For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com City Art Presents Poet Mario Chard Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 19th 7:00—9:00 P.M.               Poet Mario Chard will read from his work on February 19th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.  Mario Chard was raised in northern Utah. His poems appear in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Indiana Review, among others. He is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University where he served as the poetry editor of Sycamore Review. Winner of the 2008 Utah Writers’ Contest sponsored by Western Humanities Review and the 2012 “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest, he recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry at Stanford University. He lives in Ogden with his wife and two sons   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.              Joel Long