Julie Carr and Shira Dentz Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 2nd 7:00—9:00 P.M. University of Colorado poet Julie Carr and poet Shira Dentz will read from their works at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday March 2nd at 7:00 as part of the City Art Reading Series. Julie Carr’s first collection of poetry, Mead: An Epithalamion (University of Georgia Press, 2004) was selected by Cole Swensen for the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Prize. Her other collections include Sarah — of Fragments and Lines (Coffee House Press, 2010), a National Poetry Series winner; 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2010), selected by Rae Armantrout for the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize; and Equivocal (Alice James Books, 2007). Her study of Victorian poetry and poetics is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. Carr is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the co-publisher, alongside her husband, Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press. She lives in Denver, Colorado and has three children. Shira Dentz is the author of a book of poems, black seeds on a white dish, a chapbook, Leaf Weather, and another full-length collection, door of thin skins, that is forthcoming. Her poems have appeared widely in journals such as APR, The Iowa Review, jubilat, and New American Writing, and have been featured on NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, The Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, andPainted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently Poetry Co-Editor of Quarterly West, finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Utah, and a Fellow at the Tanner Center for the Humanities in Salt Lake City. 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. Joel Long