For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Winner of the May Swenson Prize in Poetry Travis Mossotti Reads at City Art. Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 26th 7:00—9:00 P.M. May Swenson Prize winner Travis Mossotti will read from his poems October 26th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council’s Great Salt Lake Book Festival. The following authors will participate: Travis Mossotti received his MFA in poetry from Southern Illiniois University Carbondale, and has been a faculty lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz and McKendree University. His poetry appears widely, and he has received the 2009 James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review from contest judge Robert Pinsky and this year was named the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award winner by contest judge Garrison Keillor. The May Swenson award is presented each year by the Utah State University Press. City Art is longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of all genres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of each month at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both local as well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Many 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 Book festival thanks its major sponsors: the George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, Chevron, and Zions Bank; as well as the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts, and the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund. Thanks also to our wonderful partner, the City Library. This program is in partnership with the Utah State University Press and Utah State University English Department, as well as City Art. 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