For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art Presents Novelist Paul Ketzle and Poet Tim
Erickson
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 6th7:00—9:00 P.M.
Novelist Paul Ketzle and poet Tim Erickson will read from their
works Wednesday May 6th at the Salt Lake
Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room.
Paul Ketzle is the author of The Late Matthew Brown, The
Late Matthew Brown is a satire of race and bureaucracy and the
struggle to build meaningful relationships while living within two worlds at
once, the Old South and the New. The
novel won first prize in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Prize for the
Novel. He received his doctorate in
literature and creative writing from the University of Utah and a master’s in
creative writing from Florida State University. Formerly an editor of Quarterly
West and at Western Humanities Review, he currently teaches in the
Honors College at the University of Utah and resides in Salt Lake City with his
wife, Marcia, and two incredible (and wonderfully challenging) daughters.
Tim Erickson’s book Egopolis was published by Semi-city
Editions in 2015. He holds an MFA from
Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Western
Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Mudfish, and others. He is a creative writing teacher at Copper
Hills High School and lives with his wife and daughter up the canyon beside
Emigration Creek.
Most featured readings are followed by an open reading.
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.