Andrea Hollander Budy and Carlos Reyes will Read for City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednseday April 21 7:00-- 9:00 p.m. Poets Andrea Hollander Budy and Carlos Reyes will read from their work on Wednesday April 21st at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Born in Berlin, Germany, of American parents, raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado, Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for prose memoir, the Runes Poetry Award, two poetry fellowships the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Most recently Budy received the 2008 Subiaco Award for Literary Merit for Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Grimm, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Her work appears regularly in such literary journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, FIELD, Five Points, Shenandoah, and Creative Nonfiction. Since 1977 Budy has lived in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains near Mountain View, where she and her husband Todd and their now-grown son Brooke ran a bed-and-breakfast inn for fifteen years. For the past seventeen years she has been the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Carlos Reyes is a poet, translator and author who has been teaching poetry writing in Oregon, Washington and Nevada schools since 1982. Four books and nine chapbooks of his poetry have been published, as well as four books of his translations, including Most recently Book of Shadows, Selected Poems as well as the lyrical Poemas de la isla (Island Poems) by Canary Island poet Josefina de la Torre (EWU Press, 2000) and At the Edge of the Western Wave. Additionally, he is a book editor and publisher, and writes freelance reviews of poetry books for the Willamette Week newspaper. When he's not traveling or staying in his cottage in Ireland, he lives in Portland, Oregon. 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