--- On Wed, 10/15/08, kimberly johnson <kimberly.johnson71@gmail.com> wrote:

From: kimberly johnson <kimberly.johnson71@gmail.com> Subject: cityart reading tonight To: joeltlong@yahoo.com Cc: stephen_tuttle@byu.edu Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 9:17 AM dear joel--

thinking about the date tonight, and wrote this in good humor. feel free to send out to the city art list if you think it'll help.

kim

THE GREAT DEBATE

CityArt reading series Wednesday, October 15, 7pm Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch

Your mind is made up. Your vote is not going to change. Why subject yourself to the rhetoric of yet another politcal performance when you can cast a vote for the future of literary culture? Which genre rules: fiction or poetry?

Join us as the debate plays out in the work of two writers: fiction visionary Stephen Tuttle and poetry warrior Kimberly Johnson.

Stephen Tuttle joined the faculty of Brigham Young University in 2006, the same year he completed his PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. He teaches courses in creative writing, fiction writing, and American literature. As a writer, he focuses on short fiction, and his stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Colorado Review, and other venues.

Kimberly Johnson's most recent collection of poetry is "A Metaphorical God." She also is author of "Leviathan with a Hook" and translator of an edition of "Georgics" by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. She has published poems and essays in The New Yorker, The Southern Review, Arion, and Studies in Puritan American Spirituality. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Eisner Prize, Barish Prize, and McKay Prize for Latin Translation. A graduate of the University of Utah, Johnson has master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa, and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches writing at Brigham Young University..

Come and cast your ballot: the future of the arts hangs on your chad.