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