ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com CityArt Presents Michael McLane and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Michael McLane and Joel Longwill present their work on April 17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Michael McLane runs literary programming for UtahHumanities and is the director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. He holdsan MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MS inEnvironmental Humanities from the University of Utah. Over the years, he hasworked or been a board member for numerous literary organizations in Utah,Idaho, and Colorado including City Art, Writers@Work, and The MESA WritersRetreat. His chapbook, Trace Elements, was published by Elik Press in2015. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, innumerous journals including Western Humanities Review, High Country News,The Dark Mountain Project, Terrain.org, Denver Quarterly, Interim, ColoradoReview, and Laurel Review. He is an editor with Sugar HouseReview and is one of the founding editors of saltfront. He lives inSalt Lake City. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine PressPoetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearanceand Knowing Time by Light werepublished by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludesand Saffron Beneath Every Frost werepublished from Elik Press. His poems andessays have appeared in Gettysburg Review,SportsLiterate, Prairie Schooner, BellinghamReview, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain,and Water-Stone Review, among others. He lives in Salt Lake City. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts 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 ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long