Utah StateÂs Christopher Cokinos Star Coulbrooke will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on September 14th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Christopher Cokinos, Assistant Professor of English and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environment and Society, has an MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a University Fellow. His BA in English is from Indiana University. Woodley Press of Washburn University published his poetry collection Killing Seasons in 1993 and Tarcher/Putnam published the hardcover edition of his nonfiction book Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds in 2000. Warner Books published the paperback in 2001. The book garnered wide attention from venues as diverse as USA Today to Scientific American. Cokinos is the winner of the 2001 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the 2002 Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writer. In 2003 he won a Whiting Writers Award and the Fineline Award for lyric prose from Mid-American Review. In 2004, the College of Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences at Utah State named Cokinos its Humanist of the Year. In 2003, he was award a Gardner Fellowship from the Utah State Graduate School. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Poetry, The Iowa Review, dislocate, Science, Birder's World and Shenandoah. He is working on a new nonfiction book under contract with Tarcher/Penguin titled The Fallen Sky: Seekers and Scientists in Pursuit of Shooting Stars. For this book on meteorites and meteorite hunters, Cokinos has traveled 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle as well as to Antarctica, where he lived in a tent for a month on the polar plateau while collecting meteorites with scientists as part of the 2003-2004 Antarctic Search for Meteorites Expedition. For that research he also won a National Science Foundation Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Fellowship. As a writer and teacher, Cokinos is interested in poetry, nature-and-science writing, research-based creative nonfiction, lyric essays and aphorisms. At Utah State he is editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature & Science Writing and heads the English Department's Creative Writing Committee. Star Coulbrooke first became acquainted with City Art in 1996 through her teacher and mentor, Kenneth W. Brewer. She would like to thank Ken and City Art for giving her many opportunities since that time to be a good citizen-poet. Star teaches poetry writing at Utah State University, conducts writing workshops, hosts literary events, serves on arts and literary panels, helps judge writing contests, and tries to become a better writer in the process. Her work is published in _Ellipsis_, _Sunstone_, _Poetry International_, Hunger Magazine_, and others, and she co-authored a chap book, _Logan Canyon Blend_, with Ken Brewer. She lives in Smithfield with her Mitch, four dogs, and two cats. 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. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com