For Immediate Release

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

Maureen Clark and Susan Howe to read at City Art

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

Wednesday January 6th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
 
            Writers Maureen Clark and Susan Howe will read from their work on January 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Maureen Clark is on the faculty of the University of Utah in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies where she has been teaching for 13 years. She has been the director of the University of Utah Writing Center, a grant writer for the Rocky Mountain Care Foundation and a former president of Writers @ Work. She lives in Bountiful, Utah with her husband Jon. Her poems have appeared in:  Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, The Southeast Review and Gettysburg Review, among other journals.  She has written a poetry collection titled Thin Hymn and a memoir titled Falling into Bountiful. 
 
 
Susan Howe is a contributing editor of Tar River Poetry and served for eleven years as the poetry editor of Dialogue. Her own poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published in 1997 and won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize. It also received the Association for Mormon Letters award in poetry for 1998. She completed a second collection of poems with Florida poet Terri Witek, To Lie with a Landscape
 
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