Melissa Bond and Robert Glick will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 10 at 7:00. Robert Glick is a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah and fiction editor of the Amsterdam-based literary journal Versal. He received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley and his MA in Performance Art from San Francisco State University. Recent fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review and Passages North. Melissa Bond is the recipient of the 2002 Mayor’s Artist Award for the Literary Arts and City Weekly’s Best Poet in Motion 2006. Four months after Hurricane Katrina, she and two other artists went to New Orleans to help clean and tear down houses. While there, the three of them photographed and interviewed residents and created the New Orleans Project, a multi-media exhibit that has been shown all over Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Bond has performed her poetry throughout Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Francisco, Asheville, N.C. and Austin, TX. Her first book of poems, Hush, was published by Elik Press. 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.