For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
M.B.
McLatchey and Meg Day to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday October 30th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
May
Swenson award-winner M.B. McLatchey and poet Meg Day will read from their works
on Wednesday October 30th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as
part of the City Art Reading Series.
M.
B. McLatchey'sdebut
poetry collection The Lame God was
awarded the 16th Annual May Swenson Poetry Award by Utah State University
Press. Her poems have been published in The American Poetry Journal, The
National Poetry Review, River Styx, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Georgetown
Review,Writers, new south, DMQ (disquieting muses quarterly) Review, Willow
Springs, The Adirondack Review, Ekphrasis, Beauty/Truth, The Comstock Review,
Tupelo Press, the Cider Press Review, Science, Grain, Smartish Pace, and
the Emerson Review. Her poetry has also been featured as a Verse Daily favorite.Her literary awards include Georgia State University's 2013 New
South Writing Award, the Adirondack Review's 2013 46er Prize for Poetry, the American
Poetry Journal's American Poet Prize for 2011, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’
Prize, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award,
the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and Finalist for the Rita
Dove Poetry Award, the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the Lumina Prize of
Sarah Lawrence College, the Robert Penn Warren Award, the William Faulkner
Poetry Prize, the Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey
Memorial Award, the Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and The Robert Frost Award.
She holds a Masters degree in Comparative
Literature from Harvard University, a Masters in Teaching from Brown
University, the M.F.A. from Goddard College, and a B.A. from Williams College.
She has taught literature and writing at Harvard University, Rollins
College, the University of Central Florida, Valencia Community College, and is
currently teaching writing and Humanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Daytona, Florida.
Meg Day is a 2013
recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and the author of When All You Have
Is a Hammer (winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We
Can’t Read This (winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). She has
received fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, and Squaw
Valley Writers, and is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability
Poetics at the University of Utah.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah
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.
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