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April 2023

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Jacqueline Osherow and Patrick Madden to Read at City Art Tomorrow!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Apr '23

18 Apr '23

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Jacqueline Osherow and Patrick Madden to Read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 19th, 6:30-8:00 P.M. Jacqueline Osherow and Patrick Madden will read from their work April 19th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jacqueline Osherow’s ninth collection of poems, Divine Ratios, was published by LSU Press in 2023. She’s received grants from the John SimonGuggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, the NEA, and the Witter Bynner Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet and many other anthologies and journals. She’s Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah. Patrick Madden is the author of three award-winning essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2010), and coeditor of After Montaigne (2015). He teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts; with Joey Franklin he edits the journal Fourth Genre; with David Lazar he edits the 21st Century Essays series at the Ohio State University Press; and he curates the online essay resource www.quotidiana.org. | | | | | | | | | | | Quotidiana | | | Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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 the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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This Week! Lance Larsen and Melanie Rae Thon at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Lance Larsen and Melanie Rae Thon at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 5th, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Writers Lance Larsen and Melanie Rae Thon will read their work, April 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lance Larsen has published five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows. His awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Tampa Review Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He also writes fiction, with recent stories in Boulevard, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Sun. His essays have made the Notables List six times in Best American Essays. He teaches at BYU and fools around with aphorisms: “A woman needs a man the way a manatee needs a glockenspiel.” He is married to Jacqui Larsen, a painter. In 2017, he completed a five-year appointment as Utah’s poet laureate. Sometimes he juggles. Melanie Rae Thon's most recent book, available now, is As If Fire Could Hide Us, a love song in three movements. Her other recent books, chapbooks, and fine art editions include The Voice of the River; Silence & Song; Lover; and The Good Samaritan Speaks. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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