For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com USU poet Star Coulbrooke Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday February 17 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Star Coulbrooke will read from her work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Teresa Jordan was forced to cancel her reading that was scheduled for tonight due to family circumstances. Star Coulbrooke teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing workshops, hosts literary events, serves on arts and literary panels, helps judge writing contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is published in Ellipsis, The Teacher’s Voice, City Art Journal, Sugar House Review, Tertula Magazine, Sunstone, Poetry International, Hunger Magazine, and others She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press), with the late Kenneth W. Brewer, former poet laureate of Utah. Her work has appeared in the anthologiesA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Hooves and Standing: Poetry by Idaho Women. In 2008, her manuscript, River Once Removed, won finalist designations in the May Swenson Contest (Utah State University Press) and the Philip Levine Contest (UC Irvine), and second place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest. Star directs the USU Writing Center and teaches writing workshops. She lives in Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish dogs. 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, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long