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Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poets Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson Read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday March 17 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Yale Prize poet Jay Hopler and BYU Professor Kimberly Johnson will read from their work on Wednesday March 17th at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and he has earned degrees from New York University, The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and The New Yorker. His book of poems, Green Squall (Yale University Press, 2006) was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Green Squall also received the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a 2006 Florida Book Award [Silver Medal in the Poetry Category], a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award [Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category] and a 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News. He also has been the recipient of a Marfa Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and a Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire, his first book, was published in the United States and Europe by The Overlook Press and Canongate Books in 1996. His next book, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets, will be published by Yale University Press in 2010. He is Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing/Poetry) at the University of South Florida and divides his time between Tampa and Salt Lake City where he lives with his wife, the poet, Kimberly Johnson. Kimberly Johnson's first collection of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook, was published by Persea Books in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God, published by Persea in 2008. [1] Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, and The Yale Review, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature. Her translation of Virgil's "Georgics" was published in 2009 by Penguin Classics. She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons. Kimberly Johnson earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2005 from UC-Berkeley. She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU) 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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Seven Paintings, Seven Poems, Dave Hall and Joel Long
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Seven Poems and Seven Paintings Seven Poems and Seven Paintings, a collaboration between Utah poet Joel Long and landscape artist Dave Hall, will open Friday, March 12, 6:30 p.m. at the Rowland Hall Upper School library, 843 Lincoln Street in Salt Lake City. Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles will introduce Long, who will read from a selection of work based on Hall’s paintings and featured in his new book Knowing Time By Light. “Joel Long's poems exist equally in the body and mind, full of observation and sensuous detail…” says Coles, a professor at The University of Utah and Poet Laureate since 2006. Long’s poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, and his book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. He received the 2009 Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts. Hall’s tonalist landscapes hang locally at Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake and Meyer Gallery in Park City. The poet and artist have roots in the Missouri River country of southwest Montana – an area that has inspired both. After the March 12 opening at Rowland Hall, Seven Poems and Seven Paintings will open on March 19 in conjunction with Phillips Gallery for a month-long stay at Evolutionary HealthCare, 461 East 200 South, in Salt Lake. Dave Hall’s painting The Slow Slope of Land, one of the landscapes at Seven Poems and Seven Paintings. For More Information: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUqHQ4_VmNI Dave Hall Joel Long Meri DeCaria www.BlaineCreek.com 801-870-8084 Phillips Gallery 801-583-2303 801-364-8284 801-419-7289 cell Joel Long

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Michael Palmer and Andy Hoffman
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Writers Michael Palmer and Andy Hoffman will read with Musician Tulley Cathey Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday March 10 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Writers Michael Palmer and Andy Hoffman will read from their work on Wednesday March 10 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Guitarist Tulley Cathey will accompany Hoffman. Michael Palmer is a prose writer living in Salt Lake City. He finished his MFA at the University of Utah in 2009. His essay "Dark Blue Biology" won "Best Essay" in the 2009 Utah Arts Council writing competition. His work has appeared in Dialogue, Brevity, Leaf Garden and other journals Andy Hoffmann's work has appeared in over thirty national literary journals, and he has won awards from the Utah Arts Council for the novel, the short story, and creative nonfiction. His collection Five Stories was funded by a grant from the Pennsylvania Arts Council. He has essays forthcoming from Flyway, Iowa State University, and The Pacific Review of Books, Victoria, B.C. He teaches in the Honors College, University of Utah, and edits and publishes Elik Press. Tully Cathey is an award winning guitarist, composer and music educator. As a professional guitarist, he has performed for the concert stage, theater and dance. He has composed extensively for KUED, the University of Utah's public television station, including scores for "AIDS: The Quiet Cost,""The Last Cowboys," "Shade of Gray," and many others. His orchestra work "Disposable City" was performed in Poland and the Ukraine in May, 2003, conducted by Robert Debbaut. He teaches in the College of Music, University of Utah. 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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Melanie Rae Thon and Halina Duraj at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Fiction writers Melanie Rae Thon and Halina Duraj Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday March 3 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Writers Melanie Rae Thon and Halina Duraj will read from their works for the City Art Reading Series on March 3 at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City Library’s Main Branch. Halina Duraj has a master's in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, and is currently a Ph.D. student in creative writing at the University of Utah. Her essay, "My Boyfriend Is a Fascist," won first place for non-fiction in the Utah Arts Council Writing Competition, and some of her fiction is forthcoming in Witness, Third Coast, and Descant. Melanie Rae Thon's most recent books are the novel Sweet Hearts and the story collection, First, Body. Her work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996), three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008), Granta's Best Young American Novelists (1996), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). She is also a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992), and a Writer's Residency from the Lannan Foundation (2005). Her new fiction appears or is forthcoming in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Glimmer Train, Conjunctions: A Writers' Aviary, Pushcart Prize XXXII, Idaho Review, Crazyhorse, Five Points;and at http://www.drumlummon.org. Originally from Montana, she now lives in migration between the Pacific Northwest and Salt Lake City, where she teaches at the University of Utah. 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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Star Coulbrooke at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com USU poet Star Coulbrooke Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday February 17 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Star Coulbrooke will read from her work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Teresa Jordan was forced to cancel her reading that was scheduled for tonight due to family circumstances. Star Coulbrooke teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing workshops, hosts literary events, serves on arts and literary panels, helps judge writing contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is published in Ellipsis, The Teacher’s Voice, City Art Journal, Sugar House Review, Tertula Magazine, Sunstone, Poetry International, Hunger Magazine, and others She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press), with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. Her work has appeared in the anthologiesA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Hooves and Standing: Poetry by Idaho Women. In 2008, her manuscript, River Once Removed, won finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine), and second place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest. Star directs the USU Writing Center and teaches writing workshops. She lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs. 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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Madden and Sample at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Poet Susan Sample and Essayist Patrick Madden will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 10th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Patrick Madden first book, Quotidiana, a collection of essays that was runner-up in the 2007 AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction, will be published in early 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press. He has published individual essays in The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Portland Magazine, and many other journals, plus some of these essays have been anthologized in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007 and The Best Creative Nonfiction vol. 2 or noted in the back of The Best American Essays. Susan Sample, a Salt Lake City resident, has a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona. Her poetry has won awards in two recent Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competitions; her fiction won an award in Redbook magazine’s Young Writers Contest. She has published in literary journals, with her poems most recently appearing in The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Ellipsis, Salt Flats Annual and City Art Journal. Since 2002, Susan has led poetry workshops for the Arts Council at the Youth Transplant Kamp, teaching teenagers who’ve survived organ transplants. She also has taught poetry to children and adults for World Hospice Day at the Huntsman Cancer Center, and to patients with kidney disease and their families. At the University of Utah School of Medicine, where she is a program associate in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities. 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.

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Bickmore (poet) Jackson (cello) at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Poet Lisa Bickmore will read from her poems, and Cellist Nicole Jackson will perform at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 3rd as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lisa Bickmore's work has appeared in Mudfish, Quarterly West, Hunger Mountain Review, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, and elsewhere. Her first book, Haste, was published by Signature Books. She teaches writing at Salt Lake Community College. Nicole Jackson has won awards as a soloist in the Music Teachers National Association and Rostropovich International competitions. She has performed across Europe and the US. She has served on the faculty at Waterford School, Brigham Young University and Weber State University and currently teaches privately. She has performed as Principal Cello with Ballet West and has performed with the Utah Symphony. Jackson has performed on dozens of recordings including Brahms with the Escalante Trio, Film da Fronteira with Zone Azul, Sisters at Play with Claudine Bigelow, Mood Swings with David Stoker, Wings of Song with Jenny Oaks, and Sketches with Kurt Bestor. 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.

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Barbara Duffey with Harold Carr and Geoff Miller
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Writer Barbara Duffey will read from her work and musicians Harold Carr and Geoff Miller will play original jazz at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, January 20th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Barbara Duffey is a Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in such publications as Indiana Review, American Letters & Commentary, Best New Poets 2009, and Prairie Schooner. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California, she has worked as a telephone operator, an SAT math tutor, a paralegal, a volunteer on an archeological dig, a reading instructor for preschoolers to adults, and an instructor for Writers in the Schools. She coordinates the Agha Shahid Ali Prize at the University of Utah Press and lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, one dog, and two cats. Harold Carr (acoustic and electric bass) has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Crystal Gayle, Lightnin' Hopkins, John McCuen, Steve Lacy, Catie Curtis and Matt Flinner. He has published three books of poetry: Wekwomteks, Being Time and Where You Were. Harold has been a musician/poet-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, guest soloist at the Frutillar Music Festival in Chile, composer/soloist with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company in Guang Zhou, China, invited poet for the Utah State Governor and commissioned composer/performer at New Music America. He has worked with the Windolls Theatre of Images in Colombia, Hong Kong, San Francisco and Seattle. He has been a member of a number of popular Utah-based bands such as The Cowdaddies, The Jarman/Kingston Quartet, Amnesia and Wood. He currently works with blue haiku, Red Rock Rondo, and the John Flanders trio. As a performer, Geoff is grateful for the opportunities he has had to play with such Jazz luminaries as Steve Lacy, Mulgrew Miller, Bob Brookmeyer, Brian Bromberg, and Gregory Hutchinson, among many others. Geoffrey currently performs with groups such as the Daniel Day Trio, Greg Floor Quartet, Slajo, The John Flanders Trio, The Chisolm Bros., Utah Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Also a composer, Professor Miller has written pieces for Big Band, Woodwind Trio, and Guitar Ensemble. He has also composed over fifty Jazz pieces. As an undergraduate at the University of Utah, Geoffrey Miller won the prestigious Lionel Hampton award for Outstanding Jazz Soloist. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree ('96) from the University of Utah. After his graduation from the University, he was honored to join the faculty. In 2001, Geoffrey moved to Boston to study at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he earned his Masters in Jazz Studies. At the Conservatory, Geoff was mentored by great Jazz artists such as Steve Lacy, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Bob Brookmeyer, Cecil McBee, and Alan Chase. 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.

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Dorrell and Straughn at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Writers Mike Dorrell and Joanna Straughn will read from their recent works at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday January 13th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Joanna Straughn received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Utah. Her first chapbook, Instinctdebuts this Fall 2006 from Bright Hill Press; Treadwell, New York. She has recently completed a juried residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. Originally from a small town in west Texas, she has also lived in New York and Northern California, a village in Germany, and on a farm in Oklahoma. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Asheville Poetry Review, and Meridianamong others. Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES, PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC for BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE OLD CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike was the Dramaturg for The Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work. He has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has been published in small magazines in Wales. 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, and audience donations.

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by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

City Art celebrates the new Utah literary journal, Sugar House Review with a reading from the 1st edition, Wednesday, January 6 at the Salt Lake City Public Library’s Main Branch. The reading will feature the following writers: Joanna Straughn Rob Carney Brock Dethier Shari Zollinger Michael McLane Star Coulbrooke . Sugar House Reviewis an independent, semiannual poetry journal based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. The first issue is printed, perfect bound and ready to live at your house. It includes previously unpublished poems by Paul Muldoon, Jerome Rothenberg, Rane Arroyo, Natasha Sajé, Teresa Cader, and Utah's former and late Poet Laureate Ken Brewer, among other talented poets. 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.

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