For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com A.J. Martine and Anikó Sáfrán Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 8th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers A.J. Martine and Anikó Sáfránwill read from his works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 8th at 7:00. A.J. is a western born man raised on a ranch on the Colorado Plateau by human wolves. He was nurtured by that landscape which has become a major character in his writing, his counselor, solace, and goad. A.J. was born and raised in the twentieth century, mentored by his grandfather who refused to leave the nineteenth, and writes about it from a twenty-first century perspective. He has Published non-fiction, poetry, and fiction in several magazines and journals such as the Idaho Review, Wazee Journal, Circa, Rocky Mountain Review, Salt Lake Magazine, Catalyst, and Glimmer Train. A.J. is the current chair of Writers @ Work. Anikó Sáfrán is a Salt lake City poet, photographer and film maker. She has read recently as part of the free jazz ensemble Seraphim. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long