On Wednesday January 18th at 7:00 City Art will present its Elizabethan Night at the Salt Lake Public Library's main branch in conjunction with the library's celebration of the life of Elizabeth the first. The evening will feature readings of Elizabethan poems and poems inspired by the forms and ideas of the period with guests including writers, Kimberly Johnson, Mike Dorrell, Joel Long, Barbara Murdock, and Chris Leibo. Kimberly Johnson earned earn an M.A. at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and an M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she specialized in Renaissance literature, and specifically in seventeenth-century religious writings. Her book-length collection of poems, _Leviathan with a Hook_ (Persea Books) was published in 2002. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including _The New Yorker_ and _Quarterly West_. Her current projects include a critical book on self-feminization by male religious poets of the seventeenth century, a verse translation of Virgil's _Georgics_, and a second collection of poetry, tentatively entitled A Metaphorical God. Mike Dorrell is best known as a playwright. His most recent plays include the upcoming TALKING WALES 2 for Utah Contemporary Theatre and a short play, THE IRRIGATION MURDER, as part of The Salt Lake Acting Company's WATER PROJECT in April. Last year, he took part in Plan- B Theatre Company's SLAM, wrote and acted in TALKING WALES for Utah Contemporary Theatre, and had a reading of a comedy, ART FOR ART'S SAKE at SLAC. He is the author of over a dozen plays for stage, radio, and television including PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES, PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, CHANGE, THE CELTIC CROSS AND BURNING THE ARC for BBC Radio, EAST OF MAIN STREET for Avon Touring Company, and RISE OF THE OLD CLOUD for Paines Plough . Born in Swansea, Wales, Mike was educated at the Universities of London and Bristol and holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from The University of Utah. Currently, Mike is the Dramaturg for The Salt Lake Acting Company where his specialty is the development of new work. He has taught at Westminster College and The University of Utah. His poetry has been published in small magazines in Wales. Chris Leibow is the founder of Caberet Voltage and a Graduate student in poetry at Antioch College. Barbara Murdock retired in June after teaching creative writing, English, and French for thirty years in the Salt Lake City School District, twenty-seven of those years at East High where she was adviser for Pencilings, East's art literary magazine and for Take Five, an annual production of five student-written, one-act plays. Among her recognitions are awards from The National Council of Teachers of English, The Scholastic Writing Awards, and The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. In 1997 she was named Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the United States Office of Education. In June, she received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers @ Work. Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes appeared in 2005 from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and Fresh Water. 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, and audience donations. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com