For Immediate Release

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

Dawn Lonsinger and Tasha Matsumoto to read at City Art

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

Wednesday April 10th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
 
            Poet Dawn Lonsinger and Writer Tasha Matsumoto will read from their works on Wednesday April 10th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 
 
dawn lonsinger is the author of two chapbooks, the linoleum crop and The Nested Object, as well as a full-length collection of poems: Whelm, which won the 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry.  Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica: A Magazine of Arts & Politics, and Indiana Review and elsewhere. She received an MFA from Cornell University, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she was a Burton Fellow and Managing Editor of Western Humanities Review. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, four Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, three Utah Arts Council Writing Awards, Smartish Pace’s Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and the Scowcroft Prize in Prose chosen by Lydia Yuknavitch. In August she joins the creative writing faculty at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, which means she’ll be leaving Utah, which means she will miss the mountains, the aspens, the desert of the real, and you.
 
Tasha Matsumoto teaches writing and fiction at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, the Collagist, Ninth Letter, Redivider, and elsewhere. Like Martha Stewart, she enjoys baking cupcakes and has been arrested
 
Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City 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. 
 
April
 
3
 
Matt Mauch
Greg Brownderville
 
8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn)
 
Kate Greenstreet
Janet Holmes10
 
 
Dawn Lonsinger
Tasha Matsumoto
 
17
 
Hilda Raz
Aaron Raz Link
 
 
 
May
 
 
15
 
High School Night
 
June
 
5
 
Final Open Reading
 
 
 
 
Joel Long