For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Harmony Button and Jerry VanIeperin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Harmony Button and JerryVanIeperin will read from their work on Wednesday November 4th at the Salt LakeCity Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Harmony Button's work has been included inBest American Notable Essays of 2015, she has been nominated for Pushcart andBest of the Web awards, and she was awarded the Larry Levis Prize from theAcademy of American Poets. She is a contributing editor at Paper Tape Magazine,and you can find her work published in journals such as Colorado Review,Chicago Quarterly, Southwestern American Lit, Cobalt, Rock & Sling, Bayouand Drafthorse. She is currently the Academic Dean at the Waterford School inUtah. Jerry VanIeperen was, at best, aD minus English student in Junior High and High School. Then a computer glitchplaced him in the advanced creative writing class and his life altered. Hestudied journalism and won the annual creative writing contest for poetry atUtah State University. After earning an MFA in Writing from the University ofNebraska, he became a founding editor of the Sugar House Review. His poems haveappeared or are forthcoming in Redactions, Poetry City USA, Plainsongs, BlackRock & Sage, burntdistrict, Bridge Eight, and Working Stiff: an anthologyof professional wrestling themed literature and art, among others. He lives inUtah with his wife, two children, and a dog. He briefly considered writingmanifestos from a dark, windowless cabin in the heart of the Rocky Mountains,but felt his beard was not quite Nordic enough for such endeavors. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline OsherowPeter Covino 24 Cathy WagnerPaisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s PoetLaureate 14 Michael SowderJennifer Sinor 20 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian GriffithsMelanie Rae Thon 12 Michael GillsFranklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long