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Meltdown 2018
by CityArt＠thelibrary 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '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, Michael McLane, JenniferTonge, Lisa Bickmore, Lance Larsen, Mike White, Joel Long, Wade Bentley, LauraStott, 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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City Art Meltdown Ballot 2018
by CityArt＠thelibrary 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

City ArtMeltdown 2018 MeltdownBallot Pleasevote for up to ten readers whom you’d like to see perform for the Meltdown thisyear on September 5th. You may write-ina reader if he/she is someone who has been associated with City Art in thepast. Please title your e-mail “Meltdown 2017":joeltlong@yahoo.com. Instructionsfor subscribing to the e-mail list for City Art follows the ballot. Forward this info to anyone who wouldbenefit. We will tabulate votes onAugust 17th. Pleasesend your votes to joeltlong(a)yahoo.com. Thanks,and Happy voting. JoelLong, City Art MeltdownBallot Abbot, Scott Adiga, Ranjan Ahumada, Hector Anderson, Karin Anderson, Sandy Ballam, Shanan Balluck, Pam Barber, Phyllis Bentley, Wade Berenson, Malcolm Bickmore, Lisa Blankenship, Wendy Bond, Melissa Button, Harmony Bylenok,Laura Caldiero, Alex Caldiero, Sara Candland, Lara Carney, Rob Carr, Harold Christensen,Shen Clark, Maureen Coles, Joan Coles, Katherine Coulbrooke, Star Daniels, Jason Davis, Sean DeNevers, Klancy Dorrell, Mike Dowdle, Kurt Dworkin, Craig English, Katharine Erickson, Tim Farnsworth, Andy Farmer, Ashley Fouts, Diane Franklin, Joey Funda, Evelyn Gaudry, Molly Gianelli,Adam Gibbs,Jenn Gills, Michael Goldman, Tyler Griffiths, Sian Hallstrom, Rich Hamblin, Laura Hawkins, David Hirschi, Heather Hoffman, Andy Houghton, Dawn Howard, Jean Howe, Susan Hunt, Shelley Jacques Sides, Dana Johnson, Kimberly Johnson, Sara Eliza Johnson, Wayne Johnstun, Kase Jordan, Teresa Jorgenson,Kirsten Josephs, Janine Ketzle, Paul Kilpatrick, Lynn Kocks, Dorothee Kramer, AshleySeitz Kranes, David Kubarycz, Brian Larsen, Lance Leibo, Chris Liederbach, Nate Linsalata, Lisa Long, Joel Love, Adam Madden Patrick Marano, Dawn Martine, A.J. McAullife, Sheena McLane, Michael Mejia, Michael Metcalf, Jeff Minich, Jan Murdoch, Barbara Newman, Lance Olivera, Felicia Olsen, Lance Osherow, Jacqueline Ostler, Lin Pace, David Palmer, Michael Payne,Jessica Peppers, Cathy Rekdal, Paisley Ridge, Ryan Rivkin,Josh Roghaar,Brad Roullard,Lisa Sacksteader,Joe Saje, Natasha Sample, Susan Saunders, Gerda Scott, Kirstin Sebba, Jon Sieczkowski, Brenda Simonsen, Holly Sinor, Jennifer Skye, Gino Smith, Abraham Snell, Ned Sowder, Michael Stansbury, Nicole Stevenson, David Stott, Laura Stradley, Shawn Subach, Karen Takacs, Nancy Tanseer, Chris Taylor, Natalie Thomas, Brian Gray Thomson, Hillary Thon, Melanie Rae Tippets, Dave Tonge, Jennifer Torti, Sylvia Tuttle, Stephen Van der Graff, Kara van Ieperen, Jerry Wagenaar, Mark Werner, Maximilian White, Mike Wiggins, Lyle Wilkinson, Sunni Brown Yates, Jennifer Young, Darlene Young, Natalie Zollinger, Shari Other: E-maillist: These are the instructions forgetting on the City Art e-mail list to find out about readings for thisyear. You may already be receiving themailings for the City Art Mailer, if not, please take a moment to put yourselfon the list so you can find out about all of our readings. Pass this information to others. I will send all e-mails through this systemthis year. Subscribingto the City Art mailing list allows you to receive an email reminder in advance of each performance. Tosubscribe to the list, follow theseinstructions: 1)Go to http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cityart 2)Enter your email address and your name. 3)Click subscribe. 4)A confirmation email will be sent to the email address you entered. To confirm your subscription, you *must*reply to the message. It is not necessary to modify the body of the messagebefore replying. 5)A final confirmation message will be sent to you. If you do not receivea confirmation message welcoming you to the list, you have not been subscribed and you should ask forassistance. Thisis an announce-only list; you can expect to receive only one or two messagesper month during the City Art season. Please do not reply directly to messagessent from this list, there is a possibility that they will not be seen. Ifyou have any questions or if you need help subscribing or managing your subscription.

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Open Reading at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

CityArt concludes its season with an open reading on Wednesday June 6th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public LibraryMain Branch. It’s Potluck poetry, prose, food, and beverage. Come and share your writing or enjoy whatothers bring to share. The event is freeand open to the public. Thereading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council; the Utah ArtsCouncil; Xmission; Zoo, Arts and Parks; and audience donations Joel Long

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City Art High School Night
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 May '18

15 May '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Utah High School Writers will Read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 16th 7:00—9:00 p.m. Wednesday May 16thwill be High School Writers Night for the City Art Reading Series. High School writers from all around thevalley will read from the poetry and prose at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branchat 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Some of the schools expected to participateare Rowland Hall, Copper Hills High School, Bountiful High School, Skyline High School, and Waterford amongothers. 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. Thefeatured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long

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Reminder: Kara van de Graaf and Jesse Parent Wednesday at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 May '18

08 May '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Poet Kara van de Graaf and Jesse Parent at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Karavan de Graaf will read from her work along with a performance by Jesse Parent May9th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. Kara van de Graaf is the author of Spitting Image, winner of theCrab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry. Her individual poems appear widely innational literary journals, including The Southern Review, AGNI, NewEngland Review, Crazyhorse, Alaska Quarterly Review, and theanthology Best New Poets. She is co-founder and editor ofLightbox Poetry, an online educational resource for poetry in the classroom.She serves as Assistant Professor of English at Utah Valley University. JesseParent is a two-time runner-up at the Individual World Poetry Slam, a two-timefinalist at the Ill List Invitational Poetry Slam, a finalist at the 2012Ontario International Poetry Slam, and a two-time semi-finalist and group piecefinalist at the National Poetry Slam. He has been on 10 Salt City Slam teams,has served as SlamMaster and coach for Salt City Slam, and serves on theexecutive council for Poetry Slam, Inc. His poetry has been featured on theHuffington Post, UpWorthy, TheBlaze.com, and WorldStarHipHop.com. In hispersonal life, he has a very tolerant wife and three adorable kids. You canfind out more about Jesse at www.JesseParent.com 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. Joel Long

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Michael Mejia and Music from Te Azul at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Writer Michael Mejia and Music with Te Azul (Carr, Cervino-Wood,Miller) at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer MichaelMejia will read from his work and musical group Te Azul will perform May 2nd atthe Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Michael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness,and his writing has been published in many journals and anthologies. Arecipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, heis editor in chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editorof Ninebark Press, and aprofessor of creative writing at the University of Utah. Te Azul's exciting and thoughtful musicranges from ballads and pop to burning cutting edge jazz. It'smembers represent some of Utah's most respected musicians including U/U jazzprofessors and Emmy Winning Award band Red Rock Rondo players. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flavia Cervino-Wood (violin) studiedclassical violin at the Conservatory of Music in Santiago andat the Universidad Católica de Chile. She moved to Brazil to join theband Grupo Agua, which toured South America and performed andrecorded with Milton Nascimento. She moved to New York and performed withthe Brockport Symphony. She then moved to San Francisco where she wasactive in the Latin music scene. She is a featured soloist withSol y Luna along with Rebecca Mauleon and Michael Spiro. Shehas performed with Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Lerner and John Cagecompositions with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In Utah she hasperformed and recorded with blue haiku, Red Rock Rondo, the Salt LakeSymphony, Hal Cannon, and the Alan Michael Band. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geoffrey Miller (guitar andcompositions) is Assistant Professor at University of Utah School ofMusic. He has shared the stage with jazz luminaries such as Steve Lacy, MulgrewMiller, Bob Brookmeyer, Brian Bromberg, Gregory Hutchinson, and JohnStowell. Geoffrey performs with Greg Floor Quartet, SLAJO, TheJohn Flanders Trio, Utah Symphony, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Pioneer MemorialTheater, the Dave Bowen Orchestra, Joshua Payne Orchestra, TeAzul, and Alan Michael, and with his own group. He holds aMaster's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, wherehe studied with Steve Lacy, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, BobBrookmeyer, Cecil McBee, Ben Monder, Gene Bertoncini. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Harold Carr (acoustic bass andcompositions) has been active in the Utah music scene for decades, working withbands such as Wood, Amnesia, Jarmen/Kingston Quartet, bluehaiku, Red Rock Rondo and the Mark Chaney Trio. Internationally hehas performed and recorded with people such as Bobby McFerrin, CrystalGayle, Lightnin' Hopkins, John McCuen, Catie Curtis, Steve Lacy andMatt Flinner. He has been musician-in-residence at the BanffCentre for the Arts in Canada, soloist at the Frutillar Music Festivalin Chile, invited poet for the Utah State Governor and commissionedcomposer/performer at New Music America. 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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Abraham Smith and Ryan Ridge at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Apr '18

15 Apr '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Abraham Smith and Ryan Ridge at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 18th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Abraham Smith andRyan Ridge will read from their work April 18th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Assistant professor at Weber State University, Abraham Smith isthe author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (ActionBooks, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (ActionBooks, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim ManMammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (LostRoads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry andrelated essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowshipsfrom the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Councilon the Arts. Presently, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birdswhose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man, hisbook-length poem about farming, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books. 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. 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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Neeli Cherkovski and Lisa Bickmore at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Neeli Cherkovski and Lisa Bickmore at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets NeeliChekovski and Lisa Bickmore will read from their work April 11th at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. NeeliCherkovski was born in LosAngeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal StateLos Angeles). He is theauthor of many books of poetry, including Animal (1996), LeaningAgainst Time (2005), From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). Heis the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry betweenLos Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). He has also published bilingual editions in Austria, Mexico, andItaly. A facsimile edition of one of his notebooks was published byViviani Edizione in Verona, Italy. Cherkovski also wrote biographiesof Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski,as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). Hispapers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cherkovski received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the JackMueller Festival in Fruita, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. LisaBickmore is the author of three books of poems as well as video work.Among her honors are the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015, andthe 2014 Antivenom Prize for her second book, flicker. Her third book,Ephemerist, is out this year. She is professor of English at Salt LakeCommunity College, where she is also one of the founders of its PublicationCenter. 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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Neeli Cherkovski and Lisa Bickmore at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Neeli Cherkovski and Lisa Bickmore at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets NeeliChekovski and Lisa Bickmore will read from their work April 11th at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. NeeliCherkovski was born in LosAngeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal StateLos Angeles). He is theauthor of many books of poetry, including Animal (1996), LeaningAgainst Time (2005), From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). Heis the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry betweenLos Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). He has also published bilingual editions in Austria, Mexico, andItaly. A facsimile edition of one of his notebooks was published byViviani Edizione in Verona, Italy. Cherkovski also wrote biographiesof Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski,as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). Hispapers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cherkovski received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the JackMueller Festival in Fruita, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. LisaBickmore is the author of three books of poems as well as video work.Among her honors are the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015, andthe 2014 Antivenom Prize for her second book, flicker. Her third book,Ephemerist, is out this year. She is professor of English at Salt LakeCommunity College, where she is also one of the founders of its PublicationCenter. 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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Stephen Corey and Paisley Rekdal at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Paisley Rekdel and Stephen Corey at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Utah PoetLaureate Paisley Rekdal and Poet, Writer, and Editor Stephen Corey will readfrom their work April 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. aspart of the City Art Reading Series. PaisleyRekdal is the author of a book ofessays, The Night MyMother Met Bruce Lee, the hybrid-genre memoir Intimate, and fourbooks of poetry: ACrash of Rhinos, SixGirls Without Pants, TheInvention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye, which was afinalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize.Her newest book of poems is ImaginaryVessels, and her most recent work of nonfiction is a book-lengthessay, The BrokenCountry: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry TravelingFellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes,the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poemsand essays have appeared in TheNew York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, TheNew Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series(2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator andeditor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate. Stephen Corey has published tencollections of poems, most recently ThereIs No Finished World (WhitePine Press, 2003), and his first essay collection—Startled at the Big Sound: Essays Personal, Literary, and Cultural—wasreleased in early 2017 by Mercer University Press. He has co-edited four booksin three genres, including (with Warren Slesinger) Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry (The Bench Press, 2001), aswell as Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of TheGeorgia Review (University of Georgia Press, 2012). His poems, essays, andreviews have appeared in many periodicals, among them Shenandoah, The AmericanPoetry Review, Poets & Writers,and The Kenyon Review; his work hasbeen reprinted in numerous anthologies, including Short Takes: BriefEncounters with Contemporary Nonfiction (W. W. Norton, 2005), and The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002 (2002); and he has been awarded writingfellowships from the arts councils of three states—Florida, South Carolina, andGeorgia—as well as the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Excellence in LiteraryEditing from the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program at PacificLutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, for which he taught from 2006-2015.Since 2014 He has been the editor for the University of Georgia Press’s Georgia Review Books series, anirregular regular offering of new books and of subject-based anthologies ofpreviously published GR material. From1977-83 Corey co-edited and subsequently edited The Devil's Millhopper, an independent poetry magazine he helped tofound. Since 1983 he has been with The Georgia Review, serving variously asassistant editor, associate editor, acting editor, and, since 2006, editor. Coreyhas taught at the University of Florida (where he earned his PhD in English)and at the University of South Carolina, and he has served as poet-in-residenceor visiting poet/editor for a number of conferences and writing programs acrossthe United States, including those sponsored by the University of Arizona,Binghamton University, and Vermont College. He is currently a member of thecore faculty for the Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA in Creative WritingProgram, based at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. RanjanAdiga teaches creative writing classes at Westminster College. Hisworks have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, among others. Hisstories explore lives of immigrant communities, their hopes and anxieties, asthey assimilate into American culture. Ranjan is currently workingtowards completing his debut short story collection. 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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