For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday February 10th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas will
present their work on February 10th at the Salt Lake City Public
Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Since she
spearheaded the first literary magazine--Satori-- at her first college, Lin Ostler has been the engaged in
writing, reading and sharing poetry. With a fresh B.A. degree in English and
French, she taught literature in Edmonton, Alberta for a while, then helped
establish Marmalade Hill “free” school in Salt Lake City, taught in a college in
Vermont, and has guided writers’ workshops through various agencies of Utah
Arts, all the while being a Yoga Instructor for over 40 years, a mother for 35.
Ostler’s work has
been danced, manifest and incorporated into multi-cultural collaborations such as
“Moving the Stone” and “Emergents--Tracks in the Motherline” since her initial
award-winning poem--Woman, the Pioneer-- illustrating a dance piece in
1971.Several times since 2010, she has placed in the Iron Pen Marathon, as she
did in the 1995 Utah Arts Original Writing competition.
Most recently,
Ostler has been asked to read with her international group of poet friend, the
Faraway Poets, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ojai, California. George Jisho
Robertson of London says of her poetry: “This is the authentic voice of being
alive... it inspires with its lived particularity and lucidly involved
detachment - truly from the Apex embracing the senses and creative
intelligence. Your feeling for the texture and sound of words is elegant and
moving.”
Gray Thomas grew up in Salt Lake City, UT.
For the past several years, he has been involved with the Salt Lake City
performance poetry community. He has been a member of five Salt Lake City slam
teams, reaching semi-finals twice. He has represented Salt Lake City twice at
the Individual World Poetry Slam. He co-founded the University of Utah Poetry
Slam Team (YouSpeak) and the non-profit Wasatch Wordsmiths. He received his BA
in English from the University of Utah, and is currently a graduate student of
Westminster College’s Strategic Communications program.
City Art is
longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all
genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each
month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local
as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers.
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