For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday December 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Wade Bentley and Joey Franklin will read and perform their work on December 11th at the Salt Lake City Public
Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Wade Bentley teaches writing
at Salt Lake Community College. He has four children and four
grandsons. He enjoys hiking, writing, and playing with the aforementioned
grandsons. His poems have been published or will soon appear in Green
Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Western
Humanities Review, Rattle, Subtropics, Oberon, ARDOR, drafthorse, Clapboard
House, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among others. His
chapbook of poems, Askew, was recently published by Red Ochre Press.
Joey Franklin is an assistant professor of
English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University. His personal essays
have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Florida Review, The Pinch, and other
journals. His essay,"How to be a T-Ball Parent," won the 2011 Sport
Literate Essay contest, and his first published essay, "Working at
Wendy's," was recently anthologized in the 13th edition of the Norton
Nonfiction Reader.
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