For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Paisley Rekdal and Kirstin Scott
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday January 18th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Writers Paisley Rekdal and Kirstin
Scott will read from their works on Wednesday, January 18th at the Salt Lake
City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met
Bruce Lee; a hybrid-genre memoir entitled Intimate; and
several books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The
Invention of the Kaleidoscope, and Animal Eye, which won the
UNT Rilke Prize. Her newest book of poems, Imaginary Vessels,
is out from Copper Canyon Press, and her latest book of nonfiction, The
Broken Country: On Trauma, A Crime and the Continuing Legacy of the Vietnam War won
the AWP Nonfiction Prize and will be out in September 2017. Her work has
received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship,
an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the UNT Rilke Award, and inclusion in
the Best American Poetry series. She runs the web history
archive project, Mapping Salt Lake City.
Kirstin Scott is the author of the novel Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize for
the Novel and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize,
the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. Her short stories have
appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, PANK, Sonora Review,
Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere.
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