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Salina native to return for poetry reading

Wednesday, May 23 at 7 pm
Ad Astra Books & Coffeehouse, 141 N Santa Fe

Kansas City poets Jason Ryberg and Josh Rizer have been touring and reading around the Midwest in support of their latest collaborative book, “Down, Down And Away" (Spartan Press, 2012).

An open-mic will follow Ryberg and Rizer's readings.

Jason Ryberg (a Salina native) is the author of seven books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be  (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors.  He is currently an artist-in-residence at The Prospero Institute of Disquieted Poetics and an aspiring b-movie actor. His latest collection of poems is Down, Down and Away  (co-authored with Josh Rizer and released by Spartan Press). He lives in Kansas City, Missouri with a rooster named Little Red and a billy goat named Giuseppe. Feel free to look up his skirt at jasonryberg.blogspot.com.

Joshua Rizer is a Kansas City native with a third degree black belt in The Hard Way. He is also proficient in The Low Road as well as The Drawing Board, his specialty in that art form being most specifically, "Going back to it." He has been writing short stories, novels and poems for twenty years and drawing for longer than that. Until he works up the courage to shoot himself in the foot or cut his nose off to spite his own face he has settled on filmmaking as a suitable avenue of self-infliction. He paints as well, the oils containing chromates and lead, making the activity a very long and drawn out cry for help. He awaits your intervention at joshuarizer.blogspot.com.