Yale Prize winner Jody Gladding will read from her poems along with Salt Lake City writer Holly Simonsen at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, September 16th. A widely published poet and translator, Jody Gladding’s first book of poetry, Stone Crop, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1993. The recipient of a Whiting Award in 1997, her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni, and elsewhere. Her translations from the French include such volumes as Evil and Exile by Elie Wiesel (Notre Dame, 2000) with John Rothschild; The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes by Michel Pastoureau (Washington Square, 2003); and The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono (Archipelago, 2004). She lives in Vermont. Holly Simonsenearned her B.A. from Westminster College in Salt Lake City and is currently working on her M.F.A. in poetry writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She works primarily off the page making ecopoetic installations in collaboration with the Great Salt Lake. Her published poetry can be found in Ecotone, Copper Nickel, Red Rock Review, and is forthcoming from NANOFiction. 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.