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Come to the Open Reading to close our 2015 season
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

City Art concludes its season with an open reading on Wednesday June 3rd at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake PublicLibrary Main Branch. It’s Potluck poetry, prose, food, and beverage. Come and share your writing or enjoy what others bring to share. The event is free and open to thepublic. The reading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt Lake CityArts Council; the Utah Arts Council; Xmission; Zoo, Arts and Parks; andaudience donations Joel Long

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Charles Waugh and Natalie at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 May '15

17 May '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Writers Charles Waugh and Natalie Young Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 20th 7:00—9:00 P.M.Writers Natalie Young and Charles Waugh will read from their worksWednesday May 20th at the Salt LakePublic Library at 7:00 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room. Charles Waugh writesabout Vietnam and how environmental attitudes shaped how and why we fought eachother. He is the co-editor and co-translator of Family of Fallen Leaves,a collection of stories that address exposure to the dioxin in Agent Orange.He’s currently at work on an NEA Literary Translation grant-funded book ofshort fiction from young Vietnamese writers called Wild Mustard: New Voicesfrom Vietnam. His stories, essays and translations can be found in saltfront,Flyway, the Sycamore Review, Foreign Policy, Pilgramage,Two Lines, and other fine publications.Natalie Young is afounding editor and graphic designer for the poetry magazine Sugar HouseReview. Her work has been published in Rattle, Tampa Review, SouthDakota Review, Los Angeles Times, Green Mountains Review, Tar River Poetry,and others. Natalie lives in Cedar City, Utah, and works as an art director foran ad agency based out of Salt Lake City. She is a fan of avocados and TomSelleck. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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High School Night at City Art Tomorrow.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 May '15

12 May '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Utah High School Writers will Read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 13th 7:00-- 9:00 p.m.Wednesday May 13thwill be High School Writers Night for the City Art Reading Series. High School writers from all around thevalley will read from the poetry and prose at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Some of the schools expected to participate are Rowland Hall, CopperHills High School, Bountiful High School and Waterford among others. Come see what the future holds for Utah writing! 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. Thefeatured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Reminder: Tim Erickson and Paul Ketzle at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 May '15

05 May '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Novelist Paul Ketzle and Poet TimErickson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 6th7:00—9:00 P.M.Novelist Paul Ketzle and poet Tim Erickson will read from theirworks Wednesday May 6th at the Salt LakePublic Library at 7:00 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room. Paul Ketzle is the author of The Late Matthew Brown, TheLate Matthew Brown is a satire of race and bureaucracy and thestruggle to build meaningful relationships while living within two worlds atonce, the Old South and the New. Thenovel won first prize in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Prize for theNovel. He received his doctorate inliterature and creative writing from the University of Utah and a master’s increative writing from Florida State University. Formerly an editor of QuarterlyWest and at Western Humanities Review, he currently teaches in theHonors College at the University of Utah and resides in Salt Lake City with hiswife, Marcia, and two incredible (and wonderfully challenging) daughters. Tim Erickson’s book Egopolis was published by Semi-cityEditions in 2015. He holds an MFA fromSarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, WesternHumanities Review, Quarterly West, Mudfish, and others. He is a creative writing teacher at CopperHills High School and lives with his wife and daughter up the canyon besideEmigration Creek. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen with Steve Langan at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen andNebraska poet Steve Langan Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 22nd 7:00—9:00 P.M.Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen and Nebraska poet Steve Langanwill read from their works Wednesday April 22nd at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M.in the fourth floor conference room. Lance Larsen’s fourth collection ofpoems, Genius Loci, wasrecently published by University of Tampa Press. His earlier collectionsinclude Backyard Alchemy(2009), In All Their Animal Brilliance(2005), and Erasable Walls(1998). He holds a PhD from the University of Houston. His workappears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review, Southern Review,Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, BestAmerican Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His nonfiction hastwice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays. He iscurrently working on Seventeen Ways toFloat, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory whichwon 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition. He grew upin Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving an LDSmission. He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walks onhis hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food. Hesometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter and multi-mediaartist. Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writing at BYU,where he currently serves as associate chair. He and Jacqui recentlydirected a study abroad program in Madrid. In 2012, he was named to afive-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. Steve Langan was born inMilwaukee and raised in Omaha. He earned degrees from the University ofNebraska and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Langan is the authorof Freezing (2001), Notes on Exile and Other Poems (2005), Meet Me at the Happy Bar (2009),and What It Looks Like, How ItFlies (2013).In Prairie Schooner, Nicky Beerwrote, “Though the landscapes of the poems are distinctly interior andpsychological, one cannot help but read this interior as a uniquely Americanone. Much of the anomie and anxiety in Noteson Exile and Other Poems seems to be the product of a culturewhere rapture is trivialized by its proximity with the quotidian, and languageis often a treacherous, euphemistic subterfuge. Langan is clearlydeveloping his considerable gift to elegize the fragmented, desperate, andsoulful American poetic voice on the cusp of the twenty-first century.”Reviewing for MAKE Magazine, Weston Cutternoted, “What makes Langan’s Meet Meat the Happy Bar stand so far out from other collections isnot just the whirligig zip and whiplash he causes by putting disparate linesnext to and on top of each other, nor the ache for some substantial meaning tobedazzle all this flotsam onto, some foundation to leave the heaps upon. No,what makes this all such a big deal is the explicit emphasis on now, on time.”Langan teaches at theUniversity of Nebraska MFA in Writing program. He is founder and director ofthe Seven Doctors Project, based in Omaha, in which area writers guidehealthcare workers in a writing workshop. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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Katharine Coles, Bill Coles, Joan Coles at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Katharine Coles, Bill Coles, and Joan Coles Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 15th 7:00—9:00 P.M.Katharine Coles, Bill Coles, and Joan Coles will read from theirworks Wednesday April 15h at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in thefourth floor conference room. Katharine Coles’ fifth poetrycollection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), was written under theauspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and WritersProgram; ten poems from the book, translated into German by Klaus Martens,appeared in the summer 2014 issue of the journal Matrix; she is currently beingtranslated into Spanish. Her sixth collection, Flight, is due outin 2016. A professor at the University of Utah, she served from 2006 to2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural director ofthe Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has receivedgrants and awards from the NEA, the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. Bill Coles is a long-time professor of Mathematics at theUniversity of Utah. His prose hasappeared in Catalyst among other publications. He has worked for years with Writers@Work from whichhe receive the Advocate Award in 2004. Joan Coles has published poetry in Tailwinds, Weber Studies, andCity Art Journal. She retired as a clinical psychologist at Valley MentalHealth Center. For many years, she hasserved on the board of Writers@Work where shealso received the Advocate Award in 2004. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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Reminder: AJ Martine and Shen Christensen at City Art tomorrow
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents A.J. Martine and Shen Christensen Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Shen Christensen and A.J.Martine will read from their work on April 8th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Shen Christensen’s fictionhas appeared in Story Quarterly, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s FerryReview, Denver Quarterly, Nebraska Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black RidgeReview. She received an MFA fromUniversity of Utah in 1994. Among heraward for her fictions are Story Magazine First place for short story, Atlantictop ten finalists for short story, Chicago Magazine winner of one of twoliterary awards, and the Utah Short Story Competition Second Place (the yearthat Gerda Saunders won first place!) Her work also appears in The Way We Live Anthology and What There Is; The Crossroads Antholog. SHE QUIT WRITING BECAUSE IT IS TOOHARROWING, BLOOD SUCKING, AND HARD. She started writing again about nine monthsago for her kids who are now grown up. A.J. Martine is awestern-born man raised by a feral ranch family in southwestern Colorado, onthe Colorado Plateau. The plateau is a character, protagonist, villain, andflinty, indifferent, but demanding lover that features in much of hiswriting. In hind-sight, he says that doing things the hard way wasn't agood business model for living but it did give him a lot of experiences to minefor his story telling. Martine’s Fiction, Poetry, and Creativenon-fiction Published in Rocky Mountain Review, Catalyst Magazine, Salt LakeMagazine, Outside Magazine, Wazzee Street Literary Magazine, University ofIdaho Press, and Glimmer Train Press. Heearned Awards first place from the Utah Society of Professional Journalists forhis investigative essay Tracking Dust. He works as anEnvironmental Mitigation and Mediation Consultant. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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AJ Martine and Shen Christensen at City Art this Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents A.J. Martine and Shen Christensen Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Shen Christensen and A.J.Martine will read from their work on April 8th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Shen Christensen’s fictionhas appeared in Story Quarterly, Alaskan Quarterly Review, Hayden’s FerryReview, Denver Quarterly, Nebraska Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black RidgeReview. She received an MFA fromUniversity of Utah in 1994. Among heraward for her fictions are Story Magazine First place for short story, Atlantictop ten finalists for short story, Chicago Magazine winner of one of twoliterary awards, and the Utah Short Story Competition Second Place (the yearthat Gerda Saunders won first place!) Her work also appears in The Way We Live Anthology and What There Is; The Crossroads Antholog. SHE QUIT WRITING BECAUSE IT IS TOOHARROWING, BLOOD SUCKING, AND HARD. She started writing again about nine monthsago for her kids who are now grown up. A.J. Martine is awestern-born man raised by a feral ranch family in southwestern Colorado, onthe Colorado Plateau. The plateau is a character, protagonist, villain, andflinty, indifferent, but demanding lover that features in much of hiswriting. In hind-sight, he says that doing things the hard way wasn't agood business model for living but it did give him a lot of experiences to minefor his story telling. Martine’s Fiction, Poetry, and Creativenon-fiction Published in Rocky Mountain Review, Catalyst Magazine, Salt LakeMagazine, Outside Magazine, Wazzee Street Literary Magazine, University ofIdaho Press, and Glimmer Train Press. Heearned Awards first place from the Utah Society of Professional Journalists forhis investigative essay Tracking Dust. He works as anEnvironmental Mitigation and Mediation Consultant. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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Joanna Klink at City Art April 1st
by CityArt＠thelibrary 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Joanna Klink Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 1st 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Joanna Klink will read from herwork on April 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part ofthe City Art Reading Series. Joanna Klinkearned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the Johns HopkinsUniversity. Her collections of poetry include They Are Sleeping (2000), Circadian(2007), and Raptus (2010). Her work has been included in numerousanthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry(2011). Of her work, Klink has said: “In poems I am trying to find my bearingsthrough a world that at times feels remote and inchoate and struck blank withnoise. I would like to place myself in a field of deep attention, and out ofthat attention come to feel and regard with more acute understanding what isthere. I write to be less hopelessly myself, to sense something more expansivethan where I speak from.” Her new book is forthcoming fromPenguin in 2015. Her honors and awards include a Rona Jaffe Fellowship and the Jeannette HaienBallard Writer’s Prize, among others. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet atHarvard University and teaches in the creative writing program at theUniversity of Montana. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. 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. Joel Long

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Patrick Madden and Joshua Rivkin at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Patrick Madden and Joshua Rivkin at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Patrick Madden and JoshuaRivkin will read from their work on March 11th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the Art Reading Series. Note, there will not be a reading next week,but there will be four nights in April for National Poetry Month includingJoanna Klink on April 1st. Patrick Madden’s first book, Quotidiana (University of Nebraska Press,2010), won book of the year awards from ForeWord Reviews, IndependentPublisher, and the Association for Mormon Letters, and his essays have beenpublished widely in journals and anthologies including The Best AmericanSpiritual Writing and The Best Creative Nonfiction. In late 2015,Nebraska will publish his second book, Sublime Physick, and Georgia willpublish his edited anthology After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Coverthe Essays. A two-time Fulbright Fellow to Uruguay, he teaches at BrighamYoung University and Vermont College of Fine Arts and curates the onlineanthology of classical essays at www.quotidiana.org. Joshua Rivkin's poems and essays have appeared in the NewYorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Best New Poets, andelsewhere. He has received a winter fellowship from the Fine ArtsWork Center in Provincetown, a Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford and aFulbright fellowship to Italy. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts 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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