For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

M.B. McLatchey and Meg Day to read at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday October 30th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.

May Swenson award-winner M.B. McLatchey and poet Meg Day will read from their works on Wednesday October 30th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

M. B. McLatchey's debut poetry collection The Lame God was awarded the 16th Annual May Swenson Poetry Award by Utah State University Press. Her poems have been published in The American Poetry Journal, The National Poetry Review, River Styx, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Georgetown Review,Writers, new south, DMQ (disquieting muses quarterly) Review, Willow Springs, The Adirondack Review, Ekphrasis, Beauty/Truth, The Comstock Review, Tupelo Press, the Cider Press Review, Science, Grain, Smartish Pace, and the Emerson Review. Her poetry has also been featured as a Verse Daily favorite. Her literary awards include Georgia State University's 2013 New South Writing Award, the Adirondack Review's 2013 46er Prize for Poetry, the American Poetry Journal's American Poet Prize for 2011, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and Finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the Lumina Prize of Sarah Lawrence College, the Robert Penn Warren Award, the William Faulkner Poetry Prize, the Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, the Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and The Robert Frost Award.

She holds a Masters degree in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, a Masters in Teaching from Brown University, the M.F.A. from Goddard College, and a B.A. from Williams College. She has taught literature and writing at Harvard University, Rollins College, the University of Central Florida, Valencia Community College, and is currently teaching writing and Humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida.

Meg Day is a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and the author of When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We Can’t Read This (winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). She has received fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, and Squaw Valley Writers, and is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah.

City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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.

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