ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com LaraCandland and Ranjan Adiga 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. Poet Lara Candland and writer RanjanAdiga will read from their work March 21st at the Salt Lake City Public Libraryat 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Lara Candland’s latest book is The Lapidary’s Nosegay from the Center forLiterary Publishing’s Mountain West Poetry Series. Candland is a poet,musician, singer, and co-founder of and chief-librettist for the SeattleExperimental Opera and a member of Deseret Experimental Opera. Her work hasappeared in Fence, Colorado Review, the Crab Creek Review, the Likewise Folio,Barrow Street, and many other journals. Her first book, Alburnum of the Greenand Living Tree, was published in 2010, and her performance with Lalage—poetryand live electronic looping and manipulations—appears on the CD Lalage: Live onSonarchy. Her opera Sunset with Pink Pastoral was a finalist in the GenesisPrizes for New Opera and was presented at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London aswell as in performances in Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, BC; and Salt LakeCity, Utah. RanjanAdiga teaches creative writing classes at Westminster College. Hisworks have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, among others. Hisstories explore lives of immigrant communities, their hopes and anxieties, asthey assimilate into American culture. Ranjan is currently workingtowards completing his debut short story collection. Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long