For
Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Brad
Roghaar and Ryan Ridge
to read
at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday April 19th, 7:00—8:00 P.M.
Ogden’s Poet Laureate Brad Roghaar and fiction writer Ryan Ridge will
read from their works on Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake
City Public Library as part of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free
and open to the public.
Brad Roghaar was named Ogden’s Poet Laureate in fall of 2016. Roghaar has instructed literature and writing
at Weber State for the last thirty years.
He has published one book of poetry titled Unraveling the Knot and is
just finishing up a
second book titled Stand
of Aspen: Places of Healing. He is also currently writing the script— a
"cinepoem"—for a film on wild horses in Utah. As if these projects
weren’t enough, he also serves on the editorial board for Rough Draft, is the
faculty advisor for Metaphor, and is the editor for Weber Studies. He was also Utah State Poet of the Year
in 1991, has served on the committee to select a state poet laureate and was
the Utah Poetry Society Poet Laureate of 1992.
RYAN
RIDGE holds a BA in English from the University of Louisville and
an MFA in Fiction from the University of California, Irvine, where he was the
recipient of the MacDonald Harris prize for fiction. He is the author of
four books, including American Homes (University
of Michigan Press, 2014), which was the Michigan Library Publishing Club’s
inaugural book club pick. His fiction and essays have appeared inSanta
Monica Review, Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, Los
Angeles Review, Lumina, NERVE,DIAGRAM, Passages
North, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Ridge received the 2016
Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction judged by Jonathan Lethem. An assistant
professor at Weber State University, he edits the literary magazine Juked and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is
married to writer Ashley Farmer.
Most featured
readings are followed by an open reading.
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