ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com RichardRobbins and Rob Carney to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 10th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Richard Robbins and Rob Carney will read from their works on Wednesday, April10th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public. RichardRobbins haspublished six books of poems, most recently BodyTurn to Rain: New & Selected Poems, which Lynx House Press released in 2017.He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, theNational Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From1986-2014, Robbins directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota StateUniversity Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program. 88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4thfull-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around inthe New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's aboutthe times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughingand telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurativecul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays,challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed homeforeclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21stcentury fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed byfellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit:http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-our-min... Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of theUtah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and threechapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work hasappeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash FictionForward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt LakeCity. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running readingseries and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weeklyprograms on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September toMay at the Salt Lake City Public Library. City Artis sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Joel Long