Anne Caston and Joel Long to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 16th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Anne Caston and Joel Long will read from their works on Wednesday, April 16th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Anne Caston'sfirst collection of poems, Flying Out With The Wounded, was awarded the 1996 New York University Press Prize for Poetry. In its review of the book, Publisher's Weekly (4/28) wrote that "...when she compresses an anecdote into verse, her poetry is as sharp – and sometimes as revealing – as a scalpel." Her poems have been published in literary journals and medical periodicals here and abroad and her work has been anthologized in such collections as Where Books Fall Open, Sustenance & Desire, The Long Journey: Poets of the Northwest, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. She has twice been a featured writer on WPFW's "The Poet and the Poem" and was interviewed by Michael Collier in The Writing Life videotape series. Caston’s second collection of poems, Judah's Lion, was published in 2009 by Toad Hall Press. A selection of poems from Judah's Lion was awarded Prairie Schooner's 2002 Readers' Choice Award. Another poem in the collection received a 2003 International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review. Prodigal, her third full-length collection, was published in April 2014 by Aldrich Press. Caston previously served as the 1996-97 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the 1999-2000 Jenny McKean Moore Fellow in Poetry at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. She also received a 1999 Individual Artist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Anne Caston teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage where she serves as core faculty in poetry. She is currently at work on a memoir, Deep Dixie: Friendship, Love, Longing, Faith, Manners, and Coming-of-Age Among Southern Baptists. Anne Caston lives in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, with her husband, Ian Gallimore. Joel Long’sbook Lessons in Disappearance was published in 2012. Knowing Time by Light was published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 1999. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Ocean State Review, Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Poems and Plays, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place. He received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Schedule: April 2 Dave Hawkins Nance Van Winkle 9 Andrea Hollander Lisa Zimmerman 16 Anne Caston Joel Long May 7 Gerda Saunders 14 High School Night 21 June 4 Final Open Reading Joel Long