Utahs Poet Laureate Ken Brewer and Utah State University Professor Michael Sowder will read from their work on Wednesday April 13th at 7:00 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room of the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Ken Brewer was named Utah's poet laureate on January 24, 2003. He retired from Utah State University after 32 years in the English Department as a teacher of writing. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Utah Arts. Brewer has published numerous books, including The Place In Between, Limberlost Press, 1998 (Poems); Lake's Edge, Woodhedge Press, 1997 (Poems); Hoping for all, Dreading Nothing, Slanting Rain Press, 1994, A Fine Art Book of Poems with Woodcuts by Harry Taylor; To Remember What is Lost, USU Press, 1982 (ISBN# 0-87421-114-X), 68pp. Re-issued in paperback, 1989 (ISBN# 0-87421-143-3); The Collected Poems of Mongrel, Compost Press, 1981, 48pp; Round Again: A Cycle of Poems, published under a grant from the Utah Institute of Fine Arts, 1980, 50 pp; Sum of Accidents, Chapbook Series, Alliance for the Varied Arts, 1977, 24pp; and Places, Shadows, Dancing People, USU Monograph Series, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1969, pp. 31-47, with Tom Lyons, Joyce Wood and Robert Wood. Brewer has also published over 300 individual poems.. Many of these have been in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Kansas Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Kentucky Poetry Review, Writer's Forum, Weber Studies, Blue Unicorn, River Styx, Contemporary Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Hollow Spring Review, Westigan Review, Puerto del Sol, Hanging Loose, South Dakota Review, Western Humanities Review, Dry Crik Review, Ellipsis and others. Brewer's essays have appeared in Ellipsis and Weber Studies and his criticism and reviews have been published in Literary Magazine Review, Rocky Mountain Review and Western American Literature Journal. Michael Sowder won the 2004 T.S. Eliot prize for his book The Empty Boat. His poems have appeared in CutBank, The Evansville Review, Green Mountains Review, The GSU Review, Poem, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, and South Carolina Review among others. Sowder also published the chapbook A Calendar of Crows. The reading is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Salt Lake City Arts Council: the Utah Arts Council: Zoo, Arts and Parks: and Audience Donations. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/