The reading will be on the 3rd floor tomorrow. Writers Maria Melendez and Rachel Marston will read from their work on Wednesday, April 16th at 7:00 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. Maria Melendez has published two collections of poetry: the chapbook Base Pairs (Swan Scythe Press, 2001) and How Long She'll Last in This World (University of Arizona Press, 2006), which received Honorable Mention at the 2007 International Latino Book Awards and was named a finalist for the 2007 PEN Center USA Literary Awards. Her essays and features appear in Altar, Orion Afield, and Isotope, and several of her essays on arts and activism have been broadcast as part of NPR's American Democracy Project. She co-coordinates Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing with Verse, a traveling exhibition of contemporary Latino art and poetry. Her own poetry and fiction have appeared in such magazines as Barrow Street, International Quarterly, and Ecological Restoration, and she has edited two anthologies of poetry by poet-teachers and K-12 students for California Poets in the Schools. She received her M.A. in English/Creative Writing from UC Davis in 2000. From 2000-2003 she was awarded grants from the California Arts Council in support of her work as writer-in-residence at the U.C. Davis Arboretum, where she taught environmental writing workshops for the public. In 2003, Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, appointed her Research Fellow at the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership. She currently lives in Logan, Utah, where she teaches creative writing and American literature at Utah State University. Rachel Marston is working on her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She is a fiction editor at Quarterly West and helps coordinate the University of Utah's Guest Writers Series. She has fiction published or forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, Barrelhouse, and Versal. 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ