Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to announce a reading and book signing by poets Hector Ahumada & Joel Long on Thursday, July 31st at 7:00 p.m. at our downtown bookstore (268 South 200 East). Copies of books by both authors will be available for purchase and signing, including Earth and Air Poems ($10.00), Ahumada's new chapbook from Elik Press. Mail orders please add $6.50 shipping and handling plus Utah sales tax. This event is free and open to the public.

Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbooks, Chopin's Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published by Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Interim, Isotope, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Hurricane Review, Poems and Plays, Concho River Review, Evansville Review, New Orleans Review and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and Fresh Water. New poems can be seen at Cabaret Voltage (http://www.cabaretvoltageonline.wordpress.com/). Poems are forthcoming in Karamu. His poems have been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize and he has won the Sherwin Howard Award for his publications in Weber Studies. He received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers at Work in 2002 and was the Jordan School District Educator of the Year in 2004. He is the founder of the Lake Effect Writers Conference and the Co-president of the City Art reading series. He currently teaches English, Creative Writing, and Art History at Rowland Hall St. Marks School in Salt Lake City.

Chilean-born Hector Ahumada now lives in Kearns, Utah. In Chile he studied at the Vina del Mar Fine Arts School, the State Technical University and, after arriving in the United States, he studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. He is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Poemas de Sol, Sun and Water Poems, as well as one chapbook, Los Viajeros del Altiplano/The Highland Travelers. His poems have been published in numerous anthologies, journals and newspapers. He was on the board of the City Art reading series for several years and was the recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor's Literary Award. Ahumada teaches at the University of Utah's Lifelong Learning Program and works as a visiting poet at the elementary and high schools of the Navajo Nation. He is also the director of Origenes SLC, a Hispanic group. He wants to think that the reason for his existence is poetry...one day, he will find out.

For more information call or e-mail:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
268 South 200 East
(801) 521-3819
books@dreamgarden.com
www.kensandersbooks.com