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Fw: [University of Utah Creative Writing Program] The writer and editor Kevin Prufer will be...
by CityArt＠thelibrary 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Joel Long On Saturday, November 22, 2014 7:55 AM, Paisley Rekdal <notification+m3kv-7__(a)facebookmail.com> wrote: #yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:link, #yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:visited {border:1px #CCCCCC solid !important;}#yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:active, #yiv7694279632 a.yiv7694279632thumb:hover {border:1px #3B5998 solid !important;}#yiv7694279632 .yiv7694279632uiScaledImageContainer {overflow:hidden;}Facebook | | | Paisley Rekdal posted in University of Utah Creative Writing Program | | | Paisley Rekdal | 7:55am Nov 22 | The writer and editor Kevin Prufer will be reading for us this Monday at noon in LNCO 2110. Free and open to the public! Let everyone know! | | | | View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment. | |

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Jean Howard and Rebecca Mae at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com JeanHoward and Rebecca Mae to perform at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 19th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Jean Howard and Rebecca Mae will readfrom their works on Wednesday, November 19th at 7:00 p.m. at theSalt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. After living in Chicagofor 22 years, performance poet, JeanHoward, returned to her hometown, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1999. Her poetryhas appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Burning World, Spoon River Review, Chicago Tribune, Spoken WorkRevolution, and over one hundred other literary publications. A participant in theoriginal development of the internationally acclaimed "Poetry Slam”, shewas awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborativework with photographer, Alice Hargrave. Howard has performed herpoetry at hundreds of venues nationwide, with such diversity as Chicago’s BigGoddess Powwow, the Guggenheim’s “Art ofthe Motorcycle Exhibit” at the Field Museum, Chicago’s Museum of ContemporaryArt, The Harold Washington Cultural Center, the Salt Lake Arts Festival, UtahHumanities Book Festival, as well as churches, coffee shops, mortuaries, artgalleries, pet shops, festivals, biker bars and of course the infamous GreenMill where the “Slam” began. Currently, Jean has served on the Board ofBrolly Arts and the Advisory Board of Utah Arts Alliance. She organized theannual National Poetry Video Festival in Chicago for eight years, with her ownaward-winning video poems airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around thenation Rebecca Mae has made a habit of staying alive since 1993. She plans on keepingthis healthy habit until it no longer seems necessary. When she is not drinkingcoffee or smoking cigarettes Rebeca spends her time writing poetry and furiouslyyelling at walls. This has worked out well for her, Rebeca has represented SaltLake City in the 2012 Woman of the World Poetry Competition and was a member ofthe 2013 National Poetry Slam Team. In hopes of finding more poems to write andmore walls to yell at Rebeca became the President of the Non-Profitorganization The Wasatch Wordsmiths who strive to share the art of spoken wordwhere ever there are walls. 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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Derek Henderon and Chris Tanseer at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com DerekHenderson and Chris Tanseer to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Derek Henderson and Chris Tanseer will read from their works on Wednesday, November 12that 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 is freeand open to the public. Derek Henderson is the author of two previous collections, Inconsequentia (withDerek Pollard), and Thus &, an Erasure of the Sonnets of Ted Berrigan,sections of which appear in the Anthology of Appropriation Literature. Hispoems have been published in journals such as Fence, Volt, Witness, BombayGin, and The Colorado Review. He currently teaches English at theWalden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. Chris Tanseer grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received a BA from theUniversity of North Carolina at Asheville and an MFA in poetry from GeorgeMason University. Currently, he lives in Salt Lake City, UT, where he is a PhDcandidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Heserves as an editorial assistant at SugarHouse Review. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming inBest New Poets 2012, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, RHINO, Subtropics,and Western Humanities Review. 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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Fw: Lisa Fay Coultey and Craig Dworkin at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Joel Long On Monday, October 27, 2014 10:25 PM, Joel Long <joeltlong(a)yahoo.com> wrote: ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Lisa FayCoultey and Craig Dworkin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lisa Fay Coultey and Craig Dworkin will read from their works on Wednesday, November 5that 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. Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of Errata(Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2015), winner of the CrabOrchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, and In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), winnerof the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her poetry has been awarded afellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, scholarships from theBread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, an Academy of American Poets LevisPrize, and has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse,Gulf Coast, and Best of the Net 2013. Her prose has appeared recently in Poets & Writers and Passages North. She holds a PhD inLiterature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah and is an AssistantProfessor at Snow College. Craig Dworkin is the author of over a half-dozen books ofpoetry, including The Perverse Library (Information As Material, 2010), Motes(Roof Books, 2011), and The Crystal Text (Compline, 2012). His work has beenshown this year at the Whitney Museum, The ICA (Boston) and The WhitechapelGallery (London), with a film currently screening at The Museum of ContemporaryArt (Denver). Recent poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, 1913: a Journal ofForms, BOMB magazine, and have been selected for inclusion in the new NortonAnthology of Postmodern Poetry. A critical book on media theory called No Medium was published by MIT press. 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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Karin Anderson and Molly Gaudry at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Karin Anderson and Molly Gaudryto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 22nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Karin Anderson and Molly Gaudrywill read from their works on Wednesday, October 22nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Karin Andersonhas a Ph.D. in creative writing and poststructuralist theory from the University of Utah. She is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University where she was previously Department Chair and is currently a member of the creative writing faculty. Her writing has appeared in Sunstone, Dialogue, Western Humanities Review, Quarter After Eight, Saranac Review, American Literary Review, and in anthologies with Signature Books and University Readers Breachis a lineage. Her own cosmology at risk, she is begat again, thrust up through the arid mantle beneath the Great Salt Lake and splined up and across the big sky as a woman and a mother and a careful being who is simply flying into the wreckage The Andersons are a hardtack sort, built from gravel and loam and the echoes of Brigham Young’s voice shot out from the canyons. But the sermons do not land clearly. Instead we watch as Karin vacillates between intellectual and pioneer woman, Latter-day Saint and woman veering toward outer darkness. She marries and starts a family. With her husband growing more and more distant, even perversely hostile, they tumble together, wits against arms, for a better foothold at the base of the Wasatch Range. In 2011, Molly Gaudry was shortlisted for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and her verse novel, We Take Me Apart, was named 2nd finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. In 2012, YesYes Books released the 3-author volume Frequencies, which includes her short fiction collection Lost July. In 2014, The Cupboard released, a collection Wild Thing of essays and poems about recovery after brain injury, and Ampersand Books reprinted We Take Me Apart in anticipation of the release of its sequel Desire: A Haunting and its prequel Remember Us. Molly is a core faculty member of the Yale Writers' Conference and is the founder of The Lit Pub. City Art is sponsored 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 Utah Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Travis Mossotti, Mark Brewin, and Kerry James Evans at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Oct '14

12 Oct '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Travis Mossotti, Mark J. Brewin, and Kerry James Evansto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 15th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets, Travis Mossotti, Mark J. Brewin, and Kerry James Evanswill read from their works on Wednesday, October 15th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Travis Mossottihas worked and volunteered over the last decade alongside his wife (a carnivore biologist) with U.S. government, university and nonprofit organizations on data collection, animal captures/releases and lab work for various endangered species recovery efforts all across North America. In 2011 he was awarded the May Swenson Poetry Award for his first collection of poems, About the Dead (USU Press, 2011), and his chapbook My Life as an Island was published by Moon City Press in 2013. His second full-length collection Field Study won the 2013 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize and will be published in 2014 with Bona Fide Books. Mossotti is currently the Poet-in-Residence at the Endangered Wolf Center, and his poetry has been published in recent issues of the Antioch Review, Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. More information about Mossotti can be found at Saxifrage Press. Mark Jay Brewin Jr.is a graduate of the MFA program of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Southern Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Hollins Critic, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, New Madrid, Poet Lore, North American Review, Greensboro Review, Southern Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. They have also placed as finalist in the Guy Owen Poetry Prize, the 2011 Third Coast Poetry Prize and the New Letters Literary Award Contest, won the Yellowwood Poetry Contest at the Yalobusha Review, as well as been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first book manuscript Scrap Iron won the 2012 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize at the University of Utah Press and will be available in the 2013 Spring catalog. Mark is currently the Poetry Editor for the online publication Saxifrage Press. Kerry James Evansearned a PhD in English from Florida State University and an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His poems have been published in Agni, Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative, New England Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. He is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon Press, 2013).City Artis Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Art is sponsored 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 Utah Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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David Lee and Gailmarie Pahmeier at City Art October 8th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com David Lee and Gailmarie Pahmeierto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 8th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Utah’s first Poet Laureate David Lee and Nevada poet Gailmarie Pahmeier will read from their works on Wednesday, October 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. David Lee: Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah. Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. David Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. He taught for many years at Southern Utah State University. Gailmarie Pahmeierhas been a Nevadan for nearly 30 years. She currently teaches creative writing and contemporary literature courses at the University of Nevada, where she has been honored with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award. Her work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including Booth, Passager, Interim, Mudfish, New Poets of the AmericanWest (for which she won the Editor’s Choice Award), Literary Nevada, and the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. She is the author of the poetry collection The House on Breakaheart Road and two chapbooks from Black Rock Press. Her most recent chapbook, Shake It and It Snows, won the 2009 Coal Hill Chapbook Award; poems from this collection were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her literary awards include a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship and two Artists Fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2007, she received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. City Artis Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Art is sponsored 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 Utah Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Reminder: Meg Day and Kimberly Johnson at City Art on Wednesday!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Kimberley Johnson and Meg Day to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Kimberly Johnson and Meg Day will read from their works on Wednesday, October 1st at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public. Kimberly Johnsonis a poet, translator, and literary critic. Her collections of poetry include Leviathan with a Hook, A Metaphorical God, and the forthcoming Uncommon Prayer. Her monograph on the poetic developments of post-Reformation poetry was published in 2014. In 2009, Penguin Classics published her translation of Virgil’s Georgics. Her poetry, translations, and scholarly essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, Milton Quarterly, and Modern Philology. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Arts Council, and the Mellon Foundation, Johnson holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Kimberly Johnson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Meg Day, selected for Best New Poets of 2013, is a 2013 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize (forthcoming 2014), When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We Can't Read This (winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). A 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award Winner, Meg has also received awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Writers, the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, and the International Queer Arts Festival. Meg is currently a PhD candidate, Steffensen-Cannon Fellow, & Point Foundation Scholar in Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. City Artis Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Art is sponsored 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 Utah Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Reminder: Laura Stott and Jean Kane
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Laura Stott and Jean Kane to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 17th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Laura Stott and Jean Kane will read from their works on Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is free and open to the public. Laura Stott:“These are poems of travel and travail, of losing one’s bearings but finding one’s way. In short, they transform us—into crows and lizards, into sacred cows in a blue city, into snakes or sea otters or sometimes stars. These poems invite and entice. Do not lose your eyes, says one poem. Child, hold God in those hands, says another. May we all grow so gently bold. May we all hold and keep holding." —Lance Larsen Laura Stott holds an M.F.A. from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers (Eastern Washington University) and teaches at Weber State University. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Redactions, Sugar House Review, and Rock and Sling. Jean Kane: Jean Kane was born in Brooklyn and was taken to the midwest ten years later. She now lives in New York, where she teaches literature and writing at Vassar College. She writes poetry, fiction, and critical essays. American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner have published her work. Her current manuscript is called My Kennedy Women. Her book, Make Me, is forthcoming from Otis Nebula Press CITYARTis Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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Laura Stott and Jean Kane
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Laura Stott and Jean Kane to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 17th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Laura Stott and Jean Kane will read from their works on Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is free and open to the public. Laura Stott:“These are poems of travel and travail, of losing one’s bearings but finding one’s way. In short, they transform us—into crows and lizards, into sacred cows in a blue city, into snakes or sea otters or sometimes stars. These poems invite and entice. Do not lose your eyes, says one poem. Child, hold God in those hands, says another. May we all grow so gently bold. May we all hold and keep holding." —Lance Larsen Laura Stott holds an M.F.A. from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers (Eastern Washington University) and teaches at Weber State University. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Redactions, Sugar House Review, and Rock and Sling. Jean Kane: Jean Kane was born in Brooklyn and was taken to the midwest ten years later. She now lives in New York, where she teaches literature and writing at Vassar College. She writes poetry, fiction, and critical essays. American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner have published her work. Her current manuscript is called My Kennedy Women. Her book, Make Me, is forthcoming from Otis Nebula Press. CITYARTis Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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