For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Rebecca Lindenberg and Malachi Black to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Rebecca Lindenberg and Malachi Black will read from their work on March 14th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Rebecca Lindenberg’s first poetry collection, Love: an Index, is forthcoming from McSweeney’s in 2012. She is the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship and a 2009- 2010 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. Her poetry, essays and criticism appear most recently in The Best American Poetry—2011, POETRY, The Believer, 32 Poems, Conjunctions, Huffington Post, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, No Tell Motel, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly and elsewhere. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Malachi Black is a Vice Presidential Fellow in the University of Utah’s PhD program in English with Creative Writing. He is the author of the limited edition chapbook Echolocation (Float Press, 2010), and the forthcoming chapbook Quarantine (Argos Books). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, and Blackbird, as well as several recent or forthcoming anthologies. A 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellow, he has also received recent fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers, where he earned his MFA. He was the John Atherton Scholar at the 2010 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 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