Poets Shira Dentz and Stacy Kidd will read from their work on October 21stat the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. in the third floor conference room. Shira Dentz's book, door of thin skins, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press, and her book, black seeds on a white dish, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Her chapbook, Leaf Weather, was recently published by Tilt Press. Her poems appear in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Field, Western Humanities Review, and jubilat, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, and NPR. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets' Prize,The Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah. Before leaving for Iowa and Salt Lake City, she worked for many years as a graphic artist designing music ads in New York City, and taught English in an inner city public high school. Stacy Kiddis in the PhD Program in Creative Writing at the U of Utah and Poetry Editor for Quarterly West. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Fugue, Spoon River Poetry Review and WITNESS. 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.