For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art Presents Tyler Goldman and Sean Davis
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Tyler Goldman and Sean Davis
will present their work on March 7th at
the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Tyler Goldman’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry International, Poetry Northwest, The Colorado Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Academy of American Poets, the University of Maryland, and the University of Utah, where he is currently a doctoral student in English Literature and Creative Writing.
Sean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War, a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, and the winner of the Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion in 2015, and the recipient of the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award for 2016. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the the Ted Talk Book The Misfit’s Manifesto (Simon and Schuster), Forest Avenue Press anthology City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, The Big Smoke: America, Human the movie, and much more. His book, World on Fire: The History of Wildland Firefighting is coming out this summer from the History Press. He currently lives in the Cascade Mountains in Central Oregon with his wife, his daughter, his dog Bullet, and their chickens
City Art is longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers.
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.