom the fiction faculty of the University ofUtah's Creative Writing program will read from their work on October 2ndat the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. LanceOlsen is author of more than 25 books of andabout innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels Dreamlives ofDebris (Dzanc, 2017) and My Red Heaven (Dzanc, forthcoming 2020). His shortstories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals andanthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International,Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading. AGuggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A.Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, heteaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015),winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award, and TheLost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Awardand finalist for at Lambda Literary Award, and The Archive of AlternateEndings, which is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. She was an assistant professorat the College of Charleston and recently joined the creative writing facultyat the University of Utah. Michael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness,and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies.A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and theLudwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western HumanitiesReview, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at theUniversity of Utah, in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife and theirJack Russell Terrier. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art and Utah Humanities. Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, 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 Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audiencedonations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Poet Mario Chard and Danielle Susi on Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Poet Mario Chard and Danielle Susi Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 25th 7:00—9:00 P.M. PoetsMario Chard and Danielle Susi will read from their work on September 25that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. The City Art Reading Series ispleased to host poets Mario Chard and Danielle Susi at the Special Collectionsroom of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7pm! Mario Chard wasborn in northern Utah. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an Americanfather, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University(MFA). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at StanfordUniversity. He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected byRobert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut by Poets& Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author ofthe Year Award in Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in the The New Yorker,Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with variousawards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia,where he lives with his wife and sons. Danielle Susi isthe author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (dancing girl press,2015). Her writing has appeared in Knee-Jerk Magazine, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere. Her full-length manuscript A River Always Ends at a Mouth, has beenselected as a semi-finalist for both the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize atPersea Books and the Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press. She received her MFAin writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently livesand works in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find her at daniellesusi.com. This event is made possible through the support of City Art ReadingSeries and Utah Humanities. Most featured readings are followed by an openreading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake CityArts Council, Catalyst, the Salt LakeCity 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. October2 LanceOlsen MichaelMejia LindsayDrager (University of Utah fiction faculty reading)\ 9 BrianEvenson MollyGaudry 16 PaisleyRekdal Z.G.Tomaszewski 23 RobCarney SunniBrown Wilkinson CourtneyCragget November 6th Robin Becker Natasha Saje Joel Long

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Dan O’Brien and Natalie Young at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Dan O’Brien and Natalie Young at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 18, 7:00—8:00 P.M. City Art is pleased to welcome Dan O'Brien and Natalie Young in theSpecial Collections room of the City Library September 18th at 7:00. Dan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, andlibrettist. His play, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, winner ofthe 2018 PEN America Award in Drama, received a critically acclaimed worldpremiere at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Los Angeles, directed by MichaelMichetti, and was nominated for six Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle prizesincluding Best Play. Natalie Young is a founding editor of theaward-winning poetry magazine Sugar House Review. Natalie is left-handed, halfPuerto Rican, and a fan of Dolly Parton and green olives. Recent poetrypublications include Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Tampa Review, South DakotaReview, Green Mountains Review, and others. CITYART presents weekly programs at thewonderful downtown Salt Lake City Library featuring invited readers. Readingsare typically presented on the first three Wednesday evenings of the schoolyear months at 7 p.m. An Open Reading usually follows, at which audiencemembers may briefly read from their own work. Interested audience members areencouraged to volunteer to help with future programs, or to help organize youthactivities. This event is made possible with the support ofCity Art and Utah Humanities. Theevent is free and open to the public. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah 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 thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Heidi Czerwiec and David Hawkins at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Heidi Czerwiec and David Hawkins at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 11, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Heidi Czerwiec and DavidHawkins will read from her work on Wednesday, September 11th at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Essayist and poet Heidi Czerwiec is the author ofthe recently-released lyric essay collection Fluid States, selected byDinty W. Moore as winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize forShort Prose, and the poetry collection Conjoining, and is the editorof North Dakota Is Everywhere: An Anthology of Contemporary North DakotaPoets. She writes and teaches in Minneapolis, where she is an Editor for Assay:A Journal of Nonfiction Studies and for Poetry City. Visit her atheidiczerwiec.com DavidHawkinsis the author of the non-fiction chapbook, Lorraine Nelson: A Biography inPost-it® Notes, winner of the Cupboard’s Literary Pamphlet competition,selected by Michael Martone (2011) and the poetry collection, the book of themissing, winner of a Utah Arts Council award for poetry and a finalist for thePoetry Foundation’s Emily Dickinson prize. His poetry and essays have appearedin a number of journals and periodicals, including At Length Magazine, BarrowStreet, Bat City Review, Chelsea, DIAGRAM, The Pedestal, SPORK, and The SeattleReview, among others. An Assistant Professor/Lecturer at the University ofUtah, David teaches the essay and memoir writing as well as the many ways andspaces in which the body and writing intersect. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah 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 thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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