<!-- /* Font Definitions */@font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}span.style {mso-style-name:style; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:"";}span.fsl {mso-style-name:fsl; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:"";}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}@page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}-->ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com LanceLarsen and Caren Beilin to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday December 10th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.             Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen and fiction writer Caren Beilin will read from their works on Wednesday, December 10that 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City ArtReading Series and the Utah Humanities Council Book Festival. This event isfree and open to the public.  Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, Genius Loci, was recently published byUniversity of Tampa Press.  His earlier collections include Backyard Alchemy (2009), In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005),and Erasable Walls(1998).  He holds a PhD from the University of Houston.  His workappears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review, Southern Review,Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, BestAmerican Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.  His nonfiction hastwice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays.  He iscurrently working on Seventeen Ways toFloat, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory whichwon 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition.  He grew upin Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving an LDSmission.  He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walks onhis hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food.  Hesometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter andmulti-media artist.  Since 1993 he has taught literature and creativewriting at BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair.  He andJacqui recently directed a study abroad program in Madrid.  In 2012, hewas named to a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. Caren Beilin’s bookUniversity of Pennsylvania is the Noemi Fiction Prize winner and has just beenpublished.  Beilin grew upin Germantown, Philadelphia. Her fiction can be found in McSweeney’s,Fence, and in the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press chapbook, Americans,Guests, or Us. The University of Pennsylvania, in its various forms,has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, a finalist in Fence’s ModernProse Prize, and winner of Noemi Press’s Book Award for Fiction. City Art is Salt Lake’s longest-running reading series and provides a uniqueforum for the literary arts during their weekly programs on each of the firstthree Wednesdays of the month from September to May at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library.  City Art issponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst,the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.  This reading is also sponsored by the UtahHumanities Council as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.     Joel Long