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Abraham Smith and the Snarlin' Yarns, Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Abraham Smith and the Snarlin’ Yarns at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 2nd, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poet Abraham will read from his poems and perform with the band the Snarlin’ Yarns November 2nd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Abraham Smith's forthcoming and recent publications include Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023), Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022), and Bear Lite Inn (New Michigan Press, 2020). Away from his desk, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns; Mississippi's Dial Back Sound will release their sophomore effort It Never Ends on the 23rd of January 2023. Their debut record, Break Your Heart, also out from Dial Back, made some noise on the European Americana charts and was featured on Apple Music's Americana playlist. Smith lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. 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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Abraham Smith and the Snarlin' Yarns at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Abraham Smith and the Snarlin’ Yarns at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 2nd, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poet Abraham will read from his poems and perform with the band the Snarlin’ Yarns November 2nd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Abraham Smith's forthcoming and recent publications include Insomniac Sentinel (Baobab Press, 2023), Dear Weirdo (Propeller Books, 2022), and Bear Lite Inn (New Michigan Press, 2020). Away from his desk, he improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns; Mississippi's Dial Back Sound will release their sophomore effort It Never Ends on the 23rd of January 2023. Their debut record, Break Your Heart, also out from Dial Back, made some noise on the European Americana charts and was featured on Apple Music's Americana playlist. Smith lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. 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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The Meltdown Cometh, City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Meltdown Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 19th 6:30—8:00 P.M. City Art will present its annual meltdown on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:30 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. The meltdown includes the top vote-getters among Utah writers and so offers some of the top literary figures of the state reading for five minutes each. This year’s meltdown includes the following writers: Jennifer Tonge Mike White Nancy Takacs Joel Long Lance Larsen Sunni Brown Wilkinson Laura Stott Lance Olsen Sandy Anderson Pam Balluck Patrick Madden Kimberly Johnson City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their programs on the first and third 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 Parks Fund. Joel Long

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Meltdown returns for City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Oct '22

12 Oct '22

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Meltdown Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 19th 6:30—8:00 P.M. City Art will present its annual meltdown on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:30 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. The meltdown includes the top vote-getters among Utah writers and so offers some of the top literary figures of the state reading for five minutes each. This year’s meltdown includes the following writers: Jennifer Tonge Mike White Nancy Takacs Joel Long Lance Larsen Sunni Brown Wilkinson Laura Stott Sandy Anderson Pam Balluck Patrick Madden Kimberly Johnson City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their programs on the first and third 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 Parks Fund. Joel Long

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Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson, October 5th, as City art Returns
by CityArt＠thelibrary 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 5th 6:30—8:00 P.M. Writers Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson will read and perform their work on October 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Brenda Miller’s most recent books are A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing on Form and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, a collection of collaborative essays with Julie Marie Wade. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Dayna Patterson is a Thea-curious recovering Mormon, fungophile, macrophotography enthusiast, and textile artist. She’s the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her next collection, O Lady, Speak Again, is forthcoming from Signature Books in 2025. Honors include the Association for Mormon Letters Poetry Award and the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Her creative work has appeared recently in EcoTheo, Kenyon Review, and Whale Road Review. She’s the founding editor (now emerita) of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. In her spare time, she curates Poetry + Fungus, a pairing of poetry books and species from the fungal world. daynapatterson.com Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art has been sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, 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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Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

Writers Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson will read and perform their work on October 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Brenda Miller’s most recent books are A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing on Form and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, a collection of collaborative essays with Julie Marie Wade. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Dayna Patterson is a Thea-curious recovering Mormon, fungophile, macrophotography enthusiast, and textile artist. She’s the author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020). Her next collection, O Lady, Speak Again, is forthcoming from Signature Books in 2025. Honors include the Association for MormonLetters Poetry Award and the 2019 #DignityNotDetention Poetry Prize judged byIlya Kaminsky. Her creative work has appeared recently in EcoTheo, KenyonReview, and Whale Road Review. She’s the founding editor (nowemerita) of Psaltery & Lyre and a co-editor of Dove Song:Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. In her spare time, she curates Poetry +Fungus, a pairing of poetry books and species from the fungal world. daynapatterson.com | | | | | | | | | | | Dayna Patterson Writer, Editor, Stitchwitch | | | Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art has been sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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A few more hours to vote for the 2022 meltdown
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

City Art Meltdown 2022 City Art Meltdown 2022: We are back! Meltdown will be held on October 19th after our return reading with Washington writers Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson on October 5th. Meltdown Ballot Please vote for up to ten readers whom you’d like to see perform for the Meltdown this year on October 19th. You may write-in a reader if they are someone who has been associated with City Art in the past. Please title your e-mail “Meltdown 2022": joeltlong(a)yahoo.com. Instructions for subscribing to the e-mail list for City Art follows the ballot. Forward this info to anyone who would benefit. We will tabulate votes on September 12th. Please send your votes to joeltlong(a)yahoo.com with the heading Meltdown 2022. Thanks, and Happy voting. Joel Long, City Art Meltdown Ballot Abbot, Scott Adiga, Ranjan Ahumada, Hector Alexander, Jessica Anderson, Karin Anderson, Sandy Ballam, Shanan Balluck, Pam Barber, Phyllis Bentley, Wade Berenson, Malcolm Bickmore, Lisa Blankenship, Wendy Bond, Melissa Button, Harmony Bylenok, Laura Caldiero, Alex Caldiero, Sara Candland, Lara Carney, Rob Carr, Harold Christensen, Shen Clark, Maureen Coles, Joan Coles, Katherine Coulbrooke, Star Daniels, Jason Davis, Sean DeNevers, Klancy Dorrell, Mike Dowdle, Kurt Dworkin, Craig Erickson, Tim Farnsworth, Andy Farmer, Ashley Franklin, Joey Gibbs, Jenn Gills, Michael Goldman, Tyler Griffiths, Sian Hamblin, Laura Hawkins, David Hirschi, Heather Hoffman, Andy Houghton, Dawn Howard, Jean Howe, Susan Hunt, Shelley Jacques Sides, Dana Johnson, Kimberly Johnson, Sara Eliza Johnson, Wayne Johnstun, Kase Jordan, Teresa Jorgenson, Kirsten Josephs, Janine Ketzle, Paul Kilpatrick, Lynn Kocks, Dorothee Kramer, Ashley Seitz Kranes, David Kubarycz, Brian Larsen, Lance Leibo, Chris Liederbach, Nate Linsalata, Lisa Long, Joel Love, Adam Madden Patrick Marano, Dawn Martine, A.J. McAullife, Sheena Mejia, Michael Minich, Jan Murdoch, Barbara Nevison, Susannah Newman, Lance Olivera, Felicia Olsen, Lance Osherow, Jacqueline Ostler, Lin Pace, David Palmer, Michael Payne, Jessica Peppers, Cathy Rekdal, Paisley Ridge, Ryan Rivkin, Josh Roghaar, Brad Roullard, Lisa Sacksteader, Joe Sample, Susan Saunders, Gerda Scott, Kirstin Sebba, Jon Sieczkowski, Brenda Simonsen, Holly Sinor, Jennifer Skye, Gino Smith, Abraham Snell, Ned Sowder, Michael Stansbury, Nicole Stevenson, David Stott, Laura Stradley, Shawn Subach, Karen Takacs, Nancy Taylor , Natalie Thomas, Brian Gray Thomson, Hillary Thon, Melanie Rae Tippets, Dave Tonge, Jennifer Torti, Sylvia Tuttle, Stephen Van der Graff, Kara van Ieperen, Jerry Wagenaar, Mark Werner, Maximilian White, Mike Wiggins, Lyle Wilkinson, Sunni Brown Winrock, Cori Yates, Jennifer Young, Darlene Young, Natalie Zollinger, Shari Other: E-mail list: These are the instructions for getting on the City Art e-mail list to find out about readings for this year. You may already be receiving the mailings for the City Art Mailer, if not, please take a moment to put yourself on the list so you can find out about all of our readings. Pass this information to others. I will send all e-mails through this system this year. Subscribing to the City Art mailing list allows you to receive an email reminder in advance of each performance. To subscribe to the list, follow these instructions: 1) Go to http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cityart 2) Enter your email address and your name. 3) Click subscribe. 4) A confirmation email will be sent to the email address you entered. To confirm your subscription, you *must* reply to the message. It is not necessary to modify the body of the message before replying. 5) A final confirmation message will be sent to you. If you do not receive a confirmation message welcoming you to the list, you have not been subscribed and you should ask for assistance. This is an announce-only list; you can expect to receive only one or two messages per month during the City Art season. Please do not reply directly to messages sent from this list, there is a possibility that they will not be seen. If you have any questions or if you need help subscribing or managing your subscription. Joel Long

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The developing schedule
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Sep '22

10 Sep '22

The City Art season is developing nicely, amazingly. Take a look and start marking your calendars. October 5th Brenda Miller Dayna Patterson October 19 Meltdown November 2 Abraham Smith will read followed by music from the Snarlin’ Yarns! 16 Poet Laureate Celebration reading: Paisley Rekdal Lisa Bickmore December 7 Katharine Coles Kate Gale 21 Ashley Farmer Ryan Ridge February 15 Lance Olsen Katharyn Stockton March 1 Alex Caldiero 15 Nan Seymour April 5 Lance Larsen Melanie Rae Thon Joel Long

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Correction for Meltdown ballot.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Natasha Saje will be in Washington DC, so she should be removed from the meltdown ballot. Sorry. Joel Long

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Meltdown Ballot 2022!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

City Art Meltdown 2022: We are back! Meltdown will be held on October 19th after our return reading with Washington writers Brenda Miller and Dayna Patterson on October 5th. Meltdown Ballot Please vote for up to ten readers whom you’d like to see perform for the Meltdown this year on October 19th. You may write-in a reader if they are someone who has been associated with City Art in the past. Please title your e-mail “Meltdown 2022": joeltlong(a)yahoo.com. Instructions for subscribing to the e-mail list for City Art follows the ballot. Forward this info to anyone who would benefit. x We will tabulate votes on September 12th. Please send your votes to joeltlong(a)yahoo.com with the heading Meltdown 2022. Thanks, and Happy voting. Joel Long, City Art Meltdown Ballot Abbot, Scott Adiga, Ranjan Ahumada, Hector Alexander, Jessica Anderson, Karin Anderson, Sandy Ballam, Shanan Balluck, Pam Barber, Phyllis Bentley, Wade Berenson, Malcolm Bickmore, Lisa Blankenship, Wendy Bond, Melissa Button, Harmony Bylenok, Laura Caldiero, Alex Caldiero, Sara Candland, Lara Carney, Rob Carr, Harold Christensen, Shen Clark, Maureen Coles, Joan Coles, Katherine Coulbrooke, Star Daniels, Jason Davis, Sean DeNevers, Klancy Dorrell, Mike Dowdle, Kurt Dworkin, Craig Erickson, Tim Farnsworth, Andy Farmer, Ashley Franklin, Joey Gibbs, Jenn Gills, Michael Goldman, Tyler Griffiths, Sian Hamblin, Laura Hawkins, David Hirschi, Heather Hoffman, Andy Houghton, Dawn Howard, Jean Howe, Susan Hunt, Shelley Jacques Sides, Dana Johnson, Kimberly Johnson, Sara Eliza Johnson, Wayne Johnstun, Kase Jordan, Teresa Jorgenson, Kirsten Josephs, Janine Ketzle, Paul Kilpatrick, Lynn Kocks, Dorothee Kramer, Ashley Seitz Kranes, David Kubarycz, Brian Larsen, Lance Leibo, Chris Liederbach, Nate Linsalata, Lisa Long, Joel Love, Adam Madden Patrick Marano, Dawn Martine, A.J. McAullife, Sheena Mejia, Michael Minich, Jan Murdoch, Barbara Nevison, Susannah Newman, Lance Olivera, Felicia Olsen, Lance Osherow, Jacqueline Ostler, Lin Pace, David Palmer, Michael Payne, Jessica Peppers, Cathy Rekdal, Paisley Ridge, Ryan Rivkin, Josh Roghaar, Brad Roullard, Lisa Sacksteader, Joe Saje, Natasha Sample, Susan Saunders, Gerda Scott, Kirstin Sebba, Jon Sieczkowski, Brenda Simonsen, Holly Sinor, Jennifer Skye, Gino Smith, Abraham Snell, Ned Sowder, Michael Stansbury, Nicole Stevenson, David Stott, Laura Stradley, Shawn Subach, Karen Takacs, Nancy Taylor , Natalie Thomas, Brian Gray Thomson, Hillary Thon, Melanie Rae Tippets, Dave Tonge, Jennifer Torti, Sylvia Tuttle, Stephen Van der Graff, Kara van Ieperen, Jerry Wagenaar, Mark Werner, Maximilian White, Mike Wiggins, Lyle Wilkinson, Sunni Brown Winrock, Cori Yates, Jennifer Young, Darlene Young, Natalie Zollinger, Shari Other: E-mail list: These are the instructions for getting on the City Art e-mail list to find out about readings for this year. You may already be receiving the mailings for the City Art Mailer, if not, please take a moment to put yourself on the list so you can find out about all of our readings. Pass this information to others. I will send all e-mails through this system this year. Subscribing to the City Art mailing list allows you to receive an email reminder in advance of each performance. To subscribe to the list, follow these instructions: 1) Go to http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cityart 2) Enter your email address and your name. 3) Click subscribe. 4) A confirmation email will be sent to the email address you entered. To confirm your subscription, you *must* reply to the message. It is not necessary to modify the body of the message before replying. 5) A final confirmation message will be sent to you. If you do not receive a confirmation message welcoming you to the list, you have not been subscribed and you should ask for assistance. This is an announce-only list; you can expect to receive only one or two messages per month during the City Art season. Please do not reply directly to messages sent from this list, there is a possibility that they will not be seen. If you have any questions or if you need help subscribing or managing your subscription. Joel Long

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