Poets Derek Henderson and Raphael Dagold
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday December 1st 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Derek Henderson and Raphael Dagold will read from his works at the Salt
Lake Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday December 1 at 7:00.
Derek Henderson lives, writes and teaches in Salt Lake City, where he lives with
his wife, kids, cats and dog, and where he has recently completed his PhD in
poetry at the University of Utah. He is co-author, with Derek Pollard, of
Inconsequentia (BlazeVox, 2010) and author of the forthcoming Thus & (If P Then
Q, Summer 2011). His work has appeared in Fence, Colorado Review, VOLT, Black
Warrior Review, Bombay Gin and Witness, and other equally neat places. At the
moment, his favorite quote from Ted Berrigan: "There is no such thing as a
breakdown."
A graduate student at the University of Utah, Raphael Dagold is a writer,
teacher, photographer, and cabinet maker in Portland, Oregon. His poems and
other writings have appeared in such journals as Quarterly West, Frank, Indiana
Review, two girls review, Shirim, Washington Square, and others. Two short prose
fictions appear in Northwest Edge iii: The End of Reality, and his photographs
have won awards from the Berkeley Jewish Museum and have appeared in several
publications. Dagold has won fellowships and residencies from the Ucross
Foundation, Literary Arts, Inc., The Vermont Studio Center, and other
institutions. He has taught writing and literature at Lewis and Clark College,
Mt. Hood Community College, and in the Writers-in-the-Schools program of
Literary Arts, Inc.
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. The featured reading will be followed by an open
reading.
Joel Long
