For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Kate Gale and Katherine Coles at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 15th 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. Poets Kate Gales and Katherine Coles will read their work, March 15th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 6:30 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Dr. KATE GALE is co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press, Editor of the Los Angeles Review. She teaches in the Low Residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She is the author of the The Loneliest Girl from the University of New Mexico Press and of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone from the University of New Mexico Press in 2014, and Echo Light from Red Mountain in 2014 and six librettos including Rio de Sangre, a libretto for an opera with composer Don Davis, which had its world premiere October 2010 at the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee. She speaks on independent publishing at schools including USC, Harvard, Columbia and Oxford University. Her opera in process is the web opera and an opera on Che Guevara is in process with Cuban composer Armando Bayolo. Her opera on Esther written for the singer Hila Plitmann is in process with the composer Mark Abel. Katharine Coles’ ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, will be out in May from Red Hen Press, which has also published several other of her collections, including Wayward (2109) and The Earth Is Not Flat (2013) Her prose books include The Stranger I Become: on Walking, Looking, and Writing (essays), Look Both Ways (memoir), and two novels. She served as the third Poet Laureate of Utah and Poet-in-Residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Salt Lake City Public Library for the Poets House FIELD WORK program. She has received awards from the NEA, the NEH, the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah. 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. Joel Long