For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
City Art
Presents Matthew Ivan Bennett and Sara Eliza Johnson
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 5th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
RJ Walker and Willy Palomo will read and
perform from their work on March 5th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at
7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
RJ Walker is
a performance poet from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the 2013 Salt
City Slam team which made group piece finals at the 2013 NPS. He is also the
representative for Riverton, Utah at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam. He
is the most recent host of The Greenhouse Effect open mic and has been doing
spoken word and comedy for 3 years, and slam poetry for 2. He works as an EMT
and lives a quiet life in Salt lake City with his 6 (or was it 5?) Invisible
cats. They are all named George Foreman and RJ does not believe they exist.
Willy Palomo
is an emerging writer and student at Westminster College. His poetry and
prose has been published in the University of New Mexico's Scribendi
and ellipsis... literature and art. He founded both the Voice Boxers Poetry
Slam and Westminster Slam Poetry to promote and nourish the local poetry
community. Both slams have since sent poetry teams out to compete
nationally. Willy Palomo also coaches high school students
through Poetry Out Loud and teaches a literature course once a week with
Dr. Desilets at East High School.
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.
Joel Long