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Reminder:Trish Hopkinson and Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 01 May '19

01 May '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Trish Hopkinson and Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Poet Trish Hopkinson will read from herwork on Wednesday, May 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series. Trish Hopkinson has always lovedwords—in fact, her mother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. APushcart nominated poet, she has been published in several anthologies andjournals, including Stirring, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The PennReview; and her third chapbook Footnote was publishedby Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder of a regional poetrygroup, Rock Canyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of the group’sannual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director by profession and residesin Utah with her handsome husband and their two outstanding children. Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen is a poly-artist and humanitarianresiding in Utah. Her poetic work has been featured in anthologies and journalsincluding CrabFat, Peculiar, Quarterly West, Rust+Moth, and SWIMM. She blogs sporadically at secondsetofwings.com and provides regular taxi service for her four children. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah 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 thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Trish Hopkinson at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Poet Trish Hopkinson will read from herwork on Wednesday, May 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series. Trish Hopkinson has always lovedwords—in fact, her mother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. APushcart nominated poet, she has been published in several anthologies andjournals, including Stirring, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The PennReview; and her third chapbook Footnote was publishedby Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder of a regional poetrygroup, Rock Canyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of the group’sannual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director by profession and residesin Utah with her handsome husband and their two outstanding children. Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen is a poly-artist and humanitarianresiding in Utah. Her poetic work has been featured in anthologies and journalsincluding CrabFat, Peculiar, Quarterly West, Rust+Moth, and SWIMM. She blogs sporadically at secondsetofwings.com and provides regular taxi service for her four children. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah 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 thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Trisha Hopkinson at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Trisha Hopkinson at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—8:00 P.M. PoetTrish Hopkinson will read from her work on Wednesday, May 1st at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Trish Hopkinson has always loved words—in fact, hermother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. A Pushcart nominatedpoet, she has been published in several anthologies and journals,including Stirring, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The PennReview; and her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder ofa regional poetry group, RockCanyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of thegroup’s annual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director byprofession and resides in Utah with her handsome husband and their twooutstanding children Most featured readings are followed by anopen reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt LakeCity Arts Council, Catalyst, the SaltLake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Laura Stott and Sunni Brown Wilinson
by CityArt＠thelibrary 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents LauraStott and Sunni Brown Wilkinson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 24th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets LauraStott and Sunni Brown Wilkinson will read from their work on April 124th at theSalt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Laura Stott isthe author of two collections of poetry Inthe Museum of Coming and Going (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2014) and Blue Nude Migration, a poetry andpainting collaboration set to be released from Lynx House Press in 2020. Herpoems can be found or are forthcoming in various publications, including The Aurorean, Sugar House Review, WesternHumanities Review, Rock and Sling, Copper Nickel, Memorious, and Cutbank. She holds an M.F.A. fromEastern Washington University’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers and teachesat Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Sunni BrownWilkinson’s poetry and essays have been published or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Sou’wester, CimarronReview, Sugar House Review, BODY, Ascent, and other journals andanthologies. Her poetry collection TheMarriage of the Moon and the Field is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Pressin August. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University, teaches atWeber State University, and lives in Ogden with her husband and three youngsons. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. CityArt 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, andPark 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 audiencedonations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Michael McLane and Joel Long
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com CityArt Presents Michael McLane and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Michael McLane and Joel Longwill present their work on April 17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Michael McLane runs literary programming for UtahHumanities and is the director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. He holdsan MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MS inEnvironmental Humanities from the University of Utah. Over the years, he hasworked or been a board member for numerous literary organizations in Utah,Idaho, and Colorado including City Art, Writers@Work, and The MESA WritersRetreat. His chapbook, Trace Elements, was published by Elik Press in2015. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, innumerous journals including Western Humanities Review, High Country News,The Dark Mountain Project, Terrain.org, Denver Quarterly, Interim, ColoradoReview, and Laurel Review. He is an editor with Sugar HouseReview and is one of the founding editors of saltfront. He lives inSalt Lake City. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine PressPoetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearanceand Knowing Time by Light werepublished by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludesand Saffron Beneath Every Frost werepublished from Elik Press. His poems andessays have appeared in Gettysburg Review,SportsLiterate, Prairie Schooner, BellinghamReview, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain,and Water-Stone Review, among others. He lives in Salt Lake City. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts 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 ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Richard Robbins and Rob Carney to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com RichardRobbins and Rob Carney to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 10th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Richard Robbins and Rob Carney will read from their works on Wednesday, April10th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public. RichardRobbins haspublished six books of poems, most recently BodyTurn to Rain: New & Selected Poems, which Lynx House Press released in 2017.He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, theNational Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From1986-2014, Robbins directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota StateUniversity Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program. 88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4thfull-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around inthe New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's aboutthe times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughingand telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurativecul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays,challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed homeforeclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21stcentury fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed byfellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit:http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-… Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of theUtah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and threechapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work hasappeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash FictionForward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt LakeCity. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running readingseries and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weeklyprograms on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September toMay at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Artis sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long

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Salt City Slam at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

For ImmediateRelease Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Salt City Slam to perform at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 20th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. The awardwinning Salt City Slam will give a special performance on Wednesday, March 20that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Salt CitySlam performed four-part poetry slam concept based on The Wizard of OZ brought them a fourth place prize at theNational Poetry Slam in Chicago in 2018. Members of the team will perform this week at City Art, including JesseParent, R.J. Walker, Jose Soto, Chris Atkin, and Dorothy McGinnis. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. The event isfree and open to the public. City Art issponsored 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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City Art Tacey M. Atsitty and Trisha Hopkinson at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Tacey M. Atsitty and TrishaHopkinson at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 13th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. PoetsTacey M. Atsitty and Trish Hopkinson will read from their works on Wednesday, March13th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. TaceyM. Atsitty, Diné, is Tsénahabiłnii (SleepRock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People) from Cove, AZ. She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Creative WritingFellowship, the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, Morning Star Creative WritingAward, and the Philip Freund Prize. She holds bachelor’s degrees from BrighamYoung University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA inCreative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or isforthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner,Crazyhorse, Literary Hub, New Poets of Native Nations, and otherpublications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of NewMexico Press, 2018). She lives in Utah. Trish Hopkinson has always loved words—in fact, hermother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. A Pushcart nominatedpoet, she has been published in several anthologies and journals,including Stirring, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The PennReview; and her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder ofa regional poetry group, RockCanyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of thegroup’s annual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director byprofession and resides in Utah with her handsome husband and their twooutstanding children Most featured readings are followed by anopen reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt LakeCity Arts Council, Catalyst, the SaltLake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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City Art Presents Joshua Rivkin and Tim Erickson
by CityArt＠thelibrary 17 Feb '19

17 Feb '19

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Presents Joshua Rivkin and TimErickson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 20th: 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Joshua Rivkin and Tim Erickson will read from their worksWednesday February 20th at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M.in the fourth floor conference room. Joshua Rivkin isthe author of CHALK: THE ART AND ERASURE OF CY TWOMBLY, a finalistfor PEN/Bograd Weld Prize in Biography and longlisted for The BelieverBook Award. His first collection of poetry, SUITOR, is forthcoming in2020. His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker,Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets.A former Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy, as well as a Stegner Fellow inpoetry, he has received awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Fine ArtsWork Center in Provincetown, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and UcrossFoundation. He teaches creative writing for Stanford’s Continuing Studiesand lives in Salt Lake City with his family. Tim Erickson’s book Egopolis waspublished by Semi-city Editions in 2015. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in ChicagoReview, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Mudfish, and others. He is a creative writing teacher at CopperHills High School and lives with his wife and daughter up the canyon besideEmigration Creek. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Katharine Coles and Lance Olsen at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com KatharineColes and Lance Olsen at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 13th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Katharine Coles and Lance Olsen will read from their work February 13that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Field Work Project, bringing together science andliterature. Katharine Coles is the author of Look both Ways: A DoubleJourney Along My Grandmothers Far-Flung Path. Her sixth collection ofpoetry, Flight, was published in 2016 by Red Hen Press. Her fifthpoetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), waswritten under the auspices of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s AntarcticArtists and Writers Program. Ten poems from that book, translated into Germanby Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue of the journal Matrix; shehas also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. Her chapbook,Bewilder, was published in 2015 by the International Poetry Studies Instituteat the University of Canberra. She is also the co-PI on the Poemage project, whichdevelops software for analyzing and visualizing sonic relationships in poetry;she has written a number of scholarly articles and presentations based on thiswork. A professor at the University of Utah, she served from 2006 to 2012 asUtah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural director of the PoetryFoundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has received grants andawards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for theHumanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. LANCE OLSEN is author of more than 25 books of and about innovativewriting, including, most recently, the novel Dreamlives of Debris. MyRed Heaven, the novel he will read from this evening, will appear inJanuary 2020. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundredsof journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D.Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, aswell as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory andpractice at the University of Utah, where he directs the creative writingprogram. Most featured readings are followed by an openreading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake CityArts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and theZoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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Tacey M. Atsitty and Trish Hopkinson Reading Postponed for Snow Day
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

Tonight's reading of Tacey M. Atsitty and Trish Hopkinson at City Art will be rescheduled for March 13th. Please join us then. Too much snow: stay home and read some poems. Joel Long

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