Poets Shanan Ballam and Shari Zollinger read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 6 7:00—9:00 p.m. Poets Shanan Ballam and Shari Zolinger will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday October 13th at 7:00. Shanan Ballamearned her MFA in Poetry Writing from The University of Nebraska’s low-residency program in 2007. One of her poems, “Red Riding Hood to Grandmother,” was nominated by Indiana Review for inclusion in The Best New Poets Anthology 2009. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, includingIndiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, cream city review, Tar River Poetry andCalyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. Her full-length poetry manuscript was a finalist for the 2010 May Swenson Poetry Award. Her first chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August 2010. She teaches poetry writing and academic writing at Utah State University, where she is also a Co-Director of the Intermediate Academic Writing Program. She lives in Wellsville, Utah with her husband, two dogs, and three cats. Native of Utah, Shari Zollinger has worked in the trenches of independent bookselling for over ten years. She has a BS in History from Utah State University and Certificate of Completion from the Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan where she spent six years of her life. Shari Zollinger’s poems have appeared in the Sugar House Review, 9Handed (a chapbook), and a Helicon West broadside. Her inspiration for poetry among many other things comes from travelling. She was fortunate to spend this last year visiting many different countries including England, Israel, Sweden, Indonesia and France. She just returned from living in Paris where she was working on a manuscript inspired by the sculptor, Auguste Rodin. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long