For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Dawn Lonsinger and Tasha Matsumototo 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.               Poet Dawn Lonsinger and Writer Tasha Matsumoto will read from their works on Wednesday April 10th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.    dawn lonsinger is the author of two chapbooks, the linoleum crop and The Nested Object, as well as a full-length collection of poems: Whelm, which won the 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry.  Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in such journals asAmerican Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review,Crazyhorse,Guernica: A Magazine of Arts & Politics,and Indiana Review and elsewhere. She received an MFA from Cornell University, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she was a Burton Fellow and Managing Editor of Western Humanities Review. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, four Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, three Utah Arts Council Writing Awards, Smartish Pace’s Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and the Scowcroft Prize in Prose chosen by Lydia Yuknavitch. In August she joins the creative writing faculty at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, which means she’ll be leaving Utah, which means she will miss the mountains, the aspens, the desert of the real, and you.   Tasha Matsumoto teaches writing and fiction at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, the Collagist, Ninth Letter, Redivider, and elsewhere. Like Martha Stewart, she enjoys baking cupcakes and has been arrested   Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.   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.    April   3   Matt Mauch Greg Brownderville   8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn)   Kate Greenstreet Janet Holmes10     Dawn Lonsinger Tasha Matsumoto   17   Hilda Raz Aaron Raz Link       May     15   High School Night   June   5   Final Open Reading         Joel Long