Join us for the second installment of our quarterly "\;Local Author Showcase"\; event. We'll be joined by five local authors\, each with a unique new book to share. This month's authors include Becca Wilhite (Bright Blue Miracle\, My Ridiculous Romantic Obsessions)\, Todd Robert Petersen (Rift)\, Richard Landerman (The Man Fisher)\, and Jennifer Mosher (The Smile on My Forehead\: Memoir of My Life With a Brain Injury).
UPDATE April 6\: Travis
Poulson (I am Tom Morrow) will not be attending event.
Due to requirements for pre-registration not being fulfilled\, this month's Friday Fun for Kids will be canceled.
Join us for the next Friday Fun for Kids\, our storytime and crafting event for children\, Friday\, May 14\, 4 p.m.
Salt Lake City Film Center in conjunction with University of Utah and Foundry Workshops presents this screening and lecture.
Schedule for the evening\:
6\:30 Lecture by Lauren Greenfield
7\:00 Screening of THIN (runtime 102 minutes)
8\:42 Book signing and post film Q &\; A with Lauren Greenfield and one of the subjects of the film.
www.slcfilmcenter.org or www.laurengreenfield.com for more information. Or call (801) 746-7000.
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The reading begins at 7\:00 p.m.
Carole Maso’s literary career can only be described as meteoric. Among the various awards she has received are the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction (1993)\, National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant (1988)\, National Endowment for the Arts Emerging Artist Reading Grant (1987)\, New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1987) and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts (1985). Works she has published include The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994)\, Pandora’s Box\, a screenplay (1993)\, Ava (1993)\, The Art Lover (1990) and Ghost Dance (1986)\, among others.
Elise Partridge‘s Fielder’s Choice (2002) was shortlisted for the Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poems in Canada. Her second book\, Chameleon Hours (2008) was featured in the “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post. Chameleon Hours was nominated for the British Columbia Book Prize in poetry and won the 2009 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry\, which recognizes “poetry that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.” Partridge’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in American\, Canadian\, British\, and Irish journals\, including The New Yorker\, Poetry (Chicago)\, The New Republic\, The Yale Review\, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Her work has been broadcast on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and on CBC radio\, and has appeared on Poetry Daily as well as on the Vancouver and Toronto transit systems.
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