ForImmediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
City ArtPresents Sara Eliza Johnson and Susannah Nevison
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 1st, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Writers Sara Eliza Johnson andSusannah Nevison will read from their works on Wednesday, March 1st at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries.
SaraEliza Johnson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the NewEngland Review, Best New Poets 2009, Boston Review, CrabOrchard Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. She is the recipientof a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Winter Fellowship from the FineArts Work Center in Provincetown, and a work-study scholarship to the BreadLoaf Writers' Conference. Her first book, Bone Map, was selectedfor the 2013 National Poetry Series and will be published by Milkweed Editions.
Susannah Nevison isthe author of Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), winnerof the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. New work can be found in, oris forthcoming from, Crazyhorse, 32 Poems, PublicPool, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she has been featuredon Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. She is therecipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers Conferenceand the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Currently, she is a Clarence Snow Fellowat the University of Utah, where she is a doctoral candidate.
Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund.
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
