{"id":14624,"date":"2012-12-05T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:43:02","slug":"melanie-rae-thon-tonight-at-city-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/melanie-rae-thon-tonight-at-city-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Rae Thon tonight at CITY ART"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melanie Rae Thon, photo by Andi Olsen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Everyone\u2019s buzzing about tonight\u2019s 7pm SLC Library reading sponsored by CITY ART, as Melanie Rae Thon is expected to present new work from Vanishings<\/em>, her book-length fusion of lyrical essay, poetry, and fiction. Thon\u2019s writing has garnered multiple accolades including inclusion in three Pushcart Prize Anthologies, the O. Henry Prize Stories. and The Best American Short Stories collections.<\/p>\n

A University of Utah Professor, Thon is inspired by the juxtaposition of global catastrophe and wonder. Bees are vanishing, but scientists have discovered \u201ca black hole whirling in space, vibrating to B flat, fifty-seven octaves below the range of human hearing. Imagine,\u201d she says, \u201cnine billion years of sound and only stars listening.\u201d Or think, she suggests, about the toil of a hummingbird\u2019s heart: it beats twenty times per second, failing after approximately the same number of beats as our own, yet our lifespans are poles apart.<\/p>\n

Expanding on her prior novels The Voice of the River <\/em>and Sweet Hearts<\/em>, and recent story collection In This Light<\/em>, Thon aims to give \u201cvoice to people who live in the borderlands,\u201d using science, music, history, and philosophy to draw her readers to an ecocritical approach, one that celebrates what she calls the more-than-human environment and evokes, \u201cgrace in the midst of turmoil, loss, and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

To sample her elegant writing, visit \u201cThe Heart Breaks, and Breaks Open: Seven Reasons to Tell a Story in 2011,\u201d published by GLIMMER TRAIN, PRESS.<\/p>\n

Weber State University Assistant Professor Si\u00e2n Griffiths is also expected to read tonight (though she could not be reached prior to the writing of this article). Her Pushcart nominee \u201cWhat is Solid<\/a>\u201d was published by VERSAL, and we anticipate her debut novel Borrowed Horses<\/em> in October 2013 from New Rivers Press.<\/p>\n

CITY ART\u00a0presents programs at the downtown Salt Lake City Main Library<\/a> featuring invited readers. Melanie Rae Thon and Si\u00e2n Griffiths read tonight, December 5th, at 7 pm.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next in the series:
\n<\/em>7pm Wednesday December 12:\u00a0Michael Gills &\u00a0Franklin Fisher
\n<\/em><\/em>7pm Wednesday January 9: Hector Ahumada
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\nFor more information see\u00a0SLCityArt.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Melanie Rae Thon’s <\/em>In This Light was recently reviewed by Geoff Wichert in our pages. Click here<\/a> to read. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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