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City Art Presents Ashley Farmer and Karin Anderson
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

City Art Presents Ashley Farmer and Karin Anderson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 16th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Karin Anderson and Ashley Farmer will read from their works on Wednesday, January 16th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Professor of English at Utah Valley University, Karin Anderson teaches creative nonfiction writing and literature, literary theory, and composition. Her work has been published in Dialogue, Sunstone, Quarter After Eight, Western Humanities Review, Saranac Review, American Literary Review, anthologized with Signature Books and University Readers. She says that she writes narrative and experimental nonfiction, usually about falling airplanes, dead or otherwise inaccessible relatives, uncanny children, family glimmers, temporal collisions on western landscapes. Ashley Farmer is the author of a chapbook and three books, most recently The Women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her work has been published in places like TriQuarterly, The Progressive, Santa Monica Review, Buzzfeed, Flaunt, Nerve, Potomac Review, Gigantic, Salt Hill Journal, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Ninth Letter's 2018 Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Review's 2017 Short Fiction Award, and fellowships from Syracuse University and the Baltic Writing Residency. Ashley lives in Salt Lake City, UT where she's writing a memoir about California, grief, and the effects of gun violence on her family. 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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City Art Presents Lynn Kilpatrick and Kirstin Scott
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

CityArt Presents Lynn Kilpatrick and Kirstin Scott Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 9th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Writers Lynn Kilpatrick and KirstinScott will read from their works on Wednesday, January 9th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. LynnKilpatrick’s essays have appeared in CreativeNonfiction, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Ocean State Review. Hercollection of short stories, In the House, was published by FC2. Sheearned her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah, and she teachesat Salt Lake Community College. Kirstin Scott is the author ofthe novel Motherlunge, which won theAWP Prize for the Novel and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s FirstNovel Prize, the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. Hershort stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review,PANK, Sonora Review, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. 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. 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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Klancy Clark de Nevers and Scott Abbott at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Klancy Clark deNevers and Scott Abbott at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. WritersKlancy Clark de Nevers and Scott Abbot will read from their work December 12th atthe Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Klancy Clark deNevers is the author of the new memoir, Lessons in Printing and The Colonel and the Pacifist: Karl Bendetsen, Perry Saitoand the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II (Universityof Utah Press, April 2004). is aprinter’s daughter who grew up proofreading, doing bindery work and numberingballots in her father’s business, Quick Print Co. in Aberdeen, Washington. Therush to get the Grays Harbor Post out every Friday night gavestructure to her family’s week. During World War II four of her uncles were in thearmed forces and by observing how closely her family followed the progress ofthe war, she gained an enduring interest in the history of that era. Shegraduated from Weatherwax High School (where she had been editor of TheOcean Breeze) in 1951. In 1970 she earned a Master’sDegree in Mathematics from the University of Utah. After a varied career intechnical and managerial positions that allowed her to use her mathematical andcomputing skills, she retired to focus on writing. With Lucy Hart of Seattle,she edited Cohassett Beach Chronicles: World War II in the Pacific Northwest byKathy Hogan, a book of Hogan’s columns from the wartime pages of the GraysHarbor Post. Her poem “Curator” won first place in the City Weekly literarycompetition in September 2000. She served as treasurer for City Art, a grassroots literary organization that presents readings each week in the Salt LakeCity Public Library, and is active on the board of Writers@Work, which presentsa nationally known writing conference held at the Alta Lodge in the Wasatch Mountains nearSalt Lake City, Utah. Her latest book is The Colonel and the Pacifist: KarlBendetsen, Perry Saito and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WorldWar II (University of Utah Press, April 2004). Scott Abbott isthe author of Immortal for Quite Some Time from the Universtiy of UtahPress. "This is not a memoir,” hewrites. “Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are wefriends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, thevoices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not amemoir.” Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of hisbrother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing abouthis brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted,educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity. Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah ArtsCouncil’s Original Writing Competition, Scott Abbott is professor ofhumanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University. 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, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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Mel Bosworth and Ryan Ridge at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Mel Bosworth and Ryan Ridge at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 7th, 7:00—9:00P.M. Ryan Ridge andMell Bosworth will read from their book WeirdWeeks November 7th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series. Ryan Ridge author of twochapbooks and four books, including the hybrid novel, American Homes (Universityof Michigan Press, 2015), which was The Michigan Library Publishing Club’sinaugural book club pick. His work has appeared in Tin House FlashFridays, Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, LosAngeles Review, Lumina, Salt Hill, SantaMonica Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. In 2016,Ridge received the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction judged byJonathan Lethem. His next book, Weird Weeks, a chapbook cowrittenwith Mel Bosworth, won the Editors’ Prize from The Cupboard Pamphlet andwill be published in the fall of 2018. He's an assistant professor at WeberState University and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He edits the literarymagazine Juked. Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel Freight, the poetrychapbook Every Laundromat in the World, and co-author with RyanRidge of Second Acts in American Lives. His work hasappeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Per Contra, New WorldWriting, Santa Monica Review, Melville House, American Book Review,and elsewhere. A former series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50 anda former assistant editor for The Best Small Fictions, Melcurates the Small Press Book Review, an online archive. Helives in Western Massachusetts. Here’s a bit about the book that’s coming out in earlyNovember: PRAISE FOR WEIRD WEEKS “Ryan Ridge and Mel Bosworth have produced the most perfectweird book in Weird Weeks. Are these dreams? Fantasias? Postcardsfrom a parallel universe? It doesn’t matter, because they’re so absorbing andfunny and sad and good they deserve to just exist without category, to be readwithout anything but delight.” —Amber Sparks author of The Unfinished World “It seems like every week nowadays is a weird week, but not goodweird. These pieces are good weird-–eccentric and surreal and ready toturn on a dime or even on a penny, funny and insane, but with a deep andsometimes grim human core.” —Brian Evenson author of A Collapse ofHorses “Weird Weeks is another wild powerful duet albumfrom Ridge and Bosworth, two flash fiction American masters. Each story howlswith life and laughter. A sucker punch right to the heart. With echoes of JamesTate, Donald Barthelme, and Italo Calvino, Weird Weeks risesto the occasion of our strange times and leaves the reader breathlessly alive.A full-tilt joyride for the soul, wonderfully weird and dangerously beautiful.” —Michael Bible author of Sophia and Empireof Light “Ryan Ridge and Mel Bosworth’s collection of coordinated tandemshenanigans, Weird Weeks, provides its reader with aseries of dispatches from a realm so absurd it rivals our own. In an era whenit’s easy to confuse satire for reality, The Onion for TheWashington Post, we need a book like this one to put things in perspective,to give us a way to laugh at ourselves while absorbing the gut punch of howstrange our lives can seem when seen through the twin lenses of two vibrantimaginations.” -–Christopher Kennedy author of Clues fromthe Animal Kingdom Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Artis sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long

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Brian Laidlaw, Ryan Jones, and Yolanda Franklin to read at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Brian Laidlaw, Ryan Jones,and Yolanda Franklin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 17th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. Poets Brian Laidlaw, Ryan Jones, and Yolanda Franklin visitthe City Public Library on Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 PM. This event ispart of the City Art Reading Series. A companion volume to Laidlaw’s 2015 project,The Stuntman, The Mirrormaker fuses the stories of two fabled couples: themythical Narcissus and Echo, and Bob Dylan and Echo Star Helstrom, subject ofthe song “Girl from the North Country.” But where The Stuntman focused onNarcissus, The Mirrormaker takes its primary inspiration from Echo, drawing onecocritical readings of American history and interrogating the masculine logicof resource extraction. Brian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educatorfrom Northern California. He earned an MFA in Poetry at the University ofMinnesota, and then joined the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College ofMusic in St. Paul, MN Hisrecent releases include thevinyl-LP-plus-poetry-chapbook AMORATORIUM (Paper Darts Press), the book/albumTHE STUNTMAN (Milkweed Editions), and the 7” vinyl single JEREMIAD (Hymie’sVintage Records), as well as the forthcoming full-length collection THEMIRRORMAKER (Milkweed Editions, 2018). The organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks,with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous,intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood sointimately, and with such knowing — an edgy discography of Florida and thecontentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands, like ZoraNeale Hurston, how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspectof southern history, and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery andbeyond. Yolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and CallalooFellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and aKingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at FloridaAgricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issueor are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, SouthernHumanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in therecent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-timerecipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a thirdgeneration Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She lovesdancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at herfavorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink thebaristas named after her. Ryan Jones began performing spoken word in 2012after joining the B.L.A.C.K Poets in Macon, GA. After entering and winning hisfirst competitive poetry slam that same year (Bad Mamma Jamma Slam, Hosted byA.A.C. in Milledgeville), Ryan helped to lead Mercer University's inauguralpoetry slam team to the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2015, wherethey placed 20th in the nation for collegiate spoken word. In 2016, Ryan ledMercer University's team back to C.U.P.S.I. as an assistant coach and teampoet. In 2017, Ryan represented the Java Monkey Slam Team in Atlanta, GA at theNational Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. Ryan also competed in the IndividualWorld Poetry Slam in 2017, and competed in and won the TedX Peachtree PoetrySlam the same year. In 2018, Ryan became a Cave Canem Fellow, and also won theArt Amok Grand Slam Finals, making him the 2018 Art Amok Slam Champion. In November 2016, Ryan founded Homegrown Poetry,a spoken word outlet dedicated to uplifting and showcasing both adult and youthspoken word artists in the Atlanta area. Ryan is currently based in Atlanta, GAand is dedicated to community and youth outreach through Spoken Word and otherperformative arts. This event was made possible with support fromThe City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. Mostfeatured 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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Red Rock Poets at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Oct '18

07 Oct '18

= ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Red Rock Poets to read atCity Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 10th,7:00—8:00 P.M. City Art is pleased to host members of the Rock Canyon Poetson Wednesday, October 10 at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room of TheCity Library. A full lineup will be announced soon. Poets will include DennisMarden Clark, Michaelle Martial, Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, Jack Garcia, and LisaConnors. Rock Canyon Poets was established to developcamaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping andreading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as aserious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historicdowntown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and open mic on the 2ndTuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submissiononly. Co-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and TrishHopkinson in January, 2015, Rock Canyon Poets boasts diverse membership. Theethnically rich group ranges in 18 to 70 years in age, and represents manybackgrounds. Experience ranges from creative writing degrees, MFAs, literaryjournal founders and editors, military service, business professionals,professors, counselors, a playwright, and a periodontist. Individually, thesepoets have received an array of local and national awards, and are published ina variety of magazines, anthologies, and literary journals, including severalchapbooks and/or full-length books of poetry. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. 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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Nicole Walker and Julia Corbet at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Nicole Walker and JuliaCorbet to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September October3rd, 7:00—8:00 P.M. City Art presentsauthors Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the City Library on Wednesday,October 3rd at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room. In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to livesustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. After all,who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway,who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels, tsktsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing thedevastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity andabundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from heruneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescentlies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits.With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to ourinnate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitmentto sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves. This book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, thewould-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. Forthose who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means tolive and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope. Walker's previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms,Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been publishedin Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School andother places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—anArtist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowshipfrom the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at NorthernArizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication andEnvironmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With abackground in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academicresearch and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the naturalworld. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and healthcommunication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflictand change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication,Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages(2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteadsin the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woodsin western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Outof the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of NevadaPress) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in oureveryday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationshipwith it. This event was made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, andUtah Humanities. Mostfeatured 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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Deborah Reed, Jeff Metcalf, Max Werner at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 23 Sep '18

23 Sep '18

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Deborah Reed, JeffMetcalf, and Max Werner to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 26th,7:00—8:00 P.M. Authors Deborah Reed, Jeff Metcalf, and Max Werner sharetheir work at the Salt Lake City Public Library on Wednesday, September 26th at7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series. Deborah Reed's new novel, The Days When BirdsCome Back, tells the story of June and Jameson. June returns to the Oregoncoast to decide what to do with her late grandparents' home while in transitionfrom her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalledcareer. Jameson comes highly recommended to renovate the old house to sell. Hetoo struggles to redefine his marriage in the aftermath of tragic loss, and hisconversations with June about the house quickly turn to the personal. Sensingconnection, June and Jameson can’t seem to stop circling each other, shyingaway from hurt. But what can the future hold as long as they are gripped sofirmly by the past? Deborah Reed is the author of fournovels: The Days When Birds Come Back, Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, andCarry Yourself Back to Me. She has also authored two popular thrillersunder the pen name Audrey Braun. A storyteller and avid fly fisherman, JeffMetcalf is, for compelling personal reasons, an enhanced observer of the humancondition, who finds himself often in the streams of the American West. Notonly rivers run through the essays in Back Cast, his cancer does too. But so docamaraderie, adventures, reveling in nature and outdoor devotions, and thesheer bliss of focused engagement with the fish and the cast. Metcalf’s keenlyobserved companions are river guides, small-town locals, academics, and othercity folk, all like him among those who run to the river for solace and joy. Jeff Metcalf is a professor of English at theUniversity of Utah and has been the recipient of numerous awards. His fictionand essays have appeared in local and national magazines and his most recentplay, A Slight Discomfort, has been widely staged in both the United States andEurope. His first collection of essays, Requiem for the Living, was the winnerof the 2012 Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Competition. In his new book, The Bone Pile: Essays on Natureand Culture, Maximilian Werner uses the vehicles of fly fishing, every dayexperience, and some of our most sacred rituals to explore the origins andlimitations of our behavior and ideas. These essays range from thequasi-mystical to the polemical and from the polemical to the ecological.However different each of these essays may be, together they represent an incisivestudy of human and nonhuman life and of the environment that unites us. Maximilian Werner has been teaching at theuniversity level for over twenty years and is currently an Assistant Professor(lecturer) in the Writing and Rhetoric Studies Department at the University ofUtah, where he teaches Professional Writing, Environmental Writing, and Writingabout War. He is an award-winning teacher and author of five books: The BonePile, Black River Dreams, a collection of literary fly fishing essays; the novelCrooked Creek; the memoir Gravity Hill, and the memoir/natural history Evolved:Chronicles of the Pleistocene Mind. This event is made possible with support fromThe City Library, SL City Art, and Utah Humanities. Mostfeatured 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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George Handley and Steven Peck at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Sep '18

16 Sep '18

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com George B. Handley andSteven Peck to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 19th,7:00—8:00 P.M. Brigham Young University professors George B. Handley andSteven Peck visit the Salt Lake City Library to discuss their work onWednesday, September 19th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City ArtReading Series. Handley will share work from his new book,American Fork. This book tells the story of a shared love of the Utah landscapethat heals family wounds for two unlikely friends Zacharias Harker, a brilliantbotanist and an aging recluse, and Alba, a young woman he hires to paintflowers for a book he is writing on the implications of climate change focusedon the wildflowers of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Over the course of their unlikely friendship,Harker convinces Alba to return to Chile to learn the story, long hidden fromher by her mother, of her father’s disappearance under Pinochet. As Americagrows more distrusting of diversity, Alba commits her art to the protection ofthe environment and to a more inclusive meaning of family and belonging whileshe and her husband, John, strive to learn Harker’s hidden past and include himin their lives before it is too late. Rooted in the Mormon heritage of Utah buthemispheric in its reach, American Fork is a story of restoration and healingin the wake of loss and betrayal. Handley writes and researches on theintersection between religion, literature, and the environment, with a specialinterest in postcolonial literature. His scholarship has also focused on theenvironmental values of Mormonism and he frequently speaks publicly in his homestate of Utah about environmental values and issues. In addition to hisscholarly writing, he writes creatively. This includes his environmentalmemoir, Home Waters, which won the 2011 prize for best memoir from theAssociation of Mormon Letters. In Tales from Pleasant Grove, Steven Peckcreates a breathtaking collection of short stories, harnessing the winds of awild creativity with gale-force unpredictability. This book is a wonder and amarvel. The imaginative breadth and speculative depth available here brings tolife dragons, fairies, witches, demons, and ghost, all set within a westernlandscape that in its own way proves just as amazing and other worldly as thefantastic elements at play within Peck's work. Steven L. Peck is an evolutionary biologist, blogger,poet, and novelist. He is the author of Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats, TheScholar of Moab, A Short Stay in Hell, and The Rifts of Rime, as well ascollection of short stories titled Wandering Realities. He has published twovolumes of poetry, Incorrect Astronomy and Fly Fishing in Middle Earth, and twovolumes of non-fiction reflections, Science the Key to Theology and EvolvingFaith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist. He is a blogger at By Common Consent,and can also be found online at www.stevepeckniche.com. This event is made possible with support fromThe City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. Mostfeatured 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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Meltdown Reminder for City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City Art Meltdown Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 5th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. City Art will present its annual meltdown on Wednesday,September 5th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch. The meltdown includes the top vote-gettersamong Utah writers and so offers fifteen to twenty of the best literary figuresof the state reading for five minutes each. This year’s meltdown includes Adam Giannelli, PaisleyRekdal, Ryan Ridge, Andy Farnsworth, Alex Caldiero, Jacqueline Osherow, MichaelMcLane, Jennifer Tonge, Lisa Bickmore, Lance Larsen, Mike White, Joel Long,Wade Bentley, Laura Stott, Lynn Kilpatrick, and Kimberly Johnson. City Art is SaltLake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for theliterary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first threeWednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund. Joel Long

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