For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
Poets Ravi Shankar and Brad L. Roghaar to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday March 4th, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Ravi Shankar and Brad L. Roghaar will read from their works on Wednesday March 4th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Ravi Shankar is the author, editor, translator or publisher of over 15 books, including "The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" called a "an admirable volume" by Claudia Rankine in The New York Times, W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East and Beyond", called "a beautiful achievement for world poetry" by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, and most recently, "The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems," called the work of "one of America's finest younger poets" by the late Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen. Founding editor of Drunken Boat and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, he has taught around the world, including at Columbia University, City University of Hong Kong and Fairfield University, and appeared on NPR, BBC, PBS and in such publications as the Paris Review, Financial Times, Chronicle of Higher Education and Caravan. He currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney and is investigating the legacy of Puritanism on shaping the American criminal justice system.
Brad L. Roghaar is Faculty Emeritus at Weber State University where he taught literature and creative writing for over 30 years. He is former Editor of Weber Studies: voices and viewpoints of the contemporary west. He currently serves as Ogden, Utah’s first Poet Laureate. Roghaar’s poetry has appeared in many journals and magazines. His first book, Unraveling the Knot: Poems of Connection, won the Pearle M. Olsen award, and he was named Utah Poet of the Year. His latest manuscript, A Simple Stand of Aspen Trees, is a collection of poems dealing with places of retrieval. Brad recently returned from China where he was invited to read his poems as part of the 2016 International Scholars Forum at Shanghai Normal University.Avid travelers and backpackers, Brad and his wife, Sharon, have travelled and trekked in over 38 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle-East, including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Nepal.
Brad and Sharon live in their hometown, Ogden, Utah, where Brad continues pursuing his passions for writing, travelling, backpacking, and skiing.
City Art is sponsored by the Utah 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 Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
