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.
MFA in Creative Writing from
Naropa. Most recently Wendy has been published in the Sugar House Review, Girls
Without Insurance and Three Line Poetry. She is the co-author of Along
the Black, a poetry and photography collaboration on wildland fires. Wendy
lives in Salt Lake City and teaches 7th and 8th graders at Horizionte.
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