City Art Presents Poets Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M.               Poets Chris Tanseer and Lance Newman will read from their works November 9th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.  Originally from North Carolina, Chris Tanseer received an MFA in poetry from George Mason University in 2007 and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah where he serves as a fiction editor at Quarterly West. He’s also a reader at Sugar House Review, the best damn poetry journal around, independent or otherwise… His work has appeared in such places as journals, his trashcan, and on his mother’s refrigerator.               Lance Newman is Associate Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City, where he teaches courses in Early American Literature, Environmental Literature, and Creative Writing. He has also worked as a guide since 1991, leading rafting trips in Southeastern Utah and in Grand Canyon. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature (Palgrave, 2005), Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (Longman, 2006), and of Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (Romantic Circles, 2006).  His poems have appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Beloit Poetry Journal, Dusie, Pemmican, Zyzzyva, Streetnotes, nthposition, Perigee, unsplendid, identity theory, Fringe, New CollAge, Blue Collar Review, Poets Against the War, and elsewhere. His free chapbook, Come Kanab (Dusi-e/chaps Kollectiv, 2007), is available on request.   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