For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Laura Stott and Jean Kane to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday September 17th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Laura Stott and Jean Kane will read from their works on Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is free and open to the public. Laura Stott:“These are poems of travel and travail, of losing one’s bearings but finding one’s way. In short, they transform us—into crows and lizards, into sacred cows in a blue city, into snakes or sea otters or sometimes stars. These poems invite and entice. Do not lose your eyes, says one poem. Child, hold God in those hands, says another. May we all grow so gently bold. May we all hold and keep holding." —Lance Larsen Laura Stott holds an M.F.A. from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers (Eastern Washington University) and teaches at Weber State University. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Redactions, Sugar House Review, and Rock and Sling. Jean Kane: Jean Kane was born in Brooklyn and was taken to the midwest ten years later. She now lives in New York, where she teaches literature and writing at Vassar College. She writes poetry, fiction, and critical essays. American Short Fiction, the Georgia Review, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner have published her work. Her current manuscript is called My Kennedy Women. Her book, Make Me, is forthcoming from Otis Nebula Press. CITYARTis Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Joel Long