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The Holiday Share at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

City Art presents its annual holiday open reading Wednesday December 16th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library. So dust the snow and slush off your poems and scrape the layers of ice off your prose and come down and share your work during the season of sharing. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Derek Henderson and Alex Caldiero
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Poets Alex Caldiero and Derek Henderson will reading from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, December 9th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Derek Henderson has lived in Salt Lake City with his wife and three (sometimes four children) for almost four years. They are still daily fascinated by the sight of mountains from their patio. His poems have been published or are soon to be published in Fence, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, and GoodFoot, and online with DIAGRAM, Word for/Word, GutCult and ActionYes. He has somewhere around five or six manuscripts that he'd love people to see. At the moment, his favorite quote is from George Oppen: "Yet I am one of those who from nothing but man's way of thought and one of his dialects and what has happened to me / Have made poetry." Caldiero is on the Philosophy/Humanities faculty at Utah Valley State College where he is Artist in Residence. He is the author of numerous publications, CDs, and videos, including Various Atmospheres: poems and drawings (Signature Books); Sphota Probe (CD), Ah Bh Gh (artist book), U Latti Di La Matri/The Milk of the Mother (bi-lingual Sicilian poems, CSSSS, Catania), From Stone to Star (Incurve Press), Or: Book O= Lights (artist book), Toy Blood (limited ed. self-published), Words: Exterior/Interior (video, produced by Steve Olpin), Illegible Tattoos (artist book),and recently, Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press). Caldiero is anthologized in Text-Sound Texts (Richard Kostelanetz, ed., Morrow, NY), and featured in the Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Routledge, London/NY) and Utah: State of the Arts (Trudy McMurrin, ed., Meridian International, Ogden, UT). 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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Sandy Anderson at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Poet Sandy Anderson will read from her works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 2nd at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair in the 70’s and 80’s, and City Art in the 90’s. She has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners. She has served as Poetry Co-ordinator for the Utah Arts Festival and First Night, and Poetry Consultant to the Salt Lake Arts Council. She is listed in Literary Utah: A Bibliographic Guide edited by Joyce Kinkhead and sponsored by the Utah Council of teachers of English. She was the 1997 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award for continued support of the literary community. Anderson has given readings at the First Night Celebration in Salt Lake City, the Utah Arts Festival, Park City Arts Festival, the Utah Book Festival, the Underwater Poetry Festival, the Saint Marks Arts Festival, the Somos series in Taos, New Mexico, Colorado Springs and Trinidad in Colorado, the Limberlost Fandango in and the Log Cabin in Boise, and the Rocky Mountain Writers Festival in Pocatello, Idaho. Anderson’s chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by Limberlost Press in 1998. Her book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and The Great Salt Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which won first place in the literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News, Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her married name, Sandy Wilkerson, and has served as a judging chairman for the Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the 1970’s . She has edited collections of poems by Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three collections of poetry by the disabled. She has been a screener for the May Swenson poetry book contest for several years, and has helped organize the out of town night of readings at the Rocky Mountain Poetry Festival in Pocatello. She has recently joined the 2006 Great Salt Lake Book Festival Steering Committee as chair of the booksellers and exhibitors. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Lance Olsen, Francois Camoin
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Writers François Camoin and Lance Olsen will read from their work on November 18th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City Art Reading Series. François Camoin was born in France and now teaches creative writing at the University of Utah. He has published two novels, a critical book on Jacobean drama, and four collections of short stories, including his new book April. Lance Olsen is author of nineteen books of and about innovative fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Conjunctions, McSweeney's, Hotel Amerika, Black WarriorReview, and Best American Non-Required Reading. An N.E.A. Fellowship, Fulbright, and Pushcart Prize recipient, and finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Geraldine Connolly at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Poet Geraldine Connolly will read from her work on November 4that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Geraldine Connolly was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two poetry collections, Food for the Winter (Purdue) and Province of Fire (Iris Press), as well as a chapbook, The Red Room (Heatherstone Press). Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review and Shenandoah. She has won two NEA fellowships in Creative Writing and the Yeats Society of New York Poetry Prize. Her poems have been included in many anthologies including Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for American High School Students and Sweeping Beauty: Poems About Housework. One of her poems has been broadcast on Garrison Keillor’s The Writers Almanac. She teaches each spring at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. She divides her time between Montana and Arizona. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Shira Dentz and Stacy Kidd at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Poets Shira Dentz and Stacy Kidd will read from their work on October 21stat the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the third floor conference room. Shira Dentz's book, door of thin skins, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press, and her book, black seeds on a white dish, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Her chapbook, Leaf Weather, was recently published by Tilt Press. Her poems appear in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Field, Western Humanities Review, and jubilat, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, and NPR. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets' Prize,The Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah. Before leaving for Iowa and Salt Lake City, she worked for many years as a graphic artist designing music ads in New York City, and taught English in an inner city public high school. Stacy Kiddis in the PhD Program in Creative Writing at the U of Utah and Poetry Editor for Quarterly West. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Fugue, Spoon River Poetry Review and WITNESS. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Jerry VanIeperen and Esther Lee at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Writers Jerry VanIeperen and Esther Lee will read from their work on October 14that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. Jerry VanIeperen lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and is one of the founders/editors of the Sugar House Review and formerly worked as an editor for Petrogylph. He is a winner of Utah State University's creative writing contest and recently earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska. His poems have appeared in Black Rock & Sage, Bring the Ink, Scribendi, and The City Art Journal. Esther Lee received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from IndianaUniversity where she served as Editor-in-Chief for Indiana Review. She's been awarded the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize; twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and nominated for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She used to work as Editor-in-Chief for Tea Party magazine in SanFrancisco and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature at theUniversity 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Lance Larsen and Nicole Sheets at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Writers Lance Larsen and Nicole Sheets will read from their work on October 7that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. Lance Larsen (PhD, University of Houston) is the author of two poetry collections: Erasable Walls and In All Their Animal Brilliance, the latter of which won the Tampa Review Prize. His poems have appeared in New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Grand Street, New England Review, Times Literary Supplement, Kenyon Review, New Republic, The Pushcart Book of Poetry: the Best Poems from the First 30 Years, and elsewhere. In 2005, he co-directed a semester-long study abroad program in London and taught creative nonfiction. A professor of English at BYU, he currently serves as associate chair. Former poetry editor at Gulf Coast, he has received grants and awards from The Cultural Arts Council of Houston, the Joseph Campbell Society, the Utah Arts Council, Sewanee, and Writers at Work. He is married to Jacqui Larsen, a painter and mixed-media artist. Nicole Sheets’ essays and book reviews have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Pilgrimage, and Quarterly West, and an essay is forthcoming in the anthology Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical (Cascade Press, 2009). Sheets is a past winner of the Utah Writers’ Contest, sponsored by Western Humanities Review, and the Richard Scowcroft Prize in prose, from the University of Utah Department of English. Sheets has written for several newspapers and magazines in her home state of West Virginia and for Ziarul de Garda, a weekly newspaper in the Republic of Moldova. Before moving to Utah, Sheets taught English in Moldova as a Peace Corps volunteer. For the last five summers, she’s been on the faculty of the West Virginia Governor’s Honors Academy, a program for high school seniors, where she’s taught cooking, creative writing, and a little bit of yoga. Sheets lives in Salt Lake City and is finishing up a Ph.D. in creative writing 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Jody Gladding, Yale Prize winner at City Art with Holly Simonsen
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Yale Prize winner Jody Gladding will read from her poems along with Salt Lake City writer Holly Simonsen at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, September 16th. A widely published poet and translator, Jody Gladding’s first book of poetry, Stone Crop, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1993. The recipient of a Whiting Award in 1997, her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni, and elsewhere. Her translations from the French include such volumes as Evil and Exile by Elie Wiesel (Notre Dame, 2000) with John Rothschild; The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes by Michel Pastoureau (Washington Square, 2003); and The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono (Archipelago, 2004). She lives in Vermont. Holly Simonsenearned her B.A. from Westminster College in Salt Lake City and is currently working on her M.F.A. in poetry writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She works primarily off the page making ecopoetic installations in collaboration with the Great Salt Lake. Her published poetry can be found in Ecotone, Copper Nickel, Red Rock Review, and is forthcoming from NANOFiction. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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Craig Arnold Tribute Reminder
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

City Art will present a tribute to poet Craig Arnold on September 9th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. The tribute will include readings from Jennifer Tonge, Rebecca Lindenberg, Joel Long, Paisley Rekdal, Brian Kubarycz, and Jacqueline Osherow. After pursuing his passion for volcanoes by visiting sites around the world, Craig Arnold was lost on April 26th on the Japanese Island Kuchino-erabu following the path of the poet Basho. Arnold was a vital part of Utah’s arts community. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah and continued to live and work in the area since his graduation, giving readings of his work including a standing-room-only reading last February for City Art. He was also a wonderful singer/songwriter, heading up the band Iris in its various incarnations. Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky called Arnold “One of the most gifted poets of his generation.” Arnold’s poems have appeared in “Best American Poetry” in 1998, 2004 and 2006, as well as in the journals “Poetry,” “The New Republic,” “Paris Review,” “Yale Review” and “Poetry Northwest.” He has received the Rome Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. Arnold was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Colombia and a U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship. He taught at the University of Wyoming. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.

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