For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Writers Linda Aldrich and Miles Fuller to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October 10th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Linda Aldrich and Miles Fuller
will read from their works on October 10th at the Salt Lake City
Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Linda Aldrich grew up in New Hampshire and
graduated from
the University of New Hampshire, Florida State
University (MA
Theatre Arts), and Vermont College (MFA/
Poetry). She was
director of the Young Conservatory and a member
of the repertory at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and
later was Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Aims Community
College in Greeley,
Colorado.
Her poetry chapbook, Foothold,
was published in 2008,
and her full collection, March and Mad Women was published
August 2012 by Word Tech (Cherry Grove
Collections). Her poems
have appeared in numerous journals and
anthologies, among them Crazy Woman Creek,
Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, The Denver
Quarterly, Ellipsis, The Florida Review, Poet Lore,
Third Coast,
Puerto
del Sol,
Snake Nation Review, The Best of Write Action,
and Words
and Images. Her poem
“Woman-without-Arms” won
the Emily Dickinson Award 2000 from
Universities West Press.
She currently lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband David,
where she continues to teach and is on the board of trustees for
the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA).
Miles Fuller
teaches at Westminster College. He
studied Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. His
poetry and prose have received accolades through the Academy of American Poets,
AWP, a Pushcart nomination, Honorable Mention in Best American Essays, and most
recently, Fuller won the 2010 Alligator Juniper Essay Prize. His poems and
essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, The Portland
Review, and Ellipsis. In addition, while working as an instructor at the
University of Iowa, Miles Fuller’s students named him, “Captain Fuller,”
reiterating his position as the saltiest and most nautically-aware writer in
American letters.
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.
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Jesse Parent
Jean Howard
October
3
Michael Gills
Mike Dorrell
10
Miles Fuller
Linda Aldrich
17
Jacqueline Osherow
Peter Covino
24
Cathy Wagner
Paisley Rekdal
November
7
Shaun Griffin
Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate
21
Michael Hansen
Tim Erickson
December
5
Sian Griffiths
Melanie Rae Thon
12
19
Holiday Open
January
9
Hector Ahumada
16
Katharine English
Joel Long