ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City ArtPresents Katharine Coles and Joel Long Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 11th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Katharine Coles and Joel Longwill read from their works on Wednesday, January 11th at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Katharine Coles’sixth collection of poetry, Flight, was published in2016 by Red Hen Press. Her fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (RedHen 2013), was written under the auspices of the U.S. National ScienceFoundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Ten poems from that book,translated into German by Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue ofthe journal Matrix; she has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, andDutch. Her chapbook, Bewilder, was published in 2015 by the InternationalPoetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. She is also the co-PIon the Poemage project, which develops software for analyzing and visualizingsonic relationships in poetry; she has written a number of scholarly articlesand presentations based on this work. A professor at the University of Utah,she served from 2006 to 2012 as Utah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as theinaugural director of the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts,the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Joel Long’s book WingedInsects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His books Lessonsin Disappearance and Knowing Time byLight were published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and SaffronBeneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Interim,Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, CrabOrchard Review, Bellingham Review,Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, The Pinch, Quarterly West, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place:ContemporaryPoems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long