For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Poets Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson Read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday March 17 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Yale Prize poet Jay Hopler and BYU Professor Kimberly Johnson will read from their work on Wednesday March 17th at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970 and he has earned degrees from New York University, The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and The New Yorker. His book of poems, Green Squall (Yale University Press, 2006) was chosen by Louise Glück as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Green Squall also received the 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a 2006 Florida Book Award [Silver Medal in the Poetry Category], a 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award [Bronze Medal in the Poetry Category] and a 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News. He also has been the recipient of a Marfa Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and a Whiting Writers' Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder-for-Hire, his first book, was published in the United States and Europe by The Overlook Press and Canongate Books in 1996. His next book, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets, will be published by Yale University Press in 2010. He is Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing/Poetry) at the University of South Florida and divides his time between Tampa and Salt Lake City where he lives with his wife, the poet, Kimberly Johnson. Kimberly Johnson's first collection of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook, was published by Persea Books in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God, published by Persea in 2008. [1] Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, and The Yale Review, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature. Her translation of Virgil's "Georgics" was published in 2009 by Penguin Classics. She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons. Kimberly Johnson earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2005 from UC-Berkeley. She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU) 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. Joel Long