For Immediate Release

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

City Art Presents Michael McLane and Joel Long

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

Wednesday April 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

            Writers Michael McLane and Joel Long will present their work on April 17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Michael McLane runs literary programming for Utah Humanities and is the director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. Over the years, he has worked or been a board member for numerous literary organizations in Utah, Idaho, and Colorado including City Art, Writers@Work, and The MESA Writers Retreat. His chapbook, Trace Elements, was published by Elik Press in 2015. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in numerous journals including Western Humanities Review, High Country News, The Dark Mountain Project, Terrain.org, Denver Quarterly, Interim, Colorado Review, and Laurel Review. He is an editor with Sugar House Review and is one of the founding editors of saltfront. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance and Knowing Time by Light were published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010.  His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press.  His poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sports Literate, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain, and Water-Stone Review, among others.  He lives in Salt Lake City.

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.