Diane Fouts and Melissa Bond will read from their work at the Salt Lake Public Library on October 11th at the Salt Lake Public LibraryÂs main branch at 7: P.M. as part of the City Art reading series. Diane Fouts has been writing poetry in Utah for approximately 30 years now. Her work reflects perplexing paradoxes, both internal and external, of life in this state (of the union? of mind? of grace!). Recent or soon-to-appear publications include appearances in Cilantro, a web-based literary journal edited by Hector Ahumada, and Writing from the Land, a CD journal from the Entrada Institute. Her poems have also appeared in Glyphs I and II, anthologies of Moab writers--and way back when--in High Country News and a long-defunct little magazine called Silver Vain. She's currently working on a manuscript of 64 tiny poems about daily weather. Melissa Bond published HUSH in 2006, a collection of poems, a short story and a series of collages she put together while sitting hunched and cross-legged on her bedroom floor. In February of this year she spent a month cleaning out houses in New Orleans. From that time came the New Orleans Project, a multi-media presentation that she developed with audiographer Beth Hoffman and photographer Alice McNamara. The New Orleans Project premiered at the Utah Arts Festival and went on to tour the San Francisco Bay Area in July. Bond was given the Mayor's Artist Award for the Literary Arts in 2001 and is currently at work finishing her quirky and long overdue experimental novel, Streamline Jenny. 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com