For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Greg Alan Brownderville and Matt Mauchto read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 3rd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Greg Alan Brownderville and Matt Mauch will read from their works on Wednesday April 3rd at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Greg Alan Brownderville, a native of Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas, teaches Creative Writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in the Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Measure, and several other journals and magazines. He was chosen for the 2007 Porter Prize by past winners, including Lewis Nordan, Donald Harington, and Leon Stokesbury, and is the youngest person ever to receive the award, given annually to a writer with an Arkansas connection. He was nominated on the strength of his book Deep Down in the Delta, a collection of his original poems interspersed with folktales he gathered in Arkansas. In 2008 Brownderville completed an MFA at the University of Mississippi. Matt Mauch grew up in small Midwestern towns between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, in the snow and wind-chill belt. He is the author of Prayer Book(forthcoming from Lowbrow Press) and The Book of Modern Prayer(a limited-edition chapbook forthcoming from Palimpsest Press). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in NOÖ Journal, DIAGRAM, The Journal, Willow Springs, The Squaw Valley Review, The Los Angeles Review, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. The editor of Poetry City, USA, Volume 1(forthcoming from Lowbrow Press), Mauch teaches writing and literature in the AFA program at Normandale Community College, and also coordinates the reading series there. He holds an MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and lives with his wife in Minneapolis. 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. 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. April 3 Matt Mauch Greg Brownderville 8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn) Kate Greenstreet Janet Holmes10 Dawn Lonsinger Tasha Matsumoto 17 Hilda Raz Aaron Raz Link May 15 High School Night June 5 Final Open Reading Joel Long