For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Matthew Ivan Bennett and Sara Eliza Johnson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 5th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers RJ Walker and Willy Palomo will read and perform from their work on March 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. RJ Walker is a performance poet from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the 2013 Salt City Slam team which made group piece finals at the 2013 NPS. He is also the representative for Riverton, Utah at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam. He is the most recent host of The Greenhouse Effect open mic and has been doing spoken word and comedy for 3 years, and slam poetry for 2. He works as an EMT and lives a quiet life in Salt lake City with his 6 (or was it 5?) Invisible cats. They are all named George Foreman and RJ does not believe they exist. Willy Palomo is an emerging writer and student at Westminster College. His poetry and prose has been published in the University of New Mexico's Scribendi and ellipsis... literature and art. He founded both the Voice Boxers Poetry Slam and Westminster Slam Poetry to promote and nourish the local poetry community. Both slams have since sent poetry teams out to compete nationally. Willy Palomo also coaches high school students through Poetry Out Loud and teaches a literature course once a week with Dr. Desilets at East High School. 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