For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Joshua Rivkin and TimErickson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 20th: 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Joshua Rivkin and Tim Erickson will read from their worksWednesday February 20th at the Salt Lake Public Library at 7:00 P.M.in the fourth floor conference room.   Joshua Rivkin isthe author of CHALK: THE ART AND ERASURE OF CY TWOMBLY, a finalistfor PEN/Bograd Weld Prize in Biography and longlisted for The BelieverBook Award. His first collection of poetry, SUITOR, is forthcoming in2020.  His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker,Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets.A former Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy, as well as a Stegner Fellow inpoetry, he has received awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Fine ArtsWork Center in Provincetown, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and UcrossFoundation. He teaches creative writing for Stanford’s Continuing Studiesand lives in Salt Lake City with his family.    Tim Erickson’s book Egopolis waspublished by Semi-city Editions in 2015. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in ChicagoReview, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, Mudfish, and others.  He is a creative writing teacher at CopperHills High School and lives with his wife and daughter up the canyon besideEmigration Creek.   Most featured readings are followed by an open reading.   Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.        Joel Long