Contact:  City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com KatharineColes and Lance Olsen at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 13th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.              Writers Katharine Coles and Lance Olsen will read from their work February 13that the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Field Work Project, bringing together science andliterature.  Katharine Coles is the author of Look both Ways: A DoubleJourney Along My Grandmothers Far-Flung Path.  Her sixth collection ofpoetry, Flight, was published in 2016 by Red Hen Press. Her fifthpoetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), waswritten under the auspices of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s AntarcticArtists and Writers Program. Ten poems from that book, translated into Germanby Klaus Martens, appeared in the summer 2014 issue of the journal Matrix; shehas also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. Her chapbook,Bewilder, was published in 2015 by the International Poetry Studies Instituteat the University of Canberra. She is also the co-PI on the Poemage project, whichdevelops software for analyzing and visualizing sonic relationships in poetry;she has written a number of scholarly articles and presentations based on thiswork. A professor at the University of Utah, she served from 2006 to 2012 asUtah Poet Laureate and in 2009 and 2010 as the inaugural director of the PoetryFoundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. She has received grants andawards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for theHumanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. LANCE OLSEN is author of more than 25 books of and about innovativewriting, including, most recently, the novel Dreamlives of Debris. MyRed Heaven, the novel he will read from this evening, will appear inJanuary 2020. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundredsof journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D.Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, aswell as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory andpractice at the University of Utah, where he directs the creative writingprogram.     Most featured readings are followed by an openreading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake CityArts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and theZoo, Arts, and Park Fund.     Joel Long