For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Zach Haber and Andy Farnsworth to read for Wild
Words: a special City Art summer event
Antelope Island State Park
Wednesday May 10th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. with a pre-reading event talk on the Great
Salt Lake at 5:30
Zack Haber and Andy Farnsworth
will read from their works on Monday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. at the White Rock
Campground on Antelope Island as part of Wild Words: a City Art special summer
event. This event is free and open to the public. Please bring fold out chairs and plenty of
beverages and snacks. Following the
reading, stick around for the sunset.
Great Salt Lake Talk: Prior to the reading, join us at 5:30
PM for a discussion of the ecology of the area as well as the environmental and
literary history of the Great Salt Lake with Jaimi Butler from the Great Salt
Lake Institute and Michael McLane from Utah Humanities. Butler
and McLane have been leading daytrips to Antelope Island over the
last year in order to help visitors and residents better understand the
complexities of the region and to integrate both science and the humanities in
an understanding of place.
Zack
Haber is an organizer of poetics. Some of his work can be
found in Datableed Zine, Armed Cell, The Capalino Review, 580 Split, Eleven
Eleven, Sierra Nevada Review and other places. His little book, if you want to
be one of them playing in the streets…, was published in 2014 by Quiet
Lightning and Tiny Splendor. He’s hosted poetry readings and performances
through The Other Fabulous Reading Series and other projects in the Bay Area
since 2012. He works at Martin Luther King Elementary School in West Oakland. He’s
currently writing a book called Horrible Places.
Andrew Farnsworth earned his PhD c in fiction from the
University of Utah where he was a Vice-Presidential Fellow. He was selected by
Carole Maso for the 2010 Scowcroft prize in prose and his work can be seen
in Artifice Magazine
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