**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

ISSUED MARCH 24, 2011 SALT LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY WELCOMES KATHARINE COLES

WHO: Katharine Coles, Utah’s Poet Laureate

WHAT: Reading and discussion

WHERE: Tyler Library at 8041 South Wood Street (55 West), Midvale 84047

WHEN: Monday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m.

WHY: Salt Lake County Library is proud to host a special reading and discussion with Utah's Poet Laureate, Katharine Coles. Her fourth collection of poems, Fault, was published by Red Hen Press in 2008. Previous books include three poetry collections, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch, and two novels, Fire Season and The Measurable World. She is a professor in the English Department at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and currently directs the Creative Writing Program as well as, with co-director Fred Adler, the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, which she founded. Presented by the Utah Humanities Council "Authors on Main Street" program. This event will be at the Tyler Library (8041 South Wood Street in Midvale) on Monday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m.

CONTACT: Salt Lake County Library Services, 801-943-4636