Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday October 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Jacqueline Osherow and Peter Covino will read from their work on October17th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. University of Utah Professor Jacqueline Osherow is the author of several collections of poetry, including Whitethorn, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Dead Men’s Praise. Her debut collection, Looking for Angels in New York (1988), was chosen for the Contemporary Poetry Series. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, several prizes from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her work has been anthologized in Twentieth Century American Poetry (2003), The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (2005), Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001), and twice in Best American Poetry. Peter Covino is the author of the poetry collections, both from Western Michigan University/New Issues Press, The Right Place to Jump(2012) and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), winner of the 2007 PEN/America Osterweil Award (http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/224/prmID/1482), and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Please see a recent review of his work here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bobby-elliott/on-peter-covinos-the-righ_b_1903... Other reviews have appeared in such publications as American Poet(Academy of American Poets), The Journal, Small Press Review,and Quarterly Westamong others. His chapbook, Straight Boyfriend (2001), won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize; and recent poems have been published or are forthcoming both in America and Italy in such places as the American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Connecticut Review, Gulf Coast, Interim, Lo-Ball, Leggendaria, New Orleans Review, The Paris Review, tutteStorie, The Yale Review, and The Penguin Anthology of Italian-American Writing,among others. Covino’s newer work reflects a growing concern with Italian historical influences, issues of environmental impingement, contemporary art, and visual and poetic experimentation. 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. 26 Jesse Parent Jean Howard October 3 Mike Dorrell 10 Miles Fuller Linda Aldrich 17 Jacqueline Osherow Peter Covino 24 Cathy Wagner Paisley Rekdal November 7 Shaun Griffin Lance Larsen, Utah’s Poet Laureate 14 Michael Sowder Jennifer Sinor 21 Michael Hansen Tim Erickson December 5 Sian Griffiths Melanie Rae Thon 12 Michael Gills Franklin Fisher 19 Holiday Open January 9 Hector Ahumada 16 Katharine English Joel Long