City Art Presents Poets Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets
Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman will read from their works November 9th at the
Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Originally from North Carolina, Chris Tanseer received an MFA in poetry
from George Mason University in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate in
Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah where he serves as
a fiction editor at Quarterly West. He’s also a reader at Sugar House Review,
the best damn poetry journal around, independent or otherwise… His work has
appeared in such places as journals, his trashcan, and on his mother’s
refrigerator.
Lance
Newman is Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake
City, where he teaches courses in Early American Literature, Environmental
Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a guide since 1991,
leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the
author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry
Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005), Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology
of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman,
2006), and of Sullen Fires Across the
Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (Romantic Circles, 2006). His poems have appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Beloit Poetry
Journal, Dusie, Pemmican, Zyzzyva, Streetnotes, nthposition, Perigee,
unsplendid, identity theory, Fringe, New CollAge, Blue Collar Review,
Poets Against the War, and elsewhere. His free chapbook, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv,
2007), is available on request.
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.