For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Michael McGriff and Matthew Kirkpatrick to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M.               Writers Michael McGriff and Matthew Kirkpatrick will read from their work on May 9th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.  Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the University of Texas. He is the author of the poetry collections Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Home Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). He is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010) and is the translator of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010).  He has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation, and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He has taught creative writing at Stanford University and Wichita State University. His poetry, essays,  and translations have appeared in Bookforum, Slate, The Believer, The Wall Street Journal, American Poetry Review, and Poetry. He is the founding editor of Tavern Books, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit publisher whose focus is reviving out-of-print books and publishing books in translation.   Matthew Kirkpatrick is the author of the short story collection Light without Heat (FC2, March 2012). His writing has appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, Western Humanities Review, DIAGRAM, and the Notre Dame Review, and is forthcoming in Unsaid. He recently finished his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. He lives in Salt Lake City, UT with the writer, Susan McCarty. Together, they maintain a small menagerie.   Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City 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