Poet Carl Phillips and Prose Writer Andrew Farnsworth | Guest Writers Series

Start: Nov 18 2010 7:00 pm

Location:

Street:: Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium
Additional:: 210 East 400 South
City:: Salt Lake City
Province:: Utah
Postal Code:: 84111
Country:: United States

Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently Speak Low (2009) and Double Shadow, forthcoming in spring 2011. Lawrence Biemiller in the Chronicle of Higher Education says of Phillips’ work, “They’re poems of sleeping and dreaming, of forgiveness, of longing for someone or fearing you'll lose him, of letters signed with love." Phillips’ awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was named a chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Andrew Farnsworth, winner of the Scowcroft Prize, is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Utah where he also researches as a J. Willard Marriott Public History Fellow for the American West Center. Formerly, he was the Robert D. Sutherland Fellow in fiction at Illinois State University, and his recent work can be seen in Artifice Magazine.

Part of the 2011 Guest Writers Series—a monthly series, scheduled on Thursday evenings, which brings in contemporary writers from across the county, presented in partnership with the University of Utah Department of English and Creative Writing Program, the Salt Lake City Arts Council. The public readings at the Art Barn, 54 Finch Lane, are free and followed by a reception to meeting the writers. Discussions are led by U of U Department of English scholars before the readings. Call 801.581.7478 for details. Book signing sponsored by The King’s English Bookshop.

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