For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Poet Mario Chard and Danielle Susi Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 25th 7:00—9:00 P.M. PoetsMario Chard and Danielle Susi will read from their work on September 25that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series. The City Art Reading Series ispleased to host poets Mario Chard and Danielle Susi at the Special Collectionsroom of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7pm! Mario Chard wasborn in northern Utah. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an Americanfather, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University(MFA). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at StanfordUniversity. He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected byRobert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut by Poets& Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author ofthe Year Award in Poetry. His poems and essays have appeared in the The New Yorker,Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with variousawards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia,where he lives with his wife and sons. Danielle Susi isthe author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (dancing girl press,2015). Her writing has appeared in Knee-Jerk Magazine, Hobart, The Rumpus, andelsewhere. Her full-length manuscript A River Always Ends at a Mouth, has beenselected as a semi-finalist for both the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize atPersea Books and the Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press. She received her MFAin writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently livesand works in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find her at daniellesusi.com. This event is made possible through the support of City Art ReadingSeries and Utah Humanities. Most featured readings are followed by an openreading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake CityArts Council, Catalyst, the Salt LakeCity Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. October2 LanceOlsen MichaelMejia LindsayDrager (University of Utah fiction faculty reading)\ 9 BrianEvenson MollyGaudry 16 PaisleyRekdal Z.G.Tomaszewski 23 RobCarney SunniBrown Wilkinson CourtneyCragget November 6th Robin Becker Natasha Saje Joel Long