Biography
Bryan Roth is a literary editor, writer, poet, manuscript consultant, and teacher. His poetry and prose have been published internationally; his poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, The Flying Island, Fringe, Paradigm, Southern Indiana Review, and other publications (including one in Romania). His prose has been published in the US, Canada, and Mexico. He has read his poetry at venues from New York City to San Francisco, and many places in between. He published three chapbooks in 2024: The Church of Beethoven, Triptych, and What You're Up Against.
Mr. Roth has won awards for his poetry, his editing, and his writing, including a journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a small press, Carpe Diem! Press, which publishes poetry chapbooks.
As an undergraduate at Indiana University, Bryan studied poetry with Roger Mitchell, David Wojahn, the late Lynda Hull, and others, and has studied with many notable poets in post-graduate workshops, including Stephen Dobyns, Lynn Emanuel, Edward Hirsch, Andrew Hudgins, Dorianne Laux, Sherod Santos, and Pulitzer Prize-winners (and poets laureate) Mona Van Duyn and Charles Simic (and many others).
Bryan has also been involved with planning poetry events, running poetry workshops, and hosting poetry readings for over thirty-five years, first with the Indianapolis Writers’ Center (now the Indiana Writers Center) and the Indiana Poets Association, and since moving to Colorado, with the literary journal Many Mountains Moving, and the Colorado Poets Association, which he founded in 2005. He has also been a poetry editor for over forty years, including being a former member of the editorial staff of the Colorado (Boulder-based) literary journal, Many Mountains Moving. He has twice been a poetry judge for the Colorado Book Award for poetry, and several poetry books he has edited have been nominated for the Colorado Book Award. He has taught everything from 2nd grade to university-level courses, including high school German and Spanish, and university-level creative writing (since 1986).
