Ely Shipley and Kathryn Cowles will read from their new books of poetry at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 3rd at 7:00. Ely Shipley’s first book of poems, Boy with Flowers, won the 2007 Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, and will be published in the spring of 2008. He also won “The Utah Writer’s Award in Poetry” from The Western Humanities Review and “The Virginia Faulkner Award” from Prairie Schooner. His poems appear in The North American Review, Willow Springs, Florida Review, Phoebe, The Greensboro Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diagram, Barrow Street, LTTR and Bloom. He has taught creative writing, literature, and gender studies as a graduate student at Purdue University and the University of Utah, and frequently facilitates workshops with LGBTQ youth groups. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, where he is a PhD candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Utah. Kathryn Cowles is finishing up her doctoral work in poetry at the University of Utah. (She's defending her dissertation Maps and Transcripts, in about a week!) Her first book, Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name, won the Brunsman Poetry Book Prize and was published by Bear Star Press in September. She has had poetry and nonfiction published in Colorado Review, Plieades, Hawai'i Review, Octopus Magazine, and other journals. 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.