For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Sara Eliza Johnson and Susannah Nevison
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 1st, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Writers Sara Eliza Johnson and
Susannah Nevison will read from their works on Wednesday, March 1st at the Salt
Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading
Series.
Sara
Eliza Johnson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the New
England Review, Best New Poets 2009, Boston Review, Crab
Orchard Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. She is the recipient
of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Winter Fellowship from the Fine
Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a work-study scholarship to the Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference. Her first book, Bone Map, was selected
for the 2013 National Poetry Series and will be published by Milkweed Editions.
Susannah Nevison is
the author of Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), winner
of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. New work can be found in, or
is forthcoming from, Crazyhorse, 32 Poems, Public
Pool, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she has been featured
on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. She is the
recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers Conference
and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Currently, she is a Clarence Snow Fellow
at the University of Utah, where she is a doctoral candidate.
Most featured
readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah
Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,
Arts, and Park Fund.
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.
Joel Long