For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Cathy Peppers with and Novelist Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Idaho State University Poet Cathy Peppers will read with music by Bob Picard and the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will read April 18th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Cathy Peppers and Bob Picard both grew up in the Midwest but now live on a one-hundred-year-old farmstead in Southeast Idaho and teach at Idaho State University. Cathy’s poems have recently appeared in bear creek haiku and Sugar House Review and are otherwise loosely collecting in a manuscript regressing forward / love poems in middle age. Bob is a songwriter and musician performing with his band Steelhead Redd; his music is available on steelheadredd.com and iTunes. They are currently experimenting with weaving their verses together under the moniker p&p river and blues. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram has been a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholar, a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists’ Refuge, and is a Cave Canem alumna. Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Narrative Magazine, Subtropics, and other journals. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars poetry contest, has won the Gulf Coast Magazine Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, and has received second place in Narrative Magazine’s poetry contest. Bertram is a graduate of the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a 2009-2011 Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College where she taught creative writing and literature. Her first book, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, won the Red Hen Press 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine. She is pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She reads for the journals Arsenic Lobster and Quarterly West and currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her partner and their cat, the inimitable Hipólito Yrigoyen aka CatMonster. 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