Writers Lola Haskins and Brenda Sieczkowski will read from their works on April 15th at the Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 P.M.. Lola Haskins teaches poetry in Pacific Lutheran University's low residency MFA program. 2007 brings two new books: an advice book for people interested in poetry-- Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (Backwaters Press), and Solutions Beginning with A, a collection of original fables about women, with images by Maggie Taylor,twice featured in Georgia Review (Modernbook). Ms. Haskins' in-print poetry collections include Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2004), Extranjera (Story Line, 1998), The Rim Benders (Anhinga, 2001), Hunger (University of Iowa Press, 1993-- winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize), Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (University Press of Florida, 1990/ second edition Betony Press, 1992), and Castings (Countryman Press, 1984/second edition Betony Press, 1992). Planting the Children, (University Press of Florida, 1983), though out of print, can be ordered from Ms. Haskins but Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful (State Street Press, 1990) is in fact out of print. BRENDA SIECZKOWSKI won the 2006 Writers at Work fellowship award for nonfiction. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Florida in 2001. She received a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Utah 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, XMission, and audience donations. The featured reading will be followed by an open reading.