Poets Mike White and Jennifer Tonge to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 11th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Mike White and Jennifer Tonge will
read from their works on April 11th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at
7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Born in
Salt Lake City, Utah, Jennifer Tonge received an MFA from the University of
Utah. Tonge’s poetry has been anthologized in Rising Phoenix (2004) and Ravishing DisUnities:
Real Ghazals in English (2000). Her poems have appeared in numerous
journals, including Quarterly West, Poetry, Ploughshares, New
England Review, and Bellingham Review.
The recipient of fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing,
the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts, the Ucross Foundation, and the Djerassi Resident Artists
Program, Tonge has taught creative writing at the universities of Utah,
Wisconsin, and Texas as well as at Butler University. She has served as poetry
editor of Quarterly West, as president of Writers@Work, on the board of
City Art, and as associate editor at Dawn Marano and Associates.
Mike
White has published poems in journals including The New Republic, Threepenny Review, The Iowa Review, Witness, and Poetry. He lives in Salt Lake City and
teaches at the University of Utah.
Her short fiction has been
anthologized, and published in various periodicals including VLS, Story and Tin
House. Her stories, “Hammam” and “Elvis Has Left the Building” were chosen for
inclusion in Best American Short Stories of 1994 and 1998 respectively.
“Hammam” was read on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” series. Her latest story, “The
Last Speaker of the Language,” is just out in the fall 2011 issue of New Ohio
Review/NOR. Anshaw is a past fellow of the Illinois Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago and Amsterdam
with her partner, Jessie Ewing.
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