Writers Katie Kingston and Paul Ketzle will read from their poems at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch, 4th floor, on Wednesday February 25th at 7:00.
Katie Kingston is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, Unwritten Letters, recently published by Outlaw Artists Press, Utah, 2008; El Rio de las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio, winner of the 2006 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Award; and In My Dreams Neruda, an editor’s choice published by Main Street Rag. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Atlanta Review, Great River Review, Green Mountains Review, Hunger Mountain, Isotope, Margie, Nimrod, and Rattle. She is a recipient of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Poetry and Hunger Mountain’s 2007 Ruth Stone Prize. In 2008, she placed as a finalist in the May Swenson Poetry Award and the Rumi Prize for Poetry, as well as semi-finalist in the Zone 3 Press First book Award and the Pablo Neruda Prize. She has just been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editor of Isotope (Utah State University), for her poem, “Vista Verde.” She
currently lives and writes in Trinidad, an area known as the coal fields, located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range.
Paul Ketzle holds a Ph.D. in Fiction from the
University of Utah. He is the former managing editor
of Western Humanities Review, where he is currently a
contributing editor, and he serves on the planning
board for the Writers at Work conference. He teaches
for the LEAP program and the English Department at the
U. His fiction has appeared in Indiana Review and his
nonfiction in Continuum, Utah Business Magazine and
elsewhere.
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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.
