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Lara Candland and Christian Asplund at Cith Art March 4th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Lara Candland and Christian Asplund at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Lara Candland will read fromher work with Composer/musician Christian Asplund on March 4th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lara Candland’s book Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree was publishedBlazeVox. Her work has appeared in Fence,The Colorado Review, Barrow Street, Greatcoat,Fine Madness, The Quarterly and other journals. Her pamphlet, Tongue Child was published by the University of SouthCarolina’s Palanquin/TDM series. She hasbeen a finalist in The Motherwell, Hudson, and St. Lawrence book awards. She has also been the recipient of an AWPIntro Award, She is a founder and thelibrettist for Seattle Experimental Opera, and a finalist in the GenesisPrizes. Her opera, Sunset with PinkPastoral with husband and composer Christian Asplund, was performed by AlmeidaOpera in London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Candland has taught poetry, college writing, food writing and fictionwriting at various colleges and universities around the country as an itinerantgrad student/follower of a grad student, and is currently exploring theintersection between written down works and live improv with electronicsampling. Canadian-American composer-performer Christian Asplund’sinterests include intersections of text/music, improvisation/composition, andmodular textures/forms. He has received awards from Genesis Foundation,Barlow Endowment, Artistrust, King County, ASCAP, Alpert Foundation and JackStraw Foundation. His teachers have included Thea Musgrave, Alvin Curran,Michael Hicks, David Sargent, Joel Durand, and John Rahn. He has performed withStuart Dempster, Malcolm Goldstein, and Christian Wolff, John Butcher, EyvindKang, Amy Denio, Jessica Lurie, and many others. His music appears on PresentSounds, Tzadik, Sparkling Beatnik, and other labels, and his compositions havebeen performed and broadcast in many locations in Europe, North America andAustralia. His scores are published by Frog Peak Music. He haswritten books and articles for Perspectives of New Music, American Music,University of Washington and University of Illinois Presses. His mostrecent project has been three marathon performances on piano of the completeworks of Thelonious Monk in Utah, Seattle, and New York. Words used by thepress to describe his music include: passion, panoramic power, pure pointillist,plaintive, painstaking, rhythmically toothy, rocking, remarkable, rollicking,searing, subdued, soothing, submersive, splendid, unique, ethereal,mesmerizing, mind-blowing, otherworldly, absorbing, intelligent, idiosyncratic,distinctive, captivating, bewitching. He lives in Provo, Utah where heteaches at Brigham Young University. 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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Reminder: Natalie Taylor and Lisa Roullard at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com NatalieTaylor and Lisa Roullard read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 18th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Natalie Taylor and LisaRoullard to read from their work on February 18th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Natalie Taylor’s poetrycollection Eden’s Edge was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. Taylor leads a writerly life and relishespoeming in her garden. She earned a BFA in English with a creative writingemphasis from the University of Utah. She is the author of the poetry chapbook,Eden’s Edge,from Finishing Line Press and her work has been published in Brain,Child.Taylor’s poem, “Last Day of July,” published in Ellipsis: Literatureand Art, was aco-winner of the 2000 Academy of American Poets Contest. In 1998, she wonsecond place for creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council Creative WritingCompetition. Lisa Roullard wonthe Utah Art Council’s Original Writing Competition in Poetry in 2013. 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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Jenn Gibbs and Jessica Payne at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

JennGibbs and Jessica Payne to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Jenn Gibbs and Jessica Payneto read from their work on February 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Libraryat 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jenn Gibbs’ diverse experience as a professional writer and editor makesher an engaging and versatile resource for fellow writers. She earned an MFA inCreative Writing from Bowling Green State University, and her stories andessays have appeared in The Chattoochee Review, Heartlands Today, Blueline,Where Women Create, and numerous art-and-craft how-to books published bySterling, Lark Books, and Martingale Press. In addition to teaching CreativeWriting for Lifelong Learning, she teaches technical and collaborative writingfor the University of Utah’s College of Engineering’s CLEAR program and is aContent Specialist for Utah Education Network. Jessica Payne is anovelist and short story author. She wonthe Wasatch Iron Pen Competition two years running for her short stories Contracting Roots and A Brief Affair with Lonnie Anderson. Jessica’s most recent work, a paranormalsuspense serial novella entitled TheSoulstice, is now available on Amazon for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from theUniversity of Utah and a MBA from Westminster College. Jessica owes most of heraccomplishments to coffee, without which nothing would ever get done. On therare occasions she is able to relinquish her coffee mug, Jessica cultivates anew generation of writers by facilitating a writing workshop for sixth-gradersat the local elementary school. 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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Andy Hoffman and Lance Newman
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Feb '15

01 Feb '15

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com AndyHoffman and Lance Newman to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Andy Hoffman and LanceNewman to read from their work on February 4th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Andy Hoffmann is a writer, publisher, and educator. His creative nonfiction,literary essays, and fiction have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, CarolinaQuarterly, Quarterly West, Louisville Review, Confrontation,Saltfront, The Florida Review, and many others. He has receivedawards for both fiction and nonfiction from The Utah Arts Council and the UtahHumanities Council. He currently edits and publishes Elik Press, Salt LakeCity, and teaches in the University of Utah’s Honors College. LanceNewman is Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor ofEnglish and Environmental Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Heis the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, andthe Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005) and editor of The GrandCanyon Reader (University of California Press, 2011). His poems haveappeared in print and web magazines in Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the UK,including Beloit Poetry Journal, BlazeVox, Dusie, Moria, No Tell Motel,otoliths, Pemmican, Stride, SugarHouse Review, and Zyzzyva. Hischapbooks, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007) and 3by3by3(Beard of Bees, 2010), are available for free on the web. 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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Maximilian Werner and David Pace at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Maximillion Werner and David Pace to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Maximilian Werner and DavidPace to read from their work on January 14th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Maximilian Werner is the author of four books of fiction and nonfictionincluding Crooked Creek a Torrey House Press novel set in Utah and Arizona during the westwardexpansion at the turn of the 20th century and Black River Dreams, acollection of literary fly fishing essays that won the 2008 Utah Arts Council'sOriginal Writing Competition for Nonfiction: Book. His writing has appeared innumerous journals. He lives in Salt LakeCity. David Pace is the literary editor of 15Bytes art magazine. His stories and narrative nonfiction have appeared inQuarterly West, Alligator Juniper, ellipsis...literature and art, Dialogue,Sunstone and elsewhere. His debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive isforthcoming in June from Signature Books. 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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Maximillian Werner and David Pace at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Maximillion Werner and David Pace to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Jeff Metcalf will bring someof his student writers to read from their work on January 14th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Maximilian Werner is the author of four books of fiction and nonfictionincluding Crooked Creek a Torrey House Press novel set in Utah and Arizona during the westwardexpansion at the turn of the 20th century and Black River Dreams, acollection of literary fly fishing essays that won the 2008 Utah Arts Council'sOriginal Writing Competition for Nonfiction: Book. His writing has appeared innumerous journals. He lives in Salt LakeCity. David Pace is the literary editor of 15Bytes art magazine. His stories and narrative nonfiction have appeared inQuarterly West, Alligator Juniper, ellipsis...literature and art, Dialogue,Sunstone and elsewhere. His debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive isforthcoming in June from Signature Books. 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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Metcalf and Company at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Jeff Metcalf and Company to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Jeff Metcalf will bring someof his student writers to read from their work on January 7th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jeff Metcalfmost recent book is Requiem for the Living: a Memoir. He is a professor of English at theUniversity of Utah and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including theOutstanding Faculty Award, the National Council Teachers of English OutstandingTeacher Award, and a Writers at Work Lifetime Achievement Award. His fiction and essayshave appeared in local and national magazines. His plays have been widelystaged. 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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Holiday Open Reading on Wednesday!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Dec '14

16 Dec '14

Holiday Open Reading at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art invites you to a holiday open reading on December 17th at 7:00 at theSalt Lake Public Library. Bring yourcider and cookies, your poems, your prose, your open minds and hearts for anight of open readings. It is a potluckof literature, so it all depends on what you bring as your hot dish or yourlovely desert. See you there. 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. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Lance Larsen and Caren Beilin at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com LanceLarsen and Caren Beilin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 10th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen and fiction writer Caren Beilin will read from their works on Wednesday, December 10that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public. Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, Genius Loci, was recently published byUniversity of Tampa Press. His earlier collections include 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 andmulti-media artist. Since 1993 he has taught literature and creativewriting at BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair. He andJacqui recently directed a study abroad program in Madrid. In 2012, hewas named to a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. Caren Beilin’s bookUniversity of Pennsylvania is the Noemi Fiction Prize winner and has just beenpublished. Beilin grew upin Germantown, Philadelphia. Her fiction can be found in McSweeney’s,Fence, and in the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press chapbook, Americans,Guests, or Us. The University of Pennsylvania, in its various forms,has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, a finalist in Fence’s ModernProse Prize, and winner of Noemi Press’s Book Award for Fiction. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Adam Love and Martin Balgach at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Adam Loveand Martin Balgach to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 3rd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Adam Love and Martin Balgach willread from their works on Wednesday, December 3rd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt LakeCity Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the UtahHumanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. AdamLove is the author of Another Small Fire (Tired Hearts Press). His writingis upcoming/appears in Black Tongue Review, Split Lip Magazine, AmpersandReview, Cream City Review, Revolver, the Missouri Review, among other journals.He lives in Salt Lake City where he directs the Literary Arts portion of theUtah Arts Festival and spends his free time among the mountains and westernrivers. He holds and MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Martin Balgach isthe author of Too Much Breath (Main Street Rag). His writing has appeared inThe Bitter Oleander, Cream City Review, Fogged Clarity, Rain Taxi, andStirring, among other journals. He holds an MFA from the Vermont College ofFine Arts, works in publishing, and lives with his wife and son in Colorado. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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