The Hibernian Society presents an evening of poetry celebrating Western Ireland.

Admission is a can(s) of food for Hildegard's Pantry.

Doors open at 6:30.

Friday, March 9, 8 p.m.

Join us for an evening of poetry with Kimberly Johnson & Jay Hopler featuring their books, Leviathan with a Hook, A Metaphorical God and Green Squall, respectively. Celebrate the spoken word with like-minded poetry aficianados. Readings by both poets followed by a signing and light refreshments.

Johnson is the author of these two collections of poetry and of a translation of Virgil’s Georgics. Her poetry, translations, and scholarly essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, and Modern Philology. With Michael C. Schoenfeldt and Richard Strier, Johnson has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and she has served as the editor for a fully-searchable online collection of John Donne’s complete sermons. She has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Arts Council, and the Mellon Foundation.

Hopler's first collection of poems, Green Squall was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Green Squall also received the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Hopler has been the recipient of a Marfa Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, a Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and a Rome Fellowship in Literature (The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a Gift from the Drue Heinz Trust) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire, his first book, was published in the United States and Europe by The Overlook Press and Canongate Books in 1996. He is Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing/Poetry) at the University of South Florida.

Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.

Michael Grant will read from and and sign his thrilling adventure novel, BZRK.

Set in the near future, two sides plot to create their own version of utopia. Grant is also designing an interactive online mystery that brings the two words together.

Grant co-wrote the hugely popular Animorphs and Everworld series with his wife Katherine Applegate and recently went on to release the Gone series. He lives in California with his wife and their two children.

Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m.

Our Local Author Showcase for spring will feature four Utah writers with new books: Ann Chamberlin, The Woman at the Well; Michael Combe, Moon Flower: Book 1 of the Convergence Series; Ben Coran, The Crimson Ecliptic; and Drienie Hattingh & Lynda Scott, editors of Tales from Huntsville, Eden, Liberty and Beyond...

Wednesday April 11, 7 p.m. 
Presented by Utah Arts Council

at Salt Lake City Public Library - Main

210 E. 400 South Salt Lake City 

Poets Mike White and Jennifer Tonge will read from their works as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Friday, April 13, 7 p.m.

Salt Lake native Kevin Avery will read from and sign Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, a unique anthology-biography of the iconoclastic rock and roll journalist.

Avery compiles Nelson’s best works (some of it previously unpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his private and public lives. Complete with black and white illustrations and photographs, this is a landmark work of cultural revival, a tribute to one of the unsung critical champions of popular art.

Avery was born in Salt Lake City. A former president of Writers at Work, his writing has appeared in publications such as Salt Lake Magazine and Catalyst, among others. Everything is an Afterthought was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick. Avery currently lives in Brooklyn.

Saturday, April 14, 2 p.m.

Local favorites, Jean Reagan and Anne Bowen will joins us for a special story time.

Reagan will read from and sign her hilarious and heartwarming picture book, How to Babysit a Grandpa.

Bowen will present her picture book, Scooter in the Outside, about a curious dog who ventures out into the scary world beyond his home.

Jean Reagan was born in Alabama but spent most of her childhood in Japan. She now lives in Salt Lake City with her husband. In the summers, they serve as backcountry volunteers in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. How to Babysit a Grandpa is her second book.

Anne Bowen has been a teacher for twenty-five years, working with both hearing impaired and hearing children, and was chosen as the 1996-1997 Utah Language Arts Teacher of the Year. She has two sons and one granddaughter and lives with her husband in Ogden, Utah. 

Wednesday, April 18, 7 p.m.

Daniel Medwed will read from and sign Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent.

A gripping examination of the work of prosecutors and the power-players in our criminal justice system. Drawing from hands-on experience as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society of New York City, Medwed offers fascinating accounts from real criminal cases gone awry, and demonstrates how even the best-intentioned prosecutors can compromise the innocent in their race to convict the guilty.  

Daniel S. Medwed is Professor of Law at the University of Utah and is a member of the board of directors of the Innocence Network and the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center.

Mary Catherine Bateson will share her thoughts and research on the
impact of improved health and longevity on marriage, childbearing,
education, work, and retirement.  Most recently, she has focused on a
phase she terms “Adulthood II,” the period of relatively robust health
that precedes the onset of frail old age.  Dr. Bateson is a cultural
anthropologist, linguist, Middle East specialist, and author who
approaches her work from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact:

Scott Wright (801-585-9542, e-mail:scott.wright@hsc.utah.edu)
Fran Wilby (801-585-9276, frances.wilby@socwk.utah.edu) 

TUESDAY, JULY 31ST AT 7 PM

Join us for an evening with Cheryl Strayed (Wild) and her collection of columns from therumpus.net, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar.