TONIGHT, if youre in Salt Lake City: Andrea Hollander and Lisa Zimmerman to read at City Art Special Collections Room (4th Floor) Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 9th, 7:00 P.M. Poets Andrea Hollander and Lisa Zimmerman will read from their works on Wednesday, April 9th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Andrea Hollander is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems (finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award), Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include an Oregon Literary Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for prose memoir, the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, the Runes Poetry Prize, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Hollanders poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks. For more than 22 years, she served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, which awarded her the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2011 she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops in poetry and the personal essay. Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Colorado Review, Redbook, Paper Street, Poet Lore, Eclipse, Atlanta Review and manyother journals. Her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. Her full-length collections are How the Garden Looks From Here, winner of the 2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award and The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press, 2008). Zimmerman is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado and has been the poet-in-residence in schools in Aurora, Brighton, Longmont, Fort Collins and Idalia, Colorado.
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