For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Harmony Button and Jerry VanIeperin to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers Harmony Button and Jerry
VanIeperin will read from their work on Wednesday November 4th at the Salt Lake
City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Harmony Button's work has been included in
Best American Notable Essays of 2015, she has been nominated for Pushcart and
Best of the Web awards, and she was awarded the Larry Levis Prize from the
Academy of American Poets. She is a contributing editor at Paper Tape Magazine,
and you can find her work published in journals such as Colorado Review,
Chicago Quarterly, Southwestern American Lit, Cobalt, Rock & Sling, Bayou
and Drafthorse. She is currently the Academic Dean at the Waterford School in
Utah.
Jerry VanIeperen was, at best, a
D minus English student in Junior High and High School. Then a computer glitch
placed him in the advanced creative writing class and his life altered. He
studied journalism and won the annual creative writing contest for poetry at
Utah State University. After earning an MFA in Writing from the University of
Nebraska, he became a founding editor of the Sugar House Review. His poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in Redactions, Poetry City USA, Plainsongs, Black
Rock & Sage, burntdistrict, Bridge Eight, and Working Stiff: an anthology
of professional wrestling themed literature and art, among others. He lives in
Utah with his wife, two children, and a dog. He briefly considered writing
manifestos from a dark, windowless cabin in the heart of the Rocky Mountains,
but felt his beard was not quite Nordic enough for such endeavors.
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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Linda Aldrich
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Jacqueline Osherow
Peter Covino
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Cathy Wagner
Paisley Rekdal
November
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Shaun Griffin
Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet
Laureate
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Jennifer Sinor
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Michael Hansen
Tim Erickson
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Melanie Rae Thon
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Michael Gills
Franklin Fisher
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Holiday Open
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