Poets Jean Howard and Sandy Anderson will perform and read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Auditorium on December 12th at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Award-winning video and performance poet, organizer, producer, and participant in the original development of the internationally-acclaimed, “Poetry Slam”, Jean Howard has poetry published in over seventy publications, including Harper's Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and her own book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press). She has performed her poetry on cable, public and network television and at hundreds of venues nationwide, from the Guggenheim’s exhibit at Chicago’s Field Museum, to biker bars. Currently, Jean serves on the Board of Slam Utah, Advisory Board of Utah Arts Alliance, and as a consultant for the National Poetry Slam Board, after serving as Director of Chicago’s National Poetry Video Festival for eight years. Sandy Anderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetry readings and workshops since 1965. She was a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair in the 70’s and 80’s, and City Art in the 90’s. She has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and has given workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners.. She was the 1997 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing Advocate Award. She has edited collections of poems by Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, and Miriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three collections of poetry by the disabled. Anderson’s chapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published by Limberlost Press in 1998. Her book, At the Edge in White Robes, was published by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and The Great Salt Lake Anthology. She was the editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which won first place in the literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She has published poems in Limberlost Review, Weber Studies, The Deseret News, Echo Canyon News, Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her married name, Sandy Wilkerson and has served as a judging chairman for the Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Music Federation since the 1970’s . 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ