Poets Jennifer Tonge and Dawn April Lonsinger will read from their work September 10th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jennifer Tonge’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere, and on Poetry Daily. She has received the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship in Poetry from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a Work-study Scholarship and the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ucross Foundation, and The Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She has served as poetry editor of Quarterly West, as president of Writers at Work, and on the board of City Art. She is an associate editor at Dawn Marano and Associates. Dawn April Lonsinger holds an MFA in poetry from Cornell University, and is now a PhD candidate in Creative Writing (poetry) at the Univ. of Utah. She been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, LIT, Diagram, American Letters & Commentary, Massachusetts Review, Versal, New Orleans Review, Smartish Pace, Cincinnati Review, Backwards City Review, Fourteen Hills, Crab Orchard Review, Western Humanities Review, Bellingham Review, Terminus, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, American Poetry Journal, and Redactions. Her chapbook, linoleum crop, was chosen by Thomux Lux for the 2007 Terminus Chapbook Contest. More recently she won second place in the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize Contest chosen by Heather McHugh, runner up in the Utah Writers Contest chosen by Boston Review editor Tim Donnelly and was a semi-finalist for Ahsahta Press’s Sawtooth Poetry Prize. She is also the new managing editor of Western Humanities Review. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.