For Immediate Release

Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com

Lara Candland and Ranjan Adiga at City Art

Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111

Wednesday March 21st 7:00—9:00 P.M.

 

            Poet Lara Candland and writer Ranjan Adiga will read from their work March 21st at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. 

Lara Candland’s latest book is The Lapidary’s Nosegay from the Center for Literary Publishing’s Mountain West Poetry Series. Candland is a poet, musician, singer, and co-founder of and chief-librettist for the Seattle Experimental Opera and a member of Deseret Experimental Opera. Her work has appeared in Fence, Colorado Review, the Crab Creek Review, the Likewise Folio, Barrow Street, and many other journals. Her first book, Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree, was published in 2010, and her performance with Lalage—poetry and live electronic looping and manipulations—appears on the CD Lalage: Live on Sonarchy. Her opera Sunset with Pink Pastoral was a finalist in the Genesis Prizes for New Opera and was presented at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London as well as in performances in Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, BC; and Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

 

Ranjan Adiga teaches creative writing classes at Westminster College. His works have appeared in Story Quarterly, South Asian Review, among others. His stories explore lives of immigrant communities, their hopes and anxieties, as they assimilate into American culture. Ranjan is currently working towards completing his debut short story collection. 

 

Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.