For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Poets Dorthee Kocks and Melissa Bond Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday November 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Dorhtee Kocks and Melissa Bond will read from his works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday November 17th at 7:00. Dorothee Kocks’s The Glass Harmonica is a story about America’s first pop star and her husband, an itinerant merchant of erotica. The novel debuts this fall from a Rosa Mira Books, a new ebook company publishing worldwide from a cottage in New Zealand. Kocks talked about the experience of being courted by ebook revolutionaries at the 2010 Utah book Festival panel, “eBooks for Traditional Book Lovers.” Her previous works include the Accordion Monologues, prose performance piecesfeaturing a sequined red accordion, and the non-fiction book, Dream a Little: Land and Social Justice in Modern America (University of California Press, 2000). The novel was generously supported by numerous artist residencies and by a Utah Arts Council publicationprize. She earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown Universityand taught at University of Utah. She was editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Wasatch Journal, which proudly published many local poets featured by City Arts. She lives in Salt Lakewith her husband Mark Etheridge. 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. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. Joel Long