For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Nance Van
Winckel and David Hawkins to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 2nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Nance Van Winckel
and David Hawkins will read from their works on Wednesday, April 2nd 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.
Nance
Van Winckel’s Pacific Walkers, her sixth book of poems,
was recently released from U. of Washington Press. A fourth collection of
linked short stories, Boneland, came out with U. of Oklahoma Press in
October 2013. Nance’s other books of
poetry include: No Starling (University of Washington Press, 2007), Bad
Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois Press, 1987), The Dirt (Miami U.
Press, 1994), Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003), and After
A Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor’s
Award for Poetry. She's received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry
Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Magazine’s Friends of Literature
Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award, and
awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in Poetry,
The American Poetry Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Gettysburg
Review, Field, Volt, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares.
Nance's three books of short stories
include Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000), Quake (U. of
Missouri Press, 1998) which received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize, and Limited
Lifetime Warranty (U. of Missouri Press, 1994). New stories appear in The
Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and AGNI. Nance received a
Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship for the forthcoming book Boneland.
Van Winckel teaches in the low-residency
MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has also taught at
Lake Forest College in Illinois (1979-90) and is Professor Emerita in the MFA
in Writing program at Eastern Washington University, where she served as editor
of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990-96.
David Hawkins’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Chelsea,
Poems & Plays, and The Southeast Review. His first book, Dark
Adaptations, was selected by Allen Grossman as the first runner-up in the
2008 Bellday Books poetry prize and is the recipient of the ’08 Utah Arts
Council prize for a collection of poems.
He currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the University
of Utah’s Writing Program.
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
Joel Long