For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

Poets Brenda Sieczkowski and Derek Henderson to read at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday February 12th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.

            Poets Brenda Sieczkowski and Derek Henderson will read from their works on Wednesday February 12th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Derek Henderson teaches English, P.E., Creative Writing, Henry David Thoreau, “Culture” in the 21st Century, “Digital Business Applications” (whatever the hell that is), at the Walden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. He is the author of two books of poetry and is co-author (with Derek Pollard) of *Inconsequentia.* His work has been anthologized in *Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature* and *They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing*. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, son, and various pets, and misses his six other children, who have diaspora’d themselves across the state and country.

Brenda Sieczkowski is an Assistant Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College. Her poems and award-winning creative essays have appeared widely in print and on-line journals, including The Colorado Review, The New England Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Diagram, The Florida Review, Bone Bouquet, The Seneca Review, Western Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, Sidebrow, and Subtropics among others. She has published two chapbooks, Wonder Girl in Monster Land (dancing girl press) and Fallout & Flotation Devices (Little Red Leaves Textile Series). Like Oysters Observing the Sun, her full-length poetry collection, was published by Black Lawrence Press.

City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.

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, X-mission, and audience donations.