ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Jonathan Travelstead andKathline Carr to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 25th,7:00—8:00 P.M. JonathanTravelstead and Kathline Carr will read from their works on Wednesday, October25th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is free andopen to the public. Winner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” JonathanTravelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry in hisfirst two collections, How We Bury Our Dead and Conflict Tours. Travelsteadserved in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter andcurrently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Havingfinished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works onan old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru. Kathline Carr, writer and visual artist, is the author of MiraculumMonstrum, forthcoming from Red Hen Press and winner of the 2015 ClarissaDalloway Book Prize. Carr’s writing and art have appeared in AlexandriaQuarterly, Calyx, Connecticut Review, HawaiiReview, Earth's Daughters and elsewhere; she has exhibitedin the Berkshires, New York City, Boston, Toronto, and at artSTRAND Gallery inProvincetown. Carr received her BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College,VT and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at LesleyUniversity. She lives in North Adams, Massachusetts with her husband andsometimes-collaborator, figurative painter Jim Peters, and her youngestdaughter Mercedes. This event is made possible with support fromCity Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission,and audience donations.