Poets Jim Barnes and Amanda Pecor will reading from their poems on October 5th at the Salt Lake Public Library, Main Branch at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Amanda Pecor is originally from Macon, Georgia, and has studied at Williams College and Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Reveiw, The Paris Review, and the New England Review. Her poem "A Product of Evolution, I Invest in a Mutual Fund" has appeared in the anthology The Body Electric. Jim Barnes is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and Editor of The Chariton Review. His many books of poems include Visiting Picasso (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006), On a Wing of the Sun (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2001), Paris (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997), The Sawdust War (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1992) which won the Oklahoma Book Award, 1993, La Plata Cantata (Purdue Univ. Press, 1989), and The American Book of the Dead (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982). He is also the author of On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1997). which won the American Book Award 1998. He has won the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts among his many other honors. 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, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com