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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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Next Week: Lance Larsen and Melanie Rae Thon at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '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. 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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Tonight: Kate Gale and Katherine Coles at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Kate Gale and Katherine Coles at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 15th 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poets Kate Gales and Katherine Coles will read their work, March 15th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Dr. KATE GALE is co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She is the author of the The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone from the University of New Mexico Press in 2014, and Echo Light from Red Mountain in 2014 and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. She speaks on independent publishing at schools including USC, Harvard, Columbia and Oxford University. Her opera in process is the web opera and an opera on Che Guevara is in process with Cuban composer Armando Bayolo. Her opera on Esther written for the singer Hila Plitmann is in process with the composer Mark Abel. Katharine Coles’ ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, will be out in May from Red Hen Press, which has also published several other of her collections, including Wayward (2109) and The Earth Is Not Flat (2013) Her prose books include The Stranger I Become: on Walking, Looking, and Writing (essays), Look Both Ways (memoir), and two novels. She served as the third Poet Laureate of Utah and Poet-in-Residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Salt Lake City Public Library for the Poets House FIELD WORK program. She has received awards from the NEA, the NEH, the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a Distinguished Professor 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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Katharine Coles and Kate Gales at City Art March 15
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Joel Long

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Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 26 Feb '23

26 Feb '23

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 1st 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poets Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer will perform their work, March 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Alex Caldiero is a teacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media. He makes things that at times appear as language or pictures or music-- and then again, as the shape of your own mind. He is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour recipient of Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. He is senior artist in residence at Utah Valley University.His publications include Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), sonosuono (Elik), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance (saltfront), and his work is anthologized in A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge 3rd edition), Text-Sound Texts (Morrow, NY), Fire in the Pasture & Mother in Heaven (both from Peculiar Pages, CA), Immediate Present (Mormon Arts Center). Forthcoming: Per-Sonal Effects. Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer is a writer, an artist and a creativity enthusiast. She was taught to read, write and embrace her creativity by her teenage mother and her almost entirely blind grandmother. This everlasting act of love was the foundation for a lifetime of creative pursuits. Angelika poured herself into notebook pages and easels for her entire childhood, promising that one day, she'd build a career out of her big ideas and her drive to bring them to fruition. A gentle push to a microphone from a high school English teacher brought Angelika into the world of Spoken Word Poetry. Along with her existing love of art and literature, an additional passion blossomed for works intended to be heard. She was invited back to her high school after graduation to teach students about Spoken Word Poetry and the power of creativity. She began visiting other schools and public events across Utah, sharing poetry, teaching workshops, and inspiring others to create. She has been a featured speaker at the Utah Conference for Teachers of English, Kiwanis Club, Ogden Pride Festival, PBS Utah, Standard Examiner online, Utah Arts Festival, Ogden Arts Festival, Literary Deathmatch, Concrete Rose, "Write About Now" cypher and many other events. Angelika self-published and self-bound a chapbook titled "I Don't Want to Miss You," and published in the compilation "First Moon Manual," and has over 100 digital publishings. She has coordinated poetry slams, open mics, art shows and mixed arts events in Utah cities. She is a freelance writer of anything that needs to be written, with a special interest in journalism, blog posts, essays and instructional content. Angelika was the 2017 Ogden Pride Poetry Competition winner, a coach for "Ogden Slam Team" in 2017, a judge at the "Poetry Out Loud" state slam in 2019, a 2021 runner-up in the "Utah Arts Festival" team slam with her artist collective "O-Town Dream Team," along with other awards and recognitions. Angelika Brewer is an informally trained and self-taught writer, with all of her knowledge coming from writing workshops with award winning authors and poets, self-study, live experience and a love of learning. Above all, she is an advocate for the arts, an avid supporter of the creative community, and a proud flaunter of her humongous collection of art, books, and music- all created by local and upcoming artists 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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Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 1st 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poets Alex Caldiero and Angelika Brewer will perform their work, March 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Alex Caldiero is a teacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media. He makes things that at times appear as language or pictures or music-- and then again, as the shape of your own mind. He is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour recipient of Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. He is senior artist in residence at Utah Valley University.His publications include Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), sonosuono (Elik), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance (saltfront), and his work is anthologized in A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge 3rd edition), Text-Sound Texts (Morrow, NY), Fire in the Pasture & Mother in Heaven (both from Peculiar Pages, CA), Immediate Present (Mormon Arts Center). Forthcoming: Per-Sonal Effects. Ogden’s Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer is a writer, an artist and a creativity enthusiast. She was taught to read, write and embrace her creativity by her teenage mother and her almost entirely blind grandmother. This everlasting act of love was the foundation for a lifetime of creative pursuits. Angelika poured herself into notebook pages and easels for her entire childhood, promising that one day, she'd build a career out of her big ideas and her drive to bring them to fruition. A gentle push to a microphone from a high school English teacher brought Angelika into the world of Spoken Word Poetry. Along with her existing love of art and literature, an additional passion blossomed for works intended to be heard. She was invited back to her high school after graduation to teach students about Spoken Word Poetry and the power of creativity. She began visiting other schools and public events across Utah, sharing poetry, teaching workshops, and inspiring others to create. She has been a featured speaker at the Utah Conference for Teachers of English, Kiwanis Club, Ogden Pride Festival, PBS Utah, Standard Examiner online, Utah Arts Festival, Ogden Arts Festival, Literary Deathmatch, Concrete Rose, "Write About Now" cypher and many other events. Angelika self-published and self-bound a chapbook titled "I Don't Want to Miss You," and published in the compilation "First Moon Manual," and has over 100 digital publishings. She has coordinated poetry slams, open mics, art shows and mixed arts events in Utah cities. She is a freelance writer of anything that needs to be written, with a special interest in journalism, blog posts, essays and instructional content. Angelika was the 2017 Ogden Pride Poetry Competition winner, a coach for "Ogden Slam Team" in 2017, a judge at the "Poetry Out Loud" state slam in 2019, a 2021 runner-up in the "Utah Arts Festival" team slam with her artist collective "O-Town Dream Team," along with other awards and recognitions. Angelika Brewer is an informally trained and self-taught writer, with all of her knowledge coming from writing workshops with award winning authors and poets, self-study, live experience and a love of learning. Above all, she is an advocate for the arts, an avid supporter of the creative community, and a proud flaunter of her humongous collection of art, books, and music- all created by local and upcoming artists 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. Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah, where she teaches queer theory, theories of race and racialized gender, and twentieth-century literature and film. Two of her books—Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child (Duke University Press)—were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. In addition, her recent book Making Out (NYU Press) was a 2020 national finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. Her forthcoming book (with MIT Press) is entitled Gender(s) and she has also authored God Between Their Lips (Stanford University Press). Stockton has taught at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory and, along with her university’s top teaching award, she has received the Equality Utah Allies Award for LGBT activism, the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize for Best Essay in Gay and Lesbian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah . | | | | | | | | | | | Kathryn Bond Stockton – Rosenblatt Prize | | | 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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Lance Olsen and Kathryn Bond Stockton at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Lance Olsen and Kathryn Bond Stockton at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 15th, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Authors Lance Olsen and Kathryn Bond Stockton will read from their work, February 15th, at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lance Olsen is author of more than 30 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels My Red Heaven (Dzanc, 2020) and Skin Elegies (Dzanc, 2021). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, such as Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Village Voice, BOMB, McSweeney’s, and Best American Non-Required Reading. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Pushcart Prize, and two-time N.E.A. Fellowship recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar (Finland), he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance (2012) and Knowing Time by Light (2010) were published by Blaine Creek Press. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sports Literate, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain, and Water-Stone Review, among others. He has essays forthcoming in Interim and Ocean State Review. Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah, where she teaches queer theory, theories of race and racialized gender, and twentieth-century literature and film. Two of her books—Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child (Duke University Press)—were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. In addition, her recent book Making Out (NYU Press) was a 2020 national finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. Her forthcoming book (with MIT Press) is entitled Gender(s) and she has also authored God Between Their Lips (Stanford University Press). Stockton has taught at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory and, along with her university’s top teaching award, she has received the Equality Utah Allies Award for LGBT activism, the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize for Best Essay in Gay and Lesbian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah . | | | | | | | | | | | Kathryn Bond Stockton – Rosenblatt Prize | | | 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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Nan Seymour and Joel Long read at the Marmalade Branch for City Art, Wednesday, 6:30.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Nan Seymour and Joel Long read at the Marmalade Branch for City Art, Wednesday, 6:30. Joel Long

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Venue Change! Great Salt Lake Celebration Reading: Nan Seymour and Joel Long at City Art, Marmalade Branch
by CityArt＠thelibrary 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Please note that we have changed the venue due to plumbing repair at the Main Branch. We will hold the reading at the Marmalade Branch instead: Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Great Salt Lake Celebration Reading: Nan Seymour and Joel Long at City Art Marmalade Branch, Salt Lake Public Library ] 280 West 500 North Salt Lake City, UT 84103 Wednesday February 1st, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. In celebration of the Great Salt Lake, Nan Seymour and Joel Long will read from their work, February 1st, at the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. In 2015, Nan Seymour created River Writing in order to foster voice and authentic connection. Her debut poetry collection, prayers not meant for heaven, was published by Toad Hall Editions in the summer of 2021. The prayers were never meant to ascend. Instead, Nan hopes they will vine around us here on the ground, leaving us more knowingly and gladly intertwined. Throughout the 2023 Utah State legislative session, Nan served as poet-in-residence on Antelope Island, leading six week day-and-night vigil for Great Salt Lake. During the vigil, she assembled 2580 lines of poetry and praise. Her upcoming book, irreplaceable is a collective love letter to the lake, containing over 400 individual voices from a myriad of perspectives. The size of the poem exceeds the square mile area of the lakebed and is a community cry for the lake’s restoration. Nan is preparing to lead another community vigil on the receding shoreline, beginning January 16th of 2023. She will continue to advocate for Rights of Nature, legally defensible personal rights for ecosystems, including Great Salt Lake. Her poetry gives voice to their inherent right to live, flourish, and evolve in natural way. The work emerges from Nan’s devotion to repairing the breach between humans and the beyond-human world. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance (2012) and Knowing Time by Light (2010) were published by Blaine Creek Press. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sports Literate, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain, and Water-Stone Review, among others. He has essays forthcoming in Interim and Ocean State Review. For years, in photography, poems, and essays, Long has chronicled the changes in the Great Salt Lake, its beauty and the dangers that wildfires and drought bring to the lake. Currently, he is advocating for saving the lake, participating with Brolly Arts in the project Evaporation: What Does it Take to Leave Enough Water for Great Salt Lake. Evaporation aims to use the humanities in conjunction with science to promote the beauty of the lake, highlight the dangers to the lake, and work toward possible solutions to the the crisis we face. He received the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work. He lives in Salt Lake City. 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.

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