Poet Lance Larsen will read from his work on December 8th at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room. Lance Larsen is the author of two collections of poems: Erasable Walls (New Issues 1998) and In All Their Animal Brilliance (University of Tampa, forthcoming 2005). Cover art on this second book by Jacqui Biggs Larsen. Individual poems have appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review, Southern Review, Orion, Poetry Daily, The London Times Literary Supplement, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He has received a number grants and prizes, including awards from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Sewanee, and the Utah Arts Council. In 2003 he placed first in the Writers at Work fellowship competition in nonfiction, and in 2004 he won a Pushcart Prize in poetry, for a poem that originally appeared in Grand Street. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of Houston, where Richard Howard directed his dissertation, and currently he serves as graduate coordinator of English at BYU, where he's taught since 1993. This next semester, winter 2005, he'll be teaching literature and creative writing as part of a study abroad program in London. Larsen’s reading will be followed by an open reading. 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail