For Immediate Release

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

Kimberley Johnson and Meg Day to read at City Art

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

Wednesday October 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
 
           
Poets Kimberly Johnson  and Meg Day will read from their works on Wednesday,  October 1st at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event is free and open to the public.
 
Kimberly Johnson is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Her collections of poetry include Leviathan with a Hook, A Metaphorical God, and the forthcoming Uncommon Prayer. Her monograph on the poetic developments of post-Reformation poetry was published in 2014. In 2009, Penguin Classics published her translation of Virgil’s Georgics.
Her poetry, translations, and scholarly essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, Milton Quarterly, and Modern Philology.
Recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Arts Council, and the Mellon Foundation, Johnson holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
Kimberly Johnson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 
Meg Day, selected for Best New Poets of 2013, is a 2013 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize (forthcoming 2014), When All You Have Is a Hammer (winner of the 2012 Gertrude Press Chapbook Contest) and We Can't Read This (winner of the 2013 Gazing Grain Chapbook Contest). A 2012 AWP Intro Journals Award Winner, Meg has also received awards and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Writers, the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, and the International Queer Arts Festival. Meg is currently a PhD candidate, Steffensen-Cannon Fellow, & Point Foundation Scholar in Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah.
City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a unique forum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the first three Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake City Public Library.
 
City Art is 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 Utah Humanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. 
 
 
 
Joel Long