Reading and Publication Party Featuring Curtis Jensen and the Sugar House Review

To celebrate the release of the new issue of Sugar House Review as well as the triumphant return of poet and rock star Curtis Jensen to the land of Zion, Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to announce a reading featuring Jensen as well as other contributors to Sugar House Review on Wednesday, December 29^th at 7:00 p.m. at our downtown bookstore (268 South 200 East). In addition to Jensen, the reading will feature Sandy Anderson, Wendy Blankenship, Rob Carney, Andrew Haley, Sundin Richards, and Michael McLane. Copies of the newest issue and back issues will be available. This event is free and open to the public.

Sugar House Review is an independent, semiannual poetry journal based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. In its brief existence, it has drawn attention both locally and nationally and has featured numerous acclaimed poets such as Paul Muldoon (whose submission was recently awarded a Pushcart Prize), Jerome Rothenberg, Dan Beachy-Quick, Ken Brewer, Donald Revell, Natasha Saje, and Major Jackson. To find out more about Sugar House Review visit: http://www.sugarhousereview.com/

Curtis Jensen is an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at Brooklyn College. His work is forthcoming in The Equalizer and The Bridge. He is the author of five chapbooks, and he co-curates the Prospect literary series. Previous to Brooklyn, he has lived and worked in Utah, Wyoming and Ukraine. He maintains a blog at http://theendofwaste.blogspot.com.

Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair in the 70’s and she worked for nearly two decades as the guiding force behind the City Art Poetry Series, for which she has been honored for her tireless efforts on behalf of other writers by the City of Salt Lake and Park City’s Writers at Work Series. She is the author of two books – Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos and At the Edge in White Robes.

Wendy Blankenship is a graduate of Naropa University's MFA Creative Writing program. Her poems have appeared in Not Enough Night, Bed, and Transmission.

Rob Carney is the author of Weather Report (Somondoco Press, 2006) and Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts (Pinyon Press, 2003), both winners of the Utah Book Award for Poetry—and two chapbooks: New Fables, Old Songs and This Is One Sexy Planet. His newest book, Story Problems, is out this fall (Somondoco Press, 2010). His work has been published in dozens of journals and in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton, 2006).

Andrew Haley’s poems, translations, and short stories have appeared in Girls With Insurance, Otis Nebula, STOP SMILING, Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, Zone and other journals.

Michael McLane completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Colorado State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Interim, Colorado Review, and Sugar House Review, among others. He is a minister, loves Western history, and has a permanent 5 o’clock shadow.

Sundin Richards’ poems have appeared in Girls With Insurance, Zone, Colorado Review, Interim,Volt, Cricket Online Review, Elixir and Western Humanities Review, where he won first place in the 1999 Utah Writers’ Contest. His book The Hurricane Lamp is forthcoming from ONLS press. He lives in Salt Lake City.