Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Joanna Straughn will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library main branch on Wednesday October 18th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poems, Looking for Angels in New York (1988) and Conversations with Survivors (1993) from University of Georgia Press, With a Moon in Transit (1996) and Dead MenÂs Praise (1999) from Grove Press and The HoopoeÂs Crown (2005) from BOA Editions. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well as a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006), Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004), The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Norton, 2001), Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (Norton, 2001), The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (Penguin, 2001), The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature (Norton, 2000) and Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998). She is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. Joanna Straughn received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Utah. Her first chapbook, Instinct debuts this Fall 2006 from Bright Hill Press; Treadwell, New York. She has recently completed a juried residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. Originally from a small town in west Texas, she has also lived in New York and Northern California, a village in Germany, and on a farm in Oklahoma. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Asheville Poetry Review, and Meridian among others. 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com