For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Jerry VanIeperen and Wendy Blankenship to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 21st 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Jerry VanIeperen and Wendy Blankenship will read from their work on March 21st
at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Jerry VanIeperen lives in Salt Lake City, Utah
and is one of the founders/editors of the Sugar House
Review and formerly worked as an editor for Petrogylph. He is a winner of Utah
State University's creative writing contest and
recently earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska. His poems have appeared
in Black Rock & Sage, Bring the Ink, Scribendi, and The City Art Journal.
Blankenship is a graduate of CEU and teaches
eighth grade reading and English in Salt Lake at Riverwood Middle School. She
received her bachelor's of science degree in English from Southern Utah
University and is working on her master's of fine arts in creative writing
through Nairopa University in Boulder, Colo. She has been a Utah,
"Wilderness Leader" taking young people on remote backpacks, teaching
them writing. She has published in several literary magazines including Bed and
Myriad.
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