For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Melissa Bond to perform at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 20th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Melissa Bond will read from their works on Wednesday March 20th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Bio from Melissa Bond: The espresso version, in third person: 1. Never was a skinny girl, always was a small girl, always had to jump. 2. Wrote on her mattress at night, burning adolescent smoke and fire. 3. It started here, with heat and brooding and a Jim Morrison crush, big as a movie. 4. Years pass: She teaches addicts and hurt children the love of the pen. 5. She writes a chapbook called Hush to talk about addiction, the slosh and snuff that nearly rubbed her out. 6. Years pass: She writes articles and stories about people that burn. Bright. 7. Sometimes too bright, but heat attracts her. 8. Becomes an editor at a shiny magazine, the Wasatch Journal. 9. Two years and the journal folds as the country is folding. 10. Then a baby comes, faster than a speedball. 11. Another. 12. Who knew she would be like spring in this sallow time? 13. These children, these little sprouts. 14. And the boy child is different, has more chromosomes than most boys, has a soft heart. 15. A rocket ship. 16. Her voice explodes with Afterbirth. 17. She will shout from the stage. 18. These poems, this blood-letting. 19. She will shout as an offering. 20. You will hear her. 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. March 27th Katharine Coles Peggy Shumaker Matthew Batt Joel Long