City Art Reading Series is pleased to present a reading and book signing with Colorado poets Matthew Cooperman, author of Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move, and Aby Kaupang Cooperman, author of Absence is such a Transparent House, on Wednesday, September 14^th at 7:00 p.m. at the Main Public Library (210 East 400 South). This event is free and open to the public. This is our first featured reading of the new year so please join us to ring in the 22^nd year of our reading series with these wonderful poets.

            Matthew Cooperman is the author of Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize, as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (dove | tail, 2007), Words About James (phylum press, 2005) and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1999). A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and poetry editor of Colorado Review, he teaches at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he lives with the poet Aby Kaupang and his two children. More information can be found at www.matthewcooperman.com.

            Aby Kaupang is the author of Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and is now slogging through her MS in Occupational Therapy. More information can be found at http://www.abykaupang.com/

            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.

 

Many reading 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.