Poets Rob Carney and Laura Stott will read from their poems at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 14th as part of the City Art Reading Series. Rob Carney is an Associate Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley State College. He received a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University, an MFA in Poetry from Eastern Washington University, and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from journals such as Mid-American Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, and many others. His collection New Fables, Old Songs won the 2002 Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Award. And his collection Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts, winner of the 2003 Pinyon Press Poetry Book Prize, received the Utah Book Award for Poetry in April 2004. He was 2003-04 Utah Arts Council Grant Recipient for Poetry and lives in Salt Lake City. Laura Stott resides in Salt Lake City where her recent accomplishments include a discovering how to get onto the roof of her building. She is an obscure MFA graduate from Eastern Washington University and currently teaches college freshman and seniors who saved their English classes for their last semester. She spends one third of the year in Alaska taking tourists into the back-country for a living. Laura, her mother, and sister are on the brink of some poetry and visual art collaborations. Publications include Quarterly West, Sonora Review, The Laurel Review, Weber Studies, and LitRag. 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html