Nancy Takacs and Colorado poet Katie Kingston will read from their poems on April 12th at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch as part of the City Art reading series. The event will be followed by a reception to be held at 187 North F Street. Katie Kingston has a chapbook, In My Dreams, Neruda (2005 Editors' Choice Award, Main Street Rag chapbook contest) and one forthcoming in 2006 from Sheltering Pines Press's chapbook contest, in which she was a semi-finalist. She is a recipient of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Poetry. Recent awards include second place for the Stephen Dunn Award, finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award, the Ruth Stone Prize, the Poetry Atlanta Review, as well as semi-finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize and the Main-Traveled Roads Press Poetry Book contest. She is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program. Currently, she lives and writes in Corazón de Trinidad, Colorado, located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. Nancy Takacs teaches English at the College of Eastern Utah. She has two books of poetry: Preserves by City Art Press, 2004; and a chapbook Pale Blue Wings by Limberlost Press, 2001. A chapbook, Juniper, is forthcoming from Limberlost Press. The recipient of a 2005 Ucross residency, The Discovery/Nation award, Two Individual Utah artist grants, and other residencies and poetry awards, she has also taught a poetry program for male inmates at the Central Utah Correctional Facility through the Utah Arts Council. Formerly from Bayonne, New Jersey, she lives in Wellington, Utah. Her poetry examines natural landscapes and their inhabitants, family violence, relationship, gender, and Catholicism. Her work also sometimes juxtaposes the landscapes of New Jersey and Utah. 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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com