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Poet Craig Dworkin and Guitarist Joshua Payne at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Craig Dworkin to read and Joshua Payne to play at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 18 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet/writer Craig Dworkin will read from his work and jazz guitarist Joshua Payne will perform on January 18th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Craig Dworkin is the author of five books of poetry: Motes (2011), The PerverseLibrary (2010), Parse (2008), Strand (2004), and Dure (2004). He has also edited five collections, including, most recently, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (with Kenneth Goldsmith). He teaches at the University of Utah, where he curates the on-line archive Eclipse <http://english.utah.edu/eclipse>.. Joshua Payne is from Alpine, Utah. He is a street musician and has performed all over downtown Salt Lake City and in the subway system in New York City. Joshua plays a custom guitar hand-made by his old best buddy Ryan Thorell. Check out some of the Joshua Payne Orchestra: http://www.joshuapayneorchestra.com/index.php/video 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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Natalie Young and Stephen Tuttle at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Writers Natalie Young and Stephen Tuttle will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday January 11th at 7:00. Stephen Tuttle joined the faculty of Brigham Young University in 2006, the same year he completed his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. He teaches courses in creative writing, fiction writing, and American literature. As a writer, he focuses on short fiction, and his stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Colorado Review, and other venues. Natalie Young is a co-founder, editor and graphic designer for the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. Natalie received a BFA in art from Utah State University and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. Recent and forthcoming publications include Tar River Poetry, A capella Zoo, Terrain.org, Chiron Review, The Dos Passos Review, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and specs, among others. She spends her days making pictures on the computer and her nights with a pug, a mutt and a Nano. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Holiday Open Reading
by CityArt＠thelibrary 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Holiday Open Reading at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art invites you to a holiday open reading on December 14th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library. Bring your cider and cookies, your poems, your prose, your open minds and hearts for a night of open readings. It is a potluck of literature, so it all depends on what you bring as your hot dish or your lovely desert. See you there. 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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Cynthia Zarin and Jacqueline Osherow at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Poets Cynthia Zarin and Jacqueline Osher to Read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Cynthia Zarin and Jacqueline Osherow will read from their work December 7th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Cynthia Zarin is the author of four books of poems published by Alfred A. Knopf, including THE ADA POEMS which appeared last year, and THE WATERCOURSE, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry. She is a long time contributor to the New Yorker ( where she was a staff writer from l984-l994, and 2003-2009) as well as The New York Times and other magazines and journals; her non-fiction has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, and Best Food Writing. She is also the author of five books for children. Among her awards and honors are the Ingram Merrill Award for Poetry, the Peter I. B. Lavan Prize, the Georgia Book Award and the Parents Choice awards for writing for children, the Front Page Award for Arts Journalism, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Poetry. She is a current Guggenheim Fellow, and an Elector of the Poets' Corner at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York. Cynthia Zarin teaches at Yale, where she is Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of the Concentration in Creative Writing in the Department of English, and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. A book of essays, AN ENLARGED HEART, is forthcoming from Knopf next year. University of Utah Professor Jacqueline Osherow is the author of several collections of poetry, including Whitethorn, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Dead Men’s Praise. Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her work has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry. 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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Sugar House Review Reading: Ballam, Coulbrooke, Peppers, Hawkins, White
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

City Art Presents: Sugar House Review Release Celebration—Ballam, Coulbrooke, Peppers, Hawkins, and White Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 16th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Celebrate the release of recent issue of Sugar House Review with readings from Shannan Ballam, Star Coulbrooke, Cathy Peppers, Jen Hawkins, and Mike White November 16th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Shanan Ballam poetry has appeared in several journals, including Indiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Cream City Review. Her chapbook,The Red Riding Hood Papers, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2010. She teaches poetry writing and academic writing at Utah State University. Star Coulbrooke directs the Utah State University Writing Center and is responsible for Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series. Her poems are published in journals and anthologies such as Redactions: Poetry and Poetics andA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses. Her poem, “How I Stopped Selling Life Insurance,” was named Editor’s Choice in the anthology, New Poets of the American West. Star lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs. Cathy Peppers holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, a PhD from the University of Oregon and has taught at Idaho State University since 1998. She lives with singer-songwriter Bob Picard on a one-hundred-year-old farmstead with superfluous creatures, including a blackjack of cats, two horses, a motley of chickens and a goat. Her poetry is loosely collected in a few manuscripts; the poems here are from Arts & Sciences (call it love), regressing forward and in loving detail. Mike White poems have appeared in venues including Poetry, The New Republic, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, Denver Quarterly, FIELD, Witness, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize anthology on six occasions, most recently by Sycamore Review. He is a graduate of the doctoral program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and a former editor-in-chief of Quarterly West. Jen Hawkins is an English/Philosophy double major and Art minor at Idaho State University. Her writing and artwork have been published widely and have received numerous awards. A recovering masochist, Jen enjoys caffeining, shebeening (with all due moderation) and making stuff. She loves Joe with all her bleeding heart. 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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Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

City Art Presents Poets Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman will read from their works November 9th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Originally from North Carolina, Chris Tanseer received an MFA in poetry from George Mason University in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah where he serves as a fiction editor at Quarterly West. He’s also a reader at Sugar House Review, the best damn poetry journal around, independent or otherwise… His work has appeared in such places as journals, his trashcan, and on his mother’s refrigerator. Lance Newman is Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City, where he teaches courses in Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a guide since 1991, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005), Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006), and of Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (Romantic Circles, 2006). His poems have appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Beloit Poetry Journal, Dusie, Pemmican, Zyzzyva, Streetnotes, nthposition, Perigee, unsplendid, identity theory, Fringe, New CollAge, Blue Collar Review, Poets Against the War, and elsewhere. His free chapbook, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007), is available on request. 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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Daddy/dada with Alex Caldiero and Sara Caldiero-Oertli at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Daddy—Dada with Alex Caldiero and Sara Caldiero-Oertli Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet and sonosopher Alex Caldiero and poet Sara Caldiero-Oertli will present Daddy—Dada on November 2nd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities, Caldiero makes things that appear as language or pictures or music, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is the author of numerous publications, visual and text-sound works, including Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press) and Sound Weave (Differential Records). He has appeared in various films, such as Trent Harris’ Plan Ten From Outer Space and Luna Mesa. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge, London/NY) and is the subject of the experimental documentary film The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in life…in sound (Dream Garden Press and OHO Media). He is Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University. Sara Caldiero-Oertli was born in New Yorkand migrated to Utahto grow up. Her proximity to wilderness has played a major roll in inspiring her to teach, write and perform. She is an aspiring book artist but most of her time is spent making and teaching poetry. Her work is centered on the body and understanding language. She enjoys bringing poetry to desert adventurers and drifters on the street. Her most recent publication, "Snatch 'N' Sniff" is available at Ken Sanders Rare Books. City Art is longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. 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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Travis Mossotti at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Winner of the May Swenson Prize in Poetry Travis Mossotti Reads at City Art. Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 26th 7:00—9:00 P.M. May Swenson Prize winner Travis Mossotti will read from his poems October 26th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council’s Great Salt Lake Book Festival. The following authors will participate: Travis Mossotti received his MFA in poetry from Southern Illiniois University Carbondale, and has been a faculty lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz and McKendree University. His poetry appears widely, and he has received the 2009 James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review from contest judge Robert Pinsky and this year was named the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award winner by contest judge Garrison Keillor. The May Swenson award is presented each year by the Utah State University Press. City Art is longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Many 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 Book festival thanks its major sponsors: the George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, Chevron, and Zions Bank; as well as the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts, and the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund. Thanks also to our wonderful partner, the City Library. This program is in partnership with the Utah State University Press and Utah State University English Department, as well as City Art. 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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Sugar House Review Presents Nick Demske and Rob Carney
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Monday, October 24 · 7:00pm Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church 175 South 700 East Salt Lake City, UT Sugar House Review and the Utah Humanities Council are pleased to announce a reading with poets Nick Demske, author of Nick Demske, and Rob Carney, author of Story Problems on Monday, October 24th at 7:00 p.m. at the Mount Tabor Lutheran Church (175 South 700 East). This event is free and open to the public. It will include a Q & A session and meet and greet. Copies of the poets' books and Sugar House Review will be available topurchase. Nick Demske’s first collection, Nick Demske, is ostensibly a collection of sonnets, though it’s more like sonnet taxidermy, the sonnet eviscerated. The hide is in place, the constraints are there, but our pet is no longer our pet. The eyes are different and the lips curl up just so. The fourteen lines are present, except when they trail off. The rhyme schemes, while they shift from poem to poem, are nearly always present though Demske innovates on the form by simply breaking words as is convenient to make rhymes work, a move now known as “the Demske.” These breaks are startling, confusing, and simultaneously hilarious once the pattern begins to emerge. Nick lives in Racine Wisconsin and works there at the Racine Public Library. His self-titled manuscript was chosen by Joyelle McSweeney for the Fence Modern Poets Series Award and published by Fence Books in 2010. He is a founder and editor of the online forum boo: a journal of terrific things (http://boojournal.wordpress.com/) and curates the BONK! performance series in Racine (http://bonkperformanceseries.wordpress.com/) To find reviews, interviews, poems, audio, video and a list of upcoming readings, please visit http://nickipoo.wordpress.com/ Rob Carney's third full-length collection, Story Problems, is built upon musical narrative poems that take on the form of a newspaper with sections like "Want Ads and Personals" and "Op Eds and Parables." Poet Maria Melendez notes that "Carney's gift is to make us believe that it really is me this time, and it really is you. His blending of the utterly believable with the incredible makes this book a poetic wonderland." Rob is originally from Washington State and earned his BA from Pacific Lutheran University, his MFA from Eastern Washington University, and his PhD from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is the author of New Fables, Old Songs (Dream Horse Press, 2003) and Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts (Pinyon Press, 2003), which won the 2004 Utah Book Award for Poetry. His collection This Is One Sexy Planet won the 2005 Frank Cat Press Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest, and he won The National Poetry Review's 2004 Chapbook competition for The Book of the Living. His writing has appeared previously in Atlanta Review, Mid-American Review, The National Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and many others, as well as in the collection Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton, 2006). Currently, he is a professor at Utah Valley State College and lives in Salt Lake City. Joel Long

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Utah Book Award Nominees at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents A Reading with the Nominees for the 2010 Utah Book Award. Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 19th 7:00—9:00 P.M. The nominees for the 2010 Utah Book Award will read from their works October 19th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. The following authors will participate: Jacob Paul—Fiction Joel Long—Poetry Steven R. Simms—nonfiction Gerald Elias—Fiction Shawn Fawson—Poetry City Art is longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Many reading 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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