Zack Haber and Andy Farnsworth read at Antelope Island for City Art's summer Wild Words
For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Zach Haber and Andy Farnsworth to read for WildWords: a special City Art summer event Antelope Island State Park Wednesday May 10th, 7:00—8:00 P.M. with a pre-reading event talk on the GreatSalt Lake at 5:30 Zack Haber and Andy Farnsworthwill read from their works on Monday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. at the White RockCampground on Antelope Island as part of Wild Words: a City Art special summerevent. This event is free and open to the public. Please bring fold out chairs and plenty ofbeverages and snacks. Following thereading, stick around for the sunset. Great Salt Lake Talk: Prior to the reading, join us at 5:30PM for a discussion of the ecology of the area as well as the environmental andliterary history of the Great Salt Lake with Jaimi Butler from the Great SaltLake Institute and Michael McLane from Utah Humanities. Butlerand McLane have been leading daytrips to Antelope Island over thelast year in order to help visitors and residents better understand thecomplexities of the region and to integrate both science and the humanities inan understanding of place. ZackHaber is an organizer of poetics. Some of his work can befound in Datableed Zine, Armed Cell, The Capalino Review, 580 Split, ElevenEleven, Sierra Nevada Review and other places. His little book, if you want tobe one of them playing in the streets…, was published in 2014 by QuietLightning and Tiny Splendor. He’s hosted poetry readings and performancesthrough The Other Fabulous Reading Series and other projects in the Bay Areasince 2012. He works at Martin Luther King Elementary School in West Oakland. He’scurrently writing a book called Horrible Places. Andrew Farnsworth earned his PhD c in fiction from theUniversity of Utah where he was a Vice-Presidential Fellow. He was selected byCarole Maso for the 2010 Scowcroft prize in prose and his work can be seenin Artifice Magazine Top of Form Bottom of Form The event is free and opento the public. City Art is sponsored bythe Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long
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