Anne
Caston and Joel Long to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 16th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Anne Caston and Joel Long will read from their works on
Wednesday, April 16th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par
of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public.
Anne
Caston's first collection of
poems, Flying Out With The Wounded,
was awarded the 1996 New York University Press Prize for Poetry. In its review
of the book, Publisher's Weekly
(4/28) wrote that "...when she compresses an anecdote into verse, her
poetry is as sharp – and sometimes as revealing – as a scalpel." Her poems have been
published in literary journals and medical periodicals here and abroad and her
work has been anthologized in such collections as Where Books Fall Open, Sustenance
& Desire, The Long Journey: Poets
of the Northwest, and The New
American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. She has twice been a featured
writer on WPFW's "The Poet and the Poem" and was interviewed by
Michael Collier in The Writing Life
videotape series.
Caston’s second collection of poems,
Judah's Lion, was published in 2009
by Toad Hall Press. A selection of poems from Judah's Lion was awarded Prairie Schooner's 2002 Readers' Choice Award. Another poem in the collection received
a 2003 International Merit Award in
Poetry from Atlanta Review.
Prodigal,
her third full-length collection, was published in April 2014 by Aldrich Press.
Caston previously served as the
1996-97 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry
Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the 1999-2000 Jenny McKean Moore Fellow in Poetry at
the George Washington University in Washington D.C. She also received a 1999
Individual Artist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Currently, Anne Caston teaches in
the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage
where she serves as core faculty in poetry. She is currently at work on a
memoir, Deep Dixie: Friendship, Love,
Longing, Faith, Manners, and Coming-of-Age Among Southern Baptists.
Anne Caston lives in Kill Devil
Hills, North Carolina, with her husband, Ian Gallimore.
Joel Long’s book Lessons
in Disappearance was published in 2012.
Knowing Time by Light was
published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010.
His book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was
published in 1999. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were
published from Elik Press. His poems
have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly,
Ocean State Review, Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner,
Willow Springs, Poems and Plays, and
Seattle Review and anthologized in American
Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential
Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place. He
received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival
and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work.
City Art is
sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,
the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
Schedule:
April
2
Dave Hawkins
Nance Van Winkle
9
Andrea Hollander
Lisa Zimmerman
16
Anne Caston
Joel Long
May
7
Gerda Saunders
14
High School Night
21
June 4
Final Open Reading