Poets Joanna Klink and Claire Hibbs will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday May 6th at 7:00.
Joanna Klink taught in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Montana for seven years. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, and other journals. She is the author of two books of poetry, They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000) and Circadian (Penguin, 2007). She is currently the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University, and her new book, Crisis Lyrics, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2010.
Claire Hibbs' poems have most recently appeared in Poems Across the Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets. The recipient of the Lockwood Writing Prize, a Tucker Fellowship and other honors, Hibbs has worked on the Navajo Nation, taught third grade in Oakland, California, served as poet-in-the-schools on the Flathead Indian Reservation, and taught Creative Writing at the University of Montana. She lives in Montana with her husband, several aging black dogs, and two children.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.
