For Immediate Release

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

City Art Presents Harmony Button and Derek Henderson

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

Wednesday February 7th 7:00—9:00 P.M.

 

            Poets Harmony Button and Derek Henderson will present their work on  February 7th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Harmony Button's work has been included in Best American Notable Essays of 2015, she been nominated for 3 Pushcarts and a Best of the Web awards, and she was awarded the Larry Levis Prize (Academy of American Poets). She's currently the Academic Dean at the Waterford School in Sandy, UT. Find more at www.harmonybutton.com.

 

Derek Henderson is the author of two previous collections, Inconsequentia (with Derek Pollard), and Thus &, an Erasure of the Sonnets of Ted Berrigan, sections of which appear in the Anthology of Appropriation Literature. His poems have been published in journals such as Fence, Volt, Witness, Bombay Gin, and The Colorado Review. He currently teaches English at the Walden School of Liberal Arts in Provo, UT. 

 

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.

 

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.