For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

City Art Presents Sandy Anderson and Howard Wilkerson

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday May 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

Writers Sandy Anderson and Howard Wilkerson will present their work on May 4^th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.

Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair in the 70’s and 80’s, and City Art in the 90’s. She has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners.. She was the 1997 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award. She has edited collections of poems by Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three collections of poetry by the disabled.

Anderson’s chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by Limberlost Press in 1998. Her book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and The Great Salt Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which won first place in the literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News, Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her married name, Sandy Wilkerson and has served as a judging chairman for the Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the 1970’s.

Howard Wilkerson is a writer from Salt Lake city. His publications include Sierra Nevada College Review, Open Window, and a host of lesser publications. His poetry is characterized as fairly short and compact, primarily dealing with experiences of the 1970's decade.

He has been active in multiple genres of art - painting and photography, and belongs to the Poor Yorick Studios for the past 8 years. His visual work has been exhibited throughout the United States.

Wilkerson retired after 31 years in the defense industry.

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.

Joel Long