Michael Sowder and Jennifier Sinor to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poet Michael Sowder and essayist Jennifer Sonor will read from their work on November 14th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Poet and essayist Michael Sowder is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. He is the Chair of Creative Writing and the poetry editor of the literary magazine: Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. Sowder’s most recent book, House under the Moon is just out from Truman State Press. His first book, The Empty Boat, was chosen by Diane Wakoski from over 720 manuscripts to win the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize, was a finalist for the Utah Book Award, and several of its poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Sowder's creative nonfiction explores the natural world as well as the worlds of poetics and teaching, and appear widely in magazines journals throughout the country. His essays include the following: "The Work the Landscape Calls Us To," in Placing the Academy (USU Press 2007) (nominated for a Pushcart Prize); "The Chateau and the Chalkboard," an essay on writers as teachers, in Dislocate: The Literary Journal of the University of Minnesota (2006); "Place of Clear Light," an essay arising out of a visit to a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, in Salt Flats Annual (2007); “The Voice of the Wilderness,” in Snowy Egret (Fall 2002); “Radical Aesthetics in Walt Whitman, Jonathan Edwards, and American Beauty,” in Rendezvous (Fall, 2002); and Poet in Grizzly Gulch, a mountaineering essay, forth coming in The Wasatch Journal. Joel Long