Spread the word! Award winning poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Cynthia Cruz will read from their works Jennifer Michael Hecht at the Salt Lake Public Library on November 15th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Her first poetry book, The Next Ancient World won the Poetry Society of America's 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her most recent poetry book, Funny, won the University of Wisconsin's 2005 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and Publisher's Weekly called it “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.” Her books on history and philosophy include Doubt: A History (HarperCollins, 2003) and The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), which won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Her next book, The Happiness Myth, is coming out with HarperCollins in 2007. Hecht teaches at The New School University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband John, their son, Max and their new baby daughter, Jessie. Cynthia Cruz was born in Germany and raised in Northern California. She holds degrees from Mills College (B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.). Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Boston Review, GRAND STREET, AGNI, Chelsea, Pleiades, the New Orleans Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Black Warrior Review and others, and are anthologized in Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. She is the recipient of several residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York City.? 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com