For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Poets Alice Friman and Heidi Hart to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 18th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.               Poets Alice Friman and Heidi Hart will read from their works on Wednesday March 18th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.    ALICE FRIMAN'S seventh collection of poetry is Blood Weather, forthcoming from LSU in the fall of 2019. New work appears in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, Gettysburg Review, and Plume. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize and included in Best American Poetry, she is professor emerita of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis and now lives in Milledgeville, GA, where she was poet-in-residence at Georgia College.   Heidi Hart teaches German and English courses at Weber State University. She is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in German Studies from Duke University (2016). Heidi has received an ACLS-Mellon Fellowship, a Freie Universität Exchange Fellowship in Berlin, and a Planetary Thinking curriculum-development grant at Utah State University, where she completed a postdoc and received the Sustainability Educator Award in 2018. She has directed study abroad programs in Germany and Scandinavia and has coordinated the Anthropocene Working Group at Utah State, co-organizing an interdisciplinary conference in 2019. Her research combines politically inflected music, literature, and film, with a growing focus on environmental media. She has two recently released monographs, one on Hanns Eisler's activist art songs and another on music in climate-crisis narrative. Heidi is currently writing on planetary listening and coordinates the Ecopoetic Salon, a curatorial platform for artists and researchers in the environmental humanities.   City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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