For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com Maureen Clark and Susan Howe to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday January 6th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.             Writers Maureen Clark and Susan Howewill read from their work on January 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Libraryat 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.  Maureen Clark is on the faculty ofthe University of Utah in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies whereshe has been teaching for 13 years. She has been the director of the Universityof Utah Writing Center, a grant writer for the Rocky Mountain Care Foundationand a former president of Writers @ Work. She lives in Bountiful, Utah with herhusband Jon. Her poems have appeared in: Bellingham Review, ColoradoReview, Alaska Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, The SoutheastReview and Gettysburg Review,among other journals.  She has written a poetrycollection titled Thin Hymn and amemoir titled Falling into Bountiful.    Susan Howeis a contributing editor of Tar RiverPoetry and served for eleven years as the poetry editor of Dialogue. Her own poems have appeared insuch journals as The New Yorker, Poetry,The Southern Review, and PrairieSchooner. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published in 1997 and won the Charles ReddCenter Publication Prize. It also received the Association for Mormon Lettersaward in poetry for 1998. She completed a second collection of poems withFlorida poet Terri Witek, To Lie with aLandscape  Most featured readingsare followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, 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 ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations.      Joel Long