For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
City Art Tacey M. Atsitty and TrishaHopkinson at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 13th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
PoetsTacey M. Atsitty and Trish Hopkinson will read from their works on Wednesday, March13th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series.
TaceyM. Atsitty, Diné, is Tsénahabiłnii (SleepRock People) and born for Ta’neeszahnii (Tangle People) from Cove, AZ.
She is a recipient of the Truman Capote Creative WritingFellowship, the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, Morning Star Creative WritingAward, and the Philip Freund Prize. She holds bachelor’s degrees from BrighamYoung University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and an MFA inCreative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared or isforthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner,Crazyhorse, Literary Hub, New Poets of Native Nations, and otherpublications. Her first book is Rain Scald (University of NewMexico Press, 2018). She lives in Utah.
Trish Hopkinson has always loved words—in fact, hermother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. A Pushcart nominatedpoet, she has been published in several anthologies and journals,including Stirring, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The PennReview; and her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder ofa regional poetry group, RockCanyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of thegroup’s annual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director byprofession and resides in Utah with her handsome husband and their twooutstanding children
Most featured readings are followed by anopen reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt LakeCity Arts Council, Catalyst, the SaltLake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
The event is free and open to thepublic. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
