Fiction writer Nicole Stansbury and Poet Timothy OÂKeefe will read from their
work Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Stansbury received her Master's in fiction writing at the University of Utah.
She has written two books, "Places to Look for a Mother," and "The Husband's
Dilemma." In 2002, she was selected by Barnes and Noble for their "Discover
New Writers" series. She teaches senior English at Rowland Hall St. Mark's
this year and is completing a third book, "The Earth We Know."
Timothy O'Keefe's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird,
Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Forklift
Ohio,
Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, Pool, and elsewhere. He
has been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Tin
House Writer's Workshop. He received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University,
and
is currently a PhD student at the University of Utah.
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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Writer Andy Hoffman will read from his new collection, The Professor Stories,
Wednesday, March 5th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Andy Hoffmann's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of
national literary journals, and his work has won awards and grants for
fiction and non-fiction from the Utah Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council
of the Arts, and the Associated Writing Programs. He has nonfiction
has appeared in Salt Flats Review and Big Bridge, and a novella from
Cityful Press. He teaches at the University of Utah and publishes and edits
Elik Press, Salt Lake City.
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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Poets Ned Snell and Chris Ames will reading from their poems February 20th at
the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
N. Colwell Snell graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in
English. He is immediatge past president of the Utah State Poetry Society and
chancellor of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, where he
serves as chair of the College/University Poetry Competition. He edited the
2005 Utah Sings Volume VIII, an anthology of contemporary verse by Utah poets.
He was named Utah Poet of the Year for his manuscript Hand Me My Shadow,
which also won the 2007 Pearle M. Olsen book award. His poetry has appeared
in several anthologies and magazines, including ByLine Magazine, California
Quarterly, Bay Area Poets' Coalition, and
Weber Studies.
Chris Ames was born and raised in Salt Lake, then let loose upon the world.
He has spent years in Europe and Asia, working, traveling and learning (and
continuing to learn). He currently lives and works in Paris, but has never
forgotten his roots as a Utahn. He has published two books of prose in Japan
and contributed to countless magazines and anthologies from Beijing to
Budapest. His current work, SOME PEOPLE, from which he will read tonight,
appeared in Poland in 2005.
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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Fiction writer Ron Carlson will read from his work February 13th at 7:00 at
the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel
Five Skies, selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Los Angeles
Times. His new book on writing fiction, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, was also
published in 2007. His selected stories is A Kind of Flying, (W.W. Norton
2003), and his short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker,
Gentlemen's Quarterly, Epoch, The North American Review and other journals, as
well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The
Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and dozens of
other anthologies. A graduate of the University of Utah, Mr. Carlson is
Director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California,
Irvine. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
Fiction, and the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares.
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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Multi-talented Kathryn Cowles will read from her poems and play and sing her
own songs for the City Art Reading Series on February 6th at 7:00 P.M. at the
Salt Lake City LibraryÂs Main Branch.
Poet Kathryn Cowles is a graduate student in Creative Writing at the
University of Utah. She has recent poems in Colorado Review, Hawaii
Review, and Pleiades, and her first book manuscript, Eleanor, Eleanor,
not your real name, was a semifinalist this fall in the Eastern
Washington Press book prize and the Saturnalia book prize. Kathryn
co-chairs the Working Dog reading series and is co-editor of poetry
for Quarterly West.
Musician Kathryn Cowles started playing guitar when she was 12 because
everyone else in her family played piano, including her mother, a
classical piano teacher, and her father, a blues keyboardist. She
writes and sings her own songs.
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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Writers Jeffrey Chapman and Christine Marshall will read from their works for
the City Art Reading Series on January 16th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City
LibraryÂs Main Branch.
Jeffrey Chapman lives in Salt Lake City, UT. He has recently
completed his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. He is putting
finishing touches on a collection of Short Stories called
Gigantomachy and is also working on a graphic novel. Stories have
appeared recently in some magazines and places.
Christine Marshall is a graduate student in poetry at the University of Utah.
Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Agni, Calyx, Western Humanities Review,
Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, and the Beloit Poetry Journal.

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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Writers Halina Duraj and Christopher Patton will read from their works for the
City Art Reading Series on January 9th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake City
LibraryÂs 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.
Christopher Patton's first book, Ox, was published by Signal Editions of
Vehicule Press in 2007. Patton's poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,
The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead, and were anthologized in The New
Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. In 2000, he was awarded The Paris
Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry. Patton writes, and tends his
apple trees, on Salt Spring Island.
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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ItÂs time to open presents from your City Art Secret Santa: You are the Secret
Santa. ItÂs open reading time. So unwrap your poems and prose and bring them
to the Salt Lake city Public Library at 7:00, Wednesday, December19th. Bring
some holiday cheer.
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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Poets Jean Howard and Sandy Anderson will perform and read from their works at
the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 12th at 7:00 P.M.
as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Award-winning video and performance poet, organizer, producer, and participant
in the original development of the internationally-acclaimed, ÂPoetry SlamÂ,
Jean Howard has poetry published in over seventy publications, including
Harper's Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and her own book, Dancing In Your
Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press).
She has performed her poetry on cable, public and network television and at
hundreds of venues nationwide, from the GuggenheimÂs exhibit at ChicagoÂs
Field Museum, to biker bars.
Currently, Jean serves on the Board of Slam Utah, Advisory Board of Utah Arts
Alliance, and as a consultant for the National Poetry Slam Board, after
serving as Director of ChicagoÂs National Poetry Video Festival for eight
years.
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 1960Âs, Word Affair in the 70Âs and 80Âs, and City Art in the 90Âs. She
has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given
workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners.. She was the 1997
recipient of the Salt Lake City MayorÂs Award in Literature, and the 1995
Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award. She has edited collections of poems by
Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three
collections of poetry by the disabled.
AndersonÂs 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 1970Âs .
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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Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and Fiction writer Lance Olsen will read
from their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library on December 5th at 7:00
P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Katharine Coles most recent collection of poems, Fault, will be published
(Red Hen Press) in 2008. Her second novel, Fire Season, was published by
Juniper Press. She has also published three collections of poems, most
recently The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension. Her work has appeared or
is forthcoming in such journals as The Paris Review, The New Republic, The
Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and Poetry, and she has received awards
from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other
organizations. She is on the faculty of the Department of English at the
University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and
directs the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.
Lance Olsen is author of eighteen books of and about innovative fiction,
including, most recently, the novels Anxious Pleasures (Shoemaker & Hoard,
2007) and Nietzsche's Kisses (FC2, 2006). He serves as Chair of the Board of
Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's
best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. He is
also Associate Editor at American Book Review. He 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.
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