BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:DPCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20141029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20141029T210000 UID:1D70E56B-154D-4C81-BB3A-4968CB9210D3 SUMMARY:BF14.05 Salt Lake Book Festival, University of Utah CREATED:20260416T080103Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080103Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/46 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah and the Utah Humanities Council present poet Frank Bidart.\N\NFrank Bidart’s most recent full-length collections of poetry are Metaphysical Dog (2013), Watching the Spring Festival (FSG, 2008), Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, and, most recently, the 2007 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. He teaches at Wellesley College.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah and the Utah Humanities Council present poet Frank Bidart.

Frank Bidart’s most recent full-length collections of poetry are Metaphysical Dog (2013), Watching the Spring Festival (FSG, 2008), Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, and, most recently, the 2007 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. He teaches at Wellesley College.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150917T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150917T130000 UID:126D1B41-C3F0-4BE0-8377-298E5B88518A SUMMARY:Creative Writing/Creative Teaching Conference CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/223 DESCRIPTION:Poet and novelist Chris Abani will read from and discuss his work at Southern Utah University as part of the Creative Writing, Creative Teaching Conference. This event will be held in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center.\N\NChris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, he grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria, received a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria, an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has resided in the United States since 2001.\N\NHe is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggenheim Award.\N\NHis fiction includes The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song For Night, *The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006), GraceLand, and Masters of the Board.\N\NHis poetry collections are Sanctificum, There Are No Names for Red, Feed Me The Sun - Collected Long Poems, Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne’s Lot and Kalakuta Republic.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, SUU's Convocations series, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet and novelist Chris Abani will read from and discuss his work at Southern Utah University as part of the Creative Writing, Creative Teaching Conference. This event will be held in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center.

Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, he grew up in Afikpo, Nigeria, received a BA in English from Imo State University, Nigeria, an MA in English, Gender and Culture from Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has resided in the United States since 2001.

He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize and a Guggenheim Award.

His fiction includes The Secret History of Las Vegas, Song For Night, *The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006), GraceLand, and Masters of the Board.

His poetry collections are Sanctificum, There Are No Names for Red, Feed Me The Sun - Collected Long Poems, Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne’s Lot and Kalakuta Republic.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, SUU's Convocations series, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:7 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150918T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150918T200000 UID:E1109910-68AE-487B-A2E6-4C1764F806CB SUMMARY:Alfred Lambourne Prize Ceremony CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/190 DESCRIPTION:The second annual Alfred Lambourne Prizes for visual arts, literary arts, sound/music, and movement/dance will be awarded on September 18th in the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery on the South Campus of Salt Lake Community College. \N\NIn 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. We invite creative work in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement. \N\NThe Alfred Lambourne Prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.\N\NLambourne is remembered for the dozens of sketches and paintings he created of Great Salt Lake as he captured facets of water, light, and land in the romantic style reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters. His writing, based upon his time on Gunnison Island, stands out as the earliest, most evocative prose penned on the Lake’s physical attributes and psychological impressions. Lambourne melded fact and fiction as he wrote first in serial fashion about the lake for The Deseret News then published these writings as Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).\N\NFor more information, please visit: http://www.fogsl.org/research/alfred-lambourne-prize\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Friends of the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Community College, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The second annual Alfred Lambourne Prizes for visual arts, literary arts, sound/music, and movement/dance will be awarded on September 18th in the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery on the South Campus of Salt Lake Community College.

In 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. We invite creative work in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement.

The Alfred Lambourne Prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.

Lambourne is remembered for the dozens of sketches and paintings he created of Great Salt Lake as he captured facets of water, light, and land in the romantic style reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters. His writing, based upon his time on Gunnison Island, stands out as the earliest, most evocative prose penned on the Lake’s physical attributes and psychological impressions. Lambourne melded fact and fiction as he wrote first in serial fashion about the lake for The Deseret News then published these writings as Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).

For more information, please visit: http://www.fogsl.org/research/alfred-lambourne-prize

This event is made possible with support from Friends of the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Community College, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150918T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150918T210000 UID:4C95418D-5421-4DBD-B3D6-3CD39039EC03 SUMMARY:Tina Misrachi Martin at the King's English CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/247 DESCRIPTION:Pince Nez Press and Artes de Mexico en Utah are pleased to present Tina Misrachi Martin at the King's English Bookshop. Ms. Martin will discuss her new book, My Father, Alberto Misrachi.\N\NIn My Father Alberto Misrachi, long-time Salt Lake City resident Tina Misrachi Martin tells the story of her father, who was at the center of the art world during the world-renowned Mexican Mural Renaissance, and was Diego Rivera's art dealer for ten years.\N\NTina Martin grew up in a house full of artists, playwrights and intellectuals, including Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Salvador Novo and Frida Kahlo, who was her godmother.  She even went on a picnic with exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky! \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah, King's English, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Pince Nez Press and Artes de Mexico en Utah are pleased to present Tina Misrachi Martin at the King's English Bookshop. Ms. Martin will discuss her new book, My Father, Alberto Misrachi.

In My Father Alberto Misrachi, long-time Salt Lake City resident Tina Misrachi Martin tells the story of her father, who was at the center of the art world during the world-renowned Mexican Mural Renaissance, and was Diego Rivera's art dealer for ten years.

Tina Martin grew up in a house full of artists, playwrights and intellectuals, including Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Salvador Novo and Frida Kahlo, who was her godmother.  She even went on a picnic with exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky! 

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah, King's English, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151101 UID:07E836EA-7B8F-4016-9D7C-7F8BF99E1586 SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Events Calendar CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/243 DESCRIPTION:Book Festival partner Weller Book Works has a busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: wellerbookworks.com\N \N \NSaturday, September 19, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N \NTuesday, September 22, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!\N \NWednesday, September 23, 6 PM - Lit Knit! Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation. Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.\N \NFriday, September 25, 6:30 PM - Collectors Book Salon. Join us for the Collector's Book Salon, held the last Friday of every month. Light refreshment, bookish conversation, and a featured speaker discussing their favorite bibliophilic topics! The speaker for September is Mark Rex, speaking on the "serendipity of choosing sides in war". The reception is at 6:30, followed by the speaker at 7:30.\N \NSaturday, September 26, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N \NMonday, September 28, 8 PM - Salt City Slam! It's the Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover!\N \NTuesday, September 29, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!\N\NFriday, October 2, 6:30 PM - Hivemind Book Club presents William T. Vollmann and Last Stories and Other Stories.  Hivemind is a city-wide book club that meets periodically to discuss a book with visiting writers of the University of Utah Creative Writing Program's Guest Writers Series. William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Europe Central.\N \NSaturday, October 3, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N \NMonday, October 5, 6 PM - Winners of the 15 Bytes Book Awards present and discuss their works! The winner of the fiction prize is Braden Hepner for Pale Harvest and the winner of the poetry prize is Natasha Saje for Vivarium.\N\NTuesday, October 6, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!\N \NSaturday, October 10, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N \NSaturday, October 10, 2 PM - Author reading/signing: Lynn R. Webster, The Painful Truth. The Painful Truth is an intimate collection of stories about people living with disabling pain, their attempts to heal, and the challenges that we collectively face in helping them live meaningful lives.\N \NMonday, October 12, 8 PM - Free play reading: The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Phyllis Nagy. Based on the popular novel by Patricia Highsmith. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Silver Summit Theatre Company. Part of Weller's Free Play Reading Series. Guest Director: Jeremy Chase.\N\NTuesday, October 13, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!\N \NWednesday, October 14, 6 PM - Lit Knit! Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation. Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.\N \NThursday, October 15, 6 PM - Author reading/signing: Layne T. Oliver, A Pebble in a Pond. It's the 9th of August 1990. The sky is clear, and the view from Mount Agassiz East Ridge in Utah's High Uintah Mountains is stunning, several lake-filled basins were in full view. Suddenly the air explodes. A bolt of lightning struck Layne Oliver in the back of the head, hurtling him twenty feet down the two hundred---foot cliff face of Agassiz's East Ridge. This is his story.\N \NSaturday, October 17, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N \NTuesday, October 20, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!\N\NSaturday, October 24, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N \NMonday, October 26, 8 PM - Salt City Slam! It's the Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover!\N\NTuesday, October 27, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!\N \NWednesday, October 28, 6 PM - Lit Knit! Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation. Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.\N \NThursday, October 29, 7 PM - Salt City Radio Players present War of the Worlds at Clark Planetarium. Salt City Radio Players are a live radio theatre company, presenting radio theatre from the past, done live before your eyes, with actors, musicians, and foley artists. War of the Worlds will be in the dome theatre, accompanied with amazing visuals on the ceiling above. Free to the public. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Weller Book Works.\N \NFriday, October 30, 7 PM - Salt City Radio Players present War of the Worlds at Clark Planetarium. Salt City Radio Players are a live radio theatre company, presenting radio theatre from the past, done live before your eyes, with actors, musicians, and foley artists. War of the Worlds will be in the dome theater, accompanied with amazing visuals on the ceiling above. Free to the public. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Weller Book Works.\N \NFriday, October 30, 6:30 PM - Collectors Book Salon. Join us for the Collector's Book Salon, held the last Friday of every month. Light refreshment, bookish conversation, and a featured speaker discussing their favorite bibliophilic topics! The speaker for October is Phil Taylor. The reception is at 6:30, followed by the speaker at 7:30.\N \NSaturday, October 31, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book Festival partner Weller Book Works has a busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: wellerbookworks.com
 
 
Saturday, September 19, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
 
Tuesday, September 22, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!
 
Wednesday, September 23, 6 PM - Lit Knit! Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation. Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.
 
Friday, September 25, 6:30 PM - Collectors Book Salon. Join us for the Collector's Book Salon, held the last Friday of every month. Light refreshment, bookish conversation, and a featured speaker discussing their favorite bibliophilic topics! The speaker for September is Mark Rex, speaking on the "serendipity of choosing sides in war". The reception is at 6:30, followed by the speaker at 7:30.
 
Saturday, September 26, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
 
Monday, September 28, 8 PM - Salt City Slam! It's the Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover!
 
Tuesday, September 29, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!

Friday, October 2, 6:30 PM - Hivemind Book Club presents William T. Vollmann and Last Stories and Other Stories.  Hivemind is a city-wide book club that meets periodically to discuss a book with visiting writers of the University of Utah Creative Writing Program's Guest Writers Series. William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction for the novel Europe Central.
 
Saturday, October 3, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
 
Monday, October 5, 6 PM - Winners of the 15 Bytes Book Awards present and discuss their works! The winner of the fiction prize is Braden Hepner for Pale Harvest and the winner of the poetry prize is Natasha Saje for Vivarium.

Tuesday, October 6, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!
 
Saturday, October 10, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
 
Saturday, October 10, 2 PM - Author reading/signing: Lynn R. Webster, The Painful Truth. The Painful Truth is an intimate collection of stories about people living with disabling pain, their attempts to heal, and the challenges that we collectively face in helping them live meaningful lives.
 
Monday, October 12, 8 PM - Free play reading: The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Phyllis Nagy. Based on the popular novel by Patricia Highsmith. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Silver Summit Theatre Company. Part of Weller's Free Play Reading Series. Guest Director: Jeremy Chase.

Tuesday, October 13, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!
 
Wednesday, October 14, 6 PM - Lit Knit! Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation. Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.
 
Thursday, October 15, 6 PM - Author reading/signing: Layne T. Oliver, A Pebble in a Pond. It's the 9th of August 1990. The sky is clear, and the view from Mount Agassiz East Ridge in Utah's High Uintah Mountains is stunning, several lake-filled basins were in full view. Suddenly the air explodes. A bolt of lightning struck Layne Oliver in the back of the head, hurtling him twenty feet down the two hundred---foot cliff face of Agassiz's East Ridge. This is his story.
 
Saturday, October 17, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
 
Tuesday, October 20, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!

Saturday, October 24, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
 
Monday, October 26, 8 PM - Salt City Slam! It's the Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover!

Tuesday, October 27, 9 AM - Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Held at Trolley's newest attraction, Coffee Connection!
 
Wednesday, October 28, 6 PM - Lit Knit! Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation. Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.
 
Thursday, October 29, 7 PM - Salt City Radio Players present War of the Worlds at Clark Planetarium. Salt City Radio Players are a live radio theatre company, presenting radio theatre from the past, done live before your eyes, with actors, musicians, and foley artists. War of the Worlds will be in the dome theatre, accompanied with amazing visuals on the ceiling above. Free to the public. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Weller Book Works.
 
Friday, October 30, 7 PM - Salt City Radio Players present War of the Worlds at Clark Planetarium. Salt City Radio Players are a live radio theatre company, presenting radio theatre from the past, done live before your eyes, with actors, musicians, and foley artists. War of the Worlds will be in the dome theater, accompanied with amazing visuals on the ceiling above. Free to the public. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Weller Book Works.
 
Friday, October 30, 6:30 PM - Collectors Book Salon. Join us for the Collector's Book Salon, held the last Friday of every month. Light refreshment, bookish conversation, and a featured speaker discussing their favorite bibliophilic topics! The speaker for October is Phil Taylor. The reception is at 6:30, followed by the speaker at 7:30.
 
Saturday, October 31, 11 AM - Story Time with Lila. Bring your wee tots and youngins to Story Time with Lila! Every Saturday at 11 AM!
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150921T210000 UID:0FE60468-1771-4FAA-911B-932E9AAF82AA SUMMARY:Joe Hill Panel Featuring Ken Lougee, Adam Pritchard, John Sillitoe, CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/248 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about IWW labor leader Joe Hill, his life and times, including his trial and execution in Utah 100 years ago. Panelists will include attorneys Ken Lougee, Adam Pritchard, and Ron Yengich, all of whom have researched and written on Joe Hill extensively, as well as historian John Sillito, who has written widely on Utah Labor issues and is the co-chair of the Joe Hill Organizing Committee.\N\NKen Lougee is a practicing attorney and the author of the 2011 book Pie in the Sky: How Joe Hill's Lawyers Lost His Case, Got Him Shot and Were Disbarred. Together with Adam Pritchard, they revisited the case in 2015 and published the article "Joe Hill One Hundred Years Later: The Case for Reliable Hearsay Never Died" in the Labor Law Journal.\N\NFor nearly forty years, Ron Yengich has served as a defense attorney in some of the most high-profile cases in Utah history. In 2015, the Utah Bar Association presented him with their Lawyer of the Year award. He acted as a production consultant on KUED's "Joe Hill" documentary and, together with students from the University of Utah, created Joehill.org to document the history of the case and Joe Hill's life. \N\NJohn Sillito is emeritus professor of libraries at Weber State University. A native of Salt Lake City, he has degrees in history and political science from the University of Utah. He is that author of A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, the Joe Hill Organizing Committee, and Ken Sanders Rare Books. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a conversation about IWW labor leader Joe Hill, his life and times, including his trial and execution in Utah 100 years ago. Panelists will include attorneys Ken Lougee, Adam Pritchard, and Ron Yengich, all of whom have researched and written on Joe Hill extensively, as well as historian John Sillito, who has written widely on Utah Labor issues and is the co-chair of the Joe Hill Organizing Committee.

Ken Lougee is a practicing attorney and the author of the 2011 book Pie in the Sky: How Joe Hill's Lawyers Lost His Case, Got Him Shot and Were Disbarred. Together with Adam Pritchard, they revisited the case in 2015 and published the article "Joe Hill One Hundred Years Later: The Case for Reliable Hearsay Never Died" in the Labor Law Journal.

For nearly forty years, Ron Yengich has served as a defense attorney in some of the most high-profile cases in Utah history. In 2015, the Utah Bar Association presented him with their Lawyer of the Year award. He acted as a production consultant on KUED's "Joe Hill" documentary and, together with students from the University of Utah, created Joehill.org to document the history of the case and Joe Hill's life.

John Sillito is emeritus professor of libraries at Weber State University. A native of Salt Lake City, he has degrees in history and political science from the University of Utah. He is that author of A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, the Joe Hill Organizing Committee, and Ken Sanders Rare Books.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151101 UID:3C600AB1-02A0-499D-82C8-9E3974DA1C98 SUMMARY:King's English Event Calendar CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/262 DESCRIPTION:Book Festival partner King's English Bookshop has a busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/\N\NTuesday, September 22, 7 p.m.\NJonathan Evison | This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!\N\NWednesday, September 23, 7 p.m.\NColleen Houck | Reawakened \NAt the Viridian Events Center\N8030 South 1825 West\NWest Jordan, UT 84088\N\NSaturday, September 26, 11 a.m.\NKatie Mullaly | The Land of OR\N\NSaturday, September 26, 2 p.m.\NHeidi Schultz | Hook's Revenge: The Pirate Code\N\NSaturday, September 26, 7 p.m.\NCharlie Holmberg | Followed by Frost\N\NWednesday, September 30, 7 p.m.\NDevery Anderson | Emmett Till: The Murder that Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement\N\NFriday, October 2, 7 p.m.\NLeigh Bardugo | Six of Crows\N\NTuesday, October 6, 7 p.m.\NHolly Goldberg Sloan | Appleblossom the Possum\N\NWednesday, October 7, 7 p.m.\NLisa Fay Coutley & Raphael Dagold | Errata & Bastard Heart\N\NThursday, October 8, 7 p.m.\NJennifer Jenkins | Nameless\N\NTuesday, October 13, 7 p.m.\NMargaret Stohl | Black Widow\N\NThursday, October 15, 6:30 p.m.\NShannon and Dean Hale | The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party\N\NTuesday, October 20, 7 p.m.\NSusan Imhoff Bird | Howl: Of Woman and Wolf\N\NTuesday, October 20, 7 p.m.\NJohn Flanagan | The Tournament at Gorlan\NAt Rowland Hall St. Marks\N843 Lincoln Street \NSalt Lake City, UT 84102\N\NThursday, October 22nd, 7 p.m.\NAnca Cristofovici | Stela\N\NFriday, October 23, 7 p.m.\NMackenzi Lee | This Monstrous Thing\N\NFriday, October 23, 7 p.m.\NBrian Selznick | The Marvels\NLocation TBD\N\NSaturday, October 24, 11 a.m.\NLora Koehler | The Little Snowplow \N\NSaturday, October 24, 2 p.m.\NMichael Leach | Be Audacious: Inspiring Your Legacy and Living Your Life\N\NMonday, October 26, 7 p.m.\NYoung Adult Panel with R.C. Lewis, E.K. Johnston, and Jessica Day George\N\NWednesday, October 28, 7 p.m.\NBonnie Jo Campbell | Mothers, Tell Your Daughters\N\NThursday, October 29, 7 p.m.\NCraig Johnson | Dry Bones\NAt the Viridian Events Center \N8030 South 1825 West\NWest Jordan, UT 84088\N\NSaturday, October 31, 2 p.m.\NBrittani & Jeff Vega | Harlow & Indiana (and Reese)\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book Festival partner King's English Bookshop has a busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/

Tuesday, September 22, 7 p.m.
Jonathan Evison | This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

Wednesday, September 23, 7 p.m.
Colleen Houck | Reawakened
At the Viridian Events Center
8030 South 1825 West
West Jordan, UT 84088

Saturday, September 26, 11 a.m.
Katie Mullaly | The Land of OR

Saturday, September 26, 2 p.m.
Heidi Schultz | Hook's Revenge: The Pirate Code

Saturday, September 26, 7 p.m.
Charlie Holmberg | Followed by Frost

Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m.
Devery Anderson | Emmett Till: The Murder that Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

Friday, October 2, 7 p.m.
Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows

Tuesday, October 6, 7 p.m.
Holly Goldberg Sloan | Appleblossom the Possum

Wednesday, October 7, 7 p.m.
Lisa Fay Coutley & Raphael Dagold | Errata & Bastard Heart

Thursday, October 8, 7 p.m.
Jennifer Jenkins | Nameless

Tuesday, October 13, 7 p.m.
Margaret Stohl | Black Widow

Thursday, October 15, 6:30 p.m.
Shannon and Dean Hale | The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party

Tuesday, October 20, 7 p.m.
Susan Imhoff Bird | Howl: Of Woman and Wolf

Tuesday, October 20, 7 p.m.
John Flanagan | The Tournament at Gorlan
At Rowland Hall St. Marks
843 Lincoln Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84102

Thursday, October 22nd, 7 p.m.
Anca Cristofovici | Stela

Friday, October 23, 7 p.m.
Mackenzi Lee | This Monstrous Thing

Friday, October 23, 7 p.m.
Brian Selznick | The Marvels
Location TBD

Saturday, October 24, 11 a.m.
Lora Koehler | The Little Snowplow

Saturday, October 24, 2 p.m.
Michael Leach | Be Audacious: Inspiring Your Legacy and Living Your Life

Monday, October 26, 7 p.m.
Young Adult Panel with R.C. Lewis, E.K. Johnston, and Jessica Day George

Wednesday, October 28, 7 p.m.
Bonnie Jo Campbell | Mothers, Tell Your Daughters

Thursday, October 29, 7 p.m.
Craig Johnson | Dry Bones
At the Viridian Events Center
8030 South 1825 West
West Jordan, UT 84088

Saturday, October 31, 2 p.m.
Brittani & Jeff Vega | Harlow & Indiana (and Reese)
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150923T210000 UID:C01FDBE0-8178-43F6-8FBA-F465033FE9FE SUMMARY:David Pace at City Art CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/225 DESCRIPTION:Novelist David Pace and poet Rob Carney will share work from their new books at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series.\N\NIt is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other. He is eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims God has revealed to her that she is to live with Riley’s family. Her quirks are strangely disarming, her relentless questioning of their life incendiary and sometimes comical. Her way of taking religious practice to its logical conclusion leaves a strong impact on her hosts and propels Riley outside his observable universe toward a trajectory of self-discovery.\N\NSet in Provo and New York City during the seventies and eighties, Dream House on Golan Drive encapsulates the normal expectations of a Mormon experience and turns them on their head. The style, too, is innovative in how it employs as narrator “Zed,” one of the apocryphal Three Nephites who, with another immortal figure, the Wandering Jew of post-biblical legend, engage regularly in light-hearted banter and running commentary, animating the story and leavening the heartache with humor and tenderness.\N\NDavid G. Pace has published in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Association for Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues to follow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine.\N\N88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4th full-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around in the New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's about the times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughing and telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurative cul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays, challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed home foreclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21st century fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed by fellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit: http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-our-minds-wguest-rob-carney\N\NRob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and three chapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work has appeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction Forward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelist David Pace and poet Rob Carney will share work from their new books at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series.

It is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other. He is eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims God has revealed to her that she is to live with Riley’s family. Her quirks are strangely disarming, her relentless questioning of their life incendiary and sometimes comical. Her way of taking religious practice to its logical conclusion leaves a strong impact on her hosts and propels Riley outside his observable universe toward a trajectory of self-discovery.

Set in Provo and New York City during the seventies and eighties, Dream House on Golan Drive encapsulates the normal expectations of a Mormon experience and turns them on their head. The style, too, is innovative in how it employs as narrator “Zed,” one of the apocryphal Three Nephites who, with another immortal figure, the Wandering Jew of post-biblical legend, engage regularly in light-hearted banter and running commentary, animating the story and leavening the heartache with humor and tenderness.

David G. Pace has published in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Association for Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues to follow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine.

88 Maps is Rob Carney's 4th full-length collection of poems that discusses how to find our way around in the New West, how to live in its physical and metaphysical suburbs. It's about the times, places, and wildness we should say yes to by praising and laughing and telling stories. And it's about looking at all our real and figurative cul-de-sacs and saying no. It's a collection of praise songs, mini-essays, challenges to rampant development and the injustice of market-crashed home foreclosures, and narratives commemorating the last best places, and 21st century fables. To hear a recent podcast in which Carney is interviewed by fellow poet J.P. Dancingbear, visit: http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2015/8/31/out-of-our-minds-wguest-rob-carney

Rob Carney is originally from Washington State. He is a two-time winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry and the author of three previous books and three chapbooks of poems, including Story Problems and Weather Report. His work has appeared in many journals as well as the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction Forward. In 2014, he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.

This event is made possible with the support of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150923T210000 UID:4AF4271A-6B91-464B-A0D1-39E5E61B20A6 SUMMARY:The King's English Presents Colleen Houck at the Viridian Event Center CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/263 DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Houck, for a reading and signing of her new book, Reawakened. This is the first book in a new series.\N\NWhen seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. And she really can’t imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe. But fate has taken hold of Lily, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world. From New York Times bestselling author Colleen Houck comes an epic adventure about two star-crossed teens who must battle mythical forces and ancient curses on a journey with more twists and turns than the Nile itself.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from King's English and the Viridian Event Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Houck, for a reading and signing of her new book, Reawakened. This is the first book in a new series.

When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification. And she really can’t imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe. But fate has taken hold of Lily, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world. From New York Times bestselling author Colleen Houck comes an epic adventure about two star-crossed teens who must battle mythical forces and ancient curses on a journey with more twists and turns than the Nile itself.

This event is made possible with support from King's English and the Viridian Event Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150924T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150924T173000 UID:8D1E435D-BDBA-4289-ADEF-9D44CB1EB6DA SUMMARY:Mark Irwin Visits Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/249 DESCRIPTION:Poet Mark Irwin will discuss his work and share poems from his recent new & selected volume, Large White House Speaking, on September 24th in the Sheratt Library on the SUU Campus. This event is presented as part of Banned Books Week.\N\NMark Irwin was born in Faribault, Minnesota, and has lived throughout the United States and abroad in France and Italy. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in many literary magazines including The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, and The New Republic. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop (M.F.A.), he also holds a Ph.D. in English/Comparative Literature from Case Western Reserve University and has taught at a number of universities and colleges including The University of Iowa, Ohio University, University of Denver, University of Colorado/Boulder, University of Nevada, and Colorado College. The author of seven collections of poetry, including Against the Meanwhile, Wesleyan University Press (1989), Quick, Now, Always, BOA (1996), White City, BOA (2000), Bright Hunger, BOA (2004), Tall If, New Issues (2008), and Large White House Speaking, New Issues (2013), he has also translated two volumes of poetry, one from the French and one from the Romanian. His American Urn: New & Selected Poems (1987-2013) will appear in 2014. Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, four Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, Colorado and Ohio Art Council Fellowships, two Colorado Book Awards, the James Wright Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He lives in Colorado, and Los Angeles, where he teaches in the Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature Program at the University of Southern California. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Mark Irwin will discuss his work and share poems from his recent new & selected volume, Large White House Speaking, on September 24th in the Sheratt Library on the SUU Campus. This event is presented as part of Banned Books Week.

Mark Irwin was born in Faribault, Minnesota, and has lived throughout the United States and abroad in France and Italy. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in many literary magazines including The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, New England Review, and The New Republic. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop (M.F.A.), he also holds a Ph.D. in English/Comparative Literature from Case Western Reserve University and has taught at a number of universities and colleges including The University of Iowa, Ohio University, University of Denver, University of Colorado/Boulder, University of Nevada, and Colorado College. The author of seven collections of poetry, including Against the Meanwhile, Wesleyan University Press (1989), Quick, Now, Always, BOA (1996), White City, BOA (2000), Bright Hunger, BOA (2004), Tall If, New Issues (2008), and Large White House Speaking, New Issues (2013), he has also translated two volumes of poetry, one from the French and one from the Romanian. His American Urn: New & Selected Poems (1987-2013) will appear in 2014. Recognition for his work includes The Nation/Discovery Award, four Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, Colorado and Ohio Art Council Fellowships, two Colorado Book Awards, the James Wright Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He lives in Colorado, and Los Angeles, where he teaches in the Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature Program at the University of Southern California.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150924T210000 UID:622EDB1D-1E76-4ADB-897E-0BA0DB86A33C SUMMARY:The Nation 150th Anniversary Speaker Series: John Nichols CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/174 DESCRIPTION:John Nichols will discuss his work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of The Nation 150 the Anniversary Speaker Series. \N\N2015 marks the 150th anniversary of The Nation, the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice.\N\NIn honor of The Nation’s 150th anniversary, join The City Library for a series of events that celebrate the magazine’s legacy of cultural commentary, political analysis, and forward-thinking reporting. Throughout the series, we’ll feature a variety of contemporary voices from the magazine and cover topics that range from politics, the environment, social justice, and more.\N\NJohn Nichols writes about politics for The Nation as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and is the associate editor of the Capital Times, New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers. John is the author of many books, including, most recently, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America (co-authored with Robert W. McChesney). He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs as a commentator on politics and media issues. Follow him on Twitter @nicholsuprising. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:John Nichols will discuss his work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of The Nation 150 the Anniversary Speaker Series.

2015 marks the 150th anniversary of The Nation, the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice.

In honor of The Nation’s 150th anniversary, join The City Library for a series of events that celebrate the magazine’s legacy of cultural commentary, political analysis, and forward-thinking reporting. Throughout the series, we’ll feature a variety of contemporary voices from the magazine and cover topics that range from politics, the environment, social justice, and more.

John Nichols writes about politics for The Nation as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and is the associate editor of the Capital Times, New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers. John is the author of many books, including, most recently, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America (co-authored with Robert W. McChesney). He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs as a commentator on politics and media issues. Follow him on Twitter @nicholsuprising. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150924T210000 UID:B6013ED0-2A4A-4B1E-8C5A-08E52CE57057 SUMMARY:Jennifer Nielsen at the Morgan County Library CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/206 DESCRIPTION:Renowned YA author Jennifer Nielsen will discuss her work at the Morgan County Library\N\NJennifer’s debut book was ELLIOT AND THE GOBLIN WAR (Sourcebooks, Oct 2010). That series became known as The Underworld Chronicles. The next series she released was The Ascendance trilogy, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE (Scholastic, Apr 2012). Her most recent releases are the sixth book of the Infinity Ring series, BEHIND ENEMY LINES (Scholastic, Nov 2013) and the first volume of a new series, titled MARK OF THE THIEF. \N\NJennifer lives at the base of a very tall mountain in Northern Utah with her husband, three children, and a perpetually muddy dog. She loves the smell of rainy days, hot chocolate, and old books, preferably all at once. At one time or another she has been a high school debate coach, theater director, daycare worker, and worked at an assembly of odd jobs so insignificant they didn't even deserve job titles.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Morgan County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Renowned YA author Jennifer Nielsen will discuss her work at the Morgan County Library

Jennifer’s debut book was ELLIOT AND THE GOBLIN WAR (Sourcebooks, Oct 2010). That series became known as The Underworld Chronicles. The next series she released was The Ascendance trilogy, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE (Scholastic, Apr 2012). Her most recent releases are the sixth book of the Infinity Ring series, BEHIND ENEMY LINES (Scholastic, Nov 2013) and the first volume of a new series, titled MARK OF THE THIEF.

Jennifer lives at the base of a very tall mountain in Northern Utah with her husband, three children, and a perpetually muddy dog. She loves the smell of rainy days, hot chocolate, and old books, preferably all at once. At one time or another she has been a high school debate coach, theater director, daycare worker, and worked at an assembly of odd jobs so insignificant they didn't even deserve job titles.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Morgan County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150925T210000 UID:30168672-54FF-4CED-9446-250D777149F9 SUMMARY:Stefanie Russell Visits Ken Sanders Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/181 DESCRIPTION:Otis Nebula Press and Ken Sanders Rare Books are pleased to present poet and journalist Stefene Russell. Otis Nebula is publishing Russell's new collection of poems, The Possum Codex in the fall of 2015.\N\NThe Possum Codex is the second installment in a Dante-inspired trilogy, following Russell's 2013 chapbook Inferna. “Russell’s language soars and dives, and the rising and falling of so much sheer music is exhilarating,” poet David Clewell wrote of that collection. “Her seemingly effortless lines are measured human breaths. They’re smart and they’re felt. Her images are well-honed blades or luxurious blankets; they startle or they comfort—depending.” Structured in four parts, The Possum Codex is a sort of seasonal long-poem as well as hallucinatory pilgrim’s progress undertaken in the Rust Belt landscape of the Middle West, through haunted blue-collar bars and magic circles drawn in overgrown city backyards, with the speaker of the poem bereft of a guide, left only to follow intuition and nature itself, including the sometimes-supernatural animal of the title.\N\NStefene Russell is a St. Louis-based poet, actor, and arts journalist. She is also a member of Poetry Scores (poetryscores.blogspot.com) a collective dedicated to translating poetry into other mediums, including visual art, film, and music. Her books include the poem/essay/CD art book Go South for Animal Index (Poetry Scores, 2007) and a chapbook, Inferna(Intagliata Press, 2013). Find her online at stefenerussell.com, twitter.com/voltarine, facebook.com/voltarine, orinstagram.com/stefene7.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Otis Nebula. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Otis Nebula Press and Ken Sanders Rare Books are pleased to present poet and journalist Stefene Russell. Otis Nebula is publishing Russell's new collection of poems, The Possum Codex in the fall of 2015.

The Possum Codex is the second installment in a Dante-inspired trilogy, following Russell's 2013 chapbook Inferna. “Russell’s language soars and dives, and the rising and falling of so much sheer music is exhilarating,” poet David Clewell wrote of that collection. “Her seemingly effortless lines are measured human breaths. They’re smart and they’re felt. Her images are well-honed blades or luxurious blankets; they startle or they comfort—depending.” Structured in four parts, The Possum Codex is a sort of seasonal long-poem as well as hallucinatory pilgrim’s progress undertaken in the Rust Belt landscape of the Middle West, through haunted blue-collar bars and magic circles drawn in overgrown city backyards, with the speaker of the poem bereft of a guide, left only to follow intuition and nature itself, including the sometimes-supernatural animal of the title.

Stefene Russell is a St. Louis-based poet, actor, and arts journalist. She is also a member of Poetry Scores (poetryscores.blogspot.com) a collective dedicated to translating poetry into other mediums, including visual art, film, and music. Her books include the poem/essay/CD art book Go South for Animal Index (Poetry Scores, 2007) and a chapbook, Inferna(Intagliata Press, 2013). Find her online at stefenerussell.com, twitter.com/voltarine, facebook.com/voltarine, orinstagram.com/stefene7.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Otis Nebula. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150928T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150928T220000 UID:FE380238-91F3-434E-B4B6-4B29C9F41AA4 SUMMARY:Salt City Slam! at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/253 DESCRIPTION:It's the Salt City Slam! at Weller Book Works. Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It's the Salt City Slam! at Weller Book Works. Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150930T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150930T200000 UID:E91A6988-A7A5-4464-B05F-F70ED8C72484 SUMMARY:Art Access: Disability and Literature Book Group CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/285 DESCRIPTION:The Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group will discuss Helen Thorpe's Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at the Westminster Center for Veteran and Military Services in Walker Hall on the Westminster College campus.\N\NThe Disability and Literature Book Group began in spring 2012 with the goal of investigating how and why people with disabilities have been depicted in classic literary texts and considering the historical, social, and cultural impact of these depictions. Since then, it has focused on disability issues in classic fiction, disability memoir, and contemporary texts, including those written by local authors. \N\NHelen Thorpe is the author of Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War. Doris Kearns Goodwin said of this book: "With a novelist's perception of character, drama and telling detail, Helen Thorpe magically weaves together the stories of three very different but equally compelling women soldiers. Taken together, their stories provide an intimate window on life in the military, the impact of war and the difficult transition to home. This is an absolutely terrific and important work." And O Magazine wrote: "Parenthood and roadside bombs, young love and PTSD--finally, a nuanced look at the lives of female soldiers that is as intimate as it is groundbreaking."\N\NPreviously, Helen Thorpe has written magazine stories for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Westword, and 5280. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, Just Like Us, was published by Scribner in 2009. It was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts adapted the book for the stage in 2013. Soldier Girls was published by Scribner in August 2014.\N\NThe Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group sessions meet, unless otherwise noted, at Art Access (230 South 500 West, Suite 110). Sessions are FREE and open to the public, but are limited to 18 registered participants in each session.\N\NA few copies of each book are available from Art Access and may be borrowed for a limited time. Personal copies may also be purchased by participants or borrowed in print from local libraries. If you have questions about accessing texts, please contact Elise Butterfield at elise@accessart.org.\N\NPLEASE NOTE: This is a book discussion led by Susan Anderson and Art Access. The author will not be present for this discussion.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Art Access. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group will discuss Helen Thorpe's Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at the Westminster Center for Veteran and Military Services in Walker Hall on the Westminster College campus.

The Disability and Literature Book Group began in spring 2012 with the goal of investigating how and why people with disabilities have been depicted in classic literary texts and considering the historical, social, and cultural impact of these depictions. Since then, it has focused on disability issues in classic fiction, disability memoir, and contemporary texts, including those written by local authors.

Helen Thorpe is the author of Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War. Doris Kearns Goodwin said of this book: "With a novelist's perception of character, drama and telling detail, Helen Thorpe magically weaves together the stories of three very different but equally compelling women soldiers. Taken together, their stories provide an intimate window on life in the military, the impact of war and the difficult transition to home. This is an absolutely terrific and important work." And O Magazine wrote: "Parenthood and roadside bombs, young love and PTSD--finally, a nuanced look at the lives of female soldiers that is as intimate as it is groundbreaking."

Previously, Helen Thorpe has written magazine stories for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Westword, and 5280. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, Just Like Us, was published by Scribner in 2009. It was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts adapted the book for the stage in 2013. Soldier Girls was published by Scribner in August 2014.

The Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group sessions meet, unless otherwise noted, at Art Access (230 South 500 West, Suite 110). Sessions are FREE and open to the public, but are limited to 18 registered participants in each session.

A few copies of each book are available from Art Access and may be borrowed for a limited time. Personal copies may also be purchased by participants or borrowed in print from local libraries. If you have questions about accessing texts, please contact Elise Butterfield at elise@accessart.org.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a book discussion led by Susan Anderson and Art Access. The author will not be present for this discussion.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Art Access. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:7 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150930T210000 UID:9278441D-95E0-41BF-8C21-649411CFA795 SUMMARY:Historian Wayne Wiegand Visits the Chapman Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/165 DESCRIPTION:Historian Wayne Wiegand will visit the Chapman Branch Library to discuss the history of public libraries in America.\N\NDespite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story.\N\NIn Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as social spaces for promoting and maintaining community.\N\NA bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions\N\NWayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus at the School of Information, Florida State University. He now lives in the California Bay Area.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Wayne Wiegand will visit the Chapman Branch Library to discuss the history of public libraries in America.

Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story.

In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as social spaces for promoting and maintaining community.

A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions

Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus at the School of Information, Florida State University. He now lives in the California Bay Area.

This event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T123000 UID:55A8B54F-3217-4C00-B55D-5DC19910945E SUMMARY:Historian Peter Nabokov at BYU CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://reddcenter.byu.edu DESCRIPTION:Historian Peter Nabokov will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to discuss the research that led to his 2015 book "How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" as well as the greater historical context that surrounds the story on which the book is focused. Mr. Nabokov is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NBorn in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.\N\NNabokov narrates the fascinating story of Hunt’s life within a multicultural and historical context. Chronicling Pueblo Indian life and Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half, he explores how this entrepreneurial family capitalized on the nation’s passion for Indian culture. In this rich book, Nabokov dramatizes how the Hunts, like immigrants throughout history, faced anguishing decisions over staying put or striking out for economic independence, and experienced the pivotal passage from tradition to modernity.\N\NPeter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.\N\NThis event is made possible throught the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Peter Nabokov will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to discuss the research that led to his 2015 book "How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" as well as the greater historical context that surrounds the story on which the book is focused. Mr. Nabokov is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Born in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.

Nabokov narrates the fascinating story of Hunt’s life within a multicultural and historical context. Chronicling Pueblo Indian life and Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half, he explores how this entrepreneurial family capitalized on the nation’s passion for Indian culture. In this rich book, Nabokov dramatizes how the Hunts, like immigrants throughout history, faced anguishing decisions over staying put or striking out for economic independence, and experienced the pivotal passage from tradition to modernity.

Peter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.

This event is made possible throught the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T130000 UID:03813ED4-D121-4031-ADA0-52E3041B13F4 SUMMARY:Winona LaDuke Visits Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/204 DESCRIPTION:Activist, environmentalist, economist, and author, Winona LaDuke, will speak in the Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center at Southern Utah University. \N\N Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations, and is the mother of three children. She is also the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups.\N\NIn 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project.\N\NA graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and Environmental issues. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women's organization. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth.\N\NShe has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Author of now six books, including The Militarization of Indian Country (2011), Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), the non-fiction book All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999, South End Press), and a novel - Last Standing Woman (1997, Voyager Press). \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Activist, environmentalist, economist, and author, Winona LaDuke, will speak in the Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center at Southern Utah University.

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations, and is the mother of three children. She is also the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups.

In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and Environmental issues. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women's organization. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth.

She has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. Author of now six books, including The Militarization of Indian Country (2011), Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming (2005), the non-fiction book All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999, South End Press), and a novel - Last Standing Woman (1997, Voyager Press).

This event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T200000 UID:BC5F156F-9CF2-4E93-8E4D-052E90461560 SUMMARY:Historian Peter Nabokov Visits Salt Lake City CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/309 DESCRIPTION:Historian Peter Nabokov will visit Salt Lake to read from and discuss his new book "How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" Mr. Nabokov is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event will take place in the auditorium of the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB) on the University of Utah Campus.\N\NBorn in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.\N\NNabokov narrates the fascinating story of Hunt’s life within a multicultural and historical context. Chronicling Pueblo Indian life and Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half, he explores how this entrepreneurial family capitalized on the nation’s passion for Indian culture. In this rich book, Nabokov dramatizes how the Hunts, like immigrants throughout history, faced anguishing decisions over staying put or striking out for economic independence, and experienced the pivotal passage from tradition to modernity.\N\NPeter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities.\N\NNOTE: Free visitor parking will be available in the lot southeast of the CTIHB building. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Peter Nabokov will visit Salt Lake to read from and discuss his new book "How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" Mr. Nabokov is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event will take place in the auditorium of the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB) on the University of Utah Campus.

Born in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.

Nabokov narrates the fascinating story of Hunt’s life within a multicultural and historical context. Chronicling Pueblo Indian life and Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half, he explores how this entrepreneurial family capitalized on the nation’s passion for Indian culture. In this rich book, Nabokov dramatizes how the Hunts, like immigrants throughout history, faced anguishing decisions over staying put or striking out for economic independence, and experienced the pivotal passage from tradition to modernity.

Peter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.

This event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities.

NOTE: Free visitor parking will be available in the lot southeast of the CTIHB building. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T203000 UID:7FF27048-4343-4635-8F86-15DE688E2921 SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann at Guest Writers Series CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/162 DESCRIPTION:Renowned novelist William T. Vollmann will read from his new book, The Dying Grass, as part of the Guest Writers Series in the Gould Auditorium of the Marriott Library.\N\NThe National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians. In this new installment in his acclaimed "Seven Dreams" series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer.\N\NTeeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.\N\NWilliam T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollmann’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.\N\NThis event is made possible by support from the Guest Writers Series, the Salt Lake Arts Council, Utah Humanities, and the English Department at the University of Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Renowned novelist William T. Vollmann will read from his new book, The Dying Grass, as part of the Guest Writers Series in the Gould Auditorium of the Marriott Library.

The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians. In this new installment in his acclaimed "Seven Dreams" series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer.

Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollmann’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

This event is made possible by support from the Guest Writers Series, the Salt Lake Arts Council, Utah Humanities, and the English Department at the University of Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T210000 UID:6AC0FB6B-12B1-461A-8B28-2671869BF569 SUMMARY:Historian Wayne Wiegand Visits the Logan Library CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:library.loganutah.org DESCRIPTION:Historian Wayne Wiegand will visit the Logan Public Library to discuss the history of public libraries in America.\N\NDespite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story.\N\NIn Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as social spaces for promoting and maintaining community.\N\NA bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions\N\NWayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus at the School of Information, Florida State University. He now lives in the California Bay Area.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Logan Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Wayne Wiegand will visit the Logan Public Library to discuss the history of public libraries in America.

Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story.

In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as social spaces for promoting and maintaining community.

A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions

Wayne A. Wiegand is F. William Summers Professor Emeritus at the School of Information, Florida State University. He now lives in the California Bay Area.

This event is made possible with support from the Logan Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T210000 UID:9BEC327C-4556-4B24-BC69-E6B19F2937F1 SUMMARY:The Nation 150th Anniversary Speaker Series: John Nichols CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/175 DESCRIPTION:Zoe Carpenter will discuss her work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of The Nation 150 the Anniversary Speaker Series. \N\N2015 marks the 150th anniversary of The Nation, the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice.\N\NIn honor of The Nation’s 150th anniversary, join The City Library for a series of events that celebrate the magazine’s legacy of cultural commentary, political analysis, and forward-thinking reporting. Throughout the series, we’ll feature a variety of contemporary voices from the magazine and cover topics that range from politics, the environment, social justice, and more.\N\NZoë Carpenter is The Nation’s assistant Washington editor. She has written for Rolling Stone, Guernica, and the Poughkeepsie Journal, and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets. She is one half of the band Tillamook Burn and graduated from Vassar College with a degree in writing and environmental politics. Follow her on Twitter @ZoeSCarpenter. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Zoe Carpenter will discuss her work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of The Nation 150 the Anniversary Speaker Series.

2015 marks the 150th anniversary of The Nation, the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice.

In honor of The Nation’s 150th anniversary, join The City Library for a series of events that celebrate the magazine’s legacy of cultural commentary, political analysis, and forward-thinking reporting. Throughout the series, we’ll feature a variety of contemporary voices from the magazine and cover topics that range from politics, the environment, social justice, and more.

Zoë Carpenter is The Nation’s assistant Washington editor. She has written for Rolling Stone, Guernica, and the Poughkeepsie Journal, and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets. She is one half of the band Tillamook Burn and graduated from Vassar College with a degree in writing and environmental politics. Follow her on Twitter @ZoeSCarpenter. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151001T210000 UID:EA632CC1-1742-4A58-9189-C4130E3D35EE SUMMARY:Ben Behunin at the Morgan County Library CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/205 DESCRIPTION:Author and artist Ben Behunin will visit the Morgan County Library to discuss and share his work. Ben's books, as well as his pottery and other works, will be available at the event. \N\NBen Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.\N\NIn 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. His latest book, Borrowing Fire, was released December 2012. He is currently working on forty-seven other books that may be released sometime in the next fifty years if he can overcome his ADD.\N\NBen is the father of two young budding potters, Isaac and Eve, ages 11 and 9. He and his wife Lynnette live in Salt Lake City, just inches away from his whimsically magical studio, Wild Rooster Artworks.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Morgan County Library.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and artist Ben Behunin will visit the Morgan County Library to discuss and share his work. Ben's books, as well as his pottery and other works, will be available at the event.

Ben Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.

In 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. His latest book, Borrowing Fire, was released December 2012. He is currently working on forty-seven other books that may be released sometime in the next fifty years if he can overcome his ADD.

Ben is the father of two young budding potters, Isaac and Eve, ages 11 and 9. He and his wife Lynnette live in Salt Lake City, just inches away from his whimsically magical studio, Wild Rooster Artworks.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Morgan County Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151002T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151002T133000 UID:4EAD3C4A-DFA9-4B47-9F31-50D93CE97A9C SUMMARY:Historian Peter Nabokov at BYU CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://reddcenter.byu.edu DESCRIPTION:Historian Peter Nabokov will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to read from his 2015 book "How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" Mr. Nabokov is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NBorn in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.\N\NNabokov narrates the fascinating story of Hunt’s life within a multicultural and historical context. Chronicling Pueblo Indian life and Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half, he explores how this entrepreneurial family capitalized on the nation’s passion for Indian culture. In this rich book, Nabokov dramatizes how the Hunts, like immigrants throughout history, faced anguishing decisions over staying put or striking out for economic independence, and experienced the pivotal passage from tradition to modernity.\N\NPeter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.\N\NThis event is made possible throught the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Peter Nabokov will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to read from his 2015 book "How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" Mr. Nabokov is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Born in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.

Nabokov narrates the fascinating story of Hunt’s life within a multicultural and historical context. Chronicling Pueblo Indian life and Anglo/Indian relations over the last century and a half, he explores how this entrepreneurial family capitalized on the nation’s passion for Indian culture. In this rich book, Nabokov dramatizes how the Hunts, like immigrants throughout history, faced anguishing decisions over staying put or striking out for economic independence, and experienced the pivotal passage from tradition to modernity.

Peter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.

This event is made possible throught the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151002T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151002T130000 UID:B4FA3861-39DA-4AF1-85F3-277EB198D34D SUMMARY:Lunchtime Colloquium with William Vollmann CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/246 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah will host a lunchtime colloquium with author William T. Vollmann in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Friday, October 2nd. This event is free and open to the public. \N\NWilliam T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollmann’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Utah Humanities, and the Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah will host a lunchtime colloquium with author William T. Vollmann in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Friday, October 2nd. This event is free and open to the public.

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollmann’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Utah Humanities, and the Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151002T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151002T203000 UID:08D20C92-18D5-444D-AED7-206EE48246D2 SUMMARY:William Vollmann Visits the Hive Mind Book Club CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/233 DESCRIPTION:The Hive Mind Book Club will host author William T. Vollmann at Weller Book Works at 6:30 pm on Friday, October 2nd. This event is free and open to the public. Discussion will focus on Vollmann's recent book of short stories, Last Stories & Other Stories, and will be facilitated by Jack Newell. \N\NWilliam T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollmann’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Hive Mind Book Club will host author William T. Vollmann at Weller Book Works at 6:30 pm on Friday, October 2nd. This event is free and open to the public. Discussion will focus on Vollmann's recent book of short stories, Last Stories & Other Stories, and will be facilitated by Jack Newell.

William T. Vollmann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and Rising Up and Rising Down, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Vollmann’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Esquire, Conjunctions, Granta, and many other magazines. He lives in California.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151002T210000 UID:C137938F-8B1B-4B06-94EC-F8BF91D1FDEC SUMMARY:An Evening with Amy Irvine McHarg CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/294 DESCRIPTION:Join acclaimed author Amy Irvine McHarg and Torrey House Press publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen for a conversation about McHarg’s work and the intersections of feminism and environmentalism in the West. McHarg will read from and discuss Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, which received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir,” according to the Los Angeles Times. McHarg will also read select passages from A Fire Burns Near: Tales of Hysteria and Other Forces of Nature, forthcoming in 2016 from Counterpoint Press. McHarg teaches literary nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University’s low-residency MFA program. She lives with her family, dogs and horses on a remote mesa in southwest Colorado. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join acclaimed author Amy Irvine McHarg and Torrey House Press publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen for a conversation about McHarg’s work and the intersections of feminism and environmentalism in the West. McHarg will read from and discuss Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, which received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir,” according to the Los Angeles Times. McHarg will also read select passages from A Fire Burns Near: Tales of Hysteria and Other Forces of Nature, forthcoming in 2016 from Counterpoint Press. McHarg teaches literary nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University’s low-residency MFA program. She lives with her family, dogs and horses on a remote mesa in southwest Colorado. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151004T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151004T163000 UID:AE911B1D-EB8C-4D53-95D1-D80EBB6BE675 SUMMARY:Friends of the Marriott Library Present Jack Newell CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/170 DESCRIPTION:The Friends of the Marriott Library present Jack Newell, who will discuss his new book The Electric Edge of Academe, which deals with the life of L.L. Nunn, inventor and founder of Deep Springs College in California.\N\NHere is a look at the life and legacy of an irrepressible innovator. Pushing against both social convention and technological boundaries, L.L. Nunn left enduring marks on economic and social history, labor development, and, educational reform. The Electric Edge of Academe is a bold portrayal of this progressive-era hydroelectric power magnate who, driven by a dynamic conscience, also became a force for social change and educational experimentation.\N\NIn 1891, Nunn, working with Tesla and Westinghouse, pioneered the world’s first commercial production of high-tension alternating current (AC) for long-distance transmission—something Thomas Edison deemed dangerous and irresponsible. After creating the Telluride Power Company, Nunn constructed the state-of-the-art Olmsted Power Plant in Provo Canyon and the Ontario Power Works at Niagara Falls. To support this new technology, he developed an imaginative model of industrial training that became so compelling that he ultimately abandoned his entrepreneurial career to devote his wealth and talents to experimenting with a new model of liberal education. In 1917, Nunn founded Deep Springs College in eastern California. The school remains one of the most daring, progressive, and selective institutions of higher learning in America. Newell examines how Nunn’s radical educational ideas have survived internal and external challenges for nearly a century and explores their relevance today. \N\NJackson Newell is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of Utah, where he was also dean of liberal education for sixteen years. He served as president of Deep Springs College from 1995 to 2004. His previous books include Maverick Colleges, Creating Distinctiveness: Lessons from Uncommon Colleges (with Barbara Townsend), andMatters of Conscience, a biography of Sterling M. McMurrin. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Friends of the Marriott Library present Jack Newell, who will discuss his new book The Electric Edge of Academe, which deals with the life of L.L. Nunn, inventor and founder of Deep Springs College in California.

Here is a look at the life and legacy of an irrepressible innovator. Pushing against both social convention and technological boundaries, L.L. Nunn left enduring marks on economic and social history, labor development, and, educational reform. The Electric Edge of Academe is a bold portrayal of this progressive-era hydroelectric power magnate who, driven by a dynamic conscience, also became a force for social change and educational experimentation.

In 1891, Nunn, working with Tesla and Westinghouse, pioneered the world’s first commercial production of high-tension alternating current (AC) for long-distance transmission—something Thomas Edison deemed dangerous and irresponsible. After creating the Telluride Power Company, Nunn constructed the state-of-the-art Olmsted Power Plant in Provo Canyon and the Ontario Power Works at Niagara Falls. To support this new technology, he developed an imaginative model of industrial training that became so compelling that he ultimately abandoned his entrepreneurial career to devote his wealth and talents to experimenting with a new model of liberal education. In 1917, Nunn founded Deep Springs College in eastern California. The school remains one of the most daring, progressive, and selective institutions of higher learning in America. Newell examines how Nunn’s radical educational ideas have survived internal and external challenges for nearly a century and explores their relevance today.

Jackson Newell is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of Utah, where he was also dean of liberal education for sixteen years. He served as president of Deep Springs College from 1995 to 2004. His previous books include Maverick Colleges, Creating Distinctiveness: Lessons from Uncommon Colleges (with Barbara Townsend), andMatters of Conscience, a biography of Sterling M. McMurrin. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151005T193000 UID:445FAAE9-584F-47B3-A39A-2E8AB6945964 SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Awards with Braden Hepner and Natasha Saje CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/195 DESCRIPTION:15 Bytes and Utah Humanities are pleased to present the winners and two of the finalists from the 2015 15 Bytes Book Awards, Braden Hepner (Fiction), Natasha Saje (Poetry), Laura Stott (Poetry), and Raphael Dagold (Poetry) at Weller Book Works. \N\NCurrently in its third year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.\N\NTo be eligible for the 2015 15 Bytes Book Award, a nominated book was required to be written by a Utah author and/or have a Utah theme or setting; be published in 2014; be professionally published and bound, and assigned an ISBN. Books are eligible in three categories: Fiction (50,000 words minimum), Poetry (48 pages minimum), Art books (20 pages minimum).\N\NBRADEN HEPNER graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2009 and now lives in Idaho with his wife and son. This is his first novel.\N\NIn addition to her work as a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she is the curator of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series, Natasha Sajé is a member of the poetry faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. program. She is the author of three books of poems, a book of poetry criticism, and many essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book.\N\NLaura Stott is the author of the book of poems, In the Museum of Coming and Going, (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2014).  She studied at Eastern Washington University and her poems have been published and are forthcoming in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Sugarhouse Review, Copper Nickel, and Rock and Sling.  In 2014 Laura was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also loves to collaborate with other artists. One of her current projects involves her “Blue Nude” poetry and painting series, with her sister, Katheryn Stott. She currently teaches at Weber State University. \N\NRaphael Dagold is the author of the poetry collection Bastard Heart (Silverfish Review Press, 2014). This year, he won the Mountain West Writers’ Award in Poetry, the American Literary Review Creative Nonfiction Contest, the Scowcroft Award in Prose, and was a finalist for the North American Review James Hearst Poetry Prize. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, North American Review, and The Asheville Poetry Review. He is currently sending out a new poetry manuscript, Self Storage, and is an Associate Instructor of composition and creative writing at the University of Utah, where he received a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature in May.\N\NFor more information on the awards, visit: http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/vivarium-and-pale-harvest-winners-of-the-15-bytes-book-award/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weller Book Works, and 15 Bytes. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:15 Bytes and Utah Humanities are pleased to present the winners and two of the finalists from the 2015 15 Bytes Book Awards, Braden Hepner (Fiction), Natasha Saje (Poetry), Laura Stott (Poetry), and Raphael Dagold (Poetry) at Weller Book Works.

Currently in its third year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.

To be eligible for the 2015 15 Bytes Book Award, a nominated book was required to be written by a Utah author and/or have a Utah theme or setting; be published in 2014; be professionally published and bound, and assigned an ISBN. Books are eligible in three categories: Fiction (50,000 words minimum), Poetry (48 pages minimum), Art books (20 pages minimum).

BRADEN HEPNER graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2009 and now lives in Idaho with his wife and son. This is his first novel.

In addition to her work as a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she is the curator of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series, Natasha Sajé is a member of the poetry faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. program. She is the author of three books of poems, a book of poetry criticism, and many essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book.

Laura Stott is the author of the book of poems, In the Museum of Coming and Going, (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2014).  She studied at Eastern Washington University and her poems have been published and are forthcoming in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Sugarhouse Review, Copper Nickel, and Rock and Sling.  In 2014 Laura was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also loves to collaborate with other artists. One of her current projects involves her “Blue Nude” poetry and painting series, with her sister, Katheryn Stott. She currently teaches at Weber State University.

Raphael Dagold is the author of the poetry collection Bastard Heart (Silverfish Review Press, 2014). This year, he won the Mountain West Writers’ Award in Poetry, the American Literary Review Creative Nonfiction Contest, the Scowcroft Award in Prose, and was a finalist for the North American Review James Hearst Poetry Prize. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Antioch Review, Western Humanities Review, North American Review, and The Asheville Poetry Review. He is currently sending out a new poetry manuscript, Self Storage, and is an Associate Instructor of composition and creative writing at the University of Utah, where he received a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature in May.

For more information on the awards, visit: http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/vivarium-and-pale-harvest-winners-of-the-15-bytes-book-award/

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weller Book Works, and 15 Bytes. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151005T203000 UID:94CD03CC-F500-4CC5-A2B6-4EA13BCE3714 SUMMARY:Kristyn Crow at the Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/234 DESCRIPTION:Kristyn Crow brings her "swamp rhythm symphony" and delightful children's characters to the Brigham City Public Library. \N\NKristyn Crow loves to use rhythm, rhyme, and repetition to make reading snappy and fun. Her first book, Cool Daddy Rat, received starred reviews and was named a Blue Ribbon Book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Other titles include Bedtime at the Swamp, The Middle-Child Blues, and the forthcoming Skeleton Cat. Kristyn enjoys visiting elementary schools, where she directs eager young readers in a "swamp rhythm symphony" using a variety of percussion instruments. Kristyn is the mother of seven wonderfully creative children, and is married to a policeman, who doubles as a mad scientist/inventor. She lives in Layton, Utah. \N\NKristyn will be using musical instruments as part of this event. To guarantee an instrument for your child, please pick up an instrument ticket before before the event. Instrument tickets will be available starting Monday, 28 September 2015 at 10 a.m. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Kristyn Crow brings her "swamp rhythm symphony" and delightful children's characters to the Brigham City Public Library.

Kristyn Crow loves to use rhythm, rhyme, and repetition to make reading snappy and fun. Her first book, Cool Daddy Rat, received starred reviews and was named a Blue Ribbon Book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Other titles include Bedtime at the Swamp, The Middle-Child Blues, and the forthcoming Skeleton Cat. Kristyn enjoys visiting elementary schools, where she directs eager young readers in a "swamp rhythm symphony" using a variety of percussion instruments. Kristyn is the mother of seven wonderfully creative children, and is married to a policeman, who doubles as a mad scientist/inventor. She lives in Layton, Utah.

Kristyn will be using musical instruments as part of this event. To guarantee an instrument for your child, please pick up an instrument ticket before before the event. Instrument tickets will be available starting Monday, 28 September 2015 at 10 a.m.

This event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151111 UID:9679E91E-D86B-48FD-9005-5F044D10EF4B SUMMARY:Inspired: A Community Poetry Writing Workshop CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/269 DESCRIPTION:Is there a literary work so powerful that it moves you to write, but you just don't know where to start? A free community poetry writing workshop entitled "inspired" helps participants create a new poem as a response to a literary work (poem, book, or other) that inspires them. Offered in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, this workshop will be presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants will be encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\NWhere\NPioneer Book, 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601\N\NHow to Sign-up\NTo sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Seating is limited. Bring a sample of the author/poet that inspires you and come ready to write!\N\NSchedule\NTuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 at 6pm – Workshop #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises\NTuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems\NTuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 at midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology\NTuesday, Nov. 10, 2015 at 6pm – Anthology launch party/reception and poetry reading\N\NThese event are made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, Pioneer Book Co., and the Rock Canyon Poets. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Is there a literary work so powerful that it moves you to write, but you just don't know where to start? A free community poetry writing workshop entitled "inspired" helps participants create a new poem as a response to a literary work (poem, book, or other) that inspires them. Offered in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, this workshop will be presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants will be encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

Where
Pioneer Book, 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601

How to Sign-up
To sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Seating is limited. Bring a sample of the author/poet that inspires you and come ready to write!

Schedule
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 at 6pm – Workshop #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 at midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015 at 6pm – Anthology launch party/reception and poetry reading

These event are made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, Pioneer Book Co., and the Rock Canyon Poets. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T193000 UID:85B97671-24C6-46D9-B65B-6974C06CF331 SUMMARY:BK Loren Visits Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/209 DESCRIPTION:Essayist and novelist BK Loren will read from her work at Weber State University.\N\NBK Loren is the award winning author of the novel THEFT, and the essay collection, ANIMAL, MINERAL, RADICAL. Her short fiction and essays have garnered many national awards and have been published in The Best Spiritual Writing Anthologies (2004 and 2012), Parabola, Yoga International, Orion Magazine, and many others. She is from a working class family and has usually worked in jobs that allow space to write as she works. She’s been a ranch hand, a cook for a gourmet catering service in NYC, a cook, also, in a cafe run by a reverend healer who cured people’s ailments with a pendulum and herbs. She was also an aide on a locked psych ward, a tenured college teacher, and a furniture builder. She was extremely grateful for the chance to go to college (not a given)–and she attended the University of Colorado (Classics/Philosophy), the University of New Mexico (Lit), and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, (Fiction). She feels that her varied experiences in other fields inform her writing as much as her schooling has. The publishing editor of her first book told her I wrote like she was raised by wolves. She tries to live up to that daily. TWITTER FACEBOOK RADIO KRUU, WRITERS’ VOICE KBOO, a podcast from Orion Magazine and something completely different than Theft or Animal, Mineral, Radical. Theft has been optioned for film, and BK will be writing the screenplay.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weber State University.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Essayist and novelist BK Loren will read from her work at Weber State University.

BK Loren is the award winning author of the novel THEFT, and the essay collection, ANIMAL, MINERAL, RADICAL. Her short fiction and essays have garnered many national awards and have been published in The Best Spiritual Writing Anthologies (2004 and 2012), Parabola, Yoga International, Orion Magazine, and many others. She is from a working class family and has usually worked in jobs that allow space to write as she works. She’s been a ranch hand, a cook for a gourmet catering service in NYC, a cook, also, in a cafe run by a reverend healer who cured people’s ailments with a pendulum and herbs. She was also an aide on a locked psych ward, a tenured college teacher, and a furniture builder. She was extremely grateful for the chance to go to college (not a given)–and she attended the University of Colorado (Classics/Philosophy), the University of New Mexico (Lit), and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, (Fiction). She feels that her varied experiences in other fields inform her writing as much as her schooling has. The publishing editor of her first book told her I wrote like she was raised by wolves. She tries to live up to that daily. TWITTER FACEBOOK RADIO KRUU, WRITERS’ VOICE KBOO, a podcast from Orion Magazine and something completely different than Theft or Animal, Mineral, Radical. Theft has been optioned for film, and BK will be writing the screenplay.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weber State University.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T210000 UID:FA40D16A-0C5D-405D-9BB3-849E531E06FC SUMMARY:Regarding Susan Sontag Screening CREATED:20260416T080109Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080109Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/337 DESCRIPTION:REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Endlessly curious, passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. This beautifully constructed documentary tracks Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words as read by Patricia Clarkson.\N\NFrom her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her 15-year relationship with legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism continue to resonate today. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Utah Film Center and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Endlessly curious, passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. This beautifully constructed documentary tracks Sontag’s life through evocative experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words as read by Patricia Clarkson.

From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her 15-year relationship with legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism continue to resonate today.

This event was made possible with support from the Utah Film Center and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151007T203000 UID:1EF17569-9F6A-47C6-B519-540ADC4A83E8 SUMMARY:Amy Irvine McHarg Visits the Moab Library CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/177 DESCRIPTION:Amy Irvine McHarg’s work has appeared in Orion, Climbing, High Desert Journal and in numerous western, nature and environmental anthologies. Her second book, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award—while the Los Angeles Times wrote that it “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir.” In a starred review, Booklist characterized Trespass as “a penetrating critique of Mormon sovereignty” and called Irvine McHarg “bold and original in her thinking, candid and lyrical in expression,” claiming that she “joins red-rock heroes Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams in breaking ranks and speaking up for the living world.” An essay called “Spectral Light,” which appeared in Orion, as well as The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism in 2012. Her forthcoming memoir, Blue Fugue, chronicles McHarg’s descent into and recovery from postpartum depression. It was first published in essay form in TriQuarterly, and will be published soon by Counterpoint Press. For the past two years she has served as a faculty fellow in nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Amy Irvine McHarg’s work has appeared in Orion, Climbing, High Desert Journal and in numerous western, nature and environmental anthologies. Her second book, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award—while the Los Angeles Times wrote that it “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir.” In a starred review, Booklist characterized Trespass as “a penetrating critique of Mormon sovereignty” and called Irvine McHarg “bold and original in her thinking, candid and lyrical in expression,” claiming that she “joins red-rock heroes Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams in breaking ranks and speaking up for the living world.” An essay called “Spectral Light,” which appeared in Orion, as well as The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism in 2012. Her forthcoming memoir, Blue Fugue, chronicles McHarg’s descent into and recovery from postpartum depression. It was first published in essay form in TriQuarterly, and will be published soon by Counterpoint Press. For the past two years she has served as a faculty fellow in nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151007T210000 UID:2874F950-F91B-473A-94F4-E3E9067F776E SUMMARY:Kirsten Jorgenson & Nathan Hauke at City Art CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/237 DESCRIPTION:Poets Kirsten Jorgenson and Nathan Hauke will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series.\N\NKirsten Jorgenson is from Salt Lake City, UT via Chicago, IL. She is the author of two chapbooks, Deseret and Accidents of Distance, and co-author of the poetics chapbook, Country Music. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from The AndNow Awards, Blazevox, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Dusie, Horse Less Review, Keyhole, Sidebrow and We Are So Happy To Know Something. She has an MA in British and American Literature from the University of Utah and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. Along with Nathan Hauke, she is co-editor of Ark Press and co-curator of the Ark Press Summer Reading Series. \N\NNathan Hauke was born and raised in rural Michigan. His first book, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes, was published by Publication Studio. He is also the author of chapbooks: Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now, S E W N, and In the Living Room. His poetry has most recently been published in American Letters & Commentary, Dusie, Peaches and Bats, Real Poetik, Spittoon, Typo, and We Are So Happy To Know Something. Two of his poems, “Deerfield (1)” and “A Surface. A Shore or Semi-transparency of Glass,” were selected to be a part of The Arcadia Project Anthology edited by GC Waldrep and Joshua Corey. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Kirsten Jorgenson and Nathan Hauke will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series.

Kirsten Jorgenson is from Salt Lake City, UT via Chicago, IL. She is the author of two chapbooks, Deseret and Accidents of Distance, and co-author of the poetics chapbook, Country Music. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from The AndNow Awards, Blazevox, Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Dusie, Horse Less Review, Keyhole, Sidebrow and We Are So Happy To Know Something. She has an MA in British and American Literature from the University of Utah and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. Along with Nathan Hauke, she is co-editor of Ark Press and co-curator of the Ark Press Summer Reading Series.

Nathan Hauke was born and raised in rural Michigan. His first book, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes, was published by Publication Studio. He is also the author of chapbooks: Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now, S E W N, and In the Living Room. His poetry has most recently been published in American Letters & Commentary, Dusie, Peaches and Bats, Real Poetik, Spittoon, Typo, and We Are So Happy To Know Something. Two of his poems, “Deerfield (1)” and “A Surface. A Shore or Semi-transparency of Glass,” were selected to be a part of The Arcadia Project Anthology edited by GC Waldrep and Joshua Corey.

This event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151012 UID:13663159-06FA-4ACC-A028-6BF189CD7B0E SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/182 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the best writers in the nation. This year, join us and be inspired and instructed by Amy Irvine McHarg, Alison Luterman and David Lee. These writers will teach as well as read from their work at evening readings during the conference. Make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room. \N\NFor more info, visit: http://www.boulderheritage.org/foundation-projects/cliff-notes-writing-conference/\N\NThe Cliff Notes Conference is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the best writers in the nation. This year, join us and be inspired and instructed by Amy Irvine McHarg, Alison Luterman and David Lee. These writers will teach as well as read from their work at evening readings during the conference. Make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room.

For more info, visit: http://www.boulderheritage.org/foundation-projects/cliff-notes-writing-conference/

The Cliff Notes Conference is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151008T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151008T193000 UID:85601C33-978E-44ED-BFA8-105530534EED SUMMARY:David Lee at Cliff Notes Writers Conference CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/185 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present poet David Lee at the Boulder Community Center.\N\NDavid Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. The first place poetry from his latest work, “Last Call” was heard was right here in Boulder, Utah. He also assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present poet David Lee at the Boulder Community Center.

David Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. The first place poetry from his latest work, “Last Call” was heard was right here in Boulder, Utah. He also assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151008T210000 UID:FE5A38E9-8A76-4CD1-A8A5-B8F37FE10AFE SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams Visits Orem Reads CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/153 DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams will visit the Orem Public Library as part of the Orem Reads program. Williams' book Refuge was the choice for the program this year and she will be the keynote speaker. \N\NTerry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. "So here is my question," she asks,  "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?" \N\NKnown for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field;  Desert Quartet; Leap;  Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; and Finding Beauty in a Broken World.  Her most recent book, When Women Were Birds, was published in Spring 2012 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is also a columnist for the magazine The Progressive. Her new book is The Story of My Heart by Richard Jeffries, as rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams (Torrey House Press), in which she and Brooke Williams expand upon the 1883 book by Richard Jeffries. \N\NIn 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She and her husband, Brooke Williams live in the desert and mountains of the American West.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and the Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Terry Tempest Williams will visit the Orem Public Library as part of the Orem Reads program. Williams' book Refuge was the choice for the program this year and she will be the keynote speaker.

Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. "So here is my question," she asks,  "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?"

Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field;  Desert Quartet; Leap;  Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; and Finding Beauty in a Broken World.  Her most recent book, When Women Were Birds, was published in Spring 2012 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is also a columnist for the magazine The Progressive. Her new book is The Story of My Heart by Richard Jeffries, as rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams (Torrey House Press), in which she and Brooke Williams expand upon the 1883 book by Richard Jeffries.

In 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She and her husband, Brooke Williams live in the desert and mountains of the American West.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and the Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151008T210000 UID:6D1CE918-220A-42C7-A0CF-FD53B1C03DF5 SUMMARY:The Nation 150th Anniversary Speaker Series: John Nichols CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/176 DESCRIPTION:Mychal Denzel Smith will discuss his work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of The Nation 150 the Anniversary Speaker Series. \N\N2015 marks the 150th anniversary of The Nation, the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice.\N\NIn honor of The Nation’s 150th anniversary, join The City Library for a series of events that celebrate the magazine’s legacy of cultural commentary, political analysis, and forward-thinking reporting. Throughout the series, we’ll feature a variety of contemporary voices from the magazine and cover topics that range from politics, the environment, social justice, and more.\N\NMychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer for The Nation. His work on race, politics, social justice, pop culture, hip hop, mental health, feminism, and black male identity has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, Ebony, theGrio, the Root, Huffington Post, Feministing, and GOOD. Follow him on Twitter @mychalsmith. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Mychal Denzel Smith will discuss his work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of The Nation 150 the Anniversary Speaker Series.

2015 marks the 150th anniversary of The Nation, the oldest weekly magazine in the country. Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has been a home for writers instigating, reporting on, and arguing about struggles for social and economic justice.

In honor of The Nation’s 150th anniversary, join The City Library for a series of events that celebrate the magazine’s legacy of cultural commentary, political analysis, and forward-thinking reporting. Throughout the series, we’ll feature a variety of contemporary voices from the magazine and cover topics that range from politics, the environment, social justice, and more.

Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer for The Nation. His work on race, politics, social justice, pop culture, hip hop, mental health, feminism, and black male identity has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, Ebony, theGrio, the Root, Huffington Post, Feministing, and GOOD. Follow him on Twitter @mychalsmith. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151008T213000 UID:0FE9F97D-0F8D-43AA-AE44-2453EBD6C0A0 SUMMARY:Prophet's Prey Film Screening CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/200 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of Sam Brower's critically-acclaimed book Prophet's Prey at the Viridian Event Center. Brower will be present for a Q&A following the screening.\N\NWhen noted author Jon Krakauer stumbled upon a closed polygamous community in southern Utah in 1999, it caught him by surprise. Private investigator Sam Brower (whose 2011 book shares the film’s name) was already investigating the rogue sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Here the two men share their alarming allegations of sexual abuse, underage marriages, and pregnancies. Collaborating with a local Texas journalist who first reported the story, they retrace their involvement that led to the capture and conviction of the group’s maniacal leader, Warren Jeffs.\N\NGripping first-person accounts from former members and descendants of FLDS leadership paint a harrowing portrait where women are property, and men are forced to comply with the oppressive guidelines or face expulsion from their own families. Veteran director Amy Berg’s sobering examination of current religious indoctrination is a chilling reminder of the danger of a tyrannical "prophet's" unchecked power.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Utah Film Center, the Viridian Event Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of Sam Brower's critically-acclaimed book Prophet's Prey at the Viridian Event Center. Brower will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

When noted author Jon Krakauer stumbled upon a closed polygamous community in southern Utah in 1999, it caught him by surprise. Private investigator Sam Brower (whose 2011 book shares the film’s name) was already investigating the rogue sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Here the two men share their alarming allegations of sexual abuse, underage marriages, and pregnancies. Collaborating with a local Texas journalist who first reported the story, they retrace their involvement that led to the capture and conviction of the group’s maniacal leader, Warren Jeffs.

Gripping first-person accounts from former members and descendants of FLDS leadership paint a harrowing portrait where women are property, and men are forced to comply with the oppressive guidelines or face expulsion from their own families. Veteran director Amy Berg’s sobering examination of current religious indoctrination is a chilling reminder of the danger of a tyrannical "prophet's" unchecked power.

This event is made possible with the support of the Utah Film Center, the Viridian Event Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151009T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151009T150000 UID:FEE3DB24-ED3E-44E1-9E58-5EC6AC86D898 SUMMARY:A.S. King at Two Rivers High School CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/207 DESCRIPTION:Two Rivers High School is pleased to host A.S. King, one of the most critically acclaimed authors writing young adult fiction in the U.S. today. King will discuss her work with students, including her new book I Crawl Through It.\N\NFour accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening.\N \NSo they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to face it.\N \NA.S. King is best known for her award-winning young adult novels, though she writes novel-length and short fiction for adults as well. After more than a decade in Ireland dividing herself between self-sufficiency, restoring her farm, teaching adult literacy, and writing novels, she returned to the US in 2004. \N\NAmy's newest YA novel, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future has garnered six starred trade reviews and landed on several end of year best lists since its release in October 2014. Reality Boy (October 2013) was a A New York Times Editors' Choice,Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, a Junior Library Guild Selection, Amazon Best Books for October, and a Winter 2013-2014 Kids' Indie Next List Top Ten pick. 2012's Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown October 2012) is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly & School Library Journal Best Book of 2012, an Indie Next List pick and has been called "Another thoughtful, and often breathtaking achievement" by Booklist in one of six starred trade reviews for the book. Everybody Sees the Ants (Little, Brown October 2011) was an Andre Norton Award finalist, a Cybils finalist, and a 2012 YALSA Top Ten book for young adults. Her 2010 YA novel, Please Ignore Vera Dietz was a 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, an Edgar Award Nominee, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book for Teens 2010, a Junior Library Guild selection and a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick. Her first YA novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an Indie Next pick and a Cybil award finalist. Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and was nominated for Best New American Voices 2010. Her short fiction collection, Monica Never Shuts Up is available in paperback and all ebook formats. Amy now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and children, teaches writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program, and is a huge fan of Kurt Vonnegut, corn on the cob, libraries, and roller skating.\N\NI CRAWL THROUGH IT is due out in Fall 2015.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Two Rivers High School and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Two Rivers High School is pleased to host A.S. King, one of the most critically acclaimed authors writing young adult fiction in the U.S. today. King will discuss her work with students, including her new book I Crawl Through It.

Four accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening.

So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to face it.

A.S. King is best known for her award-winning young adult novels, though she writes novel-length and short fiction for adults as well. After more than a decade in Ireland dividing herself between self-sufficiency, restoring her farm, teaching adult literacy, and writing novels, she returned to the US in 2004.

Amy's newest YA novel, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future has garnered six starred trade reviews and landed on several end of year best lists since its release in October 2014. Reality Boy (October 2013) was a A New York Times Editors' Choice,Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, a Junior Library Guild Selection, Amazon Best Books for October, and a Winter 2013-2014 Kids' Indie Next List Top Ten pick. 2012's Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown October 2012) is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly & School Library Journal Best Book of 2012, an Indie Next List pick and has been called "Another thoughtful, and often breathtaking achievement" by Booklist in one of six starred trade reviews for the book. Everybody Sees the Ants (Little, Brown October 2011) was an Andre Norton Award finalist, a Cybils finalist, and a 2012 YALSA Top Ten book for young adults. Her 2010 YA novel, Please Ignore Vera Dietz was a 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, an Edgar Award Nominee, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book for Teens 2010, a Junior Library Guild selection and a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick. Her first YA novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an Indie Next pick and a Cybil award finalist. Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and was nominated for Best New American Voices 2010. Her short fiction collection, Monica Never Shuts Up is available in paperback and all ebook formats. Amy now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and children, teaches writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program, and is a huge fan of Kurt Vonnegut, corn on the cob, libraries, and roller skating.

I CRAWL THROUGH IT is due out in Fall 2015.

This event is made possible with support from Two Rivers High School and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151009T203000 UID:F5D0E32E-0ADB-4773-A9A6-966B6981DDA9 SUMMARY:Alison Luterman at Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/183 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present poet Alison Luterman at the Kiva Coffeehouse in Escalante.\N\NAlison Luterman’s books of poems include The Largest Possible Life, See How We Almost Fly, and Desire Zoo. She has published poems in The Sun Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Rattle, The Atlanta Review, and many other journals and anthologies. Two of her poems are included in Billy Collins Poetry 180 project at the Library of Congress. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, The Sun Magazine, The L.A. Review, The New York Times’ Modern Love, and elsewhere. Five of her essays have been collected in the e-book Feral City, published at www.shebooks.net. She has also written half a dozen plays, including a musical about kidney transplantation. She has taught and/or been poet-in-residence at New College in San Francisco, Holy Names College in Oakland, The Writing Salon in Berkeley, at Esalen and Omega Institutes, at the Great Mother Conference, and at various writing retreats all over the country. Check out her website www.alisonluterman.net for more information.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Coffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present poet Alison Luterman at the Kiva Coffeehouse in Escalante.

Alison Luterman’s books of poems include The Largest Possible Life, See How We Almost Fly, and Desire Zoo. She has published poems in The Sun Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Rattle, The Atlanta Review, and many other journals and anthologies. Two of her poems are included in Billy Collins Poetry 180 project at the Library of Congress. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, The Sun Magazine, The L.A. Review, The New York Times’ Modern Love, and elsewhere. Five of her essays have been collected in the e-book Feral City, published at www.shebooks.net. She has also written half a dozen plays, including a musical about kidney transplantation. She has taught and/or been poet-in-residence at New College in San Francisco, Holy Names College in Oakland, The Writing Salon in Berkeley, at Esalen and Omega Institutes, at the Great Mother Conference, and at various writing retreats all over the country. Check out her website www.alisonluterman.net for more information.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Coffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151009T203000 UID:F8178DCB-4DA7-40FD-9F70-FF6DBFAA1DCC SUMMARY:The 60th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/189 DESCRIPTION:Ten years ago, Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities hosted the largest poetry event in the city's history when we collaborated on the 50th Anniversary celebration of the famous "Six Gallery Reading" in which Allen Ginsberg debuted his poem "Howl," a poem that would go on to change poetry and censorship in the U.S. forever. Ten years later, Alex Caldiero is at it again and we're ready to Howl once more. \N\NThe commemoration will feature a variety of dance, drama, and poetry performances that both reconstruct and interpret both the Six Gallery reading itself and the volatile and crucial period in American literature that followed. Full lineup to be announced soon. Don't miss this special event.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Ken Sanders Rare Books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ten years ago, Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities hosted the largest poetry event in the city's history when we collaborated on the 50th Anniversary celebration of the famous "Six Gallery Reading" in which Allen Ginsberg debuted his poem "Howl," a poem that would go on to change poetry and censorship in the U.S. forever. Ten years later, Alex Caldiero is at it again and we're ready to Howl once more.

The commemoration will feature a variety of dance, drama, and poetry performances that both reconstruct and interpret both the Six Gallery reading itself and the volatile and crucial period in American literature that followed. Full lineup to be announced soon. Don't miss this special event.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Ken Sanders Rare Books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T153000 UID:F8B8520B-49D8-46BA-B337-AA21DA53E3ED SUMMARY:Celebration of Children's and Young Adult Literature CREATED:20260416T080109Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080109Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/338 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities is pleased to announce that we have added a day to our annual Book Festival that is entirely dedicated to literature for children and young adults.\N\NThis event will take place on 10th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Viridian Event Center (8030 South 1825 West) in West Jordan.\N\NUtah has become a hot spot for authors and publishers of these genres while the readership for these books has exploded in the state in recent years. As such, we thought it fitting to offer a day where young readers and their families can meet and interact with the people producing their favorite books and participate in programs and activities while also offering authors and publishers a place to collectively promote and sell their work. We hope you are able to join us!\N\NFeatured presenters will include A.S. King, Stuart Gibbs, Shannon Hale, Matthew Kirby, Valynne Maetani, and Ann Cannon. Don't miss the exhibitor hall that day, which will be filled with authors, publishers and fun activities for the whole family.\N\NIf you are a children's or YA author or publisher and you are interested in being part of this day, you can download the registration forms at: http://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/Center-for-the-Book/book-festival.html X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities is pleased to announce that we have added a day to our annual Book Festival that is entirely dedicated to literature for children and young adults.

This event will take place on 10th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Viridian Event Center (8030 South 1825 West) in West Jordan.

Utah has become a hot spot for authors and publishers of these genres while the readership for these books has exploded in the state in recent years. As such, we thought it fitting to offer a day where young readers and their families can meet and interact with the people producing their favorite books and participate in programs and activities while also offering authors and publishers a place to collectively promote and sell their work. We hope you are able to join us!

Featured presenters will include A.S. King, Stuart Gibbs, Shannon Hale, Matthew Kirby, Valynne Maetani, and Ann Cannon. Don't miss the exhibitor hall that day, which will be filled with authors, publishers and fun activities for the whole family.

If you are a children's or YA author or publisher and you are interested in being part of this day, you can download the registration forms at: http://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/Center-for-the-Book/book-festival.html X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T111500 UID:B9079ABA-D616-4DCA-9502-C2C1459C4B77 SUMMARY:Valynne Maetani, Shannon Hale, and Ann Cannon in Conversation CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/261 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities is pleased to present a panel on gender in young adult literature featuring Shannon Hale, Matthew Kirby, Valynne Maetani, and moderated by Ann Cannon. This event is part of our celebration of children's and young adult literature at the Viridian Event Center. \N\NWhy are some books considered "boys books" while others are marketed specifically to girls? How does the gender of a protagonist, and even the book's author, effect the way it is both marketed and received? And why are so-called "boys books" more likely to be used in classrooms and similar settings? “My books are gendered as being for girls,” says Shannon Hale. “This is what happens to female writers [of books] with girls on the cover, especially princesses. It’s so normal for me...I’ve done perhaps 200 assemblies. The boys ALWAYS listen to me. It’s the administration beforehand that assumes that they won’t.”\N\NJoin us as we talk about these issues and much more with four acclaimed Utah authors. \N\NThis event is made possible with suport from Utah Humanities and the Viridian Event Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities is pleased to present a panel on gender in young adult literature featuring Shannon Hale, Matthew Kirby, Valynne Maetani, and moderated by Ann Cannon. This event is part of our celebration of children's and young adult literature at the Viridian Event Center.

Why are some books considered "boys books" while others are marketed specifically to girls? How does the gender of a protagonist, and even the book's author, effect the way it is both marketed and received? And why are so-called "boys books" more likely to be used in classrooms and similar settings? “My books are gendered as being for girls,” says Shannon Hale. “This is what happens to female writers [of books] with girls on the cover, especially princesses. It’s so normal for me...I’ve done perhaps 200 assemblies. The boys ALWAYS listen to me. It’s the administration beforehand that assumes that they won’t.”

Join us as we talk about these issues and much more with four acclaimed Utah authors.

This event is made possible with suport from Utah Humanities and the Viridian Event Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T130000 UID:D866A519-D946-43E7-A8AD-890B5A411C17 SUMMARY:Jess Smart Smiley Visits the Glendale Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/197 DESCRIPTION:Author and illustrator Jess Smart Smiley, along with his cadre of monsters, vampires, and animals, pay a visit to the Gelndale Library. \N\NJess Smart Smiley is a writer, illustrator and designer living in Utah. Publications include Upside Down: A Vampire Tale (Top Shelf Productions, 2012), The Adventures of William Worm (Piggy Press, 2013), and Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book (Mascot Books, 2013).\N\NJess’ illustrations, designs, and comics have been included in books, magazines and websites all over the world and he is currently writing his first novel, Jack Tinn and the Aquanauts, an epic fantasy adventure for young adults X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and illustrator Jess Smart Smiley, along with his cadre of monsters, vampires, and animals, pay a visit to the Gelndale Library.

Jess Smart Smiley is a writer, illustrator and designer living in Utah. Publications include Upside Down: A Vampire Tale (Top Shelf Productions, 2012), The Adventures of William Worm (Piggy Press, 2013), and Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-n-Find Book (Mascot Books, 2013).

Jess’ illustrations, designs, and comics have been included in books, magazines and websites all over the world and he is currently writing his first novel, Jack Tinn and the Aquanauts, an epic fantasy adventure for young adults X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T130000 UID:2B2D6908-076A-4724-9ADD-8ED5BB2335A6 SUMMARY:Dallas Graham at the Viridian Event Center CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/242 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities and the King's English Bookshop are pleased to present Dallas Graham, founder of the Red Fred Project, as part of the Book Festival's celebration of children's and young adult literature on October 10th at the Viridian.\N\NThe Red Fred Project is a silver-starred, magical collaboration through which I co-create original stories in the form of self-published books with 50 children with critical illnesses across the 50 states. The books use photography, graphic design, story-telling techniques and star a likable group of birds made from commas and exclamation marks called The Jolly Troop.\N\NDallas Graham is the circle putting the Red Fred Project together. He created Red Fred and his Jolly Troop 5 years ago and has been telling stories with them ever since. He enjoys photojournalism, graphic design and discovering creative ways of connecting people through their stories. He also will be releasing his own children’s book, Nikolas and the Pantheon Trials in December.\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities and the King's English Bookshop are pleased to present Dallas Graham, founder of the Red Fred Project, as part of the Book Festival's celebration of children's and young adult literature on October 10th at the Viridian.

The Red Fred Project is a silver-starred, magical collaboration through which I co-create original stories in the form of self-published books with 50 children with critical illnesses across the 50 states. The books use photography, graphic design, story-telling techniques and star a likable group of birds made from commas and exclamation marks called The Jolly Troop.

Dallas Graham is the circle putting the Red Fred Project together. He created Red Fred and his Jolly Troop 5 years ago and has been telling stories with them ever since. He enjoys photojournalism, graphic design and discovering creative ways of connecting people through their stories. He also will be releasing his own children’s book, Nikolas and the Pantheon Trials in December.


This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T143000 UID:EE0BDA42-DB5A-44F8-BC68-AB96387F5113 SUMMARY:A.S. King at the Viridian Event Center CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/241 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities and Two Rivers High School are pleased to present A.S. King, one of the most critically acclaimed authors writing young adult fiction in the U.S. today. King will discuss her work, including her new book I Crawl Through It, as part of this year's celebration of children's and young adult literature.\N\NFour accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening.\N \NSo they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to face it.\N \NA.S. King is best known for her award-winning young adult novels, though she writes novel-length and short fiction for adults as well. After more than a decade in Ireland dividing herself between self-sufficiency, restoring her farm, teaching adult literacy, and writing novels, she returned to the US in 2004. \N\NAmy's newest YA novel, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future has garnered six starred trade reviews and landed on several end of year best lists since its release in October 2014. Reality Boy (October 2013) was a A New York Times Editors' Choice,Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, a Junior Library Guild Selection, Amazon Best Books for October, and a Winter 2013-2014 Kids' Indie Next List Top Ten pick. 2012's Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown October 2012) is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly & School Library Journal Best Book of 2012, an Indie Next List pick and has been called "Another thoughtful, and often breathtaking achievement" by Booklist in one of six starred trade reviews for the book. Everybody Sees the Ants (Little, Brown October 2011) was an Andre Norton Award finalist, a Cybils finalist, and a 2012 YALSA Top Ten book for young adults. Her 2010 YA novel, Please Ignore Vera Dietz was a 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, an Edgar Award Nominee, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book for Teens 2010, a Junior Library Guild selection and a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick. Her first YA novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an Indie Next pick and a Cybil award finalist. Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and was nominated for Best New American Voices 2010. Her short fiction collection, Monica Never Shuts Up is available in paperback and all ebook formats. Amy now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and children, teaches writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program, and is a huge fan of Kurt Vonnegut, corn on the cob, libraries, and roller skating.\N\NI CRAWL THROUGH IT is due out in Fall 2015.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Two Rivers High School and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities and Two Rivers High School are pleased to present A.S. King, one of the most critically acclaimed authors writing young adult fiction in the U.S. today. King will discuss her work, including her new book I Crawl Through It, as part of this year's celebration of children's and young adult literature.

Four accomplished teenagers are on the verge of explosion. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope—but no one is listening.

So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away from the pressure…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to face it.

A.S. King is best known for her award-winning young adult novels, though she writes novel-length and short fiction for adults as well. After more than a decade in Ireland dividing herself between self-sufficiency, restoring her farm, teaching adult literacy, and writing novels, she returned to the US in 2004.

Amy's newest YA novel, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future has garnered six starred trade reviews and landed on several end of year best lists since its release in October 2014. Reality Boy (October 2013) was a A New York Times Editors' Choice,Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, a Junior Library Guild Selection, Amazon Best Books for October, and a Winter 2013-2014 Kids' Indie Next List Top Ten pick. 2012's Ask the Passengers (Little, Brown October 2012) is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner, a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly & School Library Journal Best Book of 2012, an Indie Next List pick and has been called "Another thoughtful, and often breathtaking achievement" by Booklist in one of six starred trade reviews for the book. Everybody Sees the Ants (Little, Brown October 2011) was an Andre Norton Award finalist, a Cybils finalist, and a 2012 YALSA Top Ten book for young adults. Her 2010 YA novel, Please Ignore Vera Dietz was a 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book, an Edgar Award Nominee, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book for Teens 2010, a Junior Library Guild selection and a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick. Her first YA novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an Indie Next pick and a Cybil award finalist. Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and was nominated for Best New American Voices 2010. Her short fiction collection, Monica Never Shuts Up is available in paperback and all ebook formats. Amy now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and children, teaches writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program, and is a huge fan of Kurt Vonnegut, corn on the cob, libraries, and roller skating.

I CRAWL THROUGH IT is due out in Fall 2015.

This event is made possible with support from Two Rivers High School and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T153000 UID:9537E328-BFD7-4A6F-93AD-E67D0A33819E SUMMARY:Utah State Poetry Society Book of the Year Winner Candy Lish Fowler CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/168 DESCRIPTION:Utah “Poet of the Year” Candy Lish Fowler will visit the Orem Public Library to present a book concert for her new work, On a Road that Knows Me. This program is part of the Library's annual Orem Reads programming.\N\NJudge January Gill O’Neil describes Fowler’s book as a stylish collection where there is no easy way into the truth; It is a personal, sometimes painful journey. But it is often marked with moments of light, vibrant and dynamic. This allows us to walk along-through family, music, culture and travel. These poems stayed with me says O’Neil, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of Massachusetts and Professor of English at Salem State University.\N\NCandy Lish Fowler grew up in Granger, Utah graduating as the Sterling Scholar in English. She attended the University of Utah as a Presidential Scholar where she majored in Dance and minored in English. She was the founder/director of St. George’s Southwest Dance Theater, which has been featured in the Tribune and Deseret News. She has been an instructor at the University of Utah, Dixie State College, founded the dance program at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and served on the Utah Arts Council. Her poetry has won state and national awards including 2nd place in the Utah Arts and Museums 2014 Writing competition. Her work has been published in several poetry books.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Orem Public Library X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah “Poet of the Year” Candy Lish Fowler will visit the Orem Public Library to present a book concert for her new work, On a Road that Knows Me. This program is part of the Library's annual Orem Reads programming.

Judge January Gill O’Neil describes Fowler’s book as a stylish collection where there is no easy way into the truth; It is a personal, sometimes painful journey. But it is often marked with moments of light, vibrant and dynamic. This allows us to walk along-through family, music, culture and travel. These poems stayed with me says O’Neil, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of Massachusetts and Professor of English at Salem State University.

Candy Lish Fowler grew up in Granger, Utah graduating as the Sterling Scholar in English. She attended the University of Utah as a Presidential Scholar where she majored in Dance and minored in English. She was the founder/director of St. George’s Southwest Dance Theater, which has been featured in the Tribune and Deseret News. She has been an instructor at the University of Utah, Dixie State College, founded the dance program at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and served on the Utah Arts Council. Her poetry has won state and national awards including 2nd place in the Utah Arts and Museums 2014 Writing competition. Her work has been published in several poetry books.

This event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Orem Public Library X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T153000 UID:7059D670-D475-476C-839E-2B00810D527D SUMMARY:Lynn Webster at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/259 DESCRIPTION:Author Lynn Webster visits Weller Book Works to discuss his new book, The Painful Truth.\N\NThe Painful Truth is an intimate collection of stories about people living with disabling pain, their attempts to heal, and the challenges that we collectively face in helping them live meaningful lives.\N\NDr. Lynn Webster has dedicated more than three decades to becoming an expert in the field of pain management. He is the vice president of Scientific Affairs of PRA Health Sciences and immediate past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. A leading voice in trying to help physicians safely treat pain patients, Dr. Webster actively works within the industry to develop safer and more effective therapies for chronic pain and addiction.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Lynn Webster visits Weller Book Works to discuss his new book, The Painful Truth.

The Painful Truth is an intimate collection of stories about people living with disabling pain, their attempts to heal, and the challenges that we collectively face in helping them live meaningful lives.

Dr. Lynn Webster has dedicated more than three decades to becoming an expert in the field of pain management. He is the vice president of Scientific Affairs of PRA Health Sciences and immediate past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. A leading voice in trying to help physicians safely treat pain patients, Dr. Webster actively works within the industry to develop safer and more effective therapies for chronic pain and addiction.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T160000 UID:E61BB00E-D0AA-406A-9CE0-388A6CD2F87A SUMMARY:Bobbie Pyron Visits the Glendale Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/196 DESCRIPTION:Children's author Bobbie Pyron visits the Glendale Library to share her work and discuss her life as an author.\N\NBobbie Pyron is the author of The Dogs of Winter (Arthur A. Levine Books) which received three starred reviews, is a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was named to Kirkus Review's 2012 Best Books of the Year. She also wrote A Dog's Way Home (Katherine Tegen Books) which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, was named to the Spring 2011 Indie Next List, and was awarded the Maxwell Medal of Excellence. She is also the author of The Ring (WestSide). She works as a librarian in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit bobbiepyron.com.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Children's author Bobbie Pyron visits the Glendale Library to share her work and discuss her life as an author.

Bobbie Pyron is the author of The Dogs of Winter (Arthur A. Levine Books) which received three starred reviews, is a Junior Library Guild Selection, and was named to Kirkus Review's 2012 Best Books of the Year. She also wrote A Dog's Way Home (Katherine Tegen Books) which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, was named to the Spring 2011 Indie Next List, and was awarded the Maxwell Medal of Excellence. She is also the author of The Ring (WestSide). She works as a librarian in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit bobbiepyron.com.

This event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T210000 UID:432A68D3-F7BC-4F76-97DE-0726540D128A SUMMARY:The Bee: True Stories from the Hive CREATED:20260416T080104Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080104Z URL:thebeeslc.org DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE ON THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM WHAT IS LISTED IN THE PRINT PROGRAM. IT IS NOW OCTOBER 10TH.\N\NJoin us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell us all a true tale, live onstage, without notes.\N\NBring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.\N\NThe theme of the night is “Here & Hereafter."\N\NThursday, October 10th at The Leonardo on Library Square.\N\NDoors & Bar open at 6pm. Stories at 7pm. Tickets $7 in advance, $10 at the door. 18+ event. Libations for 21+. Bring ID.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The Leonardo, and Catalyst.\N\NTickets can be purchased in advance (link above) or at the door (bring cash to speed your entrance).\N\NWe'll be gathering on the 3rd floor of The Leonardo.\NSigns will guide you from the main entrance on Library Square.\N\NLibrary Square is right near a TRAX stop, and plenty of bike parking is available. Car parking is available in the underground lot below Library Square, or find metered parking on the street - consider carpooling!\N\NCo-hosted by Giuliana Serena & Francesca Rosa.\N\NHave a story to tell? We want to hear it! Write to us at thebeeslc@gmail.com to put your name in the hat. The night of the show we pull ten names. If we call your name, you tell your story. It's that simple.\N\NLearn more at thebeeslc.org. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE ON THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM WHAT IS LISTED IN THE PRINT PROGRAM. IT IS NOW OCTOBER 10TH.

Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell us all a true tale, live onstage, without notes.

Bring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.

The theme of the night is “Here & Hereafter."

Thursday, October 10th at The Leonardo on Library Square.

Doors & Bar open at 6pm. Stories at 7pm. Tickets $7 in advance, $10 at the door. 18+ event. Libations for 21+. Bring ID.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The Leonardo, and Catalyst.

Tickets can be purchased in advance (link above) or at the door (bring cash to speed your entrance).

We'll be gathering on the 3rd floor of The Leonardo.
Signs will guide you from the main entrance on Library Square.

Library Square is right near a TRAX stop, and plenty of bike parking is available. Car parking is available in the underground lot below Library Square, or find metered parking on the street - consider carpooling!

Co-hosted by Giuliana Serena & Francesca Rosa.

Have a story to tell? We want to hear it! Write to us at thebeeslc@gmail.com to put your name in the hat. The night of the show we pull ten names. If we call your name, you tell your story. It's that simple.

Learn more at thebeeslc.org. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151010T203000 UID:15293844-CACE-408B-B839-C8F783A418C4 SUMMARY:Amy Irvine McHarg at the Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/184 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present author Amy Irvine McHarg at the Boulder Community Center.\N\NAmy Irvine McHarg’s work has appeared in Orion, Climbing, High Desert Journal and in numerous western, nature and environmental anthologies. Her second book, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award—while the Los Angeles Times wrote that it “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir.” In a starred review, Booklist characterized Trespass as “a penetrating critique of Mormon sovereignty” and called Irvine McHarg “bold and original in her thinking, candid and lyrical in expression,” claiming that she “joins red-rock heroes Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams in breaking ranks and speaking up for the living world.” An essay called “Spectral Light,” which appeared in Orion, as well as The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism in 2012. Her forthcoming memoir, Blue Fugue, chronicles McHarg’s descent into and recovery from postpartum depression. It was first published in essay form in TriQuarterly, and will be published soon by Counterpoint Press. For the past two years she has served as a faculty fellow in nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present author Amy Irvine McHarg at the Boulder Community Center.

Amy Irvine McHarg’s work has appeared in Orion, Climbing, High Desert Journal and in numerous western, nature and environmental anthologies. Her second book, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award—while the Los Angeles Times wrote that it “might very well be Desert Solitaire’s literary heir.” In a starred review, Booklist characterized Trespass as “a penetrating critique of Mormon sovereignty” and called Irvine McHarg “bold and original in her thinking, candid and lyrical in expression,” claiming that she “joins red-rock heroes Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams in breaking ranks and speaking up for the living world.” An essay called “Spectral Light,” which appeared in Orion, as well as The Best American Science and Nature Writing, was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism in 2012. Her forthcoming memoir, Blue Fugue, chronicles McHarg’s descent into and recovery from postpartum depression. It was first published in essay form in TriQuarterly, and will be published soon by Counterpoint Press. For the past two years she has served as a faculty fellow in nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151012T203000 UID:6E9FC74A-C961-41D3-8F8C-1D90017530F1 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Family Activity Night CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/270 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads: Family Activity Night: Celebrate Utah’s heritage, environment and wildlife with this family oriented activity night.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads: Family Activity Night: Celebrate Utah’s heritage, environment and wildlife with this family oriented activity night.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151012T210000 UID:853FD9C6-1CFB-4FE3-B0C5-7E24C8131691 SUMMARY:Carl Phillips at the 15th Street Gallery CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/250 DESCRIPTION:Poet Carl Phillips will read from his work at the 15th St. Gallery (adjacent to the King's English Bookshop) on Monday, October 12th. \N\NCarl Phillips is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. He taught high school Latin for eight years and is the author of twelve books of poetry, including the forthcoming Reconnaisance, Speak Low, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and Double Shadow, also a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award in Poetry, a Lambda Book Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Best Gay Male Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Phillips was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He teaches at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri. \N\NThe territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering [seems] in fact for nothing," and "all we do is maybe all we can do." In the face of this, Carl Phillips, reconsidering and unraveling what we think we know, maps out the contours of a world in revision, where truth lies captured at one moment and at the next goes free, transformed. These are poems of searing beauty, lit by hope and shadowed by it.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Carl Phillips will read from his work at the 15th St. Gallery (adjacent to the King's English Bookshop) on Monday, October 12th.

Carl Phillips is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. He taught high school Latin for eight years and is the author of twelve books of poetry, including the forthcoming Reconnaisance, Speak Low, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and Double Shadow, also a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award in Poetry, a Lambda Book Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Best Gay Male Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Phillips was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He teaches at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri.

The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering [seems] in fact for nothing," and "all we do is maybe all we can do." In the face of this, Carl Phillips, reconsidering and unraveling what we think we know, maps out the contours of a world in revision, where truth lies captured at one moment and at the next goes free, transformed. These are poems of searing beauty, lit by hope and shadowed by it.

This event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151013T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151013T170000 UID:37851214-6268-444E-93B9-68E43C124733 SUMMARY:Winona LaDuke Visits Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/222 DESCRIPTION:Poet Carl Phillips will read from and discuss his work at Southern Utah University (J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Alumni House) on Tuesday, OCtober 13th.\N\NCarl Phillips is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. He taught high school Latin for eight years and is the author of twelve books of poetry, including the forthcoming Reconnaisance, Speak Low, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and Double Shadow, also a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award in Poetry, a Lambda Book Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Best Gay Male Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Phillips was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He teaches at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Carl Phillips will read from and discuss his work at Southern Utah University (J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Alumni House) on Tuesday, OCtober 13th.

Carl Phillips is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. He taught high school Latin for eight years and is the author of twelve books of poetry, including the forthcoming Reconnaisance, Speak Low, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and Double Shadow, also a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award in Poetry, a Lambda Book Award and the Thom Gunn Award for Best Gay Male Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Library of Congress. Phillips was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He teaches at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri.

This event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151013T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151013T190000 UID:4967337B-70AF-4FAC-97EB-3E3FCA804B38 SUMMARY:Shanan Ballam & Star Coulbrooke Visit Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/178 DESCRIPTION:Poets Shanan Ballam and Star Coulbrooke will share and discuss their work at Weber State University.\N\NShanan Ballam is an adjunct instructor at Utah State University where she teaches poetry and fiction writing. She earned her MFA in Poetry Writing from the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line Press 2010). Her full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability Press)was a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award. In 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums’ Utah Original Writing Competition, which was judged by Sue Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama.\N\NStar Coulbrooke is responsible for Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series in Logan, Utah. Her poems appear in journals such as Poetry International, Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, and Sugar House Review. Her poetry chapbook, Walking the Bear, published by Outlaw Artists Press, is a tribute to the Bear River. Star directs the Utah State University Writing Center and lives in Smithfield with her artist partner and their two heeler-mix mutts.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Shanan Ballam and Star Coulbrooke will share and discuss their work at Weber State University.

Shanan Ballam is an adjunct instructor at Utah State University where she teaches poetry and fiction writing. She earned her MFA in Poetry Writing from the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line Press 2010). Her full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability Press)was a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award. In 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums’ Utah Original Writing Competition, which was judged by Sue Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama.

Star Coulbrooke is responsible for Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series in Logan, Utah. Her poems appear in journals such as Poetry International, Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, and Sugar House Review. Her poetry chapbook, Walking the Bear, published by Outlaw Artists Press, is a tribute to the Bear River. Star directs the Utah State University Writing Center and lives in Smithfield with her artist partner and their two heeler-mix mutts.

This event is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151013T210000 UID:D879B639-CD98-458D-B7AF-C57FCAA82CC4 SUMMARY:Lily Havey Visits Orem Reads CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/152 DESCRIPTION:Author and artist Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey will visit the Orem Public Library to discuss her work and her new book, Gasa Gas Girl Goes to Camp. This event is part of the annual Orem Read program.\N\NLily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a camping trip, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, gazing out instead at the nightly searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.\N\NIn Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolor, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She uses short vignettes—snapshots of people, recreated scenes and events—to describe how a ten-year-old girl grew into a teenager inside these camps. Vintage photographs reveal the historical, cultural, and familial contexts of that growth and of the Nakai family’s dislocation. They reveal the recollected lives of her mother and father in Japan and then America, where they began their arranged marriage and had two children. Havey’s vivid and poignant watercolors depict decades-old memories and dreams and reflect moments of daily camp life illuminated by the author’s adult perspective. The paintings and her animated writing draw readers into a turbulent era when America disgracefully incarcerated, without due process, thousands of American citizens because of their race.\N\NLily Havey was born in Los Angeles. In 1942, along with 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, she was incarcerated in Japanese-American internment camps. After World War II her family moved to Salt Lake City. She graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, pursued an MFA at the University of Utah, and taught high school for thirteen years before establishing a stained-glass business.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and artist Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey will visit the Orem Public Library to discuss her work and her new book, Gasa Gas Girl Goes to Camp. This event is part of the annual Orem Read program.

Lily Nakai and her family lived in Southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At age ten, after believing that her family was simply going on a camping trip, she found herself living in a tar-papered barrack, gazing out instead at the nightly searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.

In Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, Lily Havey combines storytelling, watercolor, and personal photographs to recount her youth in two Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She uses short vignettes—snapshots of people, recreated scenes and events—to describe how a ten-year-old girl grew into a teenager inside these camps. Vintage photographs reveal the historical, cultural, and familial contexts of that growth and of the Nakai family’s dislocation. They reveal the recollected lives of her mother and father in Japan and then America, where they began their arranged marriage and had two children. Havey’s vivid and poignant watercolors depict decades-old memories and dreams and reflect moments of daily camp life illuminated by the author’s adult perspective. The paintings and her animated writing draw readers into a turbulent era when America disgracefully incarcerated, without due process, thousands of American citizens because of their race.

Lily Havey was born in Los Angeles. In 1942, along with 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, she was incarcerated in Japanese-American internment camps. After World War II her family moved to Salt Lake City. She graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, pursued an MFA at the University of Utah, and taught high school for thirteen years before establishing a stained-glass business.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151014T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151014T210000 UID:FEFE2238-68C6-4454-AE86-0B268BD544F1 SUMMARY:"Last Call" with Poet David Lee at the Moab Library CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/169 DESCRIPTION:Former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee visits the Grand County Library in Moab to discuss his work and his newest book, Last Call, a collection dedicated to his long-time collaborator Bill Kloefkorn.\N\N"Last Call is David Lee's wonderful tribute to his friend and fellow poet Bill Kloefkorn, a man who was bigger than life. There's everything here. It makes me think of being under the canvas of some great circus tent where Mark Twain is ringmaster, watching spellbound as he offers up this astonishing array of entertainments: miracles, visions, visitations, hard lessons, riffs of talk, fabulous instances of word play and righteous scorn set alongside rips of great good humor, tall stories, sad stories, and moments of deep affection—all of it heightened by David Lee's inimitable skill with colloquial language. This is just a transcendent book."\N\N— Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction\N\NSince the publication of his first book of poems, The Porcine Legacy in 1974, David Lee’s unique voice has touched and inspired people from a variety of locations, backgrounds, and ages, including hundreds of students and aspiring writers. A Texas native, Dave studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer, is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers; he has raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton, and retired after 32 years of teaching at Southern Utah University, serving for many of those years as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature.\N\NLee was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee visits the Grand County Library in Moab to discuss his work and his newest book, Last Call, a collection dedicated to his long-time collaborator Bill Kloefkorn.

"Last Call is David Lee's wonderful tribute to his friend and fellow poet Bill Kloefkorn, a man who was bigger than life. There's everything here. It makes me think of being under the canvas of some great circus tent where Mark Twain is ringmaster, watching spellbound as he offers up this astonishing array of entertainments: miracles, visions, visitations, hard lessons, riffs of talk, fabulous instances of word play and righteous scorn set alongside rips of great good humor, tall stories, sad stories, and moments of deep affection—all of it heightened by David Lee's inimitable skill with colloquial language. This is just a transcendent book."

— Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction

Since the publication of his first book of poems, The Porcine Legacy in 1974, David Lee’s unique voice has touched and inspired people from a variety of locations, backgrounds, and ages, including hundreds of students and aspiring writers. A Texas native, Dave studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer, is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers; he has raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton, and retired after 32 years of teaching at Southern Utah University, serving for many of those years as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature.

Lee was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151014T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151014T210000 UID:9145A5AE-FB20-4BF0-BFAD-D57C271BA87F SUMMARY:Bethany Schultz & Jonathan Travelstead at City Art CREATED:20260416T080109Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080109Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/324 DESCRIPTION:Poets Bethany Schultz and Jonathan Travelstead will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series. \N\NBethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation (Anhinga, 2014), which won the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her work has been selected to appear in Best American Poetry 2015 and has appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, New Orleans Review, and River Styx. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Idaho State University. \N\NWinner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry. How We Bury Our Dead is a narrative work which follows a single speaker as he jumps from one intense situation to the next in order to avoid his mother’s struggle with cancer. An Air Force firefighter, he volunteers to accompany his unit to Kuwait, and, after returning and still unable to cope, he hitchhikes his way across Alaska before finally going home. Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a fulltime firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Bethany Schultz and Jonathan Travelstead will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library. This event is part of the City Art Series.

Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation (Anhinga, 2014), which won the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her work has been selected to appear in Best American Poetry 2015 and has appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard, Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, New Orleans Review, and River Styx. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Idaho State University.

Winner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry. How We Bury Our Dead is a narrative work which follows a single speaker as he jumps from one intense situation to the next in order to avoid his mother’s struggle with cancer. An Air Force firefighter, he volunteers to accompany his unit to Kuwait, and, after returning and still unable to cope, he hitchhikes his way across Alaska before finally going home. Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a fulltime firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru.

This event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities, and City Art.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151016 UID:C149B0C9-EE06-4EC8-874E-93C57D524036 SUMMARY:Alex Caldiero at Orem Reads CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/227 DESCRIPTION:Wordshaker Alex Caldiero will share his work at the Orem Public Library as part of Orem Reads.\N\NA distinguishing characteristic of being human is the high degree to which we act upon nature or the environment to ensure our survival. This performative lecture will draw on performance art, folklore, and ancient religious practices to explain and demonstrate some of humanity’s primary actions concerning the control of the weather.\N\NFrom his childhood in Sicily as a Catholic altar boy through his latter days as a Mormon “saint,” Caldiero recalls in verse his emerging passion for performance and for the sensual liturgical marriage of physical space—the church or temple proper—with bodily space. This ritualized confluence of architectural structure, human bodies, images, movements, smells, and sounds affects him as much today as it did in the past. It is this memory of the religious ritual that keeps him striving for a poetic creation and richness that achieves a depth of symbolic meaning.\N\NAlex CaldieroAlex Caldiero is Poet in Residence at Utah Valley University in Orem. One of his students described him as “a weird cat, but someone who loves what he teaches.” He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Utah Performing Arts Tour and awards from the Association for Mormon Letters and Salt Lake City mayor’s office.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Wordshaker Alex Caldiero will share his work at the Orem Public Library as part of Orem Reads.

A distinguishing characteristic of being human is the high degree to which we act upon nature or the environment to ensure our survival. This performative lecture will draw on performance art, folklore, and ancient religious practices to explain and demonstrate some of humanity’s primary actions concerning the control of the weather.

From his childhood in Sicily as a Catholic altar boy through his latter days as a Mormon “saint,” Caldiero recalls in verse his emerging passion for performance and for the sensual liturgical marriage of physical space—the church or temple proper—with bodily space. This ritualized confluence of architectural structure, human bodies, images, movements, smells, and sounds affects him as much today as it did in the past. It is this memory of the religious ritual that keeps him striving for a poetic creation and richness that achieves a depth of symbolic meaning.

Alex CaldieroAlex Caldiero is Poet in Residence at Utah Valley University in Orem. One of his students described him as “a weird cat, but someone who loves what he teaches.” He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Utah Performing Arts Tour and awards from the Association for Mormon Letters and Salt Lake City mayor’s office.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151015T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151015T160000 UID:28D16872-7418-4148-8571-CDD24BD7E076 SUMMARY:Jonathan Travelstead Workshop at VA Hospital CREATED:20260416T080109Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080109Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/325 DESCRIPTION:Art Access and the Department of Veteran Affairs are pleased to present a workshop with poet Jonathan Travelstead on Thursday, October 15th from 2:00-4:00 PM. This event will begin with a reading by Travelstead at 2:00. Any veteran who is registered with the VA is welcome to attend the workshop, and all VA employees and veterans are welcome to attend the reading.\N\NWinner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry. How We Bury Our Dead is a narrative work which follows a single speaker as he jumps from one intense situation to the next in order to avoid his mother’s struggle with cancer. An Air Force firefighter, he volunteers to accompany his unit to Kuwait, and, after returning and still unable to cope, he hitchhikes his way across Alaska before finally going home.\N\N"Jonathan Travelstead maps the quest for his elemental “end points and beginnings.” Doing so, he spans topography as various as Southern Illinois strip mines, automobile accident scenes, and Iraqi battle zones. What results are narratives that bare-knuckle gut-punch easy redemption. These poems honor the dead and the dying, refusing to avert the eye from certain explosion. It’s no wonder the keenest offer “prayers” for hand tools that do something palpably useful, say, prying open the wrecked heart’s flaming chariot of half-spoken desires." \N—Kevin Stein, author of Wrestling Li Po for the Remote\N\NFor more information or to register for the workshop, please contact Heather Brown at 801-582-1565 ext. 1559 or Heather.Brown2@va.org. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Art Access, and the Department of Veteran Affairs. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Art Access and the Department of Veteran Affairs are pleased to present a workshop with poet Jonathan Travelstead on Thursday, October 15th from 2:00-4:00 PM. This event will begin with a reading by Travelstead at 2:00. Any veteran who is registered with the VA is welcome to attend the workshop, and all VA employees and veterans are welcome to attend the reading.

Winner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry. How We Bury Our Dead is a narrative work which follows a single speaker as he jumps from one intense situation to the next in order to avoid his mother’s struggle with cancer. An Air Force firefighter, he volunteers to accompany his unit to Kuwait, and, after returning and still unable to cope, he hitchhikes his way across Alaska before finally going home.

"Jonathan Travelstead maps the quest for his elemental “end points and beginnings.” Doing so, he spans topography as various as Southern Illinois strip mines, automobile accident scenes, and Iraqi battle zones. What results are narratives that bare-knuckle gut-punch easy redemption. These poems honor the dead and the dying, refusing to avert the eye from certain explosion. It’s no wonder the keenest offer “prayers” for hand tools that do something palpably useful, say, prying open the wrecked heart’s flaming chariot of half-spoken desires."
—Kevin Stein, author of Wrestling Li Po for the Remote

For more information or to register for the workshop, please contact Heather Brown at 801-582-1565 ext. 1559 or Heather.Brown2@va.org.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Art Access, and the Department of Veteran Affairs. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151015T200000 UID:982C5583-4E59-47D1-AC1A-08BB0A090510 SUMMARY: CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/258 DESCRIPTION:Author Layne Oliver visits Weller Book Works to discuss his new book, A Pebble in a Pond. \N\NIt's the 9th of August 1990. The sky is clear, and the view from Mount Agassiz East Ridge in Utah's High Uintah Mountains is stunning, several lake-filled basins were in full view. Suddenly the air explodes. A bolt of lightning struck Layne Oliver in the back of the head, hurtling him twenty feet down the two hundred---foot cliff face of Agassiz's East Ridge. This is his story. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Layne Oliver visits Weller Book Works to discuss his new book, A Pebble in a Pond.

It's the 9th of August 1990. The sky is clear, and the view from Mount Agassiz East Ridge in Utah's High Uintah Mountains is stunning, several lake-filled basins were in full view. Suddenly the air explodes. A bolt of lightning struck Layne Oliver in the back of the head, hurtling him twenty feet down the two hundred---foot cliff face of Agassiz's East Ridge. This is his story. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151015T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151015T203000 UID:CDB54806-CDF5-4CEC-AAC3-01D08E2370E8 SUMMARY:Shannon and Dean Hale: The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/264 DESCRIPTION:It's a costume party! Join local authors, Shannon and Dean Hale, for a costume party to celebrate the release of their new book, The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party. Shannon and Dean will also do a short reading and Q&A before signing copies of their new book.\N\NToday is Princess Magnolia’s birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving…Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clothes, and becomes the Princess in Black! She rushes to the goat pasture, defeats the monster, and returns to the castle before her guests discover her secret. But every time Princess Magnolia is about to open her presents, the monster alarm rings again. And every time she rushes back—an inside-out dress here, a missing shoe there—it gets harder to keep the other princesses from being suspicious. Don’t those monsters understand that now is not a good time for an attack?\N\NThis event is made possible by The King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It's a costume party! Join local authors, Shannon and Dean Hale, for a costume party to celebrate the release of their new book, The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party. Shannon and Dean will also do a short reading and Q&A before signing copies of their new book.

Today is Princess Magnolia’s birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving…Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clothes, and becomes the Princess in Black! She rushes to the goat pasture, defeats the monster, and returns to the castle before her guests discover her secret. But every time Princess Magnolia is about to open her presents, the monster alarm rings again. And every time she rushes back—an inside-out dress here, a missing shoe there—it gets harder to keep the other princesses from being suspicious. Don’t those monsters understand that now is not a good time for an attack?

This event is made possible by The King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151015T213000 UID:AFAA7A1A-240D-4903-A01C-5AFA373CE235 SUMMARY:Prophet's Prey Film Screening CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/201 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of Sam Brower's critically-acclaimed book, Prophet's Prey, at Star Hall in Moab. Brower will be present for a Q&A following the screening.\N\NWhen noted author Jon Krakauer stumbled upon a closed polygamous community in southern Utah in 1999, it caught him by surprise. Private investigator Sam Brower (whose 2011 book shares the film’s name) was already investigating the rogue sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Here the two men share their alarming allegations of sexual abuse, underage marriages, and pregnancies. Collaborating with a local Texas journalist who first reported the story, they retrace their involvement that led to the capture and conviction of the group’s maniacal leader, Warren Jeffs.\N\NGripping first-person accounts from former members and descendants of FLDS leadership paint a harrowing portrait where women are property, and men are forced to comply with the oppressive guidelines or face expulsion from their own families. Veteran director Amy Berg’s sobering examination of current religious indoctrination is a chilling reminder of the danger of a tyrannical "prophet's" unchecked power.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Grand County Library, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of Sam Brower's critically-acclaimed book, Prophet's Prey, at Star Hall in Moab. Brower will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

When noted author Jon Krakauer stumbled upon a closed polygamous community in southern Utah in 1999, it caught him by surprise. Private investigator Sam Brower (whose 2011 book shares the film’s name) was already investigating the rogue sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Here the two men share their alarming allegations of sexual abuse, underage marriages, and pregnancies. Collaborating with a local Texas journalist who first reported the story, they retrace their involvement that led to the capture and conviction of the group’s maniacal leader, Warren Jeffs.

Gripping first-person accounts from former members and descendants of FLDS leadership paint a harrowing portrait where women are property, and men are forced to comply with the oppressive guidelines or face expulsion from their own families. Veteran director Amy Berg’s sobering examination of current religious indoctrination is a chilling reminder of the danger of a tyrannical "prophet's" unchecked power.

This event is made possible with the support of the Grand County Library, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151016T210000 UID:6C680EEF-1823-44F1-9AD9-FF13D6C2AB4A SUMMARY:Robert Kloss at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/245 DESCRIPTION:Robert Kloss will read from and discuss his new novel, The Revelator, at Weller Book Works.\N\NConquistadors arrive in the new world, slaughtering and enslaving all those in their way. Centuries later, Manifest Destiny continues to drive American expansion westward, building an early 19th century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that frames The Revelator's protagonist: a young orphan named Joseph who escapes certain death and arrives in a new town. Reared on nights spent carousing with drunks and con men, after days spent loitering near the traveling preachers' tents, the young protagonist dreams of something more, even as he is taken in by a well-meaning merchant who loves him like a son. \N\NHe begins to preach, and abandons the merchant. Soon he takes a young wife, to the horror of her father, a butcher. They depart for the wilderness where Joseph's visions, haunted by a dark Beast - take hold of his life. Husband and wife nearly die of exposure, and upon their return, Joseph begins to build his congregation, built on the discovery of the golden plates that deliver the Almighty's message.\N\NAs his congregation grows, Joseph builds a settlement, takes multiple wives, and negotiates multiple betrayals and intrigues with his followers, his wife, and even his suspicious and distant son. Persecuted by society at large, and on the US government's watch list, Joseph takes his people further and further west to meet their destiny, and to satisfy the dark Beast that never never stops following him.\N\NWritten in the second person, author Robert Kloss's prophetic voice functions as 'revelator,' demonstrating the macabre and gruesome consequences of 'manifest destiny' and the conflicted motivations behind the creation of a religion that boast 15 million members today.\N\NRobert Kloss is the author of two novels, The Alligators of Abraham and The Revelator; a novella, How the Days of Love & Diphtheria, and the hybrid genre work, The Desert Places, co-authored with Amber Sparks and illustrated by Matt Kish.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Robert Kloss will read from and discuss his new novel, The Revelator, at Weller Book Works.

Conquistadors arrive in the new world, slaughtering and enslaving all those in their way. Centuries later, Manifest Destiny continues to drive American expansion westward, building an early 19th century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that frames The Revelator's protagonist: a young orphan named Joseph who escapes certain death and arrives in a new town. Reared on nights spent carousing with drunks and con men, after days spent loitering near the traveling preachers' tents, the young protagonist dreams of something more, even as he is taken in by a well-meaning merchant who loves him like a son.

He begins to preach, and abandons the merchant. Soon he takes a young wife, to the horror of her father, a butcher. They depart for the wilderness where Joseph's visions, haunted by a dark Beast - take hold of his life. Husband and wife nearly die of exposure, and upon their return, Joseph begins to build his congregation, built on the discovery of the golden plates that deliver the Almighty's message.

As his congregation grows, Joseph builds a settlement, takes multiple wives, and negotiates multiple betrayals and intrigues with his followers, his wife, and even his suspicious and distant son. Persecuted by society at large, and on the US government's watch list, Joseph takes his people further and further west to meet their destiny, and to satisfy the dark Beast that never never stops following him.

Written in the second person, author Robert Kloss's prophetic voice functions as 'revelator,' demonstrating the macabre and gruesome consequences of 'manifest destiny' and the conflicted motivations behind the creation of a religion that boast 15 million members today.

Robert Kloss is the author of two novels, The Alligators of Abraham and The Revelator; a novella, How the Days of Love & Diphtheria, and the hybrid genre work, The Desert Places, co-authored with Amber Sparks and illustrated by Matt Kish.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151017T073000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151017T140000 UID:C51C0D24-7FD7-4BFE-9DBF-C793D1E3CAAB SUMMARY:Field Trip to Bear River Bird Refuge with Birder Merril Webb CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/271 DESCRIPTION:Bear River Bay, along with its flora and fauna, play a central role in this year’s Orem Reads book, Refuge, and nothing brings the book alive better than a tour of the place itself. Join local birder and educator Merrill Webb for a tour of one of the intermountain west’s most important wetlands. Meet us at the Bear River Visitors Center at 10:00 am or at the library at 7:30 am to drive up together. More information and directions can be found at http://www.fws.gov/refuge/bear_river_migratory_bird_refuge/\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bear River Bay, along with its flora and fauna, play a central role in this year’s Orem Reads book, Refuge, and nothing brings the book alive better than a tour of the place itself. Join local birder and educator Merrill Webb for a tour of one of the intermountain west’s most important wetlands. Meet us at the Bear River Visitors Center at 10:00 am or at the library at 7:30 am to drive up together. More information and directions can be found at http://www.fws.gov/refuge/bear_river_migratory_bird_refuge/
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151019T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151019T163000 UID:89D3A433-EDCB-49DE-826A-C0CA155BCB7F SUMMARY:Sarah Alisabeth Fox Visits Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/180 DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox will visit Utah State University (3:30 PM, Venue TBD) to discuss her new book "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West." Ms. Fox is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of Utah State University, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox will visit Utah State University (3:30 PM, Venue TBD) to discuss her new book "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West." Ms. Fox is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

This event is made possible through the support of Utah State University, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151019T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151019T203000 UID:400F00C8-558E-4707-9F11-F99DA0C0391B SUMMARY:St. George Book Festival Kick-off CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/240 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the kick-off of the 2015 St. George Book Festival with authors, kids activities and an overview of the week's events. \N\NEvent Schedule:\N\N4:30 to 6:30pm – Family & Kid Time: Face painting, Story time, Arts & Crafts, Games and MORE!\N\N6:30pm – Intro. Virginia S Grenier, Director of SG Book Festival\N\N6:45pm – Speaker, Janice Brooks-Nichter – Topic: Inspirational Talk on Writers\N\N7:00pm – Speaker, Jack W. Rolfe – Topic: Straight A’s of Life – A Positive Disruption to Education\N\N7:30pm – Keynote Speaker, Brad Wilcox – Topic: So Many Books, So Little Time\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Dixie Applied Technology College, and the Heritage Writers Guild. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the kick-off of the 2015 St. George Book Festival with authors, kids activities and an overview of the week's events.

Event Schedule:

4:30 to 6:30pm – Family & Kid Time: Face painting, Story time, Arts & Crafts, Games and MORE!

6:30pm – Intro. Virginia S Grenier, Director of SG Book Festival

6:45pm – Speaker, Janice Brooks-Nichter – Topic: Inspirational Talk on Writers

7:00pm – Speaker, Jack W. Rolfe – Topic: Straight A’s of Life – A Positive Disruption to Education

7:30pm – Keynote Speaker, Brad Wilcox – Topic: So Many Books, So Little Time

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Dixie Applied Technology College, and the Heritage Writers Guild. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151019T203000 UID:0F2096B5-23E8-4730-AAE1-763F4F6E04F6 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Family Activity Night CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/272 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads: Family Activity Night: Celebrate Utah’s heritage, environment and wildlife with this family oriented activity night.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads: Family Activity Night: Celebrate Utah’s heritage, environment and wildlife with this family oriented activity night.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151019T210000 UID:26A5B5EA-B298-4A8F-ADA0-14589BD44944 SUMMARY:Poet Gary Dop Visits Dixie State University CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/280 DESCRIPTION:Gary Dop visits Dixie State University (Room HCC457 in the Holland Centennial Commons Building ) to share and discuss the work in his new collection of poems, Father, Child, Water.\N\NFather, Child, Water is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.\N\NGary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Dixie State University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Gary Dop visits Dixie State University (Room HCC457 in the Holland Centennial Commons Building ) to share and discuss the work in his new collection of poems, Father, Child, Water.

Father, Child, Water is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.

Gary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Dixie State University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151021 UID:C36DDCAE-59A1-4A55-9FED-FE813551D89E SUMMARY:Mark Hendengren and Three Mormon Towns Revisited CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/239 DESCRIPTION:In the 1950s and 60s, American photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams documented life in three southern Utah towns for Life magazine. This joint venture explored the changing ways of life for the citizens of Toquerville, Gunlock, and St. George, reflecting the larger changes occurring in America in the mid-20th century. Join author and photographer Mark Hedengren for a discussion of this influential work of documentary photography, as well as insights into his follow-up photographic journey, Three Mormon Towns Revisited.\N\NMark Hedengren is the author of The Mormons and Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns. He also directed the film Sundance Skippy. Mark is the 2013 recipient of the Utah Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows nationally and internationally. He has had solo shows in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, St. George Museum of Art and with the Utah Arts Council. Mark received a BFA from Brigham Young University and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In the 1950s and 60s, American photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams documented life in three southern Utah towns for Life magazine. This joint venture explored the changing ways of life for the citizens of Toquerville, Gunlock, and St. George, reflecting the larger changes occurring in America in the mid-20th century. Join author and photographer Mark Hedengren for a discussion of this influential work of documentary photography, as well as insights into his follow-up photographic journey, Three Mormon Towns Revisited.

Mark Hedengren is the author of The Mormons and Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns. He also directed the film Sundance Skippy. Mark is the 2013 recipient of the Utah Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows nationally and internationally. He has had solo shows in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, St. George Museum of Art and with the Utah Arts Council. Mark received a BFA from Brigham Young University and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T160000 UID:D840DE34-4014-4FB4-B2D5-5C8E36D57779 SUMMARY:Dixie Poets Presentation and Workshop CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/212 DESCRIPTION:Utah State Poetry Society “Poet of the Year,” Candy Lish Fowler, will join the St. George Book Festival for a reading and workshop.\N\NCandy Lish Fowler grew up in Granger, Utah graduating as the Sterling Scholar in English. She attended the University of Utah as a Presidential Scholar where she majored in Dance and minored in English. She was the founder/director of St. George’s Southwest Dance Theater, which has been featured in the Tribune and Deseret News. She has been an instructor at the University of Utah, Dixie State College, founded the dance program at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and served on the Utah Arts Council. Her poetry has won state and national awards including 2nd place in the Utah Arts and Museums 2014 Writing competition. Her work has been published in several poetry books.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, the St. George Book Festival, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State Poetry Society “Poet of the Year,” Candy Lish Fowler, will join the St. George Book Festival for a reading and workshop.

Candy Lish Fowler grew up in Granger, Utah graduating as the Sterling Scholar in English. She attended the University of Utah as a Presidential Scholar where she majored in Dance and minored in English. She was the founder/director of St. George’s Southwest Dance Theater, which has been featured in the Tribune and Deseret News. She has been an instructor at the University of Utah, Dixie State College, founded the dance program at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and served on the Utah Arts Council. Her poetry has won state and national awards including 2nd place in the Utah Arts and Museums 2014 Writing competition. Her work has been published in several poetry books.

This event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, the St. George Book Festival, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T200000 UID:1D9A9833-D84A-4966-83A7-8B13083EA5AC SUMMARY:Poetry in Motion Open Mic & Poetry Slam CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/216 DESCRIPTION:Join the St. George Poetry Slam team and the St. George Book Festival for an open mic & slam at Jazzy's Rock & Roll Grill. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the St. George Poetry Slam team and the St. George Book Festival for an open mic & slam at Jazzy's Rock & Roll Grill. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T200000 UID:B36E9321-50D3-4A88-837D-757978BC68CA SUMMARY:Brian Laidlaw Visits Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/281 DESCRIPTION:Poet and songwriter Brian Laidlaw will share and discuss his work at Weber State University (Fireplace Lounge, Student Union). \N\NBrian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from San Francisco, currently living in Minneapolis. He studied Creative Writing as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he first began setting his poems to music; after graduating in 2005 he spent several years working seasonal jobs in the Sierra Nevada and touring nationally as a solo folksinger. In 2008, Laidlaw moved to Minneapolis to earn an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have now been published in journals including New American Writing, The Iowa Review, Handsome, Volt, Quarter After Eight and many others. He also had song lyrics in American Songwriter Magazine, and a Songwriting Consultant credit on the Grammy Award-Winning album Can You Canoe? by The Okee Dokee Brothers.\N\NLaidlaw is currently a member of the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul. He has put out a number of albums and EPs, most recently a 7” vinyl record with his band The Family Trade, released by Hymie’s Vintage Records’ new singles label. In late 2014, Laidlaw released a hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook in the liner notes (Paper Darts Press). His first full-length collection of poems, The Stuntman, is forthcoming – also with a companion album of music – from Milkweed Editions in 2015.\N\NYou can listen to some of the music from Laidlaw's The Stuntman here: https://soundcloud.com/milkweed-editions/never-was-a-cowboy?in=milkweed-editions/sets/the-stuntman-lp\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet and songwriter Brian Laidlaw will share and discuss his work at Weber State University (Fireplace Lounge, Student Union).

Brian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from San Francisco, currently living in Minneapolis. He studied Creative Writing as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he first began setting his poems to music; after graduating in 2005 he spent several years working seasonal jobs in the Sierra Nevada and touring nationally as a solo folksinger. In 2008, Laidlaw moved to Minneapolis to earn an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have now been published in journals including New American Writing, The Iowa Review, Handsome, Volt, Quarter After Eight and many others. He also had song lyrics in American Songwriter Magazine, and a Songwriting Consultant credit on the Grammy Award-Winning album Can You Canoe? by The Okee Dokee Brothers.

Laidlaw is currently a member of the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul. He has put out a number of albums and EPs, most recently a 7” vinyl record with his band The Family Trade, released by Hymie’s Vintage Records’ new singles label. In late 2014, Laidlaw released a hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook in the liner notes (Paper Darts Press). His first full-length collection of poems, The Stuntman, is forthcoming – also with a companion album of music – from Milkweed Editions in 2015.

You can listen to some of the music from Laidlaw's The Stuntman here: https://soundcloud.com/milkweed-editions/never-was-a-cowboy?in=milkweed-editions/sets/the-stuntman-lp

This event is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T210000 UID:C72F0E19-65A2-4DE0-9E8F-CD5847B67572 SUMMARY:Gary Dop Visits Cedar City CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/172 DESCRIPTION:Gary Dop visits Cedar City to share and discuss the work in his new collection of poems, Father, Child, Water.\N\NFather, Child, Water is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.\N\NGary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Sugar House Review, and Southern Utah University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Gary Dop visits Cedar City to share and discuss the work in his new collection of poems, Father, Child, Water.

Father, Child, Water is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.

Gary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Sugar House Review, and Southern Utah University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T210000 UID:931A61EA-85FD-414C-B87A-6A2F0A6E990A SUMMARY:Susan Imhoff Bird at the King's English CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/265 DESCRIPTION:Join local author, Susan Imhoff Bird, for a reading of her debut book, Howl: of Woman and Wolf.\N\NCommemorating the twentieth anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves to the American West, Howl follows Susan Imhoff Bird's exploration into the passions and controversies surrounding nature's most fascinating predator. At a crossroads in her own life, Bird travels around the West, talking with wolf watchers, landowners, wildlife managers, conservationists, and hunters about their understandings of what matters most, which almost always is their connection with the natural world. However, the often-conflicting issues raised by hunters, ranchers, and politicians prompt Bird's personal examination of wolf science, myths, and ethics, culminating in her conviction that wolves must be allowed to recover and thrive on our lands. Along the way, Bird begins to unleash her own wild nature, learning to howl and inviting us to do the same.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop and Torrey House Press X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join local author, Susan Imhoff Bird, for a reading of her debut book, Howl: of Woman and Wolf.

Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves to the American West, Howl follows Susan Imhoff Bird's exploration into the passions and controversies surrounding nature's most fascinating predator. At a crossroads in her own life, Bird travels around the West, talking with wolf watchers, landowners, wildlife managers, conservationists, and hunters about their understandings of what matters most, which almost always is their connection with the natural world. However, the often-conflicting issues raised by hunters, ranchers, and politicians prompt Bird's personal examination of wolf science, myths, and ethics, culminating in her conviction that wolves must be allowed to recover and thrive on our lands. Along the way, Bird begins to unleash her own wild nature, learning to howl and inviting us to do the same.

This event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop and Torrey House Press X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T210000 UID:78ED9C23-2D91-4126-835D-1D1BE5B2F7D3 SUMMARY:Sarah Alisabeth Fox Visits the Salt Lake City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/278 DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Salt Lake City Public Library (4th Floor Conference Room) to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West with KUED's Mary Dickson.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly. \N\NMary Dickson is the Director of Creative Services at KUED Channel 7, the Utah PBS affiliate, a position she has held for the past 18 years. She oversees the station's community outreach, Web, promotions, publicity, media relations and advertising services and publishes the monthly program guide, Seven. She also is the on-air host of Contact, which airs weeknights on KUED. Her essay "Downwinders All" appears in the anthology Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader along with essays by Barbara Kingsolver and Terry Tempest-Williams. Her extended essay, "Living and Dying with Fallout" appeared in the June 2005 issue of the journal Dialogue, and received the journal's Best Article of the Year award. Her essays and poetry were included in the art exhibit, "Suffering in Silence" and "Modern Love" at Art Access Gallery. Her commentary, "Woman's Worst Fear," received the Vivian Castleberry Award from the National Association of Women Journalists. She has performed locally in "And the Banned Played On" with Plan B Theatre and "The Vagina Monologues" at Kingsbury Hall, both as fundraisers for Utah non-profits. She also performed her monologue, "Tea and Tulips" as part of "The Mommy Monologues" at the University of Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Salt Lake City Public Library (4th Floor Conference Room) to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West with KUED's Mary Dickson.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

Mary Dickson is the Director of Creative Services at KUED Channel 7, the Utah PBS affiliate, a position she has held for the past 18 years. She oversees the station's community outreach, Web, promotions, publicity, media relations and advertising services and publishes the monthly program guide, Seven. She also is the on-air host of Contact, which airs weeknights on KUED. Her essay "Downwinders All" appears in the anthology Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader along with essays by Barbara Kingsolver and Terry Tempest-Williams. Her extended essay, "Living and Dying with Fallout" appeared in the June 2005 issue of the journal Dialogue, and received the journal's Best Article of the Year award. Her essays and poetry were included in the art exhibit, "Suffering in Silence" and "Modern Love" at Art Access Gallery. Her commentary, "Woman's Worst Fear," received the Vivian Castleberry Award from the National Association of Women Journalists. She has performed locally in "And the Banned Played On" with Plan B Theatre and "The Vagina Monologues" at Kingsbury Hall, both as fundraisers for Utah non-profits. She also performed her monologue, "Tea and Tulips" as part of "The Mommy Monologues" at the University of Utah.

This event is made possible with the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151020T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151020T220000 UID:94E9B434-D069-43E7-A434-47FC9AAF0B8D SUMMARY:Unrated Poetry Slam CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/217 DESCRIPTION:Join the St. George Poetry Slam team and the St. George Book Festival for an unrated poetry slam at Jazzy's Rock & Roll Grill. \N\NThis event is for ages 18 & up only. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the St. George Poetry Slam team and the St. George Book Festival for an unrated poetry slam at Jazzy's Rock & Roll Grill.

This event is for ages 18 & up only. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151021T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151021T130000 UID:85674521-D1DA-452C-A423-ED0B0341D7B6 SUMMARY:Sarah Alisabeth Fox Visits the Utah State Archives CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/229 DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Utah State Archives to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West. This event is part of Utah Archives Month, an annual event sponsored by archives and special collections from across Utah.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Utah State Archives and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Utah State Archives to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West. This event is part of Utah Archives Month, an annual event sponsored by archives and special collections from across Utah.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

This event is made possible with the support of the Utah State Archives and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151021T200000 UID:6C24CB44-5E62-4AF3-B995-1797281EA24B SUMMARY:Social Media's Impact on Literacy CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/218 DESCRIPTION:Join in the discussion social media's impact on literacy.This panel will feature Alisha Burton, Lenore Madden, Casie Forbes, Stace Hall, Kristy Pike and will be moderated by Virginia S. Grenier. This event is part of the St. George Book Festival and is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Dixie Applied Technology College. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join in the discussion social media's impact on literacy.This panel will feature Alisha Burton, Lenore Madden, Casie Forbes, Stace Hall, Kristy Pike and will be moderated by Virginia S. Grenier. This event is part of the St. George Book Festival and is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Dixie Applied Technology College. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151021T210000 UID:56B52FC8-57B2-477D-AD99-61BA97BCFD91 SUMMARY:Gary Dop & Brian Laidlaw at City Art CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/193 DESCRIPTION:Poets Gary Dop and Brian Laidlaw will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Series. \N\NGary Dop's first book, Father, Child, Water, is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.\N\NGary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize. \N\NBrian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from San Francisco, currently living in Minneapolis. He studied Creative Writing as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he first began setting his poems to music; after graduating in 2005 he spent several years working seasonal jobs in the Sierra Nevada and touring nationally as a solo folksinger. In 2008, Laidlaw moved to Minneapolis to earn an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have now been published in journals including New American Writing, The Iowa Review, Handsome, Volt, Quarter After Eight and many others. He also had song lyrics in American Songwriter Magazine, and a Songwriting Consultant credit on the Grammy Award-Winning album Can You Canoe? by The Okee Dokee Brothers.\N\NLaidlaw is currently a member of the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul. He has put out a number of albums and EPs, most recently a 7” vinyl record with his band The Family Trade, released by Hymie’s Vintage Records’ new singles label. In late 2014, Laidlaw released a hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook in the liner notes (Paper Darts Press). His first full-length collection of poems, The Stuntman, is forthcoming – also with a companion album of music – from Milkweed Editions in 2015.\N\NYou can listen to some of the music from Laidlaw's The Stuntman here: https://soundcloud.com/milkweed-editions/never-was-a-cowboy?in=milkweed-editions/sets/the-stuntman-lp\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Gary Dop and Brian Laidlaw will share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library as part of the City Art Series.

Gary Dop's first book, Father, Child, Water, is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.

Gary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize.

Brian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from San Francisco, currently living in Minneapolis. He studied Creative Writing as an undergraduate at Stanford University, where he first began setting his poems to music; after graduating in 2005 he spent several years working seasonal jobs in the Sierra Nevada and touring nationally as a solo folksinger. In 2008, Laidlaw moved to Minneapolis to earn an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have now been published in journals including New American Writing, The Iowa Review, Handsome, Volt, Quarter After Eight and many others. He also had song lyrics in American Songwriter Magazine, and a Songwriting Consultant credit on the Grammy Award-Winning album Can You Canoe? by The Okee Dokee Brothers.

Laidlaw is currently a member of the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul. He has put out a number of albums and EPs, most recently a 7” vinyl record with his band The Family Trade, released by Hymie’s Vintage Records’ new singles label. In late 2014, Laidlaw released a hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook in the liner notes (Paper Darts Press). His first full-length collection of poems, The Stuntman, is forthcoming – also with a companion album of music – from Milkweed Editions in 2015.

You can listen to some of the music from Laidlaw's The Stuntman here: https://soundcloud.com/milkweed-editions/never-was-a-cowboy?in=milkweed-editions/sets/the-stuntman-lp

This event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151021T213000 UID:43212A6B-E133-498B-AB87-65658C45C36E SUMMARY:Prophet's Prey Film Screening CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/202 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of Sam Brower's critically-acclaimed book Prophet's Prey at Peery's Egyptian Theater. Brower will be present for a Q&A following the screening.\N\NWhen noted author Jon Krakauer stumbled upon a closed polygamous community in southern Utah in 1999, it caught him by surprise. Private investigator Sam Brower (whose 2011 book shares the film’s name) was already investigating the rogue sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Here the two men share their alarming allegations of sexual abuse, underage marriages, and pregnancies. Collaborating with a local Texas journalist who first reported the story, they retrace their involvement that led to the capture and conviction of the group’s maniacal leader, Warren Jeffs.\N\NGripping first-person accounts from former members and descendants of FLDS leadership paint a harrowing portrait where women are property, and men are forced to comply with the oppressive guidelines or face expulsion from their own families. Veteran director Amy Berg’s sobering examination of current religious indoctrination is a chilling reminder of the danger of a tyrannical "prophet's" unchecked power.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Peery's Egyptian Theater, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a special screening of the film adaptation of Sam Brower's critically-acclaimed book Prophet's Prey at Peery's Egyptian Theater. Brower will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

When noted author Jon Krakauer stumbled upon a closed polygamous community in southern Utah in 1999, it caught him by surprise. Private investigator Sam Brower (whose 2011 book shares the film’s name) was already investigating the rogue sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Here the two men share their alarming allegations of sexual abuse, underage marriages, and pregnancies. Collaborating with a local Texas journalist who first reported the story, they retrace their involvement that led to the capture and conviction of the group’s maniacal leader, Warren Jeffs.

Gripping first-person accounts from former members and descendants of FLDS leadership paint a harrowing portrait where women are property, and men are forced to comply with the oppressive guidelines or face expulsion from their own families. Veteran director Amy Berg’s sobering examination of current religious indoctrination is a chilling reminder of the danger of a tyrannical "prophet's" unchecked power.

This event is made possible with the support of the Peery's Egyptian Theater, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T130000 UID:72E813F8-8A21-4AC3-9872-DABB4C46F8A0 SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams at SUU's Environmental Justice Conference CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/203 DESCRIPTION:Terry Tempest Williams visits Southern Utah University as the keynote speaker for the Environmental Justice Conference. This event will be in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center.\N\NTerry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. "So here is my question," she asks,  "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?" \N\NKnown for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field;  Desert Quartet; Leap;  Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; and Finding Beauty in a Broken World.  Her most recent book, When Women Were Birds, was published in Spring 2012 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is also a columnist for the magazine The Progressive. Her new book is The Story of My Heart by Richard Jeffries, as rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams (Torrey House Press), in which she and Brooke Williams expand upon the 1883 book by Richard Jeffries. \N\NIn 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She and her husband, Brooke Williams live in the desert and mountains of the American West.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, SUU's Outdoor Engagement Center, SUU's Women and Gender Studies Program. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Terry Tempest Williams visits Southern Utah University as the keynote speaker for the Environmental Justice Conference. This event will be in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center.

Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. "So here is my question," she asks,  "what might a different kind of power look like, feel like, and can power be redistributed equitably even beyond our own species?"

Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field;  Desert Quartet; Leap;  Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; and Finding Beauty in a Broken World.  Her most recent book, When Women Were Birds, was published in Spring 2012 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is also a columnist for the magazine The Progressive. Her new book is The Story of My Heart by Richard Jeffries, as rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams (Torrey House Press), in which she and Brooke Williams expand upon the 1883 book by Richard Jeffries.

In 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She and her husband, Brooke Williams live in the desert and mountains of the American West.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, SUU's Outdoor Engagement Center, SUU's Women and Gender Studies Program. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T173000 UID:3A115894-CF97-4A97-8F68-1BAAFB74C41F SUMMARY:Librarian Led Pop-up Come and Go! CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/235 DESCRIPTION:Did you ever wonder how to make a pop-up book? Drop by the Brigham City Public Library on 10/22 and find out how!\N\NAges 8 to adult, parents please stay with your child to help with scissors and glue.\N\NWe'll bring the supplies, you bring your imagination. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Did you ever wonder how to make a pop-up book? Drop by the Brigham City Public Library on 10/22 and find out how!

Ages 8 to adult, parents please stay with your child to help with scissors and glue.

We'll bring the supplies, you bring your imagination.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T200000 UID:D80325B8-496E-4779-A667-18022DD31229 SUMMARY:Humanity Outreach Through Literacy Featuring Dallas Graham and Justin Osmond CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/244 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Book Festival is pleased to host "Humanity Outreach Through Literacy," an evening with Justin Osmond and Dallas Graham. \N\NJustin Osmond, 2nd son of Merrill and Mary Osmond, was born with a severe/profound hearing loss. Diagnosed at the age of 2 with a 90% hearing loss and after 12 years of intense speech and listening therapy, he can now speak with passion and through modern-day technology, hear with conviction. Considering the fact that he was a couple years behind his peers, he has shown through intense dedication, mental and physical exertion, that nothing can stop him from going after his dreams.\N\NDespite living with a profound hearing loss, Justin pressed forward with a perfect brightness of hope and a love for all humanity. Even after being told by teachers and professionals that he would never play a musical instrument, he went on to play the violin, viola, piano, and drums. He has received numerous awards such as the prestigious sterling scholarship in music, academic scholarships, honorary achievements, and many athletic titles in soccer, football, basketball, and track. He is also proud to represent the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout, and he currently has his Master’s in Business Administration.\N\NDallas Graham is the circle putting the Red Fred Project together. He created Red Fred and his Jolly Troop 5 years ago and has been telling stories with them ever since. He enjoys photojournalism, graphic design and discovering creative ways of connecting people through their stories. Dallas has produced a number of personal and community driven projects and initiatives and can't seem to turn off his "idea" switch. The Red Fred Project is a culmination of three of his favorite things: narratives, hope and children.\N\NThe Red Fred Project is a silver-starred, magical collaboration through which we co-create original stories in the form of self-published books with 50 children with critical illnesses across the 50 states. The books use photography, graphic design, story-telling techniques and star a likable group of birds made from commas and exclamation marks called The Jolly Troop.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the St. George Book Festival and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Book Festival is pleased to host "Humanity Outreach Through Literacy," an evening with Justin Osmond and Dallas Graham.

Justin Osmond, 2nd son of Merrill and Mary Osmond, was born with a severe/profound hearing loss. Diagnosed at the age of 2 with a 90% hearing loss and after 12 years of intense speech and listening therapy, he can now speak with passion and through modern-day technology, hear with conviction. Considering the fact that he was a couple years behind his peers, he has shown through intense dedication, mental and physical exertion, that nothing can stop him from going after his dreams.

Despite living with a profound hearing loss, Justin pressed forward with a perfect brightness of hope and a love for all humanity. Even after being told by teachers and professionals that he would never play a musical instrument, he went on to play the violin, viola, piano, and drums. He has received numerous awards such as the prestigious sterling scholarship in music, academic scholarships, honorary achievements, and many athletic titles in soccer, football, basketball, and track. He is also proud to represent the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout, and he currently has his Master’s in Business Administration.

Dallas Graham is the circle putting the Red Fred Project together. He created Red Fred and his Jolly Troop 5 years ago and has been telling stories with them ever since. He enjoys photojournalism, graphic design and discovering creative ways of connecting people through their stories. Dallas has produced a number of personal and community driven projects and initiatives and can't seem to turn off his "idea" switch. The Red Fred Project is a culmination of three of his favorite things: narratives, hope and children.

The Red Fred Project is a silver-starred, magical collaboration through which we co-create original stories in the form of self-published books with 50 children with critical illnesses across the 50 states. The books use photography, graphic design, story-telling techniques and star a likable group of birds made from commas and exclamation marks called The Jolly Troop.

This event is made possible with support from the St. George Book Festival and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T210000 UID:50626145-DF0D-4F4D-A6A1-230B044ED113 SUMMARY:Poet Gary Dop at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/173 DESCRIPTION:Gary Dop visits Logan to share and discuss the work in his new collection of poems, Father, Child, Water. This event is part of the Helicon West Series.\N\NFather, Child, Water is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.\N\NGary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Helicon West, and the Logan Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Gary Dop visits Logan to share and discuss the work in his new collection of poems, Father, Child, Water. This event is part of the Helicon West Series.

Father, Child, Water is a parade of characters and voices. These poems stumble along the playful and pained pathways of our days. This is a book of honest feeling. This book believes in the sacred exchange of a smile. Father, Child, Water wants to make you laugh, wants to surprise you with sorrow, and certainly wants to remind you that you are alive.

Gary Dop—poet, performer, and playwright—lives in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he is an English professor at Randolph College. Dop received his MFA from the University of Nebraska, and his writing, which has been published throughout the country in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Agni, and New Letters, has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and the 2013 Great Plains Emerging Writer Prize.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Helicon West, and the Logan Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T210000 UID:41E43C58-5457-41A0-A769-C795C31D7F20 SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Scandinavian Family History CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/273 DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered what life was like in Northern Europe at the peak of Scandinavian immigration to the West? Have you wanted to get started on your own family history? Stuck with records you can´t read? Come listen to presentations on various topics and join BYU students for help with translation and reading of old documents. Feel free to bring old records, journals or other items. Feel free to bring photos, journals or other items.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ever wondered what life was like in Northern Europe at the peak of Scandinavian immigration to the West? Have you wanted to get started on your own family history? Stuck with records you can´t read? Come listen to presentations on various topics and join BYU students for help with translation and reading of old documents. Feel free to bring old records, journals or other items. Feel free to bring photos, journals or other items.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T203000 UID:D5A2CFB2-8AE0-41FA-8692-42CCF07024F1 SUMMARY:Utah Book Awards Ceremony CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/192 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Book Award was established by the Salt Lake City Public Library to honor exceptional achievements by Utah writers and to recognize outstanding literature written with a Utah theme or setting. In 1999, the first and only award was presented to author Robert Van Wagoner for his novel Dancing Naked. Since then, the categories have been expanded to include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literature for children and young adults. This year's prizes will be awarded for books published in 2014. Winners of the 2013 prizes included Katharine Coles, Barbara Richardson, Brandon Mull, Jennifer Nielsen, and Val Holley. \N\NIn addition, we are pleased to announce that we are incorporating Artes de Mexico en Utah's presentation of the Sor Juana Aawards into the Utah Book Awards this year. Now in its third year, the Sor Juana Prize is the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish. This year, two prizes will be awarded for a poem written in Spanish by a Utah high school student. One prize will be awarded for a poem by a student whose primary language at home is Spanish, and the other for a student whose primary language at home is other than Spanish.\N\NThe reception and ceremony will take place in the 4th floor conference room.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Book Award was established by the Salt Lake City Public Library to honor exceptional achievements by Utah writers and to recognize outstanding literature written with a Utah theme or setting. In 1999, the first and only award was presented to author Robert Van Wagoner for his novel Dancing Naked. Since then, the categories have been expanded to include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literature for children and young adults. This year's prizes will be awarded for books published in 2014. Winners of the 2013 prizes included Katharine Coles, Barbara Richardson, Brandon Mull, Jennifer Nielsen, and Val Holley.

In addition, we are pleased to announce that we are incorporating Artes de Mexico en Utah's presentation of the Sor Juana Aawards into the Utah Book Awards this year. Now in its third year, the Sor Juana Prize is the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish. This year, two prizes will be awarded for a poem written in Spanish by a Utah high school student. One prize will be awarded for a poem by a student whose primary language at home is Spanish, and the other for a student whose primary language at home is other than Spanish.

The reception and ceremony will take place in the 4th floor conference room.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151022T210000 UID:BFD0670B-95F0-4584-9CE2-4FBBE672A7C3 SUMMARY:Anca Cristofovici at the King's English CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/266 DESCRIPTION:The King's English and Ninebark Press present novelist Anca Cristofovici at the King's English. Cristofovici will read from and discuss her new novel, Stela.\N\N"Cristofovici's work comes to us like scraps of paper drifting down from a library whose collection has burned. We must gather all we can, and set about the task of their decipherment and reconstruction."\N—Ellen Hinsey, author of Update on the Descent\N\NNinebark Press is an independent literary press established in 2006 and dedicated to publishing innovative and compelling works by both new and established writers. The press is especially interested in literature that crosses boundaries of genre, culture, and aesthetic. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English and Ninebark Press present novelist Anca Cristofovici at the King's English. Cristofovici will read from and discuss her new novel, Stela.

"Cristofovici's work comes to us like scraps of paper drifting down from a library whose collection has burned. We must gather all we can, and set about the task of their decipherment and reconstruction."
—Ellen Hinsey, author of Update on the Descent

Ninebark Press is an independent literary press established in 2006 and dedicated to publishing innovative and compelling works by both new and established writers. The press is especially interested in literature that crosses boundaries of genre, culture, and aesthetic.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151025 UID:D4DF4A15-947D-48D1-972F-4F7297424330 SUMMARY:St. George Book Expo @ Spooky Town CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/284 DESCRIPTION:What to Except:\N\N* Readers of all ages and genres will get a chance to meet dozens of prolific authors, speakers and presenters, including Johnny Worthen and Mikey Brooks.\N\N* Enjoy performances by some of our local schools and talented children.\N\N* Discuss books and ideas, learn what it takes to be a successful author and much more at this year’s Southern Utah premier book and author event!\N\N* There will be drawings for prizes, no purchase necessary!\N\N* There will be book signings by Best & Award-winning authors. \N\N* Goodie bag at the registration table for each family or reader - includes free raffle ticket and 10% off coupon for one book purchase at the festival.\N\N* Purchase personalized and autographed books for yourself, your family and your friends! \N\NFor more information visit: http://heritagewriters.tripod.com/stgeorgebookfestival/book-expo.html\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the St. George Children's Museum, Hertiage Writers Guild, and the St. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:What to Except:

* Readers of all ages and genres will get a chance to meet dozens of prolific authors, speakers and presenters, including Johnny Worthen and Mikey Brooks.

* Enjoy performances by some of our local schools and talented children.

* Discuss books and ideas, learn what it takes to be a successful author and much more at this year’s Southern Utah premier book and author event!

* There will be drawings for prizes, no purchase necessary!

* There will be book signings by Best & Award-winning authors.

* Goodie bag at the registration table for each family or reader - includes free raffle ticket and 10% off coupon for one book purchase at the festival.

* Purchase personalized and autographed books for yourself, your family and your friends!

For more information visit: http://heritagewriters.tripod.com/stgeorgebookfestival/book-expo.html

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the St. George Children's Museum, Hertiage Writers Guild, and the St. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151023T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151023T170000 UID:9158A754-B594-4397-ACDE-AFC6F532F4B2 SUMMARY:The Writer's Journey Writing Workshop CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/251 DESCRIPTION:The Writer’s Journey – Writing Workshop at Dixie Applied Technology College.\N\NWorkshop Registration Fee: $5 early bird, $10 at the door\N\NSpeaker Box Lunch Fee: $20 early bird, $30 at the door (limited)\N\NEvent Schedule:\N\N8:00 to 8:30am – Registration\N\N8:30am – Keynote Speaker, Craig Clyde (Written & Directed 21 Featured Films). Topic: Adopting a Novel to Screen (Film)\N\N9:30 to 11:30am – Breakout Sessions\N\N11:30 to 12:00pm – Speaker Tables\N\N12:00 to 1:00pm – Speaker’s Box Lunch or Lunch on Your Own\N\N1:00 to 4:00pm – Breakout Sessions\N\N4:00 to 5:00pm – Closing Speaker, Dawn McLain. Topic: How to Market Yourself and Your Books X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Writer’s Journey – Writing Workshop at Dixie Applied Technology College.

Workshop Registration Fee: $5 early bird, $10 at the door

Speaker Box Lunch Fee: $20 early bird, $30 at the door (limited)

Event Schedule:

8:00 to 8:30am – Registration

8:30am – Keynote Speaker, Craig Clyde (Written & Directed 21 Featured Films). Topic: Adopting a Novel to Screen (Film)

9:30 to 11:30am – Breakout Sessions

11:30 to 12:00pm – Speaker Tables

12:00 to 1:00pm – Speaker’s Box Lunch or Lunch on Your Own

1:00 to 4:00pm – Breakout Sessions

4:00 to 5:00pm – Closing Speaker, Dawn McLain. Topic: How to Market Yourself and Your Books X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151023T220000 UID:37BBB142-9800-4573-A27B-3EDC2E6EFAC7 SUMMARY:Literacy Charity Dinner CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/219 DESCRIPTION:“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” ~ Katherine Patterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia\N\NAny parent knows reading to your child is essential! In April 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new study providing further evidence that book sharing in early childhood may promote brain development in supporting reading readiness.\N\NCome show your support not only for the St. George Book Festival, but also for the different community organizations who help promote literacy in our communities--the Washing County Library System, Washington County School District Foundation and St. George Children's Museum!\N\NThe night will be one you won't forget with St. George City Mayor Jon Pike giving the welcome, actor-comedian-writer Joe Niptoe as master of ceremonies and director-actor-writer Craig Clyde as the Keynote speaker. \N\NYou will also be dinning with over a dozen best-selling and award-winning authors in and around Utah, not to mention each ticket you purchase helps our fight against illiteracy in the St. George community and surrounding areas!\N\NFor more info, visit: http://heritagewriters.tripod.com/stgeorgebookfestival/charity-dinner.html\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the St. George Children's Museum, Utah Humanities, and the Heritage Writers Guild. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” ~ Katherine Patterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia

Any parent knows reading to your child is essential! In April 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new study providing further evidence that book sharing in early childhood may promote brain development in supporting reading readiness.

Come show your support not only for the St. George Book Festival, but also for the different community organizations who help promote literacy in our communities--the Washing County Library System, Washington County School District Foundation and St. George Children's Museum!

The night will be one you won't forget with St. George City Mayor Jon Pike giving the welcome, actor-comedian-writer Joe Niptoe as master of ceremonies and director-actor-writer Craig Clyde as the Keynote speaker.

You will also be dinning with over a dozen best-selling and award-winning authors in and around Utah, not to mention each ticket you purchase helps our fight against illiteracy in the St. George community and surrounding areas!

For more info, visit: http://heritagewriters.tripod.com/stgeorgebookfestival/charity-dinner.html

This event is made possible with support from the St. George Children's Museum, Utah Humanities, and the Heritage Writers Guild. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151023T203000 UID:8F8B1AC5-6B16-4947-B018-A581191C865B SUMMARY:Mackenzi Lee at the King's English CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/268 DESCRIPTION:Join debut author, Mackenzi Lee, for a reading and signing of her debut young adult novel, This Monstrous Thing.\N\NIn 1818 Geneva, men built with clockwork parts live hidden away from society, cared for only by illegal mechanics called Shadow Boys. Two years ago, Shadow Boy Alasdair Finch’s life shattered to bits. His brother, Oliver—dead. His sweetheart, Mary—gone. His chance to break free of Geneva—lost. Heartbroken and desperate, Alasdair does the unthinkable: he brings Oliver back from the dead.\N\NBut putting back together a broken life is more difficult than mending bones and adding clockwork pieces. Oliver returns more monster than man, and Alasdair’s horror further damages the already troubled relationship.\N\NThen comes the publication of Frankenstein, and the city intensifies its search for Shadow Boys, aiming to discover the real-life doctor and his monster. Alasdair finds refuge with his idol, the brilliant Dr. Geisler, who may offer him a way to escape the dangerous present and his guilt-ridden past, but at a horrible price only Oliver can pay....\N\NMackenzi Lee holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and Star Wars. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She currently lives in Boston, where she works as a bookseller and almost never reanimates corpses. Almost. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join debut author, Mackenzi Lee, for a reading and signing of her debut young adult novel, This Monstrous Thing.

In 1818 Geneva, men built with clockwork parts live hidden away from society, cared for only by illegal mechanics called Shadow Boys. Two years ago, Shadow Boy Alasdair Finch’s life shattered to bits. His brother, Oliver—dead. His sweetheart, Mary—gone. His chance to break free of Geneva—lost. Heartbroken and desperate, Alasdair does the unthinkable: he brings Oliver back from the dead.

But putting back together a broken life is more difficult than mending bones and adding clockwork pieces. Oliver returns more monster than man, and Alasdair’s horror further damages the already troubled relationship.

Then comes the publication of Frankenstein, and the city intensifies its search for Shadow Boys, aiming to discover the real-life doctor and his monster. Alasdair finds refuge with his idol, the brilliant Dr. Geisler, who may offer him a way to escape the dangerous present and his guilt-ridden past, but at a horrible price only Oliver can pay....

Mackenzi Lee holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and Star Wars. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She currently lives in Boston, where she works as a bookseller and almost never reanimates corpses. Almost. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151023T210000 UID:75C88B84-96FC-43DA-AF25-738903FFE43F SUMMARY:The King's English Present Acclaimed Children's Author Brian Selznick CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/279 DESCRIPTION:The King's English and The City Library are pleased to present Brian Selznick as he speaks about his new book, The Marvels. \N\NIn his most intricate and ambitious work to date, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick delivers a magnificent reinvention of his signature form and takes readers on an awe-inspiring voyage!\N\NTwo seemingly unrelated stories-- one in words, the other in pictures-- come together with spellbinding synergy! The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, and charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 and follows Joseph, who\Nhas run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London, where he, along with the reader, must piece together many mysteries. How the picture and word stories intersect will leave readers marveling over Selznick's storytelling prowess.\N\NFilled with mystery, vibrant characters, surprise twists, and heartrending beauty, and featuring Selznick's most arresting art to date, The Marvels is a moving tribute to the power of story.\N\NAuthor signing will follow the event. Books will be available for purchase.\N\NBrian Selznick ​is the Caldecott Medalwinning author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret which was adapted into Martin Scorsese's Oscarwinning movie Hugo. Selznick’s books have garnered countless accolades worldwide, and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He has previously worked as a set designer, independent bookseller, and a puppeteer. He lives in La Jolla, California, and Brooklyn, New York. For more information about Brian Selznick’s books, please visit: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/brianselznick\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English and The City Library.\N\N\N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English and The City Library are pleased to present Brian Selznick as he speaks about his new book, The Marvels. 

In his most intricate and ambitious work to date, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick delivers a magnificent reinvention of his signature form and takes readers on an awe-inspiring voyage!

Two seemingly unrelated stories-- one in words, the other in pictures-- come together with spellbinding synergy! The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, and charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 and follows Joseph, who
has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London, where he, along with the reader, must piece together many mysteries. How the picture and word stories intersect will leave readers marveling over Selznick's storytelling prowess.

Filled with mystery, vibrant characters, surprise twists, and heartrending beauty, and featuring Selznick's most arresting art to date, The Marvels is a moving tribute to the power of story.

Author signing will follow the event. Books will be available for purchase.

Brian Selznick ​is the Caldecott Medalwinning author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Wonderstruck and The Invention of Hugo Cabret which was adapted into Martin Scorsese's Oscarwinning movie Hugo. Selznick’s books have garnered countless accolades worldwide, and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He has previously worked as a set designer, independent bookseller, and a puppeteer. He lives in La Jolla, California, and Brooklyn, New York. For more information about Brian Selznick’s books, please visit: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/brianselznick

This event is made possible with support from The King's English and The City Library.




X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151023T210000 UID:77FE7301-BF7F-431D-88F8-7085B73B2BE8 SUMMARY:Michael Homer Visits the Layton Heritage Museum CREATED:20260416T080109Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080109Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/323 DESCRIPTION:The Heritage Museum of Layton present Michael Homer, author of the book Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism.\N\NThe apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognized. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early church leaders were Masons, at least for a time, is common knowledge. Yet while early historians of the LDS Church openly acknowledged this connection, the question of influence was later dismissed and almost became taboo among faithful church members. Just as Mormons have tried to downplay any ties to Freemasonry, Masons have sought to distance themselves from Mormonism. In Joseph’s Temples, Michael Homer reveals how deeply the currents of Freemasonry and Mormonism entwined in the early nineteenth century. He goes on to lay out the declining course of relations between the two movements, until a détente in recent years.\N\NThere are indications that Freemasonry was a pervasive foundational element in Mormonism and that its rituals and origin legends influenced not just the secret ceremonies of the LDS temples but also such important matters as the organization of the Mormon priesthood, the foundation of the women’s Relief Society, the introduction and concealment of polygamy, and the church’s position on African Americans’ full membership. Freemasonry was also an important facet of Mormons’ relations with broader American society.\N\NThe two movements intertwined within a historical context of early American intellectual, social, and religious ferment, which influenced each of them and in varying times and situations placed them either in the current or against the flow of mainstream American culture and politics. Joseph’s Temples provides a comprehensive examination of a dynamic relationship and makes a significant contribution to the history of Mormonism, Freemasonry, and their places in American history.\N\NMichael W. Homer practices law in Salt Lake City. He is an award-winning author and has published numerous articles in the fields of law and Mormonism. He is the editor of On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834–1930 (University of Utah Press, 2010).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Division of State History. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Heritage Museum of Layton present Michael Homer, author of the book Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism.

The apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognized. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early church leaders were Masons, at least for a time, is common knowledge. Yet while early historians of the LDS Church openly acknowledged this connection, the question of influence was later dismissed and almost became taboo among faithful church members. Just as Mormons have tried to downplay any ties to Freemasonry, Masons have sought to distance themselves from Mormonism. In Joseph’s Temples, Michael Homer reveals how deeply the currents of Freemasonry and Mormonism entwined in the early nineteenth century. He goes on to lay out the declining course of relations between the two movements, until a détente in recent years.

There are indications that Freemasonry was a pervasive foundational element in Mormonism and that its rituals and origin legends influenced not just the secret ceremonies of the LDS temples but also such important matters as the organization of the Mormon priesthood, the foundation of the women’s Relief Society, the introduction and concealment of polygamy, and the church’s position on African Americans’ full membership. Freemasonry was also an important facet of Mormons’ relations with broader American society.

The two movements intertwined within a historical context of early American intellectual, social, and religious ferment, which influenced each of them and in varying times and situations placed them either in the current or against the flow of mainstream American culture and politics. Joseph’s Temples provides a comprehensive examination of a dynamic relationship and makes a significant contribution to the history of Mormonism, Freemasonry, and their places in American history.

Michael W. Homer practices law in Salt Lake City. He is an award-winning author and has published numerous articles in the fields of law and Mormonism. He is the editor of On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834–1930 (University of Utah Press, 2010).

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Division of State History. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151024T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151024T120000 UID:DE89716E-2532-4D73-9712-FFBE2017F461 SUMMARY:Art Access: Disability and Literature Book Group CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/186 DESCRIPTION:The Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group will discuss Heidi Squier Kraft's Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital at Westminster College.\N\NThe Disability and Literature Book Group began in spring 2012 with the goal of investigating how and why people with disabilities have been depicted in classic literary texts and considering the historical, social, and cultural impact of these depictions. Since then, it has focused on disability issues in classic fiction, disability memoir, and contemporary texts, including those written by local authors. \N\NHeidi Squier Kraft received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in 1996. She joined the Navy during her internship at Duke University Medical Center, serving as both a flight and clinical psychologist. Her active duty assignments included the Naval Safety Center, the Naval Health Research Center, and Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL.\N\NWhile on flight status, she flew in nearly every aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory, including over 100 hours in the F/A-18 Hornet, primarily with Marine Corps squadrons. In February 2004, she deployed to western Iraq for seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company, when her boy and girl twins were fifteen months old. RULE NUMBER TWO is a memoir of that experience.\N\NShe left active duty in 2005 after nine years in the Navy, and now serves as a consultant for the US Navy and Marine Corps' Combat Stress Control programs. She treats active duty patients who suffer from PTSD, and provides invited talks on combat stress, stigma and caring for the caregiver, for 50-60 audiences per year. She lives in San Diego with her husband Mike, a former Marine Corps Harrier pilot, and twins Brian and Megan, who have no memory of their mother's time in Iraq.\N\NThe Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group sessions meet, unless otherwise noted, at Art Access (230 South 500 West, Suite 110). Sessions are FREE and open to the public, but are limited to 18 registered participants in each session.\N\NA few copies of each book are available from Art Access and may be borrowed for a limited time. Personal copies may also be purchased by participants or borrowed in print from local libraries. If you have questions about accessing texts, please contact Elise Butterfield at elise@accessart.org.\N\NPLEASE NOTE: This is a book discussion led by Susan Anderson and Art Access. The author will not be present for this discussion.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Art Access. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group will discuss Heidi Squier Kraft's Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital at Westminster College.

The Disability and Literature Book Group began in spring 2012 with the goal of investigating how and why people with disabilities have been depicted in classic literary texts and considering the historical, social, and cultural impact of these depictions. Since then, it has focused on disability issues in classic fiction, disability memoir, and contemporary texts, including those written by local authors.

Heidi Squier Kraft received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in 1996. She joined the Navy during her internship at Duke University Medical Center, serving as both a flight and clinical psychologist. Her active duty assignments included the Naval Safety Center, the Naval Health Research Center, and Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL.

While on flight status, she flew in nearly every aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory, including over 100 hours in the F/A-18 Hornet, primarily with Marine Corps squadrons. In February 2004, she deployed to western Iraq for seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company, when her boy and girl twins were fifteen months old. RULE NUMBER TWO is a memoir of that experience.

She left active duty in 2005 after nine years in the Navy, and now serves as a consultant for the US Navy and Marine Corps' Combat Stress Control programs. She treats active duty patients who suffer from PTSD, and provides invited talks on combat stress, stigma and caring for the caregiver, for 50-60 audiences per year. She lives in San Diego with her husband Mike, a former Marine Corps Harrier pilot, and twins Brian and Megan, who have no memory of their mother's time in Iraq.

The Art Access Disability and Literature Book Group sessions meet, unless otherwise noted, at Art Access (230 South 500 West, Suite 110). Sessions are FREE and open to the public, but are limited to 18 registered participants in each session.

A few copies of each book are available from Art Access and may be borrowed for a limited time. Personal copies may also be purchased by participants or borrowed in print from local libraries. If you have questions about accessing texts, please contact Elise Butterfield at elise@accessart.org.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a book discussion led by Susan Anderson and Art Access. The author will not be present for this discussion.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Art Access. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151024T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151024T153000 UID:80E78D5D-895F-4C27-B1D0-FEEF44F95A3E SUMMARY:Julianne Donaldson: What Makes Good Romance? CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/236 DESCRIPTION:What makes for a good romance novel? The Brigham City Public Library can help answer that question when they host Julianne Donaldson on Saturday, October 24th.\N\NJulianne Donaldson is the bestselling author of Edenbrooke. Her degree in English has fueled her desire to write. She and her husband live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their four children, but she takes every opportunity she can to travel the English countryside.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:What makes for a good romance novel? The Brigham City Public Library can help answer that question when they host Julianne Donaldson on Saturday, October 24th.

Julianne Donaldson is the bestselling author of Edenbrooke. Her degree in English has fueled her desire to write. She and her husband live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their four children, but she takes every opportunity she can to travel the English countryside.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:7 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151024T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151024T170000 UID:6AE27182-6051-4A1E-B454-8FD1755CAB99 SUMMARY:Author Speed-Dating CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/256 DESCRIPTION:No, it's not a real date, but it is a great opportunity to learn a little more about five great YA authors. Here's how it works. Amy Finnegan, Jessica Day George, Makenzi Lee, Jennifer Nielsen and Bobbie Pyron will all be presenting simultaneously! Spend 10 minutes in a small group meeting each of them as they talk about their work or experiences as authors.\N\NAmy Finnegan writes her own stories because she enjoys falling in love over and over again, and thinks everyone deserves a happy ending. She likes to travel the world—usually to locations where her favorite books take place—and owes her unquenchable thirst for reading to Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling. Her debut novel, NOT IN THE SCRIPT (Bloomsbury, 2014), came about after hearing several years of behind-the-scenes stories from her industry veteran brother. As part of her research, she was lucky enough to visit dozens of film sets and sit in on major productions such as Parks and Recreation  and  Parenthood. \N\NJessica Day George is the NYT Bestselling author of eleven books for middle readers and young adults, including the popular TUESDAYS AT THE CASTLE and her latest book for teens, SILVER IN THE BLOOD. She currently lives in the Salt Lake Valley with her husband and three young children, and she loves reading, knitting, reading, small dogs, reading, travel, and dark chocolate.\N\NMackenzi Lee holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and Star Wars. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She currently lives in Boston, where she works as a bookseller and almost never reanimates corpses. Almost.\N\NJennifer Nielsen is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of the Ascendance Trilogy, Mark of the Thief, and her most recent release, A Night Divided. She lives in Northern Utah with her husband, three kids, and a dog that won’t play fetch.\N\NBobbie Pyron is the author of the teen novel, THE RING (WestSide Books, 2009), the middle grade, award-winning novel A DOGS WAY HOME (HarperCollins, 2011), the critically acclaimed The Dogs Of Winter (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012), and her latest novel Lucky Strike (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015.). She lives in Park City, Utah with her husband, two dogs and two cats. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and the Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:No, it's not a real date, but it is a great opportunity to learn a little more about five great YA authors. Here's how it works. Amy Finnegan, Jessica Day George, Makenzi Lee, Jennifer Nielsen and Bobbie Pyron will all be presenting simultaneously! Spend 10 minutes in a small group meeting each of them as they talk about their work or experiences as authors.

Amy Finnegan writes her own stories because she enjoys falling in love over and over again, and thinks everyone deserves a happy ending. She likes to travel the world—usually to locations where her favorite books take place—and owes her unquenchable thirst for reading to Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling. Her debut novel, NOT IN THE SCRIPT (Bloomsbury, 2014), came about after hearing several years of behind-the-scenes stories from her industry veteran brother. As part of her research, she was lucky enough to visit dozens of film sets and sit in on major productions such as Parks and Recreation  and  Parenthood.

Jessica Day George is the NYT Bestselling author of eleven books for middle readers and young adults, including the popular TUESDAYS AT THE CASTLE and her latest book for teens, SILVER IN THE BLOOD. She currently lives in the Salt Lake Valley with her husband and three young children, and she loves reading, knitting, reading, small dogs, reading, travel, and dark chocolate.

Mackenzi Lee holds a BA in history and an MFA from Simmons College in writing for children and young adults. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and Star Wars. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She currently lives in Boston, where she works as a bookseller and almost never reanimates corpses. Almost.

Jennifer Nielsen is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of the Ascendance Trilogy, Mark of the Thief, and her most recent release, A Night Divided. She lives in Northern Utah with her husband, three kids, and a dog that won’t play fetch.

Bobbie Pyron is the author of the teen novel, THE RING (WestSide Books, 2009), the middle grade, award-winning novel A DOGS WAY HOME (HarperCollins, 2011), the critically acclaimed The Dogs Of Winter (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012), and her latest novel Lucky Strike (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015.). She lives in Park City, Utah with her husband, two dogs and two cats.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and the Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151026T210000 UID:46F98C83-38AF-4619-95A4-4B7805BC517D SUMMARY:Sarah Alisabeth Fox Visits the Washington Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/282 DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Washington Branch Library Library to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Washington Branch Library Library to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151026T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151026T220000 UID:8FA03EDE-3B86-48BF-9768-D9CA2AB79BA3 SUMMARY:Salt City Slam! at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/254 DESCRIPTION:It's the Salt City Slam! at Weller Book Works. Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It's the Salt City Slam! at Weller Book Works. Open mic, followed by a featured poet, then...the Slam!!! The Salt City Slam is held the last Monday of every month. Only $5 cover! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151027T210000 UID:CB8FD871-53C3-4413-B666-8EE591CBA880 SUMMARY:Sarah Alisabeth Fox at SUU CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/163 DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox will visit Southern Utah University (7:00 PM, Gilbert Great Hall in the Hunter Conference Center) to discuss her new book "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West." Ms. Fox is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of Southern Utah University, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox will visit Southern Utah University (7:00 PM, Gilbert Great Hall in the Hunter Conference Center) to discuss her new book "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West." Ms. Fox is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

This event is made possible through the support of Southern Utah University, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151027T210000 UID:4776EDA6-09A9-4AF1-815A-24033DE1D4EA SUMMARY:Great Basin Panel CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/287 DESCRIPTION:\NHow does the place we live inform our art? With its valleys and peaks, sagebrush and streams, the Great Basin inspires creative expression in forms as varied as its landscape. Join four distinguished artists—a filmmaker, a photographer, a novelist, and a poet—in a panel discussion about the unique inspiration discovered in the Great Basin. \N\NJana Richman was born and raised in Utah’s west desert, the daughter of a small-time rancher and a hand-wringing Mormon mother. She is the author of a memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman’s Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail, and two novels, The Last Cowgirl, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction, and The Ordinary Truth. Her essays have appeared in various newspapers and journals including The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Quarterly West, and The Fourth River. Richman lives in the irascible small town of Escalante, Utah, bordering the magnificent Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, with her husband and backpacking partner, Steve Defa. She is currently working on a collection \Nof essays.\N\NAs writer, editor, and photographer Stephen Trimble has \Npublished more than 20 books. In the 26 years since he published his Great Basin natural history narrative, The Sagebrush Ocean, the ecological stories of this place have become so complex that Trimble’s book documents an endangered landscape, a place that no longer exists. Trimble has received a broad range of awards for his photography, his non-fiction, and his fiction, including: The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation; The National Cowboy Museum’s Western Heritage “Wrangler” Award; a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellowship at the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center; and a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Colorado College. He teaches writing in the University of Utah Honors College and makes his home in Salt Lake City and in the redrock country of Torrey, Utah. Trimble’s website is www.stephentrimble.net\N\NAlisha Anderson was born and raised in northern California. She later moved to Utah and received her BFA in Studio Arts from Brigham Young University. She recently graduated from the University of Utah with a MS in Environmental Humanities, where she was also awarded The Floyd O’Neil \NFellowship in Western American Studies. Her time in the Environmental Humanities’ program has added the dimensions of story and place to her evolving work. Her artwork and writing have appeared in various art exhibitions, as well as local and collegiate journals.\N\NMichael McLane is an editor with both Sugar House Review \Nand saltfront: studies in human habit(at). He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Western Humanities Review, High Country News, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and Interim. More recently, his work has turned its focus on the Great Basin, with a specific interest in the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to the west and Salt Lake City to the east. He is at work on a history of the Beck Street area of Salt Lake City and a “lyric map” of the NNSS. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he oversees literary programming for Utah Humanities. \N\NAs Co-Publisher and Editorial Director at Torrey House Press, Kirsten Allen oversees marketing, production, and editorial concerns for Utah’s independent nonprofit literary publisher. Established in 2010, Torrey House Press promotes conservation through literature, combining two of Kirsten’s dearest passions. Kirsten lives with her husband, Mark Bailey, and two cats in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Torrey House Press. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
How does the place we live inform our art? With its valleys and peaks, sagebrush and streams, the Great Basin inspires creative expression in forms as varied as its landscape. Join four distinguished artists—a filmmaker, a photographer, a novelist, and a poet—in a panel discussion about the unique inspiration discovered in the Great Basin.

Jana Richman was born and raised in Utah’s west desert, the daughter of a small-time rancher and a hand-wringing Mormon mother. She is the author of a memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman’s Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail, and two novels, The Last Cowgirl, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction, and The Ordinary Truth. Her essays have appeared in various newspapers and journals including The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Quarterly West, and The Fourth River. Richman lives in the irascible small town of Escalante, Utah, bordering the magnificent Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, with her husband and backpacking partner, Steve Defa. She is currently working on a collection
of essays.

As writer, editor, and photographer Stephen Trimble has
published more than 20 books. In the 26 years since he published his Great Basin natural history narrative, The Sagebrush Ocean, the ecological stories of this place have become so complex that Trimble’s book documents an endangered landscape, a place that no longer exists. Trimble has received a broad range of awards for his photography, his non-fiction, and his fiction, including: The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation; The National Cowboy Museum’s Western Heritage “Wrangler” Award; a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellowship at the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center; and a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Colorado College. He teaches writing in the University of Utah Honors College and makes his home in Salt Lake City and in the redrock country of Torrey, Utah. Trimble’s website is www.stephentrimble.net

Alisha Anderson was born and raised in northern California. She later moved to Utah and received her BFA in Studio Arts from Brigham Young University. She recently graduated from the University of Utah with a MS in Environmental Humanities, where she was also awarded The Floyd O’Neil
Fellowship in Western American Studies. Her time in the Environmental Humanities’ program has added the dimensions of story and place to her evolving work. Her artwork and writing have appeared in various art exhibitions, as well as local and collegiate journals.

Michael McLane is an editor with both Sugar House Review
and saltfront: studies in human habit(at). He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Western Humanities Review, High Country News, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, and Interim. More recently, his work has turned its focus on the Great Basin, with a specific interest in the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to the west and Salt Lake City to the east. He is at work on a history of the Beck Street area of Salt Lake City and a “lyric map” of the NNSS. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he oversees literary programming for Utah Humanities.

As Co-Publisher and Editorial Director at Torrey House Press, Kirsten Allen oversees marketing, production, and editorial concerns for Utah’s independent nonprofit literary publisher. Established in 2010, Torrey House Press promotes conservation through literature, combining two of Kirsten’s dearest passions. Kirsten lives with her husband, Mark Bailey, and two cats in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Torrey House Press.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151028T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151028T130000 UID:B1D6DBED-2455-4045-8BA7-B79D02A15ECC SUMMARY:Brian Cannon Visits the Utah State Archives CREATED:20260416T080106Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080106Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/228 DESCRIPTION:Historian Brian Cannon visits the Utah State Archives to discuss his new book, The Awkward State of Utah. This event is part of Utah Archives Month, an annual event sponsored by archives and special collections from across Utah.\N\NThe half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people. Drawing upon expertise honed over decades of teaching, researching, and writing about Utah’s history, the authors incorporate fresh archival sources, new oral histories, and hundreds of scholarly articles and books as they narrate the little-known story of the crucial formative years when Utah came of age.\N\NDuring its sometimes awkward years of adolescence and maturation, Utah was gradually incorporated into the American political, social, and economic mainstream. Urban and industrial influences supplanted agrarian traditions, displacing people socially, draining the countryside of population, and galvanizing a critical crisis in values and self-identification. National corporations and mass labor movements took root in the state as commerce expanded. Involvement in world events such as the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Great Depression further set the stage for entry into the modern, globalized world as Utahns immersed themselves in national politics and became part of the democratic, corporate culture of twentieth-century America.\N\NBrian Q. Cannon is a professor of history and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West, and coeditor, with Jessie L. Embry, of Utah in the Twentieth Century and Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences (University of Utah Press, 2015).\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Utah State Archives and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Brian Cannon visits the Utah State Archives to discuss his new book, The Awkward State of Utah. This event is part of Utah Archives Month, an annual event sponsored by archives and special collections from across Utah.

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people. Drawing upon expertise honed over decades of teaching, researching, and writing about Utah’s history, the authors incorporate fresh archival sources, new oral histories, and hundreds of scholarly articles and books as they narrate the little-known story of the crucial formative years when Utah came of age.

During its sometimes awkward years of adolescence and maturation, Utah was gradually incorporated into the American political, social, and economic mainstream. Urban and industrial influences supplanted agrarian traditions, displacing people socially, draining the countryside of population, and galvanizing a critical crisis in values and self-identification. National corporations and mass labor movements took root in the state as commerce expanded. Involvement in world events such as the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Great Depression further set the stage for entry into the modern, globalized world as Utahns immersed themselves in national politics and became part of the democratic, corporate culture of twentieth-century America.

Brian Q. Cannon is a professor of history and director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West, and coeditor, with Jessie L. Embry, of Utah in the Twentieth Century and Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences (University of Utah Press, 2015).

This event is made possible with the support of the Utah State Archives and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151028T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151028T210000 UID:824C6A02-B519-4460-BF77-B11BB17921F3 SUMMARY:Cos-Play Panels at Viridian CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/257 DESCRIPTION:Come to the first-ever Fandom Fest, a free teen-led event of workshops, panels and interactive activities all around your favorite books and fandoms. Created in partnership with the Utah Humanities Council and Salt Lake City Public Library Fandom Fest is for teens by teens and we hope you walk away with a new favorite fandom.\N\NFor more info or to submit a panel application, visit: \Nhttps://calendar.slcolibrary.org/EventDetails.aspx?data=oUtg1FbeNNMLA3jim1P8gVkH07FT80dB X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come to the first-ever Fandom Fest, a free teen-led event of workshops, panels and interactive activities all around your favorite books and fandoms. Created in partnership with the Utah Humanities Council and Salt Lake City Public Library Fandom Fest is for teens by teens and we hope you walk away with a new favorite fandom.

For more info or to submit a panel application, visit:
https://calendar.slcolibrary.org/EventDetails.aspx?data=oUtg1FbeNNMLA3jim1P8gVkH07FT80dB X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151028T210000 UID:98985A20-BAF5-4CD6-935A-01145666A782 SUMMARY:Ron Carlson, "Return to Oakpine" CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/158 DESCRIPTION:Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine," as part of the City Art series in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library.\N\NIn this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.\N\NIn high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.\N\NRon Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California. \N\NThis event is made pssible with the support of Utah Humanities, the Salt Lake City Public Library, and City Art. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine," as part of the City Art series in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library.

In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.

In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.

Ron Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California.

This event is made pssible with the support of Utah Humanities, the Salt Lake City Public Library, and City Art. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151028T210000 UID:BF0F5A14-DACD-47E5-A24A-E935C3787C94 SUMMARY:Manga & Comic Night at the Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/238 DESCRIPTION:Get your cos play on and join us at the Brigham City Public Library for an evening full of manga & comics. \N\NBe sure to dress up as you favorite character! It's a perfect opportunity to try out your Halloween costume before the big day. Come join in on the activities, fun, and games Manga and Comic style!\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Get your cos play on and join us at the Brigham City Public Library for an evening full of manga & comics.

Be sure to dress up as you favorite character! It's a perfect opportunity to try out your Halloween costume before the big day. Come join in on the activities, fun, and games Manga and Comic style!
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151028T210000 UID:CBBE1F41-E026-4AB5-B869-B007F8A84609 SUMMARY:Sarah Alisabeth Fox Visits the Enterprise Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/283 DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Enterprise Branch Library Library to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox visits the Enterprise Branch Library Library to discuss her new book, Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151029 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151031 UID:3B221E05-B6E3-4F05-838F-64C8DE8FE28F SUMMARY:War of the Worlds by Salt City Radio Players CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/255 DESCRIPTION:Salt City Radio Players present War of the Worlds at Clark Planetarium for two nights only (10/29 & 10/30). \N\NSalt City Radio Players are a live radio theatre company, presenting radio theatre from the past, done live before your eyes, with actors, musicians, and foley artists. War of the Worlds will be in the dome theater, accompanied with amazing visuals on the ceiling above. Free to the public. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Salt City Radio Players present War of the Worlds at Clark Planetarium for two nights only (10/29 & 10/30).

Salt City Radio Players are a live radio theatre company, presenting radio theatre from the past, done live before your eyes, with actors, musicians, and foley artists. War of the Worlds will be in the dome theater, accompanied with amazing visuals on the ceiling above. Free to the public. Sponsored by Pygmalion Theatre Company and Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T123000 UID:56E2C6D6-9E39-45A0-AAB8-F45C3CD4B2B5 SUMMARY:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox at BYU CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://reddcenter.byu.edu DESCRIPTION:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to discuss her new book "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West." Ms. Fox is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.\N\NIn chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”\N\NWith the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.\N\NSarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly. \N\NThis event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Sarah Alisabeth Fox will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to discuss her new book "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West." Ms. Fox is one of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies authors for the 2015 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans.

In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.”

With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.

Sarah Alisabeth Fox is a freelance writer and editor. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Montana, the Magazine of Western History and Western Historical Quarterly.

This event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T133000 UID:EBE4C1B7-5CA2-441C-A3E6-88FB2D667C5F SUMMARY:Ron Carlson, "Return to Oakpine" CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/141 DESCRIPTION:Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine," at Utah State University in Room 101 of the Merrill-Cazier Library. \N\NIn this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.\N\NIn high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.\N\NRon Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California. \N\NThis event is made possible by support from Utah Humanities and Utah State University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine," at Utah State University in Room 101 of the Merrill-Cazier Library.

In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.

In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.

Ron Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California.

This event is made possible by support from Utah Humanities and Utah State University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T193000 UID:35C7E78A-677D-4340-8735-3CF1342C3FCD SUMMARY: CREATED:20260416T080109Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080109Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/327 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Cultural Celebration Center, in collaboration with the Utah Division of State History, is pleased to present author and photographer Armando Solorzano.\N\NAs part of the Utah Division of State History’s 63rd annual conference, the Utah State Historical Society has acquired a photographic exhibit that reveals the long and significant history of Latinos in Utah. The 50 photo panel will be displayed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 West 3100 South, West Valley City) beginning October 2nd and will run through November 5th.\N \N\NThe history of Mexican Americans in Utah is complex, but it is a history that is neither well represented in the mainstream literature nor well recognized in the mainstream understanding of Utah’s past. Convoluted interactions among Native Americans, Spaniards, French, Mexicans, Anglos, and others shaped the story of Utah. Awareness of the long presence of Hispanics in Utah is essential to understanding the history of the state. Solorzano's volume is an attempt to piece together that history through photos and oral histories.\N\NAs Armando Solórzano and other researchers conducted oral history interviews with Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and other Latinos throughout the state, a number of participants began giving the team photographs, some dating back to 1895, which provided an opportunity to reconstruct a history through pictures, as a community project. Within two years, Solórzano and his colleagues were able to create the pictorial history of Mexican Americans and Latinos in Utah and launch their efforts as a photo-documentary exhibit. The collected photographs represent different historical periods and the manifold contributions of Latinos to the State of Utah.\N\NArmando Solórzano is director of Chicano Studies at the University of Utah, where he holds joint faculty appointments in Ethnic Studies and Family and Consumer Studies. He is the author of Fiebre Dorada o Fiebre Amarilla?: La Fundación Rockefeller en México. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Cultural Celebration Center, in collaboration with the Utah Division of State History, is pleased to present author and photographer Armando Solorzano.

As part of the Utah Division of State History’s 63rd annual conference, the Utah State Historical Society has acquired a photographic exhibit that reveals the long and significant history of Latinos in Utah. The 50 photo panel will be displayed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 West 3100 South, West Valley City) beginning October 2nd and will run through November 5th.


The history of Mexican Americans in Utah is complex, but it is a history that is neither well represented in the mainstream literature nor well recognized in the mainstream understanding of Utah’s past. Convoluted interactions among Native Americans, Spaniards, French, Mexicans, Anglos, and others shaped the story of Utah. Awareness of the long presence of Hispanics in Utah is essential to understanding the history of the state. Solorzano's volume is an attempt to piece together that history through photos and oral histories.

As Armando Solórzano and other researchers conducted oral history interviews with Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and other Latinos throughout the state, a number of participants began giving the team photographs, some dating back to 1895, which provided an opportunity to reconstruct a history through pictures, as a community project. Within two years, Solórzano and his colleagues were able to create the pictorial history of Mexican Americans and Latinos in Utah and launch their efforts as a photo-documentary exhibit. The collected photographs represent different historical periods and the manifold contributions of Latinos to the State of Utah.

Armando Solórzano is director of Chicano Studies at the University of Utah, where he holds joint faculty appointments in Ethnic Studies and Family and Consumer Studies. He is the author of Fiebre Dorada o Fiebre Amarilla?: La Fundación Rockefeller en México. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T203000 UID:91B22A54-DB93-4B59-88AF-841E4B62E73C SUMMARY:Utah State Poetry Society Presents Candy Lish Fowler CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/167 DESCRIPTION:Utah State Poetry Society Poet of the Year Candy Lish Fowler will visit Dixie State University Eccles Fine Arts Concert Hall to present a book concert for her new work On a Road that Knows Me. Lish is the annual Utah State Poetry Society original manuscript winner.\N\NJudge January Gill O’Neil describes Fowler’s book as a stylish collection where there is no easy way into the truth; It is a personal, sometimes painful journey. But it is often marked with moments of light, vibrant and dynamic. This allows us to walk along-through family, music, culture and travel. These poems stayed with me says O’Neil, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of Massachusetts and Professor of English at Salem State University.\N\NCandy Lish Fowler grew up in Granger, Utah graduating as the Sterling Scholar in English. She attended the University of Utah as a Presidential Scholar where she majored in Dance and minored in English. She was the founder/director of St. George’s Southwest Dance Theater, which has been featured in the Tribune and Deseret News. She has been an instructor at the University of Utah, Dixie State College, founded the dance program at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and served on the Utah Arts Council. Her poetry has won state and national awards including 2nd place in the Utah Arts and Museums 2014 Writing competition. Her work has been published in several poetry books. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as Dixie State University\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State Poetry Society Poet of the Year Candy Lish Fowler will visit Dixie State University Eccles Fine Arts Concert Hall to present a book concert for her new work On a Road that Knows Me. Lish is the annual Utah State Poetry Society original manuscript winner.

Judge January Gill O’Neil describes Fowler’s book as a stylish collection where there is no easy way into the truth; It is a personal, sometimes painful journey. But it is often marked with moments of light, vibrant and dynamic. This allows us to walk along-through family, music, culture and travel. These poems stayed with me says O’Neil, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of Massachusetts and Professor of English at Salem State University.

Candy Lish Fowler grew up in Granger, Utah graduating as the Sterling Scholar in English. She attended the University of Utah as a Presidential Scholar where she majored in Dance and minored in English. She was the founder/director of St. George’s Southwest Dance Theater, which has been featured in the Tribune and Deseret News. She has been an instructor at the University of Utah, Dixie State College, founded the dance program at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and served on the Utah Arts Council. Her poetry has won state and national awards including 2nd place in the Utah Arts and Museums 2014 Writing competition. Her work has been published in several poetry books.

This event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as Dixie State University

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T210000 UID:ABDEC684-25E1-48C6-B775-80FBEEA7DD50 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Finale: Spooky Salt Lake Tales by Cherie Davis CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/274 DESCRIPTION:Ever wonder if Utah has any ghost stories? Come feel the shivers as you listen to local artist and storyteller Cherie Davis share eerie tales from Utah’s rich heritage of ghost lore. She will tell old favorite ghost stories that get repeated each Halloween season as well as firsthand ones from her new book, Spooks and Saints, featuring intriguing ghost legends of Salt Lake City.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ever wonder if Utah has any ghost stories? Come feel the shivers as you listen to local artist and storyteller Cherie Davis share eerie tales from Utah’s rich heritage of ghost lore. She will tell old favorite ghost stories that get repeated each Halloween season as well as firsthand ones from her new book, Spooks and Saints, featuring intriguing ghost legends of Salt Lake City.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T210000 UID:F92A19C3-CB05-42FE-833B-D8A957463B7A SUMMARY:Campbell McGrath & Natalie Scenters-Zapico at the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series CREATED:20260416T080105Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080105Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/179 DESCRIPTION:The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at Westminster College present poets Campbell McGrath and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. \N\NCampbell McGrath was born in Chicago in 1962 and grew up in Washington, D.C. He received his BA in English language and literature from the University of Chicago and his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in New York City.\N\NHe is the author of nine collections of poetry, including In The Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012), Shannon (Ecco Press, 2009), and Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2007). His third book, Spring Comes to Chicago (Ecco Press, 1996), won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.\N\NMcGrath’s honors include a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. McGrath lives in Miami and teaches creative writing at Florida International University.\N\NNatalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. The Verging Cities, her debut poetry collection, is available through The Center For Literary Publishing as part of their Mountain West Poetry Series (April 2015). Her poems have appeared in The Believer, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Palabra, and more. A 2015 Cantomundo fellow, Dana Levin featured her as part of the “Introducing” Series in American Poets and Sherman Alexie selected one of her poems for The Best American Poetry 2015. She has taught literature and creative writing in English and Spanish at the University of Texas at El Paso, University of New Mexico, and Juan Diego Catholic High School. She currently lives with her husband, José Ángel Maldonado, in Salt Lake City. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at Westminster College present poets Campbell McGrath and Natalie Scenters-Zapico.

Campbell McGrath was born in Chicago in 1962 and grew up in Washington, D.C. He received his BA in English language and literature from the University of Chicago and his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in New York City.

He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including In The Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (Ecco Press, 2012), Shannon (Ecco Press, 2009), and Seven Notebooks (Ecco Press, 2007). His third book, Spring Comes to Chicago (Ecco Press, 1996), won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

McGrath’s honors include a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. McGrath lives in Miami and teaches creative writing at Florida International University.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. The Verging Cities, her debut poetry collection, is available through The Center For Literary Publishing as part of their Mountain West Poetry Series (April 2015). Her poems have appeared in The Believer, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Palabra, and more. A 2015 Cantomundo fellow, Dana Levin featured her as part of the “Introducing” Series in American Poets and Sherman Alexie selected one of her poems for The Best American Poetry 2015. She has taught literature and creative writing in English and Spanish at the University of Texas at El Paso, University of New Mexico, and Juan Diego Catholic High School. She currently lives with her husband, José Ángel Maldonado, in Salt Lake City. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151029T210000 UID:1689D9DD-B273-452D-82FD-58054AA0FAF2 SUMMARY:The King's English Presents Acclaimed Mystery Author Craig Johnson at the Viridian Event Center CREATED:20260416T080107Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080107Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/267 DESCRIPTION:Join mystery author, Craig Johnson, for a reading and signing of his book, Wait for Signs.\N\NTen years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson’s bestselling, award-winning novels and the hit TV series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new short story featuring an episode in Walt’s life that doesn’t appear in the novels; over the years, many have asked why they can’t buy the stories in book form.\N\NWait for Signs collects those beloved stories in a single volume. With glimpses of Walt’s past from the incident in “Ministerial Aide,” when the sheriff is mistaken for a deity, to the hilarious “Messenger,” where the majority of the action takes place in a Port-A-Potty, Wait for Signs is a necessary addition to any Longmire fan’s shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop and the Viridian Event Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join mystery author, Craig Johnson, for a reading and signing of his book, Wait for Signs.

Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson’s bestselling, award-winning novels and the hit TV series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new short story featuring an episode in Walt’s life that doesn’t appear in the novels; over the years, many have asked why they can’t buy the stories in book form.

Wait for Signs collects those beloved stories in a single volume. With glimpses of Walt’s past from the incident in “Ministerial Aide,” when the sheriff is mistaken for a deity, to the hilarious “Messenger,” where the majority of the action takes place in a Port-A-Potty, Wait for Signs is a necessary addition to any Longmire fan’s shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop and the Viridian Event Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151030T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151030T140000 UID:3ED03018-0569-4152-8615-100F84032615 SUMMARY:Ron Carlson, "Return to Oakpine" CREATED:20260416T080108Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080108Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/295 DESCRIPTION:Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine,"at Brigham Young University in the Main Auditorium of the Harold B. Lee Library.\N\NIn this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.\N\NIn high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.\N\NRon Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and Brigham Young University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelist Ron Carlson reads from and discusses his new book, "Return to Oakpine,"at Brigham Young University in the Main Auditorium of the Harold B. Lee Library.

In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who they are in the world.

In high school, these men were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New York City after the tragic death of his brother. A successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in 1999—because he is dying. Return to Oakpine is a generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.

Ron Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, including The Signal and Five Skies. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine and lives in Huntington Beach, California.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and Brigham Young University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160913 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161101 UID:2B51E968-FB59-4E89-9F12-5A2D9029BFF3 SUMMARY:The Weller Book Works Event Calendar CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/628 DESCRIPTION:Our friends at Weller Book Works have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/ \N\NTuesday, September 13, 9 AM: \NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Hosted and co-sponsored by Coffee Connection!\N\NWednesday, September 14, 6 PM: \NLit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick. Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation!\N\NSaturday, September 17, 2 PM: \NThomas W. Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940.\N\NTuesday, September 20, 9 AM: \NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller. \N\NMonday, September 26, 8 PM: \NSalt City Slam! Open mic, followed by the featured poet, then...the SLAM!!!! Only $5 cover!!!\N\NTuesday, September 27, 9 AM: \NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller. \N\NWednesday, September 28, 6 PM: \NLit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick.\N\NFriday, September 30, 6:30 PM: Collector's Book Salon. Collectors’ Book Salons are monthly gatherings for rare book collectors and curious persons. This salon will feature world-renowned magician Paul Draper as the speaker. He'll be discussing rare and unusual books about magic. Join us for great conversations, treats and biblio-worship on. Bring a friend.\N\NTuesday, October 4, 9 AM: \NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller. \N\NMonday, October 10, 6:30 PM: \NLynn Kenneth Packer and Lying for the Lord: The Paul H. Dunn Stories. \N\NTuesday, October 11, 9 AM: Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Hosted and co-sponsored by Coffee Connection!\N\NTuesday, October 11, 7 PM: \NScott Renshaw, Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life.\N\N\NTuesday, October 18, 6:30 PM: \NKevin Wolf, The Homeplace. \N\NTuesday, October 18, 9 AM: \NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller.\N\NFriday, October 21, 7 PM: \NMegan McCall presents Alteration.  \N\NMonday, October 24, 8 PM: It's the Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by the featured poet, then...the SLAM!!!! Only $5 cover!!!\N\NTuesday, October 25, 9 AM: \NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller. \N\NWednesday, October 26, 6 PM: \NLit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick.\N\NThursday, October 27th, 7 PM:\NJonathan Lethem, A Gambler’s Anatomy\N\NFriday, October 28, 6:30 PM: Collector's Book Salon. Collectors’ Book Salons are monthly gatherings for rare book collectors and curious persons. \N\NSunday, October 30, 2 PM: \NSunday Signing Series. Helen O'Reilly, Dragonfly Landing. What would you do if your whole way of life was threatened, and your only hope is the fables and fading memories of Village elders?. Fortunately for the village of Dragonfly Landing, a young resident and his new friend take on the challenge. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our friends at Weller Book Works have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/

Tuesday, September 13, 9 AM:
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Hosted and co-sponsored by Coffee Connection!

Wednesday, September 14, 6 PM:
Lit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick. Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation!

Saturday, September 17, 2 PM:
Thomas W. Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940.

Tuesday, September 20, 9 AM:
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller.

Monday, September 26, 8 PM:
Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by the featured poet, then...the SLAM!!!! Only $5 cover!!!

Tuesday, September 27, 9 AM:
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller.

Wednesday, September 28, 6 PM:
Lit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick.

Friday, September 30, 6:30 PM: Collector's Book Salon. Collectors’ Book Salons are monthly gatherings for rare book collectors and curious persons. This salon will feature world-renowned magician Paul Draper as the speaker. He'll be discussing rare and unusual books about magic. Join us for great conversations, treats and biblio-worship on. Bring a friend.

Tuesday, October 4, 9 AM:
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller.

Monday, October 10, 6:30 PM:
Lynn Kenneth Packer and Lying for the Lord: The Paul H. Dunn Stories. 

Tuesday, October 11, 9 AM: Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Hosted and co-sponsored by Coffee Connection!

Tuesday, October 11, 7 PM:
Scott Renshaw, Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life.


Tuesday, October 18, 6:30 PM:
Kevin Wolf, The Homeplace.

Tuesday, October 18, 9 AM:
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller.

Friday, October 21, 7 PM:
Megan McCall presents Alteration. 

Monday, October 24, 8 PM: It's the Salt City Slam! Open mic, followed by the featured poet, then...the SLAM!!!! Only $5 cover!!!

Tuesday, October 25, 9 AM:
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller.

Wednesday, October 26, 6 PM:
Lit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick.

Thursday, October 27th, 7 PM:
Jonathan Lethem, A Gambler’s Anatomy

Friday, October 28, 6:30 PM: Collector's Book Salon. Collectors’ Book Salons are monthly gatherings for rare book collectors and curious persons.

Sunday, October 30, 2 PM:
Sunday Signing Series. Helen O'Reilly, Dragonfly Landing. What would you do if your whole way of life was threatened, and your only hope is the fables and fading memories of Village elders?. Fortunately for the village of Dragonfly Landing, a young resident and his new friend take on the challenge.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160913T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T203000 UID:DFE69EA8-FC98-43C7-BC66-59297C9FD048 SUMMARY:Hivemind Book Club Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/600 DESCRIPTION:The Hivemind Book Club presents a discussion with Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children, at The King's English Bookshop on Tuesday, September 13th at 7:00 PM. A book signing will follow the discussion.\N\NWith the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .\N\NIn a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.\N\NAs the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide?\N\NA fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.\N\NLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), as well as three books of short fictions-Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her writing has appeared in publications including Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award - Reader's Choice, a PNBA award, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center creative nonfiction award. She is a very good swimmer. \N\NThe mission of the Guest Writers Series (GWS) and Community Outreach Program is to bring distinguished contemporary literature to the Salt Lake Community. In doing so, we seek to provide illuminating literary events to educated readers and writers, to promote reading and writing among undeserved populations, and to enrich the arts community of Salt Lake City. The goal of Hivemind: The Book Club of Salt Lake City, soon to enter its third year, is to provide an inclusive, dynamic space of collaborative learning for community members who might not be inclined to attend a formal reading event or who attend our regular GWS events but want to further enrich their reading experience.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, The King's English Bookshop, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Hivemind Book Club presents a discussion with Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children, at The King's English Bookshop on Tuesday, September 13th at 7:00 PM. A book signing will follow the discussion.

With the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .

In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.

As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide?

A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), as well as three books of short fictions-Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her writing has appeared in publications including Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award - Reader's Choice, a PNBA award, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center creative nonfiction award. She is a very good swimmer.

The mission of the Guest Writers Series (GWS) and Community Outreach Program is to bring distinguished contemporary literature to the Salt Lake Community. In doing so, we seek to provide illuminating literary events to educated readers and writers, to promote reading and writing among undeserved populations, and to enrich the arts community of Salt Lake City. The goal of Hivemind: The Book Club of Salt Lake City, soon to enter its third year, is to provide an inclusive, dynamic space of collaborative learning for community members who might not be inclined to attend a formal reading event or who attend our regular GWS events but want to further enrich their reading experience.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, The King's English Bookshop, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160917 UID:5797B725-F8CC-4559-BD14-E12B75CEA9D0 SUMMARY:Creative Writing Creative Teaching Conference CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/639 DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing/Teaching Conference, Sept. 15-16\NThe 14th annual fall creative writing conference for high school teachers and SUU students featuring nationally renowned writers and secondary education pedagogy specialists. All events will be in the Gilbert Great Hall, Hunter Conference Center. Please refer to the following website for more information: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html\N\NThursday, September 15\NJoan Connor, Fiction\NJoel Long, Poetry\N11:30 am\NGilbert Great Hall, Hunter Conference Center\N\NFriday, September 16\NRegistration Required\NPoetry Craft Workshop, Joel Long\N9:00-10:30 am\NFiction Craft Workshop, Joan Connor\N10:45 am-12:15 pm\NPedagogy Workshops\N1:30-4:00\NPanel Discussion and Readings\NJoan Connor and Joel Long\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, SUU's Convocations series, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Creative Writing/Teaching Conference, Sept. 15-16
The 14th annual fall creative writing conference for high school teachers and SUU students featuring nationally renowned writers and secondary education pedagogy specialists. All events will be in the Gilbert Great Hall, Hunter Conference Center. Please refer to the following website for more information: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html

Thursday, September 15
Joan Connor, Fiction
Joel Long, Poetry
11:30 am
Gilbert Great Hall, Hunter Conference Center

Friday, September 16
Registration Required
Poetry Craft Workshop, Joel Long
9:00-10:30 am
Fiction Craft Workshop, Joan Connor
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Pedagogy Workshops
1:30-4:00
Panel Discussion and Readings
Joan Connor and Joel Long

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, SUU's Convocations series, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T203000 UID:EA0E1C8F-7A7F-4690-89E9-82702F983310 SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch at Guest Writers Series CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/537 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah is pleased to present author Lidia Yuknavitch on Thursday, September 15th at 7:00 PM. A reception and book signing will follow. \N\NWith the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .\N\NIn a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.\N\NAs the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide?\N\NA fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.\N\NLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), as well as three books of short fictions-Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her writing has appeared in publications including Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award - Reader's Choice, a PNBA award, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center creative nonfiction award. She is a very good swimmer. \N\NThis event is made possible witht the support of the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah is pleased to present author Lidia Yuknavitch on Thursday, September 15th at 7:00 PM. A reception and book signing will follow.

With the flash of a camera, one girl’s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .

In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.

As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide?

A fierce, provocative, and deeply affecting novel of both ideas and action that blends the tight construction of Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending with the emotional power of Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children is a major step forward from one of our most avidly watched writers.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), as well as three books of short fictions-Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her writing has appeared in publications including Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award - Reader's Choice, a PNBA award, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center creative nonfiction award. She is a very good swimmer.

This event is made possible witht the support of the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T203000 UID:613886F3-9137-4715-A34C-A2BE9789678B SUMMARY:Mountain Climber and Author Carol Masheter at the Pleasant Valley Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/560 DESCRIPTION:Renowned mountain climber and author Carol Masheter will discuss her adventures and her books at the Plesant Valley Branch of the Weber County Library on Thursday, September 15th.\N\NWhen the bottom fell out of Carol Masheter's life at age 50, she took up high altitude mountaineering to cope with grief and anger. She was an unlikely climber. Afraid of heights, she also struggled with anxiety and depression. Little did she know that mountaineering would lead her to climb Mount Everest when she was 61, an age when many people want to retire and relax. "No Magic Helicopter: An Aging Amazon's Climb of Mount Everest" chronicles Dr. Masheter's preparation for the climb of a lifetime, her struggle to the summit, and the blind descent that threatened her life.\N\NCarol Masheter, known as the SilverFox to her friends, has been a research chemist, a university professor in the social sciences, and currently is an epidemiologist for public health. Since age 60, Dr. Masheter has summited four of the Seven Summits: Mount Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, and Mount Kilimanjaro. In her 50s, she summited a dozen peaks in South America over 17,000 feet in elevation, and Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world. When not mountaineering, Dr. Masheter lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and enjoys outdoor activities with friends. She also enjoys yoga, meditation, the arts, and talking with interested groups about her mountaineering experiences. "No Magic Helicopter, An Aging Amazon's Climb of Everest," is her first book. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Renowned mountain climber and author Carol Masheter will discuss her adventures and her books at the Plesant Valley Branch of the Weber County Library on Thursday, September 15th.

When the bottom fell out of Carol Masheter's life at age 50, she took up high altitude mountaineering to cope with grief and anger. She was an unlikely climber. Afraid of heights, she also struggled with anxiety and depression. Little did she know that mountaineering would lead her to climb Mount Everest when she was 61, an age when many people want to retire and relax. "No Magic Helicopter: An Aging Amazon's Climb of Mount Everest" chronicles Dr. Masheter's preparation for the climb of a lifetime, her struggle to the summit, and the blind descent that threatened her life.

Carol Masheter, known as the SilverFox to her friends, has been a research chemist, a university professor in the social sciences, and currently is an epidemiologist for public health. Since age 60, Dr. Masheter has summited four of the Seven Summits: Mount Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, and Mount Kilimanjaro. In her 50s, she summited a dozen peaks in South America over 17,000 feet in elevation, and Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world. When not mountaineering, Dr. Masheter lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and enjoys outdoor activities with friends. She also enjoys yoga, meditation, the arts, and talking with interested groups about her mountaineering experiences. "No Magic Helicopter, An Aging Amazon's Climb of Everest," is her first book.

This event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160916T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T133000 UID:BE5B6007-38EC-43C5-81CE-4351EC7A591F SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch at Guest Writers Series CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/538 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lunchtime conversation with novelist Lidia Yuknavitch on Friday, September 16th at noon. Bring your own lunch and lots of questions.\N\NLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), as well as three books of short fictions-Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her writing has appeared in publications including Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award - Reader's Choice, a PNBA award, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center creative nonfiction award. She is a very good swimmer. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Please join us for a lunchtime conversation with novelist Lidia Yuknavitch on Friday, September 16th at noon. Bring your own lunch and lots of questions.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), as well as three books of short fictions-Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories of Violence (Routledge). Her writing has appeared in publications including Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus. She writes, teaches and lives in Portland, Oregon with the filmmaker Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son Miles. She is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award - Reader's Choice, a PNBA award, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pen Center creative nonfiction award. She is a very good swimmer.

This event is made possible with the support of the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160916T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T130000 UID:4029E128-B438-4E31-8AC0-B850E4C3A49A SUMMARY:Poet Lisa Bickmore at Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/597 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young Univeristy presents poet Lisa Bickmore on Friday, September 16th in the Harold B. Lee Library (Room 1060). Bickmore will discuss and share work from her new collection, Flicker. \N\NFLICKER is the winner of the 2014 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. "Lisa Bickmore gives us a powerful new collection, in which 'there are two lives, / the tranquil one and the conflagration.' These are poems rich in both—and in their interplay—where, as the poet says, 'Wildflower seeds exploded there / with the flicked matches I walked away from.' What makes the poems in FLICKER such a rich experience is their fierce honesty as they demonstrate a willingness to alchemically enter the fire of one's life in order to attain tranquility. Bickmore offers generative complexities of transformation, as when the cat in 'Thaumaturge' eats a bird, and 'the bird's heart [becomes] a power inside her.' Read these poems with a sincere desire to connect with others and with the world. Taste these poems, savor them, and bring them—most dearly—into the body's cells. They will reward you and become a power inside you too."—George Kalamaras, contest judge\N\NLisa Bickmore's poems and video work have appeared in a number of publications, including Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, Sugarhouse Review, The Moth, Terrain, Mapping Salt Lake City, and Southword. Among her honors is the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015. She is an Associate Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young Univeristy presents poet Lisa Bickmore on Friday, September 16th in the Harold B. Lee Library (Room 1060). Bickmore will discuss and share work from her new collection, Flicker.

FLICKER is the winner of the 2014 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. "Lisa Bickmore gives us a powerful new collection, in which 'there are two lives, / the tranquil one and the conflagration.' These are poems rich in both—and in their interplay—where, as the poet says, 'Wildflower seeds exploded there / with the flicked matches I walked away from.' What makes the poems in FLICKER such a rich experience is their fierce honesty as they demonstrate a willingness to alchemically enter the fire of one's life in order to attain tranquility. Bickmore offers generative complexities of transformation, as when the cat in 'Thaumaturge' eats a bird, and 'the bird's heart [becomes] a power inside her.' Read these poems with a sincere desire to connect with others and with the world. Taste these poems, savor them, and bring them—most dearly—into the body's cells. They will reward you and become a power inside you too."—George Kalamaras, contest judge

Lisa Bickmore's poems and video work have appeared in a number of publications, including Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, Sugarhouse Review, The Moth, Terrain, Mapping Salt Lake City, and Southword. Among her honors is the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015. She is an Associate Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160916T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T200000 UID:8209C507-C747-453B-9EE4-41CD07911102 SUMMARY:Alfred Lambourne Prize Ceremony CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/532 DESCRIPTION:The third annual Alfred Lambourne Prizes for visual and literary arts will be awarded on September 16th in the Blackbox Theatre of the Sorenson Unity Center. \N\NIn 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. We invite creative work in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement. \N\NOn September 16 will award one prize of $400 in each category, to works that most speak to the inspiration and wonder that our Lake evokes. Written and musical submittals will be read and performed from 6 - 7:30 pm. Visual arts submittals will be on display all evening and through October 14. The Prize will be awarded at 7:30 pm.\N\NThe Alfred Lambourne Prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.\N\NLambourne is remembered for the dozens of sketches and paintings he created of Great Salt Lake as he captured facets of water, light, and land in the romantic style reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters. His writing, based upon his time on Gunnison Island, stands out as the earliest, most evocative prose penned on the Lake’s physical attributes and psychological impressions. Lambourne melded fact and fiction as he wrote first in serial fashion about the lake for The Deseret News then published these writings as Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Friends of the Great Salt Lake, the Sorenson Unity Center, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The third annual Alfred Lambourne Prizes for visual and literary arts will be awarded on September 16th in the Blackbox Theatre of the Sorenson Unity Center.

In 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. We invite creative work in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement.

On September 16 will award one prize of $400 in each category, to works that most speak to the inspiration and wonder that our Lake evokes. Written and musical submittals will be read and performed from 6 - 7:30 pm. Visual arts submittals will be on display all evening and through October 14. The Prize will be awarded at 7:30 pm.

The Alfred Lambourne Prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.

Lambourne is remembered for the dozens of sketches and paintings he created of Great Salt Lake as he captured facets of water, light, and land in the romantic style reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters. His writing, based upon his time on Gunnison Island, stands out as the earliest, most evocative prose penned on the Lake’s physical attributes and psychological impressions. Lambourne melded fact and fiction as he wrote first in serial fashion about the lake for The Deseret News then published these writings as Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).

This event is made possible with support from Friends of the Great Salt Lake, the Sorenson Unity Center, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:7 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160916T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160916T200000 UID:4746CB12-B4B3-40DD-A06B-F0CDC63CFF92 SUMMARY:David Strayer on "Cognition in the Wild" at the Ogden Nature Center CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/581 DESCRIPTION:Join renowned cognitive psychologist David Strayer for a discussion of cognition in the wild at the Ogden Nature Center.\N\NDavid Strayer, professor of psychology at the University of Utah, has gained such national prominence through his research in driver safety and his first published study, Driven to Distraction, that he made appearances on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and was featured in Matt Richtel's recent book Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention. After taking a job at the Utah, Strayer continually noticed drivers drinking coffee, talking on the phone and steering with their knees. That is when he asked himself, "How is this safe?" A "couple of studies" turned into countless news articles, over a dozen scholarly publications and dual-task studies that simulated driving and conversing on a cell phone.\N\NThe virtual-reality driving simulator, used in Strayer's studies, is able to change road and weather conditions to replicate a specific driving environment and offers a 180-degree view of the road. Using an eye tracker, the simulator, equipped with a functioning horn, gas and brake pedal, is able to record where people are looking while they are driving and creates a digital record of everything that happens. Strayer's research has led to many front-page stories in The New York Times, and the National Safety Council now has a Web site dedicated to distracted driving, which "aims to change this trend and prevent crashes, injuries and deaths."\N\NMore recently, Strayer has turned his eye to human cognition in the wild. As noted in a recent article about his work "Strayer is in a unique position to understand what modern life does to us. An avid backpacker, he thinks he knows the antidote: Nature." His work has led to extensive studies on how nature rejuvenates the human brain and his regular class "Cognition in the Wild" takes students into the field to better understand these effects and also explores how authors convey such effects through their literature.\N\NTo read more about Dr. Strayer's recent work on cognition in the wild, check out this recent National Geographic articles that highlights his work:\Nhttp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/call-to-wild-text\N\NThe Ogden Nature Center is a 152-acre nature preserve and education center. Their mission is to unite people with nature and nurture appreciation and stewardship of the environment. Since it was founded in 1975 as Utah's first nature center, the Ogden Nature Center has provided a place where people can go to enjoy and learn about the natural world.\N\NThe 152-acre preserve is our foundation, but education is our focus. Each year the Ogden Nature Center brings more than 27,000 children, teachers, and adults together with nature through hands-on field classes. Participants in our education programs, both for school groups and for the community, observe and learn about plants and animals up-close, discovering the pleasure of being in nature and realizing their own connection to the environment.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Ogden Nature Center and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join renowned cognitive psychologist David Strayer for a discussion of cognition in the wild at the Ogden Nature Center.

David Strayer, professor of psychology at the University of Utah, has gained such national prominence through his research in driver safety and his first published study, Driven to Distraction, that he made appearances on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and was featured in Matt Richtel's recent book Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention. After taking a job at the Utah, Strayer continually noticed drivers drinking coffee, talking on the phone and steering with their knees. That is when he asked himself, "How is this safe?" A "couple of studies" turned into countless news articles, over a dozen scholarly publications and dual-task studies that simulated driving and conversing on a cell phone.

The virtual-reality driving simulator, used in Strayer's studies, is able to change road and weather conditions to replicate a specific driving environment and offers a 180-degree view of the road. Using an eye tracker, the simulator, equipped with a functioning horn, gas and brake pedal, is able to record where people are looking while they are driving and creates a digital record of everything that happens. Strayer's research has led to many front-page stories in The New York Times, and the National Safety Council now has a Web site dedicated to distracted driving, which "aims to change this trend and prevent crashes, injuries and deaths."

More recently, Strayer has turned his eye to human cognition in the wild. As noted in a recent article about his work "Strayer is in a unique position to understand what modern life does to us. An avid backpacker, he thinks he knows the antidote: Nature." His work has led to extensive studies on how nature rejuvenates the human brain and his regular class "Cognition in the Wild" takes students into the field to better understand these effects and also explores how authors convey such effects through their literature.

To read more about Dr. Strayer's recent work on cognition in the wild, check out this recent National Geographic articles that highlights his work:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/call-to-wild-text

The Ogden Nature Center is a 152-acre nature preserve and education center. Their mission is to unite people with nature and nurture appreciation and stewardship of the environment. Since it was founded in 1975 as Utah's first nature center, the Ogden Nature Center has provided a place where people can go to enjoy and learn about the natural world.

The 152-acre preserve is our foundation, but education is our focus. Each year the Ogden Nature Center brings more than 27,000 children, teachers, and adults together with nature through hands-on field classes. Participants in our education programs, both for school groups and for the community, observe and learn about plants and animals up-close, discovering the pleasure of being in nature and realizing their own connection to the environment.

This event is made possible with support from the Ogden Nature Center and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160917T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160917T153000 UID:1FBC1626-88BF-44AE-A042-346DC8E7673B SUMMARY:American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism: Thomas W. Simpson at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/630 DESCRIPTION:Thomas W. Simpson discusses his new book, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 at Weller Book Works on Saturday, September 17th.\N.\NIn the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life.\N\NAt the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism’s sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.\N\NThomas W. Simpson, a specialist in modern U.S. religious history, is instructor in religion and philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Thomas W. Simpson discusses his new book, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 at Weller Book Works on Saturday, September 17th.
.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life.

At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism’s sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.

Thomas W. Simpson, a specialist in modern U.S. religious history, is instructor in religion and philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160919T203000 UID:74686930-0582-4E0E-9C03-BCFD7EB5AA94 SUMMARY:Ishion Hutchinson at the 15th Street Gallery CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/563 DESCRIPTION:Poet Ishion Hutchinson returns to Salt Lake City for the launch of his new collection, House of Lords and Commons, at the 15th Street Gallery on Monday, September 19th.\N\NIn House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.\N\NThese poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea.\N\NIshion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His poetry collection, Far District: Poems (2010), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Other honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner Journal and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. His works have appeared in several anthologies and journals such as Poetry, The Nation, Paris Review, Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2015, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, The Forward Book of Poetry 2016, Narrative, Granta, The Huffington Post, The Unprofessionals and New Letters. His work has been translated into German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He is the Meringoff Sesquicentennial Fellow Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University and a contributing editor to the literary journals, The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Ishion Hutchinson returns to Salt Lake City for the launch of his new collection, House of Lords and Commons, at the 15th Street Gallery on Monday, September 19th.

In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.

These poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His poetry collection, Far District: Poems (2010), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Other honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner Journal and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. His works have appeared in several anthologies and journals such as Poetry, The Nation, Paris Review, Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2015, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, The Forward Book of Poetry 2016, Narrative, Granta, The Huffington Post, The Unprofessionals and New Letters. His work has been translated into German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He is the Meringoff Sesquicentennial Fellow Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University and a contributing editor to the literary journals, The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.

This event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161028 UID:62024288-C568-4AA9-B1B3-CE7BF4E806D5 SUMMARY:The King's English Bookshop Events Calendar CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/618 DESCRIPTION:Our friends at the King's English Bookshop have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/\N\NTuesday, September 20th, 7 pm\NGerald Elias | Playing With Fire\N\NWednesday, September 21, 7 pm\NHolly Welker | Baring Witness\N\NThursday, September 22, 7 pm\NMargaret Peterson Haddix | Children of Exile\N\NFriday, September 23, 6:30 pm\NMichael Dorer | The Deep Well of Time\N\NSaturday, September 24, 11 am\NHeidi Schulz | Giraffe's Ruin Everything\N\NSunday, September 25, 2 pm\NLoren Long | Otis and the Kittens\N\NTuesday, September 27, 7 pm\NAt the Provo Library\NMatthew J. Kirby | A Taste for Monsters\N\NTuesday, September 27, 7 pm\NWriting Female Characters: A Conversation Between Charlie Quimby & Barbara Richardson, Moderated by Kirsten Johanna Allen\N\NThursday, September 29, 7 pm\NDan Flores | Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History\N\NSaturday, October 1, 11 am\NJake Parker | Little Bot and Sparrow\N\NSaturday, October 1, 2 pm\NHank Shaw | Buck, Buck, Moose\N\NMonday, October 3, 7 pm\NCandice Millard | Hero of the Empire: Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill\N\NTuesday, October 4, 7 pm\NAt the Provo Library\NJennifer Jenkins | Clanless\N\NThursday, October 6, 7 pm\NJennifer Holland | Unlikely Friendships: Dogs\N\NTuesday, October 11, 7 pm\NSara Ella | Unblemished\N\NWednesday, October 12, 7 pm\NMelissa de la Cruz | Something In Between\N\NWednesday, October 12, 7 pm\NAt Juan Diego High School\NRick Riordan | The Hammer of Thor\N\NThursday, October 13, 7 pm\NAt the Provo Library\NMargaret Stohl | Black Widow: Red Vengeance\N\NMonday, October 17, 7 pm\NJames Dashner | The Fever Code\N\NTuesday, October 18, 7 pm\NStuart Gibbs | Spy Ski School\N\NWednesday, October 19, 7 pm\NNick Seluk | Heart & Brain: Gut Instincts\N\NTuesday, October 25, 7 pm\NJ.R. Johansson, Bree Despain and Kasie West\N\NWednesday, October 26, 7 pm\NKristi Yamaguchi | Cara's Kindness\N\NThursday, October 27, 7 pm\NAt the Provo Library \NAprilynne Pike | Glitter\N\NThursday, October 27, 7 pm\NJory John | Penguin Problems\N\NSaturday, October 29, 11 am\NJennifer Adams | The Odyssey\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our friends at the King's English Bookshop have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/

Tuesday, September 20th, 7 pm
Gerald Elias | Playing With Fire

Wednesday, September 21, 7 pm
Holly Welker | Baring Witness

Thursday, September 22, 7 pm
Margaret Peterson Haddix | Children of Exile

Friday, September 23, 6:30 pm
Michael Dorer | The Deep Well of Time

Saturday, September 24, 11 am
Heidi Schulz | Giraffe's Ruin Everything

Sunday, September 25, 2 pm
Loren Long | Otis and the Kittens

Tuesday, September 27, 7 pm
At the Provo Library
Matthew J. Kirby | A Taste for Monsters

Tuesday, September 27, 7 pm
Writing Female Characters: A Conversation Between Charlie Quimby & Barbara Richardson, Moderated by Kirsten Johanna Allen

Thursday, September 29, 7 pm
Dan Flores | Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Saturday, October 1, 11 am
Jake Parker | Little Bot and Sparrow

Saturday, October 1, 2 pm
Hank Shaw | Buck, Buck, Moose

Monday, October 3, 7 pm
Candice Millard | Hero of the Empire: Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Tuesday, October 4, 7 pm
At the Provo Library
Jennifer Jenkins | Clanless

Thursday, October 6, 7 pm
Jennifer Holland | Unlikely Friendships: Dogs

Tuesday, October 11, 7 pm
Sara Ella | Unblemished

Wednesday, October 12, 7 pm
Melissa de la Cruz | Something In Between

Wednesday, October 12, 7 pm
At Juan Diego High School
Rick Riordan | The Hammer of Thor

Thursday, October 13, 7 pm
At the Provo Library
Margaret Stohl | Black Widow: Red Vengeance

Monday, October 17, 7 pm
James Dashner | The Fever Code

Tuesday, October 18, 7 pm
Stuart Gibbs | Spy Ski School

Wednesday, October 19, 7 pm
Nick Seluk | Heart & Brain: Gut Instincts

Tuesday, October 25, 7 pm
J.R. Johansson, Bree Despain and Kasie West

Wednesday, October 26, 7 pm
Kristi Yamaguchi | Cara's Kindness

Thursday, October 27, 7 pm
At the Provo Library
Aprilynne Pike | Glitter

Thursday, October 27, 7 pm
Jory John | Penguin Problems

Saturday, October 29, 11 am
Jennifer Adams | The Odyssey
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T203000 UID:B6DE0105-DED9-400A-A2BE-33A286D14CDB SUMMARY:Authors from Unexpected Strength Visit the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/562 DESCRIPTION:Students from Two Rivers High School whose work was featured in the anthology Unexpected Strength will share their work at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library on Tuesday, September 20th. \N\NEveryone has their own obstacle to overcome, their own wall to climb, to break down. Unexpected Strength is a glimpse inside the lives of twelve students from Two Rivers High School. It features true and emotionally raw stories about their struggles with abuse, addiction, anxiety, sexual identity and abandonment, and about finding the strength deep within themselves to persevere and move forward with their lives.\N\NThrough the writing and sharing process, they’ve discovered that they are not alone. They’ve learned that we all fight our own unseen battles, all struggle with something hard. But that inside every one of us is…Unexpected Strength.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library, Two Rivers High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Students from Two Rivers High School whose work was featured in the anthology Unexpected Strength will share their work at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library on Tuesday, September 20th.

Everyone has their own obstacle to overcome, their own wall to climb, to break down. Unexpected Strength is a glimpse inside the lives of twelve students from Two Rivers High School. It features true and emotionally raw stories about their struggles with abuse, addiction, anxiety, sexual identity and abandonment, and about finding the strength deep within themselves to persevere and move forward with their lives.

Through the writing and sharing process, they’ve discovered that they are not alone. They’ve learned that we all fight our own unseen battles, all struggle with something hard. But that inside every one of us is…Unexpected Strength.

This event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library, Two Rivers High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T203000 UID:87205DBA-0DC2-4EDA-92A5-A14C04E9DBFC SUMMARY:Ishion Hutchinson at Booked on 25th CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/564 DESCRIPTION:Poet Ishion Hutchinson returns to Utah for the launch of his new collection, House of Lords and Commons, at Booked on 25th on Tuesday, September 20th.\N\NIn House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.\N\NThese poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea.\N\NIshion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His poetry collection, Far District: Poems (2010), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Other honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner Journal and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. His works have appeared in several anthologies and journals such as Poetry, The Nation, Paris Review, Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2015, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, The Forward Book of Poetry 2016, Narrative, Granta, The Huffington Post, The Unprofessionals and New Letters. His work has been translated into German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He is the Meringoff Sesquicentennial Fellow Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University and a contributing editor to the literary journals, The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Booked on 25th and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Ishion Hutchinson returns to Utah for the launch of his new collection, House of Lords and Commons, at Booked on 25th on Tuesday, September 20th.

In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.

These poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His poetry collection, Far District: Poems (2010), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Other honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner Journal and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. His works have appeared in several anthologies and journals such as Poetry, The Nation, Paris Review, Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2015, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, The Forward Book of Poetry 2016, Narrative, Granta, The Huffington Post, The Unprofessionals and New Letters. His work has been translated into German, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He is the Meringoff Sesquicentennial Fellow Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University and a contributing editor to the literary journals, The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.

This event is made possible with support from Booked on 25th and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160921T210000 UID:D9792FFB-A707-41CC-946E-B9530B3CB4A2 SUMMARY:City Art Presents: Adam Tipps Weinstein & Rachel Levy CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/657 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents Adam Weinstein & Rachel Levy on Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 PM at The City Library (4th Floor Conference Room). \N\NIn this debut collection, Adam Tipps Weinstein essays the space between fiction and non-, examining such phenomena as graveyard- shoe collecting, collars, and garden sub-plots. Such speculations result in fact-filled fabulations and histories woven from esoterica—quotes and anecdotes assembled into tapestries of synergistic references as immutable as the paper they are printed on. Some Versions of the Ice reads like a walking tour of exhibits and non-exhibits at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, where history, theory, and philosophy merge, become poetic.\N\NAdam Tipps Weinstein is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing, and Steffensen-Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. He is also nonfiction editor for Quarterly West. Adam lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Emily, two cats and a dog, and soon a daughter. Some Versions of the Ice is his first book.\N\NRachel Levy's A Book So Red was the winning manuscript in the 2014 Caketrain Competition, as judged by Peter Markus.\N\N“A Book So Red’s linguistic singularities, formal contractions, and world comprised of the existential non-sequitur coalesce into an astonishing aesthetic teratoid: the vacuum-packed denarration. The narrator’s skewed, oblique, and painful relationships teach us the only real comedy is the sound of laughter in the dark all the way down.” - Lance Olsen, author of Theories of Forgetting\N\NRachel Levy's short fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Gigantic, Tarpaulin Sky, Two Serious Ladies, and others journals. She is the author of A Book So Red (Caketrain 2015). She lives in Salt Lake City where she is a PhD student at the University of Utah and an administrative fellow for the Fiction Collective Two. She was born eight weeks premature. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the City Art Reading Series. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents Adam Weinstein & Rachel Levy on Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 PM at The City Library (4th Floor Conference Room).

In this debut collection, Adam Tipps Weinstein essays the space between fiction and non-, examining such phenomena as graveyard- shoe collecting, collars, and garden sub-plots. Such speculations result in fact-filled fabulations and histories woven from esoterica—quotes and anecdotes assembled into tapestries of synergistic references as immutable as the paper they are printed on. Some Versions of the Ice reads like a walking tour of exhibits and non-exhibits at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, where history, theory, and philosophy merge, become poetic.

Adam Tipps Weinstein is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing, and Steffensen-Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. He is also nonfiction editor for Quarterly West. Adam lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Emily, two cats and a dog, and soon a daughter. Some Versions of the Ice is his first book.

Rachel Levy's A Book So Red was the winning manuscript in the 2014 Caketrain Competition, as judged by Peter Markus.

“A Book So Red’s linguistic singularities, formal contractions, and world comprised of the existential non-sequitur coalesce into an astonishing aesthetic teratoid: the vacuum-packed denarration. The narrator’s skewed, oblique, and painful relationships teach us the only real comedy is the sound of laughter in the dark all the way down.” - Lance Olsen, author of Theories of Forgetting

Rachel Levy's short fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Gigantic, Tarpaulin Sky, Two Serious Ladies, and others journals. She is the author of A Book So Red (Caketrain 2015). She lives in Salt Lake City where she is a PhD student at the University of Utah and an administrative fellow for the Fiction Collective Two. She was born eight weeks premature.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the City Art Reading Series. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T130000 UID:75ACC532-4289-4467-A47A-C3591546E2E3 SUMMARY:Essayist Patrick Madden at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/570 DESCRIPTION:Essayist Patrick Madden will share work from his new collection entitled Sublime Physick at Utah State University. Author of several books, including Quotidiana, Madden honors the aesthetic first established by Montaigne. His essays shuttle between research and the personal, gently reminding readers where the essay came from and where it could possibly head. \N\NPatrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010), teaches creative nonfiction at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the Best Creative Nonfiction and the Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He co-edited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Georgia, 2015) with David Lazar and co-translated Eduardo Milán's Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2012). He maintains an anthology of classical essays and essay resources at http://quotidiana.org/. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Utah State University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Essayist Patrick Madden will share work from his new collection entitled Sublime Physick at Utah State University. Author of several books, including Quotidiana, Madden honors the aesthetic first established by Montaigne. His essays shuttle between research and the personal, gently reminding readers where the essay came from and where it could possibly head.

Patrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010), teaches creative nonfiction at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the Best Creative Nonfiction and the Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He co-edited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Georgia, 2015) with David Lazar and co-translated Eduardo Milán's Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2012). He maintains an anthology of classical essays and essay resources at http://quotidiana.org/.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Utah State University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T210000 UID:4D89690C-FE21-4E7F-B729-A93267E7105B SUMMARY:Orem Reads Presents Anne Perry CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/553 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads kicks off their month-long showcase of mysteries with a discussion featuring world-renowned mystery author Anne Perry on Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00 PM. \N\NAnne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Treachery at Lancaster Gate and The Angel Court Affair, and the William Monk novels, including Corridors of the Night and Blood on the Water. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as thirteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Escape, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads kicks off their month-long showcase of mysteries with a discussion featuring world-renowned mystery author Anne Perry on Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00 PM.

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Treachery at Lancaster Gate and The Angel Court Affair, and the William Monk novels, including Corridors of the Night and Blood on the Water. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as thirteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Escape, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T203000 UID:DE39E8F3-C161-4C67-A173-D602903C7A9F SUMMARY:Essayist Patrick Madden at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/565 DESCRIPTION:Award-winning essayist Patrick Madden will share and discuss his work at the Helicon West series on Thursday, September 22nd. \N\NA follow-up to Patrick Madden’s award-winning debut, this introspective and exuberant collection of essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In Sublime Physick, Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate, even divisive, subjects, ruminating on midlife, time, family, forgiveness, loss, originality, a Canadian rock band, and much more, discerning the ways in which the natural world (fisica) transcends and joins the realm of ideas (sublime) through the application of a meditative mind. In twelve essays that straddle the classical and the contemporary, Madden transmutes the ruder world into a finer one, articulating with subtle humor and playfulness how science and experience abut and intersect with spirituality and everyday life.\N\NPatrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010), teaches creative nonfiction at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the Best Creative Nonfiction and the Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He co-edited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Georgia, 2015) with David Lazar and co-translated Eduardo Milán's Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2012). He maintains an anthology of classical essays and essay resources at http://quotidiana.org/. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, the Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Award-winning essayist Patrick Madden will share and discuss his work at the Helicon West series on Thursday, September 22nd.

A follow-up to Patrick Madden’s award-winning debut, this introspective and exuberant collection of essays is wide-ranging and wild, following bifurcating paths of thought to surprising connections. In Sublime Physick, Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate, even divisive, subjects, ruminating on midlife, time, family, forgiveness, loss, originality, a Canadian rock band, and much more, discerning the ways in which the natural world (fisica) transcends and joins the realm of ideas (sublime) through the application of a meditative mind. In twelve essays that straddle the classical and the contemporary, Madden transmutes the ruder world into a finer one, articulating with subtle humor and playfulness how science and experience abut and intersect with spirituality and everyday life.

Patrick Madden, author of Sublime Physick (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010), teaches creative nonfiction at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, and other journals, as well as in the Best Creative Nonfiction and the Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He co-edited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (Georgia, 2015) with David Lazar and co-translated Eduardo Milán's Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2012). He maintains an anthology of classical essays and essay resources at http://quotidiana.org/.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, the Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T210000 UID:BDB9EC00-5736-42DA-8927-8F8C3123A253 SUMMARY:Climber, Flyer, and Writer Extraordinaire Steph Davis Visits the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/606 DESCRIPTION:The Grand County Library is pleased to welcome author, climber, and adventurer Steph Davis on Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00 PM. \N\NSteph’s resume of climbing achievements spans 25 years. She was the first woman to free climb the Salathe Wall on El Capitan, and the second woman to free climb El Cap in under 24 hours. She has established first ascents around the world, of dicult rock climbs and high altitude mountains from Yosemite to the Karakorum.\N\NFew climbers practice the high risk style of free solo climbing, using no ropes or protective gear. Steph is the most accomplished female free soloist in the world and is also one of world’s top wingsuit base jumpers. She is one of just a few people in the world, and the only woman, combining free solo climbing with base jumping.\N\NFrom an unusual start as a classically trained pianist with a Master’s degree in literature, Steph chose to leave law school in order to pursue climbing full time. She has become one of the most successful professional climbers in the world.\N\NSteph has written two memoirs, High Infatuation and Learning to Fly, and curates a blog at stephdavis.co with a focus on community, health and wellness, simple living and travel. She owns and operates Climb2Fly Productions in Moab, Utah, a climbing and base jumping stunt company.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Grand County Library is pleased to welcome author, climber, and adventurer Steph Davis on Thursday, September 22nd at 7:00 PM.

Steph’s resume of climbing achievements spans 25 years. She was the first woman to free climb the Salathe Wall on El Capitan, and the second woman to free climb El Cap in under 24 hours. She has established first ascents around the world, of dicult rock climbs and high altitude mountains from Yosemite to the Karakorum.

Few climbers practice the high risk style of free solo climbing, using no ropes or protective gear. Steph is the most accomplished female free soloist in the world and is also one of world’s top wingsuit base jumpers. She is one of just a few people in the world, and the only woman, combining free solo climbing with base jumping.

From an unusual start as a classically trained pianist with a Master’s degree in literature, Steph chose to leave law school in order to pursue climbing full time. She has become one of the most successful professional climbers in the world.

Steph has written two memoirs, High Infatuation and Learning to Fly, and curates a blog at stephdavis.co with a focus on community, health and wellness, simple living and travel. She owns and operates Climb2Fly Productions in Moab, Utah, a climbing and base jumping stunt company.

This event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160922T203000 UID:DE07E60F-3F69-4A3D-9C0F-898039EA924E SUMMARY:Salt Lake Community College Present Poet Danez Smith CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/616 DESCRIPTION:Salt Lake Community College will host poet and Lambda Award Winner Danez Smith in the Atrium of the South City Campus on Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 PM. \N\NDanez Smith is the 2016 winner of the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and 2016 Hopwood Awardee. A MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, Smith also teaches with InsideOut Detroit. They are a 2014 Ruth Lilly, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Smith is also a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing 2nd in 2014, and a founding member of the Dark Noise Collective. Smith’s 2nd full-length collection will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. Their work has published & featured widely including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, & Ploughshares. Smith is from St. Paul, MN.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Salt Lake Community College will host poet and Lambda Award Winner Danez Smith in the Atrium of the South City Campus on Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 PM.

Danez Smith is the 2016 winner of the Kate Tufts Poetry Award and 2016 Hopwood Awardee. A MFA candidate at the University of Michigan, Smith also teaches with InsideOut Detroit. They are a 2014 Ruth Lilly, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Cave Canem and VONA alum, recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship, and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Smith is also a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing 2nd in 2014, and a founding member of the Dark Noise Collective. Smith’s 2nd full-length collection will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. Their work has published & featured widely including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, & Ploughshares. Smith is from St. Paul, MN.

This event is made possible with support from Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T130000 UID:544F979A-A68A-43EF-9137-C8B01A7C96F7 SUMMARY:Famed Mystery Writer Anne Perry Visits Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/598 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University welcomes renowned mystery author Anne Perry on Friday, September 23rd at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library on campus (Room 1060). \N\NAnne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Treachery at Lancaster Gate and The Angel Court Affair, and the William Monk novels, including Corridors of the Night and Blood on the Water. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as thirteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Escape, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University welcomes renowned mystery author Anne Perry on Friday, September 23rd at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library on campus (Room 1060).

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Treachery at Lancaster Gate and The Angel Court Affair, and the William Monk novels, including Corridors of the Night and Blood on the Water. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as thirteen holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Escape, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T210000 UID:A58E2860-1E8F-410B-B79A-8EECD28D8F33 SUMMARY:Jennifer Nielsen and Matthew Kirby at The Printed Garden CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/673 DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Nielsen, J. Scott Savage, and Matthew J. Kirby will be reading from, answering questions about, and signing copies of their new books at this event! Jennifer will be featuring her new novel, The Scourge on Friday night, September 23rd, at The Printed Garden.\N\NAs a lethal plague sweeps through the land, Ani Mells is shocked when she is unexpectedly captured by the governor’s wardens and forced to submit to a test for the deadly Scourge. She is even more surprised when the test results come back positive, and she is sent to Attic Island, a former prison turned refuge — and quarantine colony — for the ill. The Scourge’s victims, Ani now among them, can only expect to live out short, painful lives there. However, Ani quickly discovers that she doesn’t know the whole truth about the Scourge or the Colony. She’s been caught in a devious plot, and, with the help of her best friend, Weevil, Ani means to uncover just what is actually going on. But will she and Weevil survive long enough to do so? The Scourge is an explosively thrilling tale of adventure and intrigue, courage and heart from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen.\N\NT’S LONDON 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, who has nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in the London Hospital. Evelyn wants to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut in from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred who does not recoil from her and who understands her pain. When the murders begin, however, Joseph and Evelyn are haunted nightly by the ghosts of the Ripper’s dead, setting Evelyn on a path to facing her fears and uncovering humanity’s worst nightmares.\N​\NA Taste for Monsters is a terrifying and haunting tale of the monstrosity of men and the salvation one may find in the unlikeliest places, from Edgar Award–winning author Matthew J. Kirby.\N\NAfter finding a compass and clues left by Kallista’s father, Leo Babbage, Trenton and Kallista head west aboard their homemade mechanical dragon to search for the missing inventor. The teenagers hope to find answers about their mountain city of Cove, but instead, they find only a blackened forest, ruined buildings, and a small underground city. Almost immediately, Trenton and Kallista are caught up in a civil war between a clan of scavengers called Whipjacks and the Order of the Beast, people who believe that dragons are immortal and divine.\N\NStranded in a new city, the two friends meet Plucky, a Whipjack girl with mechanical legs, and Ander, a young member of the Order who claims humans are able to communicate with dragons. Can they trust anyone, or have they unknowingly stepped into a trap?\N\NAnd high above in the sky, the dragons are gathering. . . X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Jennifer Nielsen, J. Scott Savage, and Matthew J. Kirby will be reading from, answering questions about, and signing copies of their new books at this event! Jennifer will be featuring her new novel, The Scourge on Friday night, September 23rd, at The Printed Garden.

As a lethal plague sweeps through the land, Ani Mells is shocked when she is unexpectedly captured by the governor’s wardens and forced to submit to a test for the deadly Scourge. She is even more surprised when the test results come back positive, and she is sent to Attic Island, a former prison turned refuge — and quarantine colony — for the ill. The Scourge’s victims, Ani now among them, can only expect to live out short, painful lives there. However, Ani quickly discovers that she doesn’t know the whole truth about the Scourge or the Colony. She’s been caught in a devious plot, and, with the help of her best friend, Weevil, Ani means to uncover just what is actually going on. But will she and Weevil survive long enough to do so? The Scourge is an explosively thrilling tale of adventure and intrigue, courage and heart from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen.

T’S LONDON 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, who has nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in the London Hospital. Evelyn wants to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut in from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred who does not recoil from her and who understands her pain. When the murders begin, however, Joseph and Evelyn are haunted nightly by the ghosts of the Ripper’s dead, setting Evelyn on a path to facing her fears and uncovering humanity’s worst nightmares.
​
A Taste for Monsters is a terrifying and haunting tale of the monstrosity of men and the salvation one may find in the unlikeliest places, from Edgar Award–winning author Matthew J. Kirby.

After finding a compass and clues left by Kallista’s father, Leo Babbage, Trenton and Kallista head west aboard their homemade mechanical dragon to search for the missing inventor. The teenagers hope to find answers about their mountain city of Cove, but instead, they find only a blackened forest, ruined buildings, and a small underground city. Almost immediately, Trenton and Kallista are caught up in a civil war between a clan of scavengers called Whipjacks and the Order of the Beast, people who believe that dragons are immortal and divine.

Stranded in a new city, the two friends meet Plucky, a Whipjack girl with mechanical legs, and Ander, a young member of the Order who claims humans are able to communicate with dragons. Can they trust anyone, or have they unknowingly stepped into a trap?

And high above in the sky, the dragons are gathering. . . X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160924T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160924T113000 UID:1E46705C-6080-41C2-BC4D-88466AA43223 SUMMARY:The Art Access Book Group discusses Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/551 DESCRIPTION:The Art Access Book Group is exploring the human experience of migration and immigration. Humans have migrated throughout history, and we believe that sharing those experiences on a personal level gives us the opportunity to connect with each other as we examine both the differences and similarities inherent in distinctive cultures and people. As part of Art Access’ overall Dreamers project, we are utilizing Lahiri’s and Adichie’s texts to engage discussion of immigration in order to improve the livability of Salt Lake City for everyone. Through the use of critical listening, creative thinking, reasoning, and questioning we are encouraging individuals to broaden perceptions and enhance their knowledge and understanding of the world. \N\N\NOn Saturday, September 24th, we will discuss Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Art Access and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Art Access Book Group is exploring the human experience of migration and immigration. Humans have migrated throughout history, and we believe that sharing those experiences on a personal level gives us the opportunity to connect with each other as we examine both the differences and similarities inherent in distinctive cultures and people. As part of Art Access’ overall Dreamers project, we are utilizing Lahiri’s and Adichie’s texts to engage discussion of immigration in order to improve the livability of Salt Lake City for everyone. Through the use of critical listening, creative thinking, reasoning, and questioning we are encouraging individuals to broaden perceptions and enhance their knowledge and understanding of the world. 


On Saturday, September 24th, we will discuss Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.

This event is made possible with support from Art Access and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160924T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160924T120000 UID:59C2D92E-2E63-43A1-BDF3-92085472B4A9 SUMMARY:Melissa Marsted Visits the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/595 DESCRIPTION:The Grand County Library welcomes children's author Melissa Marsted, whose new book, Buzzy and the Rec Rock Canyons, teaches children about Utah's National Parks. Marsted's appearance is in conjunction with the Moab Festival of Science, which connects and inspires the citizens of Eastern Utah, particularly youth, with the wonders of science and the joy of scientific discovery.\N\NBuzzy and the Red Rock Canyons is the first in a series of books from the Lucky Penny Press collection, National Parks for Kids. Buzzy the bee zips across the state of Utah introducing readers to the Utah's five national parks, starting with Arches, then to Canyonlands, crossing the state to Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. Buzzy teaches readers about animals and endangered species that live in the parks as well as how arches, hoodoos and spires were formed many years ago. Buzzy and the Red Rock Canyons is a great introduction to the wonders and magic of nature and the national parks system, originally established one hundred years ago in 1916.\N\NMelissa C. Marsted is the author of six children’s books and the founder of Lucky Penny Press, launched with insurance proceeds after her house and most of her possessions burned in the 2008 Santa Barbara Tea Fire. Today, Lucky Penny Publishing, LLC, has grown to incorporate two imprints—Lucky Penny Press, publishing books for children; and Silver Dollar Press, publishing autobiographies, memoirs, and nonfiction. A skier and an endurance athlete, Marsted has completed three 50K races and 12 marathons, including one along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, where she was inspired to write the children’s book Pablito and the Speckled Bear. A graduate of Harvard University, with an M.A. in organizational management from Antioch University, Marsted now lives in Park City, Utah, where she serves on the Summit County Library Board and is a member of Leadership Park City and the entrepreneurship incubator, Pando Labs. Marsted has two college-aged sons, two cats, and a Jack Russell terrier, Aro. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Grand County Library welcomes children's author Melissa Marsted, whose new book, Buzzy and the Rec Rock Canyons, teaches children about Utah's National Parks. Marsted's appearance is in conjunction with the Moab Festival of Science, which connects and inspires the citizens of Eastern Utah, particularly youth, with the wonders of science and the joy of scientific discovery.

Buzzy and the Red Rock Canyons is the first in a series of books from the Lucky Penny Press collection, National Parks for Kids. Buzzy the bee zips across the state of Utah introducing readers to the Utah's five national parks, starting with Arches, then to Canyonlands, crossing the state to Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. Buzzy teaches readers about animals and endangered species that live in the parks as well as how arches, hoodoos and spires were formed many years ago. Buzzy and the Red Rock Canyons is a great introduction to the wonders and magic of nature and the national parks system, originally established one hundred years ago in 1916.

Melissa C. Marsted is the author of six children’s books and the founder of Lucky Penny Press, launched with insurance proceeds after her house and most of her possessions burned in the 2008 Santa Barbara Tea Fire. Today, Lucky Penny Publishing, LLC, has grown to incorporate two imprints—Lucky Penny Press, publishing books for children; and Silver Dollar Press, publishing autobiographies, memoirs, and nonfiction. A skier and an endurance athlete, Marsted has completed three 50K races and 12 marathons, including one along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, where she was inspired to write the children’s book Pablito and the Speckled Bear. A graduate of Harvard University, with an M.A. in organizational management from Antioch University, Marsted now lives in Park City, Utah, where she serves on the Summit County Library Board and is a member of Leadership Park City and the entrepreneurship incubator, Pando Labs. Marsted has two college-aged sons, two cats, and a Jack Russell terrier, Aro.

This event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160927T203000 UID:F6C32707-59BD-4AD1-A6F6-EEC3AC881EB0 SUMMARY:Writing Female Characters: A Conversation with Charlie Quimby and Barbara K. Richardson CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/549 DESCRIPTION:Novelists Charlie Quimby and Barbara K. Richardson discuss the complexities of writing female characters in a conversation moderated by their editor, Kirsten Johanna Allen of Torrey House Press. Part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, this event is free and open to the public.\N\NCharlie Quimby\NCharlie Quimby is the author of Monument Road, an Indie Next pick and Booklist Editors’ Choice in 2013. He began his writing career as playwright and arts journalist, veered into corporate communications and then founded a marketing agency that now purrs along without him. Along the way, he collected awards and developed the notion he had a few good novels in him. A native Coloradan and adopted Minnesotan, he is at home in both places.\N\NCharlie Quimby’s novel Inhabited introduces readers to Meg Mogrin, who sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor’s inner circle, and knows more than she’s letting on about her sister’s death. When their hometown attracts a game-changing development, Meg must decide between maintaining her ordered world and facing hard truths about her profession and past.\N\NBarbara K. Richardson\NAside from writing, Barbara K. Richardson has renovated four houses, enjoyed Argentine tango, fallen in love with tai chi, helped can the West’s finest plum jam, adored conifers, and planted thousands of trees and shrubs for others. In Tributary, Richardson claims the land of her Mormon ancestors who settled the northern Salt Lake Valley. Richardson earned an MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Kamas, Utah.\N\NIn Barbara Richardson’s Utah Book Award-winning novel Tributary, Clair Martin struggles with her role in the early Mormon Church. Her stubborn search for identity takes Clair from the confines of the Utah Territory, with its polygamy and rigorous conformity, to the chaos of Reconstruction Dixie and back again.\N\NKirsten Johanna Allen\NAs Publisher and Editorial Director at Torrey House Press, Kirsten Johanna Allen oversees marketing, production, and editorial concerns for Utah’s independent nonprofit literary publisher. Kirsten lives with her husband, Mark Bailey, and two cats in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Torrey House Press, The King's English Bookshop, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelists Charlie Quimby and Barbara K. Richardson discuss the complexities of writing female characters in a conversation moderated by their editor, Kirsten Johanna Allen of Torrey House Press. Part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, this event is free and open to the public.

Charlie Quimby
Charlie Quimby is the author of Monument Road, an Indie Next pick and Booklist Editors’ Choice in 2013. He began his writing career as playwright and arts journalist, veered into corporate communications and then founded a marketing agency that now purrs along without him. Along the way, he collected awards and developed the notion he had a few good novels in him. A native Coloradan and adopted Minnesotan, he is at home in both places.

Charlie Quimby’s novel Inhabited introduces readers to Meg Mogrin, who sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor’s inner circle, and knows more than she’s letting on about her sister’s death. When their hometown attracts a game-changing development, Meg must decide between maintaining her ordered world and facing hard truths about her profession and past.

Barbara K. Richardson
Aside from writing, Barbara K. Richardson has renovated four houses, enjoyed Argentine tango, fallen in love with tai chi, helped can the West’s finest plum jam, adored conifers, and planted thousands of trees and shrubs for others. In Tributary, Richardson claims the land of her Mormon ancestors who settled the northern Salt Lake Valley. Richardson earned an MFA in poetry from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Kamas, Utah.

In Barbara Richardson’s Utah Book Award-winning novel Tributary, Clair Martin struggles with her role in the early Mormon Church. Her stubborn search for identity takes Clair from the confines of the Utah Territory, with its polygamy and rigorous conformity, to the chaos of Reconstruction Dixie and back again.

Kirsten Johanna Allen
As Publisher and Editorial Director at Torrey House Press, Kirsten Johanna Allen oversees marketing, production, and editorial concerns for Utah’s independent nonprofit literary publisher. Kirsten lives with her husband, Mark Bailey, and two cats in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Utah.

This event is made possible with the support of Torrey House Press, The King's English Bookshop, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160927T210000 UID:D19D4D0B-20C4-4873-BE5A-0B37611351AB SUMMARY:Book Launch for Alex Caldiero's new collection Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/592 DESCRIPTION:Ken Sanders Rare Books and saltfront Press are pleased to announce a book launch for Alex Caldiero's new collection of poems, Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance on Tuesday, September 27th at 7:00 PM.\N\NWho is the Dancer, What is the Dance is based on a pocket journal that poet Alex Caldiero kept with him during a six-day river trip on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. In these poems, and the reproduced drawings that accompany, and often house, them, Caldiero explores how we simultaneously impinge upon, and give ourselves over to, a landscape. In these poems, our urban preconceptions falter and adapt to these places we call wild. \N\NTeacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Caldiero makes things that sometimes appear as language or pictures or music -- and then again, as the shape of your own mind.\N\NBorn in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, he immigrated with his family to the United States at age nine. Raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. He attended Queens College in Flushing, NY. Apprenticed to the sculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero has traveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales, and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour. Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. \N\NHe is a maker (makar) of text-sound and visual works, installations, and publications, including Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Sonosuono (Elik Press), and Who is the Dancer/What is the Dance (saltfront). Caldiero is senior artist in residence at Utah Valley University.\N\N\Nsaltfront is an arts and literary journal for a radically new type of ecological storytelling. We are searching for the newest and most vibrant eco-lyrical expressions, new ways to tell stories of what it means to be human amidst the monumental ecological transformations taking place on this planet. The journal is published twice per year. Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance is their first full-length collection. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books, saltfront, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ken Sanders Rare Books and saltfront Press are pleased to announce a book launch for Alex Caldiero's new collection of poems, Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance on Tuesday, September 27th at 7:00 PM.

Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance is based on a pocket journal that poet Alex Caldiero kept with him during a six-day river trip on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. In these poems, and the reproduced drawings that accompany, and often house, them, Caldiero explores how we simultaneously impinge upon, and give ourselves over to, a landscape. In these poems, our urban preconceptions falter and adapt to these places we call wild.

Teacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Caldiero makes things that sometimes appear as language or pictures or music -- and then again, as the shape of your own mind.

Born in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, he immigrated with his family to the United States at age nine. Raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. He attended Queens College in Flushing, NY. Apprenticed to the sculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero has traveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales, and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour. Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature.

He is a maker (makar) of text-sound and visual works, installations, and publications, including Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Sonosuono (Elik Press), and Who is the Dancer/What is the Dance (saltfront). Caldiero is senior artist in residence at Utah Valley University.


saltfront is an arts and literary journal for a radically new type of ecological storytelling. We are searching for the newest and most vibrant eco-lyrical expressions, new ways to tell stories of what it means to be human amidst the monumental ecological transformations taking place on this planet. The journal is published twice per year. Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance is their first full-length collection.

This event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books, saltfront, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160927T210000 UID:8C45CA9C-6E71-47B6-81EF-3E8403A3605E SUMMARY:Orem Reads: What is Freemasonry CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/679 DESCRIPTION:The Free and Accepted Masons are a fraternity with a long—and, to some, mysterious—history. Library patrons will have the rare and unique opportunity to hear a complimentary presentation on how Freemasonry works, how one becomes a Freemason, some of their unique qualities, and other aspects that make Freemasonry attract so many influential people over the ages (including the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle). A Q&A will follow the presentation. Come learn how to dispel the myths surrounding this most unique, ancient, and honorable fraternity.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Free and Accepted Masons are a fraternity with a long—and, to some, mysterious—history. Library patrons will have the rare and unique opportunity to hear a complimentary presentation on how Freemasonry works, how one becomes a Freemason, some of their unique qualities, and other aspects that make Freemasonry attract so many influential people over the ages (including the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle). A Q&A will follow the presentation. Come learn how to dispel the myths surrounding this most unique, ancient, and honorable fraternity.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160928T203000 UID:66C227FC-52FF-4C04-AA3B-CC9BA4DACA6E SUMMARY:Sherilyn Olsen Visits the Weber County Library Southwest Branch CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/567 DESCRIPTION:Sherilyn Olsen visits the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library to discuss international adoption and her book, Searched the World Over for Elie.\N\NThis inspiring, three-part story chronicles one American family’s adoption of a young boy from the faraway Democratic Republic of Congo. Readers accompany the family through the trying waiting period, intriguing time in Congo, and first adjustment years home. Guided by candid and expressive narration and interspersed with reflective questions for adopting parents, it delivers both a gripping human-interest story, and a valuable resource for adopting families. Amidst faith and humor, the struggles and surprises of international adoption come to light, as a family searches for their son and finds themselves along the way.\N\NAdoption advocate, speaker, and author, Sherilyn Olsen resides in mountainous South Ogden, Utah with her quiet husband and four wonderfully noisy children. She graduated from her hometown school, Weber State University, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and English. She has worked for the State of Utah ever since, where she currently teaches workshops. Several of her essays have been published, and Searched the World Over for Elie is her first full-length book. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sherilyn Olsen visits the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library to discuss international adoption and her book, Searched the World Over for Elie.

This inspiring, three-part story chronicles one American family’s adoption of a young boy from the faraway Democratic Republic of Congo. Readers accompany the family through the trying waiting period, intriguing time in Congo, and first adjustment years home. Guided by candid and expressive narration and interspersed with reflective questions for adopting parents, it delivers both a gripping human-interest story, and a valuable resource for adopting families. Amidst faith and humor, the struggles and surprises of international adoption come to light, as a family searches for their son and finds themselves along the way.

Adoption advocate, speaker, and author, Sherilyn Olsen resides in mountainous South Ogden, Utah with her quiet husband and four wonderfully noisy children. She graduated from her hometown school, Weber State University, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and English. She has worked for the State of Utah ever since, where she currently teaches workshops. Several of her essays have been published, and Searched the World Over for Elie is her first full-length book.

This event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T130000 UID:5D6B349D-95E2-4265-8CB8-B75489A132FC SUMMARY:Dayton Duncan Visits Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/552 DESCRIPTION:Author and producer Dayton Duncan will discuss his work with the national parks and his role in the PBS documentary series on the parks during a visit to Southern Utah University. This event is part of SUU's Convocations series and will take place in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center at 11:30 am. \N\NDayton Duncan, writer and producer (along with Ken Burns) of The National Parks, is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of nine books. Out West: A Journey through Lewis & Clark's America chronicles his retracing of the Lewis and Clark trail; it was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award. Grass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary is a unique look at presidential politics through the experiences of grassroots volunteers. Miles from Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier examines the current conditions, history, and people of the most sparsely settled counties in the United States. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, published in November 1997; Mark Twain, published in November 2001; and Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, 2003, are companion books to documentary films he wrote and produced. His most recent work is Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis & Clark, a collection of essays released in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark bicentennial.\N\NTwo books for young readers were published in the fall of 1996: People of the West, named a Notable Children's Trade Book for 1996 by the National Council of Social Studies and the Children's Book Council, and The West: An Illustrated History for Children, which was selected by The New Yorker magazine for its "short list" of the 16 best children's books of 1996 and won a Western Heritage award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.\N\NArticles of his have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, American Heritage magazine, The Old Farmer's Almanac, and many other publications.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and producer Dayton Duncan will discuss his work with the national parks and his role in the PBS documentary series on the parks during a visit to Southern Utah University. This event is part of SUU's Convocations series and will take place in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center at 11:30 am.

Dayton Duncan, writer and producer (along with Ken Burns) of The National Parks, is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of nine books. Out West: A Journey through Lewis & Clark's America chronicles his retracing of the Lewis and Clark trail; it was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and finalist for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award. Grass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary is a unique look at presidential politics through the experiences of grassroots volunteers. Miles from Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier examines the current conditions, history, and people of the most sparsely settled counties in the United States. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, published in November 1997; Mark Twain, published in November 2001; and Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, 2003, are companion books to documentary films he wrote and produced. His most recent work is Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis & Clark, a collection of essays released in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark bicentennial.

Two books for young readers were published in the fall of 1996: People of the West, named a Notable Children's Trade Book for 1996 by the National Council of Social Studies and the Children's Book Council, and The West: An Illustrated History for Children, which was selected by The New Yorker magazine for its "short list" of the 16 best children's books of 1996 and won a Western Heritage award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Articles of his have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, American Heritage magazine, The Old Farmer's Almanac, and many other publications.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T210000 UID:711B966D-F9B3-4ADC-9664-57504FFD6F5A SUMMARY:Film Noir with Richard Downey CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/680 DESCRIPTION:Join Orem Library’s resident film expert Richard Downey for an examination of dames, hard-boiled PIs, and dangerous secrets from classic film noir. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Orem Library’s resident film expert Richard Downey for an examination of dames, hard-boiled PIs, and dangerous secrets from classic film noir. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T203000 UID:4EAA92EF-095E-44C4-9823-CED480BB6B5E SUMMARY:Blitz Kids: Arnie, Tres, & Josh Ferrin with Wat Misaka at the Pleasant Valley Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/561 DESCRIPTION:Authors Tres and Josh Ferrin will discuss their book Blitz Kids at the Pleasant Valley Branch Library on Thursday, September 29th. They will be joined by Arnie Ferrin and Wat Misaka, former players on that famed 1944 Ute championship team.\N\NIn the 1940s, before March Madness, the frenzy of the NBA draft, and multi-million dollar professional contracts, college basketball players played simply because they loved the game. This is the story of a group of kids who loved to play basketball: the underdog 1943–44 University of Utah men’s basketball team and their unlikely path to the NCAA championship, who came out of nowhere to upset heavily favored Dartmouth for the title. \N\NAmong the members of the famed Utah team, was Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Nisei born in Ogden, Utah. Growing up, Misaka was discriminated because of his Japanese ethnicity and World War II, which was on-going and involved Japan. Reared in the basement of his father’s barber shop—between a bar and a pawn shop on 25th Street, where brothels abounded—Misaka was denied service at restaurants and avoided on the street. Despite this, Misaka still participated in sports. Misaka led his high school team, Ogden High School, to a state championship title in 1940. The next year he led the team to a regional championship title in 1941. He played college basketball for the University of Utah and helped his school win the 1944 NCAA and 1947 NIT championships. Misaka took off two years between these titles to serve in the United States Army in the American occupation of Japan. He played three games for the New York Knicks in the 1947–1948 season as the first player of Asian descent, and the first non-white player to play in the National Basketball Association.\N\NJosh and Tres Ferrin, grandson and son of Arnie Ferrin, both grew up hearing stories of Arnie's illustrious basketball career at the University of Utah. Tres is a physical therapist who has practiced in the area of sports medicine for 35 years, an adjunct faculty member at Weber State University, and an avid cyclist. He and his wife, Sherry, live in Ogden, Utah. Josh established himself as an award-winning illustrator and author before deciding to research and write the story of Arnie's championship season with his father. He resides in Bountiful, Utah, with his wife and two sons. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Tres and Josh Ferrin will discuss their book Blitz Kids at the Pleasant Valley Branch Library on Thursday, September 29th. They will be joined by Arnie Ferrin and Wat Misaka, former players on that famed 1944 Ute championship team.

In the 1940s, before March Madness, the frenzy of the NBA draft, and multi-million dollar professional contracts, college basketball players played simply because they loved the game. This is the story of a group of kids who loved to play basketball: the underdog 1943–44 University of Utah men’s basketball team and their unlikely path to the NCAA championship, who came out of nowhere to upset heavily favored Dartmouth for the title.

Among the members of the famed Utah team, was Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Nisei born in Ogden, Utah. Growing up, Misaka was discriminated because of his Japanese ethnicity and World War II, which was on-going and involved Japan. Reared in the basement of his father’s barber shop—between a bar and a pawn shop on 25th Street, where brothels abounded—Misaka was denied service at restaurants and avoided on the street. Despite this, Misaka still participated in sports. Misaka led his high school team, Ogden High School, to a state championship title in 1940. The next year he led the team to a regional championship title in 1941. He played college basketball for the University of Utah and helped his school win the 1944 NCAA and 1947 NIT championships. Misaka took off two years between these titles to serve in the United States Army in the American occupation of Japan. He played three games for the New York Knicks in the 1947–1948 season as the first player of Asian descent, and the first non-white player to play in the National Basketball Association.

Josh and Tres Ferrin, grandson and son of Arnie Ferrin, both grew up hearing stories of Arnie's illustrious basketball career at the University of Utah. Tres is a physical therapist who has practiced in the area of sports medicine for 35 years, an adjunct faculty member at Weber State University, and an avid cyclist. He and his wife, Sherry, live in Ogden, Utah. Josh established himself as an award-winning illustrator and author before deciding to research and write the story of Arnie's championship season with his father. He resides in Bountiful, Utah, with his wife and two sons.

This event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160929T210000 UID:78DE939B-B0EC-4933-A23C-C1952C5E2593 SUMMARY:Glenna Lang, Author of The Genius of Common Sense, Visits the Alta Club CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/627 DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Living City presents a discussion with Glenna Lang, author of The Genius of Common Sense: The Story of Jane Jacobs and “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” This book, originally written for young people, has been hailed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Robert Campbell as “the best short introduction yet to the life and work of one of the most influential Americans of her [Jane Jacobs’s] generation” for adults too. \N\NIn the 60’s when the “urban renewal” movement and its bulldozers were most aggressive, Jacobs correctly perceived that the new structures being built to replace the aging housing of our older cities were often far worse, in both their impact on society and their architectural sterility, than what urban planners identified as “the problem.” She was ridiculed and pilloried by the establishment, but her ideas quickly took hold, and no one ever looked at what made for livable and viable neighborhoods the same way again. Jane Jacobs, a heroine of common sense, never attended college but her observations, determination, and independent spirit led her to far different conclusions that those of the academics who surrounded her. \N\NGenius of Common Sense will inspire readers of all ages and demonstrate that we learn vital life lessons from observing and thinking, and not just accepting what passes as “conventional wisdom.” Join us for an evening of insight, observation, and action as we celebrate Jane Jacobs’s Centennial.\N\NGlenna Lang is the author of Genius of Common Sense: The Story of Jane Jacobs and “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” a book for young adults of all ages, which was chosen as a 2009 Notable Book by both the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine. That same year, in collaboration with the Cambridge Historical Commission, she started an annual Jane Jacobs Walk, which has become a highlight of early May with the ever-growing participation of enthusiastic residents. \N\NGlenna teaches illustration and design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she seeks to engage students in projects for nonprofit organizations and other good causes. She graduated from the University of Chicago, where she loved gazing at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House from her dormitory window and was shocked to learn of the routine destruction of Chicago’s other architectural gems. Her illustrations have appeared frequently in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. She has written and illustrated five picture books for children, including the American Library Association’s prize-winner Looking Out for Sarah, depicting a day in the life of a seeing-eye dog and his owner from the dog’s point of view.\N\NThere will be books available for purchase and a book signing after the event. This event is made possible with support from the Utah Humanities and the Alta Club. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Center for the Living City presents a discussion with Glenna Lang, author of The Genius of Common Sense: The Story of Jane Jacobs and “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” This book, originally written for young people, has been hailed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Robert Campbell as “the best short introduction yet to the life and work of one of the most influential Americans of her [Jane Jacobs’s] generation” for adults too.

In the 60’s when the “urban renewal” movement and its bulldozers were most aggressive, Jacobs correctly perceived that the new structures being built to replace the aging housing of our older cities were often far worse, in both their impact on society and their architectural sterility, than what urban planners identified as “the problem.” She was ridiculed and pilloried by the establishment, but her ideas quickly took hold, and no one ever looked at what made for livable and viable neighborhoods the same way again. Jane Jacobs, a heroine of common sense, never attended college but her observations, determination, and independent spirit led her to far different conclusions that those of the academics who surrounded her.

Genius of Common Sense will inspire readers of all ages and demonstrate that we learn vital life lessons from observing and thinking, and not just accepting what passes as “conventional wisdom.” Join us for an evening of insight, observation, and action as we celebrate Jane Jacobs’s Centennial.

Glenna Lang is the author of Genius of Common Sense: The Story of Jane Jacobs and “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” a book for young adults of all ages, which was chosen as a 2009 Notable Book by both the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine. That same year, in collaboration with the Cambridge Historical Commission, she started an annual Jane Jacobs Walk, which has become a highlight of early May with the ever-growing participation of enthusiastic residents.

Glenna teaches illustration and design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she seeks to engage students in projects for nonprofit organizations and other good causes. She graduated from the University of Chicago, where she loved gazing at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House from her dormitory window and was shocked to learn of the routine destruction of Chicago’s other architectural gems. Her illustrations have appeared frequently in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. She has written and illustrated five picture books for children, including the American Library Association’s prize-winner Looking Out for Sarah, depicting a day in the life of a seeing-eye dog and his owner from the dog’s point of view.

There will be books available for purchase and a book signing after the event. This event is made possible with support from the Utah Humanities and the Alta Club.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T130000 UID:1F04FC1B-90D7-41DC-824C-1C9D11C44A21 SUMMARY:Memoirist and Fiction Author Ira Sukrungurang Visits Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/591 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University presents memoirist and poet Ira Sukrungruang on Tuesday, October 25th in the Harold B. Lee Library (Room 1060) on BYU's campus.\N\NIn his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.\N\NIra Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham Young University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University presents memoirist and poet Ira Sukrungruang on Tuesday, October 25th in the Harold B. Lee Library (Room 1060) on BYU's campus.

In his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.

This event is made possible with support from Brigham Young University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160930T210000 UID:38EBFA20-ECB7-45AE-A538-404F142D4325 SUMMARY:Sarah Gay Visits The Printed Garden CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/675 DESCRIPTION:Based on a true story, Twisted Timber is an emotionally gripping tale. It is set in Marietta, Georgia in 1954 at the cusp of a new civil rights movement. The reader is further transported back in time to war-torn Germany during the devastation of World War II.\N\NIn 1954, Hannah is a young adult searching for answers. She came to America with stars in her eyes. No more war. No more injustice. No more Hitler, the man who sat with her and spoke to her gently. Although her lifelong physical disability was obvious, she was not going to let it impede her chances at a new life. With the new, warm, undemanding Southern culture contrasting her own, Hannah finds herself confused about her own identity.\N\NTo complicate matters, she is confronted with something that causes her memories to enslave her mind with devastating flashbacks of war. Hannah’s head is turned further in the direction of an art gallery owner who possesses an item which will send Hannah on a quest to find a long lost royal ancestor who may have the answers she is seeking.\N\NSarah graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Human Development. Raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and Atlanta Georgia, Sarah now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband Tom, where she dedicates her time to raising her four young children and writing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Based on a true story, Twisted Timber is an emotionally gripping tale. It is set in Marietta, Georgia in 1954 at the cusp of a new civil rights movement. The reader is further transported back in time to war-torn Germany during the devastation of World War II.

In 1954, Hannah is a young adult searching for answers. She came to America with stars in her eyes. No more war. No more injustice. No more Hitler, the man who sat with her and spoke to her gently. Although her lifelong physical disability was obvious, she was not going to let it impede her chances at a new life. With the new, warm, undemanding Southern culture contrasting her own, Hannah finds herself confused about her own identity.

To complicate matters, she is confronted with something that causes her memories to enslave her mind with devastating flashbacks of war. Hannah’s head is turned further in the direction of an art gallery owner who possesses an item which will send Hannah on a quest to find a long lost royal ancestor who may have the answers she is seeking.

Sarah graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Human Development. Raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and Atlanta Georgia, Sarah now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband Tom, where she dedicates her time to raising her four young children and writing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161001T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161001T210000 UID:DE222FC1-6C64-426E-B835-644A0722B489 SUMMARY:Recovering the Classics at The City Library CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/669 DESCRIPTION:On Saturday, October 1st, The City Library and Utah Humanities are pleased to present the opening reception for Revering the Classics, a crowdsourced collection of original covers for great literary works. The evening will feature book jacket designer Stephen Attardo, who will discuss book jacket design and the process of rethinking covers. A reception will follow. \N\NLaunched in 2013, Recovering the Classics sought to invite illustrators, typographers, and designers of all stripes to create new covers for 100 of the greatest titles in the public domain. Why? Sadly, many of these classics are left with poorly designed or auto-generated covers that fail to capture what makes these books exciting and inspiring.\N\NAs part of a new initiative announced by the White House, Recovering The Classics is partnering with the New York Public Library and the Digital Public Library of America to bring these amazing covers to libraries and schools nationwide. The City Library is hosting 40 posters from the national exhibit and is also partnering with Art Access to have 12 Salt Lake area artists design covers for Shakespearean works.\N\NThe posters from the national exhibit will be hosted at each branch location, and the locally-sourced designs will be hosted at the Main Library to complement First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.\N\NFor more info on the exhibit, visit: http://recoveringtheclassics.com/\N\NSteve Attardo is an award winning book jacket designer and Art Director for W.W. Norton / Liveright books. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, Complex Magazine, Print Magazine, and the New York Book Guild. Located in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Ninetynorth is his design studio. Ranging from books to music packaging to restaurant identity, the focus of our work is to find emotionally driven and smart solutions to all of our projects. You can see more of Steve's and Ninetynorth's work at: http://www.ninetynorthdesign.com/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Saturday, October 1st, The City Library and Utah Humanities are pleased to present the opening reception for Revering the Classics, a crowdsourced collection of original covers for great literary works. The evening will feature book jacket designer Stephen Attardo, who will discuss book jacket design and the process of rethinking covers. A reception will follow.

Launched in 2013, Recovering the Classics sought to invite illustrators, typographers, and designers of all stripes to create new covers for 100 of the greatest titles in the public domain. Why? Sadly, many of these classics are left with poorly designed or auto-generated covers that fail to capture what makes these books exciting and inspiring.

As part of a new initiative announced by the White House, Recovering The Classics is partnering with the New York Public Library and the Digital Public Library of America to bring these amazing covers to libraries and schools nationwide. The City Library is hosting 40 posters from the national exhibit and is also partnering with Art Access to have 12 Salt Lake area artists design covers for Shakespearean works.

The posters from the national exhibit will be hosted at each branch location, and the locally-sourced designs will be hosted at the Main Library to complement First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.

For more info on the exhibit, visit: http://recoveringtheclassics.com/

Steve Attardo is an award winning book jacket designer and Art Director for W.W. Norton / Liveright books. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, Complex Magazine, Print Magazine, and the New York Book Guild. Located in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Ninetynorth is his design studio. Ranging from books to music packaging to restaurant identity, the focus of our work is to find emotionally driven and smart solutions to all of our projects. You can see more of Steve's and Ninetynorth's work at: http://www.ninetynorthdesign.com/

This event is made possible with support from The City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T203000 UID:602B6A66-EB29-462D-B93D-2CBFC8F561E9 SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Be a Detective Night CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/659 DESCRIPTION:Have you ever dreamed of being a detective? Now is your chance! Explore the many aspects of detection and mystery novels with the whole family through interactive displays and activities featuring code cracking, fingerprinting, disguises, minute mysteries, and I Spy with the characters from the library stained glass windows. This event will be held in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Have you ever dreamed of being a detective? Now is your chance! Explore the many aspects of detection and mystery novels with the whole family through interactive displays and activities featuring code cracking, fingerprinting, disguises, minute mysteries, and I Spy with the characters from the library stained glass windows. This event will be held in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T203000 UID:530C2825-B659-4816-A20F-B62EC250E863 SUMMARY:Historian Candice Millard at The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/621 DESCRIPTION:The King's English presents historian Candice Millard on Monday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM. Millard will discuss her new book Hero of the Empire. A book signing will follow. \N\NAt age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him.\N \NChurchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape--but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him.\N \NThe story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned.\N\N\NCandice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine. Her first book, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and Kansas City Star. The River of Doubt was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense Pick, was a finalist for the Quill Awards, and won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. It has been printed in Portuguese, Mandarin, and Korean, as well as a British edition.\N\NMillard's second book, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, rose to number five on The New York Times bestseller list and has been named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, The Kansas City Star, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Destiny of the Republic won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, the PEN Center USA award for Research Nonfiction, the One Book—One Lincoln Award, the Ohioana Award and the Kansas Notable Book Award.\N\NMillard's work has also appeared in Time Magazine, Washington Post Book World, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English presents historian Candice Millard on Monday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM. Millard will discuss her new book Hero of the Empire. A book signing will follow.

At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him.

Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape--but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him.

The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned.


Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine. Her first book, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and Kansas City Star. The River of Doubt was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense Pick, was a finalist for the Quill Awards, and won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. It has been printed in Portuguese, Mandarin, and Korean, as well as a British edition.

Millard's second book, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, rose to number five on The New York Times bestseller list and has been named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, The Kansas City Star, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Destiny of the Republic won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, the PEN Center USA award for Research Nonfiction, the One Book—One Lincoln Award, the Ohioana Award and the Kansas Notable Book Award.

Millard's work has also appeared in Time Magazine, Washington Post Book World, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T203000 UID:AC7FBB84-F292-45D2-91FE-42F7024A5876 SUMMARY:Fiction Collective 2 and Western Humanties Review Present Doug Rice and Marc Anthony at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/635 DESCRIPTION:Western Humanities Review and Fiction Collective 2 present authors Doug Rice and Marc Anthony Richardson, who will discuss and share work from their new titles at Weller Book Works on Monday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM. \N\NHere Lies Memory explores the place of memory in living, daily, scarred and sacred lives. Two Pittsburgh families struggle to survive trauma and love. A man wills himself to go blind, not to forget, but to remember in new ways. Another man drinks beer after beer until he can no longer drink away what he must face directly. This novel reveals what language and photographs do to memory, desire, and love, and what gentrification is doing to the souls of families and neighborhoods.\N\NDoug Rice was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his BA in English from Slippery Rock State College and did his MA in creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton, where he studied under John C. Gardner, and his MA in English Literature at Duquesne University. He studied for his PhD in Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His first novel, Blood of Mugwump, was selected by Kathy Acker as a runner-up for the FC2 First Novel Award. He was awarded a Literature Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2012-2014. He has taught at La Roche College, Kent State University-Salem and currently teaches creative writing, literary theory and film history and theory. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, The Dirty Fabulous Anthology, Kiss the Sky, Alice Redux, Phantoms of Desire, Discourse, Gargoyle, Zyzzyvya, and others. His work has been translated into Polish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. See his website: www.Doug-Rice.com \N\NIn Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother’s precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait.\N\NMarc Anthony Richardson received his MFA from Mills College. He is an artist and writer from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat is his debut novel.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support from Western Humanities Review, Weller Book Works, Fiction Collective 2, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Western Humanities Review and Fiction Collective 2 present authors Doug Rice and Marc Anthony Richardson, who will discuss and share work from their new titles at Weller Book Works on Monday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM.

Here Lies Memory explores the place of memory in living, daily, scarred and sacred lives. Two Pittsburgh families struggle to survive trauma and love. A man wills himself to go blind, not to forget, but to remember in new ways. Another man drinks beer after beer until he can no longer drink away what he must face directly. This novel reveals what language and photographs do to memory, desire, and love, and what gentrification is doing to the souls of families and neighborhoods.

Doug Rice was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his BA in English from Slippery Rock State College and did his MA in creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton, where he studied under John C. Gardner, and his MA in English Literature at Duquesne University. He studied for his PhD in Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. His first novel, Blood of Mugwump, was selected by Kathy Acker as a runner-up for the FC2 First Novel Award. He was awarded a Literature Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2012-2014. He has taught at La Roche College, Kent State University-Salem and currently teaches creative writing, literary theory and film history and theory. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, The Dirty Fabulous Anthology, Kiss the Sky, Alice Redux, Phantoms of Desire, Discourse, Gargoyle, Zyzzyvya, and others. His work has been translated into Polish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. See his website: www.Doug-Rice.com

In Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother’s precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait.

Marc Anthony Richardson received his MFA from Mills College. He is an artist and writer from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat is his debut novel.

This event is made possible with the support from Western Humanities Review, Weller Book Works, Fiction Collective 2, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161003T203000 UID:74EB87D2-DF50-46EA-BE89-780CC2A7F8D0 SUMMARY:Good Ghost Bill at Ken Sanders Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/683 DESCRIPTION:Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities present poet and performer Good Ghost Bill in a full performance at Ken Sanders Rare Books. Good Ghost Bill wowed audiences at this year’s Utah Arts Festival and is returning to Salt Lake City for this repeat performance before his appearance at Literary Death Match the following night, at the 19th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival! This event is free and open to the public. \N\NBill Moran is a third-year MFA poetry candidate at Louisiana State University and a former medic. He was the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion, has performed and taught poetry internationally, and served as president of Mic Check, a non-profit poetry organization in Brazos County, Texas. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Button Poetry (video), Phoebe, Bird’s Thumb, Next Left Press, FreezeRay Press, The Dead Animal Handbook, LUX, Alien Mouth, and Drunk in a Midnight Choir. He appreciates your concern and well-wishes, but swears he is okay. Really\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Ken Sanders Rare Books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities present poet and performer Good Ghost Bill in a full performance at Ken Sanders Rare Books. Good Ghost Bill wowed audiences at this year’s Utah Arts Festival and is returning to Salt Lake City for this repeat performance before his appearance at Literary Death Match the following night, at the 19th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival! This event is free and open to the public.

Bill Moran is a third-year MFA poetry candidate at Louisiana State University and a former medic. He was the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion, has performed and taught poetry internationally, and served as president of Mic Check, a non-profit poetry organization in Brazos County, Texas. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Button Poetry (video), Phoebe, Bird’s Thumb, Next Left Press, FreezeRay Press, The Dead Animal Handbook, LUX, Alien Mouth, and Drunk in a Midnight Choir. He appreciates your concern and well-wishes, but swears he is okay. Really

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Ken Sanders Rare Books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T200000 UID:4D7FC505-3360-4638-A8F2-F140D45243FC SUMMARY:Provo's Rock Canyon Poets Present: Inspired: A Free Community Poetry Workshop CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/617 DESCRIPTION:Memories can inspire--and expressing those memories in poetry can help us to remember, save, celebrate, and even heal. A free community poetry writing workshop entitled “Inspired” helps participants create a new poem as a response to a memory using writing prompts and exercises. Offered in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, this workshop will be presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants will be encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\NWhere\NPioneer Book, 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601\N\NWhat to Bring\N§ Photographs, journals, or other memory reminders (optional)\N§ Pen and paper to write and/or an electronic device to write on (laptop, etc)\N§ Drink/snack if you so desire\N \NHow to Sign-up\NTo sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Seating is limited. Come ready to write!\N\NSchedule\N\N§ Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 at 6pm – Workshop #1: prompts and craft demonstration, writing exercises\N§ Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems\N§ Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 at midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology\N§ Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 at 6pm – Anthology launch party/reception and poetry reading\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Memories can inspire--and expressing those memories in poetry can help us to remember, save, celebrate, and even heal. A free community poetry writing workshop entitled “Inspired” helps participants create a new poem as a response to a memory using writing prompts and exercises. Offered in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, this workshop will be presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants will be encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

Where
Pioneer Book, 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601

What to Bring
§ Photographs, journals, or other memory reminders (optional)
§ Pen and paper to write and/or an electronic device to write on (laptop, etc)
§ Drink/snack if you so desire

How to Sign-up
To sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Seating is limited. Come ready to write!

Schedule

§ Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 at 6pm – Workshop #1: prompts and craft demonstration, writing exercises
§ Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems
§ Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 at midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology
§ Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 at 6pm – Anthology launch party/reception and poetry reading

This event is made possible with support from Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T203000 UID:971DFE12-7E2F-45C8-962A-B6C78F6BE9BA SUMMARY:Music & Mayhem: A Night with Maestro of Mystery Gerald Elias CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/583 DESCRIPTION:The Ogden Symphony Ballet Association presents "Music & Mayhem: A Night with Maestro of Mystery Gerald Elias" at the Southwest Library Branch. A reception with music and light refreshments begins at 6:30 pm with Elias' presentation at 7:00. \N\NThe latest Daniel Jacobus mystery holds a mirror to the glittery façade of the concert world, delving into the multimillion-dollar sleight-of-hand of violin dealing . . .\N\NWhen an anxious phone call from obscure violinmaker Amadeo Borlotti disturbs Daniel Jacobus’s Christmas Eve festivities, he and his dear friends Nathaniel and Yumi make light of it. A seemingly humble practitioner of his craft, Borlotti preferred the quiet life in the country away from the limelight. He even found love at an advanced age.\NBut his larceny, which began as a typographical error in a bill for a violin repair, grew incessantly. In the end he became a helpless captive of his past indiscretions and was consumed by it, and it is up to Jacobus and his team to find out how, and why.\N\NGerald Elias is an acclaimed author and musician. An award-winning author, his Daniel Jacobus mystery series takes place in the dark corners of the classical music world and has won extensive critical praise. His essays and short stories have been published in a growing number of diverse and distinguished anthologies and online journals, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sherlock Holmes Magazine, Level Best anthologies, Reichel arts blog, Berkshire Magazine and Opera magazine.\N\NA former violinist with the Boston Symphony and associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, Elias has performed on five continents as violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. Since 2004 he has been music director of the Vivaldi by Candlelight concerts in Salt Lake City, and continues to perform with the Boston Symphony at their Tanglewood summer festival. A native New Yorker, Elias resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, and West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he continues to expand his musical and literary horizons. For more information, visit www.geraldelias.com \N\NOgden Symphony Ballet Association is a 501(c)(3) organization working to enrich the lives of people living in Northern Utah by (1) presenting world-class classical music and dance performances; and (2) educating and engaging with families and individuals about classical music and dance, especially those who would not otherwise have access to the arts. \N\NOSBA began in 1949 when a few local women raised funds to bring the Utah Symphony to Ogden for one special concert. Since that time, OSBA has grown and now presents an entire season of its own. This year, OSBA will present twelve Utah Symphony concerts, four Ballet West performances, and two special events featuring BYU performing groups. In addition, OSBA has several education and community outreach programs, including the Symphony Youth Guild (a service group for high school students), Masterworks Music Detectives (music education classes for kids ages 8-12 plus discounted concert tickets), Classical After School (a partnership with YMCA to introduce local children to classical music), and a Youth Benefit Concert (providing aspiring young musicians with another opportunity to perform, proceeds going to fund a need-based music education scholarship).\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of The Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, the Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ogden Symphony Ballet Association presents "Music & Mayhem: A Night with Maestro of Mystery Gerald Elias" at the Southwest Library Branch. A reception with music and light refreshments begins at 6:30 pm with Elias' presentation at 7:00.

The latest Daniel Jacobus mystery holds a mirror to the glittery façade of the concert world, delving into the multimillion-dollar sleight-of-hand of violin dealing . . .

When an anxious phone call from obscure violinmaker Amadeo Borlotti disturbs Daniel Jacobus’s Christmas Eve festivities, he and his dear friends Nathaniel and Yumi make light of it. A seemingly humble practitioner of his craft, Borlotti preferred the quiet life in the country away from the limelight. He even found love at an advanced age.
But his larceny, which began as a typographical error in a bill for a violin repair, grew incessantly. In the end he became a helpless captive of his past indiscretions and was consumed by it, and it is up to Jacobus and his team to find out how, and why.

Gerald Elias is an acclaimed author and musician. An award-winning author, his Daniel Jacobus mystery series takes place in the dark corners of the classical music world and has won extensive critical praise. His essays and short stories have been published in a growing number of diverse and distinguished anthologies and online journals, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sherlock Holmes Magazine, Level Best anthologies, Reichel arts blog, Berkshire Magazine and Opera magazine.

A former violinist with the Boston Symphony and associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, Elias has performed on five continents as violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. Since 2004 he has been music director of the Vivaldi by Candlelight concerts in Salt Lake City, and continues to perform with the Boston Symphony at their Tanglewood summer festival. A native New Yorker, Elias resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, and West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he continues to expand his musical and literary horizons. For more information, visit www.geraldelias.com

Ogden Symphony Ballet Association is a 501(c)(3) organization working to enrich the lives of people living in Northern Utah by (1) presenting world-class classical music and dance performances; and (2) educating and engaging with families and individuals about classical music and dance, especially those who would not otherwise have access to the arts. 

OSBA began in 1949 when a few local women raised funds to bring the Utah Symphony to Ogden for one special concert. Since that time, OSBA has grown and now presents an entire season of its own. This year, OSBA will present twelve Utah Symphony concerts, four Ballet West performances, and two special events featuring BYU performing groups. In addition, OSBA has several education and community outreach programs, including the Symphony Youth Guild (a service group for high school students), Masterworks Music Detectives (music education classes for kids ages 8-12 plus discounted concert tickets), Classical After School (a partnership with YMCA to introduce local children to classical music), and a Youth Benefit Concert (providing aspiring young musicians with another opportunity to perform, proceeds going to fund a need-based music education scholarship).

This event is made possible with the support of The Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, the Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T203000 UID:C922A0CC-E0D0-40BA-AAE9-7D8015B4D408 SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Presents the 15 Bytes Fiction Award Winner and Finalists: Jeri Parker, Melanie Rae Thon & Paul Ketzle CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/678 DESCRIPTION:Jeri Parker, winner of the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for fiction, will be joined by this year’s finalist, Paul Ketzle (for The Late Matthew Brown) for a reading and celebration of fiction at Weller Book Works. \N\NParker’s winning novel (Winter Beach Press, 2015) was selected by judges assembled by 15 Bytes and charged with awarding a winner based on the nominees’ quality of writing/artistry; insight into Utah landscape and/or culture and/or the author’s connection to Utah (i.e., is or was a Utahn); and, finally, the indefinable quality that makes a book special and unforgettable\N\NThe 15 Bytes Book Awards, currently in its 4th year, is a program of Artists of Utah and its monthly online magazine and blog, 15 Bytes. Categories include fiction, poetry and art book (next year creative nonfiction will be added). You can read the citations for two fiction finalists and the winner here, and the 15 Bytes review of the winning novel, Unmoored, here. \N\N"Unmoored is made powerful by the author’s ability to invoke rich images of the natural landscape, as well as the sometimes stark reality of human nature. Seething with raw emotion, readers feel as if they are experiencing the critical moments in Rennie’s past, firsthand." –from the citation.\N\NAbout Jeri Parker: Awards for Jeri Parker's writing include first place prizes from the Utah Arts Council and from the Henry’s Fork Foundation in Idaho. A Thousand Voices was nominated for the Utah Book Award and Jeri was recently featured in Kirkus Magazine’s “Profiles and Interviews." An artist as well as writer, she has over sixty of her paintings at the Wildflowers Bed and Breakfast in Salt Lake CIty, which has become her main gallery. Her paintings hang in public and private collections in London, Paris, Athens, Istanbul, Frankfurt, and Sydney as well as half the states.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, City Art, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Jeri Parker, winner of the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for fiction, will be joined by this year’s finalist, Paul Ketzle (for The Late Matthew Brown) for a reading and celebration of fiction at Weller Book Works.

Parker’s winning novel (Winter Beach Press, 2015) was selected by judges assembled by 15 Bytes and charged with awarding a winner based on the nominees’ quality of writing/artistry; insight into Utah landscape and/or culture and/or the author’s connection to Utah (i.e., is or was a Utahn); and, finally, the indefinable quality that makes a book special and unforgettable

The 15 Bytes Book Awards, currently in its 4th year, is a program of Artists of Utah and its monthly online magazine and blog, 15 Bytes. Categories include fiction, poetry and art book (next year creative nonfiction will be added). You can read the citations for two fiction finalists and the winner here, and the 15 Bytes review of the winning novel, Unmoored, here. 

"Unmoored is made powerful by the author’s ability to invoke rich images of the natural landscape, as well as the sometimes stark reality of human nature. Seething with raw emotion, readers feel as if they are experiencing the critical moments in Rennie’s past, firsthand." –from the citation.

About Jeri Parker: Awards for Jeri Parker's writing include first place prizes from the Utah Arts Council and from the Henry’s Fork Foundation in Idaho. A Thousand Voices was nominated for the Utah Book Award and Jeri was recently featured in Kirkus Magazine’s “Profiles and Interviews." An artist as well as writer, she has over sixty of her paintings at the Wildflowers Bed and Breakfast in Salt Lake CIty, which has become her main gallery. Her paintings hang in public and private collections in London, Paris, Athens, Istanbul, Frankfurt, and Sydney as well as half the states.

This event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, City Art, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T203000 UID:66A39F03-C047-4D24-B053-11C92E0B9423 SUMMARY:Utah Authors Panel Featuring Johnny Worthen, Jody Steffensen, Joy Spraycar, Doree Anderson, Patricia Stevenson, and Judy Baker CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/568 DESCRIPTION:The Brigham City Public Library presents a panel of Utah Authors on Tuesday, October 4th. Featured authors will include Johnny Worthen, Jodee Steffensen, Joy Spraycar, Judy Baker, Doree Anderson, and Patricia G. Stevenson. \N\NJOHNNY WORTHEN is an award-winning, best-selling author, voyager, and damn fine human being! He is the tie-dye wearing writer of the nationally acclaimed, #1 Kindle best-selling ELEANOR, THE UNSEEN. Among his other excellent and very read-worthy titles are the adult occult thriller BEATRYSEL, the award-winning mystery THE BRAND DEMAND, and the genre bending comedy-noir THE FINGER TRAP. And of course the continuation of THE UNSEEN Trilogy, with CELESTE and DAVID. Trained in stand-up comedy, modern literary criticism and cultural studies, Johnny is a frequent public speaker, teacher and blogger. “I write what I like to read,” he says. “That guarantees me at least one fan.”\N\NJoy Spraycar lives in Utah at the base of the Rocky Mountains. She has always had a vivid imagination and told stories, not always to the amusement of those around her. Since she was young, she enjoyed bringing stories to life and sharing them with others. However, her decided career lead her down many paths before finally setting her back where she began, putting pen to paper.\N\NJudy Baker/Anna Sugg lives in the beautiful western state of Utah. Though she's a southerner at heart, she loves the surrounding mountains and the desert valleys. When not writing the stories that fill her head, she enjoys RVing with her family, stargazing through one of her many telescopes, digging in her wildflower garden, and golfing, or just swinging on the patio while plotting her next story. She's also an avid fan of coffee and the ocean. \N\NJodee Steffensen has been an accountant, a Special Education teacher, and an actor. She is an award winning author who has been telling stories all her life in any form she can. She wrote her first screenplay on a spiral notebook for her favorite TV show. The TV show was immediately cancelled. Undaunted, she continued with essays, stories, poems and more screenplays. Finally, at age 54, she began her first novel, which is now her favorite format. Her favorite subject is Shakespeare, a passion she developed in college when she studied performance theater. Jodeesteffensen.com.\N\NDoree Anderson believes that every chapter book should involve a mystery and an adventure to keep kids interested in reading. Reading starts when we're young and blossoms into well versed adulthood. It opens our imaginations. Ms. Anderson is a full-time Middle-Grade, Young Adult writer who resides in Utah with her husband and two cockateils, Spike and Gilligan. You can contact her at doreeanderson.wordpress.com anytime.\N\NPatricia G. Stevenson, Author of the Professor Del Channing Murder Mystery series born and reared in the West, has been active in the business community for many years. She has also traveled extensively. Utilizing these experiences, she has been able to capture situations and locales where the adventures of Professor Channing take place.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Brigham City Public Library presents a panel of Utah Authors on Tuesday, October 4th. Featured authors will include Johnny Worthen, Jodee Steffensen, Joy Spraycar, Judy Baker, Doree Anderson, and Patricia G. Stevenson.

JOHNNY WORTHEN is an award-winning, best-selling author, voyager, and damn fine human being! He is the tie-dye wearing writer of the nationally acclaimed, #1 Kindle best-selling ELEANOR, THE UNSEEN. Among his other excellent and very read-worthy titles are the adult occult thriller BEATRYSEL, the award-winning mystery THE BRAND DEMAND, and the genre bending comedy-noir THE FINGER TRAP. And of course the continuation of THE UNSEEN Trilogy, with CELESTE and DAVID. Trained in stand-up comedy, modern literary criticism and cultural studies, Johnny is a frequent public speaker, teacher and blogger. “I write what I like to read,” he says. “That guarantees me at least one fan.”

Joy Spraycar lives in Utah at the base of the Rocky Mountains. She has always had a vivid imagination and told stories, not always to the amusement of those around her. Since she was young, she enjoyed bringing stories to life and sharing them with others. However, her decided career lead her down many paths before finally setting her back where she began, putting pen to paper.

Judy Baker/Anna Sugg lives in the beautiful western state of Utah. Though she's a southerner at heart, she loves the surrounding mountains and the desert valleys. When not writing the stories that fill her head, she enjoys RVing with her family, stargazing through one of her many telescopes, digging in her wildflower garden, and golfing, or just swinging on the patio while plotting her next story. She's also an avid fan of coffee and the ocean.

Jodee Steffensen has been an accountant, a Special Education teacher, and an actor. She is an award winning author who has been telling stories all her life in any form she can. She wrote her first screenplay on a spiral notebook for her favorite TV show. The TV show was immediately cancelled. Undaunted, she continued with essays, stories, poems and more screenplays. Finally, at age 54, she began her first novel, which is now her favorite format. Her favorite subject is Shakespeare, a passion she developed in college when she studied performance theater. Jodeesteffensen.com.

Doree Anderson believes that every chapter book should involve a mystery and an adventure to keep kids interested in reading. Reading starts when we're young and blossoms into well versed adulthood. It opens our imaginations. Ms. Anderson is a full-time Middle-Grade, Young Adult writer who resides in Utah with her husband and two cockateils, Spike and Gilligan. You can contact her at doreeanderson.wordpress.com anytime.

Patricia G. Stevenson, Author of the Professor Del Channing Murder Mystery series born and reared in the West, has been active in the business community for many years. She has also traveled extensively. Utilizing these experiences, she has been able to capture situations and locales where the adventures of Professor Channing take place.

This event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T203000 UID:2F5F1493-6496-4FF9-A21E-70D09085F2DF SUMMARY:Mette Ivie Harrison at Orem Reads CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/660 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads presents Mette Ivie Harrison, author of The Bishop's Wife, in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library on Tuesday, October 4th.\N\NMette Ivie Harrison’s mystery fiction focuses on Utah, its people, and its culture. Often based on actual events, The Bishop’s Wife was loosely inspired by the Susan Powell disappearance, Harrison’s adult mysteries have been reviewed by the New York Times, the LA Times, and have been featured on NPR Weekend Edition. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads presents Mette Ivie Harrison, author of The Bishop's Wife, in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library on Tuesday, October 4th.

Mette Ivie Harrison’s mystery fiction focuses on Utah, its people, and its culture. Often based on actual events, The Bishop’s Wife was loosely inspired by the Susan Powell disappearance, Harrison’s adult mysteries have been reviewed by the New York Times, the LA Times, and have been featured on NPR Weekend Edition.

This event is made possible with support from The Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161004T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161004T230000 UID:2D55B953-A0A0-4DFB-87CA-F53271F25D47 SUMMARY:Literary Death Match Returns to SLC and the State Room! CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/654 DESCRIPTION:It's back! Literary Death Match and Adrian Zuniga return to Salt Lake City on Tuesday, October 4th! LDM marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol's judging (without the meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare. Judges will include Giuliana Serena, Paisley Rekdal, and Angela Lovell, while contestants will include Matthew Kirby, RJ Walker, Mike Dorrell, and Good Ghost Bill (Bill Moran), with more to be announced soon. Tickets are $9.00 in advance, $12.00 at the door, and will be available through the State Room beginning August 29th. Doors at 8:00 PM, show at 9:00 PM.\N\NIn an era where books are desperate to evolve,Literary Death Match — a groundbreaking take on both the written and spoken word — is a crowd-luring, bright-minded spectacle. Part literary reading, part comedy show, part game show, Literary Death Match brings together four of today's brilliant writers to compete in an edge-of-your-seat readoff critiqued by three celebrity judges, and concluded by a slapstick showdown to decide the night's ultimate champion.\N\NHow It Works: Literary Death Match features a mix of four established and emerging writers who perform their most electric work before a live audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After a pair of readings, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary, focusing on Literary Merit, Performance and Intangibles.The judges select one writer from each round to advance to the finals, where we trade in the show's literary sensibility for an absurdly comical climax — like Pin the Mustache on Hemingway, or a literary spelling bee featuring complicated author names — to decide who takes home the Literary Death Match crown. For more info on LDM, visit: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/about\N\NJudges:\N\NGiuliana Serena, Beekeeper & Co-Founder of The Bee, lovingly competitive storytelling in SLC. Since its debut in December of 2014, The Bee has been a place for our salty city to laugh, cry, and bee entertained.\N\NAngela Lovell is a bestselling author and award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, critic, writing instructor, and storyteller. She's written for MTV, Universal Studios, VICE, The New York Post, Match.com, and many more. She's taken first place at The Moth's NYC StorySlam and performs her earliest diary entries regularly with Mortified. \N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, a hybrid-genre photo-text memoir entitled Intimate, and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, and the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize. \N\NContestants:\N\NGood Ghost Bill Moran is a third-year MFA poetry candidate at Louisiana State University and a former medic. He was the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion, has performed and taught poetry internationally, and served as president of Mic Check, a non-profit poetry organization in Brazos County, Texas. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Button Poetry (video), Phoebe, Bird’s Thumb, Next Left Press, FreezeRay Press, The Dead Animal Handbook, LUX, Alien Mouth, and Drunk in a Midnight Choir. He appreciates your concern and well-wishes, but swears he is okay. Really\N\NRJ Walker writes poems and jokes about loneliness, pizza, and cartoons. He’s worked as an EMT for 5 years and consequently has been poor for 5 years. He figured that if he was going to be poor, he might as well be an artist! So he rode his 1979 Chevrolet Motorhome into the sunset and decided to become a full time Spoken Word Artist. Walker runs Salt Lake City’s longest running Open Mic at the Greenhouse Effect and is the Vice President of the Wasatch Wordsmiths, a Non-Profit organization dedicated to the craft of spoken word. \N\NMatthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and The Quantum League series. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA award for Children’s Literature, and has been named to the New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing. \N\NMike Dorrell is originally from Swansea, Wales, and much of his work still has its roots in his Welsh experience. He has over a dozen produced plays to his credit including some half a dozen plays for BBC Radio 4 such as PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, an examination of the artistic and personal legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, BURNINGTHE ARC- an antidote to UNDER MILK WOOD and PENNY GAFFS AND ANGELPLACES, a sound portrait of the midlife crisis of Charles Dickens. Work for the stage includes his triptych of stories about his home town, TALKING WALES 1, 11, and 111, for Utah Contemporary Theatre which is designed for performance in non- traditional theatre spaces. He was formerly Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company and in that capacity has developed new work by Julie Jensen, J.T. Rogers and others. He has taught there and for Westminster College. Mike has recently turned to writing literary mysteries.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It's back! Literary Death Match and Adrian Zuniga return to Salt Lake City on Tuesday, October 4th! LDM marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol's judging (without the meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare. Judges will include Giuliana Serena, Paisley Rekdal, and Angela Lovell, while contestants will include Matthew Kirby, RJ Walker, Mike Dorrell, and Good Ghost Bill (Bill Moran), with more to be announced soon. Tickets are $9.00 in advance, $12.00 at the door, and will be available through the State Room beginning August 29th. Doors at 8:00 PM, show at 9:00 PM.

In an era where books are desperate to evolve,Literary Death Match — a groundbreaking take on both the written and spoken word — is a crowd-luring, bright-minded spectacle. Part literary reading, part comedy show, part game show, Literary Death Match brings together four of today's brilliant writers to compete in an edge-of-your-seat readoff critiqued by three celebrity judges, and concluded by a slapstick showdown to decide the night's ultimate champion.

How It Works: Literary Death Match features a mix of four established and emerging writers who perform their most electric work before a live audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After a pair of readings, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary, focusing on Literary Merit, Performance and Intangibles.The judges select one writer from each round to advance to the finals, where we trade in the show's literary sensibility for an absurdly comical climax — like Pin the Mustache on Hemingway, or a literary spelling bee featuring complicated author names — to decide who takes home the Literary Death Match crown. For more info on LDM, visit: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/about

Judges:

Giuliana Serena, Beekeeper & Co-Founder of The Bee, lovingly competitive storytelling in SLC. Since its debut in December of 2014, The Bee has been a place for our salty city to laugh, cry, and bee entertained.

Angela Lovell is a bestselling author and award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, critic, writing instructor, and storyteller. She's written for MTV, Universal Studios, VICE, The New York Post, Match.com, and many more. She's taken first place at The Moth's NYC StorySlam and performs her earliest diary entries regularly with Mortified.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, a hybrid-genre photo-text memoir entitled Intimate, and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, and the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize.

Contestants:

Good Ghost Bill Moran is a third-year MFA poetry candidate at Louisiana State University and a former medic. He was the 2012 & 2013 Austin Poetry Slam Champion, has performed and taught poetry internationally, and served as president of Mic Check, a non-profit poetry organization in Brazos County, Texas. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Button Poetry (video), Phoebe, Bird’s Thumb, Next Left Press, FreezeRay Press, The Dead Animal Handbook, LUX, Alien Mouth, and Drunk in a Midnight Choir. He appreciates your concern and well-wishes, but swears he is okay. Really

RJ Walker writes poems and jokes about loneliness, pizza, and cartoons. He’s worked as an EMT for 5 years and consequently has been poor for 5 years. He figured that if he was going to be poor, he might as well be an artist! So he rode his 1979 Chevrolet Motorhome into the sunset and decided to become a full time Spoken Word Artist. Walker runs Salt Lake City’s longest running Open Mic at the Greenhouse Effect and is the Vice President of the Wasatch Wordsmiths, a Non-Profit organization dedicated to the craft of spoken word.

Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and The Quantum League series. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA award for Children’s Literature, and has been named to the New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing.

Mike Dorrell is originally from Swansea, Wales, and much of his work still has its roots in his Welsh experience. He has over a dozen produced plays to his credit including some half a dozen plays for BBC Radio 4 such as PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, an examination of the artistic and personal legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, BURNINGTHE ARC- an antidote to UNDER MILK WOOD and PENNY GAFFS AND ANGELPLACES, a sound portrait of the midlife crisis of Charles Dickens. Work for the stage includes his triptych of stories about his home town, TALKING WALES 1, 11, and 111, for Utah Contemporary Theatre which is designed for performance in non- traditional theatre spaces. He was formerly Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company and in that capacity has developed new work by Julie Jensen, J.T. Rogers and others. He has taught there and for Westminster College. Mike has recently turned to writing literary mysteries.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161005T210000 UID:DB0381B2-85A8-48FA-8182-A44891A6EEB5 SUMMARY:City Art Presents: Simeon Berry CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/623 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents Simeon Berry & Heather Hirschi at The City Library (4th Floor Conference Room) on Wednesday, October 5th at 7:00 PM. \N\NSimeon Berry won the 2013 National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited, and the 2014 National Poetry Series for his second book of poetry, Monograph. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he manages building contracts for the federal government.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and City Art. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents Simeon Berry & Heather Hirschi at The City Library (4th Floor Conference Room) on Wednesday, October 5th at 7:00 PM.

Simeon Berry won the 2013 National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited, and the 2014 National Poetry Series for his second book of poetry, Monograph. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he manages building contracts for the federal government.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and City Art. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161031 UID:9D1977CE-CFE8-4568-94D2-772E06C3EDD7 SUMMARY:The City Library Presents: Shakespeare's First Folio CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/636 DESCRIPTION:The City Library is pleased to announce that it will be part of the First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare Tour put on by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folio will be on exhibit at the City Library throughout the month of October.\N\NFrom Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet, the characters in Shakespeare's plays are timeless and familiar. But how do we know about Shakespeare's works at all?\N\NFor many of the plays, the answer is the book at the heart of this exhibition: the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare. The First Folio includes 36 of Shakespeare's plays, 18 of which were never printed before. Without it, they could easily have been lost.\N\NThe wonderful book in this exhibition, the 1623 First Folio, probably had a print run of 750 copies. Fewer than a third—233 copies—are known today.\N\NThe 36 plays in the First Folio are almost all the plays that Shakespeare wrote. The 18 that were never printed before the First Folio include Macbeth, The Tempest, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night.\N\NAbout a century ago, Henry Folger and his wife, Emily, collected countless books, manuscripts, and other items related to Shakespeare and his time. Their collection included 82 First Folios, the largest group in the world.\N\NThe First Folio on display in this exhibit is from the Folger Shakespeare Library, established by the Folgers in Washington, DC, a block from the US Capitol.\N\N\N\NProgramming about Shakespeare and the Folio will take place at the City Library throughout the month of October. A list of programs is included below. For more information on these events and on the Folio, visit: http://www.slcpl.org/firstfolio\N\NFirst Folio! Programs:\N\NThursday, Oct 6. Noon. \NShakespeare’s First Folio: The Most Famous Book You Don’t Know\NDr. Mark Higgs Matheson, Dr. Barry Weller, and Dr. Richard Preiss\NGould Auditorium, Marriott Library at University of Utah\N\N\NSaturday, Oct 8, 2016 1:00PM-6:00 PM. \NKickoff Party Throughout the Library\NThe Fabulous Folio of Mr. William Shakespeare, Playwright. Presented by Utah’s Children’s Theater (in the Auditorium at 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM, and 5:00 PM). Renaissance music & dancing. Between programs there will be games & activities in the Urban Room\N\N\NSaturday, Oct 8, 2:00 PM. \NPrinters Bill\NHow do you turn a handful of manuscripts, pirated texts, and rough notes into one of the largest books produced at its time? Dr. Richard Saunders illustrates the process in a book history talk about printing, binding, and selling the Folio. Come to think of it, what is a "folio"? He will use a hands-on demonstration about what a folio book is that attendees can do themselves, sitting in their chairs.\N(Level 4 Meeting Room)\N\N\NSunday, October 9, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM. \NShakespeare Live Film Series\NIn each of the 12 episodes, a major Shakespearean actor or director explores and reveals the extraordinary world and works of William Shakespeare and the still potent impact they have today. The presenters have spent their lives with Shakespeare’s work and relate not only their stories of the plays themselves, but also how they came to be written. How they have been performed, and how the have survived over 400 years.\NShakespeare Uncovered: Season I Episodes 1-4:\N1. Joey Richardson on Shakespeare’s Women\N2. Ethan Hawke on Macbeth\N3. Derek Jacobi on Richard II\N4. Trevor Nunn on the Tempest\NMade possible with support from KUED\N(Auditorium)\N\N\NMonday, October 10. 5:30-7:00 PM. \NBalcony Scenes: Romance and Battle (Sometimes they’re the same)\NRomeo & Juliet balcony scene, Henry V’s Crispin’s Day Speech, Beatrice and Benedict dialogue.\N(Urban Room)\N\N\NWednesday, Oct 12, 2:00-4:00 PM. \NLove's Labour's Lost (Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, Alessandro Nivola, Natascha McElhone). \NThe King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to\Nthe test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.\NAn update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. The film tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.\N(Auditorium)\N\N\NSaturday, Oct 15, 2:00 PM. \NSaved by the First Folio: Dramatic Visions in the Late Plays of Mr. William Shakespeare. \NDr. Mark Matheson. Lecture about works found only in the First Folio and appreciation of the richness of the writing particularly in later plays.\N(Level 4 Meeting Room)\N\NSaturday, Oct 15, 3:00 PM. \NThus With a Fish I Die: Shakespeare Death Lines.\NUtah Children’s Theatre is dying to have you join us for this interactive workshop. Shakespeare brought his characters to life on stage—and sometimes he killed them off! Participants will use zany props and Shakespearean language to explore some of the bard’s famous 'death scenes'. Fun for the whole family.\N\N\NSaturday, Oct 15, 4:00-5:00 PM. \NSelected Scenes from Student Shakespeare Competition at the 2016 Utah Shakespeare Festival.\N(Auditorium)\N\N\NTuesday, October 18, 5:30-6:30 PM. \NRowland Hall Madrigals Choir will perform period pieces including songs with lyrics by Shakespeare.\N(Urban Room)\N\N\NSaturday, Oct 22, 2:00-3:30 PM. \NWilly the Kid: Shakespeare in the American West 1850-1870.\NSUU Assoc Dean Matt Nickerson.\NPresentation will focus primarily on the incredible popularity of Shakespeare’s plays in the cities and towns of the California Gold Rush. Historic photographs, period newspapers, original playbills and personal journals will be used to tell the amazing story of Shakespeare\Nperformances on the Western frontier. Though not part of popular culture’s depiction of the West in\Nmovies and dime novels, among the varied entertainments of the day Shakespeare enjoyed a disproportionate share of the limelight. By introducing the places, people, and plays that made the Bard a common feature of the Western frontier my presentation will highlight the value and accessibility of his work across time and illustrate how Shakespeare performances in early California contributed to the evolution of American theatre.\N(Level 4 Meeting Room)\N\N\NSunday, Oct 23, 1:00-5:00 PM. \NShakespeare Uncovered\NSeason I, Episodes 5-6:\N5. Jeremy Irons on the Henrys\N6. David Tennant on Hamlet\NSeason 2 Episodes 1-2\N1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Hugh Bonneville\N2. 2. King Lear with Christopher Plummer\NMade possible with support from KUED\N(Auditorium)\N\N\NMonday, October 24, 5:30-8:00 PM. \NThe Scottish Play Meets Broadway. \NBagpipes, Arias/duets from Verdi’s opera, sword fighting, witches reciting and singing, Macbeth monologue. A Master Bagpiper will play through the Urban Room, heralding the evening’s activities The Armored Combat League will then break out into some thrilling sword play, ending up at the performance area. Local actors and musicians will perform selections from several Broadway shows and operas with Shakespeare related themes, including the song Double Trouble from the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and selections from Something Rotten; Kiss Me, Kate; West Side Story; Falstaff; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor; Play On; and Swingin’ the Dream\N\NWednesday, Oct 26, 2:00-4:00 PM. \NThe Tempest (Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones)\NIn Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going\Nback to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of\Nwitchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her fouryear\Ndaughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda. This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.\N(Auditorium)\N\N\NSaturday, Oct 29, 3:00 PM. \NDouble, Double, Toil and Trouble\NCome explore the spookier side of Shakespeare with Utah Children’s Theatre as you make fun costumes\Nand props, and create characters to perform in Shakespeare’s famous witches scene from MacBeth.\NSpooky fun for ages 5 and up. Child Program. \N(Level 4 Meeting Room)\N\NSaturday, Oct 29, 4:00-6:00 PM.\N Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.\NAs part of the Shakespeare First Folio's visit to the Salt Lake City Public Library, the library and Utah Humanities are pleased to present author Ian Doescher. Doescher will discuss the creation of his Shakespeare's Star Wars series.\N(Auditorium)\N\NSunday, Oct, 30, 1:00-5:00 PM. \NShakespeare Uncovered\NSeason 2 Episodes 3-6\N3. The Taming of the Shrew with Morgan Freeman\N4. Othello with David Harewood\N5. Antony & Cleopatra with Kim Catrell\N6. Romeo & Juliet with Joseph Fiennes\NMade possible with support from KUED\N(Auditorium)\N\NFirst Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare is produced in association with the American Library Association and the Cincinnati Museum Center, and is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the support of Google.org, Vinton and Sigrid Cerf, and other generous donors.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The City Library is pleased to announce that it will be part of the First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare Tour put on by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folio will be on exhibit at the City Library throughout the month of October.

From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet, the characters in Shakespeare's plays are timeless and familiar. But how do we know about Shakespeare's works at all?

For many of the plays, the answer is the book at the heart of this exhibition: the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare. The First Folio includes 36 of Shakespeare's plays, 18 of which were never printed before. Without it, they could easily have been lost.

The wonderful book in this exhibition, the 1623 First Folio, probably had a print run of 750 copies. Fewer than a third—233 copies—are known today.

The 36 plays in the First Folio are almost all the plays that Shakespeare wrote. The 18 that were never printed before the First Folio include Macbeth, The Tempest, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night.

About a century ago, Henry Folger and his wife, Emily, collected countless books, manuscripts, and other items related to Shakespeare and his time. Their collection included 82 First Folios, the largest group in the world.

The First Folio on display in this exhibit is from the Folger Shakespeare Library, established by the Folgers in Washington, DC, a block from the US Capitol.



Programming about Shakespeare and the Folio will take place at the City Library throughout the month of October. A list of programs is included below. For more information on these events and on the Folio, visit: http://www.slcpl.org/firstfolio

First Folio! Programs:

Thursday, Oct 6. Noon.
Shakespeare’s First Folio: The Most Famous Book You Don’t Know
Dr. Mark Higgs Matheson, Dr. Barry Weller, and Dr. Richard Preiss
Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library at University of Utah


Saturday, Oct 8, 2016 1:00PM-6:00 PM.
Kickoff Party Throughout the Library
The Fabulous Folio of Mr. William Shakespeare, Playwright. Presented by Utah’s Children’s Theater (in the Auditorium at 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM, and 5:00 PM). Renaissance music & dancing. Between programs there will be games & activities in the Urban Room


Saturday, Oct 8, 2:00 PM.
Printers Bill
How do you turn a handful of manuscripts, pirated texts, and rough notes into one of the largest books produced at its time? Dr. Richard Saunders illustrates the process in a book history talk about printing, binding, and selling the Folio. Come to think of it, what is a "folio"? He will use a hands-on demonstration about what a folio book is that attendees can do themselves, sitting in their chairs.
(Level 4 Meeting Room)


Sunday, October 9, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM.
Shakespeare Live Film Series
In each of the 12 episodes, a major Shakespearean actor or director explores and reveals the extraordinary world and works of William Shakespeare and the still potent impact they have today. The presenters have spent their lives with Shakespeare’s work and relate not only their stories of the plays themselves, but also how they came to be written. How they have been performed, and how the have survived over 400 years.
Shakespeare Uncovered: Season I Episodes 1-4:
1. Joey Richardson on Shakespeare’s Women
2. Ethan Hawke on Macbeth
3. Derek Jacobi on Richard II
4. Trevor Nunn on the Tempest
Made possible with support from KUED
(Auditorium)


Monday, October 10. 5:30-7:00 PM.
Balcony Scenes: Romance and Battle (Sometimes they’re the same)
Romeo & Juliet balcony scene, Henry V’s Crispin’s Day Speech, Beatrice and Benedict dialogue.
(Urban Room)


Wednesday, Oct 12, 2:00-4:00 PM.
Love's Labour's Lost (Kenneth Branagh, Alicia Silverstone, Alessandro Nivola, Natascha McElhone).
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to
the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. The film tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.
(Auditorium)


Saturday, Oct 15, 2:00 PM.
Saved by the First Folio: Dramatic Visions in the Late Plays of Mr. William Shakespeare.
Dr. Mark Matheson. Lecture about works found only in the First Folio and appreciation of the richness of the writing particularly in later plays.
(Level 4 Meeting Room)

Saturday, Oct 15, 3:00 PM.
Thus With a Fish I Die: Shakespeare Death Lines.
Utah Children’s Theatre is dying to have you join us for this interactive workshop. Shakespeare brought his characters to life on stage—and sometimes he killed them off! Participants will use zany props and Shakespearean language to explore some of the bard’s famous 'death scenes'. Fun for the whole family.


Saturday, Oct 15, 4:00-5:00 PM.
Selected Scenes from Student Shakespeare Competition at the 2016 Utah Shakespeare Festival.
(Auditorium)


Tuesday, October 18, 5:30-6:30 PM.
Rowland Hall Madrigals Choir will perform period pieces including songs with lyrics by Shakespeare.
(Urban Room)


Saturday, Oct 22, 2:00-3:30 PM.
Willy the Kid: Shakespeare in the American West 1850-1870.
SUU Assoc Dean Matt Nickerson.
Presentation will focus primarily on the incredible popularity of Shakespeare’s plays in the cities and towns of the California Gold Rush. Historic photographs, period newspapers, original playbills and personal journals will be used to tell the amazing story of Shakespeare
performances on the Western frontier. Though not part of popular culture’s depiction of the West in
movies and dime novels, among the varied entertainments of the day Shakespeare enjoyed a disproportionate share of the limelight. By introducing the places, people, and plays that made the Bard a common feature of the Western frontier my presentation will highlight the value and accessibility of his work across time and illustrate how Shakespeare performances in early California contributed to the evolution of American theatre.
(Level 4 Meeting Room)


Sunday, Oct 23, 1:00-5:00 PM.
Shakespeare Uncovered
Season I, Episodes 5-6:
5. Jeremy Irons on the Henrys
6. David Tennant on Hamlet
Season 2 Episodes 1-2
1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Hugh Bonneville
2. 2. King Lear with Christopher Plummer
Made possible with support from KUED
(Auditorium)


Monday, October 24, 5:30-8:00 PM.
The Scottish Play Meets Broadway.
Bagpipes, Arias/duets from Verdi’s opera, sword fighting, witches reciting and singing, Macbeth monologue. A Master Bagpiper will play through the Urban Room, heralding the evening’s activities The Armored Combat League will then break out into some thrilling sword play, ending up at the performance area. Local actors and musicians will perform selections from several Broadway shows and operas with Shakespeare related themes, including the song Double Trouble from the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and selections from Something Rotten; Kiss Me, Kate; West Side Story; Falstaff; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor; Play On; and Swingin’ the Dream

Wednesday, Oct 26, 2:00-4:00 PM.
The Tempest (Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones)
In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going
back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of
witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her fouryear
daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda. This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.
(Auditorium)


Saturday, Oct 29, 3:00 PM.
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Come explore the spookier side of Shakespeare with Utah Children’s Theatre as you make fun costumes
and props, and create characters to perform in Shakespeare’s famous witches scene from MacBeth.
Spooky fun for ages 5 and up. Child Program.
(Level 4 Meeting Room)

Saturday, Oct 29, 4:00-6:00 PM.
Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.
As part of the Shakespeare First Folio's visit to the Salt Lake City Public Library, the library and Utah Humanities are pleased to present author Ian Doescher. Doescher will discuss the creation of his Shakespeare's Star Wars series.
(Auditorium)

Sunday, Oct, 30, 1:00-5:00 PM.
Shakespeare Uncovered
Season 2 Episodes 3-6
3. The Taming of the Shrew with Morgan Freeman
4. Othello with David Harewood
5. Antony & Cleopatra with Kim Catrell
6. Romeo & Juliet with Joseph Fiennes
Made possible with support from KUED
(Auditorium)

First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare is produced in association with the American Library Association and the Cincinnati Museum Center, and is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the support of Google.org, Vinton and Sigrid Cerf, and other generous donors.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161010 UID:91C0035C-533B-4078-9878-6B3D4C4C7DF6 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/533 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the best writers in the nation. This year, join us and be inspired and instructed by Eleanor Wilner, Dianne Oberhansly, and David Lee. These writers will teach as well as read from their work at evening readings during the conference. Make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room. \N\NFor more info, visit: http://www.boulderheritage.org/foundation-projects/cliff-notes-writing-conference/boulder-book-festival/\N\NThe Cliff Notes Conference is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the best writers in the nation. This year, join us and be inspired and instructed by Eleanor Wilner, Dianne Oberhansly, and David Lee. These writers will teach as well as read from their work at evening readings during the conference. Make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room.

For more info, visit: http://www.boulderheritage.org/foundation-projects/cliff-notes-writing-conference/boulder-book-festival/

The Cliff Notes Conference is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161009 UID:666D8E87-4458-4491-BCB4-AA0B967A769B SUMMARY:Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/640 DESCRIPTION:This conference will explore the intersections of contemporary poetry, ecology and technology through readings and workshops by poets whose work pertains to sustainability and the western region. Co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. Please refer to the following website for more information: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html \N\NOctober 6\NKeynote Address by Simmons Buntin, Editor of Terrain.org\NSUU Alumni Center\N7:00 pm\N\NOctober 7\NWorkshops and Readings\NMark Irwin, Nancy Takacs, Michael McLane, Juan Morales, Danielle Dubrasky\N9:00-5:00\NShooting Star Room\NHunter Conference Center\NRegistration required\N\NOctober 8\NWriting Workshop in Kolob Canyon\NRegistration required--space is limited\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This conference will explore the intersections of contemporary poetry, ecology and technology through readings and workshops by poets whose work pertains to sustainability and the western region. Co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. Please refer to the following website for more information: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html

October 6
Keynote Address by Simmons Buntin, Editor of Terrain.org
SUU Alumni Center
7:00 pm

October 7
Workshops and Readings
Mark Irwin, Nancy Takacs, Michael McLane, Juan Morales, Danielle Dubrasky
9:00-5:00
Shooting Star Room
Hunter Conference Center
Registration required

October 8
Writing Workshop in Kolob Canyon
Registration required--space is limited

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T190000 UID:75ADDAD2-2004-4241-96C2-91DA92B39457 SUMMARY:Dream House on Golan Drive: David Pace at Pioneer Book CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/652 DESCRIPTION:David Pace visits Pioneer Book to discuss his book Dream House on Golan Drive on Thursday, October 6 at 5:30 PM. \N\NIt is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other. He is eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims God has revealed to her that she is to live with Riley’s family. Her quirks are strangely disarming, her relentless questioning of their life incendiary and sometimes comical. Her way of taking religious practice to its logical conclusion leaves a strong impact on her hosts and propels Riley outside his observable universe toward a trajectory of self-discovery.\N\NSet in Provo and New York City during the seventies and eighties, Dream House on Golan Drive encapsulates the normal expectations of a Mormon experience and turns them on their head. The style, too, is innovative in how it employs as narrator “Zed,” one of the apocryphal Three Nephites who, with another immortal figure, the Wandering Jew of post-biblical legend, engage regularly in light-hearted banter and running commentary, animating the story and leavening the heartache with humor and tenderness.\N\NDavid G. Pace has published in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Association for Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues to follow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Pioneer Book and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:David Pace visits Pioneer Book to discuss his book Dream House on Golan Drive on Thursday, October 6 at 5:30 PM.

It is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other. He is eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims God has revealed to her that she is to live with Riley’s family. Her quirks are strangely disarming, her relentless questioning of their life incendiary and sometimes comical. Her way of taking religious practice to its logical conclusion leaves a strong impact on her hosts and propels Riley outside his observable universe toward a trajectory of self-discovery.

Set in Provo and New York City during the seventies and eighties, Dream House on Golan Drive encapsulates the normal expectations of a Mormon experience and turns them on their head. The style, too, is innovative in how it employs as narrator “Zed,” one of the apocryphal Three Nephites who, with another immortal figure, the Wandering Jew of post-biblical legend, engage regularly in light-hearted banter and running commentary, animating the story and leavening the heartache with humor and tenderness.

David G. Pace has published in Alligator Juniper, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, ellipsis, Phone Fiction, Quarterly West, and Sunstone. Winner of Association for Mormon Letters and Dialogue Foundation Best Short Awards, Pace continues to follow his muse as the literary editor of 15 Bytes magazine.

This event is made possible with support from Pioneer Book and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T193000 UID:0207DE18-2DF5-403B-8502-AE09952F2992 SUMMARY:Alison Luterman at Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/534 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present poet David Lee at the Kiva Coffeehouse in Escalante.\N\NDavid Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. He will be sharing his new book about women which will be hot off the press in September, 2016. Hear it in Boulder before anyplace else. Dave also assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year and making sure we’ve done our yearly homework. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Coffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Heritage Foundation and the Cliff Notes Writing Conference present poet David Lee at the Kiva Coffeehouse in Escalante.

David Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. He will be sharing his new book about women which will be hot off the press in September, 2016. Hear it in Boulder before anyplace else. Dave also assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year and making sure we’ve done our yearly homework. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Coffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T203000 UID:730949D4-D309-4474-82FF-96A6EAFEE5E9 SUMMARY:Tanner Humanities Center Presents Stephen Prothero CREATED:20260416T080111Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080111Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/436 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents author and professor Stephen Prothero at the Salt Lake City Public Library to discuss his new book “Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections). \N\NIn this timely talk, Stephen Prothero places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win. \N\NProthero takes us on a lively tour through time, bringing into focus topics such as the anti-Mormon crusade of the Victorian era; the fundamentalist-modernist debates of the 1920s; the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s; and the current crusade against Islam.  As Prothero makes clear, our culture wars have always been religious wars, progressing through the same stages of conservative reaction to liberal victory that eventually benefit all Americans. Drawing on his impressive depth of knowledge and detailed research, Prothero explains how competing religious beliefs have continually molded our political, economic, and sociological discourse and reveals how the conflicts which separate us today, like those that came before, are actually the byproduct of our struggle to come to terms with inclusiveness and ideals of “Americanness.” To explore those battles, he reminds us, is to look into the soul of America – and perhaps find essential answers to the questions that beset us.” \N\NStephen Prothero is a Professor of Religion at Boston University. He earned his PhD in Religion from Harvard, and is a specialist in Asian religious traditions in the United States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. He is a regular contributor to CNN.com's Belief Blog. He is also the author of American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, is a frequent guest on NPR, has appeared on The Today Show and The O'Reilly Factor, and has written for Salon.com and The New York Times Magazine.\N\NThis event will take place in the Library's Auditorium. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Utah Humanities, and the Salt Lake City Public Library.\N\N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents author and professor Stephen Prothero at the Salt Lake City Public Library to discuss his new book “Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections).

In this timely talk, Stephen Prothero places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win. 

Prothero takes us on a lively tour through time, bringing into focus topics such as the anti-Mormon crusade of the Victorian era; the fundamentalist-modernist debates of the 1920s; the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s; and the current crusade against Islam.  As Prothero makes clear, our culture wars have always been religious wars, progressing through the same stages of conservative reaction to liberal victory that eventually benefit all Americans. Drawing on his impressive depth of knowledge and detailed research, Prothero explains how competing religious beliefs have continually molded our political, economic, and sociological discourse and reveals how the conflicts which separate us today, like those that came before, are actually the byproduct of our struggle to come to terms with inclusiveness and ideals of “Americanness.” To explore those battles, he reminds us, is to look into the soul of America – and perhaps find essential answers to the questions that beset us.” 

Stephen Prothero is a Professor of Religion at Boston University. He earned his PhD in Religion from Harvard, and is a specialist in Asian religious traditions in the United States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. He is a regular contributor to CNN.com's Belief Blog. He is also the author of American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, is a frequent guest on NPR, has appeared on The Today Show and The O'Reilly Factor, and has written for Salon.com and The New York Times Magazine.

This event will take place in the Library's Auditorium.

This event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Utah Humanities, and the Salt Lake City Public Library.



X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T203000 UID:C7BA1EC1-3582-4A9C-BAAE-B29D11ADCB5D SUMMARY:Ben Behunin Visits the Southwest Branch Library CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/539 DESCRIPTION:Author and artist Ben Behunin will visit the Pleasant Valley Branch Library to discuss and share his work. Ben's books, as well as his pottery and other works, will be available at the event. \N\NBen Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.\N\NIn 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. His latest book, Borrowing Fire, was released December 2012. He is currently working on forty-seven other books that may be released sometime in the next fifty years if he can overcome his ADD.\N\NBen is the father of two young budding potters, Isaac and Eve, ages 11 and 9. He and his wife Lynnette live in Salt Lake City, just inches away from his whimsically magical studio, Wild Rooster Artworks.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Pleasant Valley Branch Library.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and artist Ben Behunin will visit the Pleasant Valley Branch Library to discuss and share his work. Ben's books, as well as his pottery and other works, will be available at the event.

Ben Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.

In 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. His latest book, Borrowing Fire, was released December 2012. He is currently working on forty-seven other books that may be released sometime in the next fifty years if he can overcome his ADD.

Ben is the father of two young budding potters, Isaac and Eve, ages 11 and 9. He and his wife Lynnette live in Salt Lake City, just inches away from his whimsically magical studio, Wild Rooster Artworks.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Pleasant Valley Branch Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T203000 UID:70F9187C-F740-4E45-ABF6-F8C3C12C29BC SUMMARY:Carolyn Finney Visits the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/587 DESCRIPTION:Writer, performer, and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney will discuss her work at the Grand County Library on Thursday, Ocotber 6th at 7:00 PM.\N\NWhy are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.\N\NDrawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.\N\NCarolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impacts participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly she likes to trouble our theoretical and methodological edges that shape knowledge production and determine whose knowledge counts. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing - she pursed an acting career for eleven years, but a backpacking trip around the world and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, she returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn has appeared on the Tavis Smiley show, MSNBC, NPR and has been interviewed for numerous newspapers and magazines. Most recently an interview with Carolyn in the Boston Glove was cited as one of the top ten ideas/stories of 2014. Along with public speaking, writing and consulting, she serves on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board that is working to assist the National Park Service in engaging in relations of reciprocity with diverse communities. Her first book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors was released in 2014 (UNC Press).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Writer, performer, and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney will discuss her work at the Grand County Library on Thursday, Ocotber 6th at 7:00 PM.

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.

Drawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.

Carolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impacts participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly she likes to trouble our theoretical and methodological edges that shape knowledge production and determine whose knowledge counts. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing - she pursed an acting career for eleven years, but a backpacking trip around the world and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, she returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn has appeared on the Tavis Smiley show, MSNBC, NPR and has been interviewed for numerous newspapers and magazines. Most recently an interview with Carolyn in the Boston Glove was cited as one of the top ten ideas/stories of 2014. Along with public speaking, writing and consulting, she serves on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board that is working to assist the National Park Service in engaging in relations of reciprocity with diverse communities. Her first book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors was released in 2014 (UNC Press).

This event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161006T203000 UID:EE118DB6-7975-4F6F-A9CB-6CE15E8FD556 SUMMARY:The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Series Presents Poets Simeon Berry & Danielle Cadena Deulen CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/677 DESCRIPTION:The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Series at Westminster College Presents poets Simeon Berry & Danielle Cadena Deulen on Thrusday, October 6th at 7:00 PM in the Gore School of Business Auditorium.\N\NSimeon Berry won the 2013 National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited, and the 2014 National Poetry Series for his second book of poetry, Monograph. He has been an associate editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he manages building contracts for the federal government.\N\NDanielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her memoir, The Riots, won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award. Her second book of poems, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, won the Barrow Street Book Contest. She lives in Salem, Oregon, where she teaches for the English Department of Willamette University. She is also the poetry series editor at Acre Books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Series at Westminster College Presents poets Simeon Berry & Danielle Cadena Deulen on Thrusday, October 6th at 7:00 PM in the Gore School of Business Auditorium.

Simeon Berry won the 2013 National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited, and the 2014 National Poetry Series for his second book of poetry, Monograph. He has been an associate editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he manages building contracts for the federal government.

Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her memoir, The Riots, won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award. Her second book of poems, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, won the Barrow Street Book Contest. She lives in Salem, Oregon, where she teaches for the English Department of Willamette University. She is also the poetry series editor at Acre Books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161007T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161007T130000 UID:F5A435CC-51DB-44C5-891B-BDF19D64172C SUMMARY:Poet and Editor Craig Santos Perez Visits Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/601 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University hosts poet Craig Santos Perez on Friday, October 7th at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library (ROom 1060) on the BYU campus. \N\NCraig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011), and author of two collections of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina](Omnidawn Publishing, 2010), a finalist for the LA Times 2010 Book Prize for Poetry and the winner of the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, where he teaches Pacific literature and creative writing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University hosts poet Craig Santos Perez on Friday, October 7th at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library (ROom 1060) on the BYU campus.

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011), and author of two collections of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina](Omnidawn Publishing, 2010), a finalist for the LA Times 2010 Book Prize for Poetry and the winner of the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, where he teaches Pacific literature and creative writing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161007T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161007T163000 UID:F4DCD8C0-52FB-44FC-BFFD-4CBD32149047 SUMMARY:Carolyn Finney Visits the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/615 DESCRIPTION:Writer, performer, and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney will discuss her work at Utah Valley University of Friday, October 7th at 3:00 p.m. in room CB510.\N\NWhy are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.\N\NDrawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.\N\NCarolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impacts participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly she likes to trouble our theoretical and methodological edges that shape knowledge production and determine whose knowledge counts. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing - she pursed an acting career for eleven years, but a backpacking trip around the world and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, she returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn has appeared on the Tavis Smiley show, MSNBC, NPR and has been interviewed for numerous newspapers and magazines. Most recently an interview with Carolyn in the Boston Glove was cited as one of the top ten ideas/stories of 2014. Along with public speaking, writing and consulting, she serves on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board that is working to assist the National Park Service in engaging in relations of reciprocity with diverse communities. Her first book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors was released in 2014 (UNC Press).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Writer, performer, and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney will discuss her work at Utah Valley University of Friday, October 7th at 3:00 p.m. in room CB510.

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.

Drawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns.

Carolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in Geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impacts participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly she likes to trouble our theoretical and methodological edges that shape knowledge production and determine whose knowledge counts. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing - she pursed an acting career for eleven years, but a backpacking trip around the world and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, she returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn has appeared on the Tavis Smiley show, MSNBC, NPR and has been interviewed for numerous newspapers and magazines. Most recently an interview with Carolyn in the Boston Glove was cited as one of the top ten ideas/stories of 2014. Along with public speaking, writing and consulting, she serves on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board that is working to assist the National Park Service in engaging in relations of reciprocity with diverse communities. Her first book, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors was released in 2014 (UNC Press).

This event is made possible with support from the Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161007T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161007T193000 UID:D9F24019-F67A-4E06-B105-D466D884C7F1 SUMMARY:Dianne Nelson Oberhansly CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/535 DESCRIPTION:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents author Dianne Nelson Oberhansly on Friday, October 7th at 7:00 PM at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch. \N\NDianne Nelson Oberhansly’s book of short stories, A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, won the Flannery O’Connor Award and her co-written novel, Downwinders: An Atomic Tale, was chosen as a Utah Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared widely in journals, including the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Quarterly and Sundog, and her poems have been published in Paper Nautilus, Canary, and Third Wednesday, among others. She lives in rural Utah where she is a hiker, slow food enthusiast, and an Arts supporter/educator.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents author Dianne Nelson Oberhansly on Friday, October 7th at 7:00 PM at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch.

Dianne Nelson Oberhansly’s book of short stories, A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, won the Flannery O’Connor Award and her co-written novel, Downwinders: An Atomic Tale, was chosen as a Utah Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared widely in journals, including the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Quarterly and Sundog, and her poems have been published in Paper Nautilus, Canary, and Third Wednesday, among others. She lives in rural Utah where she is a hiker, slow food enthusiast, and an Arts supporter/educator.

This event is made possible with the support of the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161008T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T180000 UID:4578105F-181B-48A4-B191-57FE8EFC24C5 SUMMARY:The Way of Writers: Building Worlds with Brandon Sanderson CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/607 DESCRIPTION:As part of Brandon Sanderson's visit to Ogden High School, Utah Humanities and Weber County Book Links are pleased to present "The Way of Writers: Building Worlds with Brandon Sanderson," a series of workshops and events on Saturday, October 8th. The day will culminate in Sanderson's talk at 4:00 PM. \N\NEvents will be held Saturday, October 8, at Ogden High School. Brandon Sanderson will talk in the newly restored OHS Art Deco Auditorium, a National Trust for Historical Preservation award recipient.\N\NWorkshops 12:00 to 3:00\NBreak 3:00 to 4:00\NTrivia in auditorium 3:30 to 4:00\NSanderson talk 4:00 to 5:00\NBook Signing, Trivia 5:00 to 6:00\NArt Gallery in Hallway\N\NFor more information and a list of workshop facilitators as well as art and writing competition information, visit: \N\Nhttps://sandersonogdenvisit.wordpress.com/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Ogden High School, and Weber County Book Links.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As part of Brandon Sanderson's visit to Ogden High School, Utah Humanities and Weber County Book Links are pleased to present "The Way of Writers: Building Worlds with Brandon Sanderson," a series of workshops and events on Saturday, October 8th. The day will culminate in Sanderson's talk at 4:00 PM.

Events will be held Saturday, October 8, at Ogden High School. Brandon Sanderson will talk in the newly restored OHS Art Deco Auditorium, a National Trust for Historical Preservation award recipient.

Workshops 12:00 to 3:00
Break 3:00 to 4:00
Trivia in auditorium 3:30 to 4:00
Sanderson talk 4:00 to 5:00
Book Signing, Trivia 5:00 to 6:00
Art Gallery in Hallway

For more information and a list of workshop facilitators as well as art and writing competition information, visit:

https://sandersonogdenvisit.wordpress.com/

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Ogden High School, and Weber County Book Links.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161008T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T153000 UID:7FCABC34-B206-4D90-9312-BC727A55EEF9 SUMMARY:Utah State Poetry Society Book Concert with Dee Rygh CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/674 DESCRIPTION:For both poets and poetry-lovers, the Utah State Poetry Society offers contests, workshops, critique groups, a yearly Poetry Festival, and a fall Book Concert. They also offer a friendly, supportive group to help members grow as poets. Join them at the Orem Public Library for a book concert honoring the winner of this year’s state poetry contest, Duane "Dee Rygh." \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:For both poets and poetry-lovers, the Utah State Poetry Society offers contests, workshops, critique groups, a yearly Poetry Festival, and a fall Book Concert. They also offer a friendly, supportive group to help members grow as poets. Join them at the Orem Public Library for a book concert honoring the winner of this year’s state poetry contest, Duane "Dee Rygh." 
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161008T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T173000 UID:86A0CDFF-F1C2-4F70-9F99-A7C2D9ABD6A5 SUMMARY:Brandon Sanderson Visits Ogden CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/578 DESCRIPTION:Join the renowned fantasy and science fiction writer at Ogden High School for "The Way of the Writer: World Building with Brandon Sanderson" on Saturday, October 8th.\N\NBrandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.\N\NVolunteering for The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel,Elantris, in his hands. Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. The second book in the series, Words of Radiance, was released on March 4th, 2014.\N\NBrandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Three more volumes of the series have been released so far. Additionally, Brandon’s novella Infinity Blade: Awakening was ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. In December 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet McDougal Rigney to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after his untimely passing. 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight was followed by the final volume in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013.\N\NThe only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings and is on the short list again in 2012 for The Alloy of Law. He has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice award for Best Epic Fantasy twice and has been nominated three other years. He was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has hit the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List six times, with his first Wheel of Time book knocking Dan Brown out of the #1 spot and his second dethroning John Grisham. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians was optioned for film by DreamWorks Animation, Mistborn was optioned by Paloppa Pictures, and a Mistborn video game will be released by Little Orbit in 2013 for all platforms. Brandon’s books have been published in over twenty languages.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ogden High School and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the renowned fantasy and science fiction writer at Ogden High School for "The Way of the Writer: World Building with Brandon Sanderson" on Saturday, October 8th.

Brandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.

Volunteering for The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel,Elantris, in his hands. Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. The second book in the series, Words of Radiance, was released on March 4th, 2014.

Brandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Three more volumes of the series have been released so far. Additionally, Brandon’s novella Infinity Blade: Awakening was ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. In December 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet McDougal Rigney to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after his untimely passing. 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight was followed by the final volume in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013.

The only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings and is on the short list again in 2012 for The Alloy of Law. He has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice award for Best Epic Fantasy twice and has been nominated three other years. He was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has hit the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List six times, with his first Wheel of Time book knocking Dan Brown out of the #1 spot and his second dethroning John Grisham. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians was optioned for film by DreamWorks Animation, Mistborn was optioned by Paloppa Pictures, and a Mistborn video game will be released by Little Orbit in 2013 for all platforms. Brandon’s books have been published in over twenty languages.

This event is made possible with support from Ogden High School and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161008T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T193000 UID:22E4E11A-7E56-4B20-9A3C-EDE6CE4920CD SUMMARY:Eleanor Wilner at the Boulder Mountain Lodge CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/536 DESCRIPTION:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents poet Eleanor Wilner on Saturday, October 8th at 7:00 PM at the Boulder Mountain Lodge. \N\NEleanor Wilner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 29, 1937, and holds an interdepartmental PhD from Johns Hopkins University. She has published several collections of poetry, including Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010); The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004); Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1998); and Otherwise (University of Chicago, 1993).\N\NHer other works include a verse translation of Euripides’s Medea (Penn Greek Series, 1998); and a book on visionary imagination, Gathering the Winds (Johns Hopkins Press, 1975). Her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). Wilner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes.\N\NWilner, who was formerly the editor of The American Poetry Review, is currently an advisory editor of Calyx. She has taught, most recently, at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents poet Eleanor Wilner on Saturday, October 8th at 7:00 PM at the Boulder Mountain Lodge.

Eleanor Wilner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 29, 1937, and holds an interdepartmental PhD from Johns Hopkins University. She has published several collections of poetry, including Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010); The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004); Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1998); and Otherwise (University of Chicago, 1993).

Her other works include a verse translation of Euripides’s Medea (Penn Greek Series, 1998); and a book on visionary imagination, Gathering the Winds (Johns Hopkins Press, 1975). Her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). Wilner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Wilner, who was formerly the editor of The American Poetry Review, is currently an advisory editor of Calyx. She has taught, most recently, at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.

This event is made possible with the support of the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161010T203000 UID:4CD51FD7-7029-45AA-84BE-2F6F1987186F SUMMARY:Orem Reads Presents: The Library Escape Game CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/665 DESCRIPTION:\NDo you have what it takes to match wits with the library puzzle masters? In the style of popular escape room puzzles, several library spaces will be transformed into diabolical traps. Can you and your family piece the clues together fast enough to escape the library?\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Do you have what it takes to match wits with the library puzzle masters? In the style of popular escape room puzzles, several library spaces will be transformed into diabolical traps. Can you and your family piece the clues together fast enough to escape the library?
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161011T203000 UID:F305DF5F-4EE2-4C2F-929F-620287FBD1FB SUMMARY:Ally Condie at the Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/527 DESCRIPTION:Best-selling young adult author Ally Condie will visit the Brigham City Public Library on Tuesday, October 25th. \N\NIt’s the first real summer since the devastating accident that killed Cedar’s father and younger brother, Ben. But now Cedar and what’s left of her family are returning to the town of Iron Creek for the summer. They’re just settling into their new house when a boy named Leo, dressed in costume, rides by on his bike. Intrigued, Cedar follows him to the renowned Summerlost theatre festival. Soon, she not only has a new friend in Leo and a job working concessions at the festival, she finds herself surrounded by mystery. The mystery of the tragic, too-short life of the Hollywood actress who haunts the halls of Summerlost. And the mystery of the strange gifts that keep appearing for Cedar.\N\NAlly Condie is the author of the MATCHED Trilogy, a #1 New York Times and international bestseller. MATCHED was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten and named as one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010. The sequels, CROSSED and REACHED, were also critically acclaimed and received starred reviews, and all three books are available in 30+ languages.\N\NAlly lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Best-selling young adult author Ally Condie will visit the Brigham City Public Library on Tuesday, October 25th.

It’s the first real summer since the devastating accident that killed Cedar’s father and younger brother, Ben. But now Cedar and what’s left of her family are returning to the town of Iron Creek for the summer. They’re just settling into their new house when a boy named Leo, dressed in costume, rides by on his bike. Intrigued, Cedar follows him to the renowned Summerlost theatre festival. Soon, she not only has a new friend in Leo and a job working concessions at the festival, she finds herself surrounded by mystery. The mystery of the tragic, too-short life of the Hollywood actress who haunts the halls of Summerlost. And the mystery of the strange gifts that keep appearing for Cedar.

Ally Condie is the author of the MATCHED Trilogy, a #1 New York Times and international bestseller. MATCHED was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten and named as one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010. The sequels, CROSSED and REACHED, were also critically acclaimed and received starred reviews, and all three books are available in 30+ languages.

Ally lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar.

This event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161011T203000 UID:A6E951E2-77C7-4AB5-981D-7D8EC3748C97 SUMMARY:Happy Place: Scott Renshaw at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/631 DESCRIPTION:Scott Renshaw discusses Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life at Weller Book Works on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 PM. A book signing will follow.\N\NIn Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life, Scott Renshaw explores the phenomenon of Disney theme park super-fans, and the unique connections they build with places known to most people only as occasional vacation destinations. The profiles include stories of a pass-holder who has visited Disneyland for 1,000 consecutive days; another who has taken more than 3,000 rides on his single favorite attraction; and even some who have managed to turn visiting Disney parks into their job. Along the way, he takes his own first-ever visit to Orlando’s Walt Disney World, and stops in for key events during Disneyland’s 60th anniversary celebration on a personal journey to find out what happens when an infatuation with the parks turns into a relationship. Is that relationship always full of joy, or—when nostalgia collides with the realities of a corporation running a business—can it sometimes turn to frustration and disappointment?\NHappy Place isn’t the story of a place. It’s a love story, about the kind of love that emerges when “happiest place on earth” becomes more than just a slogan.\N\NScott Renshaw has been Arts & Entertainment Editor and film critic for the Salt Lake City Weekly newspaper since 2002, with film reviews appearing in alternative newsweeklies in 10 states. Over a 20 year career as a professional writer and critic, he has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and has contributed writing about Disney parks to the website IndieWire. This is his first book.\N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Scott Renshaw discusses Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life at Weller Book Works on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 PM. A book signing will follow.

In Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life, Scott Renshaw explores the phenomenon of Disney theme park super-fans, and the unique connections they build with places known to most people only as occasional vacation destinations. The profiles include stories of a pass-holder who has visited Disneyland for 1,000 consecutive days; another who has taken more than 3,000 rides on his single favorite attraction; and even some who have managed to turn visiting Disney parks into their job. Along the way, he takes his own first-ever visit to Orlando’s Walt Disney World, and stops in for key events during Disneyland’s 60th anniversary celebration on a personal journey to find out what happens when an infatuation with the parks turns into a relationship. Is that relationship always full of joy, or—when nostalgia collides with the realities of a corporation running a business—can it sometimes turn to frustration and disappointment?
Happy Place isn’t the story of a place. It’s a love story, about the kind of love that emerges when “happiest place on earth” becomes more than just a slogan.

Scott Renshaw has been Arts & Entertainment Editor and film critic for the Salt Lake City Weekly newspaper since 2002, with film reviews appearing in alternative newsweeklies in 10 states. Over a 20 year career as a professional writer and critic, he has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and has contributed writing about Disney parks to the website IndieWire. This is his first book.


X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161011T203000 UID:95CA8449-13F2-41F6-8EF1-5EA038F4C54D SUMMARY:Spooks & Saints: Cherie Davis Shares New Ghost Stories with Orem Reads CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/661 DESCRIPTION:Cherie Davis returns to Orem Reads with more spine-chilling stories of Utah hauntings on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 PM in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library.\N\NEver wonder if Utah has any ghost stories? Come feel the shivers as you listen to local artist and storyteller Cherie Davis share eerie tales from Utah’s rich heritage of ghost lore. She will tell old favorite ghost stories that get repeated each Halloween season as well as firsthand ones from her new book, Spooks and Saints, featuring intriguing ghost legends of Salt Lake City.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Cherie Davis returns to Orem Reads with more spine-chilling stories of Utah hauntings on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 PM in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library.

Ever wonder if Utah has any ghost stories? Come feel the shivers as you listen to local artist and storyteller Cherie Davis share eerie tales from Utah’s rich heritage of ghost lore. She will tell old favorite ghost stories that get repeated each Halloween season as well as firsthand ones from her new book, Spooks and Saints, featuring intriguing ghost legends of Salt Lake City.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161012T203000 UID:19C35171-CC30-4C7C-9597-A9FC8315EF71 SUMMARY:David Gessner Visits Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/614 DESCRIPTION:Author David Gessner will visit Southern Utah University (Sterling Church Auditorium) to discuss his new book "All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West" Gessner is the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies author for the 2016 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West.\N\NThese two great westerners had very different ideas about what it meant to love the land and try to care for it, and they did so in distinctly different styles. Boozy, lustful, and irascible, Abbey was best known as the author of the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (and also of the classic nature memoir Desert Solitaire), famous for spawning the idea of guerrilla actions—known to admirers as "monkeywrenching" and to law enforcement as domestic terrorism—to disrupt commercial exploitation of western lands. By contrast, Stegner, a buttoned-down, disciplined, faithful family man and devoted professor of creative writing, dedicated himself to working through the system to protect western sites such as Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado.\N\NGessner takes us on an inspiring, entertaining journey as he renews his own commitment to cultivating a meaningful relationship with the wild, confronting American overconsumption, and fighting environmental injustice—all while reawakening the thrill of the words of his two great heroes.\N\NDavid Gessner is the award-winning author of Return of the Osprey, My Green Manifesto, The Tarball Chronicles, and other books. He currently lives and teaches in Wilmington, North Carolina.\N\NThe Charles Redd Center for Western Studies encourages the research and teaching of the American West by providing a community for faculty members and students studying the Intermountain West. It also offers a Western American Studies minor for students interested in learning more about the Intermountain West and provides grants to continually research the area in a number of different fields. \N\NThis event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities.\N \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author David Gessner will visit Southern Utah University (Sterling Church Auditorium) to discuss his new book "All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West" Gessner is the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies author for the 2016 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West.

These two great westerners had very different ideas about what it meant to love the land and try to care for it, and they did so in distinctly different styles. Boozy, lustful, and irascible, Abbey was best known as the author of the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (and also of the classic nature memoir Desert Solitaire), famous for spawning the idea of guerrilla actions—known to admirers as "monkeywrenching" and to law enforcement as domestic terrorism—to disrupt commercial exploitation of western lands. By contrast, Stegner, a buttoned-down, disciplined, faithful family man and devoted professor of creative writing, dedicated himself to working through the system to protect western sites such as Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado.

Gessner takes us on an inspiring, entertaining journey as he renews his own commitment to cultivating a meaningful relationship with the wild, confronting American overconsumption, and fighting environmental injustice—all while reawakening the thrill of the words of his two great heroes.

David Gessner is the award-winning author of Return of the Osprey, My Green Manifesto, The Tarball Chronicles, and other books. He currently lives and teaches in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies encourages the research and teaching of the American West by providing a community for faculty members and students studying the Intermountain West. It also offers a Western American Studies minor for students interested in learning more about the Intermountain West and provides grants to continually research the area in a number of different fields.

This event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161012T203000 UID:D443A90D-969C-4C88-BE0B-57FFE0761755 SUMMARY:King's English Bookshop Presents: Rick Riordan "The Hammer of Thor" CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/619 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop is thrilled to welcome Rick Riordan to Utah to celebrate The Hammer of Thor, the second book in his Magnus Chase series. \N\NThor's hammer is missing "again." The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for the hammer's return is the gods' worst enemy, Loki--and the price he wants is "very" high.\N\NThis is a ticketed event. With the purchase of The Hammer of Thor you will receive two general admission tickets to Rick's presentation.\N\NThere will not be a public signing but Rick will sign every copy of The Hammer of Thor sold. SORRY, NO PERSONALIZATIONS. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop is thrilled to welcome Rick Riordan to Utah to celebrate The Hammer of Thor, the second book in his Magnus Chase series.

Thor's hammer is missing "again." The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for the hammer's return is the gods' worst enemy, Loki--and the price he wants is "very" high.

This is a ticketed event. With the purchase of The Hammer of Thor you will receive two general admission tickets to Rick's presentation.

There will not be a public signing but Rick will sign every copy of The Hammer of Thor sold. SORRY, NO PERSONALIZATIONS. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161012T210000 UID:E8CE5751-ED34-4453-AA8A-3A207B5A3F48 SUMMARY:City Art Presents: 15 Bytes Poetry Award Winners Nancy Takacs, Wade Bentley, and Rob Carney CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/625 DESCRIPTION:Nancy Takacs, winner of the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for poetry, will be joined by this year’s finalists, Rob Carney (for 88 Maps) and C. Wade Bentley (for What is Mine) for a reading and celebration of poetry. \N\NTakacs’ winning collection Blue Patina (Blue Begonia Press, 2015) was selected by judges assembled by 15 Bytes and charged with awarding a winner based on the nominees’ quality of writing/artistry; insight into Utah landscape and/or culture and/or the author’s connection to Utah (i.e., is or was a Utahn); and, finally, the indefinable quality that makes a book special and unforgettable\N\NThe 15 Bytes Book Awards, currently in its 4th year, is a program of Artists of Utah and its monthly online magazine and blog, 15 Bytes. Categories include fiction, poetry and art book (next year creative nonfiction will be added). You can read the citations for two poetry finalists and the winner here, and the 15 Bytes review of the winning collection, Blue Patina, here. \N\N“[T]he natural world is deeply embedded in her language. Human existence coincides with the earth’s natural rhythms to create a spatial and temporal topography—what is routine in nature becomes ritual beneath the speaker’s observant eye.” –from the citation.\N\NAbout Nancy Takacs: A resident of Wellington, Utah, in Carbon County, Takacs is the author of three poetry chapbooks and two full-length books of poetry, Blue Patina and Preserves (City Art Press, 2004). In September, Finishing Line Press will release her collection Red Voice. Most recently she was awarded the Juniper Prize for her collection The Worrier.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, City Art, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Nancy Takacs, winner of the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for poetry, will be joined by this year’s finalists, Rob Carney (for 88 Maps) and C. Wade Bentley (for What is Mine) for a reading and celebration of poetry.

Takacs’ winning collection Blue Patina (Blue Begonia Press, 2015) was selected by judges assembled by 15 Bytes and charged with awarding a winner based on the nominees’ quality of writing/artistry; insight into Utah landscape and/or culture and/or the author’s connection to Utah (i.e., is or was a Utahn); and, finally, the indefinable quality that makes a book special and unforgettable

The 15 Bytes Book Awards, currently in its 4th year, is a program of Artists of Utah and its monthly online magazine and blog, 15 Bytes. Categories include fiction, poetry and art book (next year creative nonfiction will be added). You can read the citations for two poetry finalists and the winner here, and the 15 Bytes review of the winning collection, Blue Patina, here.

“[T]he natural world is deeply embedded in her language. Human existence coincides with the earth’s natural rhythms to create a spatial and temporal topography—what is routine in nature becomes ritual beneath the speaker’s observant eye.” –from the citation.

About Nancy Takacs: A resident of Wellington, Utah, in Carbon County, Takacs is the author of three poetry chapbooks and two full-length books of poetry, Blue Patina and Preserves (City Art Press, 2004). In September, Finishing Line Press will release her collection Red Voice. Most recently she was awarded the Juniper Prize for her collection The Worrier.

This event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, City Art, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T123000 UID:BA97B33F-1484-41E7-9BD7-6D795FD75BA5 SUMMARY:The Charles Redd Center Presents David Gessner: "Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the Future of the American West." CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/613 DESCRIPTION:Author David Gessner will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to discuss his new book "All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West" Gessner is the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies author for the 2016 Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NAs western rivers dry up and western land cracks from aridity, the voices of Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have never been more important. Those voices can be heard, loud and clear, in David Gessner's new book All the Wild that Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West. Over the last two months the book has gotten great reviews in The San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Review of Books, Outside Magazine, Publishers' Weekly and Kirkus (both starred reviews), with interviews of the author running in National Geographic and Audubon Magazine. The books was on the New York Times bestseller list for May and the number one nonfiction bestseller in the Denver Post. \N\N David Gessner is an award-winning author of nine books, a former teacher of environmental writing at Harvard, a John Burroughs Award winner for Best Nature Essay, and the founder of the literary magazine Ecotone. All the Wild is a book that takes the long view of the land, and of the importance of having deep conversations with our literary ancestors, and that speaks to the crisis that is occurring right now. Stegner and Abbey put what is happening in historical perspective, but they were not detached scholars who sat back in a crisis. They both acted. They understood the land the land they loved, sure, but also fought for it. Gessner's book inspires us to join in that fight, but also to think our way toward a deeper understanding.\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author David Gessner will visit Brigham Young University (Zion Auditorium, B192 JFSB) to discuss his new book "All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West" Gessner is the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies author for the 2016 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

As western rivers dry up and western land cracks from aridity, the voices of Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have never been more important. Those voices can be heard, loud and clear, in David Gessner's new book All the Wild that Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West. Over the last two months the book has gotten great reviews in The San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Review of Books, Outside Magazine, Publishers' Weekly and Kirkus (both starred reviews), with interviews of the author running in National Geographic and Audubon Magazine. The books was on the New York Times bestseller list for May and the number one nonfiction bestseller in the Denver Post.

David Gessner is an award-winning author of nine books, a former teacher of environmental writing at Harvard, a John Burroughs Award winner for Best Nature Essay, and the founder of the literary magazine Ecotone. All the Wild is a book that takes the long view of the land, and of the importance of having deep conversations with our literary ancestors, and that speaks to the crisis that is occurring right now. Stegner and Abbey put what is happening in historical perspective, but they were not detached scholars who sat back in a crisis. They both acted. They understood the land the land they loved, sure, but also fought for it. Gessner's book inspires us to join in that fight, but also to think our way toward a deeper understanding.

This event is made possible through the support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T200000 UID:3961ACA6-EDFB-4D61-ACFD-ACFBDBEA31E3 SUMMARY:Brandon Sanderson at the American Fork Library CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/540 DESCRIPTION:Join Brandon Sanderson in a discussion of his popular Mistborn series at the American Fork Library. Come dressed as your favorite character to enter the cosplay contest. The discussion will be followed by a q & a as well as a book signing. \N\NNOTE: This event is free but space is limited. Please RSVP at: sandersonappearance.eventbrite.com\N\NBrandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.\N\NVolunteering for The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel,Elantris, in his hands. Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. The second book in the series, Words of Radiance, was released on March 4th, 2014.\N\NBrandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Three more volumes of the series have been released so far. Additionally, Brandon’s novella Infinity Blade: Awakening was ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. In December 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet McDougal Rigney to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after his untimely passing. 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight was followed by the final volume in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013.\N\NThe only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings and is on the short list again in 2012 for The Alloy of Law. He has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice award for Best Epic Fantasy twice and has been nominated three other years. He was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has hit the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List six times, with his first Wheel of Time book knocking Dan Brown out of the #1 spot and his second dethroning John Grisham. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians was optioned for film by DreamWorks Animation, Mistborn was optioned by Paloppa Pictures, and a Mistborn video game will be released by Little Orbit in 2013 for all platforms. Brandon’s books have been published in over twenty languages.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the American Fork Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Brandon Sanderson in a discussion of his popular Mistborn series at the American Fork Library. Come dressed as your favorite character to enter the cosplay contest. The discussion will be followed by a q & a as well as a book signing.

NOTE: This event is free but space is limited. Please RSVP at: sandersonappearance.eventbrite.com

Brandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.

Volunteering for The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel,Elantris, in his hands. Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. The second book in the series, Words of Radiance, was released on March 4th, 2014.

Brandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Three more volumes of the series have been released so far. Additionally, Brandon’s novella Infinity Blade: Awakening was ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. In December 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet McDougal Rigney to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after his untimely passing. 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight was followed by the final volume in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013.

The only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings and is on the short list again in 2012 for The Alloy of Law. He has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice award for Best Epic Fantasy twice and has been nominated three other years. He was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has hit the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List six times, with his first Wheel of Time book knocking Dan Brown out of the #1 spot and his second dethroning John Grisham. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians was optioned for film by DreamWorks Animation, Mistborn was optioned by Paloppa Pictures, and a Mistborn video game will be released by Little Orbit in 2013 for all platforms. Brandon’s books have been published in over twenty languages.

This event is made possible with support from the American Fork Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161013T210000 UID:C40606B6-25DE-4D2B-8250-57AA82A3678E SUMMARY:Liz Kay and Lisa Bickmore Visit Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/525 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West presents novelist Liz Kay and poet Lisa Bick more at the Logan City Library's Bridger Room at 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 13th. \N\NStacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one.Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—a poet who can’t write anymore, a good mother who feels like she’s failing her kids. She’s been trying to redefine herself, to find new boundaries.\N\NTommy has no respect for boundaries. A surprisingly well-read, A-list Hollywood star, Tommy’s fallen in love with Stacey’s novel-in-verse—a feminist reimagining of Frankenstein, no less. His passion for the book, and eventually its author, will set their lives on a collision course. They’ll make a movie, make each other crazy, and make love—but only in secret. And all with a vodka—or wine, or scotch—in hand. \N\NLiz Kay's poems have appeared in such journals as Willow Springs, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, RHINO, and Sugar House Review. Alongside co-editor, Jen Lambert, Liz is a founding editor of Spark Wheel Press and the journal burntdistrict. Her debut novel, Monsters: A Love Story, is forthcoming from G. P. Putnam's Sons in 2016.\N\NFLICKER by Lisa Bickmore is the winner of the 2014 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. "Lisa Bickmore gives us a powerful new collection, in which 'there are two lives, / the tranquil one and the conflagration.' These are poems rich in both—and in their interplay—where, as the poet says, 'Wildflower seeds exploded there / with the flicked matches I walked away from.' What makes the poems in FLICKER such a rich experience is their fierce honesty as they demonstrate a willingness to alchemically enter the fire of one's life in order to attain tranquility.\N\NLisa Bickmore’s poems and video work have appeared in a number of publications, including Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, Sugarhouse Review, The Moth, Terrain, Mapping Salt Lake City, and Southword. Among her honors is the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015. She is an Associate Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West presents novelist Liz Kay and poet Lisa Bick more at the Logan City Library's Bridger Room at 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 13th.

Stacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one.Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—a poet who can’t write anymore, a good mother who feels like she’s failing her kids. She’s been trying to redefine herself, to find new boundaries.

Tommy has no respect for boundaries. A surprisingly well-read, A-list Hollywood star, Tommy’s fallen in love with Stacey’s novel-in-verse—a feminist reimagining of Frankenstein, no less. His passion for the book, and eventually its author, will set their lives on a collision course. They’ll make a movie, make each other crazy, and make love—but only in secret. And all with a vodka—or wine, or scotch—in hand.

Liz Kay's poems have appeared in such journals as Willow Springs, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, RHINO, and Sugar House Review. Alongside co-editor, Jen Lambert, Liz is a founding editor of Spark Wheel Press and the journal burntdistrict. Her debut novel, Monsters: A Love Story, is forthcoming from G. P. Putnam's Sons in 2016.

FLICKER by Lisa Bickmore is the winner of the 2014 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. "Lisa Bickmore gives us a powerful new collection, in which 'there are two lives, / the tranquil one and the conflagration.' These are poems rich in both—and in their interplay—where, as the poet says, 'Wildflower seeds exploded there / with the flicked matches I walked away from.' What makes the poems in FLICKER such a rich experience is their fierce honesty as they demonstrate a willingness to alchemically enter the fire of one's life in order to attain tranquility.

Lisa Bickmore’s poems and video work have appeared in a number of publications, including Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry, Caketrain, Sugarhouse Review, The Moth, Terrain, Mapping Salt Lake City, and Southword. Among her honors is the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015. She is an Associate Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161014T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161014T130000 UID:888DC182-EAC1-4B61-9037-C599CDB0FD06 SUMMARY:Children's and Young Adult Author Martine Leavitt Visits Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/602 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University welcomes award-winning children's and young adult author Martine Leavitt on Friday, October 14th at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library, room 1060. \N\NNational Book Award finalist Martine Leavitt has won many awards and honors in the United States and Canada for her young-adult novels. She earned her MFA in writing for children from Vermont College. She is currently on the faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has taught at the BYU Writing for Young Readers Conference. She has published seven novels for young adults, including the following: Tom Finder, winner of the Mr. Christie Award 2003; Heck Superhero, finalist for the Governor General’s Award of Canada 2004; and Keturah and Lord Death, finalist for the National Book Award 2006. Keturah and Lord Death was also praised by Publishers Weekly as one of the “100 Best Books of the Year, Children’s fiction” and deemed “a darkly gorgeous medieval fairy tale…A fine achievement.” X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University welcomes award-winning children's and young adult author Martine Leavitt on Friday, October 14th at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library, room 1060.

National Book Award finalist Martine Leavitt has won many awards and honors in the United States and Canada for her young-adult novels. She earned her MFA in writing for children from Vermont College. She is currently on the faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has taught at the BYU Writing for Young Readers Conference. She has published seven novels for young adults, including the following: Tom Finder, winner of the Mr. Christie Award 2003; Heck Superhero, finalist for the Governor General’s Award of Canada 2004; and Keturah and Lord Death, finalist for the National Book Award 2006. Keturah and Lord Death was also praised by Publishers Weekly as one of the “100 Best Books of the Year, Children’s fiction” and deemed “a darkly gorgeous medieval fairy tale…A fine achievement.” X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161014T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161014T210000 UID:CFC2BBAD-D257-4453-9C07-92F6957DC4A7 SUMMARY:The Bee: True Stories from the Hive CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/559 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.\N\NBring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.\N\NThe theme of the night this time is “Church & State"\N\NFRIDAY, October 14th @ Church & State (370 South 300 East)\N\N6pm Doors // 7pm Stories // $13 // 18+\N\N(Tickets on sale at thebeeslc.org  Friday, September 30th @ 6am)\N\NDo YOU have a story to tell? SLC wants to hear it! Visit thebeeslc.org to put your name in the hat and you could be taking the stage.\N\N**There will be seating for all ticketed guests this time! Please let us know if you require ay particular accommodation.**\N\NWith thanks to our community partners for their support: Utah Humanities, KRCL 90.9fm, & CATALYST Magazine\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.

Bring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.

The theme of the night this time is “Church & State"

FRIDAY, October 14th @ Church & State (370 South 300 East)

6pm Doors // 7pm Stories // $13 // 18+

(Tickets on sale at thebeeslc.org  Friday, September 30th @ 6am)

Do YOU have a story to tell? SLC wants to hear it! Visit thebeeslc.org to put your name in the hat and you could be taking the stage.

**There will be seating for all ticketed guests this time! Please let us know if you require ay particular accommodation.**

With thanks to our community partners for their support: Utah Humanities, KRCL 90.9fm, & CATALYST Magazine
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T120000 UID:61524AF0-008E-4FB5-A9B0-DEAB995DBB61 SUMMARY:Daniel Miyares Illustration Workshop at the Treehouse Museum CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/604 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Museum is pleased to present celebrated children's author and illustrator Daniel Miyares on Saturday, October 15th at 10:30 AM for an illustration workshop. The workshop is geared for children 7-12 and is limited to 15 children and 15 adults. This event is free, but registration is required. For more information, visit: http://www.treehousemuseum.org/\N\NDaniel Miyares is an author and illustrator of stories for children. He grew up in the foothills of South Carolina before studying at Ringling College of Art and Design. After graduating with a BFA in illustration he headed west to Kansas City where he now lives with his wife and their two children.\N\NSince then he has collaborated with a number of clients including Hallmark Cards, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Charlesbridge Publishing, Imagine Books, The New York Times, National Geographic, Spider Magazine, Ladybug Magazine, and the Kansas City Star.\N\NDaniel has illustrated the books Bambino and Mr. Twain and Waking Up Is Hard To Do. Pardon Me! was his first adventure as author/illustrator, followed by the soon to be released Float.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Museum is pleased to present celebrated children's author and illustrator Daniel Miyares on Saturday, October 15th at 10:30 AM for an illustration workshop. The workshop is geared for children 7-12 and is limited to 15 children and 15 adults. This event is free, but registration is required. For more information, visit: http://www.treehousemuseum.org/

Daniel Miyares is an author and illustrator of stories for children. He grew up in the foothills of South Carolina before studying at Ringling College of Art and Design. After graduating with a BFA in illustration he headed west to Kansas City where he now lives with his wife and their two children.

Since then he has collaborated with a number of clients including Hallmark Cards, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Charlesbridge Publishing, Imagine Books, The New York Times, National Geographic, Spider Magazine, Ladybug Magazine, and the Kansas City Star.

Daniel has illustrated the books Bambino and Mr. Twain and Waking Up Is Hard To Do. Pardon Me! was his first adventure as author/illustrator, followed by the soon to be released Float.

This event is made possible with support from The Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T153000 UID:0D1C21E7-125A-4F93-9AE5-9839CBB53762 SUMMARY:Children's Author and Illustrator Daniel Miyares at the Treehouse Museum CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/605 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Museum is pleased to present celebrated children's author and illustrator Daniel Miyares on Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 PM for a presentation and book signing. For more information, visit: http://www.treehousemuseum.org/\N\NDaniel Miyares is an author and illustrator of stories for children. He grew up in the foothills of South Carolina before studying at Ringling College of Art and Design. After graduating with a BFA in illustration he headed west to Kansas City where he now lives with his wife and their two children.\N\NSince then he has collaborated with a number of clients including Hallmark Cards, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Charlesbridge Publishing, Imagine Books, The New York Times, National Geographic, Spider Magazine, Ladybug Magazine, and the Kansas City Star.\N\NDaniel has illustrated the books Bambino and Mr. Twain and Waking Up Is Hard To Do. Pardon Me! was his first adventure as author/illustrator, followed by the soon to be released Float.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Museum is pleased to present celebrated children's author and illustrator Daniel Miyares on Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 PM for a presentation and book signing. For more information, visit: http://www.treehousemuseum.org/

Daniel Miyares is an author and illustrator of stories for children. He grew up in the foothills of South Carolina before studying at Ringling College of Art and Design. After graduating with a BFA in illustration he headed west to Kansas City where he now lives with his wife and their two children.

Since then he has collaborated with a number of clients including Hallmark Cards, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Charlesbridge Publishing, Imagine Books, The New York Times, National Geographic, Spider Magazine, Ladybug Magazine, and the Kansas City Star.

Daniel has illustrated the books Bambino and Mr. Twain and Waking Up Is Hard To Do. Pardon Me! was his first adventure as author/illustrator, followed by the soon to be released Float.

This event is made possible with support from The Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T160000 UID:11454D40-35DE-45B9-ABC4-B8C8B42DBAA6 SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Presents A Children's Author Roundtable Featuring Katie Mullaly, Emily Sorenson, and Laurie C. Tye CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/638 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works presents a discussion of children's literature with author Katie Mullaly, Emily Sorensen, and Laurie C. Tye on Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 PM. Each author will share some work from their newest book and discuss how and why they write for children as well as address the value of children's literature in an increasingly digital world. \N\NKatie Mullaly:\NKatie Mullaly is the author of The Land of Or and The Land of And. As a lover of rhyme, rhythm and reason, she continues to share with others her passion for teaching, creating greater awareness and living a conscious life through these children’s books. She has spent many years as a teacher of all things fun. From geology to mountain biking and skiing to karate, her love of seeing kids, and adults, develop new skills and understanding of the world around them continues. Katie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science Communication and a Professional Master’s of Science and Technology. She has worked as a teacher, coach, gourmet food store manager, writer, graphic designer, geology assistant, public affairs official, and emergency manager. All of which have led her to her dream job – making a difference in the lives of not just children, but for all those who read her books. \N\NEmily Martha Sorensen is the author of the Fairy Senses series, which now included Fairy Eyeglasses, Fairy Earmuffs Fairy Compass, Fairy Barometer, and Fairy Pox.\N\N“The Animal In Me” written by Laurie Cox Tye was originally published in 2005 and was the number one best seller in galleries around the country. It has sold out of Barnes and Noble and other traditional book stores. Now in 2016, the pictures are new and improved. Award winning wildlife photographer, Thomas D. Mangelsen, has the pictures popping off each page. From humming birds to tigers, chipmunks to swans, bears and moose; these animals and their unique behaviors are colorful and fun examples for children to learn more about themselves and the natural world around them. It is a wonderful educational children’s book teaching children about thoughts, feelings and emotions. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works presents a discussion of children's literature with author Katie Mullaly, Emily Sorensen, and Laurie C. Tye on Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 PM. Each author will share some work from their newest book and discuss how and why they write for children as well as address the value of children's literature in an increasingly digital world.

Katie Mullaly:
Katie Mullaly is the author of The Land of Or and The Land of And. As a lover of rhyme, rhythm and reason, she continues to share with others her passion for teaching, creating greater awareness and living a conscious life through these children’s books. She has spent many years as a teacher of all things fun. From geology to mountain biking and skiing to karate, her love of seeing kids, and adults, develop new skills and understanding of the world around them continues. Katie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science Communication and a Professional Master’s of Science and Technology. She has worked as a teacher, coach, gourmet food store manager, writer, graphic designer, geology assistant, public affairs official, and emergency manager. All of which have led her to her dream job – making a difference in the lives of not just children, but for all those who read her books.

Emily Martha Sorensen is the author of the Fairy Senses series, which now included Fairy Eyeglasses, Fairy Earmuffs Fairy Compass, Fairy Barometer, and Fairy Pox.

“The Animal In Me” written by Laurie Cox Tye was originally published in 2005 and was the number one best seller in galleries around the country. It has sold out of Barnes and Noble and other traditional book stores. Now in 2016, the pictures are new and improved. Award winning wildlife photographer, Thomas D. Mangelsen, has the pictures popping off each page. From humming birds to tigers, chipmunks to swans, bears and moose; these animals and their unique behaviors are colorful and fun examples for children to learn more about themselves and the natural world around them. It is a wonderful educational children’s book teaching children about thoughts, feelings and emotions. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T203000 UID:23C12DAB-2A4E-491C-916A-F14E6D7D030B SUMMARY:Novelist and Poet Liz Kay Visits the Artisans Gallery CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/569 DESCRIPTION:Join novelist Liz Kay for a reading and discussion of her new book, Monsters: A Love Story, at Artisans Gallery Friday, October 14th. \N\NStacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one. Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—a poet who can’t write anymore, a good mother who feels like she’s failing her kids. She’s been trying to redefine herself, to find new boundaries.\N\NTommy has no respect for boundaries. A surprisingly well-read A-list Hollywood star, Tommy’s fallen in love with Stacey’s novel-in-verse, a feminist reimagining of Frankenstein, no less. His passion for the book, and eventually its author, will set their lives on a collision course. They’ll make a movie, make each other crazy, and make love—but only in secret.\N\NAs Stacey travels between her humdrum life in the suburbs of Omaha and the glamorous but fleeting escape Tommy offers, what begins as a distracting affair starts to pick up weight. It’s a weight that unbalances Stacey’s already unsteady life, but offers new depth to Tommy’s. About desire, love, grief, parenthood, sexual politics, and gender, Monsters: A Love Story is a witty portrait of a relationship gone off the rails, and two people who are made for each other—even if they’re not so sure they see it that way.\N\NLiz Kay holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is a founding editor of Spark Wheel Press and the journal burntdistrict. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Nimrod, RHINO, Sugar House Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets anthology. Kay lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and three children.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artisans Gallery, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join novelist Liz Kay for a reading and discussion of her new book, Monsters: A Love Story, at Artisans Gallery Friday, October 14th.

Stacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one. Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—a poet who can’t write anymore, a good mother who feels like she’s failing her kids. She’s been trying to redefine herself, to find new boundaries.

Tommy has no respect for boundaries. A surprisingly well-read A-list Hollywood star, Tommy’s fallen in love with Stacey’s novel-in-verse, a feminist reimagining of Frankenstein, no less. His passion for the book, and eventually its author, will set their lives on a collision course. They’ll make a movie, make each other crazy, and make love—but only in secret.

As Stacey travels between her humdrum life in the suburbs of Omaha and the glamorous but fleeting escape Tommy offers, what begins as a distracting affair starts to pick up weight. It’s a weight that unbalances Stacey’s already unsteady life, but offers new depth to Tommy’s. About desire, love, grief, parenthood, sexual politics, and gender, Monsters: A Love Story is a witty portrait of a relationship gone off the rails, and two people who are made for each other—even if they’re not so sure they see it that way.

Liz Kay holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is a founding editor of Spark Wheel Press and the journal burntdistrict. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Nimrod, RHINO, Sugar House Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets anthology. Kay lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and three children.

This event is made possible with support from Artisans Gallery, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T203000 UID:8260FFF1-2BBC-40F1-A24B-9064B970CB1F SUMMARY: CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/582 DESCRIPTION:Scott Abbott shares from and discusses his new memoir, Immortal for Quite Some Time at Ken Sanders Rare Books on Saturday, October 15th. \N\N“This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”\N\NThus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.\N\NImages and quotations are interwoven with the reflections, as is a critical female voice that questions his assertions and ridicules his rhetoric. The book moves from the starkness of a morgue’s autopsy through familial disintegration and adult defiance to a culminating fraternal conversation. This exquisitely written work will challenge notions of resolution and wholeness.\N\NWinner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition.\N\NScott Abbott is professor of humanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Scott Abbott shares from and discusses his new memoir, Immortal for Quite Some Time at Ken Sanders Rare Books on Saturday, October 15th.

“This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”

Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.

Images and quotations are interwoven with the reflections, as is a critical female voice that questions his assertions and ridicules his rhetoric. The book moves from the starkness of a morgue’s autopsy through familial disintegration and adult defiance to a culminating fraternal conversation. This exquisitely written work will challenge notions of resolution and wholeness.

Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition.

Scott Abbott is professor of humanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University.

This event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161015T210000 UID:37C30C01-6788-47F8-9A3D-3CF8A9131822 SUMMARY:After-Hours Teen Night Writing Workshop with Christian Heidecker CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/666 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads Hosts an After Hours Teen Night & Writing Workshop on Saturday, October 15 at 7:00 PM in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library. All teens 12−18 are invited to the library for a special after-hours writing workshop with Christian Heidicker, author of the acclaimed novel Cure for the Common Universe. Treats will be provided. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the workshop starts at 7:00 pm. \N\NPrepare to be cured by this quirky and hilarious debut novel about a sixteen-year-old loner who is sent to rehab for video game addiction—perfect for fans of Ned Vizzini and Jesse Andrews.\N\NSixteen-year-old Jaxon is being committed to video game rehab…ten minutes after meeting a girl. A living, breathing girl named Serena, who not only laughed at his jokes but actually kinda sorta seemed excited when she agreed to go out with him.\N\NJaxon’s first date. Ever.\N\NChristian McKay Heidicker has accomplished a handful of things outside of video games. He published a short story called “There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot” on Cast of Wonders and co-created a website called the Foxing Bureau. He’s never met a cute girl at a car wash, but he does live with the love of his life in Salt Lake City, Utah . . . and he often wonders how in the hell he did it. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads Hosts an After Hours Teen Night & Writing Workshop on Saturday, October 15 at 7:00 PM in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library. All teens 12−18 are invited to the library for a special after-hours writing workshop with Christian Heidicker, author of the acclaimed novel Cure for the Common Universe. Treats will be provided. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the workshop starts at 7:00 pm.

Prepare to be cured by this quirky and hilarious debut novel about a sixteen-year-old loner who is sent to rehab for video game addiction—perfect for fans of Ned Vizzini and Jesse Andrews.

Sixteen-year-old Jaxon is being committed to video game rehab…ten minutes after meeting a girl. A living, breathing girl named Serena, who not only laughed at his jokes but actually kinda sorta seemed excited when she agreed to go out with him.

Jaxon’s first date. Ever.

Christian McKay Heidicker has accomplished a handful of things outside of video games. He published a short story called “There Are No Marshmallows in Camelot” on Cast of Wonders and co-created a website called the Foxing Bureau. He’s never met a cute girl at a car wash, but he does live with the love of his life in Salt Lake City, Utah . . . and he often wonders how in the hell he did it.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161017T210000 UID:3B28A026-B3B9-4A82-B1DA-4FB30DFAF4D3 SUMMARY:The King's English Bookshop Presents Renowned Young Adult Author James Dashner CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/620 DESCRIPTION:Join local author, James Dashner, for a reading and signing of his new book, The Fever Code.\N\NAll will be revealed in the fifth book in James Dashner’s #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. This is the story that fans all over the world have been waiting for—the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze. You will not want to miss it.\N\NJames Dashner is the author of many children s fantasy series and adult books, including The 13th Reality series and the Jimmy Fincher Saga. Dashner currently lives in South Jordan City, Utah and is married with four children. \N\NPlaces in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of The Fever Code from The King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join local author, James Dashner, for a reading and signing of his new book, The Fever Code.

All will be revealed in the fifth book in James Dashner’s #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. This is the story that fans all over the world have been waiting for—the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze. You will not want to miss it.

James Dashner is the author of many children s fantasy series and adult books, including The 13th Reality series and the Jimmy Fincher Saga. Dashner currently lives in South Jordan City, Utah and is married with four children.

Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of The Fever Code from The King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161018T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161018T200000 UID:C7849CD5-01A1-45F9-9720-6BC76298B9C3 SUMMARY:Kevin Wolf at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/629 DESCRIPTION:Kevin Wolf reads and signs The Homeplace at Weller Book Works.\N\NChase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he has come home. His friends are right there waiting for him. And so are his enemies.\N\NThen the murder of a boy, a high school basketball star just like Chase, rocks the small town. When another death is discovered―one that also shares unsettling connections to him―law enforcement’s attention turns towards Chase, causing him to wonder just what he came home to.\NA suspenseful, dramatic crime novel, The Homeplace captures the stark beauty of life on the Colorado plains\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Kevin Wolf reads and signs The Homeplace at Weller Book Works.

Chase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he has come home. His friends are right there waiting for him. And so are his enemies.

Then the murder of a boy, a high school basketball star just like Chase, rocks the small town. When another death is discovered―one that also shares unsettling connections to him―law enforcement’s attention turns towards Chase, causing him to wonder just what he came home to.
A suspenseful, dramatic crime novel, The Homeplace captures the stark beauty of life on the Colorado plains
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161018T203000 UID:314F0AFD-CBAB-43BC-8232-6F46D7D8672B SUMMARY:Orem Reads Forensics Night CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/667 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Orem Reads Forensics Night on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 PM in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library.\N\NYou’ve read about it in your favorite crime thrillers, now learn the details of forensic science techniques from local experts. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the Orem Reads Forensics Night on Tuesday, October 11th at 7:00 PM in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library.

You’ve read about it in your favorite crime thrillers, now learn the details of forensic science techniques from local experts.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161018T203000 UID:51453C5A-ADA6-4086-A0C3-CB8A3075FC16 SUMMARY:Sarah Singh and Melissa Francis Present: Lost Ogden CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/566 DESCRIPTION:Special Collections librarians Sarah Langsdon and Melissa Johnson visit the Southwest Branch in Roy to discuss their new book Lost Ogden.\N\NFrom a fur-trapping fort to a thriving metropolitan community, change has always been a part of Ogden’s history. Settled in 1850 by Mormon pioneers, Ogden was forever transformed by the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. As horse-drawn carriages gave way to motor cars, a busy downtown district grew up around Ogden’s Union Station and notorious Twenty-fifth Street. Landmark businesses, such as J.G. Read & Brothers Company and the Broom Hotel, became a part of the city’s unique identity. Also unique to the city were its celebrations and special events, like parades, musicals, and sporting competitions. While change has always come to Ogden, the memories remain. \N\NSarah Langsdon and Melissa Johnson both work in the Stewart Library Special Collections at Weber State University. Drawing upon the library’s unique photograph and oral history collections, Images of America: Lost Ogden reveals the stories of the Ogden that once was. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Weber County Library's Southwest Branch. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Special Collections librarians Sarah Langsdon and Melissa Johnson visit the Southwest Branch in Roy to discuss their new book Lost Ogden.

From a fur-trapping fort to a thriving metropolitan community, change has always been a part of Ogden’s history. Settled in 1850 by Mormon pioneers, Ogden was forever transformed by the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. As horse-drawn carriages gave way to motor cars, a busy downtown district grew up around Ogden’s Union Station and notorious Twenty-fifth Street. Landmark businesses, such as J.G. Read & Brothers Company and the Broom Hotel, became a part of the city’s unique identity. Also unique to the city were its celebrations and special events, like parades, musicals, and sporting competitions. While change has always come to Ogden, the memories remain.

Sarah Langsdon and Melissa Johnson both work in the Stewart Library Special Collections at Weber State University. Drawing upon the library’s unique photograph and oral history collections, Images of America: Lost Ogden reveals the stories of the Ogden that once was.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Weber County Library's Southwest Branch. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161018T203000 UID:C8AB9424-48BA-449E-8332-22CE10C68AC4 SUMMARY:Children's Author Stuart Gibbs Returns to King's English with Spy Ski School CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/622 DESCRIPTION:Stuart Gibbs returns to The King's English Bookshop with a new Spy School Story on Tuesday, October 18, at 7:00 PM. \N\NBen Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow-up to the Edgar Award–nominated Spy School, Spy Camp, and Evil Spy School.\N\NTwelve-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he’s survived every time.\N\NAfter all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.\N\NThe Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father’s secrets. Jessica wants to go to ski school in the Rocky Mountains, so a select few spy school students are going skiing too—under cover, of course.\N\NStuart Gibbs is the author of the FunJungle and Moon Base Alpha series, as well as the New York Times bestselling Spy School series. He has written the screenplays for movies like See Spot Run and Repli-Kate, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC, and Fox. Stuart lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stuart Gibbs returns to The King's English Bookshop with a new Spy School Story on Tuesday, October 18, at 7:00 PM.

Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow-up to the Edgar Award–nominated Spy School, Spy Camp, and Evil Spy School.

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But outside of class, Ben is pretty great at staying alive. His enemies have kidnapped him, shot at him, locked him in a room with a ticking time bomb, and even tried to blow him up with missiles. And he’s survived every time.

After all that unexpected success, the CIA has decided to activate Ben for real.

The Mission: Become friends with Jessica Shang, the daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss, and find out all of her father’s secrets. Jessica wants to go to ski school in the Rocky Mountains, so a select few spy school students are going skiing too—under cover, of course.

Stuart Gibbs is the author of the FunJungle and Moon Base Alpha series, as well as the New York Times bestselling Spy School series. He has written the screenplays for movies like See Spot Run and Repli-Kate, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC, and Fox. Stuart lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161019T210000 UID:3BFCE46E-5730-4BD3-AF17-BD83BCDC755D SUMMARY:City Art Presents Scott Abbott, Kevin Holdsworth, and John Domini CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/593 DESCRIPTION:Authors Scott Abbott, Kevin Holdsworth, and John Domini will share work form their new books at City Art on Wednesday, October 19th in the 4th Floor Conference Room of The City Library. \N\N"This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”\N\NThus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.\N\NWinner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition, Scott Abbott is professor of humanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University.\N\NIn essays that combine memoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells here—about the people, the “survivors and casualties” of the small, remote town—and is at the heart of his own story.Holdsworth also explores history at a personal level: how Native American history is preserved by local park officials; how Mormon settlers adapted to remote, rugged places; how small communities attract and retain those less likely to thrive closer to population centers; and how he became involved in local politics. He confronts the issues of land use and misuse in the West, from the lack of water to greed and corruption over natural resources, but also considers life’s simple pleasures like the value of scenery and the importance of occasionally tossing a horseshoe.\N\NKevin Holdsworth is the author of Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming and Good Water. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Cimarron Review, Post Road, Creative Nonfiction, and Denver University Law Review. In 2009 he was awarded the Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship for fiction. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and son, Chris, in south-central and southern Utah.\N\NMovieola! delves into a night at the movies, featuring all the familiar types—the rom-com, the action-adventure, the superhero, and the spy—but the narratives are still under construction, and every storyline is an opportunity for the unimaginable twist. Motive and identity are constantly shifting in these short stories that offer both narrative and anti-narrative, while the stunted shop-talk of the movie business struggles to keep up.\N\NDomini offers a collection at once comical and moving, care- fully suspended between a game of language and a celebration of American film. \N\NWith Movieola!, John Domini has three stories collections and three novels in print. Other books include selections of criticism and poetry. He’s published fiction in Paris Review and Ploughshares, non-fiction in GQ and the New York Times, and won a poetry prize from Meridian. Grants include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The New York Times praised his work as "dreamlike... grabs hold of both reader and character," and Alan Cheuse, of NPR, described it as "witty and biting." He has taught at Harvard, Northwestern and elsewhere and makes his home in Des Moines. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and City Art. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Scott Abbott, Kevin Holdsworth, and John Domini will share work form their new books at City Art on Wednesday, October 19th in the 4th Floor Conference Room of The City Library.

"This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”

Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.

Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition, Scott Abbott is professor of humanities, philosophy, and integrated studies at Utah Valley University.

In essays that combine memoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells here—about the people, the “survivors and casualties” of the small, remote town—and is at the heart of his own story.Holdsworth also explores history at a personal level: how Native American history is preserved by local park officials; how Mormon settlers adapted to remote, rugged places; how small communities attract and retain those less likely to thrive closer to population centers; and how he became involved in local politics. He confronts the issues of land use and misuse in the West, from the lack of water to greed and corruption over natural resources, but also considers life’s simple pleasures like the value of scenery and the importance of occasionally tossing a horseshoe.

Kevin Holdsworth is the author of Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming and Good Water. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Cimarron Review, Post Road, Creative Nonfiction, and Denver University Law Review. In 2009 he was awarded the Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship for fiction. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and son, Chris, in south-central and southern Utah.

Movieola! delves into a night at the movies, featuring all the familiar types—the rom-com, the action-adventure, the superhero, and the spy—but the narratives are still under construction, and every storyline is an opportunity for the unimaginable twist. Motive and identity are constantly shifting in these short stories that offer both narrative and anti-narrative, while the stunted shop-talk of the movie business struggles to keep up.

Domini offers a collection at once comical and moving, care- fully suspended between a game of language and a celebration of American film.

With Movieola!, John Domini has three stories collections and three novels in print. Other books include selections of criticism and poetry. He’s published fiction in Paris Review and Ploughshares, non-fiction in GQ and the New York Times, and won a poetry prize from Meridian. Grants include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The New York Times praised his work as "dreamlike... grabs hold of both reader and character," and Alan Cheuse, of NPR, described it as "witty and biting." He has taught at Harvard, Northwestern and elsewhere and makes his home in Des Moines.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and City Art. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T200000 UID:1A3BA616-60F1-42A8-A56A-B94BB6A1FBCC SUMMARY:Dallas Graham Brings the Red Fred Project to Ogden CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/579 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities and The Treehouse Museum are pleased to present an evening with Dallas Graham and the Red Fred Project. Graham will discuss the remarkable work his project is doing with children all over the U.S. Don’t miss this special event! \N\NThe Red Fred Project is a silver-starred, magical collaboration through which Graham co-creates original stories in the form of self-published books with 50 children with critical illnesses across the 50 states.\N\NWhy is Red Fred Project doing this? Most of these children will not become fire-fighters, doctors, cheerleaders, vets, baristas or teachers due to their illnesses and physical challenges. But these children have creative, powerful, inventive minds and spirits. They know incredible things because of their life challenges. Red Fred wants to know how they view the world and help them create an original, one-of-a-kind book, publish it, place it in their hands and say, "Way to go! You've published a story; you've created a book!"\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities and The Treehouse Museum are pleased to present an evening with Dallas Graham and the Red Fred Project. Graham will discuss the remarkable work his project is doing with children all over the U.S. Don’t miss this special event!

The Red Fred Project is a silver-starred, magical collaboration through which Graham co-creates original stories in the form of self-published books with 50 children with critical illnesses across the 50 states.

Why is Red Fred Project doing this? Most of these children will not become fire-fighters, doctors, cheerleaders, vets, baristas or teachers due to their illnesses and physical challenges. But these children have creative, powerful, inventive minds and spirits. They know incredible things because of their life challenges. Red Fred wants to know how they view the world and help them create an original, one-of-a-kind book, publish it, place it in their hands and say, "Way to go! You've published a story; you've created a book!"

This event is made possible with the support of the Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T203000 UID:225413BC-C939-4856-A02D-D5FBA6D9E4F8 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Welcomes the Orem Police Department CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/658 DESCRIPTION:As part of Orem Reads' month-long showcase of mystery writing, the Orem Police Department will visit the library to discuss their work. \N\NLocal police officers and detectives are our community’s first line of defense. Join our boys in blue for an in depth look at police work and the many ways they fight crime in Utah Valley. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As part of Orem Reads' month-long showcase of mystery writing, the Orem Police Department will visit the library to discuss their work.

Local police officers and detectives are our community’s first line of defense. Join our boys in blue for an in depth look at police work and the many ways they fight crime in Utah Valley.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities.


X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T203000 UID:487207F5-B137-495C-8EF0-38552DD3DB66 SUMMARY:Utah Book Awards Ceremony CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/590 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Book Award was established by the Salt Lake City Public Library to honor exceptional achievements by Utah writers and to recognize outstanding literature written with a Utah theme or setting. In 1999, the first and only award was presented to author Robert Van Wagoner for his novel Dancing Naked. Since then, the categories have been expanded to include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literature for children and young adults. This year's prizes will be awarded for books published in 2015. Winners of the 2014 prizes included Leslie Lammle, Carys Bray, Teresa Jordan, Rebecca Lindenberg, Chad Morris\N\NIn addition, we are pleased to announce that we are incorporating Artes de Mexico en Utah's presentation of the Sor Juana Prize into the Utah Book Awards this year. Now in its fourth year, the Sor Juana Prize is the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish. This year, two prizes will be awarded for a poem written in Spanish by a Utah high school student. One prize will be awarded for a poem by a student whose primary language at home is Spanish, and the other for a student whose primary language at home is other than Spanish.\N\NThe reception and ceremony will take place in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Book Award was established by the Salt Lake City Public Library to honor exceptional achievements by Utah writers and to recognize outstanding literature written with a Utah theme or setting. In 1999, the first and only award was presented to author Robert Van Wagoner for his novel Dancing Naked. Since then, the categories have been expanded to include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literature for children and young adults. This year's prizes will be awarded for books published in 2015. Winners of the 2014 prizes included Leslie Lammle, Carys Bray, Teresa Jordan, Rebecca Lindenberg, Chad Morris

In addition, we are pleased to announce that we are incorporating Artes de Mexico en Utah's presentation of the Sor Juana Prize into the Utah Book Awards this year. Now in its fourth year, the Sor Juana Prize is the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish. This year, two prizes will be awarded for a poem written in Spanish by a Utah high school student. One prize will be awarded for a poem by a student whose primary language at home is Spanish, and the other for a student whose primary language at home is other than Spanish.

The reception and ceremony will take place in the 4th floor conference room of the Salt Lake City Public Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T203000 UID:88A5C7A2-F19C-4DE1-8A70-F98437D1E2EB SUMMARY:Horror Author Extraordinaire Christopher Buehlman at The Printed Garden CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/594 DESCRIPTION:The Printed Garden and The City Library welcome renowned horror author Christopher Buehlman on Thursday, October 20th at 7:00 pm in the library's auditorium. \N\NRemember that car that passed you near midnight on Route 66, doing 105 with its lights off? You wondered where it was going so quickly on that dark, dusty stretch of road, motor roaring, the driver glancing out the window as he blew by.\N \NDid his greedy eyes shine silver like a coyote’s? Did he make you feel like prey? You can’t remember now.\N \NYou just saw the founder of the Suicide Motor Club. Be grateful his brake lights never flashed. Be grateful his car was already full. They roam America, littering the highways with smashed cars and bled-out bodies, a gruesome reflection of the unsettled sixties. But to anyone unlucky enough to meet them in the lonely hours of the night, they’re just a blurry memory.\N \NThat is—to all but one…\N\NChristopher Buehlman is a writer and performer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the 2008 Forward Prize for best poem (UK). He spent his twenties and thirties touring renaissance festivals with his very popular show Christophe the Insultor, Verbal Mercenary. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in French Language from Florida State University, where he minored in History. He enjoys theater, independent films, chess, archery, running, cooking with lots of garlic, and thick, inky, bone-dry red wines with sediment at the bottom.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Printed Garden, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Printed Garden and The City Library welcome renowned horror author Christopher Buehlman on Thursday, October 20th at 7:00 pm in the library's auditorium.

Remember that car that passed you near midnight on Route 66, doing 105 with its lights off? You wondered where it was going so quickly on that dark, dusty stretch of road, motor roaring, the driver glancing out the window as he blew by.

Did his greedy eyes shine silver like a coyote’s? Did he make you feel like prey? You can’t remember now.

You just saw the founder of the Suicide Motor Club. Be grateful his brake lights never flashed. Be grateful his car was already full. They roam America, littering the highways with smashed cars and bled-out bodies, a gruesome reflection of the unsettled sixties. But to anyone unlucky enough to meet them in the lonely hours of the night, they’re just a blurry memory.

That is—to all but one…

Christopher Buehlman is a writer and performer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the 2008 Forward Prize for best poem (UK). He spent his twenties and thirties touring renaissance festivals with his very popular show Christophe the Insultor, Verbal Mercenary. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in French Language from Florida State University, where he minored in History. He enjoys theater, independent films, chess, archery, running, cooking with lots of garlic, and thick, inky, bone-dry red wines with sediment at the bottom.

This event is made possible with support from The Printed Garden, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161021T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161021T130000 UID:FABA7052-A854-4263-ACF3-97E955A9FEA4 SUMMARY:Novelist Michael Mejia Visits Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/599 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University presents novelist Michael Mejia on Friday, October 21st at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library on campus (Room 1060).\N\NThe first part of Forgetfulness is a fictional monograph on the life of the Austrian modernist composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945).The collage-work monograph unfolds in a Webernian sequence of events and silences combining quotes from Webern, his friends and associates, and various historical and literary figures with short scenes, monologues, dialogues, newspaper articles, and theater and film scripts. The result is a lyrical panorama of early twentieth century Vienna.\N\NThe second part of the book takes place in Vienna on May 1st, 1986, shortly before the election of Kurt Waldheim as President of the Austrian Republic and shortly after the Chernobyl disaster. The three simultaneous, intertwining monologues of an archivist, a retired opera singer, and the author of the monograph, revisit the themes and events of the first part, commenting on postwar conceptions, analyses, and revisions of the period during which Webern lived, while continuously haunted by the specters of Waldheim and Chernobyl, the persistence of crimes that are immanent, unpaid for, or only dimly, disingenuously recalled.\N\NMichael Mejia’s novel Forgetfulness was published by FC 2, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of grants from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is co-founding editor of Ninebark Press and editor of Western Humanities Review. He teaches creative writing at the University of Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University presents novelist Michael Mejia on Friday, October 21st at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library on campus (Room 1060).

The first part of Forgetfulness is a fictional monograph on the life of the Austrian modernist composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945).The collage-work monograph unfolds in a Webernian sequence of events and silences combining quotes from Webern, his friends and associates, and various historical and literary figures with short scenes, monologues, dialogues, newspaper articles, and theater and film scripts. The result is a lyrical panorama of early twentieth century Vienna.

The second part of the book takes place in Vienna on May 1st, 1986, shortly before the election of Kurt Waldheim as President of the Austrian Republic and shortly after the Chernobyl disaster. The three simultaneous, intertwining monologues of an archivist, a retired opera singer, and the author of the monograph, revisit the themes and events of the first part, commenting on postwar conceptions, analyses, and revisions of the period during which Webern lived, while continuously haunted by the specters of Waldheim and Chernobyl, the persistence of crimes that are immanent, unpaid for, or only dimly, disingenuously recalled.

Michael Mejia’s novel Forgetfulness was published by FC 2, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of grants from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is co-founding editor of Ninebark Press and editor of Western Humanities Review. He teaches creative writing at the University of Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161021T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161021T210000 UID:081CF35E-CC05-4777-90E1-65BB4B3564BF SUMMARY:The Uintah County Library Presents: Tyler Whitesides & the Jammin' Janitors CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/651 DESCRIPTION:The Uintah County Library is pleased to present Tyler Whitesides and the Jammin' Janitors on Friday, October 21st at Vernal Theater: Live (40 East Main Street). \N\NWhitesides will discuss his beloved Janitors series and he and the Jammin' Janitors will follow that up with a live performance!\N\NTyler Whitesides has always loved telling stories. Growing up, he was even willing to do extra housework if his mom would type his stories on the computer. He must have spent a lot of time cleaning the house, because he wrote a whole book about janitors.\N\NTyler enjoys cooking on the barbecue, spending time in the mountains, and vacuuming. He has worked as a music teacher, firework shooter, taste tester, and janitor. He lives in Logan, Utah, with his wife, Connie, who teaches 3rd grade.\N\NThe Jammin' Janitors play buckets and garbage cans like drums, and the show includes other objects commonly found in a janitor’s closet.\N\NTo see part of a Jammin' Janitors performance, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtGCJvENNQ\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Uintah County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Uintah County Library is pleased to present Tyler Whitesides and the Jammin' Janitors on Friday, October 21st at Vernal Theater: Live (40 East Main Street).

Whitesides will discuss his beloved Janitors series and he and the Jammin' Janitors will follow that up with a live performance!

Tyler Whitesides has always loved telling stories. Growing up, he was even willing to do extra housework if his mom would type his stories on the computer. He must have spent a lot of time cleaning the house, because he wrote a whole book about janitors.

Tyler enjoys cooking on the barbecue, spending time in the mountains, and vacuuming. He has worked as a music teacher, firework shooter, taste tester, and janitor. He lives in Logan, Utah, with his wife, Connie, who teaches 3rd grade.

The Jammin' Janitors play buckets and garbage cans like drums, and the show includes other objects commonly found in a janitor’s closet.

To see part of a Jammin' Janitors performance, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TtGCJvENNQ

This event is made possible with support from The Uintah County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161021T203000 UID:DBD72EB4-822F-45FC-B4B1-96935E966D37 SUMMARY:Megan McCall presents Alteration CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/656 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works hosts Megan McCall on October 21st at 7:00 PM. McCall is the author of Alteration. A book signing will follow. \N\NDuring Natalie’s transition, the Coven is attacked and separated. With no knowledge of who survived or not, Natalie and Xavier are sent on a journey to retrieve a dagger from her past life. Along the way they meet up with old friends to see who’s willing to fight with them and who isn’t. As old enemies lurk around every corner people begin disappearing and Xavier feels some slight changes in the vampire curse he’s never felt before. With Natalie’s time to fight drawing nearer, the truth about who really killed her is revealed and what she has to do to win is a sacrifice she might not be willing to make. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works hosts Megan McCall on October 21st at 7:00 PM. McCall is the author of Alteration. A book signing will follow.

During Natalie’s transition, the Coven is attacked and separated. With no knowledge of who survived or not, Natalie and Xavier are sent on a journey to retrieve a dagger from her past life. Along the way they meet up with old friends to see who’s willing to fight with them and who isn’t. As old enemies lurk around every corner people begin disappearing and Xavier feels some slight changes in the vampire curse he’s never felt before. With Natalie’s time to fight drawing nearer, the truth about who really killed her is revealed and what she has to do to win is a sacrifice she might not be willing to make. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T203000 UID:D10D86E6-277B-42E8-BFC5-203B45ACBCA9 SUMMARY:Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Jack Dykinga Visits Springdale CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/671 DESCRIPTION:Z-Arts hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jack Dykinga discusses his work on October 22nd at the Rockville Community Center as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative. \N\NJack Dykinga blends large-format, landscape photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic. His book Jack Dykinga's Arizona is a compilation of his best Arizona images along with accounts of his personal wilderness experiences.\N\NDykinga's other books include Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He also wrote and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a how-to guide to color landscape photography, and collaborated with Mexico's Agrupación Sierra Madre to help produce their book on the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.\N\NDirecting his focus to the Texas-Mexico border, Dykinga highlighted the biological richness and diversity of the protected areas along the Rio Grande River corridor in the February 2007 issue of National Geographic. Two months later, Dykinga and four other photographers—Thomas Mangelsen (United States), Patricio Robles Gil (Mexico), Fulvio Eccardi (Italy and Mexico), and Florien Schultz (Germany)—formed the first ever Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) for the International League of Conservation Photographers. They documented the El Triunfo cloud forest in Chiapas, Mexico, to draw attention to its threatened habitat.\N\NCurrently, Dykinga serves on the board of the Sonoran National Park Project in an effort to create a new binational park on the border of Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.\N\NThe Mission of Zion Canyon Arts and Humanities Council (Z-Arts) is to encourage the availability of the arts and humanities, and cultivate a climate of creativity and learning for the Zion Canyon communities of Springdale, Rockville and Virgin.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Z-Arts, Utah Humanities, and the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative. This initiative is a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Council in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the Prizes.\N\NThe initiative seeks to illuminate the impact of journalism and the humanities on American life today, to imagine their future and to inspire new generations to consider the values represented by the body of Pulitzer Prize-winning work. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Z-Arts hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jack Dykinga discusses his work on October 22nd at the Rockville Community Center as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative.

Jack Dykinga blends large-format, landscape photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic. His book Jack Dykinga's Arizona is a compilation of his best Arizona images along with accounts of his personal wilderness experiences.

Dykinga's other books include Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He also wrote and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a how-to guide to color landscape photography, and collaborated with Mexico's Agrupación Sierra Madre to help produce their book on the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Directing his focus to the Texas-Mexico border, Dykinga highlighted the biological richness and diversity of the protected areas along the Rio Grande River corridor in the February 2007 issue of National Geographic. Two months later, Dykinga and four other photographers—Thomas Mangelsen (United States), Patricio Robles Gil (Mexico), Fulvio Eccardi (Italy and Mexico), and Florien Schultz (Germany)—formed the first ever Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) for the International League of Conservation Photographers. They documented the El Triunfo cloud forest in Chiapas, Mexico, to draw attention to its threatened habitat.

Currently, Dykinga serves on the board of the Sonoran National Park Project in an effort to create a new binational park on the border of Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

The Mission of Zion Canyon Arts and Humanities Council (Z-Arts) is to encourage the availability of the arts and humanities, and cultivate a climate of creativity and learning for the Zion Canyon communities of Springdale, Rockville and Virgin.

This event is made possible with the support of Z-Arts, Utah Humanities, and the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative. This initiative is a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Council in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the Prizes.

The initiative seeks to illuminate the impact of journalism and the humanities on American life today, to imagine their future and to inspire new generations to consider the values represented by the body of Pulitzer Prize-winning work. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T210000 UID:B1C3BD92-3535-4EA4-BD30-385996315FB0 SUMMARY: CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/672 DESCRIPTION:Join author and performer Lindy West at The City Library on October 22nd as she discusses her work, which focuses on pop culture, social justice, humor, and body image. This event is free, but space is limited and registration is necessary. To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-lindy-west-tickets-27706952240\N\NShrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.\N\NComing of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.\N\NWith inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.\N\NLindy West is a Seattle-based writer, editor, and performer whose work focuses on pop culture, social justice, humor, and body image. She's currently a culture writer for GQ magazine and GQ.com and a weekly columnist at The Guardian, as well as the founder and editor of I Believe You | It's Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teens. In 2015 she wrote and recorded a story for This American Life about confronting an Internet troll who impersonated her dead father. She also was listed as "Internet's Most Fascinating of 2015" by Cosmopolitan.com, and helped launch the viral #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag in defense of women's reproductive rights.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author and performer Lindy West at The City Library on October 22nd as she discusses her work, which focuses on pop culture, social justice, humor, and body image. This event is free, but space is limited and registration is necessary. To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-lindy-west-tickets-27706952240

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.

Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.

With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.

Lindy West is a Seattle-based writer, editor, and performer whose work focuses on pop culture, social justice, humor, and body image. She's currently a culture writer for GQ magazine and GQ.com and a weekly columnist at The Guardian, as well as the founder and editor of I Believe You | It's Not Your Fault, an advice blog for teens. In 2015 she wrote and recorded a story for This American Life about confronting an Internet troll who impersonated her dead father. She also was listed as "Internet's Most Fascinating of 2015" by Cosmopolitan.com, and helped launch the viral #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag in defense of women's reproductive rights.

This event is made possible with support from The City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161024T143000 UID:E8542CFD-8097-4523-812C-F07F88349F98 SUMMARY:Three UVU Writers, Three New Books: Scott Abbott, Julie Nichols, and Alex Caldiero CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/637 DESCRIPTION:The faculty at UVU have had a very busy year. Scott Abbott, Julie Nichols, and Alex Caldiero all have books coming out this year, and they're ready to share them with you on Monday, October 24th at 1:00 PM in Classroom Building 510 on the Utah Valley University campus.\N\N\NScott Abbott, Immortal for Quite Some Time:\N\N“This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”\N\NThus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.\N\N\NJulie Nichols, Pigs When They Straddle the Air:\N\NThese stories trace the arc of a family narrative in which mothers abandon their children for the best of reasons, fierce daughters reclaim their heritage, and the gap between spiritual health and the expectations of LDS culture affects the outcome of every episode.\N\NPoet Annie MacDougal, feminist Riva Maynard, and Riva's daughter Katie spiral in and out of these seven "incidents" spanning more than three decades, along with the men and women they learn from and love.\N\NFor more info on Nichols and her work, visit: http://www.juliejnichols.com/\N\N\NAlex Caldiero; Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance:\N\NWho is the Dancer, What is the Dance is based on a pocket journal that poet Alex Caldiero kept with him during a six-day river trip on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. In these poems, and the reproduced drawings that accompany, and often house, them, Caldiero explores how we simultaneously impinge upon, and give ourselves over to, a landscape.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The faculty at UVU have had a very busy year. Scott Abbott, Julie Nichols, and Alex Caldiero all have books coming out this year, and they're ready to share them with you on Monday, October 24th at 1:00 PM in Classroom Building 510 on the Utah Valley University campus.


Scott Abbott, Immortal for Quite Some Time:

“This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question 'Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”

Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity.


Julie Nichols, Pigs When They Straddle the Air:

These stories trace the arc of a family narrative in which mothers abandon their children for the best of reasons, fierce daughters reclaim their heritage, and the gap between spiritual health and the expectations of LDS culture affects the outcome of every episode.

Poet Annie MacDougal, feminist Riva Maynard, and Riva's daughter Katie spiral in and out of these seven "incidents" spanning more than three decades, along with the men and women they learn from and love.

For more info on Nichols and her work, visit: http://www.juliejnichols.com/


Alex Caldiero; Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance:

Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance is based on a pocket journal that poet Alex Caldiero kept with him during a six-day river trip on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. In these poems, and the reproduced drawings that accompany, and often house, them, Caldiero explores how we simultaneously impinge upon, and give ourselves over to, a landscape.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161024T200000 UID:65CDB4B2-B28B-47D5-A6DA-76C414EE2A18 SUMMARY:Shobha Gurung: Nepali Migrant Women - Resistance and Survival in America CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/634 DESCRIPTION:Author Shobha Gurung will discuss her new work on Nepalli and Bhutanese immigrant communities in the United States at the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Monday, October 24th at 6:30 PM. \N\N"Gurung presents us with a powerful ethnography of the lives of Nepali migrant women in the US. She weaves stories illustrating the use of co-ethnic networks to find employment as domestics, nannies, and restaurant workers. Her insightful analysis reveals the establishment of transnational families and communities. These women not only subvert traditional gender roles but engage in activism to improve working conditions for domestic workers in New York and Boston but provide social and economic support to NGOs addressing social justice and human rights in the US and Nepal."—Mary Romero, Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University\N\N"This book opens up a whole new conversation about minorities among minorities. Gurung describes the experiences of Nepali women who are marginalized as minorities among South Asian Americans."—Bandana Purkayastha, professor of sociology and Asian American studies, University of Connecticut.\N\NShobha Gurung is associate professor of sociology at Southern Utah University, where she specializes in Gender and Labor, Development and Cultural Studies, Comparative Family and Community,Globalization and Political Economy.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Shobha Gurung will discuss her new work on Nepalli and Bhutanese immigrant communities in the United States at the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Monday, October 24th at 6:30 PM.

"Gurung presents us with a powerful ethnography of the lives of Nepali migrant women in the US. She weaves stories illustrating the use of co-ethnic networks to find employment as domestics, nannies, and restaurant workers. Her insightful analysis reveals the establishment of transnational families and communities. These women not only subvert traditional gender roles but engage in activism to improve working conditions for domestic workers in New York and Boston but provide social and economic support to NGOs addressing social justice and human rights in the US and Nepal."—Mary Romero, Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

"This book opens up a whole new conversation about minorities among minorities. Gurung describes the experiences of Nepali women who are marginalized as minorities among South Asian Americans."—Bandana Purkayastha, professor of sociology and Asian American studies, University of Connecticut.

Shobha Gurung is associate professor of sociology at Southern Utah University, where she specializes in Gender and Labor, Development and Cultural Studies, Comparative Family and Community,Globalization and Political Economy.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161024T203000 UID:E939FA84-38BC-45B4-A757-618DC372F1C8 SUMMARY:Jessica Day George at the Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/528 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with children's author Jessica Day George at the Brigham City Public Library on Monday, October 24th. \N\NPrincess Celie and her companions have made it home safely from the Glorious Arkower, and everything is back to normal now that the Eye of the Castle is where it belongs. With more magical griffins to care for, Celie, Lilah, and Rolf have their hands full. But when the dangerous ancient wizard Arkwright escapes the dungeon and goes missing within the Castle, no one can rest until he is found. Only Celie knows where he is most likely hiding--deep within the secret passageways behind the walls of their beloved Castle. With danger lurking behind every tapestry and under every trap door, Celie must find the wizard and save her family.\N\NReaders will be swept away by another charming magical adventure featuring Princess Celie and her very special Castle.\N\NJessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and three young children.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening with children's author Jessica Day George at the Brigham City Public Library on Monday, October 24th.

Princess Celie and her companions have made it home safely from the Glorious Arkower, and everything is back to normal now that the Eye of the Castle is where it belongs. With more magical griffins to care for, Celie, Lilah, and Rolf have their hands full. But when the dangerous ancient wizard Arkwright escapes the dungeon and goes missing within the Castle, no one can rest until he is found. Only Celie knows where he is most likely hiding--deep within the secret passageways behind the walls of their beloved Castle. With danger lurking behind every tapestry and under every trap door, Celie must find the wizard and save her family.

Readers will be swept away by another charming magical adventure featuring Princess Celie and her very special Castle.

Jessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and three young children.

This event is made possible with support from the Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T130000 UID:4B553402-A4E5-41E7-B1E9-E7AF89CE385C SUMMARY:Ira Sukrungurang Visits Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/585 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University presents memoirist and poet Ira Sukrungruang on Tuesday, October 25th in the Student Center Theatre.\N\NIn his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.\N\NIra Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University presents memoirist and poet Ira Sukrungruang on Tuesday, October 25th in the Student Center Theatre.

In his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T163000 UID:15566576-F448-4CE7-896C-FDB62101DDCF SUMMARY:Author Karen Brennan at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/546 DESCRIPTION:Karen Brennan visits Utah Valley University (Classroom Building 510) to discuss her new book of fiction, Monsters. \N\NLiteral as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.\N\NKaren Brennan Ph.D. is the author of seven books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; little dark (2014) Four Way Books; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton, and new stories, Monsters, from Four Way Books (2016). Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Spuytin Duyvil, Michigan and Georgia, among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.\N\NThis program is made possible with the support of Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Karen Brennan visits Utah Valley University (Classroom Building 510) to discuss her new book of fiction, Monsters.

Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.

Karen Brennan Ph.D. is the author of seven books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; little dark (2014) Four Way Books; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton, and new stories, Monsters, from Four Way Books (2016). Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Spuytin Duyvil, Michigan and Georgia, among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

This program is made possible with the support of Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T203000 UID:D0052A6A-C626-4BDF-832E-931437381BA7 SUMMARY:Poemball II Launches in Provo CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/632 DESCRIPTION:Provo Poetry announces their second POEMBALL Machine launch in conjunction with the Utah Humanities Book Festival at Pioneer Book 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601 on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. Patrons can put in a quarter and receive a capsule with a short poem inside written by a local poet. Contributing POEMBALL poets will be reading their poetry followed by a poetry open mic.\N\NThe first machine was released for Poetry Month last April at Enliten Bakery and Café in Provo and was featured by KSL news and Salt Lake City Weekly. The POEMBALL Machine includes poems from many local poets, often found at Enliten Bakery and Café for their Thursday night creative writing open mic, as well as many well-known Utah poets, including Rob Carney, Star Coulbrooke, Meg Day, Kimberly Johnson, Laura Hamblin, and others.\N\NWhere\NPioneer Book, 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601\NWhen\NTuesday, October 25, 2016\NTime\N6:30 – 8:00 pm\N\NMore Information\NWeb: https://provopoetry.org\NYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF4_pUI0FV7q6Hk28Z_m4Ow\NFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/provopoetry\NTwitter: https://twitter.com/ProvoPoetry\NEmail: provopoetry@gmail.com\N\N\NThis project is made possible with support from Provo Poetry, Enliten Bakery, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Provo Poetry announces their second POEMBALL Machine launch in conjunction with the Utah Humanities Book Festival at Pioneer Book 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601 on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. Patrons can put in a quarter and receive a capsule with a short poem inside written by a local poet. Contributing POEMBALL poets will be reading their poetry followed by a poetry open mic.

The first machine was released for Poetry Month last April at Enliten Bakery and Café in Provo and was featured by KSL news and Salt Lake City Weekly. The POEMBALL Machine includes poems from many local poets, often found at Enliten Bakery and Café for their Thursday night creative writing open mic, as well as many well-known Utah poets, including Rob Carney, Star Coulbrooke, Meg Day, Kimberly Johnson, Laura Hamblin, and others.

Where
Pioneer Book, 450 West Center Provo, Utah 84601
When
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Time
6:30 – 8:00 pm

More Information
Web: https://provopoetry.org
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF4_pUI0FV7q6Hk28Z_m4Ow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/provopoetry
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProvoPoetry
Email: provopoetry@gmail.com


This project is made possible with support from Provo Poetry, Enliten Bakery, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T203000 UID:6F4A252B-7ABC-4407-889D-784B542B45D3 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Presents Edgar Allan Poe in Film and Literature CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/662 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads Presents Edgar Allan Poe in Film and Literature. Brigham Young University professors and the authors of Adapting Poe, Dennis Perry and Carl Sederholm, will discuss the many faces of Poe in popular culture over the last hundred years, as well as the American author’s impact on the mystery genre.\N\NAdapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads Presents Edgar Allan Poe in Film and Literature. Brigham Young University professors and the authors of Adapting Poe, Dennis Perry and Carl Sederholm, will discuss the many faces of Poe in popular culture over the last hundred years, as well as the American author’s impact on the mystery genre.

Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T123000 UID:3227306F-2EC2-4A1A-971C-30AE8BE3B87B SUMMARY:Nate Liederbach at Utah Valley University CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/670 DESCRIPTION:Nate Liederbach, author of Beasts You'll Never See, visits Utah Valley University (Room CB510) on October 26th at 11:00 AM. \N\NIn Beasts You’ll Never See, Nate Liederbach’s characters rage and tear at each other, yet, even in their pain, they reach through the bars of their cages to offer what care and comfort they can. A war widow collapses in a bowling-alley bathroom and is offered Sprite and Cup O’Noodles by the manager. A young English professor attempts to protect his cancer-addled mentor from the consequences of his decay. Liederbach’s razor wit and maniacal flare for language never wound, are always at the service of his generosity. As one of his characters puts it, “Showing and Telling drop their distinction, and the writing knows for itself, of itself, and its self is universal \N\NNate Liederbach is the author of the collections Doing a Bit of Bleeding (Ghost Road), Negative Spaces (Elik), and the forthcoming Tongues of Men and of Angels: Nonfictions Ataxia (sunnyoutside). He lives in Eugene, Oregon, and Olympia, Washington.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Nate Liederbach, author of Beasts You'll Never See, visits Utah Valley University (Room CB510) on October 26th at 11:00 AM.

In Beasts You’ll Never See, Nate Liederbach’s characters rage and tear at each other, yet, even in their pain, they reach through the bars of their cages to offer what care and comfort they can. A war widow collapses in a bowling-alley bathroom and is offered Sprite and Cup O’Noodles by the manager. A young English professor attempts to protect his cancer-addled mentor from the consequences of his decay. Liederbach’s razor wit and maniacal flare for language never wound, are always at the service of his generosity. As one of his characters puts it, “Showing and Telling drop their distinction, and the writing knows for itself, of itself, and its self is universal

Nate Liederbach is the author of the collections Doing a Bit of Bleeding (Ghost Road), Negative Spaces (Elik), and the forthcoming Tongues of Men and of Angels: Nonfictions Ataxia (sunnyoutside). He lives in Eugene, Oregon, and Olympia, Washington.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Valley University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T210000 UID:978FF201-68F9-4569-981E-09C1DB99249F SUMMARY:City Art Presents: Lex Williford and Nate Liederbach CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/626 DESCRIPTION:City Art Presents fiction writers Lex Williford and Nate Liederbach at The City Library (4th Floor Conference Room) on Wednesday, Ocotber 26th at 7:00 PM. \N\NLex Williford is the Winner of the 10th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, judged by Ira Sukrungruang. A concise and compelling novella-in-flash spanning decades from the 1960s to the present, Williford's SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF offers an elegiac coming-of-age tale and a family portrait imbued with tragedy, guilt, grief, and forgiveness. The arguments, injustices, and triumphs of childhood echo into the adult world in unforgettable detail in these short powerful stories. This limited edition chapbook features letterpress covers and specialty endpapers.\N\N"SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF did not let me go. There is a red siren of urgency in Williford's every sentence, every word. It is a book that reiterates what Lee K. Abbott once said to me many years ago: 'Everything is the matter in the short story.' Everything is the matter in SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF. In its brevity, its pace, the contained voice of the consistent narrator, in the flashes of story about a family trying hard to find themselves after heartbreak."—Ira Sukrungruang\N\NIn Beasts You’ll Never See, Nate Liederbach’s characters rage and tear at each other, yet, even in their pain, they reach through the bars of their cages to offer what care and comfort they can. A war widow collapses in a bowling-alley bathroom and is offered Sprite and Cup O’Noodles by the manager. A young English professor attempts to protect his cancer-addled mentor from the consequences of his decay. Liederbach’s razor wit and maniacal flare for language never wound, are always at the service of his generosity. As one of his characters puts it, “Showing and Telling drop their distinction, and the writing knows for itself, of itself, and its self is universal \N\NNate Liederbach is the author of the collections Doing a Bit of Bleeding (Ghost Road), Negative Spaces (Elik), and the forthcoming Tongues of Men and of Angels: Nonfictions Ataxia (sunnyoutside). He lives in Eugene, Oregon, and Olympia, Washington\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art Presents fiction writers Lex Williford and Nate Liederbach at The City Library (4th Floor Conference Room) on Wednesday, Ocotber 26th at 7:00 PM.

Lex Williford is the Winner of the 10th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, judged by Ira Sukrungruang. A concise and compelling novella-in-flash spanning decades from the 1960s to the present, Williford's SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF offers an elegiac coming-of-age tale and a family portrait imbued with tragedy, guilt, grief, and forgiveness. The arguments, injustices, and triumphs of childhood echo into the adult world in unforgettable detail in these short powerful stories. This limited edition chapbook features letterpress covers and specialty endpapers.

"SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF did not let me go. There is a red siren of urgency in Williford's every sentence, every word. It is a book that reiterates what Lee K. Abbott once said to me many years ago: 'Everything is the matter in the short story.' Everything is the matter in SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF. In its brevity, its pace, the contained voice of the consistent narrator, in the flashes of story about a family trying hard to find themselves after heartbreak."—Ira Sukrungruang

In Beasts You’ll Never See, Nate Liederbach’s characters rage and tear at each other, yet, even in their pain, they reach through the bars of their cages to offer what care and comfort they can. A war widow collapses in a bowling-alley bathroom and is offered Sprite and Cup O’Noodles by the manager. A young English professor attempts to protect his cancer-addled mentor from the consequences of his decay. Liederbach’s razor wit and maniacal flare for language never wound, are always at the service of his generosity. As one of his characters puts it, “Showing and Telling drop their distinction, and the writing knows for itself, of itself, and its self is universal

Nate Liederbach is the author of the collections Doing a Bit of Bleeding (Ghost Road), Negative Spaces (Elik), and the forthcoming Tongues of Men and of Angels: Nonfictions Ataxia (sunnyoutside). He lives in Eugene, Oregon, and Olympia, Washington

This event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T210000 UID:77ED0CD0-3BE0-4832-8660-2D049E2C8D4F SUMMARY:Citizen Scientist: Mary Ellen Hannibal at the Marmalade Library CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/624 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press presents author and journalist Mary Ellen Hannibal at the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Wednesday, October 26th at 7:00 PM. Hannibal will discuss her new book, Citizen Scientist. \N\NIn the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert—a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss\N \NHere is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the power of a heroic cast of volunteers—and the makings of what may be our last, best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction.\N \NDigging deeply, Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots: the centuries-long tradition of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she also examines her own past—and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. With unbending zeal for protecting the planet, she then turns her gaze to the wealth of species left to fight for.\N \NCombining original reporting, meticulous research, and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescued herself from an odyssey of loss—with a new kind of science.\N\NMary Ellen Hannibal is a Bay Area writer and editor focusing on science and culture. Hannibal’s book The Spine of the Continent is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save nature along the Rocky Mountains. A “thoroughly satisfying gem,” The Spine of the Continent chronicles landscapes, people, critters, and issues along the Spine. Hannibal’s other books include Evidence of Evolution, Leaves & Pods, and Good Parenting Through Your Divorce. A former book review and travel editor, Hannibal is Chair of the California Book Awards. She was a 2011 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. She is a recipient of the National Society of Science Writer’s Science and Society Award 2012 and Stanford University’s Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.\N\NHannibal is a regular contributor to LIVESTRONG magazine; her writing has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Elle and Yoga Journal magazines among many other publications. She additionally has long experience in corporate communications and has written extensively for environmental nonprofits, including Friends of the Urban Forest, the San Francisco Botanical Garden and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. She is the founder and producer of Evolve2009, a San Francisco city-wide celebration of Darwin and evolution. Evolve2009 won the California Library Association’s 2009 award for advocacy and communications. Hannibal is on the board of Torrey House Press, The only literary nonprofit book publisher focusing on conservation through literature and the West, based right here in Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press presents author and journalist Mary Ellen Hannibal at the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library on Wednesday, October 26th at 7:00 PM. Hannibal will discuss her new book, Citizen Scientist.

In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert—a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss

Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the power of a heroic cast of volunteers—and the makings of what may be our last, best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction.

Digging deeply, Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots: the centuries-long tradition of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she also examines her own past—and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. With unbending zeal for protecting the planet, she then turns her gaze to the wealth of species left to fight for.

Combining original reporting, meticulous research, and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescued herself from an odyssey of loss—with a new kind of science.

Mary Ellen Hannibal is a Bay Area writer and editor focusing on science and culture. Hannibal’s book The Spine of the Continent is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save nature along the Rocky Mountains. A “thoroughly satisfying gem,” The Spine of the Continent chronicles landscapes, people, critters, and issues along the Spine. Hannibal’s other books include Evidence of Evolution, Leaves & Pods, and Good Parenting Through Your Divorce. A former book review and travel editor, Hannibal is Chair of the California Book Awards. She was a 2011 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. She is a recipient of the National Society of Science Writer’s Science and Society Award 2012 and Stanford University’s Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.

Hannibal is a regular contributor to LIVESTRONG magazine; her writing has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Elle and Yoga Journal magazines among many other publications. She additionally has long experience in corporate communications and has written extensively for environmental nonprofits, including Friends of the Urban Forest, the San Francisco Botanical Garden and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. She is the founder and producer of Evolve2009, a San Francisco city-wide celebration of Darwin and evolution. Evolve2009 won the California Library Association’s 2009 award for advocacy and communications. Hannibal is on the board of Torrey House Press, The only literary nonprofit book publisher focusing on conservation through literature and the West, based right here in Utah.

This event is made possible with support from the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T210000 UID:6542FB02-FB12-4C14-B26D-E13B812A06B5 SUMMARY:Hope, Heart, and the Humanities: A Panel Featuring the Founders of Utah's Venture Course CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/633 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities and Westminster College is pleased to present an evening with some of the founders of Utah Humanities' own Venture Course and authors of a new book about how the course has changed, and continues to change, lives through the humanities. Panelists will include Jean Cheney, L. Jackson Newell, Jeff Metcalf, Hikmet Loe, and Bridget Newell. This event will take place in the Gore Business Auditorium on the Westminster Campus.\N\N“It was a life-changing experience” is heard a lot these days, but a free college course has actually been that for hundreds of Utahns living on low incomes.  Drawing from their years teaching in the  Venture Course, the writers of Hope, Heart, and the Humanities will share what their experience has shown them about economic inequalities, the power of the humanities, and the hunger to learn.    \N\NHope, Heart, and the Humanities tells how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors for hundreds of students who, for various reasons, faced barriers to attending college. This course has given them the knowledge, confidence, and power to rechart their lives.\N\NReaders will go inside Venture classrooms to see what occurs when adults enter serious discussions of literature, critical writing, art history, American history, and philosophy. Also apparent are the difficulties nontraditional students often encounter and the hard choices they and their teachers make. But what readers may remember most are the stories and voices of people whose views of the world have broadened and whose directions in life have changed.\N\NJean Cheney is associate director of Utah Humanities.\NL. Jackson Newell served as dean of Liberal Education at the University of Utah and president of Deep Springs College.\NHikmet Sidney Loe teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.\NJeff Metcalf is an award-winning teacher and writer in the English Department at the University of Utah.\NBridget M. Newell is professor of philosophy and associate vice-president for diversity at Bucknell University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Westminster College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities and Westminster College is pleased to present an evening with some of the founders of Utah Humanities' own Venture Course and authors of a new book about how the course has changed, and continues to change, lives through the humanities. Panelists will include Jean Cheney, L. Jackson Newell, Jeff Metcalf, Hikmet Loe, and Bridget Newell. This event will take place in the Gore Business Auditorium on the Westminster Campus.

“It was a life-changing experience” is heard a lot these days, but a free college course has actually been that for hundreds of Utahns living on low incomes.  Drawing from their years teaching in the  Venture Course, the writers of Hope, Heart, and the Humanities will share what their experience has shown them about economic inequalities, the power of the humanities, and the hunger to learn.    

Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors for hundreds of students who, for various reasons, faced barriers to attending college. This course has given them the knowledge, confidence, and power to rechart their lives.

Readers will go inside Venture classrooms to see what occurs when adults enter serious discussions of literature, critical writing, art history, American history, and philosophy. Also apparent are the difficulties nontraditional students often encounter and the hard choices they and their teachers make. But what readers may remember most are the stories and voices of people whose views of the world have broadened and whose directions in life have changed.

Jean Cheney is associate director of Utah Humanities.
L. Jackson Newell served as dean of Liberal Education at the University of Utah and president of Deep Springs College.
Hikmet Sidney Loe teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
Jeff Metcalf is an award-winning teacher and writer in the English Department at the University of Utah.
Bridget M. Newell is professor of philosophy and associate vice-president for diversity at Bucknell University.

This event is made possible with support from Westminster College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T203000 UID:D37498A7-4ADA-4A3E-A553-8FE94ED98348 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Finale: Library Clue CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/663 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Orem Reads finale: Library Clue!\N\NA terrible crime has been committed in the library! Bring your friends and family to track down clues throughout the library, make notes, engage in the intrigue of the classic board game Clue in three dimensions. But beware, there may be a killer lurking in the stacks…\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the Orem Reads finale: Library Clue!

A terrible crime has been committed in the library! Bring your friends and family to track down clues throughout the library, make notes, engage in the intrigue of the classic board game Clue in three dimensions. But beware, there may be a killer lurking in the stacks…
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T210000 UID:8D2D58D0-10D4-4F42-83AD-664F5644E222 SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem at the Salt Lake Masonic Temple CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/526 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works presents an evening with bestselling novelist Jonathan Lethem. Lethem visits Salt Lake City to discuss his new book, A Gambler's Anatomy. This event will take place in the auditorium of the Salt Lake Masonic Temple. Tickets are $7 each or are free with the purchase of a copy of A Gambler's Anatomy at Weller Book Works. In addition, Weller Book Works will be offering a 20% discount on most everything in the store(a few exceptions apply) to anyone who brings their ticket to Mr. Lethem's event back to the store, between October 28 and Thanksgiving (November 24th). Visit https://www.wellerbookworks.com/ for more details.\N\NHandsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur “whales” who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was the emergence of a blot that distorts his vision so he has to look at the board sideways.\N\NThings don’t go much better in Berlin. Bruno’s flirtation with Madchen, the striking blonde he meets on the ferry, is inconclusive; the game at the unsettling Herr Kohler’s mansion goes awry as his blot grows worse; he passes out and is sent to the local hospital, where he is given an extremely depressing diagnosis. Having run through Falk’s money, Bruno turns to Stolarsky, who, for reasons of his own, agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley, and to pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life.\N\NBerkeley, where Bruno discovered his psychic abilities, and to which he vowed never to return. Amidst the patchouli flashbacks and Anarchist gambits of the local scene, between Tira’s come-ons and Keith’s machinations, Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And what if you’re telepathic but it doesn’t do you any good?\N\NJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times, among other publications.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works presents an evening with bestselling novelist Jonathan Lethem. Lethem visits Salt Lake City to discuss his new book, A Gambler's Anatomy. This event will take place in the auditorium of the Salt Lake Masonic Temple. Tickets are $7 each or are free with the purchase of a copy of A Gambler's Anatomy at Weller Book Works. In addition, Weller Book Works will be offering a 20% discount on most everything in the store(a few exceptions apply) to anyone who brings their ticket to Mr. Lethem's event back to the store, between October 28 and Thanksgiving (November 24th). Visit https://www.wellerbookworks.com/ for more details.

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur “whales” who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was the emergence of a blot that distorts his vision so he has to look at the board sideways.

Things don’t go much better in Berlin. Bruno’s flirtation with Madchen, the striking blonde he meets on the ferry, is inconclusive; the game at the unsettling Herr Kohler’s mansion goes awry as his blot grows worse; he passes out and is sent to the local hospital, where he is given an extremely depressing diagnosis. Having run through Falk’s money, Bruno turns to Stolarsky, who, for reasons of his own, agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley, and to pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life.

Berkeley, where Bruno discovered his psychic abilities, and to which he vowed never to return. Amidst the patchouli flashbacks and Anarchist gambits of the local scene, between Tira’s come-ons and Keith’s machinations, Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And what if you’re telepathic but it doesn’t do you any good?

Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times, among other publications.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T203000 UID:F74EFAFB-600E-4028-968A-A0D53DB375E9 SUMMARY:Author Karen Brennan at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/531 DESCRIPTION:Authors Karen Brennan and Lex Williford visit the Helicon West series to discuss their new books, Monsters & Superman on the Roof.\N\NLiteral as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.\N\NKaren Brennan Ph.D. is the author of seven books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; little dark (2014) Four Way Books; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton, and new stories, Monsters, from Four Way Books (2016). Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Spuytin Duyvil, Michigan and Georgia, among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.\N\NLex Williford is the Winner of the 10th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, judged by Ira Sukrungruang. A concise and compelling novella-in-flash spanning decades from the 1960s to the present, Williford's SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF offers an elegiac coming-of-age tale and a family portrait imbued with tragedy, guilt, grief, and forgiveness. The arguments, injustices, and triumphs of childhood echo into the adult world in unforgettable detail in these short powerful stories. This limited edition chapbook features letterpress covers and specialty endpapers.\N \N\NThis program is made possible with the support of Helicon West and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Karen Brennan and Lex Williford visit the Helicon West series to discuss their new books, Monsters & Superman on the Roof.

Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.

Karen Brennan Ph.D. is the author of seven books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; little dark (2014) Four Way Books; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton, and new stories, Monsters, from Four Way Books (2016). Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Spuytin Duyvil, Michigan and Georgia, among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Lex Williford is the Winner of the 10th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, judged by Ira Sukrungruang. A concise and compelling novella-in-flash spanning decades from the 1960s to the present, Williford's SUPERMAN ON THE ROOF offers an elegiac coming-of-age tale and a family portrait imbued with tragedy, guilt, grief, and forgiveness. The arguments, injustices, and triumphs of childhood echo into the adult world in unforgettable detail in these short powerful stories. This limited edition chapbook features letterpress covers and specialty endpapers.


This program is made possible with the support of Helicon West and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T210000 UID:06C135BA-1148-4DB5-901E-D33BFE83E3C1 SUMMARY:Trevor Paglen Visits the Utah Museum of Fine Arts CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/586 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Humanities are pleased to present author, photographer, and geographer Trevor Paglen on Thursday, October 27th in the UMFA's auditorium. \N\NTrevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures.\N\NPaglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Van Abbe Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.\N\NHe is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, the New Yorker, and Art Forum. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work as a “groundbreaking investigative artist.”\N\NPaglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley.\N\NThis event is part of UMFA's ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape, and the Environment, a series of talks, films, meet-ups, and more that explore our complex relationship with the world around us.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Humanities are pleased to present author, photographer, and geographer Trevor Paglen on Thursday, October 27th in the UMFA's auditorium.

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures.

Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Van Abbe Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, the New Yorker, and Art Forum. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work as a “groundbreaking investigative artist.”

Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley.

This event is part of UMFA's ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape, and the Environment, a series of talks, films, meet-ups, and more that explore our complex relationship with the world around us.

This event is made possible with support from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T203000 UID:E822867A-B8FB-4F53-9AB8-B7B5728CF730 SUMMARY:Scott Graham at Back of Beyond Books CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/684 DESCRIPTION:Scott Graham visits Back of Beyond Books to discuss his third National Park Mystery, Yellowstone Standoff, on Thursday, October 27th at 7:00 PM. A signing will follow.\N\NWhen Yellowstone National Park’s grizzly bears and gray wolves suddenly and inexplicably go rogue, archaeologist Chuck Bender teams with his old friend, Yellowstone Chief Ranger Lex Hancock, to defend the suspect members of a group scientific expedition. Soon, Chuck finds himself defending the lives of his family as an unforeseen danger threatens deep in the storied national park’s remote wilderness.\N\NYellowstone Standoff is Book Three is the National Park Mystery Series.\N\NSCOTT GRAHAM is the author of seven books, including Canyon Sacrifice and Mountain Rampage, books one and two in the National Park Mystery Series from Torrey House Press, and Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Like most visitors to America’s first national park, Graham was awestruck by Yellowstone as a child. His fascination with the park has continued in the years since, with numerous visits to Yellowstone’s geyser- and wildlife-filled front country and its incomparable wilderness. Graham is an avid outdoorsman and amateur archaeologist who enjoys mountaineering, skiing, hunting, rock climbing, and whitewater rafting with his wife, who is an emergency physician, and their two sons. He lives in Durango, Colorado.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Scott Graham visits Back of Beyond Books to discuss his third National Park Mystery, Yellowstone Standoff, on Thursday, October 27th at 7:00 PM. A signing will follow.

When Yellowstone National Park’s grizzly bears and gray wolves suddenly and inexplicably go rogue, archaeologist Chuck Bender teams with his old friend, Yellowstone Chief Ranger Lex Hancock, to defend the suspect members of a group scientific expedition. Soon, Chuck finds himself defending the lives of his family as an unforeseen danger threatens deep in the storied national park’s remote wilderness.

Yellowstone Standoff is Book Three is the National Park Mystery Series.

SCOTT GRAHAM is the author of seven books, including Canyon Sacrifice and Mountain Rampage, books one and two in the National Park Mystery Series from Torrey House Press, and Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Like most visitors to America’s first national park, Graham was awestruck by Yellowstone as a child. His fascination with the park has continued in the years since, with numerous visits to Yellowstone’s geyser- and wildlife-filled front country and its incomparable wilderness. Graham is an avid outdoorsman and amateur archaeologist who enjoys mountaineering, skiing, hunting, rock climbing, and whitewater rafting with his wife, who is an emergency physician, and their two sons. He lives in Durango, Colorado.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T130000 UID:3399D102-E838-4394-9DC7-8139AB3A63C8 SUMMARY:Brigham Young University Hosts Poet Michael Lavers CREATED:20260416T080116Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080116Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/603 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University present poet Michael Lavers on Friday, October 28th at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library, room 1060. \N\NMichael Lavers completed an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD at Brigham Young University. Lavers’ poems have recently appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Arts & Letters, West Branch, 32 Poems, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere. He teaches poetry at Brigham Young University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University present poet Michael Lavers on Friday, October 28th at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library, room 1060.

Michael Lavers completed an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD at Brigham Young University. Lavers’ poems have recently appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Arts & Letters, West Branch, 32 Poems, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere. He teaches poetry at Brigham Young University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T133000 UID:D91464F9-A315-4CEE-A908-817F16031EA4 SUMMARY:Writing About Civil Rights: A Discussion with Young Adult Author Chris Crowe CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/571 DESCRIPTION:Chris Crowe, young adult author and professor of English Education at Brigham Young University, will lead a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement, a topic Mr. Crowe explores in his young adult fiction and nonfiction. The discussion will take place in USU's Merrill-Cazier Library. This event will illuminate connections between literature and American history and provide participants with a forum for discussing the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Copies of his two books, one fiction, one non-fiction, will be available at the USU Book Store: Mississippi Trial, 1955 and Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. The former won the 2003 International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award, and the latter was a Jane Addams Honor book.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Chris Crowe, young adult author and professor of English Education at Brigham Young University, will lead a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement, a topic Mr. Crowe explores in his young adult fiction and nonfiction. The discussion will take place in USU's Merrill-Cazier Library. This event will illuminate connections between literature and American history and provide participants with a forum for discussing the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Copies of his two books, one fiction, one non-fiction, will be available at the USU Book Store: Mississippi Trial, 1955 and Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. The former won the 2003 International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award, and the latter was a Jane Addams Honor book.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T143000 UID:EA8B5041-E0E0-4993-BCBB-4C6F35F84A55 SUMMARY:Writing About Civil Rights: A Discussion with Young Adult Author Chris Crowe CREATED:20260416T080115Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080115Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/572 DESCRIPTION:Chris Crowe, young adult author and professor of English Education at Brigham Young University, will lead a discussion about writing and publishing young adult literature.  Participants will be given opportunities to ask questions about the creative process as well as the nuts and bolts of publishing YA fiction and nonfiction. His newest book, a historical novel written in poetic form, Death Coming Up the Hill, about the Vietnam War and 1968, was published in 2014. The narrator, Ashe, decides not only to write haiku, but to dedicate a syllable to each soldier killed—976 haiku equals 16,592 syllables equals the number of soldiers killed in 1968.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Chris Crowe, young adult author and professor of English Education at Brigham Young University, will lead a discussion about writing and publishing young adult literature.  Participants will be given opportunities to ask questions about the creative process as well as the nuts and bolts of publishing YA fiction and nonfiction. His newest book, a historical novel written in poetic form, Death Coming Up the Hill, about the Vietnam War and 1968, was published in 2014. The narrator, Ashe, decides not only to write haiku, but to dedicate a syllable to each soldier killed—976 haiku equals 16,592 syllables equals the number of soldiers killed in 1968.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161028T203000 UID:37DDB269-7106-4858-A19B-D089F336DD2E SUMMARY:Novelist Karen Brennan at the King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/530 DESCRIPTION:Join us at the King's English Bookshop for a celebration of Karen Brennan's new book of innovative fiction, Monsters. \N\NLiteral as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.\N\NKaren Brennan Ph.D. is the author of seven books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; little dark (2014) Four Way Books; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton, and new stories, Monsters, from Four Way Books (2016). Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Spuytin Duyvil, Michigan and Georgia, among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.\N\NThis program is made possible with the support of the King's English and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at the King's English Bookshop for a celebration of Karen Brennan's new book of innovative fiction, Monsters.

Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the heartbreakingly private and depressingly public—and the funny flipside of it all.

Karen Brennan Ph.D. is the author of seven books of varying genres including poetry collections Here on Earth (1989) and The Real Enough World (2006), both from Wesleyan University Press; little dark (2014) Four Way Books; AWP Award-winning short fiction Wild Desire (1990), U Mass Press; The Garden in Which I Walk (2005), Fiction Collective 2; a memoir, Being with Rachel (2001) Norton, and new stories, Monsters, from Four Way Books (2016). Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies from Norton, Penguin, Graywolf, Spuytin Duyvil, Michigan and Georgia, among others. A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

This program is made possible with the support of the King's English and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161029T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161029T140000 UID:E31D4D14-7A8F-4D47-874B-115A02475309 SUMMARY:St. George Tween Author Boot Camp CREATED:20260416T080117Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080117Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/687 DESCRIPTION:TWEEN AUTHOR BOOT CAMP is a writing conference for kids 9 to 12 years old modeled on the wildly successful Teen Author Boot Camp that takes place in Utah County each year. Keynote authors include Chad Morris and Shelley Brown. For more information, visit: http://tweenabc.com/\N\NFOR: Kids who like to write (ages 9 -12) \N\NWHERE: Dixie State University Gardener Center Ballroom (225 S. 700 E., St. George, Utah)\N\NWHEN: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Registration opens at 9:30 a.m. Book signing 2-2:30 p.m.)\N\NCOST: $25 before Oct. 11; $30 after\N\NLunch, backpack, notebook, writing contest included. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:TWEEN AUTHOR BOOT CAMP is a writing conference for kids 9 to 12 years old modeled on the wildly successful Teen Author Boot Camp that takes place in Utah County each year. Keynote authors include Chad Morris and Shelley Brown. For more information, visit: http://tweenabc.com/

FOR: Kids who like to write (ages 9 -12)

WHERE: Dixie State University Gardener Center Ballroom (225 S. 700 E., St. George, Utah)

WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Registration opens at 9:30 a.m. Book signing 2-2:30 p.m.)

COST: $25 before Oct. 11; $30 after

Lunch, backpack, notebook, writing contest included. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161029T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161029T173000 UID:32671B9F-50A9-4573-B4F4-2DF35D1AF8AC SUMMARY:Ian Doescher at the Salt Lake City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080113Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080113Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/529 DESCRIPTION:As part of the Shakespeare First Folio's visit to the Salt Lake City Public Library, the library and Utah Humanities are please to present author Ian Doescher on Saturday, October 29th at 4:00 PM. Doescher will discuss the creation of his Shakespeare's Star Wars series.\N\NReturn once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.\N\NReimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations--William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.\NDoescher is a Portland native, and lives in Portland with his spouse and two children. He has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is currently the Director of Nonprofit Marketing at Pivot Group LLC, a full service marketing, research and web agency in Portland, Oregon.\N\NThis program is made possible with the support of the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As part of the Shakespeare First Folio's visit to the Salt Lake City Public Library, the library and Utah Humanities are please to present author Ian Doescher on Saturday, October 29th at 4:00 PM. Doescher will discuss the creation of his Shakespeare's Star Wars series.

Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.

Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations--William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Doescher is a Portland native, and lives in Portland with his spouse and two children. He has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is currently the Director of Nonprofit Marketing at Pivot Group LLC, a full service marketing, research and web agency in Portland, Oregon.

This program is made possible with the support of the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161105T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161105T113000 UID:E85D2101-B320-4111-9E68-541339049424 SUMMARY:The Art Access Book Group discusses Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies CREATED:20260416T080114Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080114Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/550 DESCRIPTION:The Art Access Book Group is exploring the human experience of migration and immigration. Humans have migrated throughout history, and we believe that sharing those experiences on a personal level gives us the opportunity to connect with each other as we examine both the differences and similarities inherent in distinctive cultures and people. As part of Art Access’ overall Dreamers project, we are utilizing Lahiri’s and Adichie’s texts to engage discussion of immigration in order to improve the livability of Salt Lake City for everyone. Through the use of critical listening, creative thinking, reasoning, and questioning we are encouraging individuals to broaden perceptions and enhance their knowledge and understanding of the world. \N\NOn Wednesday, October 26th, we will discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Art Access and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Art Access Book Group is exploring the human experience of migration and immigration. Humans have migrated throughout history, and we believe that sharing those experiences on a personal level gives us the opportunity to connect with each other as we examine both the differences and similarities inherent in distinctive cultures and people. As part of Art Access’ overall Dreamers project, we are utilizing Lahiri’s and Adichie’s texts to engage discussion of immigration in order to improve the livability of Salt Lake City for everyone. Through the use of critical listening, creative thinking, reasoning, and questioning we are encouraging individuals to broaden perceptions and enhance their knowledge and understanding of the world. 

On Wednesday, October 26th, we will discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.

This event is made possible with support from Art Access and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170804T143000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170804T160000 UID:11CF417A-F730-415C-AC1E-18EEA27381F0 SUMMARY:David Baker Visits Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1012 DESCRIPTION:USU hosts poet, essayist, and Kenyon Review editor David Baker, who will discuss and share his wide-ranging work. This event will take place in the Caine Room of the Family Life Building on USU's campus. \N\NDavid Baker is author of eleven books of poetry, recently Scavenger Loop (Norton, 2015) and Never-Ending Birds (Norton), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011.  His six prose books include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (Michigan, 2014) and Seek After: Seven Modern Lyric Poets (forthcoming). Among other awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Society of Midland Authors.  He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches frequently in the Warren Wilson MFA program for writers, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:USU hosts poet, essayist, and Kenyon Review editor David Baker, who will discuss and share his wide-ranging work. This event will take place in the Caine Room of the Family Life Building on USU's campus.

David Baker is author of eleven books of poetry, recently Scavenger Loop (Norton, 2015) and Never-Ending Birds (Norton), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011.  His six prose books include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (Michigan, 2014) and Seek After: Seven Modern Lyric Poets (forthcoming). Among other awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Society of Midland Authors.  He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches frequently in the Warren Wilson MFA program for writers, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170908T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170908T200000 UID:551B5ED2-6A21-494C-B2A4-658247E68486 SUMMARY:Alfred Lambourne Prizes Reception CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/967 DESCRIPTION:The fourth annual Alfred Lambourne Prizes for visual and literary arts will be awarded on September 8th at the Sorenson Unity Center.\N\NIn 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. We invite creative work in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement. \N\NThe Alfred Lambourne Prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.\N\NLambourne is remembered for the dozens of sketches and paintings he created of Great Salt Lake as he captured facets of water, light, and land in the romantic style reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters. His writing, based upon his time on Gunnison Island, stands out as the earliest, most evocative prose penned on the Lake’s physical attributes and psychological impressions. Lambourne melded fact and fiction as he wrote first in serial fashion about the lake for The Deseret News then published these writings as Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).\N\NFor more information, please visit: http://www.fogsl.org/research/alfred-lambourne-prize\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Friends of the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Community College, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The fourth annual Alfred Lambourne Prizes for visual and literary arts will be awarded on September 8th at the Sorenson Unity Center.

In 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. We invite creative work in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement.

The Alfred Lambourne Prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.

Lambourne is remembered for the dozens of sketches and paintings he created of Great Salt Lake as he captured facets of water, light, and land in the romantic style reminiscent of the Hudson River School painters. His writing, based upon his time on Gunnison Island, stands out as the earliest, most evocative prose penned on the Lake’s physical attributes and psychological impressions. Lambourne melded fact and fiction as he wrote first in serial fashion about the lake for The Deseret News then published these writings as Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).

For more information, please visit: http://www.fogsl.org/research/alfred-lambourne-prize

This event is made possible with support from Friends of the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Community College, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T203000 UID:CD2CABE5-5BC0-445C-9F69-063D521CDEE4 SUMMARY:P/K (Parent/Kid) Book Group: Tyler Whitesides CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/930 DESCRIPTION:Join us for either of two sessions (at 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM) of the Parent/Kid Book Group at Brigham City Public Library. This month’s book will be Tyler Whitesides’ Janitors. \N\NNo one takes Spencer Zumbro seriously when he tried to warn his classmates about the mysterious things prowling the halls and classrooms of Welcher Elementary School. But when he sees Marv, the janitor, going after one of the creatures with a vacuum, he knows he's not the only one who can see them.\N\NWith the the help of his new friend, Daisy, Spencer has to find out what the janitors know. The children's search uncovers the magic taking place behind the scenes of their seemingly ordinary school, where a battle is being waged for the minds of the students. Who can be trusted- and can Spencer and Daisy protect their school and possibly the world?\N\NPick-up a copy of the book at the library in advance (while copies last) and come discuss "The Janitors" and enjoy a book-related snack.\N\NThen bring you copy to the event on Monday, 2 October 2017 at 7 p.m. and have your copy signed by Tyler Whitesides!\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for either of two sessions (at 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM) of the Parent/Kid Book Group at Brigham City Public Library. This month’s book will be Tyler Whitesides’ Janitors.

No one takes Spencer Zumbro seriously when he tried to warn his classmates about the mysterious things prowling the halls and classrooms of Welcher Elementary School. But when he sees Marv, the janitor, going after one of the creatures with a vacuum, he knows he's not the only one who can see them.

With the the help of his new friend, Daisy, Spencer has to find out what the janitors know. The children's search uncovers the magic taking place behind the scenes of their seemingly ordinary school, where a battle is being waged for the minds of the students. Who can be trusted- and can Spencer and Daisy protect their school and possibly the world?

Pick-up a copy of the book at the library in advance (while copies last) and come discuss "The Janitors" and enjoy a book-related snack.

Then bring you copy to the event on Monday, 2 October 2017 at 7 p.m. and have your copy signed by Tyler Whitesides!

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T200000 UID:7EFF7D54-260A-4C73-8C61-5F7B4C97FFAE SUMMARY:John Day M.D. at the Park City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/988 DESCRIPTION:John Day M.D., author of The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, will speak about his experience and lessons learned while living at  the Longevity Village in China.\N\NAt forty-four, acclaimed cardiologist John Day was overweight and suffered from insomnia, degenerative joint disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. On six medications and suffering constant aches, he needed to make a change. While lecturing in China, he’d heard about a remote mountainous region known as Longevity Village, a wellness Shangri-La free of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, dementia, depression, and insomnia, and where living past one hundred—in good health—is not uncommon.\N\NIn the hope of understanding this incredible phenomenon, Day, a Mandarin speaker, decided to spend some time living in Longevity Village. He learned everything he could about this place and its people, and met its centenarians. His research revealed seven principles that work in tandem to create health, happiness, and longevity—rules he applied to his own life. Six months later, he’d lost thirty pounds, dropped one hundred points off his cholesterol and twenty-five points off his blood pressure, and was even cured of his acid reflux and insomnia. In 2014 he began a series of four-month support groups comprised of patients who worked together to apply the lessons of Longevity Village to their lives. Ninety-two percent of the participants were able to adhere to their plans and stay on pace to reach their health goals.\N\NDr. Day is a cardiologist and Medical Director of Heart Rhythm Services at his practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School and completed his residency and fellowship in cardiology at Stanford University. He is board certified in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Park City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:John Day M.D., author of The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, will speak about his experience and lessons learned while living at  the Longevity Village in China.

At forty-four, acclaimed cardiologist John Day was overweight and suffered from insomnia, degenerative joint disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. On six medications and suffering constant aches, he needed to make a change. While lecturing in China, he’d heard about a remote mountainous region known as Longevity Village, a wellness Shangri-La free of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, dementia, depression, and insomnia, and where living past one hundred—in good health—is not uncommon.

In the hope of understanding this incredible phenomenon, Day, a Mandarin speaker, decided to spend some time living in Longevity Village. He learned everything he could about this place and its people, and met its centenarians. His research revealed seven principles that work in tandem to create health, happiness, and longevity—rules he applied to his own life. Six months later, he’d lost thirty pounds, dropped one hundred points off his cholesterol and twenty-five points off his blood pressure, and was even cured of his acid reflux and insomnia. In 2014 he began a series of four-month support groups comprised of patients who worked together to apply the lessons of Longevity Village to their lives. Ninety-two percent of the participants were able to adhere to their plans and stay on pace to reach their health goals.

Dr. Day is a cardiologist and Medical Director of Heart Rhythm Services at his practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School and completed his residency and fellowship in cardiology at Stanford University. He is board certified in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology.

This event is made possible with support from the Park City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T210000 UID:2C6D1893-BF88-4A7E-838F-A51C0390A266 SUMMARY:Guest Writers Series Presents Poet Rodrigo Toscano CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/969 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series welcomes poet and labor activist Rodrigo Toscano to the Finch Lane Glallery on September 14th at 7:00 PM. \N\NRodrigo Toscano's newest book of poetry is Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books, 2016) His previous books include, Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities.  His poetry has appeared in the anthologies Voices Without Borders, Diasporic Avant Gardes, Imagined Theatres, In the Criminal’s Cabinet, Earth Bound, and Best American Poetry. Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. His poetics plays have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater and Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival. His radio pieces have aired on WPIX FM, KAOS Public Radio, WNYU, WRBH, and PS.1 Radio. His poetry has been translated into French, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Norwegian and Catalan. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, Communication Workers of America, and National Day Laborers Organizing Network. Originally, from San Diego, and after 16 years, in Brooklyn, NY, Toscano now lives in New Orleans.  \N\NMICHELLE DONAHUE received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University and is a current doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She serves as fiction editor for Quarterly West and prose editor for The Adroit Journal. Her fiction has appeared in Sycamore Review, Arts & Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, CutBank, and others. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series welcomes poet and labor activist Rodrigo Toscano to the Finch Lane Glallery on September 14th at 7:00 PM.

Rodrigo Toscano's newest book of poetry is Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books, 2016) His previous books include, Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities.  His poetry has appeared in the anthologies Voices Without Borders, Diasporic Avant Gardes, Imagined Theatres, In the Criminal’s Cabinet, Earth Bound, and Best American Poetry. Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. His poetics plays have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater and Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival. His radio pieces have aired on WPIX FM, KAOS Public Radio, WNYU, WRBH, and PS.1 Radio. His poetry has been translated into French, Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese, Norwegian and Catalan. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, Communication Workers of America, and National Day Laborers Organizing Network. Originally, from San Diego, and after 16 years, in Brooklyn, NY, Toscano now lives in New Orleans. 

MICHELLE DONAHUE received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University and is a current doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She serves as fiction editor for Quarterly West and prose editor for The Adroit Journal. Her fiction has appeared in Sycamore Review, Arts & Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, CutBank, and others.

This event is made possible with the support of the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171101 UID:FF713F8E-DA2B-438A-830A-3823B3F3C2E8 SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Events Calendar CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1081 DESCRIPTION:Our friends at Weller Book Works have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/ \N\NTuesdays, September 12, 19, & 26; October 5, 12, 19, & 26 at 9 am\NBreakfast Club with Catherine Weller at Coffee Connection!. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Co-sponsored by Coffee Connection!\N\NMonday, September 11, 8 PM \NWeller Book Works Free Play Reading Series: Becky Shaw, by Gina Gionfriddo. Presented by Wasatch Theatre Company.\N\NWednesdays, September 13, 27; October 11, 25 at 6 PM \NLit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick. Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation!\N\NSunday, September 24, 3 PM: \NWine Drinkers with Reading Problem Book Club. In partnership with We Olive, we present a different culinary-themed title for discussion over wine and small plates at We Olive Trolley Square! September's title is Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain\N\NFriday, September 29, 7 PM \NGeorge Constantz reads and signs ICE, FIRE, and NUTCRACKERS: A ROCKY MOUNTAIN ECOLOGY. Why do quaking aspens grow in prominent clumps rather than randomly scattered across the landscape? Why and how does a rufous hummingbird drop its metabolism to one-hundredth of its normal rate? Why do bull elk grow those enormous antlers?\N\NUsing his experience as a biologist and ecologist, George Constantz illuminates these and other remarkable slices of mountain life in plain and engaging language. His provocative accounts of birds, insects, rodents, predators, trees, and flowers are sure to stir the reader’s curiosity. Who wouldn’t be intrigued by a rattlesnake’s ability to hunt in total darkness by detecting the infrared radiation emitted by a mouse? Or the adaptations of white-tailed ptarmigan that allow them to thrive in their high, treeless alpine environments—even through the winter? The narratives, often brought home with a counterintuitive twist, invite readers to make new connections and broaden perspectives of a spectacular outdoor place.\N\NJoin us for a reading, followed by a signing. Part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. \N\N\NFriday, September 30, 6:30 PM\NCollector's Book Salon. This salon will feature Madelyn Garrett, head of the Rare Books Division at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and organizer of the University’s Book Arts Program. \N\NFriday, October 6, 7 PM \NVirginia Webb, Wildcats, Wagons, Wives, and Wardens. Webb’s book gives the male perspective of living polygamy. Raised in the early 20th century in the hills and valleys around the Utah/Idaho border, Albert joins his father in leaving the LDS Church to live plural marriage, going to prison twice for choosing to do so. \N\NSaturday, Oct. 7, 2 PM - \NLaurie C. Tye, The Animal In Me, Too\NAuthor Laurie Tye and award-winning wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen use animals with their unique behaviors and offer colorful and fun examples for children to learn more about themselves and the natural world around them. This is a great educational book teaching children about thoughts, feelings and emotions. \N\NSaturday, October 7, 7 pm\NEmily Clark, Art Triumphant. Art Triumphant is Emily Clark's first collection of poetry and features 25 poems covering wide-ranging topics such as: art, writing, love, life, philosophy, religion, history, and politics.\N\NTuesday, Oct. 10, 6:30 PM\NSusan Kite, Power Stone of Alogol & Haunted Houses and Terrifying Tales\NSusan Kite will be reading from and signing her books Power Stone of Alogol & Haunted Houses and Terrifying Tales.\N\NFriday, Oct. 13, 7 PM: \NMulti-author readings and signings: Tiffany Anderson and Kathleen Bradford.\N\NTiffany Anderson – Butternut to Bionic: A Resource Guide to Hip Replacement Surgery (non-fiction self help). If you or a loved one are facing hip replacement surgery, you may feel overwhelmed, unsure of what to expect, and have plenty of questions. Drawing on her 20 years of professional experience in the field of health, she has written this book from the patient’s perspective and shares guidance, support, and encouragement—preparing you to face the challenge of hip replacement surgery. \N \NKathleen Bradford – The Light Worker (fiction). Valeen Martin lives a quiet, isolated life. She left behind a painful past and all her secrets when she moved into the peaceful mountain town of Chestnut Cove. But the nightmares have started again, and the sensations have grown stronger and more frequent. Valeen calls on her only friend Laura for support, and they soon find themselves thrown into an unimaginable reality and unthinkable danger—bringing them face to face with the darker side of humanity: a man who thrives on mayhem and wants nothing more than to destroy this world's existence. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our friends at Weller Book Works have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/

Tuesdays, September 12, 19, & 26; October 5, 12, 19, & 26 at 9 am
Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller at Coffee Connection!. Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Co-sponsored by Coffee Connection!

Monday, September 11, 8 PM
Weller Book Works Free Play Reading Series: Becky Shaw, by Gina Gionfriddo. Presented by Wasatch Theatre Company.

Wednesdays, September 13, 27; October 11, 25 at 6 PM
Lit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick. Join Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and conversation!

Sunday, September 24, 3 PM:
Wine Drinkers with Reading Problem Book Club. In partnership with We Olive, we present a different culinary-themed title for discussion over wine and small plates at We Olive Trolley Square! September's title is Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain

Friday, September 29, 7 PM
George Constantz reads and signs ICE, FIRE, and NUTCRACKERS: A ROCKY MOUNTAIN ECOLOGY. Why do quaking aspens grow in prominent clumps rather than randomly scattered across the landscape? Why and how does a rufous hummingbird drop its metabolism to one-hundredth of its normal rate? Why do bull elk grow those enormous antlers?

Using his experience as a biologist and ecologist, George Constantz illuminates these and other remarkable slices of mountain life in plain and engaging language. His provocative accounts of birds, insects, rodents, predators, trees, and flowers are sure to stir the reader’s curiosity. Who wouldn’t be intrigued by a rattlesnake’s ability to hunt in total darkness by detecting the infrared radiation emitted by a mouse? Or the adaptations of white-tailed ptarmigan that allow them to thrive in their high, treeless alpine environments—even through the winter? The narratives, often brought home with a counterintuitive twist, invite readers to make new connections and broaden perspectives of a spectacular outdoor place.

Join us for a reading, followed by a signing. Part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.


Friday, September 30, 6:30 PM
Collector's Book Salon. This salon will feature Madelyn Garrett, head of the Rare Books Division at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and organizer of the University’s Book Arts Program.

Friday, October 6, 7 PM
Virginia Webb, Wildcats, Wagons, Wives, and Wardens. Webb’s book gives the male perspective of living polygamy. Raised in the early 20th century in the hills and valleys around the Utah/Idaho border, Albert joins his father in leaving the LDS Church to live plural marriage, going to prison twice for choosing to do so.

Saturday, Oct. 7, 2 PM -
Laurie C. Tye, The Animal In Me, Too
Author Laurie Tye and award-winning wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen use animals with their unique behaviors and offer colorful and fun examples for children to learn more about themselves and the natural world around them. This is a great educational book teaching children about thoughts, feelings and emotions.

Saturday, October 7, 7 pm
Emily Clark, Art Triumphant. Art Triumphant is Emily Clark's first collection of poetry and features 25 poems covering wide-ranging topics such as: art, writing, love, life, philosophy, religion, history, and politics.

Tuesday, Oct. 10, 6:30 PM
Susan Kite, Power Stone of Alogol & Haunted Houses and Terrifying Tales
Susan Kite will be reading from and signing her books Power Stone of Alogol & Haunted Houses and Terrifying Tales.

Friday, Oct. 13, 7 PM:
Multi-author readings and signings: Tiffany Anderson and Kathleen Bradford.

Tiffany Anderson – Butternut to Bionic: A Resource Guide to Hip Replacement Surgery (non-fiction self help). If you or a loved one are facing hip replacement surgery, you may feel overwhelmed, unsure of what to expect, and have plenty of questions. Drawing on her 20 years of professional experience in the field of health, she has written this book from the patient’s perspective and shares guidance, support, and encouragement—preparing you to face the challenge of hip replacement surgery.
 
Kathleen Bradford – The Light Worker (fiction). Valeen Martin lives a quiet, isolated life. She left behind a painful past and all her secrets when she moved into the peaceful mountain town of Chestnut Cove. But the nightmares have started again, and the sensations have grown stronger and more frequent. Valeen calls on her only friend Laura for support, and they soon find themselves thrown into an unimaginable reality and unthinkable danger—bringing them face to face with the darker side of humanity: a man who thrives on mayhem and wants nothing more than to destroy this world's existence. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171101 UID:27A29721-755C-4677-B729-802ED092CE32 SUMMARY:The King's English Bookshop Events Calendar CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1083 DESCRIPTION:Our friends at the King's English Bookshop have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/\N\NJean Reagan, How to Get Your Teacher Ready, Saturday, September 9 at 11 a.m. at TKE\N\NGabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling, Saturday, September 9 at 6 p.m. at TKE\N\NSinger-songwriter Dar Williams, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, Friday, September 15 at 7 p.m. at TKE\N\NCraig Harline, A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation, Thursday, October 5 at 7 p.m. at TKE\N\NMylene Dressler, The Last to See Me, Friday, October 13 at 7 p.m. at TKE\N\NCraig Johnson, The Western Star, Saturday, October 14 at 7 p.m. Event location: Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia Way, Sandy\N\NPaul Cohen, The Glamshack, Wednesday, October 18, 7 p.m. at TKE\N\NGerald Elias, Spring Break, Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. at TKE\N\NAnnette McGivney, The Pure Land, Friday, October 27 at 7 p.m. at TKE\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our friends at the King's English Bookshop have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/

Jean Reagan, How to Get Your Teacher Ready, Saturday, September 9 at 11 a.m. at TKE

Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling, Saturday, September 9 at 6 p.m. at TKE

Singer-songwriter Dar Williams, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, Friday, September 15 at 7 p.m. at TKE

Craig Harline, A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation, Thursday, October 5 at 7 p.m. at TKE

Mylene Dressler, The Last to See Me, Friday, October 13 at 7 p.m. at TKE

Craig Johnson, The Western Star, Saturday, October 14 at 7 p.m. Event location: Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia Way, Sandy

Paul Cohen, The Glamshack, Wednesday, October 18, 7 p.m. at TKE

Gerald Elias, Spring Break, Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. at TKE

Annette McGivney, The Pure Land, Friday, October 27 at 7 p.m. at TKE
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170915T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170915T130000 UID:5C18CBA6-9696-42DE-AA7F-ECC5168CB336 SUMMARY:Lunch Colloquium with Rodrigo Toscano CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/975 DESCRIPTION:Poet playwright, and labor activist Rodrigo Toscano visits the Finch Lane Gallery for a discussion of his wok, literary and otherwise, on September 15th at noon. Bring your own lunch and lots of questions.\N\NToscano is the author of several collections of poetry, including Partisans (1999), The Disparities (2002), Collapsible Poetics Theater (2008), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series, and Deck of Deeds (2012). Collapsible Poetics Theater is also a traveling “test of poetry” for which Toscano serves as artistic director and writer for volunteer performances engaging the intersection of poetry and theater. His work has been translated into several languages, and his radio pieces have aired on stations across the country. Toscano is also the recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry.\N \NToscano works for the Labor Institute in conjunction the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. He lives in the Greenpoint Township of Brooklyn.\N\NMICHELLE DONAHUE received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University and is a current doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She serves as fiction editor for Quarterly West and prose editor for The Adroit Journal. Her fiction has appeared in Sycamore Review, Arts & Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, CutBank, and others. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet playwright, and labor activist Rodrigo Toscano visits the Finch Lane Gallery for a discussion of his wok, literary and otherwise, on September 15th at noon. Bring your own lunch and lots of questions.

Toscano is the author of several collections of poetry, including Partisans (1999), The Disparities (2002), Collapsible Poetics Theater (2008), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series, and Deck of Deeds (2012). Collapsible Poetics Theater is also a traveling “test of poetry” for which Toscano serves as artistic director and writer for volunteer performances engaging the intersection of poetry and theater. His work has been translated into several languages, and his radio pieces have aired on stations across the country. Toscano is also the recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry.

Toscano works for the Labor Institute in conjunction the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. He lives in the Greenpoint Township of Brooklyn.

MICHELLE DONAHUE received an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University and is a current doctoral student in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She serves as fiction editor for Quarterly West and prose editor for The Adroit Journal. Her fiction has appeared in Sycamore Review, Arts & Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, CutBank, and others.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170915T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170915T203000 UID:F7B12C3C-6E67-4EAE-A51D-D7D439E7647F SUMMARY:Franny Choi and Abraham Smith at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1041 DESCRIPTION:In a preview of the next day's Literary Death Match showdown, Weller Book Works hosts poets Franny Choi and Abraham Smith. \N\NFRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and teaching artist.\NShe is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the forthcoming chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the Huffington Post and PBS NewsHour, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review, the Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.\N\NAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man, his book-length poem about farming, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books.He recently moved to Ogden, Utah to join the English faculty at Weber State University. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In a preview of the next day's Literary Death Match showdown, Weller Book Works hosts poets Franny Choi and Abraham Smith.

FRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and teaching artist.
She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the forthcoming chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the Huffington Post and PBS NewsHour, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review, the Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.

Abraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man, his book-length poem about farming, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books.He recently moved to Ogden, Utah to join the English faculty at Weber State University.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170916T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170916T113000 UID:B1BA33C7-BA05-4495-A709-BCE22EA97C15 SUMMARY:Tales from One Thousand and One Nights CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1027 DESCRIPTION:Storytellers Extraordinaire, Karl Behling & Janine Nishiguchi will enchant children of all ages with tales taken from One Thousand and One Nights. From "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" to "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," audiences will be transported by magic carpet to other lands and other times. Following the storytelling, kids will have the chance to color in their own magic carpets to take home!\N\NThis event is Free and Open to the Public.\N\NKarl Behling has taught elementary school for 34 years, and has been an inveterate storyteller for longer than he can remember. He is a Student Storyteller Coach, and his students appear regularly at the Weber State Storytelling Festival. Karl has been President of the Utah Storytelling Guild, and a founding member of the Farmington Bay chapter of USG.\NHis tales cover the globe from the Old West to the Civil War and the Appalachians, take a swing through the Caribbean and ramble down Main Street, Hometown, USA. Karl puts on a rollicking Mountain Man show for school groups, Boy Scout Camps, and anybody who appreciates hair-raising adventure. \N\NJanine Nishiguchi has tales to tickle your ears and engage each listener. Enthusiastic tellings come to life as she connects to the audience. One listener said, "I felt like I was right there in the story!" She is currently the President of the Utah Storytelling Guild and a children's librarian. She started a youth storytelling festival in her local elementary and started a Davis County chapter of USG in 2012.\N\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Storytellers Extraordinaire, Karl Behling & Janine Nishiguchi will enchant children of all ages with tales taken from One Thousand and One Nights. From "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" to "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," audiences will be transported by magic carpet to other lands and other times. Following the storytelling, kids will have the chance to color in their own magic carpets to take home!

This event is Free and Open to the Public.

Karl Behling has taught elementary school for 34 years, and has been an inveterate storyteller for longer than he can remember. He is a Student Storyteller Coach, and his students appear regularly at the Weber State Storytelling Festival. Karl has been President of the Utah Storytelling Guild, and a founding member of the Farmington Bay chapter of USG.
His tales cover the globe from the Old West to the Civil War and the Appalachians, take a swing through the Caribbean and ramble down Main Street, Hometown, USA. Karl puts on a rollicking Mountain Man show for school groups, Boy Scout Camps, and anybody who appreciates hair-raising adventure.

Janine Nishiguchi has tales to tickle your ears and engage each listener. Enthusiastic tellings come to life as she connects to the audience. One listener said, "I felt like I was right there in the story!" She is currently the President of the Utah Storytelling Guild and a children's librarian. She started a youth storytelling festival in her local elementary and started a Davis County chapter of USG in 2012.


This event is made possible with the support of the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170916T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170916T220000 UID:22D6D4A3-F16E-41E0-8CFB-F699CCCB85AF SUMMARY:Literary Death Match CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1066 DESCRIPTION:It's back! Literary Death Match and Adrian Zuniga return to Salt Lake City on Saturday, September 16th at Sugar Space! LDM marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol's judging (without the meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare. \N\NJudges will include Lara Jones (KRCL), Dallas Graham (The Red Fred Project, and Alexander Ortega (SLUG), while contestants will include Franny Choi, Abraham Smith, Aaron Gates and Danielle Susi.\N\NTickets are $9.00 in advance, $10.00 at the door, and will be available through Sugar Space's website https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10199119Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 8:00 PM.\N\NContestants:\N\NFRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and teaching artist.\NShe is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the forthcoming chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the Huffington Post and PBS NewsHour, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review, the Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.\N\NAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man, his book-length poem about farming, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books.He recently moved to Ogden, Utah to join the English faculty at Weber State University. \N\NAaron Gates grew up in western Pennsylvania and holds a BA in writing studies from Utah Valley University. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of peculiar: A Queer Literary Journal, which he helped create in Utah in 2015. His poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, Orogeny, and Touchstones.\N\NDanielle Susi is a poet, fiber artist, improviser, and producer of live performances around the country. ​The author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), she received her MFA in writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was awarded the New Artists Society Fellowship. She formerly studied and performed improvisational comedy at iO Chicago and she now teaches and performs weekly at The Comedy Loft in Ogden.\N\NJudges:\N\NLara Jones is the Community Content Manager at KRCL as well as the Executive Producer and Host of KRCL's RadioActive. \N\NDallas Graham is the circle putting the Red Fred Project together. He created Red Fred and his Jolly Troop in 2010 and has been telling stories with them ever since. He enjoys photojournalism, graphic design, and discovering creative ways of connecting people through their stories. Dallas has produced a number of personal and community driven projects and can't seem to turn off his "idea" switch. The Red Fred Project finds children living in extraordinary circumstances and asks them the question: If you could write a book for the entire world to read, what would it be about? The books use photography, graphic design, story-telling techniques and star a likable group of birds made from commas and exclamation marks called The Jolly Troop.\N\NAlexander Ortega is the Editor of SLUG Magazine, which covers music, arts, lifestyle and events. A published writer in A&E journalism, he’s recently begun to dabble in creative writing as well. He plays music in his punk band Filth Lords and also in his solo project, Alexander Ortega, which is actually a band, too.\N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It's back! Literary Death Match and Adrian Zuniga return to Salt Lake City on Saturday, September 16th at Sugar Space! LDM marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol's judging (without the meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare.

Judges will include Lara Jones (KRCL), Dallas Graham (The Red Fred Project, and Alexander Ortega (SLUG), while contestants will include Franny Choi, Abraham Smith, Aaron Gates and Danielle Susi.

Tickets are $9.00 in advance, $10.00 at the door, and will be available through Sugar Space's website https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10199119Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 8:00 PM.

Contestants:

FRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and teaching artist.
She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the forthcoming chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams and has received fellowships from Kundiman and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her work has been featured by the Huffington Post and PBS NewsHour, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review, the Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is a Project VOICE teaching artist and a member of the Dark Noise Collective.

Abraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man, his book-length poem about farming, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books.He recently moved to Ogden, Utah to join the English faculty at Weber State University.

Aaron Gates grew up in western Pennsylvania and holds a BA in writing studies from Utah Valley University. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of peculiar: A Queer Literary Journal, which he helped create in Utah in 2015. His poetry has been published in Sugar House Review, Orogeny, and Touchstones.

Danielle Susi is a poet, fiber artist, improviser, and producer of live performances around the country. ​The author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), she received her MFA in writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was awarded the New Artists Society Fellowship. She formerly studied and performed improvisational comedy at iO Chicago and she now teaches and performs weekly at The Comedy Loft in Ogden.

Judges:

Lara Jones is the Community Content Manager at KRCL as well as the Executive Producer and Host of KRCL's RadioActive.

Dallas Graham is the circle putting the Red Fred Project together. He created Red Fred and his Jolly Troop in 2010 and has been telling stories with them ever since. He enjoys photojournalism, graphic design, and discovering creative ways of connecting people through their stories. Dallas has produced a number of personal and community driven projects and can't seem to turn off his "idea" switch. The Red Fred Project finds children living in extraordinary circumstances and asks them the question: If you could write a book for the entire world to read, what would it be about? The books use photography, graphic design, story-telling techniques and star a likable group of birds made from commas and exclamation marks called The Jolly Troop.

Alexander Ortega is the Editor of SLUG Magazine, which covers music, arts, lifestyle and events. A published writer in A&E journalism, he’s recently begun to dabble in creative writing as well. He plays music in his punk band Filth Lords and also in his solo project, Alexander Ortega, which is actually a band, too.


X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170918T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170918T210000 UID:94BDAFCA-5BBF-4FE0-985C-7A5E3B50BADC SUMMARY:Utah Shakespeare Festival PLAY Team CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1058 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads kicks off with a special visit from the Utah Shakespeare Festival PLAY Team, who tour the state doing educational outreach for Cedar City’s acclaimed annual festival and provide the perfect intro to this year’s book choice, Ally Condie’s Summerlost, which takes place in the midst of a theatre festival.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads kicks off with a special visit from the Utah Shakespeare Festival PLAY Team, who tour the state doing educational outreach for Cedar City’s acclaimed annual festival and provide the perfect intro to this year’s book choice, Ally Condie’s Summerlost, which takes place in the midst of a theatre festival.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170920 UID:58D2B211-1508-4463-85A5-F462EE7D2BC8 SUMMARY:Bruce Campbell & the Hail to the Chin Tour at the Tower Theatre CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1040 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works and Salt Lake Film Society present actor, author and producer Bruce Campbell at the Tower Theatre as part of his Hail to the Chin tour. Join in the Last Fan Standing game show and qualify to be one of four fans on-stage with Bruce in a winner-take all fan extravaganza! \N \NTickets available at http://www.bruce-campbell.com/booktour-saltlakecity\N\NBruce Campbell is an American actor, producer, writer, comedian and director. One of his best-known roles is portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise, from the 1978 short film Within the Woods to the ongoing TV series Ash vs Evil Dead. Campbell is the author of four books about his life in B-movies and Hollywood in general. Hail to the Chin is due out in August of 2017.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works and Salt Lake Film Society present actor, author and producer Bruce Campbell at the Tower Theatre as part of his Hail to the Chin tour. Join in the Last Fan Standing game show and qualify to be one of four fans on-stage with Bruce in a winner-take all fan extravaganza!

Tickets available at http://www.bruce-campbell.com/booktour-saltlakecity

Bruce Campbell is an American actor, producer, writer, comedian and director. One of his best-known roles is portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise, from the 1978 short film Within the Woods to the ongoing TV series Ash vs Evil Dead. Campbell is the author of four books about his life in B-movies and Hollywood in general. Hail to the Chin is due out in August of 2017.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170920T210000 UID:23FD7FDD-7675-45ED-A3E5-8CABC951BAC3 SUMMARY:City Art Presents Adam Gianelli and Kase Johnstun CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/972 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents poet Adam Gianelli and essayist and travel writer Kase Johnstun on Wednesday, September 20th at 7:00 PM. \N\NRain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia—in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: “moths all swarming the / same light bulb.”\N\NAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. \N\NKase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of recently released "Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis", which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places, as well as having mentions in the Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. It was recently awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Coldnoon: Travel Writing and Traveling Poetics, Like The Wind, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His forthcoming article about family will appear in Southwest, the magazine. He is the co-editor/author of "Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front” (The History Press), which was name the Salt Lake Tribune’s book of the month for August 2014. He is the literary chair for the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee, he was named to Ogden’s 40 under 40 three weeks before he turned 40 in 2015 and hosts a literary podcast called LITerally where he interviews authors about all things publishing and writing. In January 2016, he was the artist in residence at JIWAR International Artist Residency in Barcelona, Spain. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents poet Adam Gianelli and essayist and travel writer Kase Johnstun on Wednesday, September 20th at 7:00 PM.

Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia—in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: “moths all swarming the / same light bulb.”

Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere. He is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah.

Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of recently released "Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis", which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places, as well as having mentions in the Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. It was recently awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Coldnoon: Travel Writing and Traveling Poetics, Like The Wind, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His forthcoming article about family will appear in Southwest, the magazine. He is the co-editor/author of "Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front” (The History Press), which was name the Salt Lake Tribune’s book of the month for August 2014. He is the literary chair for the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee, he was named to Ogden’s 40 under 40 three weeks before he turned 40 in 2015 and hosts a literary podcast called LITerally where he interviews authors about all things publishing and writing. In January 2016, he was the artist in residence at JIWAR International Artist Residency in Barcelona, Spain.

This event is made possible with support from City Art, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T123000 UID:BF1C95D3-1A2D-4F7D-A6D6-837C0D3F1AB2 SUMMARY:The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies presents Presents David Gessner: "All the Wild That Remains" CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/989 DESCRIPTION:The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies present historian Benjamin Madley, who will discuss his new book "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe" in the Education in Zion Auditorium of JFSB on the Brigham Young University campus. \N\NBetween 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.\N \NMadley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.\N\NBenjamin Madley is associate professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.\N\NA Live Stream of this event will be available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6etcI6pW9kI X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies present historian Benjamin Madley, who will discuss his new book "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe" in the Education in Zion Auditorium of JFSB on the Brigham Young University campus.

Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.

Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

Benjamin Madley is associate professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

A Live Stream of this event will be available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6etcI6pW9kI X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T193000 UID:B59183BD-45EE-4ADD-941F-5DC987361139 SUMMARY:Imagination, Orient, and the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1028 DESCRIPTION:Join Kevin Blankinship, Lecturer in Arabic Language & Culture at the University of Utah, who will present a fun, informative talk on "Imagination, Orient, and the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights." It will address the 1,001 Nights as a popular folktale in the medieval Islamic world and as a window on the Orient in the modern West. In both contexts, the 1,001 Nights has been above all a catalyst for the human imagination. Throughout the centuries, people have inscribed their desires, fears, nightmares and fantasies into the many stories that make up the Nights. This ultimately shows how fiction might be different from fact, but it can still reveal truth. \N\NOne Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Jewish, and Egyptian folklore and literature.\N\NThe influence of the versions of The Nights on world literature and cinema is immense and difficult to overstate. Various characters from this epic have themselves become cultural icons in Western culture, such as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc. \N\NKevin Blankinship is a PhD candidate in Arabic literature at the University of Chicago, with research interests in medieval notions of authorship, popular Arabic songs from Muslim Spain, folktales and animal fables, and translation studies. He currently works as Instructor of Arabic at the University of Utah, where he teaches intermediate and advanced classes in Arabic language. He also moonlights as a freelance Arabic translator. A native of Washington, DC, Professor Blankinship has traded the humidity and federal politics of his hometown for the much more agreeable square donuts and fry sauce of his newfound Utah home. He lives in South Jordan with his wife Bronwyn and their two sons.\N\NThis event is Free and Open to the Public.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Kevin Blankinship, Lecturer in Arabic Language & Culture at the University of Utah, who will present a fun, informative talk on "Imagination, Orient, and the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights." It will address the 1,001 Nights as a popular folktale in the medieval Islamic world and as a window on the Orient in the modern West. In both contexts, the 1,001 Nights has been above all a catalyst for the human imagination. Throughout the centuries, people have inscribed their desires, fears, nightmares and fantasies into the many stories that make up the Nights. This ultimately shows how fiction might be different from fact, but it can still reveal truth.

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Jewish, and Egyptian folklore and literature.

The influence of the versions of The Nights on world literature and cinema is immense and difficult to overstate. Various characters from this epic have themselves become cultural icons in Western culture, such as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

Kevin Blankinship is a PhD candidate in Arabic literature at the University of Chicago, with research interests in medieval notions of authorship, popular Arabic songs from Muslim Spain, folktales and animal fables, and translation studies. He currently works as Instructor of Arabic at the University of Utah, where he teaches intermediate and advanced classes in Arabic language. He also moonlights as a freelance Arabic translator. A native of Washington, DC, Professor Blankinship has traded the humidity and federal politics of his hometown for the much more agreeable square donuts and fry sauce of his newfound Utah home. He lives in South Jordan with his wife Bronwyn and their two sons.

This event is Free and Open to the Public.

This event is made possible with the support of the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T203000 UID:A9E5B508-7DD6-4C2B-867A-9690E5B0B472 SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Panel on Autism CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1100 DESCRIPTION:In Ally Condie's Summerlost, the family at the center of the book suffers a great loss when they lose their son and brother Ben, who was autistic. Ben's life and his death remain pivotal for the protagonist as she progresses through the story. But when it comes to autism spectrum disorder, what is fact and what is fiction? Learn the early signs of autism, available resources, and what life is like for people on the spectrum from experts sent by UVU’s Center for Autism.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In Ally Condie's Summerlost, the family at the center of the book suffers a great loss when they lose their son and brother Ben, who was autistic. Ben's life and his death remain pivotal for the protagonist as she progresses through the story. But when it comes to autism spectrum disorder, what is fact and what is fiction? Learn the early signs of autism, available resources, and what life is like for people on the spectrum from experts sent by UVU’s Center for Autism.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T210000 UID:65B018E2-2AD9-43F9-845D-A79DA673123A SUMMARY:Jay Hopler and Evie Shockley at Westminster College CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/990 DESCRIPTION:Westminster College welcomes poets Jay Hopler and Evie Shockley to the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Series on September 21st in the Gore School of Business Auditorium. \N \NJay Hopler’s second book of poems, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry and won the gold medal for poetry in the 2016 Florida Book Awards. His other awards include a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and the Rome Prize in Literature. He teaches at the University of South Florida. \N\NEvie Shockley is the author of most recently, the new black, winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and semiautomatic (forthcoming in 2017). She has also published a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. Shockley is associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster College welcomes poets Jay Hopler and Evie Shockley to the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Series on September 21st in the Gore School of Business Auditorium.

Jay Hopler’s second book of poems, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s Poetry Series), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry and won the gold medal for poetry in the 2016 Florida Book Awards. His other awards include a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and the Rome Prize in Literature. He teaches at the University of South Florida.

Evie Shockley is the author of most recently, the new black, winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and semiautomatic (forthcoming in 2017). She has also published a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. Shockley is associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170922T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170922T200000 UID:2BFA72C5-D58A-421C-8CDC-BA4E9B5556A8 SUMMARY:Mark Sundeen at the Ogden Nature Center CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/936 DESCRIPTION:Author Mark Sundeen visits the Ogden Nature Center to discuss his new book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America. TEST\N\NIn the dead of winter, a former marine biologist and his pregnant wife, a classically trained opera singer, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they’ve purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically. \N\NMore than ever, we seem to be yearning for “the simple life.” We want to reconnect with the land and the environment in a deeper way that can assuage modern ills. We seek a livelihood that exercises body and mind without taking a toll on the planet. We long to nurture spirit and community instead of distracting and isolating ourselves with electronics. We even dream utopian dreams of discovering ways of life that model for others answers to the question of how we can live more sustainably, peacefully, authentically. A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life not only through the stories of those three very different couples, but through the visionaries, ascetics, and artists that inspired each of them to walk away from the life they knew in order to find (or create) a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.\N\NMark Sundeen is the author of The Unsettlers, The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. He has won fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, the Montana Arts Council and the Utah Arts Council. A correspondent for Outside Magazine, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, National Geographic Adventure, and McSweeneys. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, the Ogden Nature Center, and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Mark Sundeen visits the Ogden Nature Center to discuss his new book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America. TEST

In the dead of winter, a former marine biologist and his pregnant wife, a classically trained opera singer, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they’ve purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically.

More than ever, we seem to be yearning for “the simple life.” We want to reconnect with the land and the environment in a deeper way that can assuage modern ills. We seek a livelihood that exercises body and mind without taking a toll on the planet. We long to nurture spirit and community instead of distracting and isolating ourselves with electronics. We even dream utopian dreams of discovering ways of life that model for others answers to the question of how we can live more sustainably, peacefully, authentically. A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life not only through the stories of those three very different couples, but through the visionaries, ascetics, and artists that inspired each of them to walk away from the life they knew in order to find (or create) a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.

Mark Sundeen is the author of The Unsettlers, The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. He has won fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, the Montana Arts Council and the Utah Arts Council. A correspondent for Outside Magazine, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, National Geographic Adventure, and McSweeneys.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, the Ogden Nature Center, and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170923T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170923T190000 UID:B12FEAAF-ACF7-4B11-B79F-AAA9C251DF8F SUMMARY:Mark Sundeen at the Park City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080123Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080123Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/926 DESCRIPTION:Author Mark Sundeen visits the Park City Public Library to discuss his new book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America. \N\NIn the dead of winter, a former marine biologist and his pregnant wife, a classically trained opera singer, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they’ve purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically. \N\NMore than ever, we seem to be yearning for “the simple life.” We want to reconnect with the land and the environment in a deeper way that can assuage modern ills. We seek a livelihood that exercises body and mind without taking a toll on the planet. We long to nurture spirit and community instead of distracting and isolating ourselves with electronics. We even dream utopian dreams of discovering ways of life that model for others answers to the question of how we can live more sustainably, peacefully, authentically. A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life not only through the stories of those three very different couples, but through the visionaries, ascetics, and artists that inspired each of them to walk away from the life they knew in order to find (or create) a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.\N\NMark Sundeen is the author of The Unsettlers, The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. He has won fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, the Montana Arts Council and the Utah Arts Council. A correspondent for Outside Magazine, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, National Geographic Adventure, and McSweeneys. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and the Park City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Mark Sundeen visits the Park City Public Library to discuss his new book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America.

In the dead of winter, a former marine biologist and his pregnant wife, a classically trained opera singer, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they’ve purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically.

More than ever, we seem to be yearning for “the simple life.” We want to reconnect with the land and the environment in a deeper way that can assuage modern ills. We seek a livelihood that exercises body and mind without taking a toll on the planet. We long to nurture spirit and community instead of distracting and isolating ourselves with electronics. We even dream utopian dreams of discovering ways of life that model for others answers to the question of how we can live more sustainably, peacefully, authentically. A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life not only through the stories of those three very different couples, but through the visionaries, ascetics, and artists that inspired each of them to walk away from the life they knew in order to find (or create) a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.

Mark Sundeen is the author of The Unsettlers, The Man Who Quit Money, The Making of Toro, and Car Camping. He has won fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, the Montana Arts Council and the Utah Arts Council. A correspondent for Outside Magazine, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, National Geographic Adventure, and McSweeneys.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities and the Park City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170923T220000 UID:8A68C040-D0E7-45C5-A04F-A7CC65F27CD5 SUMMARY:Live Wire! with Luke Burbank Live in Salt Lake City CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1084 DESCRIPTION:Join Utah Humanities and the City Library for a live recording of PRI’s Live Wire with Luke Burbank. Live Wire is a weekly one-hour variety show with a modern twist. It blends music from up-and-coming artists, original sketch comedy, spoken word, and interviews with writers, filmmakers, comedians, and people who think cool thoughts. Live Wire pairs the shared experience of theater with the intimacy of radio to connect communities. Guests will include author Mark Sundeen and journalist Scott Carrier. \N\NTickets are $25 and will go on sale Tuesday, August 29th at: http://www.livewireradio.org/live#2411\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of The City Library, Utah Humanities, KUER and KRCL. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Utah Humanities and the City Library for a live recording of PRI’s Live Wire with Luke Burbank. Live Wire is a weekly one-hour variety show with a modern twist. It blends music from up-and-coming artists, original sketch comedy, spoken word, and interviews with writers, filmmakers, comedians, and people who think cool thoughts. Live Wire pairs the shared experience of theater with the intimacy of radio to connect communities. Guests will include author Mark Sundeen and journalist Scott Carrier.

Tickets are $25 and will go on sale Tuesday, August 29th at: http://www.livewireradio.org/live#2411

This event is made possible with the support of The City Library, Utah Humanities, KUER and KRCL. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T210000 UID:F38C997F-A678-4BF5-897C-2200EAF4E9F0 SUMMARY:Shakespeare for Families at the Orem Public Library CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1059 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads presents Shakespeare for Families. Join Becky and Joel Wallin of BYU's Young Company for an interactive Shakespeare performance starring you in A Midsummer Night's Dream.This fun and informative crash course on The Bard and his work to get readers ready for the theater festival that frames this year’s Orem Reads book, Summerlost. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads presents Shakespeare for Families. Join Becky and Joel Wallin of BYU's Young Company for an interactive Shakespeare performance starring you in A Midsummer Night's Dream.This fun and informative crash course on The Bard and his work to get readers ready for the theater festival that frames this year’s Orem Reads book, Summerlost.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T210000 UID:1AEB848E-3180-42C2-96C6-C38E3AFF1F1A SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Welcomes Poets Robert Terashima & Rob Carney CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1068 DESCRIPTION:Join us at Weller Book Works for “Writing About Rights,” featuring poets Robert Terashima and Rob Carney. \N\NRobert Terashima’s Issei and other poems strikes an important chord at this time of collective amnesia that we find ourselves living in right now. Terashima beautifully tells the story of his own family living in a country that had passed a Oriental Exclusion proclamation of 1907 which denied the right of any Asian person from ever becoming citizens of the United States. The word they used to describe this generation was Issei.\N \NTerashima’s family lived in Utah already or else they would have found themselves inside the barbed wire that “contained” the west coast Japanese population, even those people who only know this country as their home. And while parallels are undeniable, the language is heartbreakingly beautiful. \N\NTerashima is a recently retired pediatrician living with his wife Karen in South Jordan, Utah. He is the third generation of his family to live in America.\N\NRob Carney earned a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, completing his PhD at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is a two-time winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry and the author of four books and three chapbooks of poems, including 88 Maps, Story Problems and Weather Report from Somondoco Press. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Redactions, River Styx, Sugar House Review, other journals, as well as Flash Fiction Forward (Norton 2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. He is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at Weller Book Works for “Writing About Rights,” featuring poets Robert Terashima and Rob Carney.

Robert Terashima’s Issei and other poems strikes an important chord at this time of collective amnesia that we find ourselves living in right now. Terashima beautifully tells the story of his own family living in a country that had passed a Oriental Exclusion proclamation of 1907 which denied the right of any Asian person from ever becoming citizens of the United States. The word they used to describe this generation was Issei.

Terashima’s family lived in Utah already or else they would have found themselves inside the barbed wire that “contained” the west coast Japanese population, even those people who only know this country as their home. And while parallels are undeniable, the language is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Terashima is a recently retired pediatrician living with his wife Karen in South Jordan, Utah. He is the third generation of his family to live in America.

Rob Carney earned a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University, completing his PhD at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is a two-time winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry and the author of four books and three chapbooks of poems, including 88 Maps, Story Problems and Weather Report from Somondoco Press. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Redactions, River Styx, Sugar House Review, other journals, as well as Flash Fiction Forward (Norton 2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. He is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170926T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T133000 UID:45614322-553A-41C6-A135-80CE3EB7FB9F SUMMARY:SUU's Art of Literature Presents Author Debra Monroe CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1034 DESCRIPTION:Novelist, poet, and essayist Debra Monroe will visit SUU as part of their 2017 Art of Literature series. Monroe is a Flannery O’Connor Award winner and the author of six books, including 2015’s My Unsentimental Education. \N\NDebra Monroe is the author of two story collection, two novels and two memoirs. Her recent memoir, My \NUnsentimental Education, is the “salty and blunt” account of how the rags-to-riches story plays out differently fora woman. She is known as a “fierce” writer who presents “ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and \Nsympathy” for prose that’s “rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable.” She has published fiction in more than 50 magazines, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, The \NAmerican Scholar and have been cited for Best American Essays often.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelist, poet, and essayist Debra Monroe will visit SUU as part of their 2017 Art of Literature series. Monroe is a Flannery O’Connor Award winner and the author of six books, including 2015’s My Unsentimental Education.

Debra Monroe is the author of two story collection, two novels and two memoirs. Her recent memoir, My
Unsentimental Education, is the “salty and blunt” account of how the rags-to-riches story plays out differently fora woman. She is known as a “fierce” writer who presents “ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and
sympathy” for prose that’s “rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable.” She has published fiction in more than 50 magazines, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, The
American Scholar and have been cited for Best American Essays often.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170926T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T200000 UID:8B05AE02-1DF5-4EE8-AF1C-336F119C04D0 SUMMARY:Jennifer Nielsen at the American Fork Library CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/976 DESCRIPTION:The American Fork Library welcomes Jennifer Nielsen, author of A Night Divided, The Ascendence Trilogy, and the Mark of the Thief trilogy to discuss her popular young adult novels on September 26th at 6:00 PM. \N\NFor as far back as Jennifer Nielsen can remember, she has shared her brain with imaginary characters. She figures it’s okay if she talks to them as she’s working on her stories, as long as they don’t start talking back.\N\NJennifer completed her first book in her early 20’s. She told a neighbor she planned to be published one day. The neighbor smiled back like Jennifer had a greater chance of landing on the moon one day. That was understandable. The first book was pretty bad. So was her second. And third. The fourth wasn’t terrible, but by then Jennifer had decided she was writing in the wrong genre. The characters in her head had changed from adult romantic suspense to young adult and children’s fantasy characters. Jennifer had to change her writing too.\N\NJennifer’s debut book was ELLIOT AND THE GOBLIN WAR (Sourcebooks, Oct 2010). That series became known as The Underworld Chronicles. The next series she released was The Ascendance trilogy, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE (Scholastic, Apr 2012). She wrote the sixth book of the Infinity Ring series, BEHIND ENEMY LINES (Scholastic, Nov 2013). Her current series is MARK OF THE THIEF (Scholastic, Feb 2015), with the final book of the trilogy coming in January 2017. She recently released her first historical, A NIGHT DIVIDED (Scholastic, Aug 2015). Her most recent book is the standalone fantasy adventure, THE SCOURGE (Scholastic, Aug 2016).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the American Fork Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The American Fork Library welcomes Jennifer Nielsen, author of A Night Divided, The Ascendence Trilogy, and the Mark of the Thief trilogy to discuss her popular young adult novels on September 26th at 6:00 PM.

For as far back as Jennifer Nielsen can remember, she has shared her brain with imaginary characters. She figures it’s okay if she talks to them as she’s working on her stories, as long as they don’t start talking back.

Jennifer completed her first book in her early 20’s. She told a neighbor she planned to be published one day. The neighbor smiled back like Jennifer had a greater chance of landing on the moon one day. That was understandable. The first book was pretty bad. So was her second. And third. The fourth wasn’t terrible, but by then Jennifer had decided she was writing in the wrong genre. The characters in her head had changed from adult romantic suspense to young adult and children’s fantasy characters. Jennifer had to change her writing too.

Jennifer’s debut book was ELLIOT AND THE GOBLIN WAR (Sourcebooks, Oct 2010). That series became known as The Underworld Chronicles. The next series she released was The Ascendance trilogy, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE (Scholastic, Apr 2012). She wrote the sixth book of the Infinity Ring series, BEHIND ENEMY LINES (Scholastic, Nov 2013). Her current series is MARK OF THE THIEF (Scholastic, Feb 2015), with the final book of the trilogy coming in January 2017. She recently released her first historical, A NIGHT DIVIDED (Scholastic, Aug 2015). Her most recent book is the standalone fantasy adventure, THE SCOURGE (Scholastic, Aug 2016).

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the American Fork Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T210000 UID:125876AB-DC1F-4EC0-A841-2875CE38C085 SUMMARY:Book & Bridges: Scott Abbott CREATED:20260416T080129Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080129Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1125 DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday, September 26, Scott Abbott, Professor of Integrated Studies and Humanities at Utah Valley University, will lecture from his book in progress: “Standing as Metaphor: Homo erectus in the culture of Homo sapiens”\N\NWe call ourselves wise Homo sapiens and argue that our language differentiates us from other species of animals. We also define ourselves by the achievement of a standing posture and call one of our relatives Homo erectus. The metaphor growing out of that upright posture underlies our conceptions of time and space; it shapes our understanding of existence and ecstasy; it is a tool and often the subject of philosophy and painting, poetry and fiction, sculpture and law, history and psychology, anthropology and linguistics, archaeology and teleology. Wherever, in short, humans have paid attention to our existence as human beings, we have done so through the metaphor of standing.\N\NThere will be light refreshment served. Part of Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NBooks and Bridges is a community institute that facilitates ideas and conversation on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lift us to our better angels. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Tuesday, September 26, Scott Abbott, Professor of Integrated Studies and Humanities at Utah Valley University, will lecture from his book in progress: “Standing as Metaphor: Homo erectus in the culture of Homo sapiens”

We call ourselves wise Homo sapiens and argue that our language differentiates us from other species of animals. We also define ourselves by the achievement of a standing posture and call one of our relatives Homo erectus. The metaphor growing out of that upright posture underlies our conceptions of time and space; it shapes our understanding of existence and ecstasy; it is a tool and often the subject of philosophy and painting, poetry and fiction, sculpture and law, history and psychology, anthropology and linguistics, archaeology and teleology. Wherever, in short, humans have paid attention to our existence as human beings, we have done so through the metaphor of standing.

There will be light refreshment served. Part of Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Books and Bridges is a community institute that facilitates ideas and conversation on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lift us to our better angels. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T203000 UID:C04CBEFF-C800-4A4B-8FEA-F1C64422BC2F SUMMARY:Eduardo Corral at the Ogden Union Station CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1029 DESCRIPTION:Nationally acclaimed poet Eduardo C. Corral will give a reading followed by a live podcast interview with writer and LITerally host, Kase Johnstun. This event is free and open to the public. Book sales provided by Booked on 25th.\N\NEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the author of Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. During the 2017-18 academic year, he'll be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.\N\NKASE JOHNSTUN is an award-winning essayist and author of Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis: An Inside View of Life Touched by the Congenital Skull Deformity (McFarland). Beyond the Grip was the Gold Quill Award Winner for Published Books for 2015 (League of Utah Writers).\N\NThis event will take place in our Wattis Dumke room.\N\NThis event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RAMP. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Nationally acclaimed poet Eduardo C. Corral will give a reading followed by a live podcast interview with writer and LITerally host, Kase Johnstun. This event is free and open to the public. Book sales provided by Booked on 25th.

EDUARDO C. CORRAL is the author of Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. During the 2017-18 academic year, he'll be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

KASE JOHNSTUN is an award-winning essayist and author of Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis: An Inside View of Life Touched by the Congenital Skull Deformity (McFarland). Beyond the Grip was the Gold Quill Award Winner for Published Books for 2015 (League of Utah Writers).

This event will take place in our Wattis Dumke room.

This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RAMP. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T210000 UID:9BCA5475-759E-47B8-8714-56C281F21508 SUMMARY:City Art Presents Matthew Cooperman & Aby Kaupang CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1030 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents poets Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang. Both Cooperman and Kaupang have authored numerous books and chapbooks. They have also collaborated on a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities.\N\NMatthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.\N\NCooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.\N\NAby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents poets Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang. Both Cooperman and Kaupang have authored numerous books and chapbooks. They have also collaborated on a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities.

Matthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.

Cooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.

Aby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.

This event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T170000 UID:2B9AB8ED-E160-4989-8D48-D6DD8638534A SUMMARY:Historian Phil Deloria at the University of Utah CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1074 DESCRIPTION:The University of Utah hosts historian Philip Deloria, author of numerous books, including Indians in Unexpected Places and Playing Indian. Deloria is a specialist in Native American history and the history of the American West. This event will take place in Room 1110 of the LNCO Building on the University of Utah campus. \N\NPhilip Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History, former LSA Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, and past Director of the Program in American Culture and the AC Native American Studies program. He has served as president of the American Studies Association, a council member of the Organization of American Historians, and a Trustee of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of American Culture and the Department of History. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The University of Utah hosts historian Philip Deloria, author of numerous books, including Indians in Unexpected Places and Playing Indian. Deloria is a specialist in Native American history and the history of the American West. This event will take place in Room 1110 of the LNCO Building on the University of Utah campus.

Philip Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History, former LSA Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, and past Director of the Program in American Culture and the AC Native American Studies program. He has served as president of the American Studies Association, a council member of the Organization of American Historians, and a Trustee of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of American Culture and the Department of History.

This event is made possible with support from the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T163000 UID:4E18CB00-F0D8-4E2C-A931-3A5605D6D302 SUMMARY:Matthew Cooperman & Aby Kaupang at the University of Utah CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1075 DESCRIPTION:Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang visit the University of Utah to read from their own work and ongoing collaborative projects.\N\NMatthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.\N\NCooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.\N\NAby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang visit the University of Utah to read from their own work and ongoing collaborative projects.

Matthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.

Cooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.

Aby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000 UID:5A62E526-3ABA-4785-8770-9EE6E5A52A6E SUMMARY:Helicon West Presents Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1013 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West hosts poets Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang. Cooperman is the author of five collections, most recently Spool. Kaupang is the author of two books, most recently Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me and she is currently serving as the Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, CO. \N\NMatthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.\N\NCooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.\N\NAby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West hosts poets Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang. Cooperman is the author of five collections, most recently Spool. Kaupang is the author of two books, most recently Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me and she is currently serving as the Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, CO.

Matthew Cooperman is an American poet, critic and editor. He is the author of five full-length collections of poems, including Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), Imago for the Fallen World (w/Marius Lehene, Jaded Ibis, 2013) and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press). Cooperman’s first book, A Sacrificial Zinc, won the Lena Miles Wever-Todd Prize from Pleiades in 2001.

Cooperman has also been active as a collaborator, working with such varied groups and persons as Sharon Butcher Dance, Marisol Eckert Collective, artist Lisa Cooperman, Italian artist Simonetta Moro, Canadian composer Libby Larsen, and British poet Lawrence Upton. In 2004 he co-founded the collective Accidental Vestments with the Romanian artist Marius Lehene. Since that time he and Lehene have been active on a number of projects, most notably the image and textbook Imago for the Fallen World. With the poet Aby Kaupang, Cooperman has authored a number of works, most notably the ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities. The two often perform together.

Aby Kaupang is currently serving as the Fort Collins Poet Laureate. She is the author of Disorder, 299.00 (Essay Press,2016), Little "g" God Grows Tired of Me (SpringGun Press, 2013), Absence is such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review,VOLT, Verse, Denver Quarterly, FENCE, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She holds masters degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T203000 UID:5A6D9609-FC37-4168-8E4E-CD78C11D53FB SUMMARY:Weber Book Links Distinguished Literary Arts Advocate Award CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1025 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links 2017 Distinguished Literary Arts Advocate Award is presented annually to an individual, or individuals, whose efforts have enhanced and contributed to the vibrant literary community in Weber County. \N\NWeber Book Links' 2017 Distinguished Literary Arts Advocate Award recipient, Dr. L. Mikel Vause, will accept this award and discuss his passion for the humanities, love for literature, and how these translate into action and change for a better local and global community. He will also share some of his poetry.\N\NDr. L. Mikel Vause is a professor of English Literature at Weber State University and co-founder of The National Undergraduate Conference. Dr. Vause, born and raised in Ogden, Utah has taught and mentored countless students during his tenure at WSU. He has inspired students through his teaching, writing, and exemplary life, which has been dedicated to his family, students, and community. For more than 33 years Dr. Vause has been responsible for bringing some of the best writers to the Ogden community for both The National Undergraduate Literature Conference and the Ogden School Foundation Fall Author Event. His love for literature and the humanities is demonstrated by his level of commitment to make his avocation his vocation and to help spread the way in which words and books change. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Utah Humanities, and Eccles Art Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links 2017 Distinguished Literary Arts Advocate Award is presented annually to an individual, or individuals, whose efforts have enhanced and contributed to the vibrant literary community in Weber County.

Weber Book Links' 2017 Distinguished Literary Arts Advocate Award recipient, Dr. L. Mikel Vause, will accept this award and discuss his passion for the humanities, love for literature, and how these translate into action and change for a better local and global community. He will also share some of his poetry.

Dr. L. Mikel Vause is a professor of English Literature at Weber State University and co-founder of The National Undergraduate Conference. Dr. Vause, born and raised in Ogden, Utah has taught and mentored countless students during his tenure at WSU. He has inspired students through his teaching, writing, and exemplary life, which has been dedicated to his family, students, and community. For more than 33 years Dr. Vause has been responsible for bringing some of the best writers to the Ogden community for both The National Undergraduate Literature Conference and the Ogden School Foundation Fall Author Event. His love for literature and the humanities is demonstrated by his level of commitment to make his avocation his vocation and to help spread the way in which words and books change.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Utah Humanities, and Eccles Art Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000 UID:38D8DEAD-6E4E-47DA-A096-8D40042B1652 SUMMARY:Sylvia Torti Visits Moab as part of the Moab Festival of Science CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1043 DESCRIPTION:The Moab Festival of Science and the Grand County Library present novelist Sylvia Torti. \N\NSet in and around a research laboratory in which two scientists are experimenting on birds to discover the origins of memory and birdsong, Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a complex interweaving of biological, philosophical and mystical themes. Two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts—a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages.\N\NSylvia Torti is the author of The Scorpion’s Tail, winner of the Miguel Marmol Award for first fiction by an American of Latino descent. She holds a Ph.D. in biology and is Research Assistant Professor in biology as well as current Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.\N\NThe Moab Festival of Science work to connect and inspire the citizens of Eastern Utah, particularly youth, with the wonders of science and the joy of scientific discovery. For more info, visit: https://www.facebook.com/moab.scifest/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Moab Festival of Science and the Grand County Library present novelist Sylvia Torti.

Set in and around a research laboratory in which two scientists are experimenting on birds to discover the origins of memory and birdsong, Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a complex interweaving of biological, philosophical and mystical themes. Two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts—a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages.

Sylvia Torti is the author of The Scorpion’s Tail, winner of the Miguel Marmol Award for first fiction by an American of Latino descent. She holds a Ph.D. in biology and is Research Assistant Professor in biology as well as current Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.

The Moab Festival of Science work to connect and inspire the citizens of Eastern Utah, particularly youth, with the wonders of science and the joy of scientific discovery. For more info, visit: https://www.facebook.com/moab.scifest/

This event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000 UID:8F1F44C8-FA1C-4664-8C41-3BD00FF654FD SUMMARY:Salt Lake Community College Welcomes Poet Eduardo Corral CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1045 DESCRIPTION:Salt Lake Community College welcomes award-winning poet Eduardo Corral. This event will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the South City Campus of Salt Lake Community College. \N\NEDUARDO C. CORRAL is the author of Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. During the 2017-18 academic year, he'll be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Salt Lake Community College welcomes award-winning poet Eduardo Corral. This event will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the South City Campus of Salt Lake Community College.

EDUARDO C. CORRAL is the author of Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. During the 2017-18 academic year, he'll be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

This event is made possible with support from Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000 UID:43F9E53E-9E3F-473F-9773-620364D693E5 SUMMARY:15 Bytes Read Local Series Presents Joe Totten and Michael Gills CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1088 DESCRIPTION:The Finch Gallery series pairs emerging local writers with established writers for a reading and discussion of their work. This event will feature Joe Totten and Michael Gills. \N\NJoe Totten is the first place winner of the short story category in the 2016 Utah Original Writing Competition for “The Starling Killers.” A professional writer for more than twenty years, Totten helped create advertising campaigns for companies, including Intel, Microsoft, 3M, Verizon and General Motors, among others. He is currently at work on a novel about the American West, not the one that has been over-mythologized for the past hundred years, but the Real West of greed and crime and casual bloodshed. The novel explores the existential violence and darkness at the heart of the American character--the brutal passions and animosities that churn just beneath the surface of our national psyche. Totten lives in Midway, Utah with his wife. \N\NMichael Gills is author of three collections of short fiction, including The House Across From the Deaf School (Texas Review Press, 2016)l, two novels, including Emergency Instructions, and the visionary memoir White Indians, both published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in 2017 and 2013, respectively. Part two of White Indians is forthcoming. He is Associate Professor/Lecturer of Writing for the Honors College at the University of Utah. Gills’ collected papers are archived at Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.\N\NIntroduction by David G. Pace, literary editor at 15 Bytes.\N\NBooks for sale, courtesy of The King’s English Bookshop.\N\NSponsored by Salt Lake City Arts Council, 15 Bytes, the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Finch Gallery series pairs emerging local writers with established writers for a reading and discussion of their work. This event will feature Joe Totten and Michael Gills.

Joe Totten is the first place winner of the short story category in the 2016 Utah Original Writing Competition for “The Starling Killers.” A professional writer for more than twenty years, Totten helped create advertising campaigns for companies, including Intel, Microsoft, 3M, Verizon and General Motors, among others. He is currently at work on a novel about the American West, not the one that has been over-mythologized for the past hundred years, but the Real West of greed and crime and casual bloodshed. The novel explores the existential violence and darkness at the heart of the American character--the brutal passions and animosities that churn just beneath the surface of our national psyche. Totten lives in Midway, Utah with his wife.

Michael Gills is author of three collections of short fiction, including The House Across From the Deaf School (Texas Review Press, 2016)l, two novels, including Emergency Instructions, and the visionary memoir White Indians, both published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in 2017 and 2013, respectively. Part two of White Indians is forthcoming. He is Associate Professor/Lecturer of Writing for the Honors College at the University of Utah. Gills’ collected papers are archived at Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Introduction by David G. Pace, literary editor at 15 Bytes.

Books for sale, courtesy of The King’s English Bookshop.

Sponsored by Salt Lake City Arts Council, 15 Bytes, the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171021 UID:707567EB-09D0-4FBE-A820-91BFE5E60A91 SUMMARY:Writing Through Grief: A Personal Essay Workshop with Debbie Lehman CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1071 DESCRIPTION:Art Access and the VA Salt Lake City Health System invite all veterans and active duty military personnel to take part in a four-week Veterans Poetry Writing Workshop. Facilitated by Jon Sebba, this series will help participants through discussion of other poetic works and examination of both process and themes. Dates are 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20. Cost: $10. Contact Heather Brown at the VA Medical Center at heather.brown2@va.gov \N\NJon Sebba saw combat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, which left him with: an aversion to killing; a need to explain the truth about combat in the hope that people would reject war as a path to peace; and a compulsion to share with other veterans how one soldier used poetry to battle his trauma demons. He is a retired engineer who leads poetry workshops for veterans in Utah and at a men's prison in Arizona. His collection of war-related poems, Yossi, Yasser, & Other Soldiers, won a publication prize in Utah in 2013. He is working on a second collection titled The Ones They Left Behind. \N\NThis event is mad possible with support from Art Access, VA Salt Lake City Health, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Art Access and the VA Salt Lake City Health System invite all veterans and active duty military personnel to take part in a four-week Veterans Poetry Writing Workshop. Facilitated by Jon Sebba, this series will help participants through discussion of other poetic works and examination of both process and themes. Dates are 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20. Cost: $10. Contact Heather Brown at the VA Medical Center at heather.brown2@va.gov

Jon Sebba saw combat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, which left him with: an aversion to killing; a need to explain the truth about combat in the hope that people would reject war as a path to peace; and a compulsion to share with other veterans how one soldier used poetry to battle his trauma demons. He is a retired engineer who leads poetry workshops for veterans in Utah and at a men's prison in Arizona. His collection of war-related poems, Yossi, Yasser, & Other Soldiers, won a publication prize in Utah in 2013. He is working on a second collection titled The Ones They Left Behind.

This event is mad possible with support from Art Access, VA Salt Lake City Health, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170930T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T153000 UID:423A8337-008A-4119-8CA7-3A9F08B485B1 SUMMARY:Shannon and Dean Hale at the Park City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/933 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Public Library welcomes the inimitable Shannon and Dean Hale along with their new Princess in Black adventure! Who is that masked avenger at the mysterious playdate? \N\NPrincess Magnolia and Princess Sneezewort have plans . . . mysterious plans, like a princess playdate! They dress-up slam! They karaoke jam! They playhouse romp and snack-time stomp! But then a shout from outside Princess Sneezewort’s castle interrupts their fun. It’s a monster trying to eat someone’s kitty! This is a job for the Princess in Black. Yet when the Princess in Black gets there, she finds only a masked stranger and no monster in sight . . . or is there? Action and humor abound in this ode to friendship that proves that when shape-shifting monsters intrude on your plans, two heroes are better than one. \N\NShannon Hale and Dean Hale are the award-winning husband-and-wife team behind the Princess in Black series, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Shannon Hale is also the author of the Newbery Honor Book Princess Academy and the New York Times best-selling series Ever After High. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale live in Salt Lake City, Utah. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Public Library welcomes the inimitable Shannon and Dean Hale along with their new Princess in Black adventure! Who is that masked avenger at the mysterious playdate?

Princess Magnolia and Princess Sneezewort have plans . . . mysterious plans, like a princess playdate! They dress-up slam! They karaoke jam! They playhouse romp and snack-time stomp! But then a shout from outside Princess Sneezewort’s castle interrupts their fun. It’s a monster trying to eat someone’s kitty! This is a job for the Princess in Black. Yet when the Princess in Black gets there, she finds only a masked stranger and no monster in sight . . . or is there? Action and humor abound in this ode to friendship that proves that when shape-shifting monsters intrude on your plans, two heroes are better than one.

Shannon Hale and Dean Hale are the award-winning husband-and-wife team behind the Princess in Black series, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Shannon Hale is also the author of the Newbery Honor Book Princess Academy and the New York Times best-selling series Ever After High. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T210000 UID:9EC22003-8E23-4FFB-961E-7776258C1520 SUMMARY:The King's English Bookshop Welcomes Paisley Rekdal and Dana Levin CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1067 DESCRIPTION:The King’s English hosts poet Dana Levin and essayist, memoirist and brand new Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal.\N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, the hybrid-genre photo-text memoir Intimate, and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye, which was a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize. Her newest book of poems is Imaginary Vessels, and a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam is forthcoming in 2017. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, and 2017), and on National Public Radio among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate.\N\NDana Levin’s new book of poetry is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Sky Burial was noted for 2011 year-end honors by The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, Coldfront, and Library Journal. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King’s English hosts poet Dana Levin and essayist, memoirist and brand new Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, the hybrid-genre photo-text memoir Intimate, and four books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos, Six Girls Without Pants, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope and Animal Eye, which was a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize. Her newest book of poems is Imaginary Vessels, and a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam is forthcoming in 2017. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the 2016 AWP Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, and 2017), and on National Public Radio among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate.

Dana Levin’s new book of poetry is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Sky Burial was noted for 2011 year-end honors by The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, Coldfront, and Library Journal. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171002T210000 UID:4BD7F1D5-412E-4D61-B465-CDE99758F394 SUMMARY:Tyler Whitesides at the Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/929 DESCRIPTION:Join Tyler Whitesides at the library as he talks about the power books have to take you to many places and worlds. He'll share some of his favorite books and tell about his own experiences writing stories. This will be an interactive, fun, exciting night for all ages. A book signing will follow his presentation. \N\NAlthough their enemies are powerful, their allies few, Spencer and his team of Rebels are not giving up! But what chance do a handful of kids and one rescued janitor have against the combined evil of the Founding Witches and the Sweepers? Can the Rebels close the source of all Glop and stop the Toxites once and for all- or is the world doomed to fall under the control of the sinister Bureau of Educational Maintenance? This explosive series finale is a gripping ride through conflicted loyalties and daring escapes, unexpected alliances, and betrayals, and an ending you'll never forget!\N\NTyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories. Tyler attended Utah State University, where he received a Bachelors in Music, specifically, Percussion Performance. While attending the University, Tyler got a part time job at a middle school as a night custodian.\NWandering the halls of the middle school each night sparked the ideas which eventually led to the JANITORS series. Tyler wrote the first draft of JANITORS in 2009, and after connecting with his first agent, Rubin Pfeffer, landed the series at Shadow Mountain Publishing. JANITORS was published in 2011. Over the next five years, the JANITORS series was developed and published, with the fifth and final book hitting shelves in 2015. During the course of the series, Tyler had the opportunity to visit many states, presenting at more than 600 schools across the country. \NHe still enjoys spending time outdoors, fly fishing mountain streams, and exploring nature. He continues to practice percussion, performing in a garbage-can drum quartet aptly called, The Jammin’ Janitors.But most of the time, you’ll find him hard at work on the thing he loves most – writing!\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Tyler Whitesides at the library as he talks about the power books have to take you to many places and worlds. He'll share some of his favorite books and tell about his own experiences writing stories. This will be an interactive, fun, exciting night for all ages. A book signing will follow his presentation. 

Although their enemies are powerful, their allies few, Spencer and his team of Rebels are not giving up! But what chance do a handful of kids and one rescued janitor have against the combined evil of the Founding Witches and the Sweepers? Can the Rebels close the source of all Glop and stop the Toxites once and for all- or is the world doomed to fall under the control of the sinister Bureau of Educational Maintenance? This explosive series finale is a gripping ride through conflicted loyalties and daring escapes, unexpected alliances, and betrayals, and an ending you'll never forget!

Tyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories. Tyler attended Utah State University, where he received a Bachelors in Music, specifically, Percussion Performance. While attending the University, Tyler got a part time job at a middle school as a night custodian.
Wandering the halls of the middle school each night sparked the ideas which eventually led to the JANITORS series. Tyler wrote the first draft of JANITORS in 2009, and after connecting with his first agent, Rubin Pfeffer, landed the series at Shadow Mountain Publishing. JANITORS was published in 2011. Over the next five years, the JANITORS series was developed and published, with the fifth and final book hitting shelves in 2015. During the course of the series, Tyler had the opportunity to visit many states, presenting at more than 600 schools across the country.
He still enjoys spending time outdoors, fly fishing mountain streams, and exploring nature. He continues to practice percussion, performing in a garbage-can drum quartet aptly called, The Jammin’ Janitors.But most of the time, you’ll find him hard at work on the thing he loves most – writing!

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171003T200000 UID:6B6B2E5A-EA1D-427B-B6A4-BE56D8D7DEEA SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Community Writing Workshop CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1056 DESCRIPTION:Rock Canyon Poets are pleased to present a free, multi-session community poetry writing workshop entitled “Inspired.” Facilitators will help participants create new work in response to discussions, writing prompts and exercises. The second half of the workshop will take place on October 16th. For more information, contact rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. \N\NRock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Rock Canyon Poets are pleased to present a free, multi-session community poetry writing workshop entitled “Inspired.” Facilitators will help participants create new work in response to discussions, writing prompts and exercises. The second half of the workshop will take place on October 16th. For more information, contact rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.

This event is made possible with support from Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171003T203000 UID:59E05BA5-70CA-4896-9BEB-776172C4E78F SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Be a Tour Guide Family Night CREATED:20260416T080129Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080129Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1101 DESCRIPTION:Wish you were an expert tour guide like Cedar and her friend Lee in Summerlost? First learn some tips from UVU campus student tour guide NAME, then hone your talents with a variety of activities featuring tongue twisters, memory games, and other listening and speaking exercises. Don’t forget to test your skills by leading your family on our special library tour.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Orem Publi Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Wish you were an expert tour guide like Cedar and her friend Lee in Summerlost? First learn some tips from UVU campus student tour guide NAME, then hone your talents with a variety of activities featuring tongue twisters, memory games, and other listening and speaking exercises. Don’t forget to test your skills by leading your family on our special library tour.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Orem Publi Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171003T210000 UID:9FC803D3-54F0-4EEC-9D32-BA9100E6EFDB SUMMARY:Speed Date with a Book at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1021 DESCRIPTION:Come meet twelve Utah authors and find out about their books and writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format. There'll be refreshments and time to chat and mingle with all the authors.\N\NGuest authors include Josi Kilpack, Dan Allen, Marie Higgins, Joy Spraycar, Jo Schneider, Kathryn E. Jones, Karl Beckstrand, B.A. Simmons, Patricia G. Stevenson, Jodee Steffensen, Melissa Cunningham, and E.D. Poulsen.\N\NVisit http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#utahauthor for more info on all of the authors. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come meet twelve Utah authors and find out about their books and writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format. There'll be refreshments and time to chat and mingle with all the authors.

Guest authors include Josi Kilpack, Dan Allen, Marie Higgins, Joy Spraycar, Jo Schneider, Kathryn E. Jones, Karl Beckstrand, B.A. Simmons, Patricia G. Stevenson, Jodee Steffensen, Melissa Cunningham, and E.D. Poulsen.

Visit http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#utahauthor for more info on all of the authors.

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T203000 UID:3CAB3C8F-4622-4EDD-AFC0-39BCD784B01B SUMMARY:Local Author Panel and Workshops at Southwest Branch CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/987 DESCRIPTION:Are you writing a novel or would like to but don’t know where to start? Join us at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library for workshops with Johnny Worthen and Aaron Yeager who will discuss how to create strong characters and settings, develop plot and story arcs, and how a little research can go a long way, as well as Lisa Dawn MacDonald, who is the Author Liaison, and Marketing and Promotion Director for The Wild Rose Press, a mid-size publisher. \N\NThe library will also host an author panel featuring Judy Baker, Marie Higgins, Mary Martinez, Stanalei Fletcher, Karla Jay and Patricia G. Stevenson. \N\NThis program is made possible with the support of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Are you writing a novel or would like to but don’t know where to start? Join us at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library for workshops with Johnny Worthen and Aaron Yeager who will discuss how to create strong characters and settings, develop plot and story arcs, and how a little research can go a long way, as well as Lisa Dawn MacDonald, who is the Author Liaison, and Marketing and Promotion Director for The Wild Rose Press, a mid-size publisher.

The library will also host an author panel featuring Judy Baker, Marie Higgins, Mary Martinez, Stanalei Fletcher, Karla Jay and Patricia G. Stevenson.

This program is made possible with the support of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000 UID:90B08FFD-8E97-433A-9E07-3AE134C31052 SUMMARY:UMFA Presents an ARTlandish Evening with Hikmet Loe and Robert Smithson CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1001 DESCRIPTION:Art historian Hikmet Loe will discuss her new work on Land Art icon Robert Smithson and his Utah masterpiece Spiral Jetty at the UMFA. Loe’s presentation will be preceded by a special presentation of Smithson’s film Spiral Jetty. This event is part of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts' ARTlandish series. \N\NRobert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece from local materials, one that spirals counterclockwise into the lake and appears or is submerged with fluctuations in the lake's locally red, saline water.\N\NThe Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson's writings for encyclopedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson's many points of reference in creating it. Visitors and armchair travelers, too, will discover how much significance Smithson placed on regional considerations, his immersion in natural history, his passion for travel, and his ability to use diverse mediums to create a cohesive and lasting work of art. Containing some 220 images, most of themin color, with some historical black and whites, The Spiral Jetty Encyclo lets readers explore the construction, connections, and significance of Smithson's 1,500-footlong curl into Great Salt Lake, created, in Smithson's words, of "mud, salt crystals, rocks, water."\N\NHikmet Sidney Loe teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Her work examines the changeable nature of the earth and addresses our perceptual and cultural constructs of the land. She frequently lectures and publishes on topics related to Utah’s earthworks. \N\NThis event is made possible by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Art historian Hikmet Loe will discuss her new work on Land Art icon Robert Smithson and his Utah masterpiece Spiral Jetty at the UMFA. Loe’s presentation will be preceded by a special presentation of Smithson’s film Spiral Jetty. This event is part of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts' ARTlandish series.

Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece from local materials, one that spirals counterclockwise into the lake and appears or is submerged with fluctuations in the lake's locally red, saline water.

The Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson's writings for encyclopedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson's many points of reference in creating it. Visitors and armchair travelers, too, will discover how much significance Smithson placed on regional considerations, his immersion in natural history, his passion for travel, and his ability to use diverse mediums to create a cohesive and lasting work of art. Containing some 220 images, most of themin color, with some historical black and whites, The Spiral Jetty Encyclo lets readers explore the construction, connections, and significance of Smithson's 1,500-footlong curl into Great Salt Lake, created, in Smithson's words, of "mud, salt crystals, rocks, water."

Hikmet Sidney Loe teaches art history at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Her work examines the changeable nature of the earth and addresses our perceptual and cultural constructs of the land. She frequently lectures and publishes on topics related to Utah’s earthworks.

This event is made possible by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000 UID:DE81C990-A449-4914-932E-24D522F1D381 SUMMARY:Ryan Paul & Superhero Comics CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1037 DESCRIPTION:Join Union Station for a program from Ryan D. Paul centered around the evolution of superhero comics and what they teach us about being human.\N\NRyan D. Paul currently works as the Museum Curator for Frontier Homestead State Park Museum and as an adjunct Professor of History and Arts Administration at Southern Utah University. He is working on a book about the employees of the Utah Parks Company, has written five documentary films, authored the 50th Anniversary book of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, lectured across the State as a Utah Humanities Council Road Scholar, and created a number of museum exhibits. He holds a Master’s Degree from Southern Utah University in Arts Administration and a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Mississippi. He is a devotee of all things Elvis, Dr. Who, and DC Comics.\N\NThis event will take place in the Wattis Dumke room.\N\NThis event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from RAMP. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Union Station for a program from Ryan D. Paul centered around the evolution of superhero comics and what they teach us about being human.

Ryan D. Paul currently works as the Museum Curator for Frontier Homestead State Park Museum and as an adjunct Professor of History and Arts Administration at Southern Utah University. He is working on a book about the employees of the Utah Parks Company, has written five documentary films, authored the 50th Anniversary book of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, lectured across the State as a Utah Humanities Council Road Scholar, and created a number of museum exhibits. He holds a Master’s Degree from Southern Utah University in Arts Administration and a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Mississippi. He is a devotee of all things Elvis, Dr. Who, and DC Comics.

This event will take place in the Wattis Dumke room.

This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from RAMP. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000 UID:8C361FFB-B53F-43EE-99ED-127F20D5EA33 SUMMARY:City Art Presents Matthew Minicucci & Gaylord Brewer CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1073 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents Matthew Minicucci and Gaylord Brewer. Minicucci’s is the author of Translation as well as the recently released collection Small Gods from New Issues Press. Brewer’s most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire. \N\NSmall Gods draws from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the natural sciences, mathematics and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate and mourn the mutability of love and the vulnerabilities of attachment.\N\NMatthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods from New Issues Press in 2017. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick Poetry Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others.\N\NGaylord Brewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained.Since food “had been increasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had been asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual memoir took shape.\N\NGaylord Brewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a PhD from Ohio State University. He currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and for twenty-one years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, Spring 2015). He has published 900 poems in journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents Matthew Minicucci and Gaylord Brewer. Minicucci’s is the author of Translation as well as the recently released collection Small Gods from New Issues Press. Brewer’s most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire.

Small Gods draws from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the natural sciences, mathematics and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate and mourn the mutability of love and the vulnerabilities of attachment.

Matthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods from New Issues Press in 2017. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick Poetry Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others.

Gaylord Brewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained.Since food “had been increasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had been asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual memoir took shape.

Gaylord Brewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a PhD from Ohio State University. He currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and for twenty-one years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, Spring 2015). He has published 900 poems in journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature.

This event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171009 UID:D0F9DF68-1183-477F-A4BD-D65F094AA6B6 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1007 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the top writers in the nation.  This year is no exception with Steven Nightingale, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and of course our own David Lee.  For more info or to register, visit: boulderheritage.org. \N\NDon’t forget to make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room. \N\N2017 Faculty\NSteven Nightingale\NNightingale.Alhambra\N Steven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction. The long essay titled Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God, is a 500 page book and it is currently on the NY Times Best Seller list and rated the #1 travel book in the world.\NSteve’s interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation in schools and universities in Nevada and California. His newest book is The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories. Steve is a graduate of Stanford University, and divides his time between the Santa Cruz mountains of California, his beloved home state of Nevada, and the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain.\N\N2017 Faculty:\N\NSteven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction. The long essay titled Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God, is a 500 page book and it is currently on the NY Times Best Seller list and rated the #1 travel book in the world.\NSteve’s interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation in schools and universities in Nevada and California. His newest book is The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories. Steve is a graduate of Stanford University, and divides his time between the Santa Cruz mountains of California, his beloved home state of Nevada, and the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain.\N\NRosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poetry has appeared in O Magazine, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion and on river rocks around town. Her poems have been described as “a deep oasis for all who seek to experience the sacred in every moment.” In 2015, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado’s Western Slope and used the position to launch “Heard of Poets,” an interactive poetry map of Western Colorado poets. She directed the Telluride Writers Guild for 10 years and now co-directs the Talking Gourds Poetry Club. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (twice), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice), was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. Favorite themes in her 10 collections of poetry include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving/failure and daily life. She’s performed and taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Arts, Camp Coca Cola, meditation retreats, 12-step recovery programs, hospice, Deepak Chopra, and many other organizations. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. Favorite one-word mantra: Adjust. www.wordwoman.com\N\N \NLee photo copyDavid Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. Last year his newest book Bluebonnets, Firewheels and Brown-eyed Susans or Poems New and Used from the Bandera Rag and Bone Shop made its first appearance at Cliff Notes Writing Conference. Who knows what this year will bring. We do know you will hear what Dave is up to in Boulder first. Dave assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year for the Cliff Notes Writing Conference and making sure participants have completed our yearly homework. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the top writers in the nation.  This year is no exception with Steven Nightingale, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and of course our own David Lee.  For more info or to register, visit: boulderheritage.org.

Don’t forget to make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room.

2017 Faculty
Steven Nightingale
Nightingale.Alhambra
Steven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction. The long essay titled Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God, is a 500 page book and it is currently on the NY Times Best Seller list and rated the #1 travel book in the world.
Steve’s interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation in schools and universities in Nevada and California. His newest book is The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories. Steve is a graduate of Stanford University, and divides his time between the Santa Cruz mountains of California, his beloved home state of Nevada, and the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain.

2017 Faculty:

Steven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction. The long essay titled Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God, is a 500 page book and it is currently on the NY Times Best Seller list and rated the #1 travel book in the world.
Steve’s interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation in schools and universities in Nevada and California. His newest book is The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories. Steve is a graduate of Stanford University, and divides his time between the Santa Cruz mountains of California, his beloved home state of Nevada, and the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poetry has appeared in O Magazine, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion and on river rocks around town. Her poems have been described as “a deep oasis for all who seek to experience the sacred in every moment.” In 2015, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado’s Western Slope and used the position to launch “Heard of Poets,” an interactive poetry map of Western Colorado poets. She directed the Telluride Writers Guild for 10 years and now co-directs the Talking Gourds Poetry Club. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (twice), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice), was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. Favorite themes in her 10 collections of poetry include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving/failure and daily life. She’s performed and taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Arts, Camp Coca Cola, meditation retreats, 12-step recovery programs, hospice, Deepak Chopra, and many other organizations. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. Favorite one-word mantra: Adjust. www.wordwoman.com


Lee photo copyDavid Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. Last year his newest book Bluebonnets, Firewheels and Brown-eyed Susans or Poems New and Used from the Bandera Rag and Bone Shop made its first appearance at Cliff Notes Writing Conference. Who knows what this year will bring. We do know you will hear what Dave is up to in Boulder first. Dave assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year for the Cliff Notes Writing Conference and making sure participants have completed our yearly homework. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T200000 UID:59343CD8-7651-4D2E-9528-F396DBFA3D15 SUMMARY:Jaquira Diaz at Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/968 DESCRIPTION:Weber State University is pleased to welcome acclaimed essayist Jaquira Diaz on Thursday, October 5th in Room 312 of the Union Building. \N\NBorn in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz is the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose, and recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. She's been awarded fellowships or scholarships from The MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Summer Literary Seminars, the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Best American Essays 2016, Rolling Stone, Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, The Guardian, The FADER, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Salon, Brevity, Ninth Letter, Slice, TriQuarterly, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber State University is pleased to welcome acclaimed essayist Jaquira Diaz on Thursday, October 5th in Room 312 of the Union Building.

Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz is the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose, and recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. She's been awarded fellowships or scholarships from The MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Summer Literary Seminars, the Tin House Summer Writers' Workshop, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Best American Essays 2016, Rolling Stone, Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, The Guardian, The FADER, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, Salon, Brevity, Ninth Letter, Slice, TriQuarterly, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T200000 UID:13A7D833-4D36-4557-AF8E-962FECCAFA72 SUMMARY:The Kiva Koffeehouse Welcomes David Lee CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/998 DESCRIPTION:Join former Utah Poet Laureate, David Lee, at the Kiva Koffeehouse in Escalante for the kickoff of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. This event is free and open to the public. \N\NDavid Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. Last year his newest book Bluebonnets, Firewheels and Brown-eyed Susans or Poems New and Used from the Bandera Rag and Bone Shop made its first appearance at Cliff Notes Writing Conference. Who knows what this year will bring. We do know you will hear what Dave is up to in Boulder first. Dave assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year for the Cliff Notes Writing Conference and making sure participants have completed our yearly homework. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Heritage Foundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join former Utah Poet Laureate, David Lee, at the Kiva Koffeehouse in Escalante for the kickoff of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. This event is free and open to the public.

David Lee is the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. He joins us each year to try new work out on Boulder or to share new publications. Last year his newest book Bluebonnets, Firewheels and Brown-eyed Susans or Poems New and Used from the Bandera Rag and Bone Shop made its first appearance at Cliff Notes Writing Conference. Who knows what this year will bring. We do know you will hear what Dave is up to in Boulder first. Dave assists in identifying and inviting faculty each year for the Cliff Notes Writing Conference and making sure participants have completed our yearly homework. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Heritage Foundation. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T203000 UID:A1A7F1EB-B6CD-4D5B-B8F0-5DC37ED57461 SUMMARY:Artisans Gallery WElcomes Poet Gaylord Brewer CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/964 DESCRIPTION:Artisan’s Gallery, SUU, and Sugarhouse Review host poet Gaylord Brewer on Thursday, October 5th. \N\NGaylord Brewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained. \N\NSince food “had been increasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had been asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual memoir took shape. \N\NGaylord Brewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a PhD from Ohio State University. He currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and for twenty-one years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, Spring 2015). He has published 900 poems in journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artisan's Gallery, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artisan’s Gallery, SUU, and Sugarhouse Review host poet Gaylord Brewer on Thursday, October 5th.

Gaylord Brewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained.

Since food “had been increasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had been asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual memoir took shape.

Gaylord Brewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a PhD from Ohio State University. He currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and for twenty-one years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet's Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire (Stephen F. Austin UP, Spring 2015). He has published 900 poems in journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature.

This event is made possible with support from Artisan's Gallery, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T210000 UID:CAE3CC00-A616-40F1-A001-9F558883A7E4 SUMMARY:Guest Writers Series Presents: David Baker & Philip Schaefer CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/970 DESCRIPTION:The Gust Writers Series welcomes poets Philip Schaefer and David Baker to Finch Lane Gallery on Thursday, October 5th at 7:00 PM. \N\NPhilip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, diode, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.\N\NDavid Baker is author of eleven books of poetry, recently Scavenger Loop (Norton, 2015) and Never-Ending Birds (Norton), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011.  His six prose books include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (Michigan, 2014) and Seek After: Seven Modern Lyric Poets (forthcoming). Among other awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Society of Midland Authors.  He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches frequently in the Warren Wilson MFA program for writers, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Gust Writers Series welcomes poets Philip Schaefer and David Baker to Finch Lane Gallery on Thursday, October 5th at 7:00 PM.

Philip Schaefer’s first collection of poems Bad Summon won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press and will be released Summer 2017. He is the author of three chapbooks, two of which were co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, diode, and Passages North among others. He tends bar in Missoula, MT.

David Baker is author of eleven books of poetry, recently Scavenger Loop (Norton, 2015) and Never-Ending Birds (Norton), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011.  His six prose books include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems (Michigan, 2014) and Seek After: Seven Modern Lyric Poets (forthcoming). Among other awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Society of Midland Authors.  He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches frequently in the Warren Wilson MFA program for writers, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T210000 UID:898D4907-2418-4510-8ABD-2E3731E9D059 SUMMARY:Eileen Hallet Stone at the Layton Heritage Museum CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1032 DESCRIPTION:Historian Eileen Hallet Stone visits the Layton Heritage Museum to discuss her latest book Hidden History of Utah. \N\NIn the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades that followed, Utah became the focal point for many brave settlers yearning for a new way of life. While Utah's proud Mormon legacy is well documented, there are lesser-known stories that contribute to the state's fascinating history. Join public historian, author and history columnist Eileen Hallet Stone for a look into the state's forgotten past as she presents a revelatory collection of tales culled from her popular "Salt Lake Tribune" "Living History" column. From newly freed slaves, early suffragists, desert farmers and union men to railroad kings, cattle barons, influential statesmen and more, this is "Hidden History of Utah."\N\NEileen Hallet Stone is a writer and public historian. She is the author of A Homeland in the West: Utah Jews Remembered and the co-author of Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Heritage Museum of Layton. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Eileen Hallet Stone visits the Layton Heritage Museum to discuss her latest book Hidden History of Utah.

In the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades that followed, Utah became the focal point for many brave settlers yearning for a new way of life. While Utah's proud Mormon legacy is well documented, there are lesser-known stories that contribute to the state's fascinating history. Join public historian, author and history columnist Eileen Hallet Stone for a look into the state's forgotten past as she presents a revelatory collection of tales culled from her popular "Salt Lake Tribune" "Living History" column. From newly freed slaves, early suffragists, desert farmers and union men to railroad kings, cattle barons, influential statesmen and more, this is "Hidden History of Utah."

Eileen Hallet Stone is a writer and public historian. She is the author of A Homeland in the West: Utah Jews Remembered and the co-author of Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Heritage Museum of Layton. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T203000 UID:7DE74E6E-5E5D-4CD2-AEF7-0342E6BF9FC4 SUMMARY:5th Annual Sor Juana Prizes CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1042 DESCRIPTION:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Fifth Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories. This year $100 cash prizes will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah (eight prizes in total), in the following categories: Category I for those whose primary language at home is Spanish and, Category II for those who speak Spanish as a second language. The Sor Juana Prizes are the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish.\N\NFor more info, contact Artes de Mexico en Utah at: www.admin@artesmexut.org\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Fifth Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories. This year $100 cash prizes will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah (eight prizes in total), in the following categories: Category I for those whose primary language at home is Spanish and, Category II for those who speak Spanish as a second language. The Sor Juana Prizes are the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish.

For more info, contact Artes de Mexico en Utah at: www.admin@artesmexut.org

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T210000 UID:65A88A4B-6B70-477D-AD6D-9A7B79BC88F1 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Presents Matthew Kirby CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1060 DESCRIPTION:Writing books for students in middle grades can be tough, but Utah is a hotbed for this kind of literature, and Orem Reads wants to help out. Join them for a workshop on Writing for Middle Grades with Matthew Kirby, an acclaimed author of books for children and young adults. \N\NMatthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and The Quantum League series, the Dark Gravity Sequence, and the Assassin’s Creed series, Last Descendants. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA award for Children’s Literature, and the Judy Lopez Memorial Award, and has been named to the New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing, and the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults lists. He is also a school psychologist, and currently lives in Utah with his wife and three step-kids.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Writing books for students in middle grades can be tough, but Utah is a hotbed for this kind of literature, and Orem Reads wants to help out. Join them for a workshop on Writing for Middle Grades with Matthew Kirby, an acclaimed author of books for children and young adults.

Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and The Quantum League series, the Dark Gravity Sequence, and the Assassin’s Creed series, Last Descendants. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA award for Children’s Literature, and the Judy Lopez Memorial Award, and has been named to the New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing, and the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults lists. He is also a school psychologist, and currently lives in Utah with his wife and three step-kids.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T210000 UID:A1B913CA-3DE4-41AD-A8D8-6AD0743A6252 SUMMARY:The Speak for Yourself Series presents Matthew Minicucci CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1057 DESCRIPTION:The Speak for Yourself series at Enliten Bakery hosts poet Matthew Minicucci, author of Small Gods.\N\NSmall Gods draws from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the natural sciences, mathematics and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate and mourn the mutability of love and the vulnerabilities of attachment.\N\NMatthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods from New Issues Press in 2017. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick Poetry Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Enliten Bakery, Rock Canyon Poets, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Speak for Yourself series at Enliten Bakery hosts poet Matthew Minicucci, author of Small Gods.

Small Gods draws from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the natural sciences, mathematics and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate and mourn the mutability of love and the vulnerabilities of attachment.

Matthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods from New Issues Press in 2017. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick Poetry Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others.

This event is made possible with support from Enliten Bakery, Rock Canyon Poets, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171028 UID:A93EA60F-C529-4D9F-BEA4-CCC1F0A6EAA8 SUMMARY:Archives Month 2017: Destination History CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1078 DESCRIPTION:In honor of the annual Archives Month, the Division of Archives and Records Service will provide exhibits and a series of events around the theme of “Destination History.” For more information visit: www.utaharchivesmonth.org\N\NFriday, October 6, Noon\NCarl Aldrich, a ranger at the Territorial Statehouse State Park, will present “Territorial Statehouse: Utah’s First State Park and Oldest Government Building” at the White Memorial Chapel at the Utah State Capitol (86 E 300 N, SLC, UT 84103).\N\NFriday, October 13, Noon\NDr. Justina Parsons-Bernstein, Heritage and Interpretation Resources Manager, will present “Diamonds of Utah: Celebrating 60 Years of State Parks in Utah” at the White Memorial Chapel at the Utah State Capitol at the White Memorial Chapel.\N\NFriday, October 20, Noon \NCicily Kind, a global specialist on the International Team at the Utah Office of Tourism, will present “The History of Tourism in Utah” at the White Memorial Chapel.\N\NTuesday, October 24, Noon\NHolly Hansen of Family History Expos, Inc., will present “Visualizing Historical Boundaries: Overlay Historical Maps on Google Earth.” This event will be held at NOON at the Utah State Archives. \N\NFriday, October 27, Noon\NDr. Susan S. Rugh, professor of history at Brigham Young University, will present “The Making of Modern Motels in Utah: How to Research the Recent Past." This event will take place at the Utah State Archives (346 South Rio Grande St, SLC, UT 84101).\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In honor of the annual Archives Month, the Division of Archives and Records Service will provide exhibits and a series of events around the theme of “Destination History.” For more information visit: www.utaharchivesmonth.org

Friday, October 6, Noon
Carl Aldrich, a ranger at the Territorial Statehouse State Park, will present “Territorial Statehouse: Utah’s First State Park and Oldest Government Building” at the White Memorial Chapel at the Utah State Capitol (86 E 300 N, SLC, UT 84103).

Friday, October 13, Noon
Dr. Justina Parsons-Bernstein, Heritage and Interpretation Resources Manager, will present “Diamonds of Utah: Celebrating 60 Years of State Parks in Utah” at the White Memorial Chapel at the Utah State Capitol at the White Memorial Chapel.

Friday, October 20, Noon
Cicily Kind, a global specialist on the International Team at the Utah Office of Tourism, will present “The History of Tourism in Utah” at the White Memorial Chapel.

Tuesday, October 24, Noon
Holly Hansen of Family History Expos, Inc., will present “Visualizing Historical Boundaries: Overlay Historical Maps on Google Earth.” This event will be held at NOON at the Utah State Archives.

Friday, October 27, Noon
Dr. Susan S. Rugh, professor of history at Brigham Young University, will present “The Making of Modern Motels in Utah: How to Research the Recent Past." This event will take place at the Utah State Archives (346 South Rio Grande St, SLC, UT 84101).
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T140000 UID:0EB6C35E-E406-4385-8F3D-8FB949956A23 SUMMARY:Hive Mind Book Club with Philip Schaefer & David Baker CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1069 DESCRIPTION:The Hive Mind Book Club presents a discussion with authors David Baker and Philip Schaefer. Schaefer’s collection, Bad Summon, was the 2016 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize winner and Baker was the judge who selected Schaefer’s book.\N\NBad Summon explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss, traveling between death and mountains, romance and rivers. They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret. Bad Summon conjures its own ghost. According to David Baker, the judge who selected the winning manuscript, this is a “surprising, coherent, original collection of lyric poems. I felt peril, heartbreak, catastrophe, sorrow, genuine soulfulness. It’s also funny, yet its humor is not comic but possesses a terrible gravity.” This is a volume every poetry lover will want to explore.\N\NPhilip Schaefer is the author of three chapbooks, two cowritten with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry in 2016. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Guest Writers Series, the Salt Lake City Arts Council and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Hive Mind Book Club presents a discussion with authors David Baker and Philip Schaefer. Schaefer’s collection, Bad Summon, was the 2016 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize winner and Baker was the judge who selected Schaefer’s book.

Bad Summon explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss, traveling between death and mountains, romance and rivers. They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret. Bad Summon conjures its own ghost. According to David Baker, the judge who selected the winning manuscript, this is a “surprising, coherent, original collection of lyric poems. I felt peril, heartbreak, catastrophe, sorrow, genuine soulfulness. It’s also funny, yet its humor is not comic but possesses a terrible gravity.” This is a volume every poetry lover will want to explore.

Philip Schaefer is the author of three chapbooks, two cowritten with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry in 2016. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula.

This event is made possible with support from Guest Writers Series, the Salt Lake City Arts Council and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T220000 UID:B161497E-8AA3-4D5B-BF2B-E879AF706653 SUMMARY:The Bee: True Stories from the Hive CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1065 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling; Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes. \N\NThe theme of the night this time is The Great Outdoors: stories of nature & adventure, wilderness & wild places.\N\NBring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.\N\N6pm Doors. 7pm Stories. $18. General admission seating. 21+\N\NTickets on sale Friday, September 15th @ 10:00am at thebeeslc.org/events/greatoutdoors.\N\NANYONE can put their name in the hat to tell a story. Do YOU have a story to tell? SLC wants to hear it!\N\NWrite to us at thebeeslc@gmail.com to let us know if you've got a story to share and we'll send you some friendly advice for preparing to take the stage and a link to get your tickets before they go on sale to the public.\N\NIf the cost of tickets would prevent you from attending, ask about our volunteer and storyteller scholarship opportunities.\N\NThanks as always to our community supporters, Utah Humanities, KRCL 90.9fm, & Catalyst Magazine.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling; Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.

The theme of the night this time is The Great Outdoors: stories of nature & adventure, wilderness & wild places.

Bring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.

6pm Doors. 7pm Stories. $18. General admission seating. 21+

Tickets on sale Friday, September 15th @ 10:00am at thebeeslc.org/events/greatoutdoors.

ANYONE can put their name in the hat to tell a story. Do YOU have a story to tell? SLC wants to hear it!

Write to us at thebeeslc@gmail.com to let us know if you've got a story to share and we'll send you some friendly advice for preparing to take the stage and a link to get your tickets before they go on sale to the public.

If the cost of tickets would prevent you from attending, ask about our volunteer and storyteller scholarship opportunities.

Thanks as always to our community supporters, Utah Humanities, KRCL 90.9fm, & Catalyst Magazine.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T210000 UID:D52FA716-5F8B-4728-880C-5CA65F9EA7FB SUMMARY:Ian Doescher at the Salt Lake City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/965 DESCRIPTION:Return once more to a galaxy far, far away when Ian Doescher brings his sublime Shakespearean retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars to the Grand County Library.\N\NThe saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.\N\NReimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations--William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.\NDoescher is a Portland native, and lives in Portland with his spouse and two children. He has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is currently the Director of Nonprofit Marketing at Pivot Group LLC, a full service marketing, research and web agency in Portland, Oregon.\N\NThis program is made possible with the support of the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Return once more to a galaxy far, far away when Ian Doescher brings his sublime Shakespearean retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars to the Grand County Library.

The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.

Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations--William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Doescher is a Portland native, and lives in Portland with his spouse and two children. He has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is currently the Director of Nonprofit Marketing at Pivot Group LLC, a full service marketing, research and web agency in Portland, Oregon.

This program is made possible with the support of the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T210000 UID:EA2F1ADB-65A0-4B42-AA60-A73032EAB791 SUMMARY:Poets Erika L. Sanchez and Kaveh Akbar at Ogden Union Station Museum CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/966 DESCRIPTION:Join Union Station for a very special reading and conversation with nationally and critically acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Erika L. Sánchez. This event is free and open to the public.\N\NErika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of a young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017) and the poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017). Her nonfiction has been published in Al Jazeera, Cosmopolitan, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone,Salon, and elsewhere. She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow.\N\NKaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is just out with Alice James Books; he is also the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and is a Visiting Professor of Poetry in the Purdue University MFA program.\N\NThis event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Ogden Union Station Foundation and RAMP. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Union Station for a very special reading and conversation with nationally and critically acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Erika L. Sánchez. This event is free and open to the public.

Erika L. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of a young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017) and the poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017). Her nonfiction has been published in Al Jazeera, Cosmopolitan, ESPN.com, the Guardian, NBC News, Rolling Stone,Salon, and elsewhere. She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She is a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow.

Kaveh Akbar is the founding editor of Divedapper. His poems appear recently in The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, Tin House, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is just out with Alice James Books; he is also the author of the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and is a Visiting Professor of Poetry in the Purdue University MFA program.

This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Ogden Union Station Foundation and RAMP. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T210000 UID:AE7C5D62-A201-4141-8BA3-E7650D7D1921 SUMMARY:Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer at the Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1008 DESCRIPTION:Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will share and discuss her work as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch. \N\NRosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poetry has appeared in O Magazine, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion and on river rocks around town. Her poems have been described as “a deep oasis for all who seek to experience the sacred in every moment.” In 2015, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado’s Western Slope and used the position to launch “Heard of Poets,” an interactive poetry map of Western Colorado poets. She directed the Telluride Writers Guild for 10 years and now co-directs the Talking Gourds Poetry Club. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (twice), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice), was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. Favorite themes in her 10 collections of poetry include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving/failure and daily life. She’s performed and taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Arts, Camp Coca Cola, meditation retreats, 12-step recovery programs, hospice, Deepak Chopra, and many other organizations. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. www.wordwoman.com\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will share and discuss her work as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s poetry has appeared in O Magazine, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion and on river rocks around town. Her poems have been described as “a deep oasis for all who seek to experience the sacred in every moment.” In 2015, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado’s Western Slope and used the position to launch “Heard of Poets,” an interactive poetry map of Western Colorado poets. She directed the Telluride Writers Guild for 10 years and now co-directs the Talking Gourds Poetry Club. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (twice), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice), was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. Favorite themes in her 10 collections of poetry include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving/failure and daily life. She’s performed and taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Arts, Camp Coca Cola, meditation retreats, 12-step recovery programs, hospice, Deepak Chopra, and many other organizations. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. www.wordwoman.com

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T143000 UID:67C40E22-C7F9-40F3-AB46-4B3F89EE7E2C SUMMARY:Tween Author Boot Camp CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1061 DESCRIPTION:The Tween Author Boot Camp returns to St. George! Tween Author Boot Camp is a non-profit event geared to youth ages 9 to 12 years old. It is formatted like a mini writing conference. Tween ABC has classes from the tweens’ favorite  authors, including NY Times bestsellers, door prizes and dinner. There is an optional writing contest and a book signing at the end of the conference. \N\NThe conference will take place at the Gardner Center on the Dixie State University campus. For more information, visit: http://tweenabc.com/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tween Author Boot Camp returns to St. George! Tween Author Boot Camp is a non-profit event geared to youth ages 9 to 12 years old. It is formatted like a mini writing conference. Tween ABC has classes from the tweens’ favorite  authors, including NY Times bestsellers, door prizes and dinner. There is an optional writing contest and a book signing at the end of the conference.

The conference will take place at the Gardner Center on the Dixie State University campus. For more information, visit: http://tweenabc.com/ X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T180000 UID:D873F625-414C-490C-A3D5-1E49D5FB8ED2 SUMMARY:2nd Annual Sci-Fi & Fantasy Day CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1039 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Day, hosted by Weber Book Links. The day will be filled with workshops, contests, and activities culminating in a special appearance from Brandon Mull. For more information and a schedule of events, visit: https://brandonmullogdenvisit.wordpress.com/\N\NWorkshop facilitators will include Patrick Murphy, Kase Johnstun, Ann Bowen, Chris Bodily, Emily Whitby, and Craig Nybol. Visit the website for descriptions of their workshops and for a full schedule of evetns that day.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Ogden High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Day, hosted by Weber Book Links. The day will be filled with workshops, contests, and activities culminating in a special appearance from Brandon Mull. For more information and a schedule of events, visit: https://brandonmullogdenvisit.wordpress.com/

Workshop facilitators will include Patrick Murphy, Kase Johnstun, Ann Bowen, Chris Bodily, Emily Whitby, and Craig Nybol. Visit the website for descriptions of their workshops and for a full schedule of evetns that day.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Ogden High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T173000 UID:3F654794-235F-48D9-9700-5A2E528B20B7 SUMMARY:Brandon Mull at the 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Day CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1023 DESCRIPTION:NY Times bestselling author Brandon Mull will be the keynote presenter at the 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Day. Mull is the author of the acclaimed Fablehaven series as well as The Candy Shop War, and numerous other popluar young adult novels.\N\NBrandon Mull has worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker. For a couple of years, he lived in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, where he learned Spanish and juggling. He currently lives in Utah in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his four children and dog named Buffy. Brandon is the author of the Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. Visit Brandon at BrandonMull.com. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:NY Times bestselling author Brandon Mull will be the keynote presenter at the 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Day. Mull is the author of the acclaimed Fablehaven series as well as The Candy Shop War, and numerous other popluar young adult novels.

Brandon Mull has worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker. For a couple of years, he lived in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, where he learned Spanish and juggling. He currently lives in Utah in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his four children and dog named Buffy. Brandon is the author of the Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. Visit Brandon at BrandonMull.com.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T210000 UID:70BA7F0F-8314-48E6-A73B-5218F115A9F9 SUMMARY:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference Present Steven Nightingale CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1009 DESCRIPTION:NY Times best-selling travel writer Steven Nightingale visits the Boulder Creek Ranch as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. Nightingale’s Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God is currently the #1 travel book in the world. \N\NSteven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction. The long essay titled Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God, is currently on the NY Times Best Seller list and rated the #1 travel book in the world.\N\NSteve’s interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation in schools and universities in Nevada and California. His newest book is The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories. Steve is a graduate of Stanford University, and divides his time between the Santa Cruz mountains of California, his beloved home state of Nevada, and the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Creek Canyon Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:NY Times best-selling travel writer Steven Nightingale visits the Boulder Creek Ranch as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. Nightingale’s Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God is currently the #1 travel book in the world.

Steven Nightingale is the author of ten books: two novels, six books of sonnets, a long essay on the city of Granada, Spain, and a book of short fiction. The long essay titled Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God, is currently on the NY Times Best Seller list and rated the #1 travel book in the world.

Steve’s interests include the medieval art of Spain and Italy, the wild country of the American West and the Caribbean, cooking for his wife and daughter, astronomy, venture capital, and Emily Dickinson, whom he loves. Chief among his pleasures is teaching by invitation in schools and universities in Nevada and California. His newest book is The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace: 64 Stories. Steve is a graduate of Stanford University, and divides his time between the Santa Cruz mountains of California, his beloved home state of Nevada, and the beautiful Albayzin, a barrio in Granada, Spain.

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Creek Canyon Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T210000 UID:2849B3C3-B872-4545-AC87-447FA34155CC SUMMARY:Teen Reads Month Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Nielsen CREATED:20260416T080129Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080129Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1128 DESCRIPTION:Local young-adult fiction author Jennifer A. Nielsen kicks off Teen Reads Month at the Library’s Viridian Event Center on October 7.\N\NAll through the month of October, the County Library invites teens to “Unleash Their Story” by reading, using the library and connecting with other teens at the many programs offered at various County Library branches.\N\NFollowing the discussion, teens are invited to enjoy a Q&A session and book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the event. This event is specifically for teens, but all are welcome to attend.\N\NFor more information about author events, visit slcolibrary.org/authorevents.\NAbout Jennifer A. Nielsen\N\NJennifer A. Nielsen is the author of several bestselling novels for young adults and children, including The False Prince, Mark of the Thief and A Night Divided. Nielsen lives in Northern Utah with her husband, three children and a naughty puppy. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Local young-adult fiction author Jennifer A. Nielsen kicks off Teen Reads Month at the Library’s Viridian Event Center on October 7.

All through the month of October, the County Library invites teens to “Unleash Their Story” by reading, using the library and connecting with other teens at the many programs offered at various County Library branches.

Following the discussion, teens are invited to enjoy a Q&A session and book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the event. This event is specifically for teens, but all are welcome to attend.

For more information about author events, visit slcolibrary.org/authorevents.
About Jennifer A. Nielsen

Jennifer A. Nielsen is the author of several bestselling novels for young adults and children, including The False Prince, Mark of the Thief and A Night Divided. Nielsen lives in Northern Utah with her husband, three children and a naughty puppy. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T130000 UID:AB2559ED-182B-4760-9A49-E4CE52CC2937 SUMMARY:The Annual Friends of the Library Luncheon Featuring Jane Perkins CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1011 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Friends of the Library at their annual luncheon. This year’s guest author is High West Distillery co-founder Jane Perkins, who will discuss her new book The Golden Elixir of the West: Whiskey and the Shaping of America. Tickets are $36 in advance and can be purchased at www.ParkCityLibrary.org/\N\NAn insider's look at the iconic drink and its role in shaping the American West. Distilleries are the new microbreweries, cropping up all over the West and producing brands that emulate the predecessors that were made in copper stills by emigrants and served in saloons and dance halls. This history of the spirit and its origins and migration across the country—and its place in shaping the West—celebrates the story of the golden elixir through first-hand accounts, evocative photographs, and historic cocktail recipes.\N\NJane Prerkins founded High West distillery in 2008 with her husband David. They have lived in Park City since 2004. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Friends of the Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Friends of the Library at their annual luncheon. This year’s guest author is High West Distillery co-founder Jane Perkins, who will discuss her new book The Golden Elixir of the West: Whiskey and the Shaping of America. Tickets are $36 in advance and can be purchased at www.ParkCityLibrary.org/

An insider's look at the iconic drink and its role in shaping the American West. Distilleries are the new microbreweries, cropping up all over the West and producing brands that emulate the predecessors that were made in copper stills by emigrants and served in saloons and dance halls. This history of the spirit and its origins and migration across the country—and its place in shaping the West—celebrates the story of the golden elixir through first-hand accounts, evocative photographs, and historic cocktail recipes.

Jane Prerkins founded High West distillery in 2008 with her husband David. They have lived in Park City since 2004.

This event is made possible with support from Park City Friends of the Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T133000 UID:231E2506-52C9-4298-A243-5F2CCEABB6E4 SUMMARY:Cindy King and Richard Robbins at Artisans Gallery CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1035 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University present poets Cindy King and Richard Robbins. \N\NCindy King’s work has appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, African American Review, Black Warrior Review, American Literary Review, jubilat, Barrow Street, River Styx, and elsewhere. Her poems can also be heard at weekendamerica.publicradio.org and cortlandreview.com. She has received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Workshop and the Agha Shahid Ali Scholarship in Poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University. \N\NRobbins has published six books of poetry, including Body Turn to Rain, and has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University present poets Cindy King and Richard Robbins.

Cindy King’s work has appeared in Callaloo, North American Review, African American Review, Black Warrior Review, American Literary Review, jubilat, Barrow Street, River Styx, and elsewhere. Her poems can also be heard at weekendamerica.publicradio.org and cortlandreview.com. She has received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Workshop and the Agha Shahid Ali Scholarship in Poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University.

Robbins has published six books of poetry, including Body Turn to Rain, and has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000 UID:5C4C0D23-DA34-417D-9D4F-B5154CC3D722 SUMMARY:Screening of the Sandlot and Discussion with James D'Arc CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/963 DESCRIPTION:Why does Hollywood love Utah so much? Come meet film historian and author James D'Arc and learn about the long history of film in Utah. Then stick around for screening of the family favorite The Sandlot, much of which was filmed right in Ogden.\N\NJames D'Arc's When Hollywood Came to Town documents over a century of film in Utah, during which the state played host to scores of Hollywood films, from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Footloose, and Thelma &telling how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. As one Utah rancher memorably said, Hollywood moviemakers "don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but money."\N\NJames V. D'Arc , Ph.D., is Curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive, the BYU Film Music Archive and the Arts and Communications Archive of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University. He directs the BYU Motion Picture Archive Film Series, produces a CD series of original motion picture soundtrack, and appears on DVD documentaries dealing with classic films. For over 30 years, Dr. D'Arc has lectured internationally on motion picture history and has taught film courses at BYU. He lives in Orem, Utah. \N\NThe Sandlot is a 1993 American coming-of-age baseball film co-written and directed by David M. Evans, which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones. The filming locations were in Glendale, Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Why does Hollywood love Utah so much? Come meet film historian and author James D'Arc and learn about the long history of film in Utah. Then stick around for screening of the family favorite The Sandlot, much of which was filmed right in Ogden.

James D'Arc's When Hollywood Came to Town documents over a century of film in Utah, during which the state played host to scores of Hollywood films, from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Footloose, and Thelma &telling how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. As one Utah rancher memorably said, Hollywood moviemakers "don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but money."

James V. D'Arc , Ph.D., is Curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive, the BYU Film Music Archive and the Arts and Communications Archive of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University. He directs the BYU Motion Picture Archive Film Series, produces a CD series of original motion picture soundtrack, and appears on DVD documentaries dealing with classic films. For over 30 years, Dr. D'Arc has lectured internationally on motion picture history and has taught film courses at BYU. He lives in Orem, Utah.

The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming-of-age baseball film co-written and directed by David M. Evans, which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones. The filming locations were in Glendale, Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T203000 UID:D0880421-6F05-4C77-9FAB-E75975040ECF SUMMARY:Lindsay Eagar: Race to the Bottom of the Sea Book Launch Party CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1038 DESCRIPTION:Join children’s author Lindsay Eagar for the launch party of her new book, Race to the Bottom of the Sea! Find out how Fidelia Quail escapes her pirate captors and retrieves treasure lost on the ocean floor. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Race to the Bottom of the Sea from The King's English.\N\NEleven-year-old Fidelia Quail is brainy, briny, and busy. It’s the last day of summer, after all–the last day for Fidelia and her parents, esteemed marine biologists Dr. and Dr. Quail, to tag local sharks before the fish migrate to the tropics for the winter, and the last day of calm before the seasonal gale, the Undertow, wreaks havoc on the ocean. Nothing the Quails can’t handle. But the field study goes terribly wrong when the Undertow strikes early. Dr. and Dr. Quail drown, and Fidelia finds herself landlocked, under the care of a new guardian–her aunt Julia, a timid spinster librarian whose idea of adventure lies in books, not boats. Fidelia is lost in grief, and scared to dip even a toe in the sea, a place that once felt more like home than home.\NFidelia is forced out of her mourning when she’s taken by dangerous, outlawed pirate, Merrick the Monstrous, whose list of treasons stretches longer than a ribbon eel. He was hellbent on kidnapping one of the famous Quails for a marine-related assignment–and since Dr. and Dr. Quail are unavailable, he’ll settle for their daughter. Her task? Retrieve his sunken treasure, lost somewhere on the ocean floor, buried by the Undertow’s tidal shifts and the passing of time, and do it before Merrick’s time is up–his cough is worse than a seagull flying through smog, and his disposition is foul, even for a man who is dying.\N\NBut as Fidelia and the pirates close in on the treasure, she realizes Merrick might have more ties to her family than she thought. And maybe his drive to recover the treasure isn’t pure black-hearted greed. Facing the ocean without her parents is hard enough–can Fidelia piece together the mystery of Merrick’s impending death before it’s too late?\N\NLindsay Eagar is published by Candlewick. Her debut novel, HOUR OF THE BEES, was published to considerable acclaim. Her second novel, RACE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, publishes in 2017 – with more books under contract.\N\NShe lives in the mountains of Utah with her husband and young daughters. She has a BA in English from UVU and is now working towards her BS in History. Lindsay is a classically trained pianist and an un-classically trained rock guitarist. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join children’s author Lindsay Eagar for the launch party of her new book, Race to the Bottom of the Sea! Find out how Fidelia Quail escapes her pirate captors and retrieves treasure lost on the ocean floor. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Race to the Bottom of the Sea from The King's English.

Eleven-year-old Fidelia Quail is brainy, briny, and busy. It’s the last day of summer, after all–the last day for Fidelia and her parents, esteemed marine biologists Dr. and Dr. Quail, to tag local sharks before the fish migrate to the tropics for the winter, and the last day of calm before the seasonal gale, the Undertow, wreaks havoc on the ocean. Nothing the Quails can’t handle. But the field study goes terribly wrong when the Undertow strikes early. Dr. and Dr. Quail drown, and Fidelia finds herself landlocked, under the care of a new guardian–her aunt Julia, a timid spinster librarian whose idea of adventure lies in books, not boats. Fidelia is lost in grief, and scared to dip even a toe in the sea, a place that once felt more like home than home.
Fidelia is forced out of her mourning when she’s taken by dangerous, outlawed pirate, Merrick the Monstrous, whose list of treasons stretches longer than a ribbon eel. He was hellbent on kidnapping one of the famous Quails for a marine-related assignment–and since Dr. and Dr. Quail are unavailable, he’ll settle for their daughter. Her task? Retrieve his sunken treasure, lost somewhere on the ocean floor, buried by the Undertow’s tidal shifts and the passing of time, and do it before Merrick’s time is up–his cough is worse than a seagull flying through smog, and his disposition is foul, even for a man who is dying.

But as Fidelia and the pirates close in on the treasure, she realizes Merrick might have more ties to her family than she thought. And maybe his drive to recover the treasure isn’t pure black-hearted greed. Facing the ocean without her parents is hard enough–can Fidelia piece together the mystery of Merrick’s impending death before it’s too late?

Lindsay Eagar is published by Candlewick. Her debut novel, HOUR OF THE BEES, was published to considerable acclaim. Her second novel, RACE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, publishes in 2017 – with more books under contract.

She lives in the mountains of Utah with her husband and young daughters. She has a BA in English from UVU and is now working towards her BS in History. Lindsay is a classically trained pianist and an un-classically trained rock guitarist. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000 UID:C40B6A62-81A7-4FDE-A6E2-9E6E8A86B158 SUMMARY:Paisley Rekdal: The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/999 DESCRIPTION:As part of their ongoing programming tied to Ken Burn’s new documentary Vietnam, KUED and Salt Lake County Library Services present Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal. Rekdal will discuss hew new nonfiction work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. \N\NThe Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident―in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war―Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations suffered by the Vietnamese and also by American-born veterans over the past decades. She interweaves a narrative about the crime with information collected in interviews, historical examination of the arrival of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s, a critique of portrayals of Vietnam in American popular culture, and discussions of the psychological consequences of trauma. This work allows us to better understand transgenerational and cultural trauma and advances our still complicated struggle to comprehend the war.\N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of the poetry collections A Crash of Rhinos (2000), Six Girls Without Pants (2002), The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (2007), and Imaginary Vessels (2016), as well as the book of essays The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (2000). She has been honored with a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea. Rekdal teaches at the University of Utah. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As part of their ongoing programming tied to Ken Burn’s new documentary Vietnam, KUED and Salt Lake County Library Services present Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal. Rekdal will discuss hew new nonfiction work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.

The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident―in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war―Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations suffered by the Vietnamese and also by American-born veterans over the past decades. She interweaves a narrative about the crime with information collected in interviews, historical examination of the arrival of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s, a critique of portrayals of Vietnam in American popular culture, and discussions of the psychological consequences of trauma. This work allows us to better understand transgenerational and cultural trauma and advances our still complicated struggle to comprehend the war.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of the poetry collections A Crash of Rhinos (2000), Six Girls Without Pants (2002), The Invention of the Kaleidoscope (2007), and Imaginary Vessels (2016), as well as the book of essays The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (2000). She has been honored with a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea. Rekdal teaches at the University of Utah.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T203000 UID:8041D7A8-FC5F-425F-BCBE-08CBA78927F1 SUMMARY:Thriller novelist Gregg Luke at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1018 DESCRIPTION:Author and pharmacist Gregg Luke discusses how his study of medicine influences his writing. Luke is the author of five novels, including Do No Harm and Deadly Undertakings. \N\NGregg Luke is a practicing pharmacist. He received his medical training at the University of Utah. He has been writing since he could put pen to paper. He enjoys medical thrillers and is one of the first to work this genre into the LDS market.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and pharmacist Gregg Luke discusses how his study of medicine influences his writing. Luke is the author of five novels, including Do No Harm and Deadly Undertakings.

Gregg Luke is a practicing pharmacist. He received his medical training at the University of Utah. He has been writing since he could put pen to paper. He enjoys medical thrillers and is one of the first to work this genre into the LDS market.

This event is made possible with the support of Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000 UID:EDC88CAC-4BB9-47EA-9D94-31B0499714D6 SUMMARY:David Lee Returns to the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1046 DESCRIPTION:Former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee returns to the Grand County Library. This event is free and open to the public. \N\NDavid Lee was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Grand County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee returns to the Grand County Library. This event is free and open to the public.

David Lee was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Grand County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T210000 UID:73F3A4BF-F6C7-4087-B948-01EC77628386 SUMMARY:City Art Presents Matthew Minicucci & Gaylord Brewer CREATED:20260416T080128Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080128Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1072 DESCRIPTION:City Art welcomes novelist Sylvia Torti and poet Richard Robbins. \N\NSet in and around a research laboratory in which two scientists are experimenting on birds to discover the origins of memory and birdsong, Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a complex interweaving of biological, philosophical and mystical themes. Two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts—a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages.\N\NSylvia Torti is the author of The Scorpion’s Tail, winner of the Miguel Marmol Award for first fiction by an American of Latino descent. She holds a Ph.D. in biology and is Research Assistant Professor in biology as well as current Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.\N\NRichard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City (Bellday Books, 2009) and Other Americas (Blueroad Press, 2010). He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From 1986-2014, Robbins directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program. Robbins' Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems (Lynx House Press) was published in May of 2017.\N\NThis event is made possibel with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art welcomes novelist Sylvia Torti and poet Richard Robbins.

Set in and around a research laboratory in which two scientists are experimenting on birds to discover the origins of memory and birdsong, Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a complex interweaving of biological, philosophical and mystical themes. Two neurologists are engaged in divergent quests: one to locate the source of memory and the other to study speech patterns in humans by analyzing and manipulating bird vocalization. Both men use experiments on live songbirds in a laboratory on a university campus, and both become romantically intertwined with a woman lab assistant who takes issue with their methods. Overshadowing this trio are significant figures from their individual pasts—a distant mother, a former girlfriend, a best friend and ornithological expert who dies tragically while conducting field research in the Amazon, and a mentor turned lover and nemesis. This is a subtly layered novel rich in natural description and sense of place that grapples with serious philosophical and moral themes, peopled by characters who must confront the emotional truths in their lives in order to be released from their own, individual cages.

Sylvia Torti is the author of The Scorpion’s Tail, winner of the Miguel Marmol Award for first fiction by an American of Latino descent. She holds a Ph.D. in biology and is Research Assistant Professor in biology as well as current Dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.

Richard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City (Bellday Books, 2009) and Other Americas (Blueroad Press, 2010). He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From 1986-2014, Robbins directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program. Robbins' Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems (Lynx House Press) was published in May of 2017.

This event is made possibel with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171014 UID:A5A57620-E492-48A3-9DE4-497773003678 SUMMARY:Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1033 DESCRIPTION:SUU’s conference "Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World" will explore the intersections of contemporary poetry, ecology and technology through readings and workshops by poets and scholars whose work pertains to sustainability and the western region. Co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. For more information and a list of participating authors, visit: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SUU’s conference "Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World" will explore the intersections of contemporary poetry, ecology and technology through readings and workshops by poets and scholars whose work pertains to sustainability and the western region. Co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. For more information and a list of participating authors, visit: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T140000 UID:6B06336D-D8D0-406F-85BC-A3FE9A5A606B SUMMARY:The Convocations Series at Snow College Presents: David Lee CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1031 DESCRIPTION:Convocations at Snow College present Utah’s first Poet Laureate, David Lee. Lee is the author of a dozen collections, most recently Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-eyed Susans, or, Poems New and Used from the Bandera Rag and Bone Shop. \N\NDavid Lee was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Snow College. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Convocations at Snow College present Utah’s first Poet Laureate, David Lee. Lee is the author of a dozen collections, most recently Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-eyed Susans, or, Poems New and Used from the Bandera Rag and Bone Shop.

David Lee was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Snow College. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000 UID:A1F26C3D-B24C-4B7D-B092-976745719EE8 SUMMARY:Novelist Margot Singer at the King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/973 DESCRIPTION:Margot Singer visits the King's English to discuss her new novel, Underground Fugue, which explores intergenerational relationships against the backdrop of terrorist attacks in London.\N\NIt’s April and Esther has left New York for London, partly to escape her buckling marriage, and partly to care for her dying mother; Lonia, Esther’s mother, is haunted by memories of fleeing Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II; Javad, their next-door neighbor and an Iranian neuroscientist, struggles to connect with his college-aged son; and Amir, Javad’s son, is seeking both identity and escape in his illicit exploration of the city’s forbidden spaces.\N\NAs Esther settles into life in London, a friendship develops among them. But when terrorists attack the London transit system in July 2005, someone goes missing, and the chaos that follows both fractures the possibilities for the future, and reveals the deep fault lines of the past.\N\NMargot Singer is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (Melville House, 2017); a collection of short stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and co-editor, with Nicole Walker, of Bending Genre (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), a collection of essays on creative nonfiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Conjunctions, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Sun, and many others. Winner of the 2013 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, she has also received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Carter Prize for the essay, and an honorable mention from the judges of the PEN/Hemingway Award. A graduate of Harvard College nad Oxford University (where she was a Marshall Scholar), she completed her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Utah in 2005. She currently teaches English/Creative Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The King's English Bookshop\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Margot Singer visits the King's English to discuss her new novel, Underground Fugue, which explores intergenerational relationships against the backdrop of terrorist attacks in London.

It’s April and Esther has left New York for London, partly to escape her buckling marriage, and partly to care for her dying mother; Lonia, Esther’s mother, is haunted by memories of fleeing Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II; Javad, their next-door neighbor and an Iranian neuroscientist, struggles to connect with his college-aged son; and Amir, Javad’s son, is seeking both identity and escape in his illicit exploration of the city’s forbidden spaces.

As Esther settles into life in London, a friendship develops among them. But when terrorists attack the London transit system in July 2005, someone goes missing, and the chaos that follows both fractures the possibilities for the future, and reveals the deep fault lines of the past.

Margot Singer is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (Melville House, 2017); a collection of short stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and co-editor, with Nicole Walker, of Bending Genre (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), a collection of essays on creative nonfiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Conjunctions, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Sun, and many others. Winner of the 2013 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, she has also received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Carter Prize for the essay, and an honorable mention from the judges of the PEN/Hemingway Award. A graduate of Harvard College nad Oxford University (where she was a Marshall Scholar), she completed her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Utah in 2005. She currently teaches English/Creative Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The King's English Bookshop
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000 UID:08D546BC-AFE7-4E49-A385-02C88ABC8422 SUMMARY:Helicon West Presents: Jennifer Sinor and Richard Robbins CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1014 DESCRIPTION:Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor joins poet Richard Robbins for the Helicon West series at the Logan Public Library. Sinor released two books in 2017 -- Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe, and the memoir, Ordinary Trauma. Robbins has published widely for decades and has a new and selected collection out this year titled Body Turn to Rain. \N\NJennifer Sinor is the author of three books, including Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir. She is a recipient of the Stipend in American Modernism, as well as the winner of the Donald Murray Prize and the Utah Original Writing Competition for both the novel and book-length nonfiction. Jennifer’s work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as a National Magazine Award. Her essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Fourth Genre, Utne, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Confluences,” can be found in the thirteenth edition of The Norton Reader. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University, where she is a professor of English. She lives with her husband, the poet Michael Sowder, and their two young boys at the foot of the Bear River Range in northern Utah.\N\NRichard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City (Bellday Books, 2009) and Other Americas (Blueroad Press, 2010). He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From 1986-2014, Robbins directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program. Robbins' Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems (Lynx House Press) was published in May of 2017.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor joins poet Richard Robbins for the Helicon West series at the Logan Public Library. Sinor released two books in 2017 -- Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe, and the memoir, Ordinary Trauma. Robbins has published widely for decades and has a new and selected collection out this year titled Body Turn to Rain.

Jennifer Sinor is the author of three books, including Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir. She is a recipient of the Stipend in American Modernism, as well as the winner of the Donald Murray Prize and the Utah Original Writing Competition for both the novel and book-length nonfiction. Jennifer’s work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as a National Magazine Award. Her essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Fourth Genre, Utne, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Confluences,” can be found in the thirteenth edition of The Norton Reader. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University, where she is a professor of English. She lives with her husband, the poet Michael Sowder, and their two young boys at the foot of the Bear River Range in northern Utah.

Richard Robbins grew up in Southern California and Montana. He has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City (Bellday Books, 2009) and Other Americas (Blueroad Press, 2010). He has received awards from The Loft, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From 1986-2014, Robbins directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program. Robbins' Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems (Lynx House Press) was published in May of 2017.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T133000 UID:995BCF52-98EC-4452-96C8-1A87467CD352 SUMMARY:Novelist Margot Singer at Brigham Young University CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1022 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University hosts novelist Margot Singer, who will discuss and share work from her new novel Underground Fugue at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. \N\NMargot is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (Melville House, 2017); a collection of short stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and co-editor, with Nicole Walker, of Bending Genre (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), a collection of essays on creative nonfiction.\N\NHer short stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Conjunctions, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Sun, and many others. Winner of the 2013 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, she has also received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Carter Prize for the essay, and an honorable mention from the judges of the PEN/Hemingway Award.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham Young University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University hosts novelist Margot Singer, who will discuss and share work from her new novel Underground Fugue at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.

Margot is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (Melville House, 2017); a collection of short stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and co-editor, with Nicole Walker, of Bending Genre (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), a collection of essays on creative nonfiction.

Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Conjunctions, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Sun, and many others. Winner of the 2013 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, she has also received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Carter Prize for the essay, and an honorable mention from the judges of the PEN/Hemingway Award.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham Young University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171105 UID:3AB5FC81-E4C5-424C-A598-0AB22D350D84 SUMMARY:Writing Through Grief: A Personal Essay Workshop with Debbie Lehman CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1070 DESCRIPTION:The personal essay is the backbone of contemporary creative nonfiction, and many essays are means of exploring trauma or loss. Such work helps create both empathy and community for those with like experience. Art Access invites those interested in the form to take part in a four-week Writing Through Grief: Personal Essay Writing workshop with Debbie Lehman. Dates are 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, and 11/4. Cost: $30. Contact elise@accessart.org for more details and to register.\N\NWriting as a creative expression, can help guide us toward deeper understanding of the pain and suffering of grief. This workshop is designed to provide a supportive environment in which participants can explore feelings of grief with the end-goal of producing a personal essay. As a class, we'll discuss the many forms and causes of grief, such as divorce, death of a loved one, illness, aging, job loss, empty-nesting, moving etc. The hope would be to create an environment of active engagement and participation— through others, we can all learn about our own writing and ourselves. \N\NThis event is mad possible with support from Art Access and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The personal essay is the backbone of contemporary creative nonfiction, and many essays are means of exploring trauma or loss. Such work helps create both empathy and community for those with like experience. Art Access invites those interested in the form to take part in a four-week Writing Through Grief: Personal Essay Writing workshop with Debbie Lehman. Dates are 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, and 11/4. Cost: $30. Contact elise@accessart.org for more details and to register.

Writing as a creative expression, can help guide us toward deeper understanding of the pain and suffering of grief. This workshop is designed to provide a supportive environment in which participants can explore feelings of grief with the end-goal of producing a personal essay. As a class, we'll discuss the many forms and causes of grief, such as divorce, death of a loved one, illness, aging, job loss, empty-nesting, moving etc. The hope would be to create an environment of active engagement and participation— through others, we can all learn about our own writing and ourselves.

This event is mad possible with support from Art Access and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T190000 UID:105AC832-55A2-482A-8BE7-15434E6DC3CE SUMMARY:Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1026 DESCRIPTION:Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, and spent most of her life on Chicago’s South Side, whose Bronzeville neighborhood she memorialized in her poetry. She was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize, for 'Annie Allen' in 1950. At age 68, Brooks was the first black woman appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Later she served as Poet Laureate of Illinois, personally funding literary awards for young writers and visiting grade schools, colleges, universities, prisons, hospitals, and drug rehabilitation centers\N\NThis reading of Miss Brooks' poems will include students, teachers, writers, and many other community members. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in our Wattis Dumke room. Refreshments will be served.\N\NThis event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RAMP.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, and spent most of her life on Chicago’s South Side, whose Bronzeville neighborhood she memorialized in her poetry. She was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize, for 'Annie Allen' in 1950. At age 68, Brooks was the first black woman appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Later she served as Poet Laureate of Illinois, personally funding literary awards for young writers and visiting grade schools, colleges, universities, prisons, hospitals, and drug rehabilitation centers

This reading of Miss Brooks' poems will include students, teachers, writers, and many other community members. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in our Wattis Dumke room. Refreshments will be served.

This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RAMP.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171015T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171015T160000 UID:ADAC21E4-57EB-4D3C-840C-BF9985233638 SUMMARY:Author /Illustrator Duo Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen at the King's English CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1064 DESCRIPTION:Join author/illustrator duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen for a special storytime featuring their new picture book, The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse.\N\NWhen a woeful mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs, and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out it’s pretty nice in there, with delicious food and elegant table settings, courtesy of the wolf’s unchecked gluttony. And there’s something even better: no more fear of being eaten by a wolf! In fact, life is pretty good, until a hunter shows up. . . . With a nod to traditional fables and a wink to the reader, the award-winning Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen offer a tale of cooperation and creative cuisine that is sure to go down easy.\N\NPlaces in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse from The King's English.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author/illustrator duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen for a special storytime featuring their new picture book, The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse.

When a woeful mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs, and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! Turns out it’s pretty nice in there, with delicious food and elegant table settings, courtesy of the wolf’s unchecked gluttony. And there’s something even better: no more fear of being eaten by a wolf! In fact, life is pretty good, until a hunter shows up. . . . With a nod to traditional fables and a wink to the reader, the award-winning Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen offer a tale of cooperation and creative cuisine that is sure to go down easy.

Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse from The King's English.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171015T200000 UID:93B4B7FA-31C7-49AB-880D-A289756D583E SUMMARY:Acclaimed Author and Illustrator Ashley Wolff at the Treehouse Museum CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/971 DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Treehouse Museum for a special evening with author and illustrator Ashley Wolff for a book launch party for her new book Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear? There will be lots of bear-themed activities for the whole family.\N\NAshley Wolff has been a visual artist since she declared herself one at the age of 5. She grew up in Middlebury, Vermont and holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.\N\NAshley is the author and/or illustrator of over 60 children’s picture books including Baby Bear Sees Blue, Baby Beluga by Raffi, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Philemon Sturges and Bonnie Lass, When Lucy Goes Out Walking, I Call My Grandma Nana, Compost Stew by Mary McKenna Siddals and the beloved Miss Bindergarten Series by Joseph Slate Her books have won numerous state and national awards. \N\NFor 30 years one of Ashley’s favorite pastimes has been traveling to schools all over the US, speaking to children about writing, drawing and using their imaginations to help them find their own paths to the future. \N\NEvery summer Ashley teaches writing and introduction to media in the Children’s Picture Book Writing & Illustration MFA and certificate programs at Hollins University. She lives and works beside a lake in Leicester, VT. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at the Treehouse Museum for a special evening with author and illustrator Ashley Wolff for a book launch party for her new book Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear? There will be lots of bear-themed activities for the whole family.

Ashley Wolff has been a visual artist since she declared herself one at the age of 5. She grew up in Middlebury, Vermont and holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Ashley is the author and/or illustrator of over 60 children’s picture books including Baby Bear Sees Blue, Baby Beluga by Raffi, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Philemon Sturges and Bonnie Lass, When Lucy Goes Out Walking, I Call My Grandma Nana, Compost Stew by Mary McKenna Siddals and the beloved Miss Bindergarten Series by Joseph Slate Her books have won numerous state and national awards.

For 30 years one of Ashley’s favorite pastimes has been traveling to schools all over the US, speaking to children about writing, drawing and using their imaginations to help them find their own paths to the future.

Every summer Ashley teaches writing and introduction to media in the Children’s Picture Book Writing & Illustration MFA and certificate programs at Hollins University. She lives and works beside a lake in Leicester, VT.

This event is made possible with the support of the Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171016T210000 UID:21EF8B3D-E130-4039-8384-7FAD4828C848 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Keynote: Ally Condie CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1019 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Orem Reads finale and a visit from the renowned author of Summerlost, Ally Condie. Summerlost is a poignant exploration of family and tragedy, friendship and healing, all set against the backdrop of a small town’s theatre festival\N\NAlly Condie is the author of the MATCHED Trilogy, a #1 New York Times and international bestseller. MATCHED was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten and named as one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010. The sequels, CROSSED and REACHED, were also critically acclaimed and received starred reviews, and all three books are available in 30+ languages.\N\NShe is the founder of the non-profit WriteOut Foundation, which runs writeoutcamp.org–a writing camp for teens that allows students to work with published authors, experience the outdoors, and enjoy other activities (plays, costume balls, rock climbing, and more).\N\NAlly lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar. Follow Ally on Twitter and Facebook.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the Orem Reads finale and a visit from the renowned author of Summerlost, Ally Condie. Summerlost is a poignant exploration of family and tragedy, friendship and healing, all set against the backdrop of a small town’s theatre festival

Ally Condie is the author of the MATCHED Trilogy, a #1 New York Times and international bestseller. MATCHED was chosen as one of YALSA’s 2011 Teens’ Top Ten and named as one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of 2010. The sequels, CROSSED and REACHED, were also critically acclaimed and received starred reviews, and all three books are available in 30+ languages.

She is the founder of the non-profit WriteOut Foundation, which runs writeoutcamp.org–a writing camp for teens that allows students to work with published authors, experience the outdoors, and enjoy other activities (plays, costume balls, rock climbing, and more).

Ally lives with her husband and four children outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. She loves reading, writing, running, and listening to her husband play guitar. Follow Ally on Twitter and Facebook.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T200000 UID:80092A9C-8480-43D4-9A9D-140E29CEEBF6 SUMMARY:Jennifer Nielsen at the Helper Library CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/934 DESCRIPTION:YA author Jennifer Nielsen will discuss her work at the Helper City Library on Tuesday, October 17th. \N\NFor as far back as Jennifer Nielsen can remember, she has shared her brain with imaginary characters. She figures it’s okay if she talks to them as she’s working on her stories, as long as they don’t start talking back.\N\NJennifer completed her first book in her early 20’s. She told a neighbor she planned to be published one day. The neighbor smiled back like Jennifer had a greater chance of landing on the moon one day. That was understandable. The first book was pretty bad. So was her second. And third. The fourth wasn’t terrible, but by then Jennifer had decided she was writing in the wrong genre. The characters in her head had changed from adult romantic suspense to young adult and children’s fantasy characters. Jennifer had to change her writing too.\N\NJennifer’s debut book was ELLIOT AND THE GOBLIN WAR (Sourcebooks, Oct 2010). That series became known as The Underworld Chronicles. The next series she released was The Ascendance trilogy, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE (Scholastic, Apr 2012). She wrote the sixth book of the Infinity Ring series, BEHIND ENEMY LINES (Scholastic, Nov 2013). Her current series is MARK OF THE THIEF (Scholastic, Feb 2015), with the final book of the trilogy coming in January 2017. She recently released her first historical, A NIGHT DIVIDED (Scholastic, Aug 2015). Her most recent book is the standalone fantasy adventure, THE SCOURGE (Scholastic, Aug 2016).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Helper City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:YA author Jennifer Nielsen will discuss her work at the Helper City Library on Tuesday, October 17th.

For as far back as Jennifer Nielsen can remember, she has shared her brain with imaginary characters. She figures it’s okay if she talks to them as she’s working on her stories, as long as they don’t start talking back.

Jennifer completed her first book in her early 20’s. She told a neighbor she planned to be published one day. The neighbor smiled back like Jennifer had a greater chance of landing on the moon one day. That was understandable. The first book was pretty bad. So was her second. And third. The fourth wasn’t terrible, but by then Jennifer had decided she was writing in the wrong genre. The characters in her head had changed from adult romantic suspense to young adult and children’s fantasy characters. Jennifer had to change her writing too.

Jennifer’s debut book was ELLIOT AND THE GOBLIN WAR (Sourcebooks, Oct 2010). That series became known as The Underworld Chronicles. The next series she released was The Ascendance trilogy, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE (Scholastic, Apr 2012). She wrote the sixth book of the Infinity Ring series, BEHIND ENEMY LINES (Scholastic, Nov 2013). Her current series is MARK OF THE THIEF (Scholastic, Feb 2015), with the final book of the trilogy coming in January 2017. She recently released her first historical, A NIGHT DIVIDED (Scholastic, Aug 2015). Her most recent book is the standalone fantasy adventure, THE SCOURGE (Scholastic, Aug 2016).

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Helper City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T210000 UID:853F53D7-F05F-4FFF-A61A-8C9824CABD04 SUMMARY:A Late Style of Fire: A Feature Documentary Film on Larry Levis CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1000 DESCRIPTION:Join Guest Writers Series and The Utah Film Center for a special screening of A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet. This innovative documentary explores Levis’ childhood working alongside Mexican-American field hands, his three marriages, and friendships with America’s greatest poets, and his own words. Director Michele Poulos will be present for a discussion after the screening.\N\NThe brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a serious life of art? Featuring an original score by Iron and Wine and film excerpts by award-winning Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño, this innovative documentary explores his childhood working alongside Mexican-American field hands, three marriages, friendships with America’s greatest poets, and his own words for answers.\N\NFeatured poets include US Poet Laureate Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate Charles Wright, Carolyn Forché, David St. John, Carol Muske-Dukes, Norman Dubie, Colleen McElroy, Gerald Stern, Stanley Plumly, Kathleen Graber, and more.\N\NMichele Poulos's first feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, had its world premiere at the 2016 Mill Valley Film Festival. The film’s an official selection at six more festivals including the Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival and the Virginia Film Festival. She’s an award-winning poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. She holds a BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA degree in poetry from Arizona State University, and an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. Iris Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Black Laurel, in 2016. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Guest Writers Series and The Utah Film Center for a special screening of A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet. This innovative documentary explores Levis’ childhood working alongside Mexican-American field hands, his three marriages, and friendships with America’s greatest poets, and his own words. Director Michele Poulos will be present for a discussion after the screening.

The brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a serious life of art? Featuring an original score by Iron and Wine and film excerpts by award-winning Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño, this innovative documentary explores his childhood working alongside Mexican-American field hands, three marriages, friendships with America’s greatest poets, and his own words for answers.

Featured poets include US Poet Laureate Philip Levine, US Poet Laureate Charles Wright, Carolyn Forché, David St. John, Carol Muske-Dukes, Norman Dubie, Colleen McElroy, Gerald Stern, Stanley Plumly, Kathleen Graber, and more.

Michele Poulos's first feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, had its world premiere at the 2016 Mill Valley Film Festival. The film’s an official selection at six more festivals including the Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival and the Virginia Film Festival. She’s an award-winning poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. She holds a BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA degree in poetry from Arizona State University, and an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. Iris Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Black Laurel, in 2016. 

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T203000 UID:707961E6-8A0B-4CBB-93AA-F805686E1FD0 SUMMARY:Mystery Author Clair Poulson at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1020 DESCRIPTION:The Brigham City Library welcoms Clair M. Poulson, sho will discuss his life’s work in the criminal justice system, including eight years as the Duchesne County Sheriff, and how those experiences affected his work as an author of crime thrillers. Poulson is the author of three dozen books, the most recent being The Search. \N\NClair Poulson has served for forty years in the criminal justice system. Twenty years were spent in law enforcement, ending his police career with eight years as the Duchesne County Sheriff. For the past twenty years Clair has worked as a justice court judge for Duchesne County. Clair is also a veteran of the US Army where he was a military policeman. He has served on various boards and councils during his professional career, including the Justice Court Board of Judges, Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Utah Judicial Council, Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, an FBI advisory board and others.In addition to his criminal justice work, Clair has farmed and ranched all of his life. He has raised many kinds of animals, but his greatest interest is horses.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Brigham City Library welcoms Clair M. Poulson, sho will discuss his life’s work in the criminal justice system, including eight years as the Duchesne County Sheriff, and how those experiences affected his work as an author of crime thrillers. Poulson is the author of three dozen books, the most recent being The Search.

Clair Poulson has served for forty years in the criminal justice system. Twenty years were spent in law enforcement, ending his police career with eight years as the Duchesne County Sheriff. For the past twenty years Clair has worked as a justice court judge for Duchesne County. Clair is also a veteran of the US Army where he was a military policeman. He has served on various boards and councils during his professional career, including the Justice Court Board of Judges, Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, Utah Judicial Council, Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, an FBI advisory board and others.In addition to his criminal justice work, Clair has farmed and ranched all of his life. He has raised many kinds of animals, but his greatest interest is horses.

This event is made possible with the support of Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T210000 UID:DA876C9B-0B42-47E7-99A5-73EDC11A6E67 SUMMARY:Environmental Historian Mark Fiege at the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1054 DESCRIPTION:Explore the environmental history of the United States and its complex relationship with its national parks when historian Mark Fiege comes to Moab.\N\NMark Fiege is the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University and the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (2012) and Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (1999), which received the Forest History Society's Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award. His article "The Weedy West," published in the Western Historical Quarterly (2005), won several honors, including the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize. Prior to moving to Montana State, he was a founding member of the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University and a participant in its Parks as Portals to Learning, a research and learning program based on environmental history that brings together faculty, students, and resource managers at Rocky Mountain National Park. His current research includes a book on conservation in the national parks.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Explore the environmental history of the United States and its complex relationship with its national parks when historian Mark Fiege comes to Moab.

Mark Fiege is the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University and the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (2012) and Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (1999), which received the Forest History Society's Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award. His article "The Weedy West," published in the Western Historical Quarterly (2005), won several honors, including the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize. Prior to moving to Montana State, he was a founding member of the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University and a participant in its Parks as Portals to Learning, a research and learning program based on environmental history that brings together faculty, students, and resource managers at Rocky Mountain National Park. His current research includes a book on conservation in the national parks.

This event is made possible with support from Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T133000 UID:D1FA90D3-79F0-4EB1-B149-5D7F46802CBB SUMMARY:Guest Writers Series Presents a Lunchtime Colloquium with Michele Poulos CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1063 DESCRIPTION:Join Michele Poulos, director of A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, for a lunchtime colloquium at the Finch Lane Gallery. Poulos will discuss her work on the film as well as her time spent researching Levis and his work. \N\NThe brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a serious life of art? Featuring an original score by Iron and Wine and film excerpts by award-winning Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño, this innovative documentary explores his childhood working alongside Mexican-American field hands, three marriages, friendships with America’s greatest poets, and his own words for answers.\N\NMichele Poulos's first feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, had its world premiere at the 2016 Mill Valley Film Festival. The film’s an official selection at six more festivals including the Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival and the Virginia Film Festival. She’s an award-winning poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. She holds a BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA degree in poetry from Arizona State University, and an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. Iris Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Black Laurel, in 2016. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Michele Poulos, director of A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, for a lunchtime colloquium at the Finch Lane Gallery. Poulos will discuss her work on the film as well as her time spent researching Levis and his work.

The brilliant writing and troubled life of Californian Larry Levis came to an abrupt halt when he died at age 49. Is self-destruction required for a serious life of art? Featuring an original score by Iron and Wine and film excerpts by award-winning Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño, this innovative documentary explores his childhood working alongside Mexican-American field hands, three marriages, friendships with America’s greatest poets, and his own words for answers.

Michele Poulos's first feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, had its world premiere at the 2016 Mill Valley Film Festival. The film’s an official selection at six more festivals including the Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival and the Virginia Film Festival. She’s an award-winning poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. She holds a BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA degree in poetry from Arizona State University, and an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. Iris Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Black Laurel, in 2016. 

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, the Utah Film Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T210000 UID:B3705F2F-13E0-4024-93A2-3A3EC61DDE7C SUMMARY:Environmental Historian Mark Fiege at the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1055 DESCRIPTION:Historian Mark Fiege visits the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter to discuss his book The Republic of Nature as well as his work on national parks in the U.S. and around the world. \N\NThis event is free but registration is required. To register, visit: http://www.swanerecocenter.org/calendar#/?i=2\N\NMark Fiege is the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University and the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (2012) and Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (1999), which received the Forest History Society's Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award. His article "The Weedy West," published in the Western Historical Quarterly (2005), won several honors, including the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize. Prior to moving to Montana State, he was a founding member of the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University and a participant in its Parks as Portals to Learning, a research and learning program based on environmental history that brings together faculty, students, and resource managers at Rocky Mountain National Park. His current research includes a book on conservation in the national parks.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, the Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Mark Fiege visits the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter to discuss his book The Republic of Nature as well as his work on national parks in the U.S. and around the world.

This event is free but registration is required. To register, visit: http://www.swanerecocenter.org/calendar#/?i=2

Mark Fiege is the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies at Montana State University and the author of The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (2012) and Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (1999), which received the Forest History Society's Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award. His article "The Weedy West," published in the Western Historical Quarterly (2005), won several honors, including the American Society for Environmental History's Alice Hamilton Prize. Prior to moving to Montana State, he was a founding member of the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University and a participant in its Parks as Portals to Learning, a research and learning program based on environmental history that brings together faculty, students, and resource managers at Rocky Mountain National Park. His current research includes a book on conservation in the national parks.

This event is made possible with support from Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, the Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T210000 UID:545031F5-2473-46AB-8DE5-F03C837F1041 SUMMARY:City Art Presents Jennifer Sinor and Michael Sowder CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1062 DESCRIPTION:. Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor joins poet and essayist Michael Sowder for the City Art series. \N\NJennifer Sinor's books include the essay collection, Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as the memoir, Ordinary Trauma. She is also the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray’s Diary. Jennifer has many published essays, which, along with her books, can be found in the publications section by clicking the link at the top of the page.\N\NCalled by David Bottoms, “one of our finest spiritual poets,” Michael Sowder, poet and essayist, writes about wilderness, fatherhood, yoga, and spirituality. He is a professor of English and an afilliated professor of religious studies at Utah State University. A long-time meditation teacher and student of the world’s contemplative traditions, Michael Sowder is the founder of the Amrita Yoga Satsang, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring and teaching the contemplative practices of yoga and other wisdom traditions. Amrita Yoga offers a weekly yoga and meditation evening and also teaches meditation and creative writing at retreats, and in schools and jails and prisons.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:. Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor joins poet and essayist Michael Sowder for the City Art series.

Jennifer Sinor's books include the essay collection, Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as the memoir, Ordinary Trauma. She is also the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray’s Diary. Jennifer has many published essays, which, along with her books, can be found in the publications section by clicking the link at the top of the page.

Called by David Bottoms, “one of our finest spiritual poets,” Michael Sowder, poet and essayist, writes about wilderness, fatherhood, yoga, and spirituality. He is a professor of English and an afilliated professor of religious studies at Utah State University. A long-time meditation teacher and student of the world’s contemplative traditions, Michael Sowder is the founder of the Amrita Yoga Satsang, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring and teaching the contemplative practices of yoga and other wisdom traditions. Amrita Yoga offers a weekly yoga and meditation evening and also teaches meditation and creative writing at retreats, and in schools and jails and prisons.

This event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T210000 UID:CB538BE7-427A-4D0F-A857-6B7571629312 SUMMARY:Book & Bridges: Benjamin Park CREATED:20260416T080129Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080129Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1114 DESCRIPTION:Join Books & Bridges for a lecture and discussion led by Benjamin Park, Professor of History at Sam Houston State University on October 18th 6:30-8:00 pm at Weller Book Works on the topic of "Beyond Walden and Nature: Why the Transcendentalists Are Important to American Democracy."\N\NBenjamin Park received degrees from Brigham Young University (BA English and history), the University of Edinburgh (MSc Theology in History), and the University of Cambridge (MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History; PhD History). He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, and is currently an assistant professor of American history at Sam Houston State University.\N\NHis research focuses on the intersection between religion, culture, and democratic thought between the American Revolution and the Civil War, often within an Atlantic context. His scholarship has appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, Journal of American Studies, American Nineteenth-Century History, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Mormon History, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.\N\NThis event is organized by Books & Bridges -- a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Books & Bridges for a lecture and discussion led by Benjamin Park, Professor of History at Sam Houston State University on October 18th 6:30-8:00 pm at Weller Book Works on the topic of "Beyond Walden and Nature: Why the Transcendentalists Are Important to American Democracy."

Benjamin Park received degrees from Brigham Young University (BA English and history), the University of Edinburgh (MSc Theology in History), and the University of Cambridge (MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History; PhD History). He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, and is currently an assistant professor of American history at Sam Houston State University.

His research focuses on the intersection between religion, culture, and democratic thought between the American Revolution and the Civil War, often within an Atlantic context. His scholarship has appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, Journal of American Studies, American Nineteenth-Century History, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Mormon History, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

This event is organized by Books & Bridges -- a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.

This event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T130000 UID:9B3CD321-854C-4EE0-B6C3-BC219623AAE6 SUMMARY:Author and Journalist Maria Hinojosa at Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1036 DESCRIPTION:SUU welcomes Maria Hinojosa, who will discuss her work as a journalist and executive producer of Latino USA, a radio show on National Public Radio. Hinojosa is also the author of two books: Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son, a motherhood memoir; and Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa. This event will take place in Gilbert Great Hall in the Hunter Conference Center.\N\NFor 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America's untold stories and brought to light unsung heroes in America and abroad. In April 2010, Hinojosa launched The Futuro Media Group with the mission to produce multi-platform, community-based journalism that gives critical voice to the voiceless by harnessing the power of independent media to tell stories that are overlooked or under reported by traditional media.\N\NAs the anchor and executive producer of the long-running weekly NPR show Latino USA, and as anchor of the Emmy Award-winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One from WGBH/La Plaza, Hinojosa has informed millions of Americans about the fastest growing group in our country. Previously, a Senior Correspondent for NOW on PBS, and currently, a rotating anchor for Need to Know, Hinojosa has reported hundreds of important stories—from the immigrant work camps in NOLA after Katrina, to teen girl victims of sexual harassment on the job, to Emmy Award-winning stories of the poor in Alabama.\N\NHinojosa has won top honors in American journalism. Latino USA won a Peabody Award in April 2015 for its 2014 episode "Gangs, Murder and Migration in Honduras." Her awards also include four Emmys, the 2012 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club for best documentary for her groundbreaking "Child Brides: Stolen Lives." In 2009, Hinojosa was honored with an AWRT Gracie Award for Individual Achievement as Best TV correspondent. In 2010 she was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, by DePaul University in Chicago, as well as the Sidney Hillman Prize honoring her social and economic justice reporting. In 2012 she additionally received an honorary degree from Simmons College, was named among the top 25 Latinos in Contemporary American Culture by the Huffington Post, and gave the prestigious Ware Lecture. In 2013, Hinojosa taught at DePaul University as the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies program.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SUU welcomes Maria Hinojosa, who will discuss her work as a journalist and executive producer of Latino USA, a radio show on National Public Radio. Hinojosa is also the author of two books: Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son, a motherhood memoir; and Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa. This event will take place in Gilbert Great Hall in the Hunter Conference Center.

For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America's untold stories and brought to light unsung heroes in America and abroad. In April 2010, Hinojosa launched The Futuro Media Group with the mission to produce multi-platform, community-based journalism that gives critical voice to the voiceless by harnessing the power of independent media to tell stories that are overlooked or under reported by traditional media.

As the anchor and executive producer of the long-running weekly NPR show Latino USA, and as anchor of the Emmy Award-winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One from WGBH/La Plaza, Hinojosa has informed millions of Americans about the fastest growing group in our country. Previously, a Senior Correspondent for NOW on PBS, and currently, a rotating anchor for Need to Know, Hinojosa has reported hundreds of important stories—from the immigrant work camps in NOLA after Katrina, to teen girl victims of sexual harassment on the job, to Emmy Award-winning stories of the poor in Alabama.

Hinojosa has won top honors in American journalism. Latino USA won a Peabody Award in April 2015 for its 2014 episode "Gangs, Murder and Migration in Honduras." Her awards also include four Emmys, the 2012 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club for best documentary for her groundbreaking "Child Brides: Stolen Lives." In 2009, Hinojosa was honored with an AWRT Gracie Award for Individual Achievement as Best TV correspondent. In 2010 she was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, by DePaul University in Chicago, as well as the Sidney Hillman Prize honoring her social and economic justice reporting. In 2012 she additionally received an honorary degree from Simmons College, was named among the top 25 Latinos in Contemporary American Culture by the Huffington Post, and gave the prestigious Ware Lecture. In 2013, Hinojosa taught at DePaul University as the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies program.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T210000 UID:FD6D4A8F-2EC5-4862-A171-A4D613935956 SUMMARY:Tanner Lecture on Human Values: Zadie Smith in Conversation with Michael Chabon CREATED:20260416T080124Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080124Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/962 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents authors Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon in conversation on October 19th in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall.\N\NThis event is free and open to the public though tickets are required. Ticketing information will be announced shortly. For more information, visit: http://thc.utah.edu/lectures-programs/human-values/\N\NZadie Smith’s acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book), and two BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards (Best Book/Novel and Best Female Media Newcomer). It was also shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author's Club First Novel Award. \N\NZadie Smith's The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 and 2013 she was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. On Beauty won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and her most recent novel NW was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was named as one of The New York Times ‘10 Best Books of 2012.’ Zadie Smith writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She published one collection of essays, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) and is working on a book of essays entitled Feel Free. Her new novel is Swing Time (November 2016). Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University. \N\NMichael Chabon studied at Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, and has spent most of the past two decades in California, with brief sojourns in Washington State, Florida, and New York State. Random House published his third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Notable Books of 2000 and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize. Chabon’s novella The Final Solution (2004) was awarded the 2005 National Jewish Book Award and also the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review. Michael Chabon recently accepted the position of chairman of the board of directors at the MacDowell Colony. In March 2012 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\N\NMichael Chabon’s novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, became a New York Times bestseller immediately upon publication and was nominated for an Edgar Award; it also won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2008. His most recent novel is Moonglow (2017).\N\NABOUT THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES | Est. 1978\NThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values initiates educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Distinct Tanner Lectures are delivered annually at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California - Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Utah, Yale University, and other educational facilities around the world. Since 2006, we have hosted Isabel Allende, Spike Lee, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Margaret Atwood, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Barry Scheck, among others. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents authors Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon in conversation on October 19th in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall.

This event is free and open to the public though tickets are required. Ticketing information will be announced shortly. For more information, visit: http://thc.utah.edu/lectures-programs/human-values/

Zadie Smith’s acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book), and two BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards (Best Book/Novel and Best Female Media Newcomer). It was also shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Author's Club First Novel Award.

Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man (2002), a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity, won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2003 and 2013 she was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. On Beauty won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction and her most recent novel NW was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was named as one of The New York Times ‘10 Best Books of 2012.’ Zadie Smith writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She published one collection of essays, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009) and is working on a book of essays entitled Feel Free. Her new novel is Swing Time (November 2016). Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University.

Michael Chabon studied at Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, and has spent most of the past two decades in California, with brief sojourns in Washington State, Florida, and New York State. Random House published his third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Notable Books of 2000 and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize. Chabon’s novella The Final Solution (2004) was awarded the 2005 National Jewish Book Award and also the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review. Michael Chabon recently accepted the position of chairman of the board of directors at the MacDowell Colony. In March 2012 he was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Michael Chabon’s novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, became a New York Times bestseller immediately upon publication and was nominated for an Edgar Award; it also won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2008. His most recent novel is Moonglow (2017).

ABOUT THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES | Est. 1978
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values initiates educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Distinct Tanner Lectures are delivered annually at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California - Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Utah, Yale University, and other educational facilities around the world. Since 2006, we have hosted Isabel Allende, Spike Lee, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Margaret Atwood, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Barry Scheck, among others.

This event is made possible with the support of the Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T210000 UID:F480862A-6C1F-43DC-8706-F2273826E13A SUMMARY:Jennifer Sinor at Back of Beyond Books CREATED:20260416T080127Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080127Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1044 DESCRIPTION:Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor discusses her new book on Georgia O’Keefe, Letter Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keefe at Back of Beyond Books. \N\NGeorgia O’Keeffe mistrusted words. She claimed color as her language. Nevertheless, in the course of her long life, the great American painter wrote thousands of letters―more than two thousand survive between her and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, alone. Jennifer Sinor’s Letters Like the Day honors O’Keeffe, her modernist landscapes, and, crucially, the value of letter writing. In the painter’s correspondence, we find an intimacy with words that is all her own. Taking her letters as a touchstone, Sinor experiments with the limits of language using the same aesthetic that drove O’Keeffe’s art. Through magnification, cropping, and juxtaposition―hallmarks of modernism―Sinor explores the larger truths at the center of O’Keeffe’s work: how we see, capture, and create. Letters Like the Day pursues the highest function of art―to take one’s medium to the edge and then push beyond.\N\NJennifer Sinor is the author of three books, including Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir. She is a recipient of the Stipend in American Modernism, as well as the winner of the Donald Murray Prize and the Utah Original Writing Competition for both the novel and book-length nonfiction. Jennifer’s work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as a National Magazine Award. Her essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Fourth Genre, Utne, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Confluences,” can be found in the thirteenth edition of The Norton Reader. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University, where she is a professor of English. She lives with her husband, the poet Michael Sowder, and their two young boys at the foot of the Bear River Range in northern Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Back of Beyond Books and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor discusses her new book on Georgia O’Keefe, Letter Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keefe at Back of Beyond Books.

Georgia O’Keeffe mistrusted words. She claimed color as her language. Nevertheless, in the course of her long life, the great American painter wrote thousands of letters―more than two thousand survive between her and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, alone. Jennifer Sinor’s Letters Like the Day honors O’Keeffe, her modernist landscapes, and, crucially, the value of letter writing. In the painter’s correspondence, we find an intimacy with words that is all her own. Taking her letters as a touchstone, Sinor experiments with the limits of language using the same aesthetic that drove O’Keeffe’s art. Through magnification, cropping, and juxtaposition―hallmarks of modernism―Sinor explores the larger truths at the center of O’Keeffe’s work: how we see, capture, and create. Letters Like the Day pursues the highest function of art―to take one’s medium to the edge and then push beyond.

Jennifer Sinor is the author of three books, including Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir. She is a recipient of the Stipend in American Modernism, as well as the winner of the Donald Murray Prize and the Utah Original Writing Competition for both the novel and book-length nonfiction. Jennifer’s work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as a National Magazine Award. Her essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Fourth Genre, Utne, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Confluences,” can be found in the thirteenth edition of The Norton Reader. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University, where she is a professor of English. She lives with her husband, the poet Michael Sowder, and their two young boys at the foot of the Bear River Range in northern Utah.

This event is made possible with support from Back of Beyond Books and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171020T210000 UID:202A61AE-E958-48BF-B568-C84D5A551671 SUMMARY:Templeton Studios Welcomes Star Coulbrooke and Jan Minich CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1010 DESCRIPTION:Logan Poet Laureate Star Coulbrooke and USU Eastern Professor Emeritus Jan Minich will discuss their and share portions of their new collections, The Spines of Memory and Wild Roses at a special event at Templeton Studios. \N\NStar Coulbrooke, Poet Laureate of Logan City Utah, is co-founder and coordinator of Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series that publishes community broadsides, and Poetry At Three, a local poetry writing group celebrating its twentieth year.\N\NStar’s poems are published nationally in dozens of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press, 2003), with Kenneth W. Brewer, the late former poet laureate of Utah. Her chapbook, Walking the Bear (Outlaw Artists Press 2011), is a tribute to the Bear River. \N\NWild Roses explores the ravishing complexities in the lives of women from the 18th through the 20th centuries, revealing how society’s boundaries did not prevent some women from realizing who they were, or what they wanted. These poems celebrate women pirates, outlaws, based on research, but gently depart from the usual historical accounts, because they seem true to those who embraced lives they chose, not necessarily because they came from difficult family lives, but because they followed adventure and traveled seas and desert roads other women only dreamt about. Jan Minich’s elegant and honest language re-envision not only brings to readers what these women may have felt, but his attention to their emotional lives is enchanting. This book holds many surprises for the reader. It seems his own soul is intertwined with the voices of these women. \N\NJan C. Minich lives in Wellington, Utah, and Bayfield, Wisconsin. Summers he cruises Lake Superior in a small boat, and winters, hikes the canyons of Utah He has a book of poems The Letters of Silver Dollar, and two chapbooks: History of a Drowning (Owl Creek Press) and Wild Roses (Outlaw Artists). His poems have appeared most recently in Verse Wisconsin, Sugarhouse Review, Kestrel, Clover, and Weber: A Contemporary Journal of the American West. Jan is a former wilderness studies and literature professor at the College of Eastern Utah. He holds a PhD from the University of Utah and an MFA from the University of Iowa.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Templeton Studios and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Logan Poet Laureate Star Coulbrooke and USU Eastern Professor Emeritus Jan Minich will discuss their and share portions of their new collections, The Spines of Memory and Wild Roses at a special event at Templeton Studios.

Star Coulbrooke, Poet Laureate of Logan City Utah, is co-founder and coordinator of Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series that publishes community broadsides, and Poetry At Three, a local poetry writing group celebrating its twentieth year.

Star’s poems are published nationally in dozens of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press, 2003), with Kenneth W. Brewer, the late former poet laureate of Utah. Her chapbook, Walking the Bear (Outlaw Artists Press 2011), is a tribute to the Bear River.

Wild Roses explores the ravishing complexities in the lives of women from the 18th through the 20th centuries, revealing how society’s boundaries did not prevent some women from realizing who they were, or what they wanted. These poems celebrate women pirates, outlaws, based on research, but gently depart from the usual historical accounts, because they seem true to those who embraced lives they chose, not necessarily because they came from difficult family lives, but because they followed adventure and traveled seas and desert roads other women only dreamt about. Jan Minich’s elegant and honest language re-envision not only brings to readers what these women may have felt, but his attention to their emotional lives is enchanting. This book holds many surprises for the reader. It seems his own soul is intertwined with the voices of these women.

Jan C. Minich lives in Wellington, Utah, and Bayfield, Wisconsin. Summers he cruises Lake Superior in a small boat, and winters, hikes the canyons of Utah He has a book of poems The Letters of Silver Dollar, and two chapbooks: History of a Drowning (Owl Creek Press) and Wild Roses (Outlaw Artists). His poems have appeared most recently in Verse Wisconsin, Sugarhouse Review, Kestrel, Clover, and Weber: A Contemporary Journal of the American West. Jan is a former wilderness studies and literature professor at the College of Eastern Utah. He holds a PhD from the University of Utah and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

This event is made possible with the support of Templeton Studios and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171023T210000 UID:32DA1AE0-6FB7-48C8-8BBD-9AC05E25253F SUMMARY:Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe Visits Blanding CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1002 DESCRIPTION:Join Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe for a special public event during her series of school visits around San Juan County. Tohe will discuss her work and the writing process. \N\NPoet, writer, and librettist Laura Tohe grew up near the Chuska Mountains on the eastern border of the Diné/Navajo homeland in New Mexico. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and her MA and PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Her work has been published in the journals Ploughshares, New Letters, Red Ink, World Literature Today, and many others. \N\NThe Moving Company in Omaha, Nebraska translated her chapbook of poetry, Making Friends with Water, into modern dance and music. Tohe wrote the commissioned libretto for Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio for the Phoenix Symphony's world premiere in February 2008 and is a soundtrack recording on the Naxos classical music label. Her book No Parole Today (1999) was named Poetry Book of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers. Tseyi, Deep in the Rock (2005),a collaboration of poetry and photography by Stephen Strom, received the Arizona Book Association's Glyph Award for Best Poetry and Best Book. Tohe also coedited Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community (2002) with Heid E. Erdrich. Her other awards include the Dan Schilling Public Scholar Award by the Arizona Humanities.\N\NTohe’s most recent publication is Code Talker Stories (2012), an oral history of the Navajo Code Talkers. She teaches at Arizona State University and currently lives in Mesa, Arizona. In August 2015, she was named the Navajo Nation's second poet laureate.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the M.T. Hurst Foundation and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe for a special public event during her series of school visits around San Juan County. Tohe will discuss her work and the writing process.

Poet, writer, and librettist Laura Tohe grew up near the Chuska Mountains on the eastern border of the Diné/Navajo homeland in New Mexico. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico and her MA and PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Her work has been published in the journals Ploughshares, New Letters, Red Ink, World Literature Today, and many others.

The Moving Company in Omaha, Nebraska translated her chapbook of poetry, Making Friends with Water, into modern dance and music. Tohe wrote the commissioned libretto for Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio for the Phoenix Symphony's world premiere in February 2008 and is a soundtrack recording on the Naxos classical music label. Her book No Parole Today (1999) was named Poetry Book of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers. Tseyi, Deep in the Rock (2005),a collaboration of poetry and photography by Stephen Strom, received the Arizona Book Association's Glyph Award for Best Poetry and Best Book. Tohe also coedited Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community (2002) with Heid E. Erdrich. Her other awards include the Dan Schilling Public Scholar Award by the Arizona Humanities.

Tohe’s most recent publication is Code Talker Stories (2012), an oral history of the Navajo Code Talkers. She teaches at Arizona State University and currently lives in Mesa, Arizona. In August 2015, she was named the Navajo Nation's second poet laureate.

This event is made possible with support from the M.T. Hurst Foundation and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T203000 UID:B05CE832-F3DE-4C98-A9E3-A477F1E01AF6 SUMMARY:Plotting for Pantsers with Joy Spraycar at the Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1016 DESCRIPTION:Tired of writing in circles or flying by the seat of your pants when you write? Join author Joy Spraycar for “Plotting for Pantsers,” a discussion to help get through those obstacles and get a firm grip on the goals, motivations, and more in your work. \N\NPantsers often spend more time "writing in circles" or doing massive rewrites. Joy Spraycar offers a way for Pantsers to ask themselves just enough questions to help them get a firm grip on the Goals, Motivations, Conflicts, Characterizations, Settings, and Main Plot Points. These questions help them write a first draft more quickly and one that requires less rewrites, all while keeping the excitement of discovery that Panters love alive.\N\NJoy Spraycar is an Award-Winning, Best- Selling author of Gothic, Paranormal, Post-Apocalyptic, and Urban Fantasy Novels. Her First Novel, Quicksilver Won the Bronze Medal from the League of Utah Writers and the Golden Quill for best first book from the Texas Desert Rose Contest of Romance Writers of America. Tawny’s Ghost also won the Golden Pen from Heart of the West Contest of Romance Writers of America. She was also voted top Novelist in 2010 for Phantom Wolves.\N\NShe is Past President of Utah Romance Writers of America chapter and has served on that board since 2010. She got her first taste of publishing in 7th Grade when her horror story was published in the National Scholastic Magazine. She has written all her life, but didn’t start publishing until 2009.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Tired of writing in circles or flying by the seat of your pants when you write? Join author Joy Spraycar for “Plotting for Pantsers,” a discussion to help get through those obstacles and get a firm grip on the goals, motivations, and more in your work.

Pantsers often spend more time "writing in circles" or doing massive rewrites. Joy Spraycar offers a way for Pantsers to ask themselves just enough questions to help them get a firm grip on the Goals, Motivations, Conflicts, Characterizations, Settings, and Main Plot Points. These questions help them write a first draft more quickly and one that requires less rewrites, all while keeping the excitement of discovery that Panters love alive.

Joy Spraycar is an Award-Winning, Best- Selling author of Gothic, Paranormal, Post-Apocalyptic, and Urban Fantasy Novels. Her First Novel, Quicksilver Won the Bronze Medal from the League of Utah Writers and the Golden Quill for best first book from the Texas Desert Rose Contest of Romance Writers of America. Tawny’s Ghost also won the Golden Pen from Heart of the West Contest of Romance Writers of America. She was also voted top Novelist in 2010 for Phantom Wolves.

She is Past President of Utah Romance Writers of America chapter and has served on that board since 2010. She got her first taste of publishing in 7th Grade when her horror story was published in the National Scholastic Magazine. She has written all her life, but didn’t start publishing until 2009.

This event is made possible with the support of Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T150000 UID:DDEBF6D7-77F4-4872-A076-8E69839F06C6 SUMMARY:Edge of Morning: Luci Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, Heid Erdrich & Jacqueline Keeler at UVU CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1005 DESCRIPTION:Utah Valley University welcomes Jacqueline Keeler, Luci Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, and Heid Erdrich, contributors to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears. These four authors will discuss their work in the book and the issues surrounding access and autonomy for Native Americans in Utah’s newest monument. This event will take place in the Fulton Library Auditorium and is free and open to the public.\N\NIn 2013, Luci Tapahonso was named the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry, including A Radiant Curve, which was awarded the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. Tapahonso received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and a Spirit of the Eagle Leadership Award for her key role in establishing the Indigenous Studies Graduate Studies Program at the University of Kansas. The Native Writers Circle of the Americas named Tapahonso the 1999 Storyteller of the Year.\N\NJacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (creators of the hashtag #NotYourMascot). She is finishing a collection of essays called Not Your Disappearing Indian and is the editor for Torrey House Press' anthology on preserving sacred lands titled Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.\N\NLyle Balenquah, Hopi, is a member of the Greasewood clan from the Village of Bacavi (Reed Springs) on Third Mesa.For over 10 years he has worked throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as an archaeologist documenting ancestral Hopi settlements and their lifeways. Currently he works as an independent consultant but his work experience includes time with the National Park Service, The Hopi Tribe, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He also works as a part-time river guide on the San Juan River and other rivers in the Southwest, combining his professional knowledge and training with personal insights about his ancestral history to provide a unique forum of public education. As a member with Lore of the Land, he will focus on producing programs that highlight his experiences, and the experience of others who live, work and rejuvenate among the deserts, mountains and watersheds of the Southwest.\N\NHeid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry including her BRAND NEW Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media from Michigan State University Press. Her recent non-fiction work is Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes. Heid’s writing has won numerous awards as have her collaborative poem films, which you can see on her Vimeo channel. Her virtual gallery is www.agencyapophany.com Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Utah Valley University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Valley University welcomes Jacqueline Keeler, Luci Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, and Heid Erdrich, contributors to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears. These four authors will discuss their work in the book and the issues surrounding access and autonomy for Native Americans in Utah’s newest monument. This event will take place in the Fulton Library Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

In 2013, Luci Tapahonso was named the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry, including A Radiant Curve, which was awarded the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. Tapahonso received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and a Spirit of the Eagle Leadership Award for her key role in establishing the Indigenous Studies Graduate Studies Program at the University of Kansas. The Native Writers Circle of the Americas named Tapahonso the 1999 Storyteller of the Year.

Jacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (creators of the hashtag #NotYourMascot). She is finishing a collection of essays called Not Your Disappearing Indian and is the editor for Torrey House Press' anthology on preserving sacred lands titled Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.

Lyle Balenquah, Hopi, is a member of the Greasewood clan from the Village of Bacavi (Reed Springs) on Third Mesa.For over 10 years he has worked throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as an archaeologist documenting ancestral Hopi settlements and their lifeways. Currently he works as an independent consultant but his work experience includes time with the National Park Service, The Hopi Tribe, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He also works as a part-time river guide on the San Juan River and other rivers in the Southwest, combining his professional knowledge and training with personal insights about his ancestral history to provide a unique forum of public education. As a member with Lore of the Land, he will focus on producing programs that highlight his experiences, and the experience of others who live, work and rejuvenate among the deserts, mountains and watersheds of the Southwest.

Heid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry including her BRAND NEW Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media from Michigan State University Press. Her recent non-fiction work is Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes. Heid’s writing has won numerous awards as have her collaborative poem films, which you can see on her Vimeo channel. Her virtual gallery is www.agencyapophany.com Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Utah Valley University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000 UID:D9C29F54-90AF-4276-ADAB-E57DB7966709 SUMMARY:City Art Presents Jonathan Travelstead and Kathline Carr CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1006 DESCRIPTION:October 25, 7:00 PM. 4th Floor Conference Room, The City Library. Poet Jonathan Travelstead returns to City Art where he will be joined by author and visual artist Kathline Carr. Travelstead’s Conflict Tours was released in 2017 by Cobalt Press and Carr’s debut collection, the hybrid text Miraculum Monstrum, is out shortly from Red Hen Press. \N\NConflict Tours...chronicles a narrative journey through external landscapes shaken by catastrophe and social turmoil and internal landscapes threaded with amphetamines and loneliness. From the United States/Mexican border to the nuclear reactors in Chernobyl, and from the Appalachian Trail to Kroger's discounted meat cooler, each poem maps a balance between the visceral and the vulnerable. This collection offers an unflinching inward gaze coupled with the reminder that it is "time and nearness...that makes us forget what is dangerous." -- Lesley Brower\N\NJonathan Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to the salt flats of Bolivia. He has published work in The Iowa Review, on Poetrydaily.com, and has work forthcoming in The Crab Orchard Review, among others. He is the author of How We Bury Our Dead and a new collection, Conflict Tours.\N\NMiraculum Monstrum is a hybrid narrative about fictitious female artist Tristia Vogel, who experiences a radical physical transformation, beginning with the excrescence of apparent wings. Though her affliction is possibly an anomalous mutation resulting from worldwide ecological upheaval, the bird/woman is co-opted by a religious cult and written as the central figure of their scriptural text. Miraculum Monstrum contains fragmentary verse, scraps of lore, cult propaganda, curatorial commentary and images in a catalog for an exhibit of Vogel's visual artifacts and writings that chronicle this speculative history.\N\NKathline Carr was born in 1966 and raised primarily in New England. After having a family and living in seclusion at the base of Gallows Hill in Connecticut, Carr earned her BFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in visual art and feminist philosophy from Goddard College, VT and an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She is the recipient of the 2015 Clarissa Dalloway “Everything but Poetry” Book Prize from AROHO Foundation, and her writing/art has appeared in Yew Journal, Entropy, Calyx, Earth’s Daughters, Hawaii Review, CT Review, Alexandria Quarterly and elsewhere; she has exhibited her visual work in the Berkshires, Provincetown, NYC, Boston, and Toronto. Carr lives in North Adams, Massachusetts, with her husband and sometimes-collaborator, figurative painter Jim Peters, and her youngest daughter Mercedes.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:October 25, 7:00 PM. 4th Floor Conference Room, The City Library. Poet Jonathan Travelstead returns to City Art where he will be joined by author and visual artist Kathline Carr. Travelstead’s Conflict Tours was released in 2017 by Cobalt Press and Carr’s debut collection, the hybrid text Miraculum Monstrum, is out shortly from Red Hen Press.

Conflict Tours...chronicles a narrative journey through external landscapes shaken by catastrophe and social turmoil and internal landscapes threaded with amphetamines and loneliness. From the United States/Mexican border to the nuclear reactors in Chernobyl, and from the Appalachian Trail to Kroger's discounted meat cooler, each poem maps a balance between the visceral and the vulnerable. This collection offers an unflinching inward gaze coupled with the reminder that it is "time and nearness...that makes us forget what is dangerous." -- Lesley Brower

Jonathan Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to the salt flats of Bolivia. He has published work in The Iowa Review, on Poetrydaily.com, and has work forthcoming in The Crab Orchard Review, among others. He is the author of How We Bury Our Dead and a new collection, Conflict Tours.

Miraculum Monstrum is a hybrid narrative about fictitious female artist Tristia Vogel, who experiences a radical physical transformation, beginning with the excrescence of apparent wings. Though her affliction is possibly an anomalous mutation resulting from worldwide ecological upheaval, the bird/woman is co-opted by a religious cult and written as the central figure of their scriptural text. Miraculum Monstrum contains fragmentary verse, scraps of lore, cult propaganda, curatorial commentary and images in a catalog for an exhibit of Vogel's visual artifacts and writings that chronicle this speculative history.

Kathline Carr was born in 1966 and raised primarily in New England. After having a family and living in seclusion at the base of Gallows Hill in Connecticut, Carr earned her BFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in visual art and feminist philosophy from Goddard College, VT and an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She is the recipient of the 2015 Clarissa Dalloway “Everything but Poetry” Book Prize from AROHO Foundation, and her writing/art has appeared in Yew Journal, Entropy, Calyx, Earth’s Daughters, Hawaii Review, CT Review, Alexandria Quarterly and elsewhere; she has exhibited her visual work in the Berkshires, Provincetown, NYC, Boston, and Toronto. Carr lives in North Adams, Massachusetts, with her husband and sometimes-collaborator, figurative painter Jim Peters, and her youngest daughter Mercedes.

This event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T183000 UID:24DC8A25-C0E8-4988-A5D1-915E0550D382 SUMMARY:Edge of Morning: Luci Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, Heid Erdrich & Jacqueline Keeler in Cedar City CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1004 DESCRIPTION:Contributors to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears will take part in a panel on Native American roles in public lands in the Gilbert Great Hall at Southern Utah University. Panelists include Jacqueline Keeler, Luci Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, and Heid Erdrich. \N\NIn 2013, Luci Tapahonso was named the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry, including A Radiant Curve, which was awarded the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. Tapahonso received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and a Spirit of the Eagle Leadership Award for her key role in establishing the Indigenous Studies Graduate Studies Program at the University of Kansas. The Native Writers Circle of the Americas named Tapahonso the 1999 Storyteller of the Year.\N\NJacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (creators of the hashtag #NotYourMascot). She is finishing a collection of essays called Not Your Disappearing Indian and is the editor for Torrey House Press' anthology on preserving sacred lands titled Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.\N\NLyle Balenquah, Hopi, is a member of the Greasewood clan from the Village of Bacavi (Reed Springs) on Third Mesa.For over 10 years he has worked throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as an archaeologist documenting ancestral Hopi settlements and their lifeways. Currently he works as an independent consultant but his work experience includes time with the National Park Service, The Hopi Tribe, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He also works as a part-time river guide on the San Juan River and other rivers in the Southwest, combining his professional knowledge and training with personal insights about his ancestral history to provide a unique forum of public education. As a member with Lore of the Land, he will focus on producing programs that highlight his experiences, and the experience of others who live, work and rejuvenate among the deserts, mountains and watersheds of the Southwest.\N\NHeid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry including her BRAND NEW Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media from Michigan State University Press. Her recent non-fiction work is Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes. Heid’s writing has won numerous awards as have her collaborative poem films, which you can see on her Vimeo channel. Her virtual gallery is www.agencyapophany.com Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Contributors to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears will take part in a panel on Native American roles in public lands in the Gilbert Great Hall at Southern Utah University. Panelists include Jacqueline Keeler, Luci Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, and Heid Erdrich.

In 2013, Luci Tapahonso was named the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry, including A Radiant Curve, which was awarded the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. Tapahonso received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and a Spirit of the Eagle Leadership Award for her key role in establishing the Indigenous Studies Graduate Studies Program at the University of Kansas. The Native Writers Circle of the Americas named Tapahonso the 1999 Storyteller of the Year.

Jacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (creators of the hashtag #NotYourMascot). She is finishing a collection of essays called Not Your Disappearing Indian and is the editor for Torrey House Press' anthology on preserving sacred lands titled Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.

Lyle Balenquah, Hopi, is a member of the Greasewood clan from the Village of Bacavi (Reed Springs) on Third Mesa.For over 10 years he has worked throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as an archaeologist documenting ancestral Hopi settlements and their lifeways. Currently he works as an independent consultant but his work experience includes time with the National Park Service, The Hopi Tribe, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He also works as a part-time river guide on the San Juan River and other rivers in the Southwest, combining his professional knowledge and training with personal insights about his ancestral history to provide a unique forum of public education. As a member with Lore of the Land, he will focus on producing programs that highlight his experiences, and the experience of others who live, work and rejuvenate among the deserts, mountains and watersheds of the Southwest.

Heid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry including her BRAND NEW Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media from Michigan State University Press. Her recent non-fiction work is Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes. Heid’s writing has won numerous awards as have her collaborative poem films, which you can see on her Vimeo channel. Her virtual gallery is www.agencyapophany.com Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000 UID:785DFB7C-E678-4998-9F49-677662A6C54F SUMMARY:Ghost Legends of Utah with Cherie Davis CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/974 DESCRIPTION:Join professional storyteller, Cherie Davis, as she brings to life terrifying tales of haunted locations around Utah.  Young and old alike will be enthralled by Cherie’s spine tingling accounts of unexplained phenomenon.  Her new book, Spooks and Saints, Intriguing Ghost Legends of Salt Lake City, Utah will be available for purchase.  \N\N Do you believe in Ghosts? How about Spirits? You do not have to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story. Spooks and Saints is a book about some of the many intriguing ghost legends that have arisen in Salt Lake City, Utah.\N\NWell known across the globe for the "Saints" that live here, Salt Lake also is home to people of varied backgrounds as well as some "Spooks." These are their stories.\N\NWhile working with StoryTours of Salt Lake City Cherie, along with StoryTours founder Kristen Clay and others, started to research the ghostly tales of Salt Lake City. Although not originally a believer in ghosts, she did believe in life after death and a spirit world. She relates a quote from Kathryn Windham, "You don't have to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story". With that, after listening to others relate their experiences as well as hearing about the eerie encounters of her friends, her mind started to accept the posibility of ghosts. She was suprised at the number of tales related to her. It seemed every year more and more people would come forward with ghost stories.\N\NSoon there were more stories than could be shared in a tour ... or even four tours. It was decided that the best way to keep track of all the stories and to share them with others would be to publish a book. With the help of other storytellers some of the favorite stories as well as some new ghost tales have been published as Spooks and Saints.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber County Library, and Weber Book Links. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join professional storyteller, Cherie Davis, as she brings to life terrifying tales of haunted locations around Utah.  Young and old alike will be enthralled by Cherie’s spine tingling accounts of unexplained phenomenon.  Her new book, Spooks and Saints, Intriguing Ghost Legends of Salt Lake City, Utah will be available for purchase. 

Do you believe in Ghosts? How about Spirits? You do not have to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story. Spooks and Saints is a book about some of the many intriguing ghost legends that have arisen in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Well known across the globe for the "Saints" that live here, Salt Lake also is home to people of varied backgrounds as well as some "Spooks." These are their stories.

While working with StoryTours of Salt Lake City Cherie, along with StoryTours founder Kristen Clay and others, started to research the ghostly tales of Salt Lake City. Although not originally a believer in ghosts, she did believe in life after death and a spirit world. She relates a quote from Kathryn Windham, "You don't have to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story". With that, after listening to others relate their experiences as well as hearing about the eerie encounters of her friends, her mind started to accept the posibility of ghosts. She was suprised at the number of tales related to her. It seemed every year more and more people would come forward with ghost stories.

Soon there were more stories than could be shared in a tour ... or even four tours. It was decided that the best way to keep track of all the stories and to share them with others would be to publish a book. With the help of other storytellers some of the favorite stories as well as some new ghost tales have been published as Spooks and Saints.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber County Library, and Weber Book Links.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000 UID:52F013A0-D8CC-4C8D-BF3F-FDC1E9EC4819 SUMMARY:Lisa Bickmore and Lia Purpura at Westminster College CREATED:20260416T080125Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080125Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/991 DESCRIPTION:Westminster College hosts poets Lisa Bickmore and Lia Purpura on October 26th in the Gore Business School Auditorium. This event is part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. \N\NLisa Bickmore is the author of three books of poems as well as video work. Among her honors are the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015, and the 2014 Antivenom Prize for her second book, flicker. Her third book, Ephemerist, is out this year. She is professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center.\N\NLia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently a collection of poems, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful. Her book of essays, On Looking, was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her awards include Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Fellowships. She is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster College hosts poets Lisa Bickmore and Lia Purpura on October 26th in the Gore Business School Auditorium. This event is part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series.

Lisa Bickmore is the author of three books of poems as well as video work. Among her honors are the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for 2015, and the 2014 Antivenom Prize for her second book, flicker. Her third book, Ephemerist, is out this year. She is professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she is also one of the founders of its Publication Center.

Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently a collection of poems, It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful. Her book of essays, On Looking, was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her awards include Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Fellowships. She is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000 UID:F1E1E488-47C1-42F6-88A0-40A581D72CB1 SUMMARY:Helicon West Presents: Jonathan Travelstead & Charles Waugh CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1015 DESCRIPTION:The Helicon West series welcomes Charles Waugh, editor of the anthology Wild Mustard: New Voices From Vietnam and poet Jonathan Travelstead, author of Conflict Tours. \N\NWinner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry in his first two collections, How We Bury Our Dead and Conflict Tours. Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru.\N\NCharles Waugh is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. In 2012, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work in literary translation, which led to the compilation of this anthology. With Nguyen Lien he is the coeditor and cotranslator of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers (2010).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Helicon West series welcomes Charles Waugh, editor of the anthology Wild Mustard: New Voices From Vietnam and poet Jonathan Travelstead, author of Conflict Tours.

Winner of the 2013 Cobalt Poetry Prize for his poem “Trucker,” Jonathan Travelstead has compiled an astounding collection of adrenalized poetry in his first two collections, How We Bury Our Dead and Conflict Tours. Travelstead served in the Air Force National Guard for six years as a firefighter and currently works as a full-time firefighter for the city of Murphysboro. Having finished his MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, he now works on an old dirt-bike he hopes will one day get him to Peru.

Charles Waugh is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. In 2012, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work in literary translation, which led to the compilation of this anthology. With Nguyen Lien he is the coeditor and cotranslator of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers (2010).

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Public Library, and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000 UID:C6C4AC9D-B9BD-47A1-8D94-6E207C82F96E SUMMARY:Book & Bridges: Benjamin Park CREATED:20260416T080129Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080129Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1115 DESCRIPTION:Join Books & Bridges for a lecture and discussion led by Alan Keele, Emeritus Professor of German at Brigham Young University on October 26th 6:30-8:00 pm at Weller Book Works on the topic of "The Story of Helmuth Huebener: The Conscience of a Nazi Resister." \N\NAlan F. Keele has a PhD in German language and literature from Princeton University and is a professor of German at Brigham Young University. He recently published In Search of the Supernal: Pre-Existence, Eternal Marriage, and Apotheosis in German Literary, Operatic, and Cinematic Texts (Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2003).\N\NThis event is organized by Books & Bridges -- a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Books & Bridges for a lecture and discussion led by Alan Keele, Emeritus Professor of German at Brigham Young University on October 26th 6:30-8:00 pm at Weller Book Works on the topic of "The Story of Helmuth Huebener: The Conscience of a Nazi Resister."

Alan F. Keele has a PhD in German language and literature from Princeton University and is a professor of German at Brigham Young University. He recently published In Search of the Supernal: Pre-Existence, Eternal Marriage, and Apotheosis in German Literary, Operatic, and Cinematic Texts (Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2003).

This event is organized by Books & Bridges -- a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.

This event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171027T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T203000 UID:E0018447-8497-486E-94C4-C7D6D05A614B SUMMARY:Murder Mystery at the Station CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1024 DESCRIPTION:Join some of Ogden's most talented improvisers as they lead you through the twists and turns of a hilarious literary murder mystery!\N\NFree event. *Pre-registration required* (Capped at 40 participants).\N\NThis event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RAMP. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join some of Ogden's most talented improvisers as they lead you through the twists and turns of a hilarious literary murder mystery!

Free event. *Pre-registration required* (Capped at 40 participants).

This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RAMP. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171027T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T203000 UID:BD2BE726-B8C3-4E1D-841B-0A69BA6E7014 SUMMARY:Edge of Morning: Luci Tapahonso & Jacqueline Keeler in Spanish Fork CREATED:20260416T080126Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080126Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1003 DESCRIPTION:Luci Tapahonso and Jacqueline Keeler visit Spanish Fork to discuss their contributions to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears as part of the Nebo School District Indian Education Program. Tapahonso and Keeler are prominent Native American voices in literature and journalism and will share their stories of working with numerous tribes on issues tied to the Bears Ears Monument. \N\N In 2013, Luci Tapahonso was named the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry, including A Radiant Curve, which was awarded the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. Tapahonso received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and a Spirit of the Eagle Leadership Award for her key role in establishing the Indigenous Studies Graduate Studies Program at the University of Kansas. The Native Writers Circle of the Americas named Tapahonso the 1999 Storyteller of the Year.\N\NJacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (creators of the hashtag #NotYourMascot). She is finishing a collection of essays called Not Your Disappearing Indian and is the editor for Torrey House Press' anthology on preserving sacred lands titled Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Luci Tapahonso and Jacqueline Keeler visit Spanish Fork to discuss their contributions to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears as part of the Nebo School District Indian Education Program. Tapahonso and Keeler are prominent Native American voices in literature and journalism and will share their stories of working with numerous tribes on issues tied to the Bears Ears Monument.

In 2013, Luci Tapahonso was named the inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation. She is the author of three children’s books and six books of poetry, including A Radiant Curve, which was awarded the Arizona Book Award for Poetry in 2009. Tapahonso’s work has appeared in many print and media productions in the U.S. and internationally. Her poems have been translated into German, Italian and French. Tapahonso received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and a Spirit of the Eagle Leadership Award for her key role in establishing the Indigenous Studies Graduate Studies Program at the University of Kansas. The Native Writers Circle of the Americas named Tapahonso the 1999 Storyteller of the Year.

Jacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry (creators of the hashtag #NotYourMascot). She is finishing a collection of essays called Not Your Disappearing Indian and is the editor for Torrey House Press' anthology on preserving sacred lands titled Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180907T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180907T200000 UID:CAA2BF8B-223A-493C-9C66-319AD7DB92AA SUMMARY:The 2018 Alfred Lambourne Prizes CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1283 DESCRIPTION:Friends of the Great Salt Lake presents the 5th annual Alfred Lambourne Prize on Friday, September 7th. The Prize recognizes excellence in four artistic categories (visual art, literary art, sound, and movement) at Salt Lake Community College starting at 6:00 PM. \N\NFRIENDS celebrates the relationship between local artists and one of Utah’s most precious natural resources, Great Salt Lake. Through artistic expressions, we enhance our capacity to build awareness about the Lake and our need to preserve and protect it for the future.\N\N In 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. FRIENDS invited creative work inspired by the Lake in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement. \N\NThe prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.\N\NFor more information, visit: https://fogsl.org/programs/alfred-lambourne-prize \N\NThis event was made possible by support from Friends of Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake Community College. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Friends of the Great Salt Lake presents the 5th annual Alfred Lambourne Prize on Friday, September 7th. The Prize recognizes excellence in four artistic categories (visual art, literary art, sound, and movement) at Salt Lake Community College starting at 6:00 PM.

FRIENDS celebrates the relationship between local artists and one of Utah’s most precious natural resources, Great Salt Lake. Through artistic expressions, we enhance our capacity to build awareness about the Lake and our need to preserve and protect it for the future.

In 2014, FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake established The Alfred Lambourne Prize, an annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by our inland sea. FRIENDS invited creative work inspired by the Lake in the forms of visual arts, literary arts, sound and movement.

The prize takes its name from the renowned painter and writer Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926). Born in England, he moved with his family to the United States and settled in Salt Lake City in 1866. Lambourne’s artistic talents were put to use painting scenery for the Salt Lake Theater. He developed an early and passionate interest in Great Salt Lake, inspired in part by reading Captain Howard Stansbury’s account of the 1850 survey of the lake (Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852). Lambourne traveled the lake by sailboat and lived for a time on Gunnison Island in the hopes of obtaining land there through homesteading.

For more information, visit: https://fogsl.org/programs/alfred-lambourne-prize

This event was made possible by support from Friends of Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake Community College. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180913 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180915 UID:901268E5-EB24-42C1-A2D4-6A93D814DF51 SUMMARY:Cedar City Book Festival: Writing About Ecology and Place Conference CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1333 DESCRIPTION:SUU’s conference "Writing About Ecology and Place" will explore the intersections of contemporary literature and ecology readings, panels, and workshops by writers and scholars whose work pertains to sustainability and the western region. Featured authors this year include Nicole Walker and Lee Ann Roripaugh. Co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. For more information, please visit: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/writingconference/\N\NThe Writing About Ecology and Place Conference is the third in the Eco-poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World conference series, and the evolution of the first two to include a broader spectrum of writing — now including prose — and students. The student-oriented conference features keynote addresses, writing workshops and discussions, an editing and publishing panel, receptions, and a hike and writing workshop in Zion National Park.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SUU’s conference "Writing About Ecology and Place" will explore the intersections of contemporary literature and ecology readings, panels, and workshops by writers and scholars whose work pertains to sustainability and the western region. Featured authors this year include Nicole Walker and Lee Ann Roripaugh. Co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. For more information, please visit: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/writingconference/

The Writing About Ecology and Place Conference is the third in the Eco-poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World conference series, and the evolution of the first two to include a broader spectrum of writing — now including prose — and students. The student-oriented conference features keynote addresses, writing workshops and discussions, an editing and publishing panel, receptions, and a hike and writing workshop in Zion National Park.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180913T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180913T190000 UID:080B83FD-4AB3-486F-9413-3F4934D2FF90 SUMMARY:Nicole Walker & Lee Ann Roripaugh at Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1341 DESCRIPTION:Nicole Walker and Poet Lee Ann Roripaugh discuss their latest books on Thursday, September 13th at 5:30 PM. This event will take place at the J. Reuben Clark Alumni House on the SUU campus and is part of the Writing About Ecology and Place Conference. For more info, please visit: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/writingconference/\N\NIn Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.\N\NWalker is the author of Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s an Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.\N\NLee Ann Roripaugh’s fourth collection of poems, Danadarians, maps the illusory and ephemeral connection between identities and language. Based on sources as diverse as Heian-period Japanese women writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, Dandarians explores a series of “word betrayals”—English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on symbolic ramifications in her early years. Co-opting and repurposing the language of knowledge and of misunderstanding, and dialoguing in original ways with notions of diaspora and hybrid identities, these poems demonstrate the many ways we attempt to be understood, culminating in an experience of aural awe.\N\NLee Ann Roripaigh is the author of numerous collections of poems, including Dandarians and the forthcoming collection tsunami vs. the fukushima 50. Her first collection, Beyond Heary Mountain, was selected by Ishmael Reed as a National Poetry Series winner, and her second collection, Year of the Snake, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award. Recipient of an Archibald Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, she received the Frederick Manfred Award from the Western Literature Association, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets prize. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review and directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota. She resides in Vermillion and is currently the South Dakota Poet Laureate.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Nicole Walker and Poet Lee Ann Roripaugh discuss their latest books on Thursday, September 13th at 5:30 PM. This event will take place at the J. Reuben Clark Alumni House on the SUU campus and is part of the Writing About Ecology and Place Conference. For more info, please visit: https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/writingconference/

In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.

Walker is the author of Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s an Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fourth collection of poems, Danadarians, maps the illusory and ephemeral connection between identities and language. Based on sources as diverse as Heian-period Japanese women writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, Dandarians explores a series of “word betrayals”—English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on symbolic ramifications in her early years. Co-opting and repurposing the language of knowledge and of misunderstanding, and dialoguing in original ways with notions of diaspora and hybrid identities, these poems demonstrate the many ways we attempt to be understood, culminating in an experience of aural awe.

Lee Ann Roripaigh is the author of numerous collections of poems, including Dandarians and the forthcoming collection tsunami vs. the fukushima 50. Her first collection, Beyond Heary Mountain, was selected by Ishmael Reed as a National Poetry Series winner, and her second collection, Year of the Snake, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award. Recipient of an Archibald Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, she received the Frederick Manfred Award from the Western Literature Association, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets prize. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review and directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota. She resides in Vermillion and is currently the South Dakota Poet Laureate.

This event was made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181030 UID:86AD274F-250D-4D9E-AEC6-7F0C17F2F1F8 SUMMARY:The Great American Read at Orem Public Library CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1370 DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with PBS' Great American Read programming, the Orem Public Library and the Provo Library will be hosting a series of events based around books on the Great American Read list. Events will take place at both libraries and the slate of programs features activities for people of all ages. Don't miss this chance to talk about some of your favorite books on the list! All events are listed below:\N\NFor more info on PBS' Great American Read, visit: https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/\N\NFor more on the events in Orem and Provo, visit: https://www.oremlibrary.org/ or http://www.provolibrary.com/\N\N\NSeptember 14, Friday\N6:00 PM / Provo Library Brimhall Room\NThe Great American Read: Love and the Romance Novel\N \NJoin librarians Lori Stevens and Julie Heckert as they review favorite romance titles and explore themes of many different kinds of love found in literature, especially Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Then head over to the Ballroom for the Storybook Ball.\N \N \NSeptember 14, Friday\N7:00 PM / Provo Library Ballroom\NThe Great American Read: Storybook Ball\N \NDress up as your favorite character from one of the novels on PBS’s Great American Read list and join us in the Provo Library Ballroom for an evening of romance, fantasy, and literary fun. There will be music, dancing, games, and refreshments.\N \N \NSeptember 17 – October 12\NOrem Public Library\NThe Great American Read: Other Worlds Art Show\N \NHow would you like to escape to Narnia, travel to Middle Earth, or settle down in Avonlea for a while? This fall we’re inviting artists of all ages and levels of experience to create art pieces, including photos, paintings, drawings, or mixed media creations, of their favorite fictional universes. Selected entries will be displayed at the Orem Library and photographed to create bookmarks. For more information or to submit your work, email Lori Stevens at lastevens@orem.org.\N \N \NSeptember 17, Monday – October 26, Friday\NOrem Public Library \NThe Great American Read: Book Bingo\N \NPick up a bingo sheet of book titles from the Great American Read and cross off all the books you’ve read—get five in a row and win a prize! Read all the books on your sheet to get a blackout bonus prize. Bingo sheets and prizes will be available at the conclusion of each Great American Read program at the Orem Library.\N \N \NSeptember 17, Monday\N6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing\NThe Great American Read: Children’s Book Carnival\N \NPin the spider on Charlotte’s web, make a ‘talking animal’ puppet from Narnia, practice your Quidditch skills, and try out other activities, crafts, and games based on junior-level books from the Great American Read.\N \N \NSeptember 20, Thursday\N7:00 PM / Provo Library Attic\NThe Great American Read: Family Trivia Night\N \NHow well-read are you? Teams of 4-6 people will compete to see who knows their book trivia best. Questions will all be drawn from books on the Great American Read list. Prizes awarded!\N \N \NSeptember 21, Friday\N6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium\NThe Great American Read: Gone with the Wind (G, 1939), Part 1\N \NJoin Media Librarian James Scarbrough for an introduction to the critically acclaimed film based on Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping Southern romance, then watch part 1 of the movie.\N \N \NSeptember 24, Monday\N6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium\NThe Great American Read: Gone with the Wind, Part 2\N \N \NSeptember 27, Thursday\N7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing\NThe Great American Read: Heroes and the American West\N \NJoin BYU Professor Phil Snyder for an exploration of heroes in American western literature, focusing on Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.\N \N \NOctober 1, Monday\N7:00 PM / Provo Library Ballroom\NThe Great American Read: Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance\N\NBring the family and enjoy an evening of colorful costumes, vibrant music, and stunning folk dance performances by the Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance.\N \N \NOctober 5, Friday\N6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium\NThe Great American Read: The Sun Also Rises (NR, 1957)\N \NJoin us for a screening of The Sun Also Rises, adapted from the novel by Ernest Hemingway. BYU Professor Dennis Cutchins will introduce the film and discuss the Hemingway hero.\N \N \NOctober 11, Thursday\N7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing\NThe Great American Read: Villains and Monsters in Horror\N \NBYU Professor Carl Sederholm will discuss literary villains and monsters—focusing on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and other horror novels—and why we can’t get enough of them.\N \N \NOctober 12, Friday\N6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium\NThe Great American Read: Frankenstein in Film\N \NMedia mogul Richard Downey presents a fun and frightening look at the many Frankensteins (and their monsters) in film history.\N \N\NOctober 17, Wednesday\N7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing\NThe Great American Read: Creative Writing Workshop\N \NYou've read some terrific titles as part of the Great American Read; now write your own! Librarian and published author Amy Sorensen will lead a fun workshop on how to share your thoughts and ideas more effectively.\N\N \NOctober 24, Wednesday\N7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing\NThe Great American Read: Research Workshop\N\NGot an idea for the next great American novel, but need help turning it into something more? Learn how to use library resources and do research to bring your novel to life from Scarlette Pike, who recently published a novel that she researched entirely at the Orem Library.\N \N \NOctober 25, Thursday\N7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing \NThe Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Sanderson\N \NCatch a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes magic of creating and exploring other worlds with award-winning, bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and find out why science fiction and fantasy are not only fun but important genres to read. Bring your favorite title for him to sign or buy a new one.\N \N \NOctober 29, Monday\N 7:00 PM / Provo Library Ballroom\N The Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Mull\N \NAward-winning author Brandon Mull will share some of his experiences with reading and writing in the genre of fantasy, and give us a closer look at his latest Dragonwatch book, a sequel series to the highly acclaimed Fablehaven books. A book signing will follow the program.\N \N \N These Great American Read events are made possible with support from the Orem Public Library, the Provo Library, and Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In conjunction with PBS' Great American Read programming, the Orem Public Library and the Provo Library will be hosting a series of events based around books on the Great American Read list. Events will take place at both libraries and the slate of programs features activities for people of all ages. Don't miss this chance to talk about some of your favorite books on the list! All events are listed below:

For more info on PBS' Great American Read, visit: https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/

For more on the events in Orem and Provo, visit: https://www.oremlibrary.org/ or http://www.provolibrary.com/


September 14, Friday
6:00 PM / Provo Library Brimhall Room
The Great American Read: Love and the Romance Novel

Join librarians Lori Stevens and Julie Heckert as they review favorite romance titles and explore themes of many different kinds of love found in literature, especially Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Then head over to the Ballroom for the Storybook Ball.


September 14, Friday
7:00 PM / Provo Library Ballroom
The Great American Read: Storybook Ball

Dress up as your favorite character from one of the novels on PBS’s Great American Read list and join us in the Provo Library Ballroom for an evening of romance, fantasy, and literary fun. There will be music, dancing, games, and refreshments.


September 17 – October 12
Orem Public Library
The Great American Read: Other Worlds Art Show

How would you like to escape to Narnia, travel to Middle Earth, or settle down in Avonlea for a while? This fall we’re inviting artists of all ages and levels of experience to create art pieces, including photos, paintings, drawings, or mixed media creations, of their favorite fictional universes. Selected entries will be displayed at the Orem Library and photographed to create bookmarks. For more information or to submit your work, email Lori Stevens at lastevens@orem.org.


September 17, Monday – October 26, Friday
Orem Public Library
The Great American Read: Book Bingo

Pick up a bingo sheet of book titles from the Great American Read and cross off all the books you’ve read—get five in a row and win a prize! Read all the books on your sheet to get a blackout bonus prize. Bingo sheets and prizes will be available at the conclusion of each Great American Read program at the Orem Library.


September 17, Monday
6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing
The Great American Read: Children’s Book Carnival

Pin the spider on Charlotte’s web, make a ‘talking animal’ puppet from Narnia, practice your Quidditch skills, and try out other activities, crafts, and games based on junior-level books from the Great American Read.


September 20, Thursday
7:00 PM / Provo Library Attic
The Great American Read: Family Trivia Night

How well-read are you? Teams of 4-6 people will compete to see who knows their book trivia best. Questions will all be drawn from books on the Great American Read list. Prizes awarded!


September 21, Friday
6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium
The Great American Read: Gone with the Wind (G, 1939), Part 1

Join Media Librarian James Scarbrough for an introduction to the critically acclaimed film based on Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping Southern romance, then watch part 1 of the movie.


September 24, Monday
6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium
The Great American Read: Gone with the Wind, Part 2


September 27, Thursday
7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing
The Great American Read: Heroes and the American West

Join BYU Professor Phil Snyder for an exploration of heroes in American western literature, focusing on Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.


October 1, Monday
7:00 PM / Provo Library Ballroom
The Great American Read: Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance

Bring the family and enjoy an evening of colorful costumes, vibrant music, and stunning folk dance performances by the Utah Hispanic Dance Alliance.


October 5, Friday
6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium
The Great American Read: The Sun Also Rises (NR, 1957)

Join us for a screening of The Sun Also Rises, adapted from the novel by Ernest Hemingway. BYU Professor Dennis Cutchins will introduce the film and discuss the Hemingway hero.


October 11, Thursday
7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing
The Great American Read: Villains and Monsters in Horror

BYU Professor Carl Sederholm will discuss literary villains and monsters—focusing on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and other horror novels—and why we can’t get enough of them.


October 12, Friday
6:00 PM / Orem Public Library Media Auditorium
The Great American Read: Frankenstein in Film

Media mogul Richard Downey presents a fun and frightening look at the many Frankensteins (and their monsters) in film history.


October 17, Wednesday
7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing
The Great American Read: Creative Writing Workshop

You've read some terrific titles as part of the Great American Read; now write your own! Librarian and published author Amy Sorensen will lead a fun workshop on how to share your thoughts and ideas more effectively.


October 24, Wednesday
7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing
The Great American Read: Research Workshop

Got an idea for the next great American novel, but need help turning it into something more? Learn how to use library resources and do research to bring your novel to life from Scarlette Pike, who recently published a novel that she researched entirely at the Orem Library.


October 25, Thursday
7:00 PM / Orem Public Library Storytelling Wing
The Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Sanderson

Catch a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes magic of creating and exploring other worlds with award-winning, bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and find out why science fiction and fantasy are not only fun but important genres to read. Bring your favorite title for him to sign or buy a new one.


October 29, Monday
7:00 PM / Provo Library Ballroom
The Great American Read: Other Worlds with Brandon Mull

Award-winning author Brandon Mull will share some of his experiences with reading and writing in the genre of fantasy, and give us a closer look at his latest Dragonwatch book, a sequel series to the highly acclaimed Fablehaven books. A book signing will follow the program.


These Great American Read events are made possible with support from the Orem Public Library, the Provo Library, and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181101 UID:107BE564-A3A6-4E2E-811A-ED7A6408772F SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Event Calendar CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1362 DESCRIPTION:Our friends at Weller Book Works have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/ \N\NRecurring Events:\N\NSept. 12 and 26, Oct. 10 and 24 @ 6:00 PM\NLit Knit\N\NJoin Catherine the Knit Chick and her Craft Circle for casual bookish conversation! Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.\N\N\NSept. 4, 11, 18, 25; Oct 2, 9, 19, 23, 30 @ 10:00 AM\NBreakfast Club With Catherine Weller\N\NHave a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Hosted and co-sponsored by Coffee Connection\N\N\NSeptember 28 and October 26 @ 6:30 PM\NCollectors Book Salon\N\NReaders read alone. Have you missed your bibliophilic buddies? Want to make a new smart friend? Meet book collectors and unique thinkers at Weller Book Works Collectors’ Book Salon.  Book lovers gather to share their passion for beautiful and interesting books. A different speaker every month.  Glasses are filled and socializing begins at 6:30. Collector’s Chats begin at 7:15.\N\N\NAuthor Events:\N\NFriday, September 14th, 7:00 PM\NU.S. District Judge Frederic Block | Race to Judgement!\N\NRACE TO JUDGMENT is a “reality-fiction” debut novel loosely based on a number of high-profile cases handled by its author, a federal trial court judge, over his 23 years on the federal bench in Brooklyn—such as the Crown Heights riots and the Peter Gotti trial. It tracks the rise of the fictional African-American civil rights protagonist Ken Williams (in real life, the recently deceased Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson) from his days as an Assistant United States Attorney through his meteoric rise to unseat the long-term, corrupt Brooklyn DA because of a spate of phony convictions against black defendants, including another one of the judge’s real cases (JoJo Jones in the book) for the murder of a Hasidic rabbi. Williams’ dramatic courtroom antics (with the aid of his colorful private eye) results in JoJo’s exoneration after 16 years behind bars. In addition, Williams defends a young black guidance counselor accused of killing the rabbi’s son many years ago, and champions the cause of a young Hasidic woman raped by her father. As a hobby, Williams plays jazz piano and writes country songs—written by the author—which are reproduced in the book.\N\N\NWednesday, September 19, 6:30 PM\NLynell Marie Garfield | The Secret Life of Streams\N\NThe Secret Life of Streams is an uplifting children's story of life in Small Creek as the daily adventures of stream insects and fish, as told by Loralei the Mayfly. Loralei asks young readers to meet her playmates in the bottom of Small Creek, with all of their strange lifestyles. By sharing her underwater adventures with readers, Loralei hopes to hatch out of the water welcomed by new above-water friends. The story transforms into a pictoral field guide that brings the cartooned characters together with real-life renderings of the insects, to engage and encourage young explorers. This story is the perfect tool for parents, teachers, or anyone interested in fostering connection to our resources, for a lifetime of thinking downstream and stewardship. This book was selected for Nevada's Sesquicentennial, to share Nevada's literature with students. After a critical review, The Secret Life of Streams was chosen to represent Nevada at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. on August 30 2014!\N\N\NSaturday, September 22nd, 7:00 PM\NKathy Kirkpatrick | American Prisoner of War Camps in Arizona and Nevada\N\NAMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS IN ARIZONA AND NEVADA describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the populations of Arizona and Nevada, as well as the impact of the people of Arizona and Nevada on those imprisoned there. Providing detail on the care and employment of prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention of 1929, the lives of POWs in these states are illustrated, along with the details of camp locations in Arizona and Nevada and the deaths and burials that occurred among them. Some prisoner names are included, as well as references to source materials at various repositories. Historical photographs serve to provide depth to the story.\N\N\NTuesday, September 25th, 6:30 PM\NJason Heller and Tony Weller | STRANGE STARS: DAVID BOWIE, POP MUSIC, AND THE DECADE SCI-FI EXPLODED! \N\NOn Tuesday, September 25, author Jason Heller will be here, in conversation with store owner and fellow 70's musicophile Tony Weller, discussing his book STRANGE STARS: DAVID BOWIE, POP MUSIC, AND THE DECADE SCI-FI EXPLODED!\NAs the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution.\NIn Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books, music, and out-of-this-world imagery.\N\NIn doing so, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course, the whole scene was led by David Bowie, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and came out a changed man…\N\N\NThursday, September 27th, 7:00 PM\NDeeton Charles | Memoirs of a Fallen Angel\N\NAngela is one of 10 daughters of two fallen Angels who came to Earth to keep a war from erupting in Heaven over a forbidden affair. Her tribe comes in contact accidentally with Adam and Eve's tribe of eight sons. Hidden secrets come to light regarding the Angel clan and Angela fights to save her family from an evil that seeks to control Earth and all its inhabitants. Angela is asked by God to complete a mission that is crucial to the salvation of Humanity and bring back the balance that was lost when the Angel war erupted on Earth. She must find Cain, for he alone has the power to restore free will and agency on the suffering planet. But Cain has fallen in with the legion of the damned and is aiding them in their war against the Rainbow tribe of human Angels. Angela must overcome vampires, demons, fallen angels, and evil humans to restore the balance among the seven tribes of humanity, as well as the five original human clans, who now have blended with the Angel tribe and carry unique abilities.\N\N\NSaturday, September 29, 2:00 PM\NBrenda Stanley | The Treasure of Cedar Creek\N\NIn 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage. At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase his congregation, even if that means marrying off girls to men decades older. When Peri, who escaped the compound years earlier, returns to help rescue Grace, a girl betrothed to the prophet himself, she ends up also saving her own sister Emma. As the three women make a frantic and deadly escape from the compound, they take with them both the newborn heir to the church, and their dead mother's cryptic journal to the prophet's hidden treasure. Along their journey, the women realize to truly be free they must face what holds them captive, even if those answers are more horrifying than they ever imagined.\N\N\NWednesday, October 3rd, 6:30 PM\NJames McLaughlin | Bearskin\N\NRice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It’s hard work, and totally solitary—perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he’s so desperately sought is suddenly at risk.\N\N\NFriday, October 5th, 7:00 PM\NJulia Corbett | Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday\N\NHave you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks.\N\NSaturday, October 6th, 2:00 PM\NSteve Patrick | A Whole of the Whole\N\NHave you ever considered what a word actually is? What would happen if you didn't take words as seriously? What if you realized they aren't suitable for the heaviness they so often convey? What if you began to view words as mere tools, highly limited, highly misunderstood, and frequently misused? Steve Patrick was lost in words until he discovered they are not the truth tellers he took them to be. The stream of words passing through his mind caused stress and constriction that almost constantly lurked beneath my happy self. Though he was hardly aware of it, this underground torment generated negativity for him and those around him through judgment, criticism, and all kinds of comparison.\N\NMonday, October 8th, 6:30 PM\NSusan Purvis | Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself\N\NAccompanied by her rebellious black Lab, Tasha, maverick Susan Purvis navigates her way through both deep snow and challenging relationships to find passion and purpose as she and Tasha learn to save lives in the Colorado mountains. Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and marriage to a new husband, 33-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way.\N\N\NFriday, October 12th, 7:00 PM\NChristian McKay Heidicker | Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower\N\NJoin us on October 12 for Spam sandwiches and green jello with Christian Heidicker, as he reads and signs ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WALLFLOWER! From the author of Cure for the Common Universe comes a monster-movie-like novel that bravely challenges perceived notions of beauty, identity, and modern voyeurism.\N\NPhoebe Lane is a lightning rod for monsters. She and her mom are forced to flee flesh-eating plants, blobs from outer space, and radioactive ants. They survive thanks to Phoebe’s dad—an invisible titan, whose giant eyes warn them where the next monster attack will take place.\N\N\NFriday, October 19th, 7:00 PM\NMark J. Nelson | White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark\N\NBest known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845–1884) was one of the Old Army’s renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself at center stage during some of the most momentous events of the post–Civil War West: from Brigadier General George Crook’s infamous “Starvation March” to the Battle of Slim Buttes and the Dull Knife Fight, then to the attack against the Bannocks at Index Peak and Sitting Bull’s final fight against the U.S. Army.\N\N\NSaturday, October 20, 2:00 PM\NJohn Scalzi | The Consuming Fire\N\NJoin Wellers on October 20 at 2 PM as we welcome celebrated author John Scalzi to the store for a reading and signing of The Consuming Fire! \N\NThe Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire – a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction. The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional pathway between the stars, is disappearing, leaving planets stranded. Billions of lives will be lost – unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures. But it’s not that easy. There are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth – or an opportunity for them to ascend to power.\N\N\NTuesday, October 22, 6:30 PM\NSonja Mable McClure | Shift, Motion\N\NIn Sonja Mabel McClure’s debut collection, Shift//Motion is a dynamic that is split into separate chapters with compelling themes of movement, travel, sound, and passion. This book envisions a shift out of redundancy, towards exploration with the top down and taking in every sense of self-discovery and wanderlust.\N\NSonja Mabel McClure is a poet and freelance writer. Several of her poems and articles have been featured in Touchstones, Catalyst, among others. When she’s not shaping words at the typewriter, Sonja enjoys nature, road trips, belly dancing, yoga, and playing with her adorable dogs. She resides in the suburbs of Salt Lake City.\N\N\NOctober 23, 6:30 PM\NLaura Rutter Strickling | On Fire in Baltimore: Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City\N\NOn Fire in Baltimore is more than just the personal stories of Black women who converted to Mormonism. Against the background of a city known for its racial and economic inequality, these devout women of color tell stories of drug addiction and rape, of nights spent in jail and days looking for work, and of single motherhood and grief for lost children. Yet, their stories are also filled with visitations from heavenly beings, dreams of deceased mothers, protection from violence, and missionary messengers. They share how they reconcile their membership in a historically White church that once denied them full membership because of their race. Laura Rutter Strickling takes the reader on an intimate journey where Black and White racialized lives meet, where she is compelled to question how her own whiteness has impacted her perspective, and where an unquenchable spiritual fire burns bright in a raging city.\N\NLaura Rutter Strickling received her undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and a Master’s in Intercultural Communication and PhD in Sociocultural Linguistics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She also completed a two-year post-doctoral position in Urban Education in Baltimore City. She has written articles about language, culture, and education. In her free time, she rides bikes with her husband throughout the city of Baltimore. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our friends at Weller Book Works have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/

Recurring Events:

Sept. 12 and 26, Oct. 10 and 24 @ 6:00 PM
Lit Knit

Join Catherine the Knit Chick and her Craft Circle for casual bookish conversation! Lit Knit is held the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.


Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25; Oct 2, 9, 19, 23, 30 @ 10:00 AM
Breakfast Club With Catherine Weller

Have a cup of coffee and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your early morning book news and gossip. Hosted and co-sponsored by Coffee Connection


September 28 and October 26 @ 6:30 PM
Collectors Book Salon

Readers read alone. Have you missed your bibliophilic buddies? Want to make a new smart friend? Meet book collectors and unique thinkers at Weller Book Works Collectors’ Book Salon.  Book lovers gather to share their passion for beautiful and interesting books. A different speaker every month.  Glasses are filled and socializing begins at 6:30. Collector’s Chats begin at 7:15.


Author Events:

Friday, September 14th, 7:00 PM
U.S. District Judge Frederic Block | Race to Judgement!

RACE TO JUDGMENT is a “reality-fiction” debut novel loosely based on a number of high-profile cases handled by its author, a federal trial court judge, over his 23 years on the federal bench in Brooklyn—such as the Crown Heights riots and the Peter Gotti trial. It tracks the rise of the fictional African-American civil rights protagonist Ken Williams (in real life, the recently deceased Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson) from his days as an Assistant United States Attorney through his meteoric rise to unseat the long-term, corrupt Brooklyn DA because of a spate of phony convictions against black defendants, including another one of the judge’s real cases (JoJo Jones in the book) for the murder of a Hasidic rabbi. Williams’ dramatic courtroom antics (with the aid of his colorful private eye) results in JoJo’s exoneration after 16 years behind bars. In addition, Williams defends a young black guidance counselor accused of killing the rabbi’s son many years ago, and champions the cause of a young Hasidic woman raped by her father. As a hobby, Williams plays jazz piano and writes country songs—written by the author—which are reproduced in the book.


Wednesday, September 19, 6:30 PM
Lynell Marie Garfield | The Secret Life of Streams

The Secret Life of Streams is an uplifting children's story of life in Small Creek as the daily adventures of stream insects and fish, as told by Loralei the Mayfly. Loralei asks young readers to meet her playmates in the bottom of Small Creek, with all of their strange lifestyles. By sharing her underwater adventures with readers, Loralei hopes to hatch out of the water welcomed by new above-water friends. The story transforms into a pictoral field guide that brings the cartooned characters together with real-life renderings of the insects, to engage and encourage young explorers. This story is the perfect tool for parents, teachers, or anyone interested in fostering connection to our resources, for a lifetime of thinking downstream and stewardship. This book was selected for Nevada's Sesquicentennial, to share Nevada's literature with students. After a critical review, The Secret Life of Streams was chosen to represent Nevada at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. on August 30 2014!


Saturday, September 22nd, 7:00 PM
Kathy Kirkpatrick | American Prisoner of War Camps in Arizona and Nevada

AMERICAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS IN ARIZONA AND NEVADA describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the populations of Arizona and Nevada, as well as the impact of the people of Arizona and Nevada on those imprisoned there. Providing detail on the care and employment of prisoners of war according to the Geneva Convention of 1929, the lives of POWs in these states are illustrated, along with the details of camp locations in Arizona and Nevada and the deaths and burials that occurred among them. Some prisoner names are included, as well as references to source materials at various repositories. Historical photographs serve to provide depth to the story.


Tuesday, September 25th, 6:30 PM
Jason Heller and Tony Weller | STRANGE STARS: DAVID BOWIE, POP MUSIC, AND THE DECADE SCI-FI EXPLODED!

On Tuesday, September 25, author Jason Heller will be here, in conversation with store owner and fellow 70's musicophile Tony Weller, discussing his book STRANGE STARS: DAVID BOWIE, POP MUSIC, AND THE DECADE SCI-FI EXPLODED!
As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Derided as nerdy or dismissed as fluff, science fiction rarely gets credit for its catalyzing effect on this revolution.
In Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books, music, and out-of-this-world imagery.

In doing so, he presents a whole generation of revered musicians as the sci-fi-obsessed conjurers they really were: from Sun Ra lecturing on the black man in the cosmos, to Pink Floyd jamming live over the broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing; from a wave of Star Wars disco chart toppers and synthesiser-wielding post-punks, to Jimi Hendrix distilling the “purplish haze” he discovered in a pulp novel into psychedelic song. Of course, the whole scene was led by David Bowie, who hid in the balcony of a movie theater to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and came out a changed man…


Thursday, September 27th, 7:00 PM
Deeton Charles | Memoirs of a Fallen Angel

Angela is one of 10 daughters of two fallen Angels who came to Earth to keep a war from erupting in Heaven over a forbidden affair. Her tribe comes in contact accidentally with Adam and Eve's tribe of eight sons. Hidden secrets come to light regarding the Angel clan and Angela fights to save her family from an evil that seeks to control Earth and all its inhabitants. Angela is asked by God to complete a mission that is crucial to the salvation of Humanity and bring back the balance that was lost when the Angel war erupted on Earth. She must find Cain, for he alone has the power to restore free will and agency on the suffering planet. But Cain has fallen in with the legion of the damned and is aiding them in their war against the Rainbow tribe of human Angels. Angela must overcome vampires, demons, fallen angels, and evil humans to restore the balance among the seven tribes of humanity, as well as the five original human clans, who now have blended with the Angel tribe and carry unique abilities.


Saturday, September 29, 2:00 PM
Brenda Stanley | The Treasure of Cedar Creek

In 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage. At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase his congregation, even if that means marrying off girls to men decades older. When Peri, who escaped the compound years earlier, returns to help rescue Grace, a girl betrothed to the prophet himself, she ends up also saving her own sister Emma. As the three women make a frantic and deadly escape from the compound, they take with them both the newborn heir to the church, and their dead mother's cryptic journal to the prophet's hidden treasure. Along their journey, the women realize to truly be free they must face what holds them captive, even if those answers are more horrifying than they ever imagined.


Wednesday, October 3rd, 6:30 PM
James McLaughlin | Bearskin

Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It’s hard work, and totally solitary—perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he’s so desperately sought is suddenly at risk.


Friday, October 5th, 7:00 PM
Julia Corbett | Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday

Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks.

Saturday, October 6th, 2:00 PM
Steve Patrick | A Whole of the Whole

Have you ever considered what a word actually is? What would happen if you didn't take words as seriously? What if you realized they aren't suitable for the heaviness they so often convey? What if you began to view words as mere tools, highly limited, highly misunderstood, and frequently misused? Steve Patrick was lost in words until he discovered they are not the truth tellers he took them to be. The stream of words passing through his mind caused stress and constriction that almost constantly lurked beneath my happy self. Though he was hardly aware of it, this underground torment generated negativity for him and those around him through judgment, criticism, and all kinds of comparison.

Monday, October 8th, 6:30 PM
Susan Purvis | Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost—and Myself

Accompanied by her rebellious black Lab, Tasha, maverick Susan Purvis navigates her way through both deep snow and challenging relationships to find passion and purpose as she and Tasha learn to save lives in the Colorado mountains. Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and marriage to a new husband, 33-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way.


Friday, October 12th, 7:00 PM
Christian McKay Heidicker | Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower

Join us on October 12 for Spam sandwiches and green jello with Christian Heidicker, as he reads and signs ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WALLFLOWER! From the author of Cure for the Common Universe comes a monster-movie-like novel that bravely challenges perceived notions of beauty, identity, and modern voyeurism.

Phoebe Lane is a lightning rod for monsters. She and her mom are forced to flee flesh-eating plants, blobs from outer space, and radioactive ants. They survive thanks to Phoebe’s dad—an invisible titan, whose giant eyes warn them where the next monster attack will take place.


Friday, October 19th, 7:00 PM
Mark J. Nelson | White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark

Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845–1884) was one of the Old Army’s renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself at center stage during some of the most momentous events of the post–Civil War West: from Brigadier General George Crook’s infamous “Starvation March” to the Battle of Slim Buttes and the Dull Knife Fight, then to the attack against the Bannocks at Index Peak and Sitting Bull’s final fight against the U.S. Army.


Saturday, October 20, 2:00 PM
John Scalzi | The Consuming Fire

Join Wellers on October 20 at 2 PM as we welcome celebrated author John Scalzi to the store for a reading and signing of The Consuming Fire!

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire – a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction. The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional pathway between the stars, is disappearing, leaving planets stranded. Billions of lives will be lost – unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures. But it’s not that easy. There are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth – or an opportunity for them to ascend to power.


Tuesday, October 22, 6:30 PM
Sonja Mable McClure | Shift, Motion

In Sonja Mabel McClure’s debut collection, Shift//Motion is a dynamic that is split into separate chapters with compelling themes of movement, travel, sound, and passion. This book envisions a shift out of redundancy, towards exploration with the top down and taking in every sense of self-discovery and wanderlust.

Sonja Mabel McClure is a poet and freelance writer. Several of her poems and articles have been featured in Touchstones, Catalyst, among others. When she’s not shaping words at the typewriter, Sonja enjoys nature, road trips, belly dancing, yoga, and playing with her adorable dogs. She resides in the suburbs of Salt Lake City.


October 23, 6:30 PM
Laura Rutter Strickling | On Fire in Baltimore: Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City

On Fire in Baltimore is more than just the personal stories of Black women who converted to Mormonism. Against the background of a city known for its racial and economic inequality, these devout women of color tell stories of drug addiction and rape, of nights spent in jail and days looking for work, and of single motherhood and grief for lost children. Yet, their stories are also filled with visitations from heavenly beings, dreams of deceased mothers, protection from violence, and missionary messengers. They share how they reconcile their membership in a historically White church that once denied them full membership because of their race. Laura Rutter Strickling takes the reader on an intimate journey where Black and White racialized lives meet, where she is compelled to question how her own whiteness has impacted her perspective, and where an unquenchable spiritual fire burns bright in a raging city.

Laura Rutter Strickling received her undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and a Master’s in Intercultural Communication and PhD in Sociocultural Linguistics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She also completed a two-year post-doctoral position in Urban Education in Baltimore City. She has written articles about language, culture, and education. In her free time, she rides bikes with her husband throughout the city of Baltimore. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181101 UID:F397D83F-0108-42DA-BB31-01937BAB0252 SUMMARY:King's English Bookshop Event Calendar CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1357 DESCRIPTION:Our friends at the King's English Bookshop have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/ \N\NWednesday, September 5, 7 p.m. | Julia Corbett | Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, September 8, All Day | The King's English Bookshop's 41st All-Day Birthday Party! | Events include group book signing for contributors to Turning Pages: The King's English at 40 essay and art competition. See www.kingsenglish.com for more details. | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, September 13, 7 p.m. | Michèle Mendelssohn | Making Oscar Wilde | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NFriday, September 14, 5 p.m. Christian Heidicker | Throw Your Arms Across Your Eyes and Scream | Event Location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NMonday, September 17, 7 p.m. | Scott Westerfeld | Impostors | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NWednesday, September 19, 7 p.m. Rahda Agrawal | Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life | Event location: Marmalade Branch Library\N \NThursday, September 20, 7 p.m. Klancy De Nevers | Lessons in Printing | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NMonday, September 24, 7 p.m. | Poets Camille T. Dungy & Jason Olsen | Event location: Alumni House at Westminster College\N \NTuesday, September 25, 7 p.m. Laurie Forest | The Iron Flower | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NWednesday, September 26, 7 p.m. | Alexander London, in conversation with Margaret Stohl and Mackensi Lee | Black Wings Beating | Event location: The\NKing's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, September 27, 7 p.m. | Andrea Hollander | Blue Mistaken for Sky | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, September 29, 7 p.m. | V.E. Schwab | Vengeful | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NMonday, October 1, 7 p.m. | Kiersten White | The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NTuesday, October 2, 7 p.m. | John Flanagan | Red Fox Clan | Event location: Salt Lake City Public Library\N \NWednesday, October 3, 7 p.m. | Taran Matharu | The Summoner's Handbook | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, October 4, 7 p.m. | Dan Scanlan | How to Play Ukuelele: A Complete Guide for Beginners | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, October 4, 6:30 p.m. | Derek Anderson | Little Quack series | Event location: Davis County Library- Farmington\N \NFriday, October 5, 7 p.m. | Peter Stone | The Perfect Candidate | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NTuesday, October 9, 7 p.m. | Lindsay Eagar | Bigfoot Files | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NWednesday, October 10, 6 p.m. | Molly Idle | Pearl | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, October 11, 7 p.m. | Thomas Lowe Fleischner | Nature Love Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness, in conversation with Nalini Nadkarni and Jana Richman\N \NThursday, October 11, 7 p.m. | Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs | Darkdeep | Event location: Provo Library at Academy Square\N \NFriday, October 12, 7 p.m. | Deborah Eden Tull | Relational Mindfulness | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, October 13, 5 p.m. | Shannon & Dean Hale | The Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, October 13, 7 p.m. | Brian Kershisnik | Looking for Something | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NMonday, October 15, 7 p.m. | Joshua Rivkin | CHALK: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NTuesday, October 16, 6 p.m. | Dylan Thuras | The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NWednesday, October 17, 7 p.m. | Hampton Sides | On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, The Korean War's Greatest Battle | Event location:\NThe King's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, October 18, 7 p.m. | Caitlin Doughty | From Here to Eternity | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, October 20, 2 p.m. | Kate Coombs | Monster School | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, October 20, 7 p.m. | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Event location: TBA This is a ticketed event- one ticket includes one autographed copy of Bridge of Clay. You may buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com\N \NSaturday, October 20, 7 p.m. | Patrik Sampler (The Ocean Container) and Michael Mejia (Tokyo) | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NThursday, October 25, 7 p.m. | Molly Brooks | Sanity & Tallulah | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, October 27, 7 p.m. | Jean Reagan | How to Scare a Ghost | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NSaturday, October 27, 2 p.m. | Ginger S. Johnson | The Splintered Light | Event location: The King's English Bookshop\N \NMonday, October 29, 7 p.m. | Brandon Mull | Dragonwatch 2: Wrath of the Dragon King | Event location: Provo City Library at Academy Square\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our friends at the King's English Bookshop have been crucial to the Book Festival's success over the years. They have a very busy September and October and they'd like to invite all book lovers to check out their exciting lineup of events. Check their website for more info on each event: http://www.kingsenglish.com/

Wednesday, September 5, 7 p.m. | Julia Corbett | Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, September 8, All Day | The King's English Bookshop's 41st All-Day Birthday Party! | Events include group book signing for contributors to Turning Pages: The King's English at 40 essay and art competition. See www.kingsenglish.com for more details. | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Thursday, September 13, 7 p.m. | Michèle Mendelssohn | Making Oscar Wilde | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Friday, September 14, 5 p.m. Christian Heidicker | Throw Your Arms Across Your Eyes and Scream | Event Location: The King's English Bookshop

Monday, September 17, 7 p.m. | Scott Westerfeld | Impostors | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Wednesday, September 19, 7 p.m. Rahda Agrawal | Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life | Event location: Marmalade Branch Library

Thursday, September 20, 7 p.m. Klancy De Nevers | Lessons in Printing | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Monday, September 24, 7 p.m. | Poets Camille T. Dungy & Jason Olsen | Event location: Alumni House at Westminster College

Tuesday, September 25, 7 p.m. Laurie Forest | The Iron Flower | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Wednesday, September 26, 7 p.m. | Alexander London, in conversation with Margaret Stohl and Mackensi Lee | Black Wings Beating | Event location: The
King's English Bookshop

Thursday, September 27, 7 p.m. | Andrea Hollander | Blue Mistaken for Sky | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, September 29, 7 p.m. | V.E. Schwab | Vengeful | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Monday, October 1, 7 p.m. | Kiersten White | The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Tuesday, October 2, 7 p.m. | John Flanagan | Red Fox Clan | Event location: Salt Lake City Public Library

Wednesday, October 3, 7 p.m. | Taran Matharu | The Summoner's Handbook | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Thursday, October 4, 7 p.m. | Dan Scanlan | How to Play Ukuelele: A Complete Guide for Beginners | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Thursday, October 4, 6:30 p.m. | Derek Anderson | Little Quack series | Event location: Davis County Library- Farmington

Friday, October 5, 7 p.m. | Peter Stone | The Perfect Candidate | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Tuesday, October 9, 7 p.m. | Lindsay Eagar | Bigfoot Files | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Wednesday, October 10, 6 p.m. | Molly Idle | Pearl | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Thursday, October 11, 7 p.m. | Thomas Lowe Fleischner | Nature Love Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness, in conversation with Nalini Nadkarni and Jana Richman

Thursday, October 11, 7 p.m. | Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs | Darkdeep | Event location: Provo Library at Academy Square

Friday, October 12, 7 p.m. | Deborah Eden Tull | Relational Mindfulness | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, October 13, 5 p.m. | Shannon & Dean Hale | The Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, October 13, 7 p.m. | Brian Kershisnik | Looking for Something | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Monday, October 15, 7 p.m. | Joshua Rivkin | CHALK: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Tuesday, October 16, 6 p.m. | Dylan Thuras | The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Wednesday, October 17, 7 p.m. | Hampton Sides | On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, The Korean War's Greatest Battle | Event location:
The King's English Bookshop

Thursday, October 18, 7 p.m. | Caitlin Doughty | From Here to Eternity | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, October 20, 2 p.m. | Kate Coombs | Monster School | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, October 20, 7 p.m. | Markus Zusak | Bridge of Clay | Event location: TBA This is a ticketed event- one ticket includes one autographed copy of Bridge of Clay. You may buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com

Saturday, October 20, 7 p.m. | Patrik Sampler (The Ocean Container) and Michael Mejia (Tokyo) | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Thursday, October 25, 7 p.m. | Molly Brooks | Sanity & Tallulah | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, October 27, 7 p.m. | Jean Reagan | How to Scare a Ghost | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Saturday, October 27, 2 p.m. | Ginger S. Johnson | The Splintered Light | Event location: The King's English Bookshop

Monday, October 29, 7 p.m. | Brandon Mull | Dragonwatch 2: Wrath of the Dragon King | Event location: Provo City Library at Academy Square
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180917T210000 UID:09854D1E-865D-408B-A607-E1DFAAEEDC3C SUMMARY:Camron Wright at Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1326 DESCRIPTION:Author Camron Wright visits the Weber County Pleasant Valley Branch Library to discuss his latest novel The Orphan Keeper on Monday, September 17th at 7:00 PM.\N\NThe Orphan Keeper is based on the remarkable true story of Taj Rowland. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to an orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead to dead ends. Meanwhile, they simply love him, change his name to Taj, enroll him in school, and make him part of their family. His story might have ended there, had it not been for the pestering questions in his head: Who am I? Why was I taken? How do I get home? \N\NMore than a decade later, Taj meets Priya, a girl from southern India with surprising ties to his past. Is she the key to unveiling the secrets of his childhood, or is it too late? And if he does make it back to India, how will he find his family with so few clues?\N\NThe Orphan Keeper was named 2016 Book of the Year Gold Winner in Multicultural Fiction by Foreword Reviews, and Best General Fiction of the year by the Whitney Awards. It has been published in both North America and Indonesia. \N\NCamron Wright was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first book, Letters for Emily, was a Readers Choice Award winner, as well as a selection of the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild. Letters for Emily has been published in North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and China.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Camron Wright visits the Weber County Pleasant Valley Branch Library to discuss his latest novel The Orphan Keeper on Monday, September 17th at 7:00 PM.

The Orphan Keeper is based on the remarkable true story of Taj Rowland. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to an orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead to dead ends. Meanwhile, they simply love him, change his name to Taj, enroll him in school, and make him part of their family. His story might have ended there, had it not been for the pestering questions in his head: Who am I? Why was I taken? How do I get home?

More than a decade later, Taj meets Priya, a girl from southern India with surprising ties to his past. Is she the key to unveiling the secrets of his childhood, or is it too late? And if he does make it back to India, how will he find his family with so few clues?

The Orphan Keeper was named 2016 Book of the Year Gold Winner in Multicultural Fiction by Foreword Reviews, and Best General Fiction of the year by the Whitney Awards. It has been published in both North America and Indonesia.

Camron Wright was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first book, Letters for Emily, was a Readers Choice Award winner, as well as a selection of the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild. Letters for Emily has been published in North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and China.

This event was made possible with support from Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180917T210000 UID:E56543A7-3192-4A87-BC1F-D67305EFE478 SUMMARY:Scott Westerfeld at the King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1336 DESCRIPTION:Science fiction author Scott Westerfeld visits the King's English Bookshop to discuss the latest book in his Uglies series, Imposter.\N\NFrey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret.\N\NFrey is Rafi’s twin sister—and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must.\N\NWhen her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor—as poised and charming as her sister. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth . . . and if she can risk becoming her own person.\N\NScott Westerfeld is the author of twenty-two novels. Five are for adults, and the other seventeen for young adults. He is best known for the Uglies quartet, set in a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory at age sixteen. He is also known for the Leviathan trilogy, a steampunk retelling of World War I, illustrated by Keith Thompson and featuring adventure, walking machines, and living airships; the Zeroes trilogy, written with Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti, about six teens with strange powers in a small city in California; and the Midnighters trilogy, about five teenagers for whom time freezes every night. My standalone works include four novels set in contemporary New York: So Yesterday, Peeps, The Last Days, and Afterworlds.\N\NPlaces in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Impostors from The King's English.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Science fiction author Scott Westerfeld visits the King's English Bookshop to discuss the latest book in his Uglies series, Imposter.

Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret.

Frey is Rafi’s twin sister—and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must.

When her father sends Frey in Rafi’s place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor—as poised and charming as her sister. But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth . . . and if she can risk becoming her own person.

Scott Westerfeld is the author of twenty-two novels. Five are for adults, and the other seventeen for young adults. He is best known for the Uglies quartet, set in a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory at age sixteen. He is also known for the Leviathan trilogy, a steampunk retelling of World War I, illustrated by Keith Thompson and featuring adventure, walking machines, and living airships; the Zeroes trilogy, written with Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti, about six teens with strange powers in a small city in California; and the Midnighters trilogy, about five teenagers for whom time freezes every night. My standalone works include four novels set in contemporary New York: So Yesterday, Peeps, The Last Days, and Afterworlds.

Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Impostors from The King's English.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180918T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180918T200000 UID:1D19C096-C09F-4640-8F17-072E53AEF1C7 SUMMARY:Tyehima Jess at St. Joseph Catholic High School CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1290 DESCRIPTION:Weber State University presents Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess at St. Joseph Catholic High School on Tuesday, September 18th (Reception at 6:00 PM and reading at 7:00 PM). \N\NWith ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess's second book Olio weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. \N\NOlio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.\N\NJess received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000–2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018. Jess is a Professor of English at College of Staten Island.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weber State University, St. Joseph Catholic High School, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber State University presents Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess at St. Joseph Catholic High School on Tuesday, September 18th (Reception at 6:00 PM and reading at 7:00 PM).

With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess's second book Olio weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. 

Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Jess received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000–2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018. Jess is a Professor of English at College of Staten Island.

This event was made possible with support from Weber State University, St. Joseph Catholic High School, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180919T210000 UID:A2771406-4E65-491C-AC9D-692BE7C32F20 SUMMARY:George Handley at City Art Reading Series CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1284 DESCRIPTION:Brigham Young University professors George B. Handley and Steven Peck visit the Salt Lake City Library to discuss their work on Wednesday, September 19th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series. \N\NHandley will share work from his new book, American Fork. This book tells the story of a shared love of the Utah landscape that heals family wounds for two unlikely friends Zacharias Harker, a brilliant botanist and an aging recluse, and Alba, a young woman he hires to paint flowers for a book he is writing on the implications of climate change focused on the wildflowers of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. \N\NOver the course of their unlikely friendship, Harker convinces Alba to return to Chile to learn the story, long hidden from her by her mother, of her father’s disappearance under Pinochet. As America grows more distrusting of diversity, Alba commits her art to the protection of the environment and to a more inclusive meaning of family and belonging while she and her husband, John, strive to learn Harker’s hidden past and include him in their lives before it is too late. Rooted in the Mormon heritage of Utah but hemispheric in its reach, American Fork is a story of restoration and healing in the wake of loss and betrayal.\N\NHandley writes and researches on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment, with a special interest in postcolonial literature. His scholarship has also focused on the environmental values of Mormonism and he frequently speaks publicly in his home state of Utah about environmental values and issues. In addition to his scholarly writing, he writes creatively. This includes his environmental memoir, Home Waters, which won the 2011 prize for best memoir from the Association of Mormon Letters.\N\NIn Tales from Pleasant Grove, Steven Peck creates a breathtaking collection of short stories, harnessing the winds of a wild creativity with gale-force unpredictability. This book is a wonder and a marvel. The imaginative breadth and speculative depth available here brings to life dragons, fairies, witches, demons, and ghost, all set within a western landscape that in its own way proves just as amazing and other worldly as the fantastic elements at play within Peck's work.\N\NSteven L. Peck is an evolutionary biologist, blogger, poet, and novelist. He is the author of Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats, The Scholar of Moab, A Short Stay in Hell, and The Rifts of Rime, as well as collection of short stories titled Wandering Realities. He has published two volumes of poetry, Incorrect Astronomy and Fly Fishing in Middle Earth, and two volumes of non-fiction reflections, Science the Key to Theology and Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist. He is a blogger at By Common Consent, and can also be found online at www.stevepeckniche.com. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from The City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham Young University professors George B. Handley and Steven Peck visit the Salt Lake City Library to discuss their work on Wednesday, September 19th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series.

Handley will share work from his new book, American Fork. This book tells the story of a shared love of the Utah landscape that heals family wounds for two unlikely friends Zacharias Harker, a brilliant botanist and an aging recluse, and Alba, a young woman he hires to paint flowers for a book he is writing on the implications of climate change focused on the wildflowers of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.

Over the course of their unlikely friendship, Harker convinces Alba to return to Chile to learn the story, long hidden from her by her mother, of her father’s disappearance under Pinochet. As America grows more distrusting of diversity, Alba commits her art to the protection of the environment and to a more inclusive meaning of family and belonging while she and her husband, John, strive to learn Harker’s hidden past and include him in their lives before it is too late. Rooted in the Mormon heritage of Utah but hemispheric in its reach, American Fork is a story of restoration and healing in the wake of loss and betrayal.

Handley writes and researches on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment, with a special interest in postcolonial literature. His scholarship has also focused on the environmental values of Mormonism and he frequently speaks publicly in his home state of Utah about environmental values and issues. In addition to his scholarly writing, he writes creatively. This includes his environmental memoir, Home Waters, which won the 2011 prize for best memoir from the Association of Mormon Letters.

In Tales from Pleasant Grove, Steven Peck creates a breathtaking collection of short stories, harnessing the winds of a wild creativity with gale-force unpredictability. This book is a wonder and a marvel. The imaginative breadth and speculative depth available here brings to life dragons, fairies, witches, demons, and ghost, all set within a western landscape that in its own way proves just as amazing and other worldly as the fantastic elements at play within Peck's work.

Steven L. Peck is an evolutionary biologist, blogger, poet, and novelist. He is the author of Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats, The Scholar of Moab, A Short Stay in Hell, and The Rifts of Rime, as well as collection of short stories titled Wandering Realities. He has published two volumes of poetry, Incorrect Astronomy and Fly Fishing in Middle Earth, and two volumes of non-fiction reflections, Science the Key to Theology and Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist. He is a blogger at By Common Consent, and can also be found online at www.stevepeckniche.com.

This event is made possible with support from The City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T133000 UID:EB35AC35-F7DA-4F24-9245-E1E3B399628A SUMMARY:Sarah Lewis at Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1298 DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author, curator, and Assistant Professor at Harvard University Sarah Lewis visits Southern Utah University to discuss her book, The Rise on Thursday, September 20th at 11:30 AM in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center. \N\NThe Rise is a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors—from innovation to the arts—are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts. \N\NThe gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility. The Rise—part investigation into a psychological mystery, part an argument about creativity and art, and part a soulful celebration of the determination and courage of the human spirit—makes the case that many of the world’s greatest achievements have come from understanding the central importance of failure. \N\NWritten over the course of four years, this exquisite biography of an idea is about the improbable foundations of a creative human endeavor. Each chapter focuses on the inestimable value of often ignored ideas—the power of surrender, how play is essential for innovation, the “near win” can help propel you on the road to mastery, the importance of grit and creative practice. The Rise shares narratives about figures past and present that range from choreographers, writers, painters, inventors, and entrepreneurs; Frederick Douglass, Samuel F.B. Morse, Diane Arbus, and J.K. Rowling, for example, feature alongside choreographer Paul Taylor, Nobel Prize–winning physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, and Arctic explorer Ben Saunders.\N\NLewis is the guest editor of the landmark “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture which received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. Her essays on race, contemporary art and culture have been published in many journals including The New York Times, The New Yorker. Lewis is also the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, a layered, story-driven investigation of how innovation, discovery, and the creative process are all spurred on by advantages gleaned from improbable foundations.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bestselling author, curator, and Assistant Professor at Harvard University Sarah Lewis visits Southern Utah University to discuss her book, The Rise on Thursday, September 20th at 11:30 AM in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center.

The Rise is a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors—from innovation to the arts—are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.

The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility. The Rise—part investigation into a psychological mystery, part an argument about creativity and art, and part a soulful celebration of the determination and courage of the human spirit—makes the case that many of the world’s greatest achievements have come from understanding the central importance of failure.

Written over the course of four years, this exquisite biography of an idea is about the improbable foundations of a creative human endeavor. Each chapter focuses on the inestimable value of often ignored ideas—the power of surrender, how play is essential for innovation, the “near win” can help propel you on the road to mastery, the importance of grit and creative practice. The Rise shares narratives about figures past and present that range from choreographers, writers, painters, inventors, and entrepreneurs; Frederick Douglass, Samuel F.B. Morse, Diane Arbus, and J.K. Rowling, for example, feature alongside choreographer Paul Taylor, Nobel Prize–winning physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, and Arctic explorer Ben Saunders.

Lewis is the guest editor of the landmark “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture which received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. Her essays on race, contemporary art and culture have been published in many journals including The New York Times, The New Yorker. Lewis is also the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, a layered, story-driven investigation of how innovation, discovery, and the creative process are all spurred on by advantages gleaned from improbable foundations.

This event is made possible with support from the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T203000 UID:AC94AAA1-0603-435E-BB7B-D35DCDA91128 SUMMARY:Books & Bridges Featuring Nathan Devir CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1345 DESCRIPTION:On September 20, Books and Bridges and Weller Book Works welcome Nathan Devir and his presentation "Strained Boundaries: Exclusivism versus Pluralism in the Literature of Chaim Potok".\N\NThe award-winning novelist and rabbi Chaim Potok often referred to himself as a zwischenmensch (Yiddish: an "in-between person") with respect to his own religious and social identity; and the characters that populate his novels also exhibit this same existential malaise. Finding Orthodox Judaism too restrictive, and secular American culture too permissive, they are unable to belong wholeheartedly to either milieu. This lecture by University of Utah Jewish Studies professor Nathan Devir will use Potok's literary works to showcase what it means to be an "in-between person" in modern society, regardless of one's particular faith group, especially when the loyalty to that group often proves difficult to reconcile with the freedom to explore one’s own personal spiritual and artistic visions allowed for in secular culture.\N\NNathan P. Devir, one of the world's leading experts on African Jewry, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah, where he also directs that institution's Middle East Center/Middle East Studies Program and Religious Studies Program. Devir's academic research analyzes subjects such as Jewish civilization and history, Israeli society, Hebrew language, African cultures, and general topics surrounding religious and ethnic diversity. \N\NBooks & Bridges is a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On September 20, Books and Bridges and Weller Book Works welcome Nathan Devir and his presentation "Strained Boundaries: Exclusivism versus Pluralism in the Literature of Chaim Potok".

The award-winning novelist and rabbi Chaim Potok often referred to himself as a zwischenmensch (Yiddish: an "in-between person") with respect to his own religious and social identity; and the characters that populate his novels also exhibit this same existential malaise. Finding Orthodox Judaism too restrictive, and secular American culture too permissive, they are unable to belong wholeheartedly to either milieu. This lecture by University of Utah Jewish Studies professor Nathan Devir will use Potok's literary works to showcase what it means to be an "in-between person" in modern society, regardless of one's particular faith group, especially when the loyalty to that group often proves difficult to reconcile with the freedom to explore one’s own personal spiritual and artistic visions allowed for in secular culture.

Nathan P. Devir, one of the world's leading experts on African Jewry, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah, where he also directs that institution's Middle East Center/Middle East Studies Program and Religious Studies Program. Devir's academic research analyzes subjects such as Jewish civilization and history, Israeli society, Hebrew language, African cultures, and general topics surrounding religious and ethnic diversity.

Books & Bridges is a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.

This event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T210000 UID:E1024401-6097-4F99-AA5D-513443B2067C SUMMARY:Vi Khi Nao & Joanna Ruocco at Guest Writer Series CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1265 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah presents Vi Khi Nao and Joanna Ruocco on Thursday, September 20th at the Finch Lane Gallery. \N\NIn Fish in Exile, Nao asks difficult questions: How do you grieve the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone’s pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent’s grief all the more clearly.\N\NVi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. She is the author of Umbilical Hospital; the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016; the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016); and the poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. \N\NRuoco's Dan tells the story of Melba Zuzzo. In Dan, a town located in the foothills of ... somewhere? . . . she finds herself in a rut. In fact she was probably born into this rut, but today, for some reason, she feels suddenly aware of it. Everything is changing, yet nothing is making sense. The people she might rely upon, the habits she should find comforting—everything is off. It's as if life, which has gone by largely unnoticed up to now, has been silently conspiring against her the whole time. In Dan, Ruocco has created a slapstick parable that brings together the restless undercurrents and unabashed campiness of Thomas Pynchon with the meandering imaginative audacity of Raymond Roussel. Either Dan is a state of mind, beyond the reach of any physical map, or else it sits on every map unnoticed, tucked beneath the big red dot that tells us YOU ARE HERE.\N\NJoanna Ruocco is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University. She has published several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project).\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Guest Writers Series, the University of Utah Department of English and Creative Writing Program, Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah presents Vi Khi Nao and Joanna Ruocco on Thursday, September 20th at the Finch Lane Gallery.

In Fish in Exile, Nao asks difficult questions: How do you grieve the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone’s pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent’s grief all the more clearly.

Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam. She is the author of Umbilical Hospital; the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016; the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016); and the poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014.

Ruoco's Dan tells the story of Melba Zuzzo. In Dan, a town located in the foothills of ... somewhere? . . . she finds herself in a rut. In fact she was probably born into this rut, but today, for some reason, she feels suddenly aware of it. Everything is changing, yet nothing is making sense. The people she might rely upon, the habits she should find comforting—everything is off. It's as if life, which has gone by largely unnoticed up to now, has been silently conspiring against her the whole time. In Dan, Ruocco has created a slapstick parable that brings together the restless undercurrents and unabashed campiness of Thomas Pynchon with the meandering imaginative audacity of Raymond Roussel. Either Dan is a state of mind, beyond the reach of any physical map, or else it sits on every map unnoticed, tucked beneath the big red dot that tells us YOU ARE HERE.

Joanna Ruocco is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University. She has published several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project).

This event was made possible with support from Guest Writers Series, the University of Utah Department of English and Creative Writing Program, Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T203000 UID:C4AD6042-2CFA-4BDA-A534-1C96ED009CD0 SUMMARY:Erika Sanchez at Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1302 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Library presents a very special event featuring the best-selling author, Erika L. Sánchez. The author presentation will begin at 7pm, followed by a book signing at 8pm.\N\NErika L. Sánchez's acclaimed young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, was nominated for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature and was an instant New York Times bestseller. A novelist, essayist, poet and self-described "cheerleader" for young women, she seeks to amplify the stories and voices of marginalized people everywhere through the power of storytelling.\N\NI Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, was immediately heralded as one of the most significant works of young adult fiction in recent years. Born and raised in a working class town outside of Chicago to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants, Sánchez’s experience informed her moving depiction of the realities of undocumented life in America. Told through the eyes of a teenage girl trying to find her place between Mexican culture and American life after a tragedy upends her family, the book compassionately and powerfully touches on numerous contemporary issues including mental health, gender, and immigration.\N\NPrior to publishing I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Sánchez received numerous grants and accolades in support of her work from the Poetry Foundation, the CantoMundo Prize, Bread Loaf Scholarship, the Guild Complex of Chicago, and the Boston Review, all of which added to her reputation as an emerging writer to watch. As a journalist, she’s been featured in The Guardian, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, Salon, Buzzfeed, and Cosmopolitan, and released her first book of poetry, Lessons on Expulsion to acclaim from outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post.\N\NWhen not writing, Sánchez is an enthusiastic advocate for young women everywhere, and speaks about the rights and experiences of undocumented immigrants and young people of color, using her platform and her journey as a writer to encourage her audiences to tell their own stories. Sánchez is available for speaking engagements with both English and Spanish-speaking audiences. Recently, she was awarded the Princeton Arts Fellowship and currently teaches in the creative writing department at Princeton University. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Library presents a very special event featuring the best-selling author, Erika L. Sánchez. The author presentation will begin at 7pm, followed by a book signing at 8pm.

Erika L. Sánchez's acclaimed young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, was nominated for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature and was an instant New York Times bestseller. A novelist, essayist, poet and self-described "cheerleader" for young women, she seeks to amplify the stories and voices of marginalized people everywhere through the power of storytelling.

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, was immediately heralded as one of the most significant works of young adult fiction in recent years. Born and raised in a working class town outside of Chicago to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants, Sánchez’s experience informed her moving depiction of the realities of undocumented life in America. Told through the eyes of a teenage girl trying to find her place between Mexican culture and American life after a tragedy upends her family, the book compassionately and powerfully touches on numerous contemporary issues including mental health, gender, and immigration.

Prior to publishing I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Sánchez received numerous grants and accolades in support of her work from the Poetry Foundation, the CantoMundo Prize, Bread Loaf Scholarship, the Guild Complex of Chicago, and the Boston Review, all of which added to her reputation as an emerging writer to watch. As a journalist, she’s been featured in The Guardian, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, Salon, Buzzfeed, and Cosmopolitan, and released her first book of poetry, Lessons on Expulsion to acclaim from outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post.

When not writing, Sánchez is an enthusiastic advocate for young women everywhere, and speaks about the rights and experiences of undocumented immigrants and young people of color, using her platform and her journey as a writer to encourage her audiences to tell their own stories. Sánchez is available for speaking engagements with both English and Spanish-speaking audiences. Recently, she was awarded the Princeton Arts Fellowship and currently teaches in the creative writing department at Princeton University.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T210000 UID:7781DA4B-C50E-4B42-861B-3C65842B98AE SUMMARY:Ken Waldman & Kate MacLeod at Ken Sanders Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1358 DESCRIPTION:Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to present dual fiddling poets for one night only when Ken Waldman and Kate MacLeod visit the shop to share their musical and lyric talents for this special event. \N\NWaldman's nine albums of old-time Appalachian-style string-band music include two for children. His ten books consist of eight full-length poetry collections, a memoir about his life as a touring artist, and a volume of acrostic poems for kids.\N\NA former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, he's been a visiting writer at nearly 100 colleges and universities, a visiting artist at over 230 schools in 33 states, and has led workshops from Alaska to Maine. As a performer, he's played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, occasionally as a soloist, more often as leader of one of his ever-changing troupes of nationally recognized musicians.\N\N\NUtah-based musician Kate MacLeod is an award-winning songwriter and fiddler player inspired by a wide range of musical influences including Americana Folk, Bluegrass, Celtic, and Classical music genres. Originally from the Washington DC area, she’s made her home in Utah for most of her life and tours internationally, taking her Utah-inspired music to audiences across the United States and into Europe. Her latest recording, Deep in the Sound of Terra, is a collection of fiddle-based instrumental pieces inspired by landscape and nature and is said to be “one of the most ambitious and unusual fiddle albums of the year,” (Rambles.net). Her songwriting is known for poetic expression in lyrics that stand as poems on their own, but few know that Kate also writes poetry, without music. At this event, in addition to her songs and fiddle playing, Kate will share some of her poetry with a Utah audience, for the first time. Artist website: www.KateMacLeod.com\N\NMacLeod's publications include a 50-song songbook of original songs, including music notation, chords, and lyrics, published by Dream Garden Press in 2016. This songbook is available through Ken Sanders Rare Books and Waterbug Records. Her previous recording project is a collection of songs inspired by books and covers a span of 30 years of songwriting. It was recorded in concert at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City, UT.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to present dual fiddling poets for one night only when Ken Waldman and Kate MacLeod visit the shop to share their musical and lyric talents for this special event.

Waldman's nine albums of old-time Appalachian-style string-band music include two for children. His ten books consist of eight full-length poetry collections, a memoir about his life as a touring artist, and a volume of acrostic poems for kids.

A former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, he's been a visiting writer at nearly 100 colleges and universities, a visiting artist at over 230 schools in 33 states, and has led workshops from Alaska to Maine. As a performer, he's played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, occasionally as a soloist, more often as leader of one of his ever-changing troupes of nationally recognized musicians.


Utah-based musician Kate MacLeod is an award-winning songwriter and fiddler player inspired by a wide range of musical influences including Americana Folk, Bluegrass, Celtic, and Classical music genres. Originally from the Washington DC area, she’s made her home in Utah for most of her life and tours internationally, taking her Utah-inspired music to audiences across the United States and into Europe. Her latest recording, Deep in the Sound of Terra, is a collection of fiddle-based instrumental pieces inspired by landscape and nature and is said to be “one of the most ambitious and unusual fiddle albums of the year,” (Rambles.net). Her songwriting is known for poetic expression in lyrics that stand as poems on their own, but few know that Kate also writes poetry, without music. At this event, in addition to her songs and fiddle playing, Kate will share some of her poetry with a Utah audience, for the first time. Artist website: www.KateMacLeod.com

MacLeod's publications include a 50-song songbook of original songs, including music notation, chords, and lyrics, published by Dream Garden Press in 2016. This songbook is available through Ken Sanders Rare Books and Waterbug Records. Her previous recording project is a collection of songs inspired by books and covers a span of 30 years of songwriting. It was recorded in concert at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City, UT.

This event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180924T210000 UID:011BB836-969F-4BBD-906B-5F91F7DE6C97 SUMMARY:Rosina Lozano at Salt Lake City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1286 DESCRIPTION:Historian Rosina Lozano visits the City Library to discuss her latest book An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States on Monday, September 24th at 7:00 PM. \N\NLozano's first book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (published by The University of California Press in April 2018), is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States from the incorporation of the Mexican cession in 1848 through World War II, with some discussion of the following decades and present-day concerns. The nation has always been multilingual, and Spanish-language rights, in particular, have remained an important political issue into the present. The book is organized in two parts. The first five chapters argue that Spanish was a language of politics in the U.S. Southwest following the U.S. takeover. The second half of the book transitions to exploring the multifaceted use of Spanish in the twentieth century as it became a political language that instigated local and national political debates related to immigration and Americanization and aided the hemispheric interests of the nation.\N\NRosina Lozano is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and a historian of Latino history with a research and teaching focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Lozano has received fellowships from the Huntington Library and the New Mexico Office of the State Historian to aid her research. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Lozano held a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation that she completed at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from The City Library, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Rosina Lozano visits the City Library to discuss her latest book An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States on Monday, September 24th at 7:00 PM.

Lozano's first book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (published by The University of California Press in April 2018), is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States from the incorporation of the Mexican cession in 1848 through World War II, with some discussion of the following decades and present-day concerns. The nation has always been multilingual, and Spanish-language rights, in particular, have remained an important political issue into the present. The book is organized in two parts. The first five chapters argue that Spanish was a language of politics in the U.S. Southwest following the U.S. takeover. The second half of the book transitions to exploring the multifaceted use of Spanish in the twentieth century as it became a political language that instigated local and national political debates related to immigration and Americanization and aided the hemispheric interests of the nation.

Rosina Lozano is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and a historian of Latino history with a research and teaching focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Lozano has received fellowships from the Huntington Library and the New Mexico Office of the State Historian to aid her research. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Lozano held a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation that she completed at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University.

This event was made possible with support from The City Library, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180924T203000 UID:1222B193-582B-419F-B76A-73F2316B2F8C SUMMARY:Camille Dungy & Jason Olsen at Westminster College CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1317 DESCRIPTION:Westminster College and the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series presents poets Camille Dungy and Jason Olsen on Monday, September 24th at the Kim Adamson Alumni House on Westminster College Campus.\N\NIn Guidebook to Relative Strangers, Camille Dungy debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history. As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler. As they travel, Dungy is intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child but as black females. With a poet’s eye, she celebrates the particular in the universal, such as a child’s acquisition of language and what to pack in a diaper bag. At the same time, her horizons are wide, as history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.\N\NCamille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry: Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), Smith Blue (Southern Illinois UP, 2011), Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006). Her debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017). Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology (Persea, 2009), and served as associate editor for Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade(University of Michigan Press, 2006).\N\NCamille T. Dungy’s honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and a California Book Award silver medal. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Sustainable Arts Foundation, The Diane Middlebrook Residency Fellowship of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and other organizations. Dungy is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University.\N\NJason Olsen describes Parakeet: A Poem of Opportunity, as a "choose your own adventure poem." He was inspired to write it by his childhood love for the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. Like the books, at the bottom of each page the reader is given the opportunity to decide where they want the poem to venture next. Each person, or indeed each time an individual reads through this book they have the opportunity to create an entirely new poem. \N\NJason Olsen lives and works in Utah with his wife and two children. He writes poetry and fiction. Olsen has a PhD in Poetry from Western Michigan University and teaches English at Utah State University - Eastern.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster College and the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series presents poets Camille Dungy and Jason Olsen on Monday, September 24th at the Kim Adamson Alumni House on Westminster College Campus.

In Guidebook to Relative Strangers, Camille Dungy debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race, motherhood, and history. As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler. As they travel, Dungy is intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child but as black females. With a poet’s eye, she celebrates the particular in the universal, such as a child’s acquisition of language and what to pack in a diaper bag. At the same time, her horizons are wide, as history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive, yet threatening, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods.

Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry: Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), Smith Blue (Southern Illinois UP, 2011), Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006). Her debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017). Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology (Persea, 2009), and served as associate editor for Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade(University of Michigan Press, 2006).

Camille T. Dungy’s honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and a California Book Award silver medal. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Sustainable Arts Foundation, The Diane Middlebrook Residency Fellowship of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and other organizations. Dungy is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University.

Jason Olsen describes Parakeet: A Poem of Opportunity, as a "choose your own adventure poem." He was inspired to write it by his childhood love for the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. Like the books, at the bottom of each page the reader is given the opportunity to decide where they want the poem to venture next. Each person, or indeed each time an individual reads through this book they have the opportunity to create an entirely new poem.

Jason Olsen lives and works in Utah with his wife and two children. He writes poetry and fiction. Olsen has a PhD in Poetry from Western Michigan University and teaches English at Utah State University - Eastern.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180924T210000 UID:312A4E7F-3B4F-427D-BB51-E3EEC5893DA6 SUMMARY:Blanding Book Festival: Ken Waldman CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1371 DESCRIPTION:Kigalia Fine Arts in Blanding presents Alaska's fiddling poet, Ken Waldman, on Tuesday, September 24th (Location TBA). \N\NWaldman's nine albums of old-time Appalachian-style string-band music include two for children. His ten books consist of eight full-length poetry collections, a memoir about his life as a touring artist, and a volume of acrostic poems for kids.\N\NA former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, he's been a visiting writer at nearly 100 colleges and universities, a visiting artist at over 230 schools in 33 states, and has led workshops from Alaska to Maine.\N\NAs a performer, he's played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, occasionally as a soloist, more often as leader of one of his ever-changing troupes of nationally recognized musicians.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Kigalia Fine Arts in Blanding presents Alaska's fiddling poet, Ken Waldman, on Tuesday, September 24th (Location TBA).

Waldman's nine albums of old-time Appalachian-style string-band music include two for children. His ten books consist of eight full-length poetry collections, a memoir about his life as a touring artist, and a volume of acrostic poems for kids.

A former college professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, he's been a visiting writer at nearly 100 colleges and universities, a visiting artist at over 230 schools in 33 states, and has led workshops from Alaska to Maine.

As a performer, he's played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to Berkeley's Freight and Salvage, occasionally as a soloist, more often as leader of one of his ever-changing troupes of nationally recognized musicians.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180925T210000 UID:8FDAE599-F755-485C-9DA1-E850E049AB03 SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine at The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1239 DESCRIPTION:Author Tessa Fontaine visits The King's English Bookshop to discuss her new memoir, The Electric Woman, on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00 PM.\N\NTessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.\N\NTurns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:\N\NThe trick is there is no trick.\NYou eat fire by eating fire.\N\NFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist?\N\NTessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, an Amazon Editors' Best of the Month featured debut, an iBooks favorite, and more. She spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. Essays about the sideshow won the 2016 AWP Intro Award in Nonfiction, and have appeared in The Rumpus, Hayden's Ferry Review, Autre, and elsewhere. Other work can be found in Glamour, LitHub, FSG's Works in Progress, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, [PANK], Brevity, and more.\N\N​This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Tessa Fontaine visits The King's English Bookshop to discuss her new memoir, The Electric Woman, on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00 PM.

Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Turns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:

The trick is there is no trick.
You eat fire by eating fire.

For three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist?

Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, an Amazon Editors' Best of the Month featured debut, an iBooks favorite, and more. She spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. Essays about the sideshow won the 2016 AWP Intro Award in Nonfiction, and have appeared in The Rumpus, Hayden's Ferry Review, Autre, and elsewhere. Other work can be found in Glamour, LitHub, FSG's Works in Progress, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, [PANK], Brevity, and more.

​This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180925T210000 UID:71597894-86DF-49D7-8F7C-ADC9DFFD8885 SUMMARY:Rosina Lozano at Park City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1287 DESCRIPTION:Historian Rosina Lozano visits the Park City Library to discuss her latest book An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00 PM. \N\NLozano's first book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (published by The University of California Press in April 2018), is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States from the incorporation of the Mexican cession in 1848 through World War II, with some discussion of the following decades and present-day concerns. The nation has always been multilingual, and Spanish-language rights, in particular, have remained an important political issue into the present. The book is organized in two parts. The first five chapters argue that Spanish was a language of politics in the U.S. Southwest following the U.S. takeover. The second half of the book transitions to exploring the multifaceted use of Spanish in the twentieth century as it became a political language that instigated local and national political debates related to immigration and Americanization and aided the hemispheric interests of the nation.\N\NRosina Lozano is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and a historian of Latino history with a research and teaching focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Lozano has received fellowships from the Huntington Library and the New Mexico Office of the State Historian to aid her research. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Lozano held a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation that she completed at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Park City Public Library, Summit County RAP tax, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Rosina Lozano visits the Park City Library to discuss her latest book An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States on Tuesday, September 25th at 7:00 PM.

Lozano's first book, An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (published by The University of California Press in April 2018), is a political history of the Spanish language in the United States from the incorporation of the Mexican cession in 1848 through World War II, with some discussion of the following decades and present-day concerns. The nation has always been multilingual, and Spanish-language rights, in particular, have remained an important political issue into the present. The book is organized in two parts. The first five chapters argue that Spanish was a language of politics in the U.S. Southwest following the U.S. takeover. The second half of the book transitions to exploring the multifaceted use of Spanish in the twentieth century as it became a political language that instigated local and national political debates related to immigration and Americanization and aided the hemispheric interests of the nation.

Rosina Lozano is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and a historian of Latino history with a research and teaching focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. Lozano has received fellowships from the Huntington Library and the New Mexico Office of the State Historian to aid her research. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Lozano held a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation that she completed at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University.

This event was made possible with support from the Park City Public Library, Summit County RAP tax, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180926T210000 UID:68047957-37D6-4623-8682-1348D7A6BDDC SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine at The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1240 DESCRIPTION:Author Tessa Fontaine visits Booked on 25th to discuss her new memoir, The Electric Woman, on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 PM.\N\NTessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.\N\NTurns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:\N\NThe trick is there is no trick.\NYou eat fire by eating fire.\N\NFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist?\N\NTessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, an Amazon Editors' Best of the Month featured debut, an iBooks favorite, and more. She spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. Essays about the sideshow won the 2016 AWP Intro Award in Nonfiction, and have appeared in The Rumpus, Hayden's Ferry Review, Autre, and elsewhere. Other work can be found in Glamour, LitHub, FSG's Works in Progress, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, [PANK], Brevity, and more.\N\N​This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Booked on 25th. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Tessa Fontaine visits Booked on 25th to discuss her new memoir, The Electric Woman, on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 PM.

Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Turns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:

The trick is there is no trick.
You eat fire by eating fire.

For three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist?

Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, an Amazon Editors' Best of the Month featured debut, an iBooks favorite, and more. She spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. Essays about the sideshow won the 2016 AWP Intro Award in Nonfiction, and have appeared in The Rumpus, Hayden's Ferry Review, Autre, and elsewhere. Other work can be found in Glamour, LitHub, FSG's Works in Progress, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, [PANK], Brevity, and more.

​This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Booked on 25th. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180926T210000 UID:430534AF-ADE7-4176-8996-9CA3F3181C5B SUMMARY:Deborah Reed at City Art Reading Series CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1309 DESCRIPTION:Authors Deborah Reed, Jeff Metcalf, and Max Werner share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series.\N\NDeborah Reed's new novel, The Days When Birds Come Back, tells the story of June and Jameson. June returns to the Oregon coast to decide what to do with her late grandparents' home while in transition from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled career. Jameson comes highly recommended to renovate the old house to sell. He too struggles to redefine his marriage in the aftermath of tragic loss, and his conversations with June about the house quickly turn to the personal. Sensing connection, June and Jameson can’t seem to stop circling each other, shying away from hurt. But what can the future hold as long as they are gripped so firmly by the past?\N\NDeborah Reed is the author of four novels: The Days When Birds Come Back, Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, and Carry Yourself Back to Me. She has also authored two popular thrillers under the pen name Audrey Braun. \N\NA storyteller and avid fly fisherman, Jeff Metcalf is, for compelling personal reasons, an enhanced observer of the human condition, who finds himself often in the streams of the American West. Not only rivers run through the essays in Back Cast, his cancer does too. But so do camaraderie, adventures, reveling in nature and outdoor devotions, and the sheer bliss of focused engagement with the fish and the cast. Metcalf’s keenly observed companions are river guides, small-town locals, academics, and other city folk, all like him among those who run to the river for solace and joy.\N \NJeff Metcalf is a professor of English at the University of Utah and has been the recipient of numerous awards. His fiction and essays have appeared in local and national magazines and his most recent play, A Slight Discomfort, has been widely staged in both the United States and Europe. His first collection of essays, Requiem for the Living, was the winner of the 2012 Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Competition.\N\NIn his new book, The Bone Pile: Essays on Nature and Culture, Maximilian Werner uses the vehicles of fly fishing, every day experience, and some of our most sacred rituals to explore the origins and limitations of our behavior and ideas. These essays range from the quasi-mystical to the polemical and from the polemical to the ecological. However different each of these essays may be, together they represent an incisive study of human and nonhuman life and of the environment that unites us.\N\NMaximilian Werner has been teaching at the university level for over twenty years and is currently an Assistant Professor (lecturer) in the Writing and Rhetoric Studies Department at the University of Utah, where he teaches Professional Writing, Environmental Writing, and Writing about War. He is an award-winning teacher and author of five books: The Bone Pile, Black River Dreams, a collection of literary fly fishing essays; the novel Crooked Creek; the memoir Gravity Hill, and the memoir/natural history Evolved: Chronicles of the Pleistocene Mind.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The City Library, SL City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Deborah Reed, Jeff Metcalf, and Max Werner share their work at the Salt Lake City Public Library on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series.

Deborah Reed's new novel, The Days When Birds Come Back, tells the story of June and Jameson. June returns to the Oregon coast to decide what to do with her late grandparents' home while in transition from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled career. Jameson comes highly recommended to renovate the old house to sell. He too struggles to redefine his marriage in the aftermath of tragic loss, and his conversations with June about the house quickly turn to the personal. Sensing connection, June and Jameson can’t seem to stop circling each other, shying away from hurt. But what can the future hold as long as they are gripped so firmly by the past?

Deborah Reed is the author of four novels: The Days When Birds Come Back, Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, and Carry Yourself Back to Me. She has also authored two popular thrillers under the pen name Audrey Braun. 

A storyteller and avid fly fisherman, Jeff Metcalf is, for compelling personal reasons, an enhanced observer of the human condition, who finds himself often in the streams of the American West. Not only rivers run through the essays in Back Cast, his cancer does too. But so do camaraderie, adventures, reveling in nature and outdoor devotions, and the sheer bliss of focused engagement with the fish and the cast. Metcalf’s keenly observed companions are river guides, small-town locals, academics, and other city folk, all like him among those who run to the river for solace and joy.

Jeff Metcalf is a professor of English at the University of Utah and has been the recipient of numerous awards. His fiction and essays have appeared in local and national magazines and his most recent play, A Slight Discomfort, has been widely staged in both the United States and Europe. His first collection of essays, Requiem for the Living, was the winner of the 2012 Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Competition.

In his new book, The Bone Pile: Essays on Nature and Culture, Maximilian Werner uses the vehicles of fly fishing, every day experience, and some of our most sacred rituals to explore the origins and limitations of our behavior and ideas. These essays range from the quasi-mystical to the polemical and from the polemical to the ecological. However different each of these essays may be, together they represent an incisive study of human and nonhuman life and of the environment that unites us.

Maximilian Werner has been teaching at the university level for over twenty years and is currently an Assistant Professor (lecturer) in the Writing and Rhetoric Studies Department at the University of Utah, where he teaches Professional Writing, Environmental Writing, and Writing about War. He is an award-winning teacher and author of five books: The Bone Pile, Black River Dreams, a collection of literary fly fishing essays; the novel Crooked Creek; the memoir Gravity Hill, and the memoir/natural history Evolved: Chronicles of the Pleistocene Mind.

This event is made possible with support from The City Library, SL City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180926T203000 UID:460D530A-A7E7-4923-8FB6-3523AF75C6F4 SUMMARY:Holly Fuller at Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1324 DESCRIPTION:Author Holly Fuller visits the Weber County North Branch Library to discuss her book North Ogden Through Time on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. \N\NIn North Ogden Through Time, Fuller shows how the city has seen many changes through the years. Although the majestic Ben Lomond Peak still towers over the city, homes continue to spread further into the foothills. The land that greeted early inhabitants was mostly sagebrush-covered desert, which was steadfastly transformed into rich farmlands and orchards. Today these farmlands and orchards are being developed into housing and commercial areas, creating a flourishing city. Approximately 20,000 citizens take pride in residing and raising their families in this community; among those are many descendants of early settlers. The North Ogden Historical Museum members are dedicated to preserving the history, stories, and artifacts of the city, honoring the legacy of our hardy pioneers. All proceeds from this book benefit the North Ogden Historical Museum, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.\N\NHolly Fuller is a life-long resident of North Ogden. Her love of local history led her to become involved with the North Ogden Historical Museum in 2005. As a member and vice president of the Board of Directors, Holly has worked with other members to establish a local history museum for North Ogden. North Ogden Through Time is a combination of photography and old images, two of her passions.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Holly Fuller visits the Weber County North Branch Library to discuss her book North Ogden Through Time on Wednesday, September 26th at 7:00 PM.

In North Ogden Through Time, Fuller shows how the city has seen many changes through the years. Although the majestic Ben Lomond Peak still towers over the city, homes continue to spread further into the foothills. The land that greeted early inhabitants was mostly sagebrush-covered desert, which was steadfastly transformed into rich farmlands and orchards. Today these farmlands and orchards are being developed into housing and commercial areas, creating a flourishing city. Approximately 20,000 citizens take pride in residing and raising their families in this community; among those are many descendants of early settlers. The North Ogden Historical Museum members are dedicated to preserving the history, stories, and artifacts of the city, honoring the legacy of our hardy pioneers. All proceeds from this book benefit the North Ogden Historical Museum, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Holly Fuller is a life-long resident of North Ogden. Her love of local history led her to become involved with the North Ogden Historical Museum in 2005. As a member and vice president of the Board of Directors, Holly has worked with other members to establish a local history museum for North Ogden. North Ogden Through Time is a combination of photography and old images, two of her passions.

This event was made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180927T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180927T200000 UID:1B6562EC-98AF-446C-BD50-3378DE76C581 SUMMARY:Josi Kilpack at the Summit County Library--Kamas Valley Branch CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1353 DESCRIPTION:Josi Kilpack visits the Kamas valley Branch of the Summit County Library to discuss her new book, As Wide as the Sky, which was written under the pen name Jessica Pack. Kilpack's presentation will begin at 6:00 PM and will be followed by a book signing at 7:00 PM. \N\NFive a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son’s only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task—finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life.\N\NBefore the tragedy that unfolded in a South Dakota mall, Robbie was just like other people’s sons or daughters. Sometimes troubled, but sweet and full of goodness too. That’s the little boy Amanda remembers as she packs up his childhood treasures and progress reports, and discovers a class ring she’s never seen before. Who does it belong to and why did Robbie have it in his possession? So begins a journey that will remind her not only of who Robbie used to be, but of a time when she wasn’t afraid—to talk to strangers, to help those in need, to reach out. Robbie’s choices can never be unmade, but there may still be time for forgiveness and trust to grow again. For a future as wide as the sky.\N\NJosi S. Kilpack hated to read until her mother handed her a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond when she was 13. From that day forward, she read everything she could get her hands on and credits her writing “education” to the many novels she has “studied” since then. She began writing her first novel in 1998 and has written twenty-five novels, one cookbook, and been part of multiple collaborations since then. She is a four-time Whitney Award winner and Best of State winner in Fiction. Josi currently lives in Willard, Utah, with her husband and children.\N\NWhen Kensington Press picked up her first national women's fiction novel, As Wide as the Sky, Josi was in need of a pen name to differentiate between her other genres. For years, Josi has been called Jessica Pack by people who hear her name but don't know her. It made her new pen name easy to choose. As Wide as the Sky will be released in paperback sometime in 2018.\N\NThis event is made possible with suppport from the Kamas Vally Branch, Summit County RAP Tax, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Josi Kilpack visits the Kamas valley Branch of the Summit County Library to discuss her new book, As Wide as the Sky, which was written under the pen name Jessica Pack. Kilpack's presentation will begin at 6:00 PM and will be followed by a book signing at 7:00 PM.

Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son’s only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task—finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life.

Before the tragedy that unfolded in a South Dakota mall, Robbie was just like other people’s sons or daughters. Sometimes troubled, but sweet and full of goodness too. That’s the little boy Amanda remembers as she packs up his childhood treasures and progress reports, and discovers a class ring she’s never seen before. Who does it belong to and why did Robbie have it in his possession? So begins a journey that will remind her not only of who Robbie used to be, but of a time when she wasn’t afraid—to talk to strangers, to help those in need, to reach out. Robbie’s choices can never be unmade, but there may still be time for forgiveness and trust to grow again. For a future as wide as the sky.

Josi S. Kilpack hated to read until her mother handed her a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond when she was 13. From that day forward, she read everything she could get her hands on and credits her writing “education” to the many novels she has “studied” since then. She began writing her first novel in 1998 and has written twenty-five novels, one cookbook, and been part of multiple collaborations since then. She is a four-time Whitney Award winner and Best of State winner in Fiction. Josi currently lives in Willard, Utah, with her husband and children.

When Kensington Press picked up her first national women's fiction novel, As Wide as the Sky, Josi was in need of a pen name to differentiate between her other genres. For years, Josi has been called Jessica Pack by people who hear her name but don't know her. It made her new pen name easy to choose. As Wide as the Sky will be released in paperback sometime in 2018.

This event is made possible with suppport from the Kamas Vally Branch, Summit County RAP Tax, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180927T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180927T203000 UID:3DB3F167-B1CB-4524-9990-0F9929BB9F89 SUMMARY:Jessica Day George at the American Fork Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1289 DESCRIPTION:YA author Jessica Day George visits the American Fork Public Library on Thursday, September 27th at 6:30 pm to discuss her latest book The Rose Legacy.\N\NThe Rose Legacy tells the story of orphan Anthea Cross-Thornley who receives a letter from a long-lost uncle. She wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her?\N\NJessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and three young children.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the American Fork Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:YA author Jessica Day George visits the American Fork Public Library on Thursday, September 27th at 6:30 pm to discuss her latest book The Rose Legacy.

The Rose Legacy tells the story of orphan Anthea Cross-Thornley who receives a letter from a long-lost uncle. She wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her?

Jessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and three young children.

This event is made possible with support from the American Fork Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180927T203000 UID:E3B3B63C-DB58-4468-8F8F-6500DA5551D3 SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine at Logan Public Library CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1264 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West is pleased to host Tessa Fontaine on Thursday, September 27th at 7:00 PM. Fontaine share and discuss her new memoir, The Electric Woman.\N\NTessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.\NTurns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:\N\NThe trick is there is no trick.\NYou eat fire by eating fire.\N\NFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist?\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, the Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West is pleased to host Tessa Fontaine on Thursday, September 27th at 7:00 PM. Fontaine share and discuss her new memoir, The Electric Woman.

Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.
Turns out, one lesson applies to living through illness, keeping the show on the road, letting go of the person you love most, and eating fire:

The trick is there is no trick.
You eat fire by eating fire.

For three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals, wheelchairs, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist?

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, the Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180927T210000 UID:A9E83ED9-A466-4587-BD75-D014EDF15DEB SUMMARY:Andrea Hollander at the King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1330 DESCRIPTION:Poet Andrea Hollander visits the King's English Bookshop at Thursday, September 27th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at Westminster College.\N\NBlue Mistaken for Sky is a fifth full-length collection (Autumn House Press, 2018) that explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. The poems are unselfconscious, and they detail with grace the pleasures and difficulties of aging, and the evolution of personal relationships throughout a life. The book has received advanced praise and is graced by another painting by Hollander’s son, the artist Brooke Budy.\N\NAndrea Hollander is the author of five full-length poetry collections: Blue Mistaken for Sky; Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Woman in the Painting; The Other Life; and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include the 2017 Vern Rutsala Award, a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes (for poetry and literary nonfiction), the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, the Runes Poetry Prize, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, college textbooks, and literary journals. For twenty-two years she served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches workshops and seminars in her home.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Westminster College and the King’s English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Andrea Hollander visits the King's English Bookshop at Thursday, September 27th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at Westminster College.

Blue Mistaken for Sky is a fifth full-length collection (Autumn House Press, 2018) that explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. The poems are unselfconscious, and they detail with grace the pleasures and difficulties of aging, and the evolution of personal relationships throughout a life. The book has received advanced praise and is graced by another painting by Hollander’s son, the artist Brooke Budy.

Andrea Hollander is the author of five full-length poetry collections: Blue Mistaken for Sky; Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Woman in the Painting; The Other Life; and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include the 2017 Vern Rutsala Award, a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes (for poetry and literary nonfiction), the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, the Runes Poetry Prize, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, college textbooks, and literary journals. For twenty-two years she served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches workshops and seminars in her home.

This event was made possible with support from Westminster College and the King’s English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180927T210000 UID:0622AF4A-36DD-4D5C-BE38-0AE8869FD3CD SUMMARY: Read Local Featuring Tim Glenn and Todd Petersen CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1363 DESCRIPTION:15 Bytes and Salt Lake City Arts Council present Tim Glenn and Todd Petersen as part of the Read Local series at the Finch lane Gallery.\N\NIn this Finch Gallery reading series, a collaboration between Salt Lake City Arts Council and 15 Bytes with support from Utah Humanities, we pair emerging local writers with established writers for a reading and discussion of their work.\N\NTim Glenn's novel, Forever Desolation, was the winner of the novel category in the 2017 Utah Original Writing Competition. He is currently running as a candidate for the Utah House of Representatives in District 69. Glenn is a historian and museum director living in Green River, Utah. He earned an MA in U.S. History from the University of Utah, studying the history of wilderness and public lands in the West. Recently, his writing has appeared in Breathing Stories, an arts as activism chapbook from Torrey House Press.\N\NTodd Robert Petersen lives in Cedar City, Utah with his wife and three children. He is a Professor of English and the director of Southern Utah University's project-based learning program. Petersen is the author of two books published locally: Long After Dark (2007) and Rift (2009). His recent academic work focuses on film and television.\N\NIntroduction by David G. Pace, literary editor at 15 Bytes.\NBooks for sale, courtesy of The King’s English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:15 Bytes and Salt Lake City Arts Council present Tim Glenn and Todd Petersen as part of the Read Local series at the Finch lane Gallery.

In this Finch Gallery reading series, a collaboration between Salt Lake City Arts Council and 15 Bytes with support from Utah Humanities, we pair emerging local writers with established writers for a reading and discussion of their work.

Tim Glenn's novel, Forever Desolation, was the winner of the novel category in the 2017 Utah Original Writing Competition. He is currently running as a candidate for the Utah House of Representatives in District 69. Glenn is a historian and museum director living in Green River, Utah. He earned an MA in U.S. History from the University of Utah, studying the history of wilderness and public lands in the West. Recently, his writing has appeared in Breathing Stories, an arts as activism chapbook from Torrey House Press.

Todd Robert Petersen lives in Cedar City, Utah with his wife and three children. He is a Professor of English and the director of Southern Utah University's project-based learning program. Petersen is the author of two books published locally: Long After Dark (2007) and Rift (2009). His recent academic work focuses on film and television.

Introduction by David G. Pace, literary editor at 15 Bytes.
Books for sale, courtesy of The King’s English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T210000 UID:30E90F59-EA18-45E9-A530-1CEEF09A822E SUMMARY:Ars Moriendi Opening and Reading CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1379 DESCRIPTION:Authors Lance Olsen, Shanan Ballam, Kristin Scott, and Michael McLane will help kick off the Bountiful Davis Art Center's new exhibition "Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying" with readings of their work and a short discussion of the that notions of death and mortality have played in their work. This event will start at 6:00 PM and will be followed by an opening reception for the exhibition. \N\NThis event is part of the BDAC's exhibition Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying, curated by Chauncey Secrist. Ars Moriendi seeks to encourage reflection and thoughtful discussion about the subject of death and how its universality connects us and can encourage empathy and connection between all people. \N\NLance Olsen is author of thirteen novels, one hypertext, six nonfiction works, five short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and two anti-textbooks about innovative writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. Olsen is a Guggenheim and an N.E.A. fellowship recipient; and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Finnish, and Portuguese. He has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, on summer- and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Finland, at various writing conferences, and elsewhere. Olsen currently teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. \N\NKirstin Scott is the author of the novel Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel and the Utah Original Writing Competition. Her short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sonora Review, Western Humanities Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She works as a medical writer and lives in Salt Lake City with her family. She is currently working on a novel about a gynecologist named Ajax.\N\NShanan Ballam is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line 2010) and a full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability 2013), a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award; in 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Contest, judged by Sue Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2013, Shanan was appointed to the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and served a 4-year term.\N\NMichael McLane is the author of the chapbook Trace Elements and is an editor with Sugar House Review and saltfront: studies in human habit(at). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including High Country News, Western Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, Dark Mountain, Terrain.org, Colorado Review, and The Laurel Review. McLane lives in Salt Lake City, where he serves as director of both the Utah Center for the Book at Utah Humanities and the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Bountiful Arts Center and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Lance Olsen, Shanan Ballam, Kristin Scott, and Michael McLane will help kick off the Bountiful Davis Art Center's new exhibition "Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying" with readings of their work and a short discussion of the that notions of death and mortality have played in their work. This event will start at 6:00 PM and will be followed by an opening reception for the exhibition.

This event is part of the BDAC's exhibition Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying, curated by Chauncey Secrist. Ars Moriendi seeks to encourage reflection and thoughtful discussion about the subject of death and how its universality connects us and can encourage empathy and connection between all people.

Lance Olsen is author of thirteen novels, one hypertext, six nonfiction works, five short-story collections, a poetry chapbook, and two anti-textbooks about innovative writing, as well as editor of two collections of essays about innovative contemporary fiction. Olsen is a Guggenheim and an N.E.A. fellowship recipient; and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Finnish, and Portuguese. He has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, on summer- and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Finland, at various writing conferences, and elsewhere. Olsen currently teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities.

Kirstin Scott is the author of the novel Motherlunge, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel and the Utah Original Writing Competition. Her short stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Sonora Review, Western Humanities Review, PANK, and elsewhere. She works as a medical writer and lives in Salt Lake City with her family. She is currently working on a novel about a gynecologist named Ajax.

Shanan Ballam is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line 2010) and a full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability 2013), a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award; in 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Contest, judged by Sue Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2013, Shanan was appointed to the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and served a 4-year term.

Michael McLane is the author of the chapbook Trace Elements and is an editor with Sugar House Review and saltfront: studies in human habit(at). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including High Country News, Western Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, Dark Mountain, Terrain.org, Colorado Review, and The Laurel Review. McLane lives in Salt Lake City, where he serves as director of both the Utah Center for the Book at Utah Humanities and the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.

This event was made possible with support from the Bountiful Arts Center and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180928T220000 UID:55EFF847-1F0B-4EA6-B5A3-2D5D1DA22E8F SUMMARY:LITerally Anniversary Event CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1373 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event celebrating the LITerally podcast on September 28th at 7:00 PM at Good Company Theatre in Ogden. This event will feature a number of guests from prior episodes of LITerally, including Kase Johnstun, Michael McLane, Alison L. McLennan, Sian Griffiths, Star Coulbrooke\NChadd VanZanten, Sean Davis, Deborah Reed, Danielle Susi, and many more. \N\NLITerally, the Podcast, is produced by The Banyan Collective and hosted by Kase Johnstun and R. Brandon Long. Johnstun and Long ask real questions about writing, publishing, and about living the life of a writer. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from LITerally Podcast, Good Company Theatre, and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a special event celebrating the LITerally podcast on September 28th at 7:00 PM at Good Company Theatre in Ogden. This event will feature a number of guests from prior episodes of LITerally, including Kase Johnstun, Michael McLane, Alison L. McLennan, Sian Griffiths, Star Coulbrooke
Chadd VanZanten, Sean Davis, Deborah Reed, Danielle Susi, and many more.

LITerally, the Podcast, is produced by The Banyan Collective and hosted by Kase Johnstun and R. Brandon Long. Johnstun and Long ask real questions about writing, publishing, and about living the life of a writer.

This event was made possible with support from LITerally Podcast, Good Company Theatre, and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180929T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180929T130000 UID:34840462-EAD2-459C-B2F5-7BFE059DA795 SUMMARY:Nuevas Voces Podcast CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1374 DESCRIPTION:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah in celebrating the launch of Nuevas Voces, A Podcast Reexamining Mexico Through its Art. Nuevas Voces reexamines different perspectives to understand Mexican history and its relevance to our current period. Visit https://www.artesmexut.org/ for more details. This event will take place in Conference Rooms A & B of the City Library. \N\N Nuevas Voces: A Podcast Reexamining Mexico Through its Art\Nuses art as a platform to reexamine different perspectives to understand Mexican history and its relevance to our current period. You’ll hear from Mexican nationals; Chicanos (Mexican-Americans); Mexican immigrants to the U.S; Dreamers, and white Americans with experience with Mexico. Through these “new voices" we explore and rethink many of the stories we’ve been told about Mexico – and the United States – and its relevance to American contemporary life.\N\NThe podcast is co-hosted and produced by Ross Chambless, with insight and commentary from Susan Vogel, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer, Luis Lopez, Jorge Rodriguez, Ciriac Alvarez, and others. This project complements our community classes on Mexican Art and History taught through Artes de Mexico en Utah. Our goal is to reach younger and diverse English speaking audience and help young Latinos connect positively with Mexico and their heritage and culture. This podcast is made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.\N\NClick here to listen to our first Episode. https://www.artesmexut.org/podcast\N\NWe welcome your constructive dialogue and questions. We invite you to join us on this journey of discovery and critical thinking.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah in celebrating the launch of Nuevas Voces, A Podcast Reexamining Mexico Through its Art. Nuevas Voces reexamines different perspectives to understand Mexican history and its relevance to our current period. Visit https://www.artesmexut.org/ for more details. This event will take place in Conference Rooms A & B of the City Library.

Nuevas Voces: A Podcast Reexamining Mexico Through its Art
uses art as a platform to reexamine different perspectives to understand Mexican history and its relevance to our current period. You’ll hear from Mexican nationals; Chicanos (Mexican-Americans); Mexican immigrants to the U.S; Dreamers, and white Americans with experience with Mexico. Through these “new voices" we explore and rethink many of the stories we’ve been told about Mexico – and the United States – and its relevance to American contemporary life.

The podcast is co-hosted and produced by Ross Chambless, with insight and commentary from Susan Vogel, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer, Luis Lopez, Jorge Rodriguez, Ciriac Alvarez, and others. This project complements our community classes on Mexican Art and History taught through Artes de Mexico en Utah. Our goal is to reach younger and diverse English speaking audience and help young Latinos connect positively with Mexico and their heritage and culture. This podcast is made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.

Click here to listen to our first Episode. https://www.artesmexut.org/podcast

We welcome your constructive dialogue and questions. We invite you to join us on this journey of discovery and critical thinking.

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180929T210000 UID:6AAE6CE4-A441-492E-B981-A1FE2E7BBBA6 SUMMARY:Deborah Reed at Booked on 25th CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1291 DESCRIPTION:Author Deborah Reed visits Booked on 25th to discuss her new book, The Days When Birds Come Back, on Saturday, September 29 at 7:00 PM. \N\NIn The Days When Birds Come Back, June is in transition, reeling from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled career. She returns to the beautiful Oregon coast where she grew up, and must decide what to do with her late and much-loved grandparents’ charming cedar-shingled home, a place haunted by memories of her childhood.\N\NJameson comes highly recommended to renovate the old house to sell, and from their first contact, his curiosity is piqued by June. He too is unmoored as he struggles to redefine his marriage in the aftermath of tragic loss, and over the course of the summer, his conversations with June about the house quickly turn to the personal — of secrets hidden in walls and of stories from the past half-told. Sensing connection, June and Jameson can’t seem to stop circling each other, shying away from hurt. But what can the future hold as long as they are gripped so firmly by the past?\N\NBrimming with empathy, The Days When Birds Come Back, like the house itself, is a graceful testament to endurance, rebuilding, and the possibilities of coming home.\N\NDeborah Reed is the author of four novels: The Days When Birds Come Back, Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, and Carry Yourself Back to Me. She has also authored two popular thrillers under the pen name Audrey Braun. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Booked on 25th, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Deborah Reed visits Booked on 25th to discuss her new book, The Days When Birds Come Back, on Saturday, September 29 at 7:00 PM.

In The Days When Birds Come Back, June is in transition, reeling from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled career. She returns to the beautiful Oregon coast where she grew up, and must decide what to do with her late and much-loved grandparents’ charming cedar-shingled home, a place haunted by memories of her childhood.

Jameson comes highly recommended to renovate the old house to sell, and from their first contact, his curiosity is piqued by June. He too is unmoored as he struggles to redefine his marriage in the aftermath of tragic loss, and over the course of the summer, his conversations with June about the house quickly turn to the personal — of secrets hidden in walls and of stories from the past half-told. Sensing connection, June and Jameson can’t seem to stop circling each other, shying away from hurt. But what can the future hold as long as they are gripped so firmly by the past?

Brimming with empathy, The Days When Birds Come Back, like the house itself, is a graceful testament to endurance, rebuilding, and the possibilities of coming home.

Deborah Reed is the author of four novels: The Days When Birds Come Back, Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, and Carry Yourself Back to Me. She has also authored two popular thrillers under the pen name Audrey Braun. 

This event is made possible with support from Booked on 25th, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181017 UID:9CCED99E-F8A1-4478-B2DA-54C7C2656698 SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Community Poetry Workshop CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1350 DESCRIPTION:The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year the workshop is being expanded into to tracts, a workshop for adults ages 18+ and new this year, a second workshop for high school ages. \N\NPoems as letters, or “epistolary” poems refers to the tradition of poets writing to people (or other things) in poetic form. In this workshop, participants learn how to write new poems inspired by prompts based on letter writing. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two sessions, followed by a reception & poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\NSCHEDULE: \N18+ Workshop – Pioneer Book, 450 West Center, Provo\N· Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises\N· Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems\N\NHigh School Workshop – American Fork High School, 510 North 600 East, American Fork\N· Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises\N· Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems\N\NAll Participants\N· Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 at midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology\N· Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at 6pm – Anthology launch party/reception and poetry reading\N\NHOW TO SIGN-UP: \NTo sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Seating is limited. Come ready to write!\N\NCo-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January, 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Rock Canyon Poets, Pioneer Book, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year the workshop is being expanded into to tracts, a workshop for adults ages 18+ and new this year, a second workshop for high school ages.

Poems as letters, or “epistolary” poems refers to the tradition of poets writing to people (or other things) in poetic form. In this workshop, participants learn how to write new poems inspired by prompts based on letter writing. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two sessions, followed by a reception & poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

SCHEDULE:
18+ Workshop – Pioneer Book, 450 West Center, Provo
· Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises
· Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems

High School Workshop – American Fork High School, 510 North 600 East, American Fork
· Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises
· Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 at 6pm – Workshop #2: share and workshop first draft of poems

All Participants
· Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 at midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology
· Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at 6pm – Anthology launch party/reception and poetry reading

HOW TO SIGN-UP:
To sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Seating is limited. Come ready to write!

Co-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January, 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.

This event is made possible with support from Rock Canyon Poets, Pioneer Book, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181008 UID:FB186805-466C-4EE1-9450-2EECA3BF9DA1 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1297 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the top writers in the nation. This year we celebrate the great faculty who have participated over the past ten years at this conference with an expanded lineup. Join Craig Childs, Gailmarie Pahmeier, Eleanor Wilner, Dianne Oberhansly, Raymond King Shurtz, and David Lee. Check out the faculty page to learn more about these exceptional writers.\N\NTo register online, visit: http://www.boulderheritage.org/register-online-cliff-notes-writing-conference/\N\NDon’t forget to make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the top writers in the nation. This year we celebrate the great faculty who have participated over the past ten years at this conference with an expanded lineup. Join Craig Childs, Gailmarie Pahmeier, Eleanor Wilner, Dianne Oberhansly, Raymond King Shurtz, and David Lee. Check out the faculty page to learn more about these exceptional writers.

To register online, visit: http://www.boulderheritage.org/register-online-cliff-notes-writing-conference/

Don’t forget to make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room.

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181003T210000 UID:C7C4F5EB-B0FF-4032-9A97-91FC348372F6 SUMMARY:Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at City Art Reading Series CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1318 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents authors Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the City Library on Wednesday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room.\N\NIn Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway, who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels, tsk tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.\N\NThis book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, the would-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. For those who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means to live and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.\N \NWalker's previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. \N\NJulia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents authors Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the City Library on Wednesday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room.

In Sustainability: A Love Story, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway, who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels, tsk tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.

This book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, the would-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. For those who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means to live and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.

Walker's previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.

This event was made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181003T210000 UID:E5CB7F1C-256C-4825-AB93-FC756DA0D1A0 SUMMARY:Boston's Massacre: Eric Hinderaker at the Marmalade Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1351 DESCRIPTION:Historian Eric Hinderaker discusses his new book, Boston's Massacre, and the role of the massacre in the emergence of American Democracy on Wednesday, October 3rd at the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 PM. \N\NOn the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. This event, which came to be known as the Boston Massacre and was a key trigger in the coming of the American Revolution, is familiar yet poorly understood. It is important to ask what happened, but also why it was remembered the way it was. The Boston Massacre provides an opportunity to reflect on the way memories are shaped and politicized in the wake of controversial events.\N\NEric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah, where he has taught for more than 25 years and has served as Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. He received his PhD from Harvard University. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library. He is the author or co-author of four books, as well as a leading American History textbook. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was a finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historian Eric Hinderaker discusses his new book, Boston's Massacre, and the role of the massacre in the emergence of American Democracy on Wednesday, October 3rd at the Marmalade Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 PM.

On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. This event, which came to be known as the Boston Massacre and was a key trigger in the coming of the American Revolution, is familiar yet poorly understood. It is important to ask what happened, but also why it was remembered the way it was. The Boston Massacre provides an opportunity to reflect on the way memories are shaped and politicized in the wake of controversial events.

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah, where he has taught for more than 25 years and has served as Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. He received his PhD from Harvard University. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library. He is the author or co-author of four books, as well as a leading American History textbook. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was a finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize.

This event is made possible with support from the Salt Lake City Public Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181003T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181003T220000 UID:65DE6A76-BDA1-40D8-8D06-AA4F71D91AEB SUMMARY:Raymond Shurtz at Boulder CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1365 DESCRIPTION:Playwright Raymond Shurtz visits the Boulder Community Center to present his new one-man play on Wednesday, October 3rd at 8:00 PM.\N\NShurtz has written more than 30 plays and is the founding Artistic Director of Playwright’s Workshop Theatre in Phoenix. He produced eighty new plays in his 12-year tenure with the company. His play, Blue Baby, A Memoir won the Playwriting Fellowship in 2003 from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 2009, he produced and performed his one man show, Bohemian Cowboy at The Elephant Theatre, which was the ‘pick of the week’ in The LA Weekly, and subsequently performed it approximately seventy-five times in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Southern Utah, and twenty-three shows in Austin, Texas. Recently, he wrote and produced Under the Desert at the Spring Theatre in Boulder, Utah. Shurtz is one of the directors of the Boulder Heritage Festival held each July in Boulder, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, the Boulder Community Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Playwright Raymond Shurtz visits the Boulder Community Center to present his new one-man play on Wednesday, October 3rd at 8:00 PM.

Shurtz has written more than 30 plays and is the founding Artistic Director of Playwright’s Workshop Theatre in Phoenix. He produced eighty new plays in his 12-year tenure with the company. His play, Blue Baby, A Memoir won the Playwriting Fellowship in 2003 from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 2009, he produced and performed his one man show, Bohemian Cowboy at The Elephant Theatre, which was the ‘pick of the week’ in The LA Weekly, and subsequently performed it approximately seventy-five times in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Southern Utah, and twenty-three shows in Austin, Texas. Recently, he wrote and produced Under the Desert at the Spring Theatre in Boulder, Utah. Shurtz is one of the directors of the Boulder Heritage Festival held each July in Boulder, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, the Boulder Community Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181004T132000 UID:B1E921F0-D243-46BC-A3BA-71064F84DB95 SUMMARY:Julia Corbett at Snow College Convocations CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1339 DESCRIPTION:Julia Corbett visits Snow College to discuss her book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday as part of the Convocations series. This event will take place in the auditorium of the Eccles Performing Arts Building at 12:30 PM. \N\NHave you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks. \N\NWith a keen sense of irony and humor and an awareness of the miraculous in the mundane, Corbett recognizes the contradictions of contemporary life. She confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby. The phrase “out of the woods” guides us through layers of meaning to a contemplation of grief, remembrance, and resilience.\N\NJulia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Snow College and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Julia Corbett visits Snow College to discuss her book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday as part of the Convocations series. This event will take place in the auditorium of the Eccles Performing Arts Building at 12:30 PM.

Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks.

With a keen sense of irony and humor and an awareness of the miraculous in the mundane, Corbett recognizes the contradictions of contemporary life. She confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby. The phrase “out of the woods” guides us through layers of meaning to a contemplation of grief, remembrance, and resilience.

Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.

This event was made possible with support from Snow College and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181004T200000 UID:39737661-93CE-43B2-BD02-26E1D3EFB212 SUMMARY:Eleanor Wilner CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1307 DESCRIPTION:Poet and activist Eleanor Wilner visits Boulder Creek Canyon Ranch to discuss her work on Thursday, October 4th at 6:00 PM. This event is part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. \N\NEleanor Wilner is known for writing poetry that engages politics, culture, history, and myth. Wilner typically avoids confessional poetry that focuses on the self, preferring instead to work from what she has described as "cultural memory." Wilner’s collections of poetry include maya (1979), Shekhinah (1984), Sarah’s Choice (1989), Otherwise (1993), Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (1998), The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (2004), and Tourist in Hell (2010). \N\NWilner has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the Juniper Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Creek Canyon Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet and activist Eleanor Wilner visits Boulder Creek Canyon Ranch to discuss her work on Thursday, October 4th at 6:00 PM. This event is part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference.

Eleanor Wilner is known for writing poetry that engages politics, culture, history, and myth. Wilner typically avoids confessional poetry that focuses on the self, preferring instead to work from what she has described as "cultural memory." Wilner’s collections of poetry include maya (1979), Shekhinah (1984), Sarah’s Choice (1989), Otherwise (1993), Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (1998), The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (2004), and Tourist in Hell (2010).

Wilner has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the Juniper Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, Boulder Creek Canyon Ranch, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181004T203000 UID:78515FEF-AC6B-42A9-8E75-180E7AF6B42F SUMMARY:Books & Bridges CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1352 DESCRIPTION:Mark Matheson, Professor of English at the University of Utah, will lead a discussion on Women in the Plays of Shakespeare at Weller Book Works on Thursday, October 4th at 6:30 PM. This event is part of the Books & Bridges series. \N\NMark Matheson, Professor of English at the University of Utah, will lead a lecture and discussion on the proposals of marriage in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, and The Winter’s Tale.  Throughout his work, Shakespeare represents such proposals in a surprising variety of ways.  But whatever form they take, these proposals are sensitive dramatic moments that enable us to explore both the politics of a given play’s society and the independence of the women characters involved. Dr. Matheson has taught English at the University of Utah for over twenty years. He received his M.A. from the University of Utah and his Doctorate from the University of Oxford. Professor Matheson travels to London with his students where he teaches seminars on British Literature. He also serves as the Director of the University of Utah-based Tanner Lectures on Human Values. He continues to teach and greatly enjoys advocating for students’ educational interests through The MUSE Project.\N\NBooks & Bridges is a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Mark Matheson, Professor of English at the University of Utah, will lead a discussion on Women in the Plays of Shakespeare at Weller Book Works on Thursday, October 4th at 6:30 PM. This event is part of the Books & Bridges series.

Mark Matheson, Professor of English at the University of Utah, will lead a lecture and discussion on the proposals of marriage in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, and The Winter’s Tale.  Throughout his work, Shakespeare represents such proposals in a surprising variety of ways.  But whatever form they take, these proposals are sensitive dramatic moments that enable us to explore both the politics of a given play’s society and the independence of the women characters involved. Dr. Matheson has taught English at the University of Utah for over twenty years. He received his M.A. from the University of Utah and his Doctorate from the University of Oxford. Professor Matheson travels to London with his students where he teaches seminars on British Literature. He also serves as the Director of the University of Utah-based Tanner Lectures on Human Values. He continues to teach and greatly enjoys advocating for students’ educational interests through The MUSE Project.

Books & Bridges is a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.

This event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181004T200000 UID:95465A13-892E-441E-B629-9552EAB20C54 SUMMARY:Derek Anderson at Davis County Library CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1354 DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed children’s author Derek Anderson visits the Davis County Headquarters Library in Farmington to discuss his work.\N\NDerek Anderson has created more than twenty-five books for children about ducks, dragons, more than a few dogs, a speedy hamster, a gorilla, ten pigs and some other furry and non-furry friends. His books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, Bank Street College’s Best Books of the year lists and garnered awards including the National Parenting Publication Gold Award, the CBC Children’s Choice Award and many state awards. Derek lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Acclaimed children’s author Derek Anderson visits the Davis County Headquarters Library in Farmington to discuss his work.

Derek Anderson has created more than twenty-five books for children about ducks, dragons, more than a few dogs, a speedy hamster, a gorilla, ten pigs and some other furry and non-furry friends. His books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, Bank Street College’s Best Books of the year lists and garnered awards including the National Parenting Publication Gold Award, the CBC Children’s Choice Award and many state awards. Derek lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181004T210000 UID:71F8B1BE-0BA2-4C89-B3A9-93D676EE9F19 SUMMARY:Jimmy Santiago Baca at Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1329 DESCRIPTION:On Thursday, October 4th, poet Jimmy Santiago Baca shares and discusses his work at the Weber County Main Library. This event starts at 7:00 PM.\N\NBorn in 1952 in Santa Fe of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was abandoned by his parents and at 13 ran away from the orphanage where his grandmother had placed him. He was convicted on drug charges in 1973 and spent five years in prison. There he learned to read and began writing poetry. His semiautobiographical novel in verse, Martín and Meditations on the South Valley (1987), received the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award in 1989. In addition to over a dozen books of poetry, he has published memoirs, essays, stories, and a screen play, Bound by Honor (1993), which was made into a feature-length film directed by Taylor Hackford.\N \NBaca’s work is concerned with social justice and revolves around the marginalized and disenfranchised, treating themes of addiction, community, and the American Southwest barrios. In a Callaloo interview with John Keene, Baca claims, “I approach language as if it will contain who I am as a person” – a statement that reflects the poet’s interest in the transformative and generative power of language. Immigrants in Our Own Land (1979, 1991) was Baca’s first significant collection, one based on his imprisonment. In the Encyclopedia of American Literature, Catherine Hardy wrote that the poems in the volume “reveal an honest, passionate voice and powerful imagery full of the dark jewels of the American Southwest landscape (Ilanos, mesas, and chiles) and the chaotic urban landscape (nightclubs, rusty motors, and bricks) woven into a rich lyricism sprinkled with Spanish.”\N \NBaca’s other poetry titles include Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train & 13 Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007). In addition to the American Book Award, Baca has received a Pushcart Prize and the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature. His memoir, A Place to Stand (2001), garnered the International Prize. In 2006, Baca was awarded the Cornelius P. Turner Award, which honors GED graduates who made “outstanding contributions” in areas such as education, justice, and social welfare.\N \NBaca has conducted writing workshops in prisons, libraries, and universities across the country for more than 30 years. In 2004 he launched Cedar Tree, a literary nonprofit designed to provide writing workshops, training, and outreach programs for at-risk youth, prisoners and ex-prisoners, and disadvantaged communities. Baca holds a BA in English and an honorary PhD in literature from the University of New Mexico.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weber State University, Weber Book Links, Weber School Foundation, Utah Humanities and Ogden School Foundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Thursday, October 4th, poet Jimmy Santiago Baca shares and discusses his work at the Weber County Main Library. This event starts at 7:00 PM.

Born in 1952 in Santa Fe of Chicano and Apache descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was abandoned by his parents and at 13 ran away from the orphanage where his grandmother had placed him. He was convicted on drug charges in 1973 and spent five years in prison. There he learned to read and began writing poetry. His semiautobiographical novel in verse, Martín and Meditations on the South Valley (1987), received the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award in 1989. In addition to over a dozen books of poetry, he has published memoirs, essays, stories, and a screen play, Bound by Honor (1993), which was made into a feature-length film directed by Taylor Hackford.

Baca’s work is concerned with social justice and revolves around the marginalized and disenfranchised, treating themes of addiction, community, and the American Southwest barrios. In a Callaloo interview with John Keene, Baca claims, “I approach language as if it will contain who I am as a person” – a statement that reflects the poet’s interest in the transformative and generative power of language. Immigrants in Our Own Land (1979, 1991) was Baca’s first significant collection, one based on his imprisonment. In the Encyclopedia of American Literature, Catherine Hardy wrote that the poems in the volume “reveal an honest, passionate voice and powerful imagery full of the dark jewels of the American Southwest landscape (Ilanos, mesas, and chiles) and the chaotic urban landscape (nightclubs, rusty motors, and bricks) woven into a rich lyricism sprinkled with Spanish.”

Baca’s other poetry titles include Healing Earthquakes (2001), C-Train & 13 Mexicans (2002), Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (2004), and Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande (2007). In addition to the American Book Award, Baca has received a Pushcart Prize and the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature. His memoir, A Place to Stand (2001), garnered the International Prize. In 2006, Baca was awarded the Cornelius P. Turner Award, which honors GED graduates who made “outstanding contributions” in areas such as education, justice, and social welfare.

Baca has conducted writing workshops in prisons, libraries, and universities across the country for more than 30 years. In 2004 he launched Cedar Tree, a literary nonprofit designed to provide writing workshops, training, and outreach programs for at-risk youth, prisoners and ex-prisoners, and disadvantaged communities. Baca holds a BA in English and an honorary PhD in literature from the University of New Mexico.

This event was made possible with support from Weber State University, Weber Book Links, Weber School Foundation, Utah Humanities and Ogden School Foundation. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181005T200000 UID:8FFF8F4C-BFF9-4867-9400-016781681985 SUMMARY:Dianne Nelson Oberhansly & David Lee at Kiva Koffeehouse CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1262 DESCRIPTION:Authors Dianne Oberhansly and Dave Lee visit Kiva Koffeehouse as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference on October 5th at 6:00 PM.\N\NDianne Nelson Oberhansly’s book of short stories, A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, won the Flannery O’Connor Award and her co-written novel, Downwinders: An Atomic Tale, was chosen as Utah Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared widely in journals, including the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Quarterlyand Sundog, and her poems have been published in Paper Nautilus, Canary, and Third Wednesday, among others.  She lives in rural Utah where she is a hiker, slow food enthusiast, and an Arts supporter/educator.  \N\NBorn in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Koffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Dianne Oberhansly and Dave Lee visit Kiva Koffeehouse as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference on October 5th at 6:00 PM.

Dianne Nelson Oberhansly’s book of short stories, A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, won the Flannery O’Connor Award and her co-written novel, Downwinders: An Atomic Tale, was chosen as Utah Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared widely in journals, including the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Quarterlyand Sundog, and her poems have been published in Paper Nautilus, Canary, and Third Wednesday, among others.  She lives in rural Utah where she is a hiker, slow food enthusiast, and an Arts supporter/educator.  

Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Koffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181005T210000 UID:176208BB-9488-404C-A8C3-034BCA61E16E SUMMARY:Nicole Walker at the Moab Festival of Science CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1288 DESCRIPTION:The Moab Festival of Science will host author Nicole Walker as the Keynote speaker for this year's festival on Friday, October 5th at 7:00 PM. Walker will be discussing her new book, Sustainability: A Love Story. \N\NFor more info on the Moab Festival of Science, please visit: \Nwww.moab-scifest.org\N\NNicole Walker is the author of two forthcoming books Sustainability: A Love Story and A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Moab Festival of Science, Grand County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Moab Festival of Science will host author Nicole Walker as the Keynote speaker for this year's festival on Friday, October 5th at 7:00 PM. Walker will be discussing her new book, Sustainability: A Love Story.

For more info on the Moab Festival of Science, please visit:
www.moab-scifest.org

Nicole Walker is the author of two forthcoming books Sustainability: A Love Story and A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

This event was made possible with support from the Moab Festival of Science, Grand County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181006T210000 UID:BCC8EBA0-9108-4939-AD85-C7C4811EC2B3 SUMMARY:Gailmarie Pahmeier & Craig Childs at Boulder CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1263 DESCRIPTION:Reno Poet Laureate Gailmarie Pahmeier and acclaimed author Craig Childs will share their work at the Escalante High School Auditorium on Saturday, October 6th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the 2018 Cliff Notes Writing Conference.\N\NGailmarie Pahmeier’s is considered a "domestic" poet; her work focuses primarily on family and home. She is the author of the poetry collections The House on Breakaheart Road and The Rural Lives of Nice Girls in addition to three chapbooks. Her most recent chapbook, Shake It and It Snows, won the 2009 Coal Hill Chapbook Award. Her literary awards include a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, and two Artists Fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2015, she was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Reno.\N\NCraig Childs is known for following ancient migration routes on foot, pursuing early Pueblo passages across the Southwest and most recently the paths of first peoples into the Americas during the Ice Age. He has published more than a dozen books of adventure, wilderness, and science. He has won the Orion Book Award and has twice won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the Galen Rowell Art of Adventure Award, and the Spirit of the West Award for his body of work. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, and Outside. He lives outside of Norwood, CO.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, Escalante High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reno Poet Laureate Gailmarie Pahmeier and acclaimed author Craig Childs will share their work at the Escalante High School Auditorium on Saturday, October 6th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the 2018 Cliff Notes Writing Conference.

Gailmarie Pahmeier’s is considered a "domestic" poet; her work focuses primarily on family and home. She is the author of the poetry collections The House on Breakaheart Road and The Rural Lives of Nice Girls in addition to three chapbooks. Her most recent chapbook, Shake It and It Snows, won the 2009 Coal Hill Chapbook Award. Her literary awards include a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, and two Artists Fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2015, she was appointed as the first Poet Laureate of Reno.

Craig Childs is known for following ancient migration routes on foot, pursuing early Pueblo passages across the Southwest and most recently the paths of first peoples into the Americas during the Ice Age. He has published more than a dozen books of adventure, wilderness, and science. He has won the Orion Book Award and has twice won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the Galen Rowell Art of Adventure Award, and the Spirit of the West Award for his body of work. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, and Outside. He lives outside of Norwood, CO.

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation, Escalante High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181008T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181008T200000 UID:265B853E-548F-4C64-881B-C81BC9251818 SUMMARY:Julia Corbett at Park City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1301 DESCRIPTION:On Monday, October 8th author Julia Corbett visits the Park City Public Library to share her book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday.\N\NHave you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks. \N\NWith a keen sense of irony and humor and an awareness of the miraculous in the mundane, Corbett recognizes the contradictions of contemporary life. She confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby. The phrase “out of the woods” guides us through layers of meaning to a contemplation of grief, remembrance, and resilience.\N\NJulia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Park City Public Library, Summit County Rap Tax, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Monday, October 8th author Julia Corbett visits the Park City Public Library to share her book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday.

Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks.

With a keen sense of irony and humor and an awareness of the miraculous in the mundane, Corbett recognizes the contradictions of contemporary life. She confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby. The phrase “out of the woods” guides us through layers of meaning to a contemplation of grief, remembrance, and resilience.

Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.

This event was made possible with support from the Park City Public Library, Summit County Rap Tax, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T173000 UID:CA55E5F4-53F9-4AD8-BEF2-11A92DFB82CC SUMMARY:Torrey House Press Panel on Love, Nature, Medicine CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1340 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press’ panel on Nature Love Medicine featuring Jana Richman, and Thomas Lowe Fleischner will take place Tuesday, October 9th at 4:00 PM in the Business School Lecture Hall, Room 126 on the campus of Southern Utah University. \N\NNature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness is a collection of diverse stories from psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, who are connected through a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity. Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness declares that nurturing a love for our biologically and culturally diverse planet is essential in this time of turbulence and change. \N\NJana Richman is the author of a memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman’s Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail; two novels, The Ordinary Truth and The Last Cowgirl, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction and was runner up for the Utah Book Award. Her most recent book is a collection of personal essays, Finding Stillness in a Noisy World. Jana’s fiction and nonfiction traverse landscapes—personal and historical, internal and external—populated with fierce female characters pitted against time, betrayals, and the heft of family. In her new collection of essays, Jana intimately shares with readers the ways place, space, and the rigors of working toward peace can transform a life.\N\NThomas Lowe Fleischner teaches in the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Program at Prescott College. He is also the Director of the college’s Natural History Institute, which seeks to integrate art, science, and humanities in the work of connecting humans and nature.\N\NFleischner’s work is strongly rooted in natural history, ecology, and conservation biology, but plies the terrain at the margins of disciplines. His main interests are the connections among sciences, humanities, and public policy, and between analytical and creative modes of thought. He also examines the confluence of nature and culture and of biology and adaptation, when considering humans as an ecological species. He is the author of Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons and Desert Wetlands. Fleischner’s edited volume, The Way of Natural History, made the “Best of Science” list in the Wall Street Journal. He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press’ panel on Nature Love Medicine featuring Jana Richman, and Thomas Lowe Fleischner will take place Tuesday, October 9th at 4:00 PM in the Business School Lecture Hall, Room 126 on the campus of Southern Utah University.

Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness is a collection of diverse stories from psychologists and poets, biologists and artists, who are connected through a common theme: when we pay conscious, careful attention to our wider world, we strengthen our core humanity. Nature, Love, Medicine: Essays on Wildness and Wellness declares that nurturing a love for our biologically and culturally diverse planet is essential in this time of turbulence and change.

Jana Richman is the author of a memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman’s Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail; two novels, The Ordinary Truth and The Last Cowgirl, which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction and was runner up for the Utah Book Award. Her most recent book is a collection of personal essays, Finding Stillness in a Noisy World. Jana’s fiction and nonfiction traverse landscapes—personal and historical, internal and external—populated with fierce female characters pitted against time, betrayals, and the heft of family. In her new collection of essays, Jana intimately shares with readers the ways place, space, and the rigors of working toward peace can transform a life.

Thomas Lowe Fleischner teaches in the interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Program at Prescott College. He is also the Director of the college’s Natural History Institute, which seeks to integrate art, science, and humanities in the work of connecting humans and nature.

Fleischner’s work is strongly rooted in natural history, ecology, and conservation biology, but plies the terrain at the margins of disciplines. His main interests are the connections among sciences, humanities, and public policy, and between analytical and creative modes of thought. He also examines the confluence of nature and culture and of biology and adaptation, when considering humans as an ecological species. He is the author of Singing Stone: A Natural History of the Escalante Canyons and Desert Wetlands. Fleischner’s edited volume, The Way of Natural History, made the “Best of Science” list in the Wall Street Journal. He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T210000 UID:6BCE61CE-A5B9-447A-933A-FB035F797051 SUMMARY:Julia Corbett at the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1300 DESCRIPTION:Author Julia Corbett visits the Grant County Library on Tuesday, October 9th to discuss her new book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday.\N\NHave you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks. \N\NWith a keen sense of irony and humor and an awareness of the miraculous in the mundane, Corbett recognizes the contradictions of contemporary life. She confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby. The phrase “out of the woods” guides us through layers of meaning to a contemplation of grief, remembrance, and resilience.\N\NJulia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Julia Corbett visits the Grant County Library on Tuesday, October 9th to discuss her new book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday.

Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items—toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research. Each story delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks.

With a keen sense of irony and humor and an awareness of the miraculous in the mundane, Corbett recognizes the contradictions of contemporary life. She confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby. The phrase “out of the woods” guides us through layers of meaning to a contemplation of grief, remembrance, and resilience.

Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.

This event was made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T210000 UID:78E60ABE-7087-4D0F-A60B-EB9719A791DF SUMMARY:Speed Date with a Book at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1306 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet twelve Utah authors and find out about their books and the writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format. There'll be time to chat mingle with the authors and nosh on some tasty treats.\N\NAuthors include: Johnny Worthen, Marie Higgins, Ginny Tilby, Karl Beckstrand, Lance Alkire, Jenny Flake Rabe, Ryan Decaria and Ashley I. Hansen. \N\NBook sales and signing at this event!\N\NVisit http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#utahauthor for more info on all of the authors. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet twelve Utah authors and find out about their books and the writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format. There'll be time to chat mingle with the authors and nosh on some tasty treats.

Authors include: Johnny Worthen, Marie Higgins, Ginny Tilby, Karl Beckstrand, Lance Alkire, Jenny Flake Rabe, Ryan Decaria and Ashley I. Hansen.

Book sales and signing at this event!

Visit http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#utahauthor for more info on all of the authors.

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181009T210000 UID:27FC4759-6506-47BC-813B-BB4B59828A80 SUMMARY:Alex Caldiero: Close Encounters of the Literary Kind--A Performative Memoire of the Uncanny Nature of Books CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1355 DESCRIPTION:Alex Caldiero presents “Close Encounters of the Literary Kind: A Performative Memoire of the Uncanny Nature of Books” at Ken Sanders Rare Books. Enter the realm of books where nothing is random and anomalous occurrences baffle reason and belief; glimpse a world where exceptions are the rule.\N\NTeacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Caldiero makes things that sometimes appear as language or pictures or music -- and then again, as the shape of your own mind.\N\NBorn in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, he immigrated with his family to the United States at age nine. Raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. He attended Queens College in Flushing, NY. Apprenticed to the sculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero has traveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales, and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour. Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Alex Caldiero presents “Close Encounters of the Literary Kind: A Performative Memoire of the Uncanny Nature of Books” at Ken Sanders Rare Books. Enter the realm of books where nothing is random and anomalous occurrences baffle reason and belief; glimpse a world where exceptions are the rule.

Teacher, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and inter-media, Caldiero makes things that sometimes appear as language or pictures or music -- and then again, as the shape of your own mind.

Born in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily, he immigrated with his family to the United States at age nine. Raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. He attended Queens College in Flushing, NY. Apprenticed to the sculptor-poet Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignaziu Buttitta. Caldiero has traveled thru Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey and Greece collecting proverbs, tales, and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions. He is featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London) and is co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and from Utah Performing Arts Tour. Awards include Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters, and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award for Literature.

This event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T203000 UID:E07D230A-778A-4579-9D44-4C5C012D7C3F SUMMARY:Tyler Whitesides at Morgan CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1303 DESCRIPTION:Renowned YA author Tyler Whitesides visits Morgan County Library to discuss his new work, The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn, and his beloved Janitors series at the Morgan County Library at 7:00 PM.\N\NThe Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire. \N\NWhen a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory - Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.\N\NIn the five-volume Janitors series, no one takes Spencer Zumbro seriously when he tries to warn his classmates about the mysterious things prowling the halls and classrooms of Welcher Elementary School. But when he sees Marv, the janitor, going after one of the creatures with a vacuum, he knows he's not the only one who can see them.\N\NWith the help of his new friend, Daisy, Spencer has to find out what the janitors know. The children's search uncovers the existence of Toxites, small creatures that feed on the brain waves of students, and the evil organization known as the Bureau of Educational Maintenance (BEM). With the fabled Manualis Custodem in hand, Spencer must also figure out how to summon the founding witches if they ever hope to mop up and save education.\N\NTyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. Tyler spent much of his childhood outdoors, exploring the mountains near his house, and imagining many adventures with his neighborhood friends. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from Morgan County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Renowned YA author Tyler Whitesides visits Morgan County Library to discuss his new work, The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn, and his beloved Janitors series at the Morgan County Library at 7:00 PM.

The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire.

When a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory - Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.

In the five-volume Janitors series, no one takes Spencer Zumbro seriously when he tries to warn his classmates about the mysterious things prowling the halls and classrooms of Welcher Elementary School. But when he sees Marv, the janitor, going after one of the creatures with a vacuum, he knows he's not the only one who can see them.

With the help of his new friend, Daisy, Spencer has to find out what the janitors know. The children's search uncovers the existence of Toxites, small creatures that feed on the brain waves of students, and the evil organization known as the Bureau of Educational Maintenance (BEM). With the fabled Manualis Custodem in hand, Spencer must also figure out how to summon the founding witches if they ever hope to mop up and save education.

Tyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. Tyler spent much of his childhood outdoors, exploring the mountains near his house, and imagining many adventures with his neighborhood friends. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories.

This event was made possible with support from Morgan County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181010T210000 UID:2329D0F8-C8DB-4089-9723-EBF6B1528481 SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1332 DESCRIPTION:City Art is pleased to host members of the Rock Canyon Poets on Wednesday, October 10 at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room of The City Library. A full lineup will be announced soon. Poets will include Dennis Marden Clark, Michaelle Martial, Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, Jack Garcia, and Lisa Connors.\N\N\NRock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.\N\NCo-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January, 2015, Rock Canyon Poets boasts diverse membership. The ethnically rich group ranges in 18 to 70 years in age, and represents many backgrounds. Experience ranges from creative writing degrees, MFAs, literary journal founders and editors, military service, business professionals, professors, counselors, a playwright, and a periodontist. Individually, these poets have received an array of local and national awards, and are published in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and literary journals, including several chapbooks and/or full-length books of poetry.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art is pleased to host members of the Rock Canyon Poets on Wednesday, October 10 at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room of The City Library. A full lineup will be announced soon. Poets will include Dennis Marden Clark, Michaelle Martial, Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, Jack Garcia, and Lisa Connors.


Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.

Co-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January, 2015, Rock Canyon Poets boasts diverse membership. The ethnically rich group ranges in 18 to 70 years in age, and represents many backgrounds. Experience ranges from creative writing degrees, MFAs, literary journal founders and editors, military service, business professionals, professors, counselors, a playwright, and a periodontist. Individually, these poets have received an array of local and national awards, and are published in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and literary journals, including several chapbooks and/or full-length books of poetry.

This event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T150000 UID:9228773E-3CB3-40AD-A1EB-A04EE6D64207 SUMMARY:Tyler Whitesides at Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1367 DESCRIPTION:Utah State University is pleased to have Tyler Whitesides for a campus visit on Thursday, October 11th at 11:30 AM in Room 101 of the Merrill_Cazier Library. Whitesides' latest novel is The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn.\N\NThe Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire. \N\NWhen a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory - Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.\NTyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. Tyler spent much of his childhood outdoors, exploring the mountains near his house, and imagining many adventures with his neighborhood friends. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories. He is now represented by Ammi-Joan Paquette of Erin Murphy Literary Agency.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Utah State University, Helicon West, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State University is pleased to have Tyler Whitesides for a campus visit on Thursday, October 11th at 11:30 AM in Room 101 of the Merrill_Cazier Library. Whitesides' latest novel is The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn.

The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire.

When a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory - Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.
Tyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. Tyler spent much of his childhood outdoors, exploring the mountains near his house, and imagining many adventures with his neighborhood friends. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories. He is now represented by Ammi-Joan Paquette of Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

This event was made possible with support from Utah State University, Helicon West, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000 UID:A6FF79D0-DEA8-416D-8547-1345AF79D78C SUMMARY:Sor Juana Awards CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1321 DESCRIPTION:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Sixth Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories. This year, prizes will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah (eight prizes in total), in the following categories: Category I for those whose primary language at home is Spanish and, Category II for those who speak Spanish as a second language. The Sor Juana Prizes are the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish.\N\NFor more info, contact Artes de Mexico en Utah at: www.admin@artesmexut.org\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Sixth Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories. This year, prizes will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah (eight prizes in total), in the following categories: Category I for those whose primary language at home is Spanish and, Category II for those who speak Spanish as a second language. The Sor Juana Prizes are the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish.

For more info, contact Artes de Mexico en Utah at: www.admin@artesmexut.org

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T203000 UID:D2A42980-3312-4858-B79B-B980F182EEE0 SUMMARY:Safia Elhillo at Salt Lake Community College CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1316 DESCRIPTION:Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children, visits Salt Lake Community College (Multipurpose Room, South City campus) on Thursday October 11th at 7:00 PM.\N\NIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one’s own land.\N\NThe January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan’s history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani—an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.\N\NNo longer content to accept manmade borders, Elhillo navigates a new and reimagined world. Maintaining a sense of wonder in multiple landscapes and mindscapes of perpetually shifting values, she leads the reader through a postcolonial narrative that is equally terrifying and tender, melancholy and defiant. \N\NSafia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, receiving a special mention for the 2016 Pushcart Prize, and recipient of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Safia’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She was a founding member of Slam NYU, the 2012 and 2013 national collegiate championship team, and was a three-time member and former coach of the DC Youth Slam Poetry team.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Safia Elhillo, author of The January Children, visits Salt Lake Community College (Multipurpose Room, South City campus) on Thursday October 11th at 7:00 PM.

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one’s own land.

The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan’s history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani—an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.

No longer content to accept manmade borders, Elhillo navigates a new and reimagined world. Maintaining a sense of wonder in multiple landscapes and mindscapes of perpetually shifting values, she leads the reader through a postcolonial narrative that is equally terrifying and tender, melancholy and defiant.

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, receiving a special mention for the 2016 Pushcart Prize, and recipient of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Safia’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She was a founding member of Slam NYU, the 2012 and 2013 national collegiate championship team, and was a three-time member and former coach of the DC Youth Slam Poetry team.

This event was made possible with support from Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000 UID:FE22C926-B0A4-4528-AE59-8B1819DFB638 SUMMARY:The Bee: True Stories from the Hive CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1320 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! On Thursday, October 11th, ten storytellers are picked at random from a hat. They have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.\N\NThe theme for this night will be announced shortly. \N\NBring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.\N\NDoors open at 6 PM, stories begin at 7 PM. 21+ event. Admission is $15 and tickets will go on sale September 27th.\N\NDo YOU have a story to tell? Write to thebeeslc@gmail.com to put your name in the hat and we'll send you some friendly advice for preparing to take the stage and a link to get tickets before they go on sale to the public.\N\N** Tickets are general admission and seating will be available for approx half of guests this time. Let us know in advance if you require any particular accommodation. **\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities, KRCL 90.9FM , & CATALYST Magazine.\N\NTickets are on sale at thebeeslc.org. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! On Thursday, October 11th, ten storytellers are picked at random from a hat. They have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.

The theme for this night will be announced shortly.

Bring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.

Doors open at 6 PM, stories begin at 7 PM. 21+ event. Admission is $15 and tickets will go on sale September 27th.

Do YOU have a story to tell? Write to thebeeslc@gmail.com to put your name in the hat and we'll send you some friendly advice for preparing to take the stage and a link to get tickets before they go on sale to the public.

** Tickets are general admission and seating will be available for approx half of guests this time. Let us know in advance if you require any particular accommodation. **

This event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities, KRCL 90.9FM , & CATALYST Magazine.

Tickets are on sale at thebeeslc.org. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000 UID:ED48A48E-DEC9-48BA-94A5-54AF7850652C SUMMARY:Tyler Whitesides at Logan Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1323 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West presents renowned YA author Tyler Whitesides at the Logan Library on Thursday, October 11th at 7:00 PM. \N\NWhitesides new book, The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn, is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire. \N\NWhen a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory - Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.\N\NTyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. Tyler spent much of his childhood outdoors, exploring the mountains near his house, and imagining many adventures with his neighborhood friends. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Logan Library, Helicon West, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West presents renowned YA author Tyler Whitesides at the Logan Library on Thursday, October 11th at 7:00 PM.

Whitesides new book, The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn, is the first in an action-packed epic fantasy series featuring master con artist Ardor Benn. Ardor Benn is no ordinary thief. Rakish, ambitious, and master of wildly complex heists, he styles himself a Ruse Artist Extraordinaire.

When a priest hires him for the most daring ruse yet, Ardor knows he'll need more than quick wit and sleight of hand. Assembling a dream team of forgers, disguisers, schemers, and thieves, he sets out to steal from the most powerful king the realm has ever known. But it soon becomes clear there's more at stake than fame and glory - Ard and his team might just be the last hope for human civilization.

Tyler Whitesides was born in Washington state. The youngest of five siblings, he was raised in northern Utah where he still resides. Tyler spent much of his childhood outdoors, exploring the mountains near his house, and imagining many adventures with his neighborhood friends. He developed a love of books from a very young age, and with that came a desire to write his own stories.

This event was made possible with support from the Logan Library, Helicon West, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T220000 UID:981BD3C5-D55D-4708-8A76-D6D6B779BBF6 SUMMARY:Don Coscarelli at the Tower Theatre CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1361 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works and Salt Lake Film Society are thrilled to welcome legendary director Don Coscarelli to Salt Lake City! He will be presenting a special screening of the cult horror classic PHANTASM (Remastered) at The Tower Theatre, followed by a signing of his new book, TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING!\N\NTHE BOOK:\NBest known for his horror/sci-fi/fantasy films including Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-tep and John Dies at the End, now Don Coscarelli’s taking you on a white-knuckle ride through the rough and tumble world of indie film.\N\NJoin Coscarelli as he sells his first feature film to Universal Pictures and gets his own office on the studio lot while still in his teens. Travel with him as he chaperones three out-of-control child actors as they barnstorm Japan, almost drowns actress Catherine Keener in her first film role, and transforms a short story about Elvis Presley battling a four thousand year-old Egyptian mummy into a beloved cult classic film.\N\NWitness the incredible cast of characters he meets along the way from heavy metal god Ronnie James Dio to first-time filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. Learn how breaking bread with genre icons Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Guillermo Del Toro leads to a major cable series and watch as he and zombie king George A. Romero together take over an unprepared national network television show with their tales of blood and horror.\NThis memoir fits an entire film school education into a single book. It’s loaded with behind-the-scenes stories: like setting his face on fire during the making of Phantasm, hearing Bruce Campbell’s most important question before agreeing to star in Bubba Ho-tep, and crafting a horror thriller into a franchise phenomenon spanning four decades. Find out how Coscarelli managed to retain creative and financial control of his artistic works in an industry ruled by power-hungry predators, and all without going insane or bankrupt.\N\NTHE FILM:\NPHANTASM is the horror shocker that started it all.\NMicahel Baldwin and Bill Thornbury star as two brothers who discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf-creatures, a flying silver sphere of death, and is home to the sinister mortician known only as the Tall Man. This nefarious undertaker (with an iconic performance by Angus Scrimm) enslaves the souls of the damned and in the process his character has entered the pantheon of classic horror villains.\N\NTHE EVENT:\NIt all starts at 7 PM, October 11, at The Tower Theatre, when Don Coscarelli introduces and discusses his horror classic, PHANTASM. A viewing of the film will follow, with a meet and greet/signing with Mr. Coscarelli to follow!\NTicket prices:\N$50, which includes the viewing and discussion with Don Coscarelli, the meet and greet/signing with Don Coscarelli, and a copy of his new book, TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING!\N$20, which includes the viewing and discussion ONLY.\NPLEASE NOTE: Mr. Coscarelli is willing to sign TWO items for anyone who attends the Meet and Greet, but one of the items must be his new book, TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING! You must purchase it through Weller Book Works, or through the link below, as part of the meet and greet package. Please bring your receipt to the event.\N\NGet your tickets today! Here's the link: https://saltlakefilmsociety.org/now-playing/special-events/phantasm-director-don-coscarelli\NWeller Book Works will also be on site selling copies of TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING!\N\NPart of Utah Humanities Book Festival! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works and Salt Lake Film Society are thrilled to welcome legendary director Don Coscarelli to Salt Lake City! He will be presenting a special screening of the cult horror classic PHANTASM (Remastered) at The Tower Theatre, followed by a signing of his new book, TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING!

THE BOOK:
Best known for his horror/sci-fi/fantasy films including Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Bubba Ho-tep and John Dies at the End, now Don Coscarelli’s taking you on a white-knuckle ride through the rough and tumble world of indie film.

Join Coscarelli as he sells his first feature film to Universal Pictures and gets his own office on the studio lot while still in his teens. Travel with him as he chaperones three out-of-control child actors as they barnstorm Japan, almost drowns actress Catherine Keener in her first film role, and transforms a short story about Elvis Presley battling a four thousand year-old Egyptian mummy into a beloved cult classic film.

Witness the incredible cast of characters he meets along the way from heavy metal god Ronnie James Dio to first-time filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. Learn how breaking bread with genre icons Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Guillermo Del Toro leads to a major cable series and watch as he and zombie king George A. Romero together take over an unprepared national network television show with their tales of blood and horror.
This memoir fits an entire film school education into a single book. It’s loaded with behind-the-scenes stories: like setting his face on fire during the making of Phantasm, hearing Bruce Campbell’s most important question before agreeing to star in Bubba Ho-tep, and crafting a horror thriller into a franchise phenomenon spanning four decades. Find out how Coscarelli managed to retain creative and financial control of his artistic works in an industry ruled by power-hungry predators, and all without going insane or bankrupt.

THE FILM:
PHANTASM is the horror shocker that started it all.
Micahel Baldwin and Bill Thornbury star as two brothers who discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf-creatures, a flying silver sphere of death, and is home to the sinister mortician known only as the Tall Man. This nefarious undertaker (with an iconic performance by Angus Scrimm) enslaves the souls of the damned and in the process his character has entered the pantheon of classic horror villains.

THE EVENT:
It all starts at 7 PM, October 11, at The Tower Theatre, when Don Coscarelli introduces and discusses his horror classic, PHANTASM. A viewing of the film will follow, with a meet and greet/signing with Mr. Coscarelli to follow!
Ticket prices:
$50, which includes the viewing and discussion with Don Coscarelli, the meet and greet/signing with Don Coscarelli, and a copy of his new book, TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING!
$20, which includes the viewing and discussion ONLY.
PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Coscarelli is willing to sign TWO items for anyone who attends the Meet and Greet, but one of the items must be his new book, TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING! You must purchase it through Weller Book Works, or through the link below, as part of the meet and greet package. Please bring your receipt to the event.

Get your tickets today! Here's the link: https://saltlakefilmsociety.org/now-playing/special-events/phantasm-director-don-coscarelli
Weller Book Works will also be on site selling copies of TRUE INDIE: LIFE AND DEATH IN FILMMAKING!

Part of Utah Humanities Book Festival! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181011T210000 UID:71585F8E-FA9B-4A4F-B49E-11A1CCD213D9 SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Awards in Fiction CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1377 DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with 15 Bytes as they present the 15 Bytes Book Awards in Fiction to the winner and finalists of their annual contest. The 15 Bytes Book Awards recognize the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that Utah has to offer each year. This event will include the presentation of the award, with readings by:\NGabriel Tallent, "My Absolute Darling" (Winner)\NElla Joy Olsen, "Where the Sweet Bird Sings" (Finalist)\NSylvia Torti, "Cages" (Finalist)\N\NCurrently in its sixth year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, Pioneer Book, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come celebrate with 15 Bytes as they present the 15 Bytes Book Awards in Fiction to the winner and finalists of their annual contest. The 15 Bytes Book Awards recognize the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that Utah has to offer each year. This event will include the presentation of the award, with readings by:
Gabriel Tallent, "My Absolute Darling" (Winner)
Ella Joy Olsen, "Where the Sweet Bird Sings" (Finalist)
Sylvia Torti, "Cages" (Finalist)

Currently in its sixth year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.

This event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, Pioneer Book, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181012T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181012T203000 UID:320B78D1-2120-4CE4-99CA-C13E2193BB8B SUMMARY:James Kennedy at Treehouse Museum CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1328 DESCRIPTION:On Friday, October 12th at 6:30 PM, YA author James Kennedy visits the Treehouse Museum to talk about his books and the 90-second Newbery Film Festival.\N\NJames Kennedy is the founder and curator of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds, with yearly screenings in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston, San Antonio, Portland, Tacoma, and other cities. For more information on rules and how to enter the contest, visit: http://90secondnewbery.com/about. \N\NKennedy is also the author of The Order of Odd-Fish (Random House Delacorte 2008), a young adult fantasy that was one of the Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children 2008, an ALA 2009 Best Books for Young Adults Nominee, and a YALSA 2014 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Chicago.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Friday, October 12th at 6:30 PM, YA author James Kennedy visits the Treehouse Museum to talk about his books and the 90-second Newbery Film Festival.

James Kennedy is the founder and curator of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds, with yearly screenings in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston, San Antonio, Portland, Tacoma, and other cities. For more information on rules and how to enter the contest, visit: http://90secondnewbery.com/about.

Kennedy is also the author of The Order of Odd-Fish (Random House Delacorte 2008), a young adult fantasy that was one of the Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children 2008, an ALA 2009 Best Books for Young Adults Nominee, and a YALSA 2014 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Chicago.

This event is made possible with support from the Treehouse Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181013T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181013T170000 UID:B64E1877-ECC1-4240-ADA7-3F3584A2FDB4 SUMMARY:Alt Press Fest at The City Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1342 DESCRIPTION:Alt Press Fest is an annual showcase for Utah's vibrant community of zine-publishing writers and artists. A zine is an ephemeral, printed work of art that fully represents its maker. These makers are driven by passion, with no constraints on what they can do and how they can do it. You'll find them with their head buried in a notebook or hunched over a drafting table. You'll find them on their bedroom floor surrounded by scissors, glue, discarded pages, and half-filled sketchbooks. You'll find them standing over a copy machine late at night, months of work finally becoming a finished product.\N\NAlt Press is freedom, creativity, expression, and a little bit of anarchy. It's DIY publishing, where creators have total control of their work from concept to production. \N\NFor more information, please visit: http://www.slcpl.org/events/view/8556\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Alt Press Fest is an annual showcase for Utah's vibrant community of zine-publishing writers and artists. A zine is an ephemeral, printed work of art that fully represents its maker. These makers are driven by passion, with no constraints on what they can do and how they can do it. You'll find them with their head buried in a notebook or hunched over a drafting table. You'll find them on their bedroom floor surrounded by scissors, glue, discarded pages, and half-filled sketchbooks. You'll find them standing over a copy machine late at night, months of work finally becoming a finished product.

Alt Press is freedom, creativity, expression, and a little bit of anarchy. It's DIY publishing, where creators have total control of their work from concept to production. 

For more information, please visit: http://www.slcpl.org/events/view/8556
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181013T210000 UID:00D67BFD-A6FC-40D3-BB88-08C1CEAC5583 SUMMARY:Kevin Holdsworth & David Lee CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1305 DESCRIPTION:Templeton Studios is pleased to host authors Kevin Holdsworth and David Lee on Saturday, October 13th at 7:00 PM. \N\NKevin Holdsworth is the author of Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming and Good Water. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Cimarron Review, Post Road, Creative Nonfiction, and Denver University Law Review. In 2009 he was awarded the Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship for fiction. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and son, Chris, in south-central and southern Utah.\N\NBorn in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts.\N \NThis event was made possible with support from Templeton Studios, Nancy Takacs, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Templeton Studios is pleased to host authors Kevin Holdsworth and David Lee on Saturday, October 13th at 7:00 PM.

Kevin Holdsworth is the author of Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming and Good Water. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Cimarron Review, Post Road, Creative Nonfiction, and Denver University Law Review. In 2009 he was awarded the Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship for fiction. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and son, Chris, in south-central and southern Utah.

Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts.

This event was made possible with support from Templeton Studios, Nancy Takacs, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181015T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T203000 UID:CE511E7C-5C88-4B74-8DB0-9B29993A54E2 SUMMARY:Adrian Todd Zuniga at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1285 DESCRIPTION:Author and Literary Death Match host Adrian Todd Zuniga visits Weller Book Works to discuss his latest novel Collision Theory on Monday, October 15th at 6:30 PM. \N\NCollision Theory tells the story of Thomas Mullen who witnessed a woman jump to her death fifteen months ago. Now there are the pleading calls from his parents to come home, please come home. But it is not until his best friend shows up unannounced that Thomas is awakened. He soon finds himself on an unpredictable journey in which he is forced to confront difficult truths: girlfriend’s leave, mother’s fall ill, and attempts to deny pain will ultimately fail.\N\NA dazzling debut from Literary Death Match creator Adrian Todd Zuniga, Collision Theory is a headlong and heartaching modern masterwork. Its suddenness, unexpectedness, humor, and humanity make for an unforgettable read.\N\NAndrew Todd Zuniga is the host/creator/CCO of Literary Death Match (now featured in over 60 cities worldwide) and host of LDM Book Report on YouTube. A WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, he co-wrote Madden NFL 18’s interactive movie Longshot (EA Sports). His short fiction has been featured in Gopher Illustrated and Stymie, and online at Lost Magazine and McSweeney’s. He lives between London and Los Angeles.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and Literary Death Match host Adrian Todd Zuniga visits Weller Book Works to discuss his latest novel Collision Theory on Monday, October 15th at 6:30 PM.

Collision Theory tells the story of Thomas Mullen who witnessed a woman jump to her death fifteen months ago. Now there are the pleading calls from his parents to come home, please come home. But it is not until his best friend shows up unannounced that Thomas is awakened. He soon finds himself on an unpredictable journey in which he is forced to confront difficult truths: girlfriend’s leave, mother’s fall ill, and attempts to deny pain will ultimately fail.

A dazzling debut from Literary Death Match creator Adrian Todd Zuniga, Collision Theory is a headlong and heartaching modern masterwork. Its suddenness, unexpectedness, humor, and humanity make for an unforgettable read.

Andrew Todd Zuniga is the host/creator/CCO of Literary Death Match (now featured in over 60 cities worldwide) and host of LDM Book Report on YouTube. A WGA Award-nominated screenwriter, he co-wrote Madden NFL 18’s interactive movie Longshot (EA Sports). His short fiction has been featured in Gopher Illustrated and Stymie, and online at Lost Magazine and McSweeney’s. He lives between London and Los Angeles.

This event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T210000 UID:5FC7458A-BAEA-418D-BE30-40CD211C8F93 SUMMARY:Brandon Mull at Brigham City CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1260 DESCRIPTION:Brandon Mull presents "Imagination Can Take You Places" at the Brigham City Library on Monday, October 15 at 7:00 PM.\N\N#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Mull will talk about what led him into writing fantasy and how he uses his books to promote literacy and connection. His books include Fablehaven, Five Kingdoms, Beyonders, Candy Shop War, and Dragonwatch. He also created and outlined the Spirit Animals series for Scholastic.\NBook sales and signing at this event!\N\NBrandon Mull is the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Fablehaven, Beyonders and Five Kingdoms series, as well as many other popular young adult fantasy novels. He also served as the architect for Scholastic's new Spirit Animals series, outlining the seven books and writing the first. Passionate about writing and firing the imagination of his readers, Brandon’s tales of epic adventure have become immensely popular both with school-going children and adults, who enjoy the depth and breadth of his storytelling. \N\NFor more information on this event, please visit Brigham City Library's website: http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#mull. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brandon Mull presents "Imagination Can Take You Places" at the Brigham City Library on Monday, October 15 at 7:00 PM.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Mull will talk about what led him into writing fantasy and how he uses his books to promote literacy and connection. His books include Fablehaven, Five Kingdoms, Beyonders, Candy Shop War, and Dragonwatch. He also created and outlined the Spirit Animals series for Scholastic.
Book sales and signing at this event!

Brandon Mull is the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Fablehaven, Beyonders and Five Kingdoms series, as well as many other popular young adult fantasy novels. He also served as the architect for Scholastic's new Spirit Animals series, outlining the seven books and writing the first. Passionate about writing and firing the imagination of his readers, Brandon’s tales of epic adventure have become immensely popular both with school-going children and adults, who enjoy the depth and breadth of his storytelling.

For more information on this event, please visit Brigham City Library's website: http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#mull.

This event was made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T210000 UID:7810719D-CB71-4EFD-BACC-23093D674592 SUMMARY:“Ancient Myths in Contemporary Voices: Featuring Danielle Dubrasky, Shanan Ballam, and Nancy Takacs CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1372 DESCRIPTION:Join poets Danielle Dubrasky, Nancy Takacs, and Shanan Ballam for “Ancient Myths in Contemporary Voices.” All three poets recently published books that contemporize ancient myths and fairy tales in different ways and they will share and discuss their work from these projects. \N\NDanielle Beazer Dubrasky is the director of the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values as well as an associate professor of Creative Writing at Southern Utah University. Her poetry has been published in Pilgrimage, Salt Front, Contrary Magazine, Quill & Parchment, Cave Wall, and Sugar House Review. Her poems were also published in a limited edition art book Invisible Shores by Red Butte Press of the University of Utah. Her chapbook Ruin and Light won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and is a two-time recipient of the Utah Arts Council first place award in poetry. Danielle is the poetry editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work and has worked with a research team at Southern Utah University to develop a curriculum for poetry therapy in groups. She grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has lived the last 20 years in Southern Utah.\N\NShanan Ballam is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line 2010) and a full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability 2013), a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award; in 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Contest, judged by Sue Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2013, Shanan was appointed to the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and served a 4-year term.\N\NNancy Takacs's poetry has appeared in The Harvard Review, Kestrel, Hayden's Ferry Review, Nimrod, Weber, and many other literary journals. She is the recipient of awards, including The Juniper Prize, Finalist for the National Poetry Series, The Sherwin Howard Poetry Prize,The Kay Saunders Poetry Prize, the 15 Bytes Poetry Prize, TheNation/Discovery Award, and the book-length Poetry Award from the Utah Arts Council. Nancy has also been an artist-in-the schools, as well as in prisons. An MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she is an emeritus professor at Utah State University Eastern, and former wilderness studies instructor. She currently teaches writing workshops privately, and for communities of writers, nature and its wild places a source of inspiration for her writing as well as her teaching. Helping others find their voice through the writing process is a focus in her classes. Nancy lives in Wellington, Utah, with her husband Jan, and their two dogs. The San Rafael Swell nearby is one of her favorite hiking places. She spends time in Bayfield, Wisconsin, also happy to be near the Big Lake. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join poets Danielle Dubrasky, Nancy Takacs, and Shanan Ballam for “Ancient Myths in Contemporary Voices.” All three poets recently published books that contemporize ancient myths and fairy tales in different ways and they will share and discuss their work from these projects.

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky is the director of the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values as well as an associate professor of Creative Writing at Southern Utah University. Her poetry has been published in Pilgrimage, Salt Front, Contrary Magazine, Quill & Parchment, Cave Wall, and Sugar House Review. Her poems were also published in a limited edition art book Invisible Shores by Red Butte Press of the University of Utah. Her chapbook Ruin and Light won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Competition. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and is a two-time recipient of the Utah Arts Council first place award in poetry. Danielle is the poetry editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work and has worked with a research team at Southern Utah University to develop a curriculum for poetry therapy in groups. She grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has lived the last 20 years in Southern Utah.

Shanan Ballam is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line 2010) and a full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability 2013), a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award; in 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Contest, judged by Sue Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2013, Shanan was appointed to the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and served a 4-year term.

Nancy Takacs's poetry has appeared in The Harvard Review, Kestrel, Hayden's Ferry Review, Nimrod, Weber, and many other literary journals. She is the recipient of awards, including The Juniper Prize, Finalist for the National Poetry Series, The Sherwin Howard Poetry Prize,The Kay Saunders Poetry Prize, the 15 Bytes Poetry Prize, TheNation/Discovery Award, and the book-length Poetry Award from the Utah Arts Council. Nancy has also been an artist-in-the schools, as well as in prisons. An MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, she is an emeritus professor at Utah State University Eastern, and former wilderness studies instructor. She currently teaches writing workshops privately, and for communities of writers, nature and its wild places a source of inspiration for her writing as well as her teaching. Helping others find their voice through the writing process is a focus in her classes. Nancy lives in Wellington, Utah, with her husband Jan, and their two dogs. The San Rafael Swell nearby is one of her favorite hiking places. She spends time in Bayfield, Wisconsin, also happy to be near the Big Lake.

This event is made possible with support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181016T203000 UID:DC5A0A2F-3089-44CF-BC7A-D9C09E28BE9F SUMMARY:Lee Nelson at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1322 DESCRIPTION:Lee Nelson, author of over 30 books, visits the Brigham City Public Library on Tuesday, October 16th at 7:00 PM. \N\NNelson's novels, combined with his non-fiction books on near death experiences, have sold nearly a million copies. Western Horseman Magazine ran a feature article on Lee winning a saddle horse race with a Montana rancher in a dispute over the price of a new truck. \N\NLee has been a partner in three Utah cattle ranches. He is a team roper and invented the  Heel-O-Matic, the preferred practice machine for heelers, featured in a Chevy truck ad during the Super Bowl.\N\NLee's newest book, Hoofbeats, his own personal history, includes easy to follow guidelines on personal history writing for others. He has been teaching classes on personal history writing for about 15 years, and frequently is invited to speak and lecture on the subject.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lee Nelson, author of over 30 books, visits the Brigham City Public Library on Tuesday, October 16th at 7:00 PM.

Nelson's novels, combined with his non-fiction books on near death experiences, have sold nearly a million copies. Western Horseman Magazine ran a feature article on Lee winning a saddle horse race with a Montana rancher in a dispute over the price of a new truck.

Lee has been a partner in three Utah cattle ranches. He is a team roper and invented the  Heel-O-Matic, the preferred practice machine for heelers, featured in a Chevy truck ad during the Super Bowl.

Lee's newest book, Hoofbeats, his own personal history, includes easy to follow guidelines on personal history writing for others. He has been teaching classes on personal history writing for about 15 years, and frequently is invited to speak and lecture on the subject.

This event was made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181016T203000 UID:3B026082-7C25-4FD1-AB0D-B3C8D753C147 SUMMARY:Jessica Day George at the Delta City Library CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1356 DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Delta City Library for an evening with Jessica Day George, author of The Rose Legacy and the best-selling Dragon Slippers and Castle Glower series. \N\NWhen orphaned Anthea Cross-Thornley receives a letter from a long-lost uncle, she wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her?\N\NJessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and three young children.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Delta City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at the Delta City Library for an evening with Jessica Day George, author of The Rose Legacy and the best-selling Dragon Slippers and Castle Glower series.

When orphaned Anthea Cross-Thornley receives a letter from a long-lost uncle, she wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her?

Jessica Day George earned a BA in Humanities/Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University, where she enjoyed classes in Pottery and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to take Algebra and Biology. Originally from Idaho, she now resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and three young children.

This event is made possible with support from the Delta City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181016T220000 UID:532BE854-BA64-4243-A048-53BA11C0AC77 SUMMARY:Literary Death Match CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1360 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities presents the triumphant return of Adrian Todd Zuniga and Literary Death Match to Salt Lake City! LDM marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol's judging (without the meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare. Judges for this event will include: Brian Laidlaw, Cassie Cox, and Angelika Brewer. Contestants to be announced soon. Tickets are $10.00 and are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10336653\N\NHow It Works: Literary Death Match features a mix of four established and emerging writers who perform their most electric work before a live audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After a pair of readings, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary, focusing on Literary Merit, Performance and Intangibles. The judges select one writer from each round to advance to the finals, where we trade in the show's literary sensibility for an absurdly comical climax — like Pin the Mustache on Hemingway, or a literary spelling bee featuring complicated author names — to decide who takes home the Literary Death Match crown. For more info on LDM, visit: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/about\N\NContestants:\N\NBrian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from Northern California. He earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, and then joined the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN Hisrecent releases include the vinyl-LP-plus-poetry-chapbook AMORATORIUM (Paper Darts Press), the book/album THE STUNTMAN (Milkweed Editions), and the 7” vinyl single JEREMIAD (Hymie’s Vintage Records), as well as the forthcoming full-length collection THE MIRRORMAKER (Milkweed Editions, 2018). \N\NYolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.\N\NRyan Jones began performing spoken word in 2012 after joining the B.L.A.C.K Poets in Macon, GA. After entering and winning his first competitive poetry slam that same year (Bad Mamma Jamma Slam, Hosted by A.A.C. in Milledgeville), Ryan helped to lead Mercer University's inaugural poetry slam team to the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2015, where they placed 20th in the nation for collegiate spoken word. In 2016, Ryan led Mercer University's team back to C.U.P.S.I. as an assistant coach and team poet. In 2017, Ryan represented the Java Monkey Slam Team in Atlanta, GA at the National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. Ryan also competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2017, and competed in and won the TedX Peachtree Poetry Slam the same year. In 2018, Ryan became a Cave Canem Fellow, and also won the Art Amok Grand Slam Finals, making him the 2018 Art Amok Slam Champion.\N\NAngelika Brewer has a passion for helping people, troubled youth in particular. She is a spoken word poet who travels across Utah to speak in classrooms, schools and community events about the benefits of spoken word poetry being implemented in the lives of youth and adults alike. Along with performances, she offers writing and performing workshops, resources for young writers, performers and artists, as well as organize events for sharing writing, art, and music within the community.\N\NJudges:\N\NKase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the founder of the LITerally podcast, which explores the writers and literary works of Utah and the surrounding region. He is the author of recently released "Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis," which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places. It was recently awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, and The Chronicle Review. \N\NAbraham Smith is the author of five poetry collections: Dsetruction of Man (Third Man Books, 2018); Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. \N\NCassie Cox is an English teacher at Two Rivers High School in Ogden. She is one of the recipients of the 2018 UEA Excellence in Teaching Awards as well as a Teacher of the Year Award from the 100% For Kids Credit Union Foundation. Cox incorporates civil rights and social justice themes into much of what she does, providing her students opportunities to meet countless writers, members of the Little Rock Nine, Simeon Wright (cousin of Emmett Till), and many more. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities presents the triumphant return of Adrian Todd Zuniga and Literary Death Match to Salt Lake City! LDM marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol's judging (without the meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity of Double Dare. Judges for this event will include: Brian Laidlaw, Cassie Cox, and Angelika Brewer. Contestants to be announced soon. Tickets are $10.00 and are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10336653

How It Works: Literary Death Match features a mix of four established and emerging writers who perform their most electric work before a live audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After a pair of readings, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary, focusing on Literary Merit, Performance and Intangibles. The judges select one writer from each round to advance to the finals, where we trade in the show's literary sensibility for an absurdly comical climax — like Pin the Mustache on Hemingway, or a literary spelling bee featuring complicated author names — to decide who takes home the Literary Death Match crown. For more info on LDM, visit: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/about

Contestants:

Brian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from Northern California. He earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, and then joined the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN Hisrecent releases include the vinyl-LP-plus-poetry-chapbook AMORATORIUM (Paper Darts Press), the book/album THE STUNTMAN (Milkweed Editions), and the 7” vinyl single JEREMIAD (Hymie’s Vintage Records), as well as the forthcoming full-length collection THE MIRRORMAKER (Milkweed Editions, 2018).

Yolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.

Ryan Jones began performing spoken word in 2012 after joining the B.L.A.C.K Poets in Macon, GA. After entering and winning his first competitive poetry slam that same year (Bad Mamma Jamma Slam, Hosted by A.A.C. in Milledgeville), Ryan helped to lead Mercer University's inaugural poetry slam team to the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2015, where they placed 20th in the nation for collegiate spoken word. In 2016, Ryan led Mercer University's team back to C.U.P.S.I. as an assistant coach and team poet. In 2017, Ryan represented the Java Monkey Slam Team in Atlanta, GA at the National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. Ryan also competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2017, and competed in and won the TedX Peachtree Poetry Slam the same year. In 2018, Ryan became a Cave Canem Fellow, and also won the Art Amok Grand Slam Finals, making him the 2018 Art Amok Slam Champion.

Angelika Brewer has a passion for helping people, troubled youth in particular. She is a spoken word poet who travels across Utah to speak in classrooms, schools and community events about the benefits of spoken word poetry being implemented in the lives of youth and adults alike. Along with performances, she offers writing and performing workshops, resources for young writers, performers and artists, as well as organize events for sharing writing, art, and music within the community.

Judges:

Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the founder of the LITerally podcast, which explores the writers and literary works of Utah and the surrounding region. He is the author of recently released "Beyond the Grip Craniosynostosis," which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner, and many other places. It was recently awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, and The Chronicle Review.

Abraham Smith is the author of five poetry collections: Dsetruction of Man (Third Man Books, 2018); Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Cassie Cox is an English teacher at Two Rivers High School in Ogden. She is one of the recipients of the 2018 UEA Excellence in Teaching Awards as well as a Teacher of the Year Award from the 100% For Kids Credit Union Foundation. Cox incorporates civil rights and social justice themes into much of what she does, providing her students opportunities to meet countless writers, members of the Little Rock Nine, Simeon Wright (cousin of Emmett Till), and many more.

This event is made possible with the support of Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T123000 UID:4850F981-0B54-4CB9-9CFD-7B2D77DD22C7 SUMMARY:Peter Rock at Friends of the Park City Library Author Luncheon CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1343 DESCRIPTION:Peter Rock, author of "My Abandonment", will be the featured speaker at the annual Friends of the Park City Library fundraiser. Rock will discuss his work and the experience of having his book adapted to film.  "Leave No Trace," the film adaptation of his book, My Abandonment, was featured in last year's Sundance Festival. \N\N Ticket information can be found at https://parkcitylibrary.org/about/friends-of-the-library/\N\NMy Abandonment, was based on a true story that appeared in The Oregonian. The book tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl and her father who live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilized world. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence, ultimately provoking a deeper flight.\N\NPeter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is the author of the novels SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves, and This Is the Place, and a story collection, The Unsettling. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Alex Award and others, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College. The film adaptation of My Abandonment, directed by Debra Granik, premiered at Sundance and Cannes and was released in June of 2018. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from Friends of the Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Peter Rock, author of "My Abandonment", will be the featured speaker at the annual Friends of the Park City Library fundraiser. Rock will discuss his work and the experience of having his book adapted to film.  "Leave No Trace," the film adaptation of his book, My Abandonment, was featured in last year's Sundance Festival.

Ticket information can be found at https://parkcitylibrary.org/about/friends-of-the-library/

My Abandonment, was based on a true story that appeared in The Oregonian. The book tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl and her father who live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilized world. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them, which derails their entire existence, ultimately provoking a deeper flight.

Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is the author of the novels SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves, and This Is the Place, and a story collection, The Unsettling. His stories and freelance writing have both appeared and been anthologized widely, and his books published in various countries and languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Alex Award and others, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a Professor in the English Department of Reed College. The film adaptation of My Abandonment, directed by Debra Granik, premiered at Sundance and Cannes and was released in June of 2018.

This event was made possible with support from Friends of the Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T200000 UID:E262E522-C855-4A37-9DA8-5605ED204E9D SUMMARY:Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson at The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1380 DESCRIPTION:Please join Newbery Medalist Matt de la Peña and Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, the creators of the #1 New York Timesbestselling Last Stop on Market Street, for a presentation of their new picture book Carmela Full of Wishes.\N\NThis event is free and open to the public and will take place at the Salt Lake City public Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.\N\NWhen Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already come true—she’s finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. Together, they travel through their neighborhood, past the crowded bus stop, the fenced-off repair shop, and the panadería, until they arrive at the Laundromat, where Carmela finds a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow its white fluff away, her brother tells her she has to make a wish. If only she can think of just the right wish to make…\N\NPlaces in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Carmela Full of Wishes from The King's English.\N\NGET YOUR COPY NOW! Pre-order your signed copy of Carmela Full of Wishes today, by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Please join Newbery Medalist Matt de la Peña and Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, the creators of the #1 New York Timesbestselling Last Stop on Market Street, for a presentation of their new picture book Carmela Full of Wishes.

This event is free and open to the public and will take place at the Salt Lake City public Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already come true—she’s finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. Together, they travel through their neighborhood, past the crowded bus stop, the fenced-off repair shop, and the panadería, until they arrive at the Laundromat, where Carmela finds a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow its white fluff away, her brother tells her she has to make a wish. If only she can think of just the right wish to make…

Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of Carmela Full of Wishes from The King's English.

GET YOUR COPY NOW! Pre-order your signed copy of Carmela Full of Wishes today, by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T203000 UID:68FD34A5-10BD-45B5-ACA6-45A324534124 SUMMARY:Sarah Singh and M.J. Francis at Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1325 DESCRIPTION:Special Collections curators Sarah Singh and Melissa Francis visit the Weber County Main Library to discuss their book Weber County in World War II on Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 PM.\N\NAfter the United States joined World War II in 1941, the men and women of Weber County heeded the call to fight for victory at home and overseas. Over 10,000 Northern Utahns served in the armed forces, while back at home, new military installations, such as Defense Depot Ogden and Hill Air Force Base, employed thousands more. Women's clubs held bond drives, high school students learned first aid and harvested crops, and children gathered scrap metal; it was a community-wide response that changed Weber County forever. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Special Collections curators Sarah Singh and Melissa Francis visit the Weber County Main Library to discuss their book Weber County in World War II on Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 PM.

After the United States joined World War II in 1941, the men and women of Weber County heeded the call to fight for victory at home and overseas. Over 10,000 Northern Utahns served in the armed forces, while back at home, new military installations, such as Defense Depot Ogden and Hill Air Force Base, employed thousands more. Women's clubs held bond drives, high school students learned first aid and harvested crops, and children gathered scrap metal; it was a community-wide response that changed Weber County forever.

This event was made possible with support from the Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T210000 UID:2F833112-549F-4969-8107-E2831759F0F5 SUMMARY:Camron Wright at Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1344 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Education Foundation welcomes Camron Wright, author of The Rent Collector. Wright will be part of a public Community Conversation on the evening of October 17th at 7:00 PM at the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library. The Rent Collector is the choice for the 2018 One Community, One Book program in Summit County.\N\NIn the Rent Collector, survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money—a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. \N\NThe Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia—perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia—everyone deserves a second chance.\N\NThough the book is a work of fiction, it was inspired by real people who lived at the Stung Meanchey dump in Cambodia.\N\NThe Rent Collector was named Book of the Year Gold Winner by Foreword Magazine, Best Novel of the Year at the Whitney Awards, and was a nominee for the prestigious International DUBLIN Literary Award. In addition to North America, The Rent Collector has also been published in Turkey, Indonesia, Norway, Korea, and Spain.\N\NCamron Wright was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first book, Letters for Emily, was a Readers Choice Award winner, as well as a selection of the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Park City Education Foundation, the Park City Library, Summit County RAP tax, the Tom Wilson Foundation, Montage Deer Valley, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Education Foundation welcomes Camron Wright, author of The Rent Collector. Wright will be part of a public Community Conversation on the evening of October 17th at 7:00 PM at the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library. The Rent Collector is the choice for the 2018 One Community, One Book program in Summit County.

In the Rent Collector, survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money—a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.

The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia—perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia—everyone deserves a second chance.

Though the book is a work of fiction, it was inspired by real people who lived at the Stung Meanchey dump in Cambodia.

The Rent Collector was named Book of the Year Gold Winner by Foreword Magazine, Best Novel of the Year at the Whitney Awards, and was a nominee for the prestigious International DUBLIN Literary Award. In addition to North America, The Rent Collector has also been published in Turkey, Indonesia, Norway, Korea, and Spain.

Camron Wright was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first book, Letters for Emily, was a Readers Choice Award winner, as well as a selection of the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild.

This event was made possible with support from the Park City Education Foundation, the Park City Library, Summit County RAP tax, the Tom Wilson Foundation, Montage Deer Valley, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T200000 UID:BF1660D1-2021-442D-8E7A-E0BC83C34A1C SUMMARY:Brian Laidlaw, Ryan Jones, & Yolanda Franklin at City Art Reading Series CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1359 DESCRIPTION:Poets Brian Laidlaw, Ryan Jones, and Yolanda Franklin visit the City Public Library on Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series.\N\NA companion volume to Laidlaw’s 2015 project, The Stuntman, The Mirrormaker fuses the stories of two fabled couples: the mythical Narcissus and Echo, and Bob Dylan and Echo Star Helstrom, subject of the song “Girl from the North Country.” But where The Stuntman focused on Narcissus, The Mirrormaker takes its primary inspiration from Echo, drawing on ecocritical readings of American history and interrogating the masculine logic of resource extraction.\N\NBrian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from Northern California. He earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, and then joined the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN Hisrecent releases include the vinyl-LP-plus-poetry-chapbook AMORATORIUM (Paper Darts Press), the book/album THE STUNTMAN (Milkweed Editions), and the 7” vinyl single JEREMIAD (Hymie’s Vintage Records), as well as the forthcoming full-length collection THE MIRRORMAKER (Milkweed Editions, 2018). \N\NThe organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately, and with such knowing — an edgy discography of Florida and the contentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands, like Zora Neale Hurston, how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspect of southern history, and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery and beyond.\N\NYolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.\N\NRyan Jones began performing spoken word in 2012 after joining the B.L.A.C.K Poets in Macon, GA. After entering and winning his first competitive poetry slam that same year (Bad Mamma Jamma Slam, Hosted by A.A.C. in Milledgeville), Ryan helped to lead Mercer University's inaugural poetry slam team to the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2015, where they placed 20th in the nation for collegiate spoken word. In 2016, Ryan led Mercer University's team back to C.U.P.S.I. as an assistant coach and team poet. In 2017, Ryan represented the Java Monkey Slam Team in Atlanta, GA at the National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. Ryan also competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2017, and competed in and won the TedX Peachtree Poetry Slam the same year. In 2018, Ryan became a Cave Canem Fellow, and also won the Art Amok Grand Slam Finals, making him the 2018 Art Amok Slam Champion.\N​\NIn November 2016, Ryan founded Homegrown Poetry, a spoken word outlet dedicated to uplifting and showcasing both adult and youth spoken word artists in the Atlanta area. Ryan is currently based in Atlanta, GA and is dedicated to community and youth outreach through Spoken Word and other performative arts.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from The City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Brian Laidlaw, Ryan Jones, and Yolanda Franklin visit the City Public Library on Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the City Art Reading Series.

A companion volume to Laidlaw’s 2015 project, The Stuntman, The Mirrormaker fuses the stories of two fabled couples: the mythical Narcissus and Echo, and Bob Dylan and Echo Star Helstrom, subject of the song “Girl from the North Country.” But where The Stuntman focused on Narcissus, The Mirrormaker takes its primary inspiration from Echo, drawing on ecocritical readings of American history and interrogating the masculine logic of resource extraction.

Brian Laidlaw is a poet, songwriter and educator from Northern California. He earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, and then joined the Songwriting faculty at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN Hisrecent releases include the vinyl-LP-plus-poetry-chapbook AMORATORIUM (Paper Darts Press), the book/album THE STUNTMAN (Milkweed Editions), and the 7” vinyl single JEREMIAD (Hymie’s Vintage Records), as well as the forthcoming full-length collection THE MIRRORMAKER (Milkweed Editions, 2018).

The organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately, and with such knowing — an edgy discography of Florida and the contentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands, like Zora Neale Hurston, how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspect of southern history, and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery and beyond.

Yolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.

Ryan Jones began performing spoken word in 2012 after joining the B.L.A.C.K Poets in Macon, GA. After entering and winning his first competitive poetry slam that same year (Bad Mamma Jamma Slam, Hosted by A.A.C. in Milledgeville), Ryan helped to lead Mercer University's inaugural poetry slam team to the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2015, where they placed 20th in the nation for collegiate spoken word. In 2016, Ryan led Mercer University's team back to C.U.P.S.I. as an assistant coach and team poet. In 2017, Ryan represented the Java Monkey Slam Team in Atlanta, GA at the National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. Ryan also competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2017, and competed in and won the TedX Peachtree Poetry Slam the same year. In 2018, Ryan became a Cave Canem Fellow, and also won the Art Amok Grand Slam Finals, making him the 2018 Art Amok Slam Champion.
​
In November 2016, Ryan founded Homegrown Poetry, a spoken word outlet dedicated to uplifting and showcasing both adult and youth spoken word artists in the Atlanta area. Ryan is currently based in Atlanta, GA and is dedicated to community and youth outreach through Spoken Word and other performative arts.

This event was made possible with support from The City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181017T210000 UID:56F0F475-85DB-4463-AF42-201EFA1DD6ED SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Awards in Poetry CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1375 DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with 15 Bytes as they present the 15 Bytes Book Awards in Poetry to the winner and finalists of their annual contest. The 15 Bytes Book Awards recognize the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that Utah has to offer each year. This event will include the presentation of the award, with readings by:\NNancy Takacs, "The Worrier" (Winner)\NAdam Giannelli, "Tremulous Hinge" (Finalist)\NMike White, "Addendum to a Miracle" (Finalist)\N\NCurrently in its sixth year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, The Printed Garden, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come celebrate with 15 Bytes as they present the 15 Bytes Book Awards in Poetry to the winner and finalists of their annual contest. The 15 Bytes Book Awards recognize the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that Utah has to offer each year. This event will include the presentation of the award, with readings by:
Nancy Takacs, "The Worrier" (Winner)
Adam Giannelli, "Tremulous Hinge" (Finalist)
Mike White, "Addendum to a Miracle" (Finalist)

Currently in its sixth year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.

This event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, The Printed Garden, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181018T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181018T203000 UID:C7399557-3D57-44BF-AAD5-ABD72B98F0AF SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Awards in Nonfiction CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1376 DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with 15 Bytes as they present the 15 Bytes Book Awards in Nonfiction to the winner and finalists of their annual contest. The 15 Bytes Book Awards recognize the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that Utah has to offer each year. This event will include the presentation of the award, with readings by:\NBrooke Williams, "Open Midnight: Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet" (Winner)\NJennifer Sinor, "Ordinary Trauma" (Finalist)\NGerda Saunders, "Memory's Last Breath" (Finalist)\N\NCurrently in its sixth year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come celebrate with 15 Bytes as they present the 15 Bytes Book Awards in Nonfiction to the winner and finalists of their annual contest. The 15 Bytes Book Awards recognize the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that Utah has to offer each year. This event will include the presentation of the award, with readings by:
Brooke Williams, "Open Midnight: Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet" (Winner)
Jennifer Sinor, "Ordinary Trauma" (Finalist)
Gerda Saunders, "Memory's Last Breath" (Finalist)

Currently in its sixth year, the 15 Bytes Book Awards is an annual program to celebrate the best Utah books in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art and are juried by members of the 15 Bytes staff and guest judges.

This event is made possible with support from 15 Bytes, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181018T210000 UID:DFA20CED-E7F8-485E-8F2A-6F529DD85503 SUMMARY:Yolanda Franklin at SUMA CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1348 DESCRIPTION:Sugar House Review and Southern Utah University host poet Yolanda Franklin at Artisan's Gallery. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow and the author of the new collection, Blood Vinyls.\N\NThe organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately, and with such knowing — an edgy discography of Florida and the contentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands, like Zora Neale Hurston, how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspect of southern history, and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery and beyond.\N\NYolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Sugar House Review, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sugar House Review and Southern Utah University host poet Yolanda Franklin at Artisan's Gallery. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow and the author of the new collection, Blood Vinyls.

The organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately, and with such knowing — an edgy discography of Florida and the contentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands, like Zora Neale Hurston, how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspect of southern history, and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery and beyond.

Yolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology “It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop” and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian, born in the state’s capital — Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting, and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.

This event is made possible with support from Sugar House Review, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181019T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181019T220000 UID:FF9EF738-A63D-48EB-97B2-5D5F81B99F0F SUMMARY:Coyote Tales CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1304 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next installment of Coyote Tales on October 19th at 7:30 pm at the center for the Arts at Kayenta. Guest storytellers will include NPR correspondent Scott Carrier and KUER news director Andy Becker. \N\NCoyote Tales are live, open-mic style storytelling events with amateur and experienced storytellers. Each event has a theme, on which stories are to be based. Potential storytellers may address that theme in any way they choose. Prior to the event, storytellers craft their true, on-theme story, practice the telling (5 minutes or less), work on eliminating excess detail to nail the perfect ending. When the doors open, potential storytellers put their name in the hat in hopes of being chosen to share their story. If chosen, the storyteller takes the stage to delight the audience. At the end of the evening, the audience votes for their favorite story. Stories must be true, told live, within the given time frame (5 minutes). They must be told without notes, props, or accompaniment.\N\NThe theme for this evening's stories is: Right place, right time. Prepare a 5 minute story about what antics transpired just because you were in the right place at the right time. Have you received benefit from circumstance rather than merit? Have you ever been in an ideal position to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity? A life-changing encounter just because you were standing right there?\N\NTickets are $20. To purchase tickets, please visit: http://coyotetalesstories.com/\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Center for the Arts at Kayenta and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for the next installment of Coyote Tales on October 19th at 7:30 pm at the center for the Arts at Kayenta. Guest storytellers will include NPR correspondent Scott Carrier and KUER news director Andy Becker.

Coyote Tales are live, open-mic style storytelling events with amateur and experienced storytellers. Each event has a theme, on which stories are to be based. Potential storytellers may address that theme in any way they choose. Prior to the event, storytellers craft their true, on-theme story, practice the telling (5 minutes or less), work on eliminating excess detail to nail the perfect ending. When the doors open, potential storytellers put their name in the hat in hopes of being chosen to share their story. If chosen, the storyteller takes the stage to delight the audience. At the end of the evening, the audience votes for their favorite story. Stories must be true, told live, within the given time frame (5 minutes). They must be told without notes, props, or accompaniment.

The theme for this evening's stories is: Right place, right time. Prepare a 5 minute story about what antics transpired just because you were in the right place at the right time. Have you received benefit from circumstance rather than merit? Have you ever been in an ideal position to take advantage of an unexpected opportunity? A life-changing encounter just because you were standing right there?

Tickets are $20. To purchase tickets, please visit: http://coyotetalesstories.com/

This event was made possible with support from Center for the Arts at Kayenta and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T160000 UID:31F3F055-00B7-480E-9F2A-FF0207729023 SUMMARY:John Scalzi at Weller Book Works CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1366 DESCRIPTION:Join Weller's on October 20 at 2:00 PM as we welcome celebrated author John Scalzi to the store for a reading and signing of The Consuming Fire! \N\NThe Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire – a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction.\N\NThe Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional pathway between the stars, is disappearing, leaving planets stranded. Billions of lives will be lost – unless desperate measures can be taken.\N\NEmperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures. But it’s not that easy. There are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth – or an opportunity for them to ascend to power.\N\NWhile Grayland prepares for disaster, others prepare for civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as between spaceships. Nothing about this power struggle will be simple or easy . . . and all of human civilization is at stake.\N\NJohn Scalzi is a New York Times best seller in fiction. Awards won include the Hugo, the Locus, the Audie, the Seiun and the Kurd Lasswitz. He is the recipient of the 2016 Governors Award for the Arts in Ohio. His works are translated into 20+ languages. Mr. Scalzi is the Creative Consultant for the Stargate: Universe television series. He is the writer for the video game Midnight Star, by Industrial Toys, and is the former president (7/10 – 6/13) of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Mr. Scalzi is also the Executive Producer for Old Man’s War and The Collapsing Empire, both currently in development for television.\N\NPLEASE NOTE: Prioritized signing will be given to those who purchase The Consuming Fire through Weller Book Works!\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Weller's on October 20 at 2:00 PM as we welcome celebrated author John Scalzi to the store for a reading and signing of The Consuming Fire!

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire – a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction.

The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional pathway between the stars, is disappearing, leaving planets stranded. Billions of lives will be lost – unless desperate measures can be taken.

Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures. But it’s not that easy. There are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth – or an opportunity for them to ascend to power.

While Grayland prepares for disaster, others prepare for civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as between spaceships. Nothing about this power struggle will be simple or easy . . . and all of human civilization is at stake.

John Scalzi is a New York Times best seller in fiction. Awards won include the Hugo, the Locus, the Audie, the Seiun and the Kurd Lasswitz. He is the recipient of the 2016 Governors Award for the Arts in Ohio. His works are translated into 20+ languages. Mr. Scalzi is the Creative Consultant for the Stargate: Universe television series. He is the writer for the video game Midnight Star, by Industrial Toys, and is the former president (7/10 – 6/13) of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Mr. Scalzi is also the Executive Producer for Old Man’s War and The Collapsing Empire, both currently in development for television.

PLEASE NOTE: Prioritized signing will be given to those who purchase The Consuming Fire through Weller Book Works!
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T173000 UID:14934176-40A2-4067-BBFE-7197068BC2A9 SUMMARY:Andrew S. Hogan at the Salt Lake County Library West Jordan Branch CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1397 DESCRIPTION:Author and mental health advocate Andrew S. Hogan will share insight on How to Talk with Children about Mental Illness. Hogan is the author of more than 16 books and he travels the intermountain area sharing stories of hope and encouragement to those struggling with mental illness and their loved ones. His latest release is a 5-book children’s mental health series REACH for the Kids–a kid-friendly adaptation of his self-developed treatment model called REACH. \N\NFor more info on Hogan and his work, visit: http://www.bearcanyonpress.com/products\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and mental health advocate Andrew S. Hogan will share insight on How to Talk with Children about Mental Illness. Hogan is the author of more than 16 books and he travels the intermountain area sharing stories of hope and encouragement to those struggling with mental illness and their loved ones. His latest release is a 5-book children’s mental health series REACH for the Kids–a kid-friendly adaptation of his self-developed treatment model called REACH.

For more info on Hogan and his work, visit: http://www.bearcanyonpress.com/products
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T203000 UID:6F0C8A76-59F0-4B62-80A7-B6B8052D753D SUMMARY:Patrik Sampler at The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1310 DESCRIPTION:Authors Patrik Sampler and Michael Mejia visit the King's English Bookshop to discuss their new books on Saturday, October 20th at 7:00 PM. \N\NPatrik Sampler's The Ocean Container is the story of an environmental activist in a North American petro-state. Labeled an “economic terrorist”, he takes hiding in a shipping container, in a compound for vagrants and the unemployed. There he meets charity providers, other dissidents in hiding, and a theatrical company attracting tourists with Edo: Pleasure District in the 21st Century (quite possibly a front for prostitution). Contraband exotic species – a tapir and a white peafowl – are set loose as communal pets, and someone with two right eyes seems to be stalking him. Fearful of the outside, the “terrorist” isolates himself inside his container, where the division between imagination and external reality is fatally blurred.\N\NPatrik Sampler‘s writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The Guardian, The Millions, and The Scofield. He is a contributing editor for Peculiar Mormyrid, and author of The Ocean Container, published in 2017 by Ninebark Press. Sampler devoted much of a postgraduate degree to the late-career novels of Abe Kobo.\N\NMichael Mejia's Tokyo is an incisive, shape-shifting tour de force, a genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and visual collage exploring the erotic undercurrents of American perceptions of Japanese culture and identity.\N\NBy turns noir, surreal, and clinical in its language and style, TOKYO employs metaphors of consumption, disease, theater, gender fluidity, monstrousness, and ecological disaster in intertwined accounts touching on matters of cultural appropriation, fiction's powerful capacity to produce immersive realities, and the culturally corrupting late capitalist excesses that entangle both the United States and Japan.\N\NThe novel opens with a fantastic, slyly comic report written by a Japanese executive, describing the anomalous bluefin tuna his company purchased at Tokyo’s iconic fish market, as well as the dissolution of the executive’s marriage to his Japanese-American, or Sansei, wife. But when an American writer—whose own Sansei wife was previously married to a Japanese executive—begins investigating the report’s author and his claims, assisted by a mysterious Japanese correspondent the American suspects may once have been his wife’s lover, identities begin to scramble until it’s uncertain who is imagining who, and who is and isn’t Japanese. Meanwhile, a secret plot to establish pure Japaneseness through the global distribution of genetically engineered bluefin tuna seems to be rushing toward its conclusion like a great wave.\N\NMichael Mejia is the author of the novel Forgetfulness,and his writing has been published in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor in chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Utah.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop, Ninebark Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors Patrik Sampler and Michael Mejia visit the King's English Bookshop to discuss their new books on Saturday, October 20th at 7:00 PM.

Patrik Sampler's The Ocean Container is the story of an environmental activist in a North American petro-state. Labeled an “economic terrorist”, he takes hiding in a shipping container, in a compound for vagrants and the unemployed. There he meets charity providers, other dissidents in hiding, and a theatrical company attracting tourists with Edo: Pleasure District in the 21st Century (quite possibly a front for prostitution). Contraband exotic species – a tapir and a white peafowl – are set loose as communal pets, and someone with two right eyes seems to be stalking him. Fearful of the outside, the “terrorist” isolates himself inside his container, where the division between imagination and external reality is fatally blurred.

Patrik Sampler‘s writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The Guardian, The Millions, and The Scofield. He is a contributing editor for Peculiar Mormyrid, and author of The Ocean Container, published in 2017 by Ninebark Press. Sampler devoted much of a postgraduate degree to the late-career novels of Abe Kobo.

Michael Mejia's Tokyo is an incisive, shape-shifting tour de force, a genre-bending mix of lyric prose, science fiction, horror, and visual collage exploring the erotic undercurrents of American perceptions of Japanese culture and identity.

By turns noir, surreal, and clinical in its language and style, TOKYO employs metaphors of consumption, disease, theater, gender fluidity, monstrousness, and ecological disaster in intertwined accounts touching on matters of cultural appropriation, fiction's powerful capacity to produce immersive realities, and the culturally corrupting late capitalist excesses that entangle both the United States and Japan.

The novel opens with a fantastic, slyly comic report written by a Japanese executive, describing the anomalous bluefin tuna his company purchased at Tokyo’s iconic fish market, as well as the dissolution of the executive’s marriage to his Japanese-American, or Sansei, wife. But when an American writer—whose own Sansei wife was previously married to a Japanese executive—begins investigating the report’s author and his claims, assisted by a mysterious Japanese correspondent the American suspects may once have been his wife’s lover, identities begin to scramble until it’s uncertain who is imagining who, and who is and isn’t Japanese. Meanwhile, a secret plot to establish pure Japaneseness through the global distribution of genetically engineered bluefin tuna seems to be rushing toward its conclusion like a great wave.

Michael Mejia is the author of the novel Forgetfulness,and his writing has been published in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor in chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Utah.

This event was made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop, Ninebark Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T210000 UID:C2B5EF5C-38A2-4ED7-94A3-B9CC2E2A0F02 SUMMARY:Markus Zusak at Rowland Hall CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1405 DESCRIPTION:The wait is over! Bridge of Clay, the highly anticipated novel by Markus Zusak, will be released on October 9, 2018. \N\NAward-winning author, Markus Zusak will read from and sign his new novel, Bridge of Clay. \N\NTHIS IS A TICKETED EVENT: The purchase of a general admission ticket for the event from The King's English Bookshop includes one autographed copy of Bridge of Clay. To purchase a ticket, visit: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3501363 \N\NThis sweeping family saga chronicles the lives of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run on their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. \N\NMarkus Zusak is best known for his novel, The Book Thief, which has sold 16 million copies worldwide, is published in 42 foreign language territories, and has spent over 500 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel received numerous awards, including a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association and the Sydney Taylor Book Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. The Book Thief has since gone on to become a book selection of community reads programs across the country. Zusak’s other internationally bestselling works include I Am the Messenger, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe; and Getting the Girl. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The wait is over! Bridge of Clay, the highly anticipated novel by Markus Zusak, will be released on October 9, 2018.

Award-winning author, Markus Zusak will read from and sign his new novel, Bridge of Clay.

THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT: The purchase of a general admission ticket for the event from The King's English Bookshop includes one autographed copy of Bridge of Clay. To purchase a ticket, visit: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3501363

This sweeping family saga chronicles the lives of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run on their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father’s disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge—for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle.

Markus Zusak is best known for his novel, The Book Thief, which has sold 16 million copies worldwide, is published in 42 foreign language territories, and has spent over 500 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The novel received numerous awards, including a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association and the Sydney Taylor Book Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries. The Book Thief has since gone on to become a book selection of community reads programs across the country. Zusak’s other internationally bestselling works include I Am the Messenger, The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe; and Getting the Girl. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181022T210000 UID:0411609A-FE81-428B-8534-A353AC289FAA SUMMARY:Alison Hart at the City Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1337 DESCRIPTION:On Monday, October 22nd at 7:00 PM, Alison Hart discusses her new book, Mostly White, at the City Library.\N\NSpanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women. From Emma, who survives the abuse of an Indian Residential school in 1890s Maine, to Ella, who navigates color lines in 1980s New York City, Alison Hart’s unforgettable characters fight to form their own identities and honor the call of their ancestors.\N\NAlison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American, Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Scottish, and English woman of color. Her poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016) and elsewhere. Hart lives in Alameda, California.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Torrey House Press, The City Library, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Monday, October 22nd at 7:00 PM, Alison Hart discusses her new book, Mostly White, at the City Library.

Spanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women. From Emma, who survives the abuse of an Indian Residential school in 1890s Maine, to Ella, who navigates color lines in 1980s New York City, Alison Hart’s unforgettable characters fight to form their own identities and honor the call of their ancestors.

Alison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American, Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Scottish, and English woman of color. Her poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016) and elsewhere. Hart lives in Alameda, California.

This event is made possible with support from the Torrey House Press, The City Library, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181022T210000 UID:CDB544CF-6C7D-4171-872F-CEDDF7B62857 SUMMARY:Paisley Rekdal at the Bountiful Arts Center CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1378 DESCRIPTION:Poet and author Paisley Rekdal visits the Bountiful Arts Center to discuss her work with art historian Leslie Anne Anderson on Monday, October 22nd at 7:00 PM.\N\NThis event is part of the BDAC's exhibition Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying, curated by Chauncey Secrist. Ars Moriendi seeks to encourage reflection and thoughtful discussion about the subject of death and how its universality connects us and can encourage empathy and connection between all people. In conversation with Anderson, Rekdal will discuss the ways that perspectives on death have influenced her work, particularly a collaborative portion of her book, Imaginary Vessels. \N\NPaisley Rekdal was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Her newest book of poems is Imaginary Vessels, and her most recent work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate.\N\NLeslie Anne Anderson is the curator of European, American, and Regional Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Art. She was recently awarded the National Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Bountiful Arts Center and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet and author Paisley Rekdal visits the Bountiful Arts Center to discuss her work with art historian Leslie Anne Anderson on Monday, October 22nd at 7:00 PM.

This event is part of the BDAC's exhibition Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying, curated by Chauncey Secrist. Ars Moriendi seeks to encourage reflection and thoughtful discussion about the subject of death and how its universality connects us and can encourage empathy and connection between all people. In conversation with Anderson, Rekdal will discuss the ways that perspectives on death have influenced her work, particularly a collaborative portion of her book, Imaginary Vessels.

Paisley Rekdal was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Her newest book of poems is Imaginary Vessels, and her most recent work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate.

Leslie Anne Anderson is the curator of European, American, and Regional Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Art. She was recently awarded the National Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators.

This event was made possible with support from the Bountiful Arts Center and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000 UID:AB6ED229-7781-48DD-956A-3392B75FE520 SUMMARY:Sarah Eden at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1261 DESCRIPTION:Historical romance author Sarah M. Eden presents "From Corsets to Crinolines: Lady's Historical Clothing" on Tuesday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM.\N\NIn this interactive presentation about the fashions of the 1800s, Sarah M. Eden will show attendees the layers of a lady’s wardrobe in the Regency, Victorian, and Western Expansion eras, explaining the functions and changes to the different wardrobe elements throughout the 19th century. \N\NBook sales and signing at this event!\N\NSarah M. Eden is a USA Today Bestselling author of witty and charming award-winning historical fiction. Combining her obsession with history and affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She holds a Bachelor's degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library.\N\NFor more information on this event, please visit Brigham City Library's website: http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#eden\N \NThis event was made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Historical romance author Sarah M. Eden presents "From Corsets to Crinolines: Lady's Historical Clothing" on Tuesday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM.

In this interactive presentation about the fashions of the 1800s, Sarah M. Eden will show attendees the layers of a lady’s wardrobe in the Regency, Victorian, and Western Expansion eras, explaining the functions and changes to the different wardrobe elements throughout the 19th century.

Book sales and signing at this event!

Sarah M. Eden is a USA Today Bestselling author of witty and charming award-winning historical fiction. Combining her obsession with history and affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She holds a Bachelor's degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library.

For more information on this event, please visit Brigham City Library's website: http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#eden

This event was made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181023T210000 UID:0294CC44-7391-4D78-9883-197B7CBBDD7B SUMMARY:Amy Irvine at Ken Sanders Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://www.kensandersbooks.com/ DESCRIPTION:Public lands activist and author Amy Irvine shares her new book Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness at Ken Sanders Rare Books on Tuesday, October 23rd.\N\NEd Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns 50 this fall, and its illustrious, difficult author, still revered in America’s redrock country, is due for both a celebration and a talking to. Amy Irvine is the perfect woman for the job. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Irvine speaks to a man who helped shape the American idea of wilderness, and inspired us to act on its behalf, to resist threats to it. But this iconic author’s ideas are dated—even offensive, to some. And so Irvine speaks to this, helps to make contemporary the white male narrative that is still very much at the heart of today’s wilderness movement—even as it celebrates the lens through which Abbey taught so many to love the wild remains of the nation. From a quiet solitude to a roaring cabal, Ed Abbey has met his match in Amy Irvine.\N\NAmy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and long-time public lands activist. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay “Spectral Light,” was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay, “Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire,” appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays’ list of Notables. Irvine teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University, in the White Mountains of New England.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Public lands activist and author Amy Irvine shares her new book Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness at Ken Sanders Rare Books on Tuesday, October 23rd.

Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns 50 this fall, and its illustrious, difficult author, still revered in America’s redrock country, is due for both a celebration and a talking to. Amy Irvine is the perfect woman for the job. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Irvine speaks to a man who helped shape the American idea of wilderness, and inspired us to act on its behalf, to resist threats to it. But this iconic author’s ideas are dated—even offensive, to some. And so Irvine speaks to this, helps to make contemporary the white male narrative that is still very much at the heart of today’s wilderness movement—even as it celebrates the lens through which Abbey taught so many to love the wild remains of the nation. From a quiet solitude to a roaring cabal, Ed Abbey has met his match in Amy Irvine.

Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and long-time public lands activist. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and Colorado Book Award. Her essay “Spectral Light,” was a finalist for the Pen Award in Journalism, and her recent essay, “Conflagrations: Motherhood, Madness and a Planet on Fire,” appeared among the 2017 Best American Essays’ list of Notables. Irvine teaches in the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA Program of Southern New Hampshire University, in the White Mountains of New England.

This event was made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181024T210000 UID:ECDD0F76-7904-4A8D-A16C-7CABD6748E0B SUMMARY:William Trowbridge & Shanan Ballam at Salt Lake City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1335 DESCRIPTION:City Art presents poets William Trowbridge and Shanan Ballam at the City Library on Wednesday, October 24th at 7:00 PM. \N\NWilliam Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).\N\NHis poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.\N\NHe is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.\N\NTrowbridge's review of Shanan Ballam's Pretty Marrow notes that the book "Is the work of a mature poet, one of remarkable talent. These poems electrify with the boldness of Olds and the fierceness and musical mastery of Plath. Rooted in rural Utah, they reflect an external landscape where stunning natural beauty is under siege as 'a backhoe guts/ the wetland, crushes cattails,/ carves a slow, muddy canal' and where 'family' often functions as a hazard warning. But the main landscape, darkly alluring as a haunted forest, is internal. Throughout the collection, Ballam probes and, finally, celebrates 'the tender violence of our singularity.' This book deserves a spot high up on your must-read list."\N\NShanan Ballam is a Senior Lecturer for the Utah State University English Department where she teaches poetry writing, fiction writing, and composition. She is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line 2010) and a full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability 2013), a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award; in 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Contest, judged by Sue Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2013, Ballam was appointed to the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and served a 4-year term.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art presents poets William Trowbridge and Shanan Ballam at the City Library on Wednesday, October 24th at 7:00 PM.

William Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).

His poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.

He is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.

Trowbridge's review of Shanan Ballam's Pretty Marrow notes that the book "Is the work of a mature poet, one of remarkable talent. These poems electrify with the boldness of Olds and the fierceness and musical mastery of Plath. Rooted in rural Utah, they reflect an external landscape where stunning natural beauty is under siege as 'a backhoe guts/ the wetland, crushes cattails,/ carves a slow, muddy canal' and where 'family' often functions as a hazard warning. But the main landscape, darkly alluring as a haunted forest, is internal. Throughout the collection, Ballam probes and, finally, celebrates 'the tender violence of our singularity.' This book deserves a spot high up on your must-read list."

Shanan Ballam is a Senior Lecturer for the Utah State University English Department where she teaches poetry writing, fiction writing, and composition. She is the author of the chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers (Finishing Line 2010) and a full-length poetry manuscript Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability 2013), a semi-finalist for the 2010 Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, the 2010 May Swenson Award, the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and the 2012 Louise Bogan Award; in 2012 it received first place in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Contest, judged by Sue Walker, former Poet Laureate of Alabama. In 2013, Ballam was appointed to the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and served a 4-year term.

This event is made possible with support from The City Library, City Art, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T133000 UID:809B7DD0-8C50-457B-9766-9145855409A3 SUMMARY:William Trowbridge at Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1364 DESCRIPTION:Poet William Trowbridge visits Utah State University to share and discuss his work on Thursday, October 25th at noon in the Merrill-Cazier Library. \N\NWilliam Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).\N\NHis poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.\N\NHe is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Utah State University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet William Trowbridge visits Utah State University to share and discuss his work on Thursday, October 25th at noon in the Merrill-Cazier Library.

William Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).

His poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.

He is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Utah State University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T173000 UID:0987F0BC-8C9B-48E5-8C46-354152BFF62C SUMMARY:Jose Orduna at Southern Utah University CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1334 DESCRIPTION:José Orduña visits Southern Utah University to discuss his book, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement, on Thursday, October 25 at 4:00 PM in the Business School Building (Business School Lecture Hall, Room 126) of the Southern Utah University campus. \N\NIn Weight of Shadows, José Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities—rooted in the continuity of US imperialism to globalism—form the landscape of Orduña’s daily experience, where the geopolitical meets the quotidian. In one anecdote, he recalls how the only apartment his parents could rent was one that didn’t require signing a lease or running a credit check, where the floors were so crooked he once dropped an orange and watched it roll in six directions before settling in a corner. Orduña describes the absurd feeling of being handed a piece of paper—his naturalization certificate—that guarantees something he has always known: he has every right to be here. A trenchant exploration of race, class, and identity, The Weight of Shadows is a searing meditation on the nature of political, linguistic, and cultural borders, and the meaning of “America.”\N\NJosé Orduña was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, and immigrated to Chicago when he was two. He is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and active in Latin American solidarity. His work explores the ways power has determined his and others' existence as racialized subjects of the United States. His first book, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement was published in 2016 by Beacon Press.\N\NThis event was made possible by Southern Utah University, The Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:José Orduña visits Southern Utah University to discuss his book, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement, on Thursday, October 25 at 4:00 PM in the Business School Building (Business School Lecture Hall, Room 126) of the Southern Utah University campus.

In Weight of Shadows, José Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities—rooted in the continuity of US imperialism to globalism—form the landscape of Orduña’s daily experience, where the geopolitical meets the quotidian. In one anecdote, he recalls how the only apartment his parents could rent was one that didn’t require signing a lease or running a credit check, where the floors were so crooked he once dropped an orange and watched it roll in six directions before settling in a corner. Orduña describes the absurd feeling of being handed a piece of paper—his naturalization certificate—that guarantees something he has always known: he has every right to be here. A trenchant exploration of race, class, and identity, The Weight of Shadows is a searing meditation on the nature of political, linguistic, and cultural borders, and the meaning of “America.”

José Orduña was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, and immigrated to Chicago when he was two. He is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and active in Latin American solidarity. His work explores the ways power has determined his and others' existence as racialized subjects of the United States. His first book, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement was published in 2016 by Beacon Press.

This event was made possible by Southern Utah University, The Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T203000 UID:DEF90015-BD4B-4FE3-A44B-1852480E903C SUMMARY:Books & Bridges Featuring Spencer McBride CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1346 DESCRIPTION:Books & Bridges and Weller Book Works welcome historian Spencer McBride on October 25th. McBride will discuss "The Myth of the Christian President" and what the role of religion in politics should be, based upon the Constitution. \N\NIn his presentation, “The Myth of the Christian President,” Spencer W. McBride describes the history of an expectation embraced by millions of twenty-first century American, namely that the president of the United States must be a Christian. The Constitution explicitly directs that there should be no religious test for federal office holding. So, from where did this extraconstitutional expectation arise? McBride uncovers the origins of this political belief in the partisan battles of the election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and demonstrates how the belief has evolved over the ensuing centuries.\N\NSpencer W. McBride earned a Ph.D. in history at Louisiana State University. He is a historian and documentary editor at The Joseph Smith Papers and the author of Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America. A specialist in the history of the American Revolution and the early American republic, McBride frequently writes and speaks on the evolving role of religion in American political culture. He is currently writing a book about Joseph Smith's ill-fated presidential campaign on 1844 (under contract with Oxford University Press).\N\NBooks & Bridges is a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Books & Bridges and Weller Book Works welcome historian Spencer McBride on October 25th. McBride will discuss "The Myth of the Christian President" and what the role of religion in politics should be, based upon the Constitution.

In his presentation, “The Myth of the Christian President,” Spencer W. McBride describes the history of an expectation embraced by millions of twenty-first century American, namely that the president of the United States must be a Christian. The Constitution explicitly directs that there should be no religious test for federal office holding. So, from where did this extraconstitutional expectation arise? McBride uncovers the origins of this political belief in the partisan battles of the election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and demonstrates how the belief has evolved over the ensuing centuries.

Spencer W. McBride earned a Ph.D. in history at Louisiana State University. He is a historian and documentary editor at The Joseph Smith Papers and the author of Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America. A specialist in the history of the American Revolution and the early American republic, McBride frequently writes and speaks on the evolving role of religion in American political culture. He is currently writing a book about Joseph Smith's ill-fated presidential campaign on 1844 (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Books & Bridges is a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.

This event is made possible with support from Books & Bridges, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T210000 UID:83119EC4-CCD6-4B66-A4E2-E049ED3D0D7B SUMMARY:William Trowbridge at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1308 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West presents Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge on Thursday, October 25th at the Logan Library at 7:00 PM. \N\NWilliam Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).\N\NHis poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.\N\NHe is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Utah State University, Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West presents Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge on Thursday, October 25th at the Logan Library at 7:00 PM.

William Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).

His poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.

He is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Utah State University, Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T210000 UID:A60192F8-F1A8-4940-91B5-D8484FC96B6B SUMMARY:Joshua Rivkin & Scott Abbott at the Great Writers Series CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1311 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah presents Joshua Rivkin & Scott Abbott at the Finch Lane Gallery on Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 PM.\N\N Joshua Rivkin is the author of the nonfiction book Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly (Melville House 2018), and the forthcoming collection of poems Suitor (Red Hen 2020). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets. A former Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy, as well as a Stegner Fellow in poetry, he has received awards and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Ucross Foundation. He teaches creative writing for Stanford’s Continuing Studies program and lives in Salt Lake City.\N\NScott Abbott is the author of books of creative non-fiction (Wild Rides and Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes—with Sam Rushforth, Torrey House Press 2014, and Immortal for Quite Some Time, University of Utah Press 2016), of travel in the former Yugoslavia and then in war-torn Serbia and Bosnia (Repetitions and Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary—both with Serbian novelist Žarko Radaković, punctum books 2013, 2014), and of literary criticism (Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel, Wayne State UP 1991, and The Perfect Fence: Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire—with Lyn Bennett, Texas A&M UP 2017). He has published numerous articles on works by Austrian Peter Handke and has translated three of Handke’s books and a documentary film on Handke. With a Ph.D. in German studies from Princeton University, he is currently Professor of Integrated Studies, Humanities, and Philosophy at Utah Valley University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah presents Joshua Rivkin & Scott Abbott at the Finch Lane Gallery on Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 PM.

Joshua Rivkin is the author of the nonfiction book Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly (Melville House 2018), and the forthcoming collection of poems Suitor (Red Hen 2020). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets. A former Fulbright Fellow in Rome, Italy, as well as a Stegner Fellow in poetry, he has received awards and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Ucross Foundation. He teaches creative writing for Stanford’s Continuing Studies program and lives in Salt Lake City.

Scott Abbott is the author of books of creative non-fiction (Wild Rides and Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes—with Sam Rushforth, Torrey House Press 2014, and Immortal for Quite Some Time, University of Utah Press 2016), of travel in the former Yugoslavia and then in war-torn Serbia and Bosnia (Repetitions and Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary—both with Serbian novelist Žarko Radaković, punctum books 2013, 2014), and of literary criticism (Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel, Wayne State UP 1991, and The Perfect Fence: Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire—with Lyn Bennett, Texas A&M UP 2017). He has published numerous articles on works by Austrian Peter Handke and has translated three of Handke’s books and a documentary film on Handke. With a Ph.D. in German studies from Princeton University, he is currently Professor of Integrated Studies, Humanities, and Philosophy at Utah Valley University.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T203000 UID:1E561CA5-4159-4E1C-8C01-180D5FAE0254 SUMMARY:Bryan Bushman at Pleasant Valley Library CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1327 DESCRIPTION:Psychotherapist Bryan Bushman discusses his new book, Becoming Okay (When You're Not Okay) at the Weber County Pleasant Valley Branch Library on Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 PM.\N\NUsing playful humor and powerful case examples, Becoming Okay (When You’re Not Okay) provides readers with scientifically-grounded, yet soul-expanding, exercises and insights that allow them to build a life of vitality and action – even while experiencing some of life’s greatest trials.\N\NBryan Bushman received his PhD in Clinical Psychology. He completed advanced and post-doctoral training in pain management, neuropsychological assessment, and anxiety/ trauma. Dr. Bushman has published in peer-reviewed, scientific journals. He has worked for the last decade as a psychotherapist and neuropsychologist at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Psychotherapist Bryan Bushman discusses his new book, Becoming Okay (When You're Not Okay) at the Weber County Pleasant Valley Branch Library on Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 PM.

Using playful humor and powerful case examples, Becoming Okay (When You’re Not Okay) provides readers with scientifically-grounded, yet soul-expanding, exercises and insights that allow them to build a life of vitality and action – even while experiencing some of life’s greatest trials.

Bryan Bushman received his PhD in Clinical Psychology. He completed advanced and post-doctoral training in pain management, neuropsychological assessment, and anxiety/ trauma. Dr. Bushman has published in peer-reviewed, scientific journals. He has worked for the last decade as a psychotherapist and neuropsychologist at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from the Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181025T210000 UID:994EA5B4-CF2E-45C7-903D-FCD01133C7FB SUMMARY:Brandon Sanderson at the Orem Public Library CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1369 DESCRIPTION:Catch a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes magic of creating and exploring other worlds with award-winning, bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and find out why science fiction and fantasy are not only fun but important genres to read. Bring your favorite title for him to sign or buy a new one. This event is part of the Great American Read programming co-hosted by the Orem Public Library and Provo Library. It will take place in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library. \N\NBrandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.\N\NVolunteering for The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel,Elantris, in his hands. Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. The second book in the series, Words of Radiance, was released on March 4th, 2014.\N\NBrandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Three more volumes of the series have been released so far. Additionally, Brandon’s novella Infinity Blade: Awakening was ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. In December 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet McDougal Rigney to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after his untimely passing. 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight was followed by the final volume in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013.\N\NThe only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings and is on the short list again in 2012 for The Alloy of Law. He has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice award for Best Epic Fantasy twice and has been nominated three other years. He was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has hit the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List six times, with his first Wheel of Time book knocking Dan Brown out of the #1 spot and his second dethroning John Grisham. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians was optioned for film by DreamWorks Animation, Mistborn was optioned by Paloppa Pictures, and a Mistborn video game will be released by Little Orbit in 2013 for all platforms. Brandon’s books have been published in over twenty languages.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Orem Public Library, the Provo Library, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Catch a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes magic of creating and exploring other worlds with award-winning, bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and find out why science fiction and fantasy are not only fun but important genres to read. Bring your favorite title for him to sign or buy a new one. This event is part of the Great American Read programming co-hosted by the Orem Public Library and Provo Library. It will take place in the Storytelling Wing of the Orem Public Library.

Brandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.

Volunteering for The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University’s science fiction/fantasy magazine, was a wonderful experience for Brandon. He read many submissions, formed some lifelong friendships, and served as Editor in Chief during his senior year. It was in 2003, while Brandon was in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, that he got a call from editor Moshe Feder at Tor, who wanted to buy one of Brandon’s books. Brandon had submitted the manuscript a year and a half earlier, and had almost given up on hearing anything, so he was surprised and delighted to receive the offer. In May 2005 Brandon held his first published novel,Elantris, in his hands. Over the next few years, Tor also published Brandon’s Mistborn trilogy, its followup The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings, the first in a projected ten-volume series called The Stormlight Archive. The second book in the series, Words of Radiance, was released on March 4th, 2014.

Brandon’s repertoire expanded into the children’s market when Scholastic published Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, a middle-grade novel, in October 2007. Three more volumes of the series have been released so far. Additionally, Brandon’s novella Infinity Blade: Awakening was ebook bestseller for Epic Games accompanying their acclaimed Infinity Blade iOS video game series. In December 2007 Brandon was chosen by Harriet McDougal Rigney to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series after his untimely passing. 2009’s The Gathering Storm and 2010’s Towers of Midnight was followed by the final volume in the series, A Memory of Light, in January 2013.

The only author to make the short list for the David Gemmell Legend Award six times in four years, Brandon won that award in 2011 for The Way of Kings and is on the short list again in 2012 for The Alloy of Law. He has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice award for Best Epic Fantasy twice and has been nominated three other years. He was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has hit the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List six times, with his first Wheel of Time book knocking Dan Brown out of the #1 spot and his second dethroning John Grisham. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians was optioned for film by DreamWorks Animation, Mistborn was optioned by Paloppa Pictures, and a Mistborn video game will be released by Little Orbit in 2013 for all platforms. Brandon’s books have been published in over twenty languages.

This event was made possible with support from Orem Public Library, the Provo Library, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181027T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181027T123000 UID:6ED3A648-47D8-432E-AEF5-7DB98B6A97F1 SUMMARY:Jean Reagan at the King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1338 DESCRIPTION:Children's author Jean Reagan shares her latest book, How to Scare a Ghost during a visit to the King's English Bookshop on Saturday, October 27th at \N\NWho says ghosts get to have all the fun on Halloween? In the humorous new addition to Jean Reagan and Lee Wildish’s bestselling How to… books, the kids are in charge! But in order to scare a ghost, you might have to find one first. Guided by a tongue-in-cheek instructional style, two children show young readers how to set the stage for a spooktacular Halloween by carving pumpkins, playing games, and even reading scary stories. Has a ghost showed up? Great! Now the fun–er, the scaring–can really begin. Filled with charming role-reversal humor, creative ideas, and lots of holiday spirit, How to Scare a Ghost is sure to delight kids, parents, and things that go bump in the night.\N\NJean Reagan is a children's author living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Reagan started writing for children in 2003. Her first book, Always My Brother, (2009, Tilbury House Publishers) is a story that mirrors a family tragedy that struck her own family. In 2012, Regan started her How to . . . series with How to Babysit a Grandpa, (2012, Knopf Books for Young Readers) and How to Babysit a Grandma(2014). Both books made the NYTimes and Indie bestseller lists. In addition to this series, Reagan has also written stories for Highlights Magazine and Boys' Quest.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Children's author Jean Reagan shares her latest book, How to Scare a Ghost during a visit to the King's English Bookshop on Saturday, October 27th at

Who says ghosts get to have all the fun on Halloween? In the humorous new addition to Jean Reagan and Lee Wildish’s bestselling How to… books, the kids are in charge! But in order to scare a ghost, you might have to find one first. Guided by a tongue-in-cheek instructional style, two children show young readers how to set the stage for a spooktacular Halloween by carving pumpkins, playing games, and even reading scary stories. Has a ghost showed up? Great! Now the fun–er, the scaring–can really begin. Filled with charming role-reversal humor, creative ideas, and lots of holiday spirit, How to Scare a Ghost is sure to delight kids, parents, and things that go bump in the night.

Jean Reagan is a children's author living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Reagan started writing for children in 2003. Her first book, Always My Brother, (2009, Tilbury House Publishers) is a story that mirrors a family tragedy that struck her own family. In 2012, Regan started her How to . . . series with How to Babysit a Grandpa, (2012, Knopf Books for Young Readers) and How to Babysit a Grandma(2014). Both books made the NYTimes and Indie bestseller lists. In addition to this series, Reagan has also written stories for Highlights Magazine and Boys' Quest.

This event was made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181027T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181027T200000 UID:B7847EB8-0496-4EBC-B6A8-6F11A75D39F1 SUMMARY:Florence Williams at Swaner Preserve EcoCenter CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1259 DESCRIPTION:Florence Williams visits the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter to discuss The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative on Saturday, October 27th at 6:00 PM. \N\NThe Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative takes readers from forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California. Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas―and the answers they yield―are more urgent than ever.\N\NFlorence Williams is a journalist, bestselling author, podcaster and public speaker. She is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of the new Audible Original series, Breasts Unbound, as well as Outside Magazine’s Double-X Factor podcast. A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health and science.\N\NThis event was made possible by the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, Summit County RAP tax, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Florence Williams visits the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter to discuss The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative on Saturday, October 27th at 6:00 PM.

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative takes readers from forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California. Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas―and the answers they yield―are more urgent than ever.

Florence Williams is a journalist, bestselling author, podcaster and public speaker. She is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of the new Audible Original series, Breasts Unbound, as well as Outside Magazine’s Double-X Factor podcast. A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health and science.

This event was made possible by the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, Summit County RAP tax, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181029T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T190000 UID:3567AA6E-C1EE-4F6D-BB06-177D222865FF SUMMARY:William Trowbridge at SUMA CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1347 DESCRIPTION:Poet William Trowbridge visits Cedar City to discuss his book Vanishing Point on Tuesday, October 30th at the Southern Utah Museum of Art. \N\NWilliam Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).\N\NHis poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.\NHe is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Sugar House Review, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet William Trowbridge visits Cedar City to discuss his book Vanishing Point on Tuesday, October 30th at the Southern Utah Museum of Art.

William Trowbridge served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012-2016. His poetry publications include six full collections: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014), Ship of Fool (Red Hen Press, 2011), The Complete Book of Kong (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003), Flickers, O Paradise, and Enter Dark Stranger (University of Arkansas Press, 2000, 1995, 1989). He has also published three chapbooks, The Packing House Cantata (Camber Press, 2006), The Four Seasons (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001), and The Book of Kong (Iowa State University Press, 1986).

His poems have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks, as well as in such periodicals as Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, a Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Award, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, Yaddo, and The Anderson Center.
He is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of The Laurel Review/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. Now living in Lee’s Summit, MO, he teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Sugar House Review, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T210000 UID:8FCC6085-AB7D-4BE2-A221-4BF806ED2475 SUMMARY:Florence Williams at Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080132Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080132Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1258 DESCRIPTION:Florence Williams visits Weber County Main Library in Ogden to discuss The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative on Monday, October 29th at 7:00 PM. \N\NThe Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative takes readers from forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California. Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas―and the answers they yield―are more urgent than ever.\N\NFlorence Williams is a journalist, bestselling author, podcaster and public speaker. She is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of the new Audible Original series, Breasts Unbound, as well as Outside Magazine’s Double-X Factor podcast. A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health and science.\N\NThis event was made possible by the Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Florence Williams visits Weber County Main Library in Ogden to discuss The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative on Monday, October 29th at 7:00 PM.

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative takes readers from forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California. Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas―and the answers they yield―are more urgent than ever.

Florence Williams is a journalist, bestselling author, podcaster and public speaker. She is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of the new Audible Original series, Breasts Unbound, as well as Outside Magazine’s Double-X Factor podcast. A fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, her work focuses on the environment, health and science.

This event was made possible by the Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T210000 UID:B856DFBF-A766-4C0B-9276-A7FB845F6F9B SUMMARY:David Gewanter & Christian Felt at Westminster College CREATED:20260416T080133Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080133Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1331 DESCRIPTION:David Gewanter and Christian Felt share their work at the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at Westminster College. This event will take place in the Kim Adamson Alumni House on Monday, October 29th at 7:00 PM.\N\NIn Fort Necessity, Gewanter forges intensely personal poems that explore the fate of our laboring bodies, from the Carnegie era’s industrial violence and convict labor to our present day of broken trust, profiteering, and the Koch brothers. Guided by a moral vision to document human experience, this unique collection takes raw historical materials—newspaper articles, autobiography and letters, court testimony, a convict ledger, and even a menu—and shapes them into sonnets, ballads, free verse, and prose poems. The title poem weaves a startling lyric sequence from direct testimony by steelworkers and coal-miners, strikers and members of prison chain-gangs, owners and anarchists, revealing an American empire that feeds not just on oil and metal, but also on human energy, impulse, and flesh. Alongside Gewanter’s family are hapless souls who dream of fortune, but cannot make their fates, confronting instead the dark outcomes of love, loyalty, fantasy, and betrayal.\N\NPoet, editor, and essayist David Gewanter is the author of several collections of poetry, including In the Belly (1997), winner of Ploughshares’s John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and War Bird (2009). Gewanter writes a layered, lyrical poetry of ideas that often explores themes of family, nature, and reason. Gewanter’s honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Witter Bynner Fellowship at the Library of Congress. His poetry has been included in The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (2000, ed. Michael Collier) and New Voices (2002, ed. Heather McHugh).Gewanter has taught at Georgetown University and Harvard University. He lives in Washington, D.C.\N\NChristian Felt holds a BA in English from Westminster College, 2012. His stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, ellipsis…, and The Tishman Review. His book, The Lightning Jar, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award in 2018. He lives in Salt Lake City and is studying math and computer science at the University of Utah.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:David Gewanter and Christian Felt share their work at the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series at Westminster College. This event will take place in the Kim Adamson Alumni House on Monday, October 29th at 7:00 PM.

In Fort Necessity, Gewanter forges intensely personal poems that explore the fate of our laboring bodies, from the Carnegie era’s industrial violence and convict labor to our present day of broken trust, profiteering, and the Koch brothers. Guided by a moral vision to document human experience, this unique collection takes raw historical materials—newspaper articles, autobiography and letters, court testimony, a convict ledger, and even a menu—and shapes them into sonnets, ballads, free verse, and prose poems. The title poem weaves a startling lyric sequence from direct testimony by steelworkers and coal-miners, strikers and members of prison chain-gangs, owners and anarchists, revealing an American empire that feeds not just on oil and metal, but also on human energy, impulse, and flesh. Alongside Gewanter’s family are hapless souls who dream of fortune, but cannot make their fates, confronting instead the dark outcomes of love, loyalty, fantasy, and betrayal.

Poet, editor, and essayist David Gewanter is the author of several collections of poetry, including In the Belly (1997), winner of Ploughshares’s John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and War Bird (2009). Gewanter writes a layered, lyrical poetry of ideas that often explores themes of family, nature, and reason. Gewanter’s honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Witter Bynner Fellowship at the Library of Congress. His poetry has been included in The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (2000, ed. Michael Collier) and New Voices (2002, ed. Heather McHugh).Gewanter has taught at Georgetown University and Harvard University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Christian Felt holds a BA in English from Westminster College, 2012. His stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, ellipsis…, and The Tishman Review. His book, The Lightning Jar, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award in 2018. He lives in Salt Lake City and is studying math and computer science at the University of Utah.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T210000 UID:1931B573-6F5C-4462-BFAC-BB5543D1F82A SUMMARY:Brandon Mull at the Provo Library CREATED:20260416T080134Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080134Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1368 DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Brandon Mull will share some of his experiences with reading and writing in the genre of fantasy, and give us a closer look at his latest Dragonwatch book, a sequel series to the highly acclaimed Fablehaven books. A book signing will follow the program. This event is part of the Great American Read programming that is a collaboration between the Orem and Provo libraries. It will take place in the ballroom of the Provo Library.\N\NBrandon Mull has worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker. For a couple of years, he lived in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, where he learned Spanish and juggling. He currently lives in Utah in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his four children and dog named Buffy. Brandon is the author of the Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. Visit Brandon at BrandonMull.com. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library, the Provo Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Award-winning author Brandon Mull will share some of his experiences with reading and writing in the genre of fantasy, and give us a closer look at his latest Dragonwatch book, a sequel series to the highly acclaimed Fablehaven books. A book signing will follow the program. This event is part of the Great American Read programming that is a collaboration between the Orem and Provo libraries. It will take place in the ballroom of the Provo Library.

Brandon Mull has worked as a comedian, a filing clerk, a patio installer, a movie promoter, a copywriter, and briefly as a chicken stacker. For a couple of years, he lived in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, where he learned Spanish and juggling. He currently lives in Utah in a happy little valley near the mouth of a canyon with his four children and dog named Buffy. Brandon is the author of the Beyonders, and Five Kingdoms series. Visit Brandon at BrandonMull.com.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Public Library, the Provo Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190830T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190830T000000 UID:6F4C26D7-6BF7-46FC-B7F5-786872CC5A25 SUMMARY:Celebrating Charles Bowden CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1579 DESCRIPTION:Friends and fans of Charles Bowden will gather at Ken Sanders Rare Books on August 30 to celebrate the late author’s life, on the Friday evening that is the fifth anniversary of his departure from it. Please join us at 7pm for a reading of some of our favorite Bowden works, along with live musical performances, remembrances, and recordings of Chuck's readings and talks. Join Ken, Molly Molloy, Julian Cardena, Scott Carrier, Kate MacLeod, Elaine Clark, Alex Caldiero, Trent Harris and others for this unique fifth anniversary tribute. For this special evening only, copies of four of Bowden's books will be given away at no charge: Blood Orchid, Blues For Cannibals, Shadow in the City and Down By The River. Up to five per person. We will also be offering first editions of Mezcal at the discounted price of $10 each. All other Charles Bowden titles, including signed first editions, will be offered at 25% off. Musician extraordinaire Kate MacLeod will debut a new musical composition based on Bowden's works. Please join us to celebrate the life and passions of this fearless writer. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Friends and fans of Charles Bowden will gather at Ken Sanders Rare Books on August 30 to celebrate the late author’s life, on the Friday evening that is the fifth anniversary of his departure from it. Please join us at 7pm for a reading of some of our favorite Bowden works, along with live musical performances, remembrances, and recordings of Chuck's readings and talks. Join Ken, Molly Molloy, Julian Cardena, Scott Carrier, Kate MacLeod, Elaine Clark, Alex Caldiero, Trent Harris and others for this unique fifth anniversary tribute. For this special evening only, copies of four of Bowden's books will be given away at no charge: Blood Orchid, Blues For Cannibals, Shadow in the City and Down By The River. Up to five per person. We will also be offering first editions of Mezcal at the discounted price of $10 each. All other Charles Bowden titles, including signed first editions, will be offered at 25% off. Musician extraordinaire Kate MacLeod will debut a new musical composition based on Bowden's works. Please join us to celebrate the life and passions of this fearless writer.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190912T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190912T000000 UID:ED6C7C74-7834-45AF-8D0B-13536573BD26 SUMMARY:Watch Tower Cafe and Wasatch Wordsmiths welcome Karla Cordero CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1683 DESCRIPTION:Watchtower Coffee and Comics and the Wasatch Wordsmiths welcome Karla Cordero as the feature for their September poetry slam. \N\NKarla Cordero is a descendant of the Chichimeca people from Northern Mexico, a Chicana poet, educator, and ARTtivist, raised along the borderlands of Calexico, CA. Cordero is the author of the chapbook, Grasshoppers Before Gods (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and her first full length collection titled, How To Pull Apart The Earth (NOT A CULT. 2018) was a 2019 San Diego Book Award winner and awarding-winning finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards. She currently serves as a Professor of Creative Writing and English at MiraCosta and San Diego City College. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Watch Tower Coffee and Comics, Wasatch Wordsmiths, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Watchtower Coffee and Comics and the Wasatch Wordsmiths welcome Karla Cordero as the feature for their September poetry slam.

Karla Cordero is a descendant of the Chichimeca people from Northern Mexico, a Chicana poet, educator, and ARTtivist, raised along the borderlands of Calexico, CA. Cordero is the author of the chapbook, Grasshoppers Before Gods (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and her first full length collection titled, How To Pull Apart The Earth (NOT A CULT. 2018) was a 2019 San Diego Book Award winner and awarding-winning finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards. She currently serves as a Professor of Creative Writing and English at MiraCosta and San Diego City College.

This event is made possible with the support of Watch Tower Coffee and Comics, Wasatch Wordsmiths, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190914T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190914T000000 UID:80F9C6CC-EC5A-4EA4-8E95-38D3BD1EB764 SUMMARY:Randall Munroe: How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/randall-munroe-libby-gardner-hall DESCRIPTION:How thrilled are we? Weller Book Works gets to host Randall Munroe in a Q&A about his forthcoming book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems, due out in September. We're selling books & tickets now for an evening with Munroe at Libby Gardner Hall, Saturday, September 14, 7 PM.\N\NThe Book: For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. \N\NBestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.\N\NBy exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.\N\NRandall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.\N\NLibby Gardner Hall is located on the University of Utah campus, 1375 Presidents Circle.\N\NTickets are available now. Follow this link, or purchase at the door: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/randall-munroe-how-ticket\N\NThis event is made possible by Weller Book Works and Libby Gardner Hall. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:How thrilled are we? Weller Book Works gets to host Randall Munroe in a Q&A about his forthcoming book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems, due out in September. We're selling books & tickets now for an evening with Munroe at Libby Gardner Hall, Saturday, September 14, 7 PM.

The Book: For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.

Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.

By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.

Libby Gardner Hall is located on the University of Utah campus, 1375 Presidents Circle.

Tickets are available now. Follow this link, or purchase at the door: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/randall-munroe-how-ticket

This event is made possible by Weller Book Works and Libby Gardner Hall. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190915T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190915T000000 UID:8510BFDE-138B-4C2C-87C0-38AD72F0CBFA SUMMARY:Re-Bisoning the West: Kurt Repanshek at the Natural History Museum of Utah CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1653 DESCRIPTION:The Natural History Museum of Utah welcomes Kurt Repanshek! In Re-Bisoning the West, Repanshek traces the history of bison from their near extinction to present-day efforts to bring them back to the landscape—and the biological, political, and cultural hurdles confronting these efforts. Repanshek explores Native Americans’ relationships with bison and presents a forward-thinking approach to returning bison to the West and improving the health of ecosystems.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Torrey House Press and the Natural History Museum of Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Natural History Museum of Utah welcomes Kurt Repanshek! In Re-Bisoning the West, Repanshek traces the history of bison from their near extinction to present-day efforts to bring them back to the landscape—and the biological, political, and cultural hurdles confronting these efforts. Repanshek explores Native Americans’ relationships with bison and presents a forward-thinking approach to returning bison to the West and improving the health of ecosystems.

This event is made possible with the support of Torrey House Press and the Natural History Museum of Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190916T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190916T203000 UID:39B2EDA4-25B9-43ED-90B8-878D8F83E034 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Presents Sarah Eden CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1556 DESCRIPTION:The Orem Library welcomes historical fiction and romance author Sarah Eden on September 16th as part of their Orem Reads series.\N\NSarah M. Eden is a USA Today Bestselling author of witty and charming historical romances, including Foreword Review’s 2013 “IndieFab Book of the Year” gold medal winner for Best Romance, Longing for Home, as well as 2014 Whitney Award winner for "Best Novel of the Year," Longing for Home: Hope Springs. Combining her obsession with history and affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She holds a Bachelor's degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library. Sarah lives with her husband, kids, and mischievous dog in the shadow of a snow-capped mountain she has never attempted to ski. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Orem Library welcomes historical fiction and romance author Sarah Eden on September 16th as part of their Orem Reads series.

Sarah M. Eden is a USA Today Bestselling author of witty and charming historical romances, including Foreword Review’s 2013 “IndieFab Book of the Year” gold medal winner for Best Romance, Longing for Home, as well as 2014 Whitney Award winner for "Best Novel of the Year," Longing for Home: Hope Springs. Combining her obsession with history and affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She holds a Bachelor's degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library. Sarah lives with her husband, kids, and mischievous dog in the shadow of a snow-capped mountain she has never attempted to ski.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190917T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190917T000000 UID:885520C7-DF8F-4130-9A48-A58A838E7CD5 SUMMARY:Jack Carr CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1585 DESCRIPTION:Former Navy SEAL and Park City resident, Jack Carr speaks about his newly released thriller, "True Believer." Learn about how Carr's personal experiences shaped his writing as the book's plot is about a string of terrorist attacks. Carr has been compared Vince Flynn and Brad Thor. \N\NThis event is supported by Park City Library and Utah Humanities!\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Former Navy SEAL and Park City resident, Jack Carr speaks about his newly released thriller, "True Believer." Learn about how Carr's personal experiences shaped his writing as the book's plot is about a string of terrorist attacks. Carr has been compared Vince Flynn and Brad Thor.

This event is supported by Park City Library and Utah Humanities!
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190917T000000 UID:6F25E520-9BC3-4B95-BDF1-8C291570837E SUMMARY:Dan O'Brien at Artisans Gallery CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1665 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah Museum of Art welcomes Dan O'Brien. O’Brien is a playwright, poet, and librettist. His play, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama. Brien's third collection of poetry, New Life, was published by CB Editions in London in 2015, and by Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn in 2016. His second collection, Scarsdale, was published by CB Editions in 2014, and in the US by Measure Press in 2015. His debut collection, War Reporter, published by CB Editions in London and by Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn, received the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Foundation's Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, both in the UK. In 2014 O'Brien was the winner of the Troubadour International Poetry Prize. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Sugar House Review, Southern Utah Museum of Art, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah Museum of Art welcomes Dan O'Brien. O’Brien is a playwright, poet, and librettist. His play, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama. Brien's third collection of poetry, New Life, was published by CB Editions in London in 2015, and by Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn in 2016. His second collection, Scarsdale, was published by CB Editions in 2014, and in the US by Measure Press in 2015. His debut collection, War Reporter, published by CB Editions in London and by Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn, received the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Foundation's Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, both in the UK. In 2014 O'Brien was the winner of the Troubadour International Poetry Prize.

This event is made possible with the support of Sugar House Review, Southern Utah Museum of Art, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190918T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190918T203000 UID:E01CD953-AFB8-47A9-A415-130B1813B093 SUMMARY:Eli Knapp at the Tracy Aviary CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1583 DESCRIPTION:Author and birdwatcher Eli Knapp visits the Chase Mill at Tracy Aviary to discuss his work The Delightful Horror of Family Biding on Wednesday, September 18th at 7:00 PM. \N\NELI J. KNAPP, Ph.D., is professor of intercultural studies and biology at Houghton College and director of the Houghton in Tanzania program. Knapp is a regular contributor to Birdwatcher’s Digest, New York State Conservationist, and other publications. An avid birdwatcher, hiker, and kayaker, he lives in Fillmore, New York, with his wife and children.\N\NIn The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: And Other Essays about Sharing Nature with the Next Generation, Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador’s cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse’s perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life’s deepest questions all along the way.In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonder his children experience.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Tracy Aviary, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and birdwatcher Eli Knapp visits the Chase Mill at Tracy Aviary to discuss his work The Delightful Horror of Family Biding on Wednesday, September 18th at 7:00 PM.

ELI J. KNAPP, Ph.D., is professor of intercultural studies and biology at Houghton College and director of the Houghton in Tanzania program. Knapp is a regular contributor to Birdwatcher’s Digest, New York State Conservationist, and other publications. An avid birdwatcher, hiker, and kayaker, he lives in Fillmore, New York, with his wife and children.

In The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: And Other Essays about Sharing Nature with the Next Generation, Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador’s cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse’s perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life’s deepest questions all along the way.In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonder his children experience.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Tracy Aviary, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190918T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190918T210000 UID:F402B9C3-6072-4A82-B108-C63743D71026 SUMMARY:Poet and Playwright Dan O'Brien at City Art CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1608 DESCRIPTION:City Art is pleased to welcome Dan O'Brien and Natalie Young in the Special Collections room of the City Library. \N\NDan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, and librettist. His play, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama, received a critically acclaimed world premiere at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Los Angeles, directed by Michael Michetti, and was nominated for six Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle prizes including Best Play. \N\NNatalie Young is a founding editor of the award-winning poetry magazine Sugar House Review. Natalie is left-handed, half Puerto Rican, and a fan of Dolly Parton and green olives. Recent poetry publications include Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Tampa Review, South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, and others.\N\NCITYART presents weekly programs at the wonderful downtown Salt Lake City Library featuring invited readers. Readings are typically presented on the first three Wednesday evenings of the school year months at 7 p.m. An Open Reading usually follows, at which audience members may briefly read from their own work. Interested audience members are encouraged to volunteer to help with future programs, or to help organize youth activities.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art is pleased to welcome Dan O'Brien and Natalie Young in the Special Collections room of the City Library.

Dan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, and librettist. His play, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama, received a critically acclaimed world premiere at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Los Angeles, directed by Michael Michetti, and was nominated for six Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle prizes including Best Play.

Natalie Young is a founding editor of the award-winning poetry magazine Sugar House Review. Natalie is left-handed, half Puerto Rican, and a fan of Dolly Parton and green olives. Recent poetry publications include Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Tampa Review, South Dakota Review, Green Mountains Review, and others.

CITYART presents weekly programs at the wonderful downtown Salt Lake City Library featuring invited readers. Readings are typically presented on the first three Wednesday evenings of the school year months at 7 p.m. An Open Reading usually follows, at which audience members may briefly read from their own work. Interested audience members are encouraged to volunteer to help with future programs, or to help organize youth activities.

This event is made possible with the support of City Art and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190921 UID:DA6D716B-AA3D-4BCE-9678-EF46575415E2 SUMMARY:Eco-Poetry and the Essay Conference CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1618 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University is happy to host Eco-Poetry and the Essay, A Creative Writing/Education Conference. View the full schedule below. For more information, contact Danielle Dubrasky at dubrasky@suu.edu. \N\NECO-POETRY AND THE ESSAY \NA Creative Writing/Education Conference\NHunter Conference Center\NSeptember 19-20, 2019\N\NDirector: Dr. Danielle Dubrasky\NCo-Director: Dr. John Meisner \NEditor-in-Residence: Simmons Buntin, Terrain. Org\NVisiting Writers: Chris Cokinos, University of Arizona; Kate Northrop,University of Wyoming\NEducation Specialist: Kim Rathke, Utah State Office of Education\NEducation Coordinator: Cody Christensen, Canyon View High School\NGuest Journals: Saltfront, Dark Mountain, American Poetry Review, Sugarhouse Review\N\NTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 \N\NCreative Writing Workshops\NStudent Center Starlight Room\N\N9:00-10:00 Registration opens/Continental Breakfast\N\N10:00-11:15 Poetry Workshop with Kate Northrop--Craft Workshop for SUU students and high school teachers\N\N11:30-12:30 APEX speaker artist Al Farrow Gilbert Great Hall\N\N1:00-2:00 Lunch on your own\N\N 2:30-3:45 CNF Workshop with Chris Cokinos--Craft \NWorkshop for SUU students and high school teachers\N \NGUEST READINGS BY WRITERS \NStudent Center Theater\N\N4:00-5:00 Readings by Kate Northrop and Chris Cokinos\N\N5:00-5:30 Editors’ Panel: Simmons Buntin, Eric Roberts. Kate Northrop, Natalie Young\N\N5:30-6:00 Book Signings \N\N6:00 Dinner and Dialogue with students/teachers and guest writers and editors\N \NFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 \N\NCreative Writing/Education Workshops\NWhiting Room--Hunter Conference Center\N\N8:00-8:30 AM Registration opens/Continental Breakfast\N\N8:30-9:50 Pedagogy Workshop: “Engaging Student Voices in Essay Writing” Kim Rathke\N\N10:00-10:50 Welcome Readings by Kate Northrop and Chris Cokinos \N\N11:00-12:15 Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Poetry in the High Schools--Kate Northrop\N\N12:15-1:15 - Lunch and Book Table\N\N1:15 Orientation of the play Hamlet at Beverly Taylor Sorensen Art Center\N\N2:00-5:00 Utah Shakespeare Festival Production: Hamlet Engelstadt Theater\N \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University is happy to host Eco-Poetry and the Essay, A Creative Writing/Education Conference. View the full schedule below. For more information, contact Danielle Dubrasky at dubrasky@suu.edu.

ECO-POETRY AND THE ESSAY
A Creative Writing/Education Conference
Hunter Conference Center
September 19-20, 2019

Director: Dr. Danielle Dubrasky
Co-Director: Dr. John Meisner
Editor-in-Residence: Simmons Buntin, Terrain. Org
Visiting Writers: Chris Cokinos, University of Arizona; Kate Northrop,University of Wyoming
Education Specialist: Kim Rathke, Utah State Office of Education
Education Coordinator: Cody Christensen, Canyon View High School
Guest Journals: Saltfront, Dark Mountain, American Poetry Review, Sugarhouse Review

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Creative Writing Workshops
Student Center Starlight Room

9:00-10:00 Registration opens/Continental Breakfast

10:00-11:15 Poetry Workshop with Kate Northrop--Craft Workshop for SUU students and high school teachers

11:30-12:30 APEX speaker artist Al Farrow Gilbert Great Hall

1:00-2:00 Lunch on your own

2:30-3:45 CNF Workshop with Chris Cokinos--Craft
Workshop for SUU students and high school teachers

GUEST READINGS BY WRITERS
Student Center Theater

4:00-5:00 Readings by Kate Northrop and Chris Cokinos

5:00-5:30 Editors’ Panel: Simmons Buntin, Eric Roberts. Kate Northrop, Natalie Young

5:30-6:00 Book Signings

6:00 Dinner and Dialogue with students/teachers and guest writers and editors

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Creative Writing/Education Workshops
Whiting Room--Hunter Conference Center

8:00-8:30 AM Registration opens/Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:50 Pedagogy Workshop: “Engaging Student Voices in Essay Writing” Kim Rathke

10:00-10:50 Welcome Readings by Kate Northrop and Chris Cokinos

11:00-12:15 Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Poetry in the High Schools--Kate Northrop

12:15-1:15 - Lunch and Book Table

1:15 Orientation of the play Hamlet at Beverly Taylor Sorensen Art Center

2:00-5:00 Utah Shakespeare Festival Production: Hamlet Engelstadt Theater

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T000000 UID:5674CBAC-1F94-46C0-B5FA-B220B2BCF1B6 SUMMARY:APEX Speaker Series: Al Farrow CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1620 DESCRIPTION:\NSouthern Utah University is happy to host sculptor Al Farrow on September 19 at 11:30 AM in Gilbert Great Hall. \N\NIn collaboration with the Southern Utah Museum of Art's special exhibit of the artist on display 8/5 - 10/5.\N\NSculptor Al Farrow has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1970. His work has been in group shows at the Oakland Art Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Falkirk Cultural Center in Marin, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, among many others. He has over 20 years of bronze casting experience. His work is in many important public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, and other collections in New York, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Southern Utah University is happy to host sculptor Al Farrow on September 19 at 11:30 AM in Gilbert Great Hall.

In collaboration with the Southern Utah Museum of Art's special exhibit of the artist on display 8/5 - 10/5.

Sculptor Al Farrow has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1970. His work has been in group shows at the Oakland Art Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Falkirk Cultural Center in Marin, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, among many others. He has over 20 years of bronze casting experience. His work is in many important public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, and other collections in New York, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T000000 UID:70E34280-0F31-4A1A-B9B3-C2C6E28041D8 SUMMARY:Reading by Kate Northrop and Christopher Cokinos CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1619 DESCRIPTION:SUU is proud to host poets Kate Northrop and essayist Christopher Cokinos. Northrop’s collections of poetry include Clean (2011) and Things are Disappearing Here (2007), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Christopher Cokinos is the author of three books of literary nonfiction: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Tarcher/Penguin); The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars (Tarcher/Penguin); and Bodies, of the Holocene (Truman).\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SUU is proud to host poets Kate Northrop and essayist Christopher Cokinos. Northrop’s collections of poetry include Clean (2011) and Things are Disappearing Here (2007), which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Christopher Cokinos is the author of three books of literary nonfiction: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Tarcher/Penguin); The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars (Tarcher/Penguin); and Bodies, of the Holocene (Truman).

This event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T000000 UID:EA6C683F-6073-4EAF-8A6F-9FF01E8BAF57 SUMMARY:Editor's Panel: Simmons Buntin, Eric Roberts, Natalie Young CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1621 DESCRIPTION:Want to get your work published? Join Southern Utah University and take a peek into the mind of an editor in the Starlight room of the Sharwin Smith Student Center for a panel with editors from some of your favorite literary journals. \N\NEditors' Panel with Simmons Buntin, Terrain.org; Eric Robertson, Saltfront, Dark Mountain; Natalie Young, Sugarhouse Review\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Want to get your work published? Join Southern Utah University and take a peek into the mind of an editor in the Starlight room of the Sharwin Smith Student Center for a panel with editors from some of your favorite literary journals.

Editors' Panel with Simmons Buntin, Terrain.org; Eric Robertson, Saltfront, Dark Mountain; Natalie Young, Sugarhouse Review

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T000000 UID:39A81B3D-79BC-42D8-81BF-6667A36D69CD SUMMARY:Scott Black (Ursula LeGuin Presentation) CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1591 DESCRIPTION:At a time when the earth itself is reminding us of our place within its complex ecosystems and the unintended consequences of our actions, we need stories that offer alternatives to the fantasies of mastery and control that have brought our planet to crisis. For generations of readers, Ursula K. Le Guin’s fictions have been important initiations into different ways of knowing, prompts to imagine other worlds and invitations to explore other ways to live in ours. This talk will address two of Le Guin’s later works, Tehanu and Four Ways to Forgiveness, which revisit her most famous speculative worlds and deepen her lifelong exploration of new forms of fiction. Rather than tales of heroic action, mastery, and understanding, these late works are stories of yin, the dark side of the Taoist balance of yin-yang. They examine the limits of power and explore the surprisingly rich resources of darkness, weakness, restraint, and silence. Le Guin asks readers to reconsider our usual ways of relating to the world and one another, while offering us experiences of the quieter, more patient forms of attention we need to survive on a fragile planet.  \N\NThis event is supported by the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:At a time when the earth itself is reminding us of our place within its complex ecosystems and the unintended consequences of our actions, we need stories that offer alternatives to the fantasies of mastery and control that have brought our planet to crisis. For generations of readers, Ursula K. Le Guin’s fictions have been important initiations into different ways of knowing, prompts to imagine other worlds and invitations to explore other ways to live in ours. This talk will address two of Le Guin’s later works, Tehanu and Four Ways to Forgiveness, which revisit her most famous speculative worlds and deepen her lifelong exploration of new forms of fiction. Rather than tales of heroic action, mastery, and understanding, these late works are stories of yin, the dark side of the Taoist balance of yin-yang. They examine the limits of power and explore the surprisingly rich resources of darkness, weakness, restraint, and silence. Le Guin asks readers to reconsider our usual ways of relating to the world and one another, while offering us experiences of the quieter, more patient forms of attention we need to survive on a fragile planet.  

This event is supported by the University of Utah and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T000000 UID:12B52F0B-5B4C-42CC-A627-C19677633A7B SUMMARY:Annual Wasatch Back Local Author Night CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1586 DESCRIPTION:Meet and celebrate local authors who either live or have written content about the Wasatch Back. A reception with the authors will be held after the panel event. The selected authors are: Bonnie Bedford ("Brides of 1941), Bill Humbert ("Employee 5.0: Secrets of a Successful Job Search in the New World Order"), Carly Bennett Stenmark ("More than a Manicure: The Nail Files"), Liz Yokubison ("They're Ready, Are You?: A Parent's Guide to Surviving College Transition"), and Beverly Hurwitz ("A Walker's Guide to Park City" and "Park City Hiking Guide"). \N\NThis event is supported by Park City Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet and celebrate local authors who either live or have written content about the Wasatch Back. A reception with the authors will be held after the panel event. The selected authors are: Bonnie Bedford ("Brides of 1941), Bill Humbert ("Employee 5.0: Secrets of a Successful Job Search in the New World Order"), Carly Bennett Stenmark ("More than a Manicure: The Nail Files"), Liz Yokubison ("They're Ready, Are You?: A Parent's Guide to Surviving College Transition"), and Beverly Hurwitz ("A Walker's Guide to Park City" and "Park City Hiking Guide").

This event is supported by Park City Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T200000 UID:7F67835E-7185-4A0A-80E0-68AADD643B6F SUMMARY:Michael G. Snarr: Long Shots and Layups CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1604 DESCRIPTION:Weller's is pleased to welcome author and Jazzman Michael G. Snarr to the store for a reading and signing of Long Shots and Layups: Memories and Stories from the Golden Era of the Utah Jazz. With possible surprise guest!!!!\N\NFrom a self-proclaimed sports marketing junkie, here's the inside story of how a top US sports franchise functions, how one man brought it to Utah against the advice of the NBA, how another man and his family gave it new life, passionately embracing the team, making countless financial and personal sacrifices throughout its history, how its general manager, coaches, and players rallied behind the exuberance of a state full of sports fans, and how a last-place sorts property became a model of success, surprising most sports business experts and the entire front office of the NBA along the way.\N\NFor over 28 years, Michael G. Snarr worked in the front office of the Utah Jazz and watched as all of these fascinating stories, plots, and subplots unfolded. Balancing the history of the team from the time it re-rooted itself in Utah, Snarr also tells us about the business of sports marketing, how it came together, grew,and how some extremely remarkable and committed individuals on the team and business side achieved what few people thought possible, especially in one of the smallest cities in the NBA. The Utah Jazz met Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Championship Finals twice. That accomplishment grabbed the attention of America, and indeed, much of the world. It was a series where individual play was overshadowed by team effort. Almost everyone watched. In fact, the 1998 NBA Finals is still the most watched series in the history of the NBA.\N\NThis is a story of success, of overcoming failure year after year, and of beating the odds to achieve more than expected. The final score is just a footnote to a much greater and inspiring story. The story of the Utah Jazz during the golden era of Stockton to Malone.\NMichael G. Snarr graduated from the University of Utah in business management and worked for the Utah Jazz in sponsorship sales from 1986 to 2015, when he retired. He lives in Salt Lake, Utah with his wife of 38 years, Tamie Merrick Snarr. They have four children, and recently, a first grandchild. Mike enjoys trying to stay in shape, playing golf, and spending as much time with his family as they will allow.\N\NThis event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller's is pleased to welcome author and Jazzman Michael G. Snarr to the store for a reading and signing of Long Shots and Layups: Memories and Stories from the Golden Era of the Utah Jazz. With possible surprise guest!!!!

From a self-proclaimed sports marketing junkie, here's the inside story of how a top US sports franchise functions, how one man brought it to Utah against the advice of the NBA, how another man and his family gave it new life, passionately embracing the team, making countless financial and personal sacrifices throughout its history, how its general manager, coaches, and players rallied behind the exuberance of a state full of sports fans, and how a last-place sorts property became a model of success, surprising most sports business experts and the entire front office of the NBA along the way.

For over 28 years, Michael G. Snarr worked in the front office of the Utah Jazz and watched as all of these fascinating stories, plots, and subplots unfolded. Balancing the history of the team from the time it re-rooted itself in Utah, Snarr also tells us about the business of sports marketing, how it came together, grew,and how some extremely remarkable and committed individuals on the team and business side achieved what few people thought possible, especially in one of the smallest cities in the NBA. The Utah Jazz met Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Championship Finals twice. That accomplishment grabbed the attention of America, and indeed, much of the world. It was a series where individual play was overshadowed by team effort. Almost everyone watched. In fact, the 1998 NBA Finals is still the most watched series in the history of the NBA.

This is a story of success, of overcoming failure year after year, and of beating the odds to achieve more than expected. The final score is just a footnote to a much greater and inspiring story. The story of the Utah Jazz during the golden era of Stockton to Malone.
Michael G. Snarr graduated from the University of Utah in business management and worked for the Utah Jazz in sponsorship sales from 1986 to 2015, when he retired. He lives in Salt Lake, Utah with his wife of 38 years, Tamie Merrick Snarr. They have four children, and recently, a first grandchild. Mike enjoys trying to stay in shape, playing golf, and spending as much time with his family as they will allow.

This event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T210000 UID:2CB9EF4F-96F2-4B72-8793-4E9F2FF40F21 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Presents James D'Arc CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1557 DESCRIPTION:James D'Arc, author of When Hollywood Came to Town, will discuss the history of the film industry in Utah at the Orem Library on September 19th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the Orem Reads series at the library.\N\NFor more than 100 years, the magnificent scenery and locales of Utah have played host to hundreds of Hollywood films and TV episodes, including memorable films such as The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Thelma & Louise, and Forrest Gump.\N\NWhen Hollywood Came to Town gives readers the inside scoop on how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. Author and film historian James V. D’Arc provides a wealth of trivial factoids for movie buffs, including anecdotes about the interactions of Utah locals with actors and crew.\N\NNew and updated text and photos have been added to the previous edition (When Hollywood Came to Town) to bring this edition up to date with movies and TV shows filmed in Utah since 2010.\N\NJames V. D’Arc was curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, for 41 years. He lives in Orem, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:James D'Arc, author of When Hollywood Came to Town, will discuss the history of the film industry in Utah at the Orem Library on September 19th at 7:00 PM. This event is part of the Orem Reads series at the library.

For more than 100 years, the magnificent scenery and locales of Utah have played host to hundreds of Hollywood films and TV episodes, including memorable films such as The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Thelma & Louise, and Forrest Gump.

When Hollywood Came to Town gives readers the inside scoop on how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. Author and film historian James V. D’Arc provides a wealth of trivial factoids for movie buffs, including anecdotes about the interactions of Utah locals with actors and crew.

New and updated text and photos have been added to the previous edition (When Hollywood Came to Town) to bring this edition up to date with movies and TV shows filmed in Utah since 2010.

James V. D’Arc was curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, for 41 years. He lives in Orem, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T203000 UID:11BE6578-831C-4FDC-887E-2339516A929D SUMMARY:Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro at Guest Writers Series CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1558 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah welcomes poets Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro on Thursday, September 19th at the Finch Lance Gallery at 7:00 PM. \N\NTom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.”\N\NSleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays in The Land between Two Rivers focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate, but they’re also laced with wily humor and an undeluded hopefulness, their lives having little to do with their depictions in mass media.\N\NTom Sleigh is the author of a previous essay collection, Interview with a Ghost, and ten books of poetry, including Station Zed, Army Cats, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York.\N\NWe often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language—where “the signs loosen, fray, and drift”—Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn’t yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking “girly”; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss—moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.\N\NAlan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series at the University of Utah welcomes poets Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro on Thursday, September 19th at the Finch Lance Gallery at 7:00 PM.

Tom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.”

Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays in The Land between Two Rivers focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate, but they’re also laced with wily humor and an undeluded hopefulness, their lives having little to do with their depictions in mass media.

Tom Sleigh is the author of a previous essay collection, Interview with a Ghost, and ten books of poetry, including Station Zed, Army Cats, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York.

We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language—where “the signs loosen, fray, and drift”—Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn’t yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking “girly”; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss—moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.

Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190919T203000 UID:4C517B5F-B0C1-4EB0-A3AB-174E39125EFF SUMMARY:Eli Knapp at the Moab Festival of Science CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1582 DESCRIPTION:Author and birdwatcher Eli Knapp visits Moab to discuss his work as part of the Moab Festival of Science on Thursday, September 19th at 7pm at the Grand County Library. \N\NELI J. KNAPP, Ph.D., is professor of intercultural studies and biology at Houghton College and director of the Houghton in Tanzania program. Knapp is a regular contributor to Birdwatcher’s Digest, New York State Conservationist, and other publications. An avid birdwatcher, hiker, and kayaker, he lives in Fillmore, New York, with his wife and children.\N\NIn The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: And Other Essays about Sharing Nature with the Next Generation, Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador’s cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse’s perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life’s deepest questions all along the way.In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonder his children experience.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Moab Festival of Science, Grand County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author and birdwatcher Eli Knapp visits Moab to discuss his work as part of the Moab Festival of Science on Thursday, September 19th at 7pm at the Grand County Library.

ELI J. KNAPP, Ph.D., is professor of intercultural studies and biology at Houghton College and director of the Houghton in Tanzania program. Knapp is a regular contributor to Birdwatcher’s Digest, New York State Conservationist, and other publications. An avid birdwatcher, hiker, and kayaker, he lives in Fillmore, New York, with his wife and children.

In The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: And Other Essays about Sharing Nature with the Next Generation, Eli Knapp takes readers from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania and the mating grounds of Ecuador’s cock-of-the-rock to a juniper titmouse’s perch at the Grand Canyon and the migration of hooded mergansers in a New York swamp, exploring life’s deepest questions all along the way.In this collection of essays, Knapp intentionally flies away from the flock, reveling in insights gleaned from birds, his students, and the wide-eyed wonder his children experience.

This event is made possible with support from the Moab Festival of Science, Grand County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190920T133000 UID:6119F47C-81FD-4500-BEFD-5CE6C181463B SUMMARY:Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro at Guest Writers Series CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1559 DESCRIPTION:Join authors Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro for a lunchtime discussion of their work at Finch Lane Gallery. Bring your own lunch and bring along your questions. \N\NTom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.”\N\NSleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays in The Land between Two Rivers focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate, but they’re also laced with wily humor and an undeluded hopefulness, their lives having little to do with their depictions in mass media.\N\NTom Sleigh is the author of a previous essay collection, Interview with a Ghost, and ten books of poetry, including Station Zed, Army Cats, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York.\N\NWe often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language—where “the signs loosen, fray, and drift”—Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn’t yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking “girly”; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss—moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.\N\NAlan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join authors Tom Sleigh and Alan Shapiro for a lunchtime discussion of their work at Finch Lane Gallery. Bring your own lunch and bring along your questions.

Tom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.”

Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays in The Land between Two Rivers focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate, but they’re also laced with wily humor and an undeluded hopefulness, their lives having little to do with their depictions in mass media.

Tom Sleigh is the author of a previous essay collection, Interview with a Ghost, and ten books of poetry, including Station Zed, Army Cats, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York.

We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation—not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what is loss, in translation? Writing at the limits of language—where “the signs loosen, fray, and drift”—Alan Shapiro probes the startling complexity of how we confront absence and the ephemeral, the heartbreak of what once wasn’t yet and now is no longer, of what (like racial prejudice and historical atrocity) is omnipresent and elusive. Through poems that are fine-grained and often quiet, Shapiro tells of subtle bereavements: a young boy is shamed for the first time for looking “girly”; an ailing old man struggles to visit his wife in a nursing home; or a woman dying of cancer watches her friends enjoy themselves in her absence. Throughout, this collection traverses rather than condemns the imperfect language of loss—moving against the current in the direction of the utterly ineffable.

Alan Shapiro has published many books, including Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190920T000000 UID:075565B9-ED87-4E8C-99DF-453731ECB4BE SUMMARY:John Branch CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1587 DESCRIPTION:John Branch is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a San Francisco-based sports reporter for The New York Times. His latest boo, "The Last Cowboys," is an intimate portrait of a Southern Utah rodeo family as they fight for their land and livelihood and experience numerous rodeo injuries, missions, and National Rodeo Finals. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Rebecca Marriott Champion, Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:John Branch is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a San Francisco-based sports reporter for The New York Times. His latest boo, "The Last Cowboys," is an intimate portrait of a Southern Utah rodeo family as they fight for their land and livelihood and experience numerous rodeo injuries, missions, and National Rodeo Finals.

This event is made possible with support from Rebecca Marriott Champion, Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190920T210000 UID:09FA5D43-282F-4D91-9DF5-725BD62D9B08 SUMMARY:Rooted: Art Away from Home CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1681 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate #WelcomingWeek Friday night with an evening of art by immigrant and refugee youth. \N\NThe evening will feature youth poets Chelsea Guevara, Daud Mumin, and Liliane Kwizera, dance, a fashion show, and a film written and directed by New American youth. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Mayor's Office of New Americans, Utah Humanities, Utah Arts & Museums, and the City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Celebrate #WelcomingWeek Friday night with an evening of art by immigrant and refugee youth.

The evening will feature youth poets Chelsea Guevara, Daud Mumin, and Liliane Kwizera, dance, a fashion show, and a film written and directed by New American youth.

This event was made possible with support from the Mayor's Office of New Americans, Utah Humanities, Utah Arts & Museums, and the City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190920T000000 UID:4AFA3A31-8AF7-4558-81D1-8988257C0D00 SUMMARY:Orson Scott Card: Lost and Found CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/orson-scott-card-lost-and-found DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works welcomes back Orson Scott Card, for a reading and signing of Lost and Found, Friday, September 20, at 7 PM!\N\N“Are you really a thief?”\N\NThat’s the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he’s not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower—a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiel’s micropower for good, to turn a curse into a blessing. His friend Beth thinks there must be, and so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl. When tragedy strikes, it’s up to Ezekiel to use his talent to find what matters most.\N\NMaster storyteller Orson Scott Card delivers a touching and funny, compelling and smart novel about growing up, harnessing your potential, and finding your place in the world, no matter how old you are.\N\NOrson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. His most recent series, the young adult Pathfinder series (Pathfinder, Ruins, Visitors) and the fantasy Mithermages series (Lost Gate, Gate Thief, Gatefather) are taking readers in new directions.\N\NBesides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts, including his "freshened" Shakespeare scripts for Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice.\N\NThis event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works welcomes back Orson Scott Card, for a reading and signing of Lost and Found, Friday, September 20, at 7 PM!

“Are you really a thief?”

That’s the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he’s not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower—a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiel’s micropower for good, to turn a curse into a blessing. His friend Beth thinks there must be, and so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl. When tragedy strikes, it’s up to Ezekiel to use his talent to find what matters most.

Master storyteller Orson Scott Card delivers a touching and funny, compelling and smart novel about growing up, harnessing your potential, and finding your place in the world, no matter how old you are.

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools. His most recent series, the young adult Pathfinder series (Pathfinder, Ruins, Visitors) and the fantasy Mithermages series (Lost Gate, Gate Thief, Gatefather) are taking readers in new directions.

Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry (An Open Book), and many plays and scripts, including his "freshened" Shakespeare scripts for Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice.

This event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190920T000000 UID:85169375-483D-4F2A-BED8-0CCD6DC7BEAF SUMMARY:The Lavender House presents Joel Long, Bethany Schultz Hurst and Paula Mendoza CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1617 DESCRIPTION:The Lavender House is happy to host poets Joel Long, Bethany Schultz Hurst, and Paula Mendoza on Friday, September 20th, 2019 at 7pm. \N\NJoel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes is availible from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Seattle Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Poet Lore, Willow Springs, Prairie Schooner, and Mid-American Review among others. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Fresh Water, American Poetry: the Next Generation and Essential Love. He received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers at Work in 2002. \N\NBethany Schultz Hurst's poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Styx, Sixth Finch and other journals. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, with her husband and son, and teaches creative writing at Idaho State University.\N\NPaula Mendoza’s work has appeared in Parcel, Bat City Review, Washington Square, PANK, and elsewhere. She reviews poetry for SCOUT, blogs for the Michigan Quarterly Review, and is an essay editor at The Offing. \N\NThis event was made possible with the support of Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Lavender House is happy to host poets Joel Long, Bethany Schultz Hurst, and Paula Mendoza on Friday, September 20th, 2019 at 7pm.

Joel Long's book Winged Insects (1999) won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbook, Chopin's Preludes is availible from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Seattle Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Poet Lore, Willow Springs, Prairie Schooner, and Mid-American Review among others. His poems have appeared in the anthologies Fresh Water, American Poetry: the Next Generation and Essential Love. He received the Educator of Excellence Award from Writers at Work in 2002.

Bethany Schultz Hurst's poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Styx, Sixth Finch and other journals. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, with her husband and son, and teaches creative writing at Idaho State University.

Paula Mendoza’s work has appeared in Parcel, Bat City Review, Washington Square, PANK, and elsewhere. She reviews poetry for SCOUT, blogs for the Michigan Quarterly Review, and is an essay editor at The Offing.

This event was made possible with the support of Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190923T210000 UID:980BA27A-433D-4DE1-BED1-05E9C8357872 SUMMARY:Brandon Mull at Orem Library CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-signing-with-author-brandon-mull-tickets-65048846852 DESCRIPTION:We're proud to partner with Orem Public Library to present an evening with Brandon Mull, who will be reading and signing books! This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.\N\N"After a humiliating defeat at the hands of Kendra and Seth, Celebrant, King of Dragons, prepares to unleash his fury and take control of his native preserve. Two of the seven dragon sanctuaries have already fallen. Will Wyrmroost be next?\N\NArmed with secret information from a new ally, Celebrant seeks a talisman that will guarantee victory in the war against the humans. With a cursed castle and traitorous creatures standing in the way, Kendra and Seth must attempt to foil Celebrant’s plan and beat him to his prize.\N\NWill the two young caretakers rally enough support from the creatures of Wyrmroost to quell the uprising and protect the world from draconic dominion? One thing is certain—dragons are deadly foes, and one wrong move could bring swift defeat. It will take more than Kendra, Seth, and their current allies have ever given to endure the wrath of the Dragon King." writes Marie Leslie \N\NThis event was made possible thorugh the support of Utah Humanities, The Printed Garden Books, Orem Public Library, and Heritage Writers Guild. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We're proud to partner with Orem Public Library to present an evening with Brandon Mull, who will be reading and signing books! This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

"After a humiliating defeat at the hands of Kendra and Seth, Celebrant, King of Dragons, prepares to unleash his fury and take control of his native preserve. Two of the seven dragon sanctuaries have already fallen. Will Wyrmroost be next?

Armed with secret information from a new ally, Celebrant seeks a talisman that will guarantee victory in the war against the humans. With a cursed castle and traitorous creatures standing in the way, Kendra and Seth must attempt to foil Celebrant’s plan and beat him to his prize.

Will the two young caretakers rally enough support from the creatures of Wyrmroost to quell the uprising and protect the world from draconic dominion? One thing is certain—dragons are deadly foes, and one wrong move could bring swift defeat. It will take more than Kendra, Seth, and their current allies have ever given to endure the wrath of the Dragon King." writes Marie Leslie

This event was made possible thorugh the support of Utah Humanities, The Printed Garden Books, Orem Public Library, and Heritage Writers Guild. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190923T000000 UID:EDC446BA-7750-4DC9-A670-20D1ACEDA19A SUMMARY:Art on Screen: Margaret Atwood CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1588 DESCRIPTION:At the end of "The Handmaid's Tale," the van door slammed on Offred's future and readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her-- freedom, prison, or death. The wait is over as Margaret Atwood's sequel, "The Testaments" is released on September 10th. Atwood takes the stage in London for an evening of conversation, readings, and special guests. See the event as it is screened in the auditorium. \N\N$10 tickets for purchase at www.parkcityfilm.org\N\NThis event is in partnership with Park City Film. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:At the end of "The Handmaid's Tale," the van door slammed on Offred's future and readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her-- freedom, prison, or death. The wait is over as Margaret Atwood's sequel, "The Testaments" is released on September 10th. Atwood takes the stage in London for an evening of conversation, readings, and special guests. See the event as it is screened in the auditorium.

$10 tickets for purchase at www.parkcityfilm.org

This event is in partnership with Park City Film. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190923T000000 UID:6BC895EB-6C1C-4614-8602-818815164F44 SUMMARY:Provo Library presents Sofiya Pasternak and Kwame Alexander CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1669 DESCRIPTION:Provo Library welcomes Sofiya Pasternack and Kwame Alexander. Both writers will read from and sign their new books. \N\N***\N\NIn Pasternack's ANYA AND THE DRAGON, Headstrong Anya is the daughter of the only Jewish family in her village. When her family's livelihood is threatened by a bigoted magistrate, Anya is lured in by a friendly family of Fools, who promise her money in exchange for helping them capture the last dragon in Kievan Rus.\N\NThis seems easy enough—until she finds out that the scary old dragon isn't as old—or as scary—as everyone thought. Now Anya is faced with a choice: save the dragon, or save her family.\N\N***\N\NAlexander's CROSSOVER follows 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander.\N\NJosh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.\N\NThis event is made possible by Provo Library. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Provo Library welcomes Sofiya Pasternack and Kwame Alexander. Both writers will read from and sign their new books.

***

In Pasternack's ANYA AND THE DRAGON, Headstrong Anya is the daughter of the only Jewish family in her village. When her family's livelihood is threatened by a bigoted magistrate, Anya is lured in by a friendly family of Fools, who promise her money in exchange for helping them capture the last dragon in Kievan Rus.

This seems easy enough—until she finds out that the scary old dragon isn't as old—or as scary—as everyone thought. Now Anya is faced with a choice: save the dragon, or save her family.

***

Alexander's CROSSOVER follows 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood from Kwame Alexander.

Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize breaking the rules comes at a terrible price, as their story's heart-stopping climax proves a game-changer for the entire family.

This event is made possible by Provo Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190924T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190924T000000 UID:7131C7B6-929B-4F95-9FB8-1E972EF38CBD SUMMARY:Brenden Resnik CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1677 DESCRIPTION:The Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University welcomes Brenden Rensink, author of Native But Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Resnik will discuss his work with students at 5:30pm in the Cottam Room in the Gardner Building of Dixie State University. \N\NIn Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and react differently to Native identity and offers new insights into what it has meant to be "indigenous" or an "immigrant."\N\NRensink's findings counter a prevailing theme in histories of the American West--namely, that the East was the center that dictated policy to the western periphery. On the contrary, Rensink employs experiences of the Yaquis, Crees, and Chippewas to depict Arizona and Montana as an active and mercurial blend of local political, economic, and social interests pushing back against and even reshaping broader federal policy. Rensink argues that as immediate forces in the borderlands molded the formation of federal policy, these Native groups moved from being categorized as political refugees to being cast as illegal immigrants, subject to deportation or segregation; in both cases, this legal transition was turbulent. Despite continued staunch opposition, Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis gained legal and permanent settlements in the United States and successfully broke free of imposed transnational identities.\N\NThis event is made possible by the support of Utah Humanities and the Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University welcomes Brenden Rensink, author of Native But Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Resnik will discuss his work with students at 5:30pm in the Cottam Room in the Gardner Building of Dixie State University.

In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and react differently to Native identity and offers new insights into what it has meant to be "indigenous" or an "immigrant."

Rensink's findings counter a prevailing theme in histories of the American West--namely, that the East was the center that dictated policy to the western periphery. On the contrary, Rensink employs experiences of the Yaquis, Crees, and Chippewas to depict Arizona and Montana as an active and mercurial blend of local political, economic, and social interests pushing back against and even reshaping broader federal policy. Rensink argues that as immediate forces in the borderlands molded the formation of federal policy, these Native groups moved from being categorized as political refugees to being cast as illegal immigrants, subject to deportation or segregation; in both cases, this legal transition was turbulent. Despite continued staunch opposition, Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis gained legal and permanent settlements in the United States and successfully broke free of imposed transnational identities.

This event is made possible by the support of Utah Humanities and the Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190924T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190924T000000 UID:F91BB0D8-59BD-4593-BDEC-288C69FA21E0 SUMMARY:Sam Payne and Clive Romney CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1593 DESCRIPTION:Join nationally-recognized author and storyteller Sam Payne and Utah music icon Clive Romney and friends on a lively train to discovery! This full-color 9” x 12” book and 20-song album celebrate America’s greatest technological achievement of the 19th century - building the Transcontinental Railroad.\N\NThe pounding hammer on that final golden spike, which linked the east to the west, echoed waves of change throughout Utah and across the entire nation. \N\NThis event is made possible through Treehouse Children's Museum, Ogden School Foundation, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join nationally-recognized author and storyteller Sam Payne and Utah music icon Clive Romney and friends on a lively train to discovery! This full-color 9” x 12” book and 20-song album celebrate America’s greatest technological achievement of the 19th century - building the Transcontinental Railroad.

The pounding hammer on that final golden spike, which linked the east to the west, echoed waves of change throughout Utah and across the entire nation.

This event is made possible through Treehouse Children's Museum, Ogden School Foundation, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190924T210000 UID:0C11CBFB-F7E7-4963-942B-7A3292BBE40F SUMMARY:James D'Arc at the Grand County Library CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1580 DESCRIPTION:James D'Arc, author of When Hollywood Came to Town, will discuss the history of the film industry in Utah at the Grand County Library on September 24th at 7:00 PM. .\N\NFor more than 100 years, the magnificent scenery and locales of Utah have played host to hundreds of Hollywood films and TV episodes, including memorable films such as The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Thelma & Louise, and Forrest Gump.\N\NWhen Hollywood Came to Town gives readers the inside scoop on how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. Author and film historian James V. D’Arc provides a wealth of trivial factoids for movie buffs, including anecdotes about the interactions of Utah locals with actors and crew.\N\NNew and updated text and photos have been added to the previous edition (When Hollywood Came to Town) to bring this edition up to date with movies and TV shows filmed in Utah since 2010.\N\NJames V. D’Arc was curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, for 41 years. He lives in Orem, Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:James D'Arc, author of When Hollywood Came to Town, will discuss the history of the film industry in Utah at the Grand County Library on September 24th at 7:00 PM. .

For more than 100 years, the magnificent scenery and locales of Utah have played host to hundreds of Hollywood films and TV episodes, including memorable films such as The Searchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Thelma & Louise, and Forrest Gump.

When Hollywood Came to Town gives readers the inside scoop on how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. Author and film historian James V. D’Arc provides a wealth of trivial factoids for movie buffs, including anecdotes about the interactions of Utah locals with actors and crew.

New and updated text and photos have been added to the previous edition (When Hollywood Came to Town) to bring this edition up to date with movies and TV shows filmed in Utah since 2010.

James V. D’Arc was curator of the BYU Motion Picture Archive at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, for 41 years. He lives in Orem, Utah.

This event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190925T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190925T150000 UID:9BB29421-66A6-43CD-AC17-B2E7C1A51C3F SUMMARY:History of Quilting, Part 1 CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1641 DESCRIPTION:Did you know Utah has a rich quilting heritage? Did you know Orem is home to one of the largest quilt guilds in the state? Have you wanted to learn how to piece a top but were afraid to try? Join us for this free 2-part class on Wednesday afternoons where you will learn the basics of quilting and make a quilt top from start to finish. Registration is required and limited to 20 people. Register here: \NQuilt Class, Part 1: bitly.com/oremquilt1\N\NThis event is made possible by Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Did you know Utah has a rich quilting heritage? Did you know Orem is home to one of the largest quilt guilds in the state? Have you wanted to learn how to piece a top but were afraid to try? Join us for this free 2-part class on Wednesday afternoons where you will learn the basics of quilting and make a quilt top from start to finish. Registration is required and limited to 20 people. Register here:
Quilt Class, Part 1: bitly.com/oremquilt1

This event is made possible by Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190925T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190925T000000 UID:E7600AAB-E8F7-4A44-AE46-28BD3FAFA71A SUMMARY:Utah Queer Historical Society welcomes Patrick Califia CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1663 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Queer Historical Society is excited to have Patrick Califia publicly give his oral history at our September Oratory. Patrick is a bisexual trans man who was raised in Utah. After being placed in a Utah psychiatric hospital by his parents in 1971, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, where he joined the all-ex-Mormon staff of The Advocate Gay and Lesbian news magazine. He was the magazine's sex advice columnist for many years. Patrick is also the author of non-fictions works on sexuality, as well as erotic fiction and poetry. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. The September Oratory takes place on Wednesday, September 25, at 6:30 pm at the Utah Pride Center, 1380 South Main St. The event is free.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Queer Historical Society is excited to have Patrick Califia publicly give his oral history at our September Oratory. Patrick is a bisexual trans man who was raised in Utah. After being placed in a Utah psychiatric hospital by his parents in 1971, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, where he joined the all-ex-Mormon staff of The Advocate Gay and Lesbian news magazine. He was the magazine's sex advice columnist for many years. Patrick is also the author of non-fictions works on sexuality, as well as erotic fiction and poetry. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. The September Oratory takes place on Wednesday, September 25, at 6:30 pm at the Utah Pride Center, 1380 South Main St. The event is free.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190925T210000 UID:6150EF5C-3CDD-4C82-9CC5-C1332971EA83 SUMMARY:Mario Chard at City Art CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1594 DESCRIPTION:The City Art Reading Series is pleased to host poets Mario Chard and Danielle Susi at the Special Collections room of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7pm!\N\NMario Chard was born in northern Utah. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University (MFA). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut by Poets & Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.\N\NHis poems and essays have appeared in the The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with various awards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and sons.\N\NDanielle Susi is the author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (dancing girl press, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Knee-Jerk Magazine, Hobart, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her full-length manuscript A River Always Ends at a Mouth, has been selected as a semi-finalist for both the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize at Persea Books and the Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press. She received her MFA in writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find her at daniellesusi.com.\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of City Art Reading Series and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The City Art Reading Series is pleased to host poets Mario Chard and Danielle Susi at the Special Collections room of the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7pm!

Mario Chard was born in northern Utah. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University (MFA). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut by Poets & Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.

His poems and essays have appeared in the The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with various awards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and sons.

Danielle Susi is the author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (dancing girl press, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Knee-Jerk Magazine, Hobart, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her full-length manuscript A River Always Ends at a Mouth, has been selected as a semi-finalist for both the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize at Persea Books and the Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press. She received her MFA in writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find her at daniellesusi.com.

This event is made possible through the support of City Art Reading Series and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190925T000000 UID:C35DCF7C-E1D0-4AAD-9D16-60C1CD1CFEF5 SUMMARY:Bearskin: James A. McLaughlin CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1640 DESCRIPTION:The Summit County Library and the Coalville Book Club is pleased to host James A. McLaughlin, author of the literary thriller Bearskin and winner of the 2019 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. In May 2018, McLaughlin was named one of “4 Writers to Watch This Summer” by the New York Times. Bearskin has been included in Amazon’s Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018, Garden & Gun‘s Best Southern Books of 2018, and Southern Living’s Best Southern Books of the Year 2018, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Publishers Weekly Summer Reads staff pick, and received an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize.\N\NMcLaughlin grew up in the mountains of Virginia and now lives in the mountains of Utah. He holds law and MFA degrees from the University of Virginia. He’s currently working on two novels related to Bearskin and set in Virginia and the American Southwest.\N\NThis event is made possible by the Summit County Library, the Coalville Book Club, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Summit County Library and the Coalville Book Club is pleased to host James A. McLaughlin, author of the literary thriller Bearskin and winner of the 2019 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. In May 2018, McLaughlin was named one of “4 Writers to Watch This Summer” by the New York Times. Bearskin has been included in Amazon’s Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018, Garden & Gun‘s Best Southern Books of 2018, and Southern Living’s Best Southern Books of the Year 2018, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Publishers Weekly Summer Reads staff pick, and received an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize.

McLaughlin grew up in the mountains of Virginia and now lives in the mountains of Utah. He holds law and MFA degrees from the University of Virginia. He’s currently working on two novels related to Bearskin and set in Virginia and the American Southwest.

This event is made possible by the Summit County Library, the Coalville Book Club, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T210000 UID:BA9588D5-49EF-4BAF-9902-BF5F423CBE3F SUMMARY:Paisley Rekdal at Ogden Union Station CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1484 DESCRIPTION:Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal will perform portions of West: A Translation and discuss the research that went into the documentary work at Ogden Union Station on Thursday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. West is Rekdal's new book-length poem about the transcontinental railroad commissioned by the Utah Arts Council and Spike 150.\N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and six books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and Nightingale. She is also the author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Appropriate: A Provocation, a book-length essay examining cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.\N\NHer work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate.\N\NThis event is possible with support from Weber Book Links, Ogden Union Station, The Queen Bee, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal will perform portions of West: A Translation and discuss the research that went into the documentary work at Ogden Union Station on Thursday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. West is Rekdal's new book-length poem about the transcontinental railroad commissioned by the Utah Arts Council and Spike 150.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and six books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and Nightingale. She is also the author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Appropriate: A Provocation, a book-length essay examining cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate.

This event is possible with support from Weber Book Links, Ogden Union Station, The Queen Bee, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T210000 UID:52C3FEA9-57FD-46D5-961C-DEF0880CCFCB SUMMARY:Danielle Dubrasky at Helicon West CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1496 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West welcomes poet Danielle Dubrasky on Thursday, September 26 at 7:00 PM at the Logan Library. \N\NDanielle Beazer Dubrasky’s poetry has been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill&Parchment. She is the author of the chapbook “Ruin and Light” selected by Anabiosis Press and a limited edition art book “Invisible Shores” published through Red Butte Press. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Southern Utah University where she directs an Ecopoetry and Place writing conference. She has conducted poetry writing workshops on Metaphors and Symbolic Landscapes and led writing workshops through the National Parks. The former poetry editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work journal, she has developed a curriculum of poetry writing exercises with a research team to be used in poetry therapy groups.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West welcomes poet Danielle Dubrasky on Thursday, September 26 at 7:00 PM at the Logan Library.

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky’s poetry has been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill&Parchment. She is the author of the chapbook “Ruin and Light” selected by Anabiosis Press and a limited edition art book “Invisible Shores” published through Red Butte Press. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Southern Utah University where she directs an Ecopoetry and Place writing conference. She has conducted poetry writing workshops on Metaphors and Symbolic Landscapes and led writing workshops through the National Parks. The former poetry editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work journal, she has developed a curriculum of poetry writing exercises with a research team to be used in poetry therapy groups.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T210000 UID:DE69BB70-AF7F-4768-8B32-9A38839C7C65 SUMMARY:Mario Chard at Artisans Gallery CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1581 DESCRIPTION:Poet Mario Chard visits Artisans Gallery on Thursday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. Chard is the author of the collection Land of Fire.\N\NMario Chard was born in northern Utah. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University (MFA). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.\N\NHe is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut by Poets & Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.\N\NHis poems and essays have appeared in the The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with various awards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and sons.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Sugar House Review, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Mario Chard visits Artisans Gallery on Thursday, September 26th at 7:00 PM. Chard is the author of the collection Land of Fire.

Mario Chard was born in northern Utah. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University (MFA). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut by Poets & Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.

His poems and essays have appeared in the The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with various awards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and sons.

This event is made possible with support from Sugar House Review, Southern Utah University, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T000000 UID:D4AD645A-3B07-40A1-925D-268623655163 SUMMARY:Brandon Mull at Orem Library CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1592 DESCRIPTION:When Brigham Young summons young Morgan Davis to his office and calls him to join other missionaries in settling the Muddy River Valley (what is now Nevada), Morgan can’t imagine what lies in store. He has just two weeks to find a wife and gather enough belongings to help start a settlement. \N\NAs Morgan and his new bride, Angeline, travel the long trail south in a covered wagon, they fall in love and connect with the other Saints. But the desert location on the Muddy River soon becomes a physical and emotional test for all of them. Together they face difficult requests from Church leaders, multiple failed attempts to settle, deaths of loved ones, and then perhaps the ultimate challenge—polygamy. What do stalwart members do when faced with conflicting instructions from Salt Lake City? Morgan and Angeline are about to find out.\N\NJoin us in welcoming Dean Hughes to the Orem Public Library to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of his new book Muddy. This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:When Brigham Young summons young Morgan Davis to his office and calls him to join other missionaries in settling the Muddy River Valley (what is now Nevada), Morgan can’t imagine what lies in store. He has just two weeks to find a wife and gather enough belongings to help start a settlement.

As Morgan and his new bride, Angeline, travel the long trail south in a covered wagon, they fall in love and connect with the other Saints. But the desert location on the Muddy River soon becomes a physical and emotional test for all of them. Together they face difficult requests from Church leaders, multiple failed attempts to settle, deaths of loved ones, and then perhaps the ultimate challenge—polygamy. What do stalwart members do when faced with conflicting instructions from Salt Lake City? Morgan and Angeline are about to find out.

Join us in welcoming Dean Hughes to the Orem Public Library to read from, answer questions about, and sign copies of his new book Muddy. This event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T000000 UID:DBC58127-3E79-4C84-A2BC-A92CFAAF7106 SUMMARY:Christopher Nelson and Betsy Sholl CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1595 DESCRIPTION:The Anne Sutton Poetry Series is pleased to host Christopher Nelson and Betsy Sholl in the Kim T. Adamson Alumni House at 7pm. \N\NCHRISTOPHER NELSON is the author of Blue House, published in the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Series; Capital City at Midnight, recipient of the 2014 Bloom Chapbook Prize; and Love Song for the New World, published in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series. He is the founder and editor of Green Linden Press and the journal, Under a Warm Green Linden, named by Entropy Magazine as one of the best journals of 2017.\N\NBETSY SHOLL has published nine books of poetry, most recently House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems (2019), winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. Otherwise Unseeable won the 2014 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. From 2006–11 she was Poet Laureate of Maine. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship and two Maine Artists fellowships. She has taught in the writing program at MIT, the University of Southern Maine, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. \N\NThis event is made possible by the support of the Anne Sutton Poetry Series and Westminster College. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Anne Sutton Poetry Series is pleased to host Christopher Nelson and Betsy Sholl in the Kim T. Adamson Alumni House at 7pm.

CHRISTOPHER NELSON is the author of Blue House, published in the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Series; Capital City at Midnight, recipient of the 2014 Bloom Chapbook Prize; and Love Song for the New World, published in the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series. He is the founder and editor of Green Linden Press and the journal, Under a Warm Green Linden, named by Entropy Magazine as one of the best journals of 2017.

BETSY SHOLL has published nine books of poetry, most recently House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems (2019), winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press. Otherwise Unseeable won the 2014 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. From 2006–11 she was Poet Laureate of Maine. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship and two Maine Artists fellowships. She has taught in the writing program at MIT, the University of Southern Maine, and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

This event is made possible by the support of the Anne Sutton Poetry Series and Westminster College. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T000000 UID:3F8C08D0-0705-44E1-8519-B916DC642A81 SUMMARY:Ayja Bounous and Zak Podmore CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1654 DESCRIPTION:Fisher Brewing Co. welcomes Ayja Bounous and Zak Podmore. The writers will do a brief pre-release reading of their upcoming books, followed by a mingle meet-and-greet, in partnership with Save Our Canyons and Patagonia SLC Outlet. Free. Time TBA. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Fisher Brewing Co., Torrey House Press, Save Our Canyons, and Patagonia SLC Outlet. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Fisher Brewing Co. welcomes Ayja Bounous and Zak Podmore. The writers will do a brief pre-release reading of their upcoming books, followed by a mingle meet-and-greet, in partnership with Save Our Canyons and Patagonia SLC Outlet. Free. Time TBA.

This event is made possible with support from Fisher Brewing Co., Torrey House Press, Save Our Canyons, and Patagonia SLC Outlet. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190927T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190927T210000 UID:11C480D5-6B65-429D-862C-E5D5065393B2 SUMMARY:Spit Love Queer Poetry Slam CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1680 DESCRIPTION:Moab Pride is delighted to present Moab's FOURTH annual Spit Love: a queer poetry slam!\N\NThe event will be hosted by the one and only Ashley Finley! Ashley creates visions through her piercing words, both uniting and healing. Ashley uses her platform on stage, and in her workshops to remind these communities that their stories and their voices are powerful and that through unity and passion, they can create change. \N\NSpit Love is a LOVE themed slam. We want to hear you spin stories that show all the shades and ways we hold eachother- platoniclove, sexylove, friendlove, petlove, heartbreaklove, unrequitedlove, foodlove, clichelove... the ellipses is for you to explore! \N\N\NPurrks include:\N- Housing at the Lazy Lizard for Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday evenings, September 26th-29th.\N- We will have dinner provided Friday and Saturday, as well as plenty of snack attacks and left overs.\N-Top three poets have $600 pool of prize money.\N-We will be provided gas money! Carpooling poets from your area will ensure that we can cover you travel expenses and help make critical queer safe spaces in rural Utah! \N\NTo qualify:\N1. You are queer.\N2. You are part of the first 9 poets.\N\N\N\NRegistration:\NRegistration for poets will begin June 1st.\N\NPOETS\N1.Caleb Ferganchick\N2. Lydia Gates\N3. Briana Grace Hammerstrom\N4. Nico Wilkinson\N5. Levi Phillips\N6. Willy Palomo \N\N\NTo register, send an email to moabpridefest@gmail.com subject: Spit Love Registration \N\N*ALL POETS GET A FREE GIFT CARD TO BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS FOR $25*\N\N\NStructure: \NFirst Round (all poets): 1 Minute\NSecond Round (all poets): 2 Minutes\NThird Round (top 5 accumulative score): 3 Minutes\NFinal Round (top three): 3 Minutes \N\NJust email cali.bulmash@gmail.com with any questions! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Moab Pride is delighted to present Moab's FOURTH annual Spit Love: a queer poetry slam!

The event will be hosted by the one and only Ashley Finley! Ashley creates visions through her piercing words, both uniting and healing. Ashley uses her platform on stage, and in her workshops to remind these communities that their stories and their voices are powerful and that through unity and passion, they can create change.

Spit Love is a LOVE themed slam. We want to hear you spin stories that show all the shades and ways we hold eachother- platoniclove, sexylove, friendlove, petlove, heartbreaklove, unrequitedlove, foodlove, clichelove... the ellipses is for you to explore!


Purrks include:
- Housing at the Lazy Lizard for Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday evenings, September 26th-29th.
- We will have dinner provided Friday and Saturday, as well as plenty of snack attacks and left overs.
-Top three poets have $600 pool of prize money.
-We will be provided gas money! Carpooling poets from your area will ensure that we can cover you travel expenses and help make critical queer safe spaces in rural Utah!

To qualify:
1. You are queer.
2. You are part of the first 9 poets.



Registration:
Registration for poets will begin June 1st.

POETS
1.Caleb Ferganchick
2. Lydia Gates
3. Briana Grace Hammerstrom
4. Nico Wilkinson
5. Levi Phillips
6. Willy Palomo


To register, send an email to moabpridefest@gmail.com subject: Spit Love Registration

*ALL POETS GET A FREE GIFT CARD TO BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS FOR $25*


Structure:
First Round (all poets): 1 Minute
Second Round (all poets): 2 Minutes
Third Round (top 5 accumulative score): 3 Minutes
Final Round (top three): 3 Minutes

Just email cali.bulmash@gmail.com with any questions! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190927T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190927T210000 UID:34A90827-7036-4657-87A9-2044B5879BAE SUMMARY:Collectors Book Salon: Curt Bench CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1699 DESCRIPTION:Book-lovers and collectors meet at Weller Book Works Collectors' Book Salons on the last Friday of each month, January through October. Serious and frivolous bibliophiles meet in our Rare Book Department for friendship conversation, edification and bibliolust. We start at 6:30 pm. An invited bibliophile leads the Collectors' Chat about a topic of her or his particular knowledge and passion. And at each salon there is also a special deal on rare books.\N\NOn September 27th, Curt Bench of Benchmark Books will conduct the Collector’s Chat. The topic of his presentation will be 45 Years as a Mormon Bookseller. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book-lovers and collectors meet at Weller Book Works Collectors' Book Salons on the last Friday of each month, January through October. Serious and frivolous bibliophiles meet in our Rare Book Department for friendship conversation, edification and bibliolust. We start at 6:30 pm. An invited bibliophile leads the Collectors' Chat about a topic of her or his particular knowledge and passion. And at each salon there is also a special deal on rare books.

On September 27th, Curt Bench of Benchmark Books will conduct the Collector’s Chat. The topic of his presentation will be 45 Years as a Mormon Bookseller. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190927T203000 UID:64B44319-4C0A-4B40-91C6-916EE26FD02D SUMMARY:Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the Ogden Nature Center CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1479 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links presents authors Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the Ogden Nature Center on Friday, September 27th at 7:00 PM.\N\NIn SUSTAINABILITY: A LOVE STORY, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway, who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels, tsk tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.\N\NThis book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, the would-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. For those who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means to live and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.\N \NWalker's previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. \N\NJulia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it. \N\NIn OUT OF THE WOODS: SEEING NATURE IN THE EVERYDAY-- nonfiction winner of the "Reading the West Book Award" for 2018 -- is a fresh and introspective collection of essays that examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions.  In each story, Julia Corbett delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks. Corbett confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby.\NBy weaving personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research, Out of the Woods leads to surprising insights into the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us all to consider how we might revalue or reimagine our relationships with nature in our everyday lives.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County RAMP, The Ogden Nature Center, The Queen Bee, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links presents authors Nicole Walker and Julia Corbett at the Ogden Nature Center on Friday, September 27th at 7:00 PM.

In SUSTAINABILITY: A LOVE STORY, Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway, who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels, tsk tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony, playfully addressing the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, but not just in nature, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not so moderate drinking habits. With laugh out loud sad-funny moments, and a stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate sense of personal commitment to sustaining our world, and our commitment to sustaining our marriages, our families, our lives, ourselves.

This book is for the burnt-out environmentalist, the lazy environmentalist, the would-be environmentalist. It’s for those who believe the planet is dying. For those who believe they are dying. And for those who question what it means to live and love sustainably, and maybe even with hope.

Walker's previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. Her work has been published in Orion, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Normal School and other places. She curated, with Rebecca Campbell, 7 Artists, 7 Rings—an Artist’s Game of Telephone for the Huffington Post. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a notable essayist in Best American 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and nonfiction winner of Best of the Net in 2013 and 2014, she’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Julia Corbett is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and creative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her academic research investigates science, environmental, and health communication from a cultural and macro-sociological view of social conflict and change. She authored one of the first texts in environmental communication, Communicating Nature: How We Create and Understand Environmental Messages (2006, Island Press). Her second book, Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West, is a memoir about building a cabin and living in the woods in western Wyoming (Spring 2013, University of Utah Press). Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.

In OUT OF THE WOODS: SEEING NATURE IN THE EVERYDAY-- nonfiction winner of the "Reading the West Book Award" for 2018 -- is a fresh and introspective collection of essays that examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions.  In each story, Julia Corbett delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature—insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language—and how we cover our tracks. Corbett confronts the owner of a high-end market who insists on keeping his doors open in all temperatures, and takes us on a trip to a new mall with a replica of a trout stream that once flowed nearby.
By weaving personal narratives with morsels of highly digestible science and research, Out of the Woods leads to surprising insights into the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us all to consider how we might revalue or reimagine our relationships with nature in our everyday lives.

This event was made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County RAMP, The Ogden Nature Center, The Queen Bee, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190928T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190928T000000 UID:EEF433BE-DB76-4920-8E56-5598CFCA4C20 SUMMARY:Field Work Presents Katharine Coles and Vic Bachman CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1598 DESCRIPTION:Former Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and bee keeper and CEO of Deseret Hive Supply, Vic Bachman, will join up to give us bee themed poetry, bee facts, and a closeup look at a bee hive. \N\NThis event is made possible through the support of Field Works: Aligning Poetry and Science, Weber Book Links, Deseret Hive Supply and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Former Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and bee keeper and CEO of Deseret Hive Supply, Vic Bachman, will join up to give us bee themed poetry, bee facts, and a closeup look at a bee hive. 

This event is made possible through the support of Field Works: Aligning Poetry and Science, Weber Book Links, Deseret Hive Supply and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190928T000000 UID:2B25EE7E-6F30-4435-80DC-CD33D87C734F SUMMARY:Ken Babbs at Ken Sanders Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1596 DESCRIPTION:Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to host Ken Babbs in Ken Sanders Rare Books at 7pm. \N\NKen Babbs (born January 14, 1936) is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey wrote the book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur.\N\NThis event is made possible by support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to host Ken Babbs in Ken Sanders Rare Books at 7pm.

Ken Babbs (born January 14, 1936) is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey wrote the book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur.

This event is made possible by support from Ken Sanders Rare Books and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190928T210000 UID:0794EE86-09D6-4D02-9F6B-5A7D0A8AADDA SUMMARY:M.E. Evans Naked (in Italy): A Memoir about the Pitfalls of La Dolce Vita CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1700 DESCRIPTION:At twenty-seven years old, M. E. Evans had just graduated from college, twice,and still had no idea what to do with her life besides frequent strip clubs and fantasize about being a woman known for a sort of vague, unnamed success. But when her plans to become a better version of herself are derailed by the devastating loss of her brother, she moves to Italy no longer for personal growth but for self-preservation. Unfortunately, life in Italy isn’t for everyone. In the irreverent and hilarious Naked (In Italy), Evans tells the story of how she came to Florence for its rolling green hills, cheap Chianti, and sexy Italian men only to realize that personal growth isn’t always rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes it’s falling down, agoraphobia, and a mother-in-law who won’t let go of your thongs. Gritty, poignant, and howlingly funny. Evans’ memoir strips bare the myth of la dolce vita and shows us what it means to be beautifully flawed.\N\NM. E. Evans is an award-winning humor writer known for her dark humor and keen observations of the human condition. She often shares personal stories about family, travel, and her struggle with anxiety and depression. She’s published essays on life abroad, loss, cross-cultural relationships, and friendship in both Italy and the United States. \N\NThe discussion will be followed by a signing.\N\NThis event is made possible by the support of Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:At twenty-seven years old, M. E. Evans had just graduated from college, twice,and still had no idea what to do with her life besides frequent strip clubs and fantasize about being a woman known for a sort of vague, unnamed success. But when her plans to become a better version of herself are derailed by the devastating loss of her brother, she moves to Italy no longer for personal growth but for self-preservation. Unfortunately, life in Italy isn’t for everyone. In the irreverent and hilarious Naked (In Italy), Evans tells the story of how she came to Florence for its rolling green hills, cheap Chianti, and sexy Italian men only to realize that personal growth isn’t always rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes it’s falling down, agoraphobia, and a mother-in-law who won’t let go of your thongs. Gritty, poignant, and howlingly funny. Evans’ memoir strips bare the myth of la dolce vita and shows us what it means to be beautifully flawed.

M. E. Evans is an award-winning humor writer known for her dark humor and keen observations of the human condition. She often shares personal stories about family, travel, and her struggle with anxiety and depression. She’s published essays on life abroad, loss, cross-cultural relationships, and friendship in both Italy and the United States.

The discussion will be followed by a signing.

This event is made possible by the support of Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190930T000000 UID:19F0941E-5C53-43F0-AA75-D2F33F8BA190 SUMMARY:Moon's Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1642 DESCRIPTION:If you are a book lover, don’t miss this presentation by Reid Moon of Moon’s Rare Books, a collection of rare and antique documents which have contributed to Mormon and Utah history. He will be sharing some rare treasures from his bookshop in the Riverwoods, as well as some fun stories about collecting old and rare books. \N\NThis event is made possible through the support of Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:If you are a book lover, don’t miss this presentation by Reid Moon of Moon’s Rare Books, a collection of rare and antique documents which have contributed to Mormon and Utah history. He will be sharing some rare treasures from his bookshop in the Riverwoods, as well as some fun stories about collecting old and rare books. 

This event is made possible through the support of Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191001T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191001T000000 UID:C6DC7112-F979-4620-A90E-75FC71D9129D SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Workshop: Inspired CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1667 DESCRIPTION:The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Persona Poems. A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using the imagined voice of another person, place, or thing. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\Nhttps://rockcanyonpoets.com/2019/08/31/inspired-a-free-community-poetry-writing-workshop-sign-up-soon-space-is-limited-2/\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Persona Poems. A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using the imagined voice of another person, place, or thing. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

https://rockcanyonpoets.com/2019/08/31/inspired-a-free-community-poetry-writing-workshop-sign-up-soon-space-is-limited-2/

This event is made possible through the support of Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191001T210000 UID:0E609579-9509-4B0D-B177-D9DF783C5FE6 SUMMARY:Ben Behunin visits the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1536 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links welcomes author and potter Ben Behunin to the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00 PM. \N\NBen Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.\N\NIn 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. He has published six books since, including The Disciple of the Wind and Authentically Ruby. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links welcomes author and potter Ben Behunin to the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00 PM.

Ben Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24 year long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such at Idaho, North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies.

In 2009, after nearly twelve years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. This was followed by Discovering Isaac later in 2009 and Becoming Isaac in 2010. He has published six books since, including The Disciple of the Wind and Authentically Ruby.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191001T000000 UID:CFC7EC0C-C028-4BB8-AA4E-5158D59FAB69 SUMMARY:Seasons Panel Discussion CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1655 DESCRIPTION:Ken Sanders Rare Books welcomes the Seasons panel discussion. Moderated by Jeff McCarthy (U of U Environmental Humanities [EH] program), the Seasons panel features authors Ann Walka (Waterlines and Walking the Unknown River) and Karin Anderson (Before Us Like a Land of Dreams), with live readings from Seasons by current graduate students in the Environmental Humanities program of the University of Utah. Free. \N\NThis event is made possible by the University of Utah Environmental Humanities Program, Torrey House Press, and Ken Sanders Rare Books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ken Sanders Rare Books welcomes the Seasons panel discussion. Moderated by Jeff McCarthy (U of U Environmental Humanities [EH] program), the Seasons panel features authors Ann Walka (Waterlines and Walking the Unknown River) and Karin Anderson (Before Us Like a Land of Dreams), with live readings from Seasons by current graduate students in the Environmental Humanities program of the University of Utah. Free.

This event is made possible by the University of Utah Environmental Humanities Program, Torrey House Press, and Ken Sanders Rare Books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191002T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191002T150000 UID:FFACD944-C187-4823-9CD5-04E2705DBEAE SUMMARY:History of Quilting, Part 2 CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1643 DESCRIPTION:Today we put it all together and learn how to bind your quilt, along with some machine quilting techniques for your home machine. Build on your new skills and check out some fun quilting books in the 746s from the library. Registration is required and limited to 20 people. Register here: \N\NQuilt Class, Part 2: bitly.com/oremquilt2\N\NThis event is made possible by Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Today we put it all together and learn how to bind your quilt, along with some machine quilting techniques for your home machine. Build on your new skills and check out some fun quilting books in the 746s from the library. Registration is required and limited to 20 people. Register here:

Quilt Class, Part 2: bitly.com/oremquilt2

This event is made possible by Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191002T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191002T000000 UID:DE6F1ACF-A5BC-4BCE-B369-5BA9B3FF479D SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Awards in Non-fiction CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1690 DESCRIPTION:Artists of Utah presents the 15 Bytes Book Award for Non-fiction. This year's finalists are Tessa Fontaine, Katharine Coles, and Tara Westover. Katharine Coles and Tessa Fontaine will read together for the event. \N\NTessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman is the chance to rehearse death, to understand our fears by following them. Through loss and streets filled with souped-up Ford trucks, she is here and not here, charmed by the idea of a carnival. In between boxes and shared legs, she is on stage looking into Pandora’s eyes, pushing despite the thick, muscled body, a snake caught in her hair. In the midst of lost fathers and photographed daughters, here are the people putting another child safely on the Ferris wheel, secrets and sweat spilling onto the machine.\N\NKatharine Coles’ Look Both Ways, an absorbing story of two marriages lived lifetimes apart that mirror each other in ways unfailingly involving, is a combined memoir and biographical family history that lacks neither imagination nor vibrant poetic passages.\N\NBorn from torn metal, broken glass, and gasoline in the shadow of a Judgment Day patriarch, Tara Westover weaves a story that recounts her rise from harrowing obscurity in rural Idaho to decorated Gates Cambridge Scholar. Westover’s New York Times Bestselling memoir, Educated, tells of her upbringing in an evangelical Mormon family where learning is only prized if it is from the Bible, Book of Mormon, or her own father’s musings.\N\NThis event is made possible by Artists of Utah 15 Bytes, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artists of Utah presents the 15 Bytes Book Award for Non-fiction. This year's finalists are Tessa Fontaine, Katharine Coles, and Tara Westover. Katharine Coles and Tessa Fontaine will read together for the event.

Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman is the chance to rehearse death, to understand our fears by following them. Through loss and streets filled with souped-up Ford trucks, she is here and not here, charmed by the idea of a carnival. In between boxes and shared legs, she is on stage looking into Pandora’s eyes, pushing despite the thick, muscled body, a snake caught in her hair. In the midst of lost fathers and photographed daughters, here are the people putting another child safely on the Ferris wheel, secrets and sweat spilling onto the machine.

Katharine Coles’ Look Both Ways, an absorbing story of two marriages lived lifetimes apart that mirror each other in ways unfailingly involving, is a combined memoir and biographical family history that lacks neither imagination nor vibrant poetic passages.

Born from torn metal, broken glass, and gasoline in the shadow of a Judgment Day patriarch, Tara Westover weaves a story that recounts her rise from harrowing obscurity in rural Idaho to decorated Gates Cambridge Scholar. Westover’s New York Times Bestselling memoir, Educated, tells of her upbringing in an evangelical Mormon family where learning is only prized if it is from the Bible, Book of Mormon, or her own father’s musings.

This event is made possible by Artists of Utah 15 Bytes, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191002T000000 UID:319274A7-626A-46DA-99D4-572426CA46F4 SUMMARY:Craig Childs CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1578 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press and The King's English are happy to present Virga & Bone by Craig Childs alongside illustrator Claire Taylor. From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, the King's English Bookshop, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press and The King's English are happy to present Virga & Bone by Craig Childs alongside illustrator Claire Taylor. From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, the King's English Bookshop, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191002T210000 UID:3EE13C14-A26D-4901-8387-31005AA0888E SUMMARY: City Art Reading Series CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1584 DESCRIPTION:City Art is pleased to welcome the fiction faculty of the University of Utah's Creative Writing program on Wednesday, October 2nd at 7:00 pm in the 4th floor conference room of the City Library. Lance Olsen, Lindsey Drager, and Michael Mejia will read from their new work. \N\NLance Olsen's short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Village Voice, Time Out New York, BOMB, Gulf Coast, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Olsen is a Guggenheim and an N.E.A. fellowship recipient; winner of the Berlin Prize, Berlin Artist-in-Residence grant, and a Pushcart; and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Finnish, and Portuguese. He has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, on summer- and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Finland, at various writing conferences, and elsewhere. Olsen currently teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities.\N\NLindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award, and The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award and finalist for at Lambda Literary Award, and The Archive of Alternate Endings, which is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. She was an assistant professor at the College of Charleston and recently joined the creative writing faculty at the University of Utah. \N\NMichael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife and their Jack Russell Terrier.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities. \N\N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art is pleased to welcome the fiction faculty of the University of Utah's Creative Writing program on Wednesday, October 2nd at 7:00 pm in the 4th floor conference room of the City Library. Lance Olsen, Lindsey Drager, and Michael Mejia will read from their new work.

Lance Olsen's short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Village Voice, Time Out New York, BOMB, Gulf Coast, McSweeney's, and Best American Non-Required Reading. Olsen is a Guggenheim and an N.E.A. fellowship recipient; winner of the Berlin Prize, Berlin Artist-in-Residence grant, and a Pushcart; and former governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence. His novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Finnish, and Portuguese. He has taught at the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, on summer- and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Finland, at various writing conferences, and elsewhere. Olsen currently teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two; founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities.

Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award, and The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), winner of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award and finalist for at Lambda Literary Award, and The Archive of Alternate Endings, which is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. She was an assistant professor at the College of Charleston and recently joined the creative writing faculty at the University of Utah.

Michael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife and their Jack Russell Terrier.

This event is made possible with support from City Art and Utah Humanities.



X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191007 UID:806DB3C4-6E52-4F8B-AD9F-15098DD65872 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1481 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the top writers in the nation. This year we are excited to announce that the 1995-1997 US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass will join us. Utah’s 1st Poet Laureate, David Lee will make his usual appearance and contributions. Our third writer is local favorite from over the mountain, Chip Ward.\N\NDon’t forget to make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room. \N\NRobert Hass' books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press, 2010); Time and Materials (2007), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco Press, 1996), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Human Wishes (Ecco Press, 1989); Praise (Ecco Press, 1979), which won the William Carlos Williams Award; and Field Guide (Yale University Press, 1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Most recently, he received the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry by the Academy of American Poets. Hass served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and is Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley.\N\NAfter living for four years in wilderness, CHIP WARD moved to the edge of Utah’s West Desert, an environmental sacrifice zone, where he organized and led several campaigns to make polluters accountable. He co-founded of HEAL Utah and served on the board of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance for several years. Starting as a bookmobile librarian, Ward ended his library career as the Assistant Director of the Salt Lake City Public Library. His books Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope’s Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land describe his political adventures. He is also the author of the novel Stony Mesa Sagas. He is a regular contributor to Tomdispatch.com and his essays on conservation have appeared widely across the web. An essay about homelessness, “How the Public Library Became the Heartbreak Hotel,” is the inspiration for the movie The Public now in production. As a spokesperson for environmental causes, he has been interviewed by CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC, and more. He lives in Torrey, Utah.\N\NBorn in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah. \N\NConference Schedule (Readings are free and open to the public):\N\NReading by David Lee – Kiva Koffeehouse on Thursday, 10/3 6pm\NParticipant Introductions – Community Center on Friday, 10/4 9am\NHomework Sharing & New Assn. – Community Center on Friday, 10/4 10:30\NWorkshop by Robert Hass – Community Center on Friday, 10/4 1pm\NReading by Chip Ward – Boulder Mtn. Guest Ranch on Friday, 10/4 6pm\NWorkshop by Robert Hass – Community Center on Saturday, 10/5 9am\NWorkshop by Chip Ward – Community Center on Saturday, 10/5 1pm\NReading by Robert Hass – Community Center on Saturday, 10/5 6pm\NWorkshop by Chip Ward – Community Center on Sunday, 10/6 9am\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the best little writing conferences in the west taught by some of the top writers in the nation. This year we are excited to announce that the 1995-1997 US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass will join us. Utah’s 1st Poet Laureate, David Lee will make his usual appearance and contributions. Our third writer is local favorite from over the mountain, Chip Ward.

Don’t forget to make room reservations as soon as possible. This is a busy and beautiful time in Boulder and rooms are limited. Pole’s Place (435-335-7422) holds rooms for the conference but you must tell Camille you are part of the conference to get a room.

Robert Hass' books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press, 2010); Time and Materials (2007), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco Press, 1996), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Human Wishes (Ecco Press, 1989); Praise (Ecco Press, 1979), which won the William Carlos Williams Award; and Field Guide (Yale University Press, 1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Most recently, he received the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry by the Academy of American Poets. Hass served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and is Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley.

After living for four years in wilderness, CHIP WARD moved to the edge of Utah’s West Desert, an environmental sacrifice zone, where he organized and led several campaigns to make polluters accountable. He co-founded of HEAL Utah and served on the board of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance for several years. Starting as a bookmobile librarian, Ward ended his library career as the Assistant Director of the Salt Lake City Public Library. His books Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope’s Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land describe his political adventures. He is also the author of the novel Stony Mesa Sagas. He is a regular contributor to Tomdispatch.com and his essays on conservation have appeared widely across the web. An essay about homelessness, “How the Public Library Became the Heartbreak Hotel,” is the inspiration for the movie The Public now in production. As a spokesperson for environmental causes, he has been interviewed by CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC, and more. He lives in Torrey, Utah.

Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah.

Conference Schedule (Readings are free and open to the public):

Reading by David Lee – Kiva Koffeehouse on Thursday, 10/3 6pm
Participant Introductions – Community Center on Friday, 10/4 9am
Homework Sharing & New Assn. – Community Center on Friday, 10/4 10:30
Workshop by Robert Hass – Community Center on Friday, 10/4 1pm
Reading by Chip Ward – Boulder Mtn. Guest Ranch on Friday, 10/4 6pm
Workshop by Robert Hass – Community Center on Saturday, 10/5 9am
Workshop by Chip Ward – Community Center on Saturday, 10/5 1pm
Reading by Robert Hass – Community Center on Saturday, 10/5 6pm
Workshop by Chip Ward – Community Center on Sunday, 10/6 9am

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:C49155A5-DB26-4FA1-A1BB-D71A40802889 SUMMARY:Vijay Bupta CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1610 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Center welcomes Vijay Gupta to deliver the 2019 Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values on October 3rd at 11:30 am in the Gilbert Great Hall.\N\NVijay Gupta is a violinist and social justice advocate providing musical enrichment and valuable human connection to the homeless, incarcerated, and other under-resourced communities in Los Angeles. After joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a young violinist, Gupta began to give lessons to Nathaniel Ayers, a Juilliard-trained musician whose mental illness led to homelessness. This experience motivated him to play for the homeless and mentally ill living on Skid Row and to co-found the not-for-profit Street Symphony.\N\NStreet Symphony harnesses the power of the arts to foster social connection and support. Gupta and Street Symphony present regular monthly programs of live musical performances at shelters, county jails, and treatment and transitional housing facilities. Street Symphony also offers musical education through workshops and its recently launched Fellows Program, which pairs emerging artists from local universities with talented individuals from Skid Row for a year-long instruction program. Gupta’s model of outreach to marginalized individuals in places that offer other social services and his strategy of generating musical projects through extended engagement and by forging interpersonal relationships has begun to inspire other performing groups in the Los Angeles area to be more socially conscious.\N\NVijay Gupta received a B.S. (2005) from Marist College and an M.M. (2007) from Yale University. He joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2007, where he is currently the Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell First Violin Chair. He has served as co-founder and artistic director of Street Symphony since 2011; he is also a faculty member of the Longy School of Music of the Bard College Masters of Arts in Teaching Program and the Colburn School. He has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestras among others, and as a guest concertmaster with the LA Opera and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. Gupta has also performed as a recitalist and chamber musician on an international scale since the age of eight.\N\NThis event is made possible by the Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Center welcomes Vijay Gupta to deliver the 2019 Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values on October 3rd at 11:30 am in the Gilbert Great Hall.

Vijay Gupta is a violinist and social justice advocate providing musical enrichment and valuable human connection to the homeless, incarcerated, and other under-resourced communities in Los Angeles. After joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a young violinist, Gupta began to give lessons to Nathaniel Ayers, a Juilliard-trained musician whose mental illness led to homelessness. This experience motivated him to play for the homeless and mentally ill living on Skid Row and to co-found the not-for-profit Street Symphony.

Street Symphony harnesses the power of the arts to foster social connection and support. Gupta and Street Symphony present regular monthly programs of live musical performances at shelters, county jails, and treatment and transitional housing facilities. Street Symphony also offers musical education through workshops and its recently launched Fellows Program, which pairs emerging artists from local universities with talented individuals from Skid Row for a year-long instruction program. Gupta’s model of outreach to marginalized individuals in places that offer other social services and his strategy of generating musical projects through extended engagement and by forging interpersonal relationships has begun to inspire other performing groups in the Los Angeles area to be more socially conscious.

Vijay Gupta received a B.S. (2005) from Marist College and an M.M. (2007) from Yale University. He joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2007, where he is currently the Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell First Violin Chair. He has served as co-founder and artistic director of Street Symphony since 2011; he is also a faculty member of the Longy School of Music of the Bard College Masters of Arts in Teaching Program and the Colburn School. He has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestras among others, and as a guest concertmaster with the LA Opera and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. Gupta has also performed as a recitalist and chamber musician on an international scale since the age of eight.

This event is made possible by the Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T160000 UID:943D1A51-CC89-470D-A733-6BD8C5018169 SUMMARY:Erika Casasola CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1704 DESCRIPTION:The Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University welcomes Curandera Erika Casasola for a three-part event on Curanderismo and Native American healing. \N\NFind Curandera Erika Casasola on Thursday Oct. 3 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Fountain Amphitheater for a conversation traditional Latinx healing. \N\NFind Shivwits Band Chairwoman Carmen Clark on Friday, Oct. 4 from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM in the Gardner Conference Room B for conversation on Native American Healing. \N\NFind Glenn Rogers of the Shivwits Band on Saturday Oct. 5 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM on the Chuckwalla Trailhead for a native plant identification hike. \N\NThese events are made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, Conserve Southwest Utah, and the Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University welcomes Curandera Erika Casasola for a three-part event on Curanderismo and Native American healing.

Find Curandera Erika Casasola on Thursday Oct. 3 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Fountain Amphitheater for a conversation traditional Latinx healing.

Find Shivwits Band Chairwoman Carmen Clark on Friday, Oct. 4 from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM in the Gardner Conference Room B for conversation on Native American Healing.

Find Glenn Rogers of the Shivwits Band on Saturday Oct. 5 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM on the Chuckwalla Trailhead for a native plant identification hike.

These events are made possible with the support of Utah Humanities, Conserve Southwest Utah, and the Multicultural and Inclusion Center at Dixie State University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T200000 UID:97CCBDBB-EC4A-4BB0-8B3C-EBDEF3C7E2A7 SUMMARY:David Lee at the Kiva Koffeehouse CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1515 DESCRIPTION:Poet Dave Lee visits Kiva Koffeehouse as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference on October 3rd at 6:00 PM. \N\NBorn in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Koffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet Dave Lee visits Kiva Koffeehouse as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference on October 3rd at 6:00 PM.

Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest. Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation, Kiva Koffeehouse, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:E3A280D4-D169-4AA1-A75D-E76C1085B8BB SUMMARY:Best Books for Book Clubs Discussion CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1671 DESCRIPTION:Learn how to choose thought provoking titles for your book club on topics sure to spark lively discussion. Professional librarians will help you catch up on the best books published this year and become acquainted with great discussion guide resources.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber County Library System, Weber Book Links, Utah Humanities and The Queen Bee!\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn how to choose thought provoking titles for your book club on topics sure to spark lively discussion. Professional librarians will help you catch up on the best books published this year and become acquainted with great discussion guide resources.

This event is made possible with support from Weber County Library System, Weber Book Links, Utah Humanities and The Queen Bee!

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:333DDD90-2610-499F-9D9A-CBF3D5926CDA SUMMARY:Rita Wright and Orem's Art Collection CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1644 DESCRIPTION:Did you know the Orem Library houses a beautiful art collection of over 200 items? Learn more about the art pieces in the library and the remarkable artists who created them from Rita Wright, director of the Springville Museum of Art.\N\NThis event is made possible by support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Did you know the Orem Library houses a beautiful art collection of over 200 items? Learn more about the art pieces in the library and the remarkable artists who created them from Rita Wright, director of the Springville Museum of Art.

This event is made possible by support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:67208413-5F6B-4A1C-8026-1594BF7ADD4A SUMMARY:Provo Library presents Erin Stewart CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1658 DESCRIPTION:Provo Library hosts debut YA author, Erin Stewart on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM.\N\NAva Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her.\N\NA year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends--no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever.\N\NBut when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone. Sarcastic and blunt, Piper isn't afraid to push Ava out of her comfort zone. Piper introduces Ava to Asad, a boy who loves theater just as much as she does, and slowly, Ava tries to create a life again. Yet Piper is fighting her own battle, and soon Ava must decide if she's going to fade back into her scars . . . or let the people by her side help her fly.\N\NErin Stewart grew up in the woods of Virginia catching fireflies. She now makes her home in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains with her husband and their three children. Erin loves using her background in journalism to research and write fiction based on real life. A heart failure survivor and adoptive mother, she believes life throws plot twists and people in our path for a reason--always. Scars Like Wings is her debut novel. Visit Erin online at erinstewartbooks.com and follow @Erin_N_Stewart on Twitter and Instagram.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Provo Library, The King's English Bookshop, and Willy Palomo X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Provo Library hosts debut YA author, Erin Stewart on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:00 PM.

Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her.

A year after the fire that destroyed her world, her aunt and uncle have decided she should go back to high school. Be "normal" again. Whatever that is. Ava knows better. There is no normal for someone like her. And forget making friends--no one wants to be seen with the Burned Girl, now or ever.

But when Ava meets a fellow survivor named Piper, she begins to feel like maybe she doesn't have to face the nightmare alone. Sarcastic and blunt, Piper isn't afraid to push Ava out of her comfort zone. Piper introduces Ava to Asad, a boy who loves theater just as much as she does, and slowly, Ava tries to create a life again. Yet Piper is fighting her own battle, and soon Ava must decide if she's going to fade back into her scars . . . or let the people by her side help her fly.

Erin Stewart grew up in the woods of Virginia catching fireflies. She now makes her home in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains with her husband and their three children. Erin loves using her background in journalism to research and write fiction based on real life. A heart failure survivor and adoptive mother, she believes life throws plot twists and people in our path for a reason--always. Scars Like Wings is her debut novel. Visit Erin online at erinstewartbooks.com and follow @Erin_N_Stewart on Twitter and Instagram.

This event is made possible with support from Provo Library, The King's English Bookshop, and Willy Palomo X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:F89B52AC-E699-4657-ACC8-0A5C2873F894 SUMMARY:Bears Ears Education Center presents Zak Podmore CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1659 DESCRIPTION:Bears Ears Education Center welcomes Zak Podmore to launch his new book. In CONFLUENCE: NAVIGATING THE PERSONAL & POLITICAL ON RIVERS OF THE NEW WEST, paddler and journalist Zak Podmore takes readers down Western rivers and deep into some of the most pressing environmental and social justice issues of our time, including uranium tailings on the Ute Mountain Ute lands near the San Juan River, the treatment of asylum-seekers crossing the Rio Grande, and one of the largest dam removal projects in history on Washington’s Elwha River. Moving and provocative, CONFLUENCE follows in the tradition of Thoreau or Edward Abbey — it takes us into the wild but always has one eye turned back toward the blessings and ills of civilization.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Bears Ears Education Center, Friends of Cedar Mesa, and Torrey House Press. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bears Ears Education Center welcomes Zak Podmore to launch his new book. In CONFLUENCE: NAVIGATING THE PERSONAL & POLITICAL ON RIVERS OF THE NEW WEST, paddler and journalist Zak Podmore takes readers down Western rivers and deep into some of the most pressing environmental and social justice issues of our time, including uranium tailings on the Ute Mountain Ute lands near the San Juan River, the treatment of asylum-seekers crossing the Rio Grande, and one of the largest dam removal projects in history on Washington’s Elwha River. Moving and provocative, CONFLUENCE follows in the tradition of Thoreau or Edward Abbey — it takes us into the wild but always has one eye turned back toward the blessings and ills of civilization.

This event is made possible with support from the Bears Ears Education Center, Friends of Cedar Mesa, and Torrey House Press. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:4E8DE4CF-2989-40C2-AA38-C45C748D1B9C SUMMARY:Back of Beyond welcomes Scott Graham and Chuck Greaves CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1660 DESCRIPTION:Back of Beyond Books welcomes Scott Graham and Chuck Greaves. \N\NIn Scott Graham's ARCHES ENEMY, a famed sandstone arch in the park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkey-wrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle Ortega race to uncover the killer even as they become murder targets themselves.\N\NOf Chuck Greaves' CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS, Publisher's Weekly writes, "The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel from Greaves (Hard Twisted). Elaborate and poetic descriptions of Cortez, Colo., dictate an unhurried pace and reflect the core of the novel. Addie Decker left the town for college in Los Angeles and fell in love with museums and classical music and academia, none of which she had been exposed to back home. She never really wanted to return, having fallen in love with L.A., but she goes back for the funeral of her grandmother Vivian. Addie brings her laid-back lover Bradley Sommers, who heads the university’s Center for Climate Change and has never seen the rugged West. Two complications make Addie’s plan of a quick visit problematic: she has inherited Vivian’s beloved Red Rocks Ranch, and the reportedly nefarious Archer-Mason corporation has designs on the entire region and wants to acquire Red Rocks. These developments raise the stakes but don’t obscure the novel’s central question: can one go home again? Greaves explores this question with both passion and compassion, taking readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West." \N\NThis event is made possible by Torrey House Press and Back of Beyond. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Back of Beyond Books welcomes Scott Graham and Chuck Greaves.

In Scott Graham's ARCHES ENEMY, a famed sandstone arch in the park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkey-wrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle Ortega race to uncover the killer even as they become murder targets themselves.

Of Chuck Greaves' CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS, Publisher's Weekly writes, "The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel from Greaves (Hard Twisted). Elaborate and poetic descriptions of Cortez, Colo., dictate an unhurried pace and reflect the core of the novel. Addie Decker left the town for college in Los Angeles and fell in love with museums and classical music and academia, none of which she had been exposed to back home. She never really wanted to return, having fallen in love with L.A., but she goes back for the funeral of her grandmother Vivian. Addie brings her laid-back lover Bradley Sommers, who heads the university’s Center for Climate Change and has never seen the rugged West. Two complications make Addie’s plan of a quick visit problematic: she has inherited Vivian’s beloved Red Rocks Ranch, and the reportedly nefarious Archer-Mason corporation has designs on the entire region and wants to acquire Red Rocks. These developments raise the stakes but don’t obscure the novel’s central question: can one go home again? Greaves explores this question with both passion and compassion, taking readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West."

This event is made possible by Torrey House Press and Back of Beyond. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T000000 UID:F980A5D5-E410-45C0-BF7C-3865EC2CC8A5 SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Award in Fiction Reading, Book Signing, and Celebration. CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1691 DESCRIPTION:Artists of Utah presents the 15 Bytes Book Award for Non-fiction. This year's book award winner will read alongside finalists George B. Handley and Michael Mejia. \N\NIn his debut novel Bearskin, James McLaughlin employs vivid descriptions, expansive setting, and multiple layers of plot to draw the reader into an adventure that is not soon forgotten. Bearskin is a mystery set in the rural wilderness of a game preserve in the mountains of western Virginia where Rice Moore must sacrifice the safety of his solitude to investigate the poaching of several bears on the preserve.\N\NIn American Fork, author George Handley illustrates the relationships between people, locations, and philosophies that we might not otherwise recognize as being connected (like botanty, the culture of Utah County and the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile). This story urges the reader to remain true to personal convictions, but also challenges us to consider truths that may be beyond our own experience\N\NMichael Mejia’s second novel Tokyo is an inventive work that requires — and rewards — rereadings. Flush with references to the Japanese literary tradition and contemporary history, the novel is built up with intertwining narratives that blur and transform the lines between themselves and between the fantastic and the realistic. Within this dense, polyphonic tapestry, the novel explores gender fluidity, cultural and ethnic identity, and the societal and environmental dangers of late capitalism. \N\NThis event is made possible by Artists of Utah 15 Bytes, Finch Lane Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artists of Utah presents the 15 Bytes Book Award for Non-fiction. This year's book award winner will read alongside finalists George B. Handley and Michael Mejia.

In his debut novel Bearskin, James McLaughlin employs vivid descriptions, expansive setting, and multiple layers of plot to draw the reader into an adventure that is not soon forgotten. Bearskin is a mystery set in the rural wilderness of a game preserve in the mountains of western Virginia where Rice Moore must sacrifice the safety of his solitude to investigate the poaching of several bears on the preserve.

In American Fork, author George Handley illustrates the relationships between people, locations, and philosophies that we might not otherwise recognize as being connected (like botanty, the culture of Utah County and the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile). This story urges the reader to remain true to personal convictions, but also challenges us to consider truths that may be beyond our own experience

Michael Mejia’s second novel Tokyo is an inventive work that requires — and rewards — rereadings. Flush with references to the Japanese literary tradition and contemporary history, the novel is built up with intertwining narratives that blur and transform the lines between themselves and between the fantastic and the realistic. Within this dense, polyphonic tapestry, the novel explores gender fluidity, cultural and ethnic identity, and the societal and environmental dangers of late capitalism.

This event is made possible by Artists of Utah 15 Bytes, Finch Lane Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T200000 UID:BC40BD4F-945F-4885-9826-F5F381E8F33E SUMMARY:Chip Ward at the Boulder Community Center CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1611 DESCRIPTION:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is pleased to present an evening with Chip Ward on October 4th at 6:00 PM in the Boulder Community Center.\N\NChip Ward spent four years living in the redrock wilderness of southern Utah while running a guest ranch in Capitol Reef National Park where he learned formative lessons about how we are embedded in the natural world.He co-founded Families Against Incinerator Risk (FAIR) and the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL Utah). He also served for several years on the board of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.\N\NHis first two books, "Canaries on the Rim" and "Hope's Horizon" describe his political adventures as a grassroots organizer, activist, and advocate. For several years he has been a regular contributor to Tomdispatch.com. Author Rebecca Solnit has called him "one of the most acute environmental thinkers of our time." He has been interviewed widely by the likes of CNN, NPR, CBS, BBC, and more.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is pleased to present an evening with Chip Ward on October 4th at 6:00 PM in the Boulder Community Center.

Chip Ward spent four years living in the redrock wilderness of southern Utah while running a guest ranch in Capitol Reef National Park where he learned formative lessons about how we are embedded in the natural world.He co-founded Families Against Incinerator Risk (FAIR) and the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL Utah). He also served for several years on the board of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

His first two books, "Canaries on the Rim" and "Hope's Horizon" describe his political adventures as a grassroots organizer, activist, and advocate. For several years he has been a regular contributor to Tomdispatch.com. Author Rebecca Solnit has called him "one of the most acute environmental thinkers of our time." He has been interviewed widely by the likes of CNN, NPR, CBS, BBC, and more.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T000000 UID:7F8BEBCF-CDC1-4C7C-972B-D15E0A770768 SUMMARY:Erin Stewart at Orem Public Library CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1645 DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host BYU graduate Erin Stewart for the launch of her first YA book, Scars Like Wings. Stewart will be in conversation with Orem local Crystal Smith, author of Bloodleaf. \N\NIn Scars Like Wings, high school student Ava loses everything in a fire, including her face. When she goes back to school, will Ava’s scars determine who she is or will her real self shine through?\N\NIn BloodLeaf, Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life?\N\NBooks will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We are excited to host BYU graduate Erin Stewart for the launch of her first YA book, Scars Like Wings. Stewart will be in conversation with Orem local Crystal Smith, author of Bloodleaf.

In Scars Like Wings, high school student Ava loses everything in a fire, including her face. When she goes back to school, will Ava’s scars determine who she is or will her real self shine through?

In BloodLeaf, Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life?

Books will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T000000 UID:E7C65389-9B20-4B50-B158-431FEB148D1F SUMMARY:The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1703 DESCRIPTION:Westminster College and the Utah Chapter of the Fulbright Association present Hikmet Loe and her book The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place. You can find us in the Multipurpose room of the Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center of Westminster College campus. \N\NFree parking in Garages. Refreshments and book sale. \N\NThis event is made possible by Westminster College and the Utah Chapter of the Fulbright Association. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster College and the Utah Chapter of the Fulbright Association present Hikmet Loe and her book The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place. You can find us in the Multipurpose room of the Health, Wellness, and Athletic Center of Westminster College campus.

Free parking in Garages. Refreshments and book sale.

This event is made possible by Westminster College and the Utah Chapter of the Fulbright Association.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191005T200000 UID:E29CB83F-DA2A-4929-B9A4-E515061D79E9 SUMMARY:Robert Hass at the Boulder Community Center CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1489 DESCRIPTION:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is pleased to present an evening with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass on October 5th at 6:00 PM in the Boulder Community Center.\N\NRobert Hass' books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press, 2010); Time and Materials (2007), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco Press, 1996), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Human Wishes (Ecco Press, 1989); Praise (Ecco Press, 1979), which won the William Carlos Williams Award; and Field Guide (Yale University Press, 1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series.\N\NHass has also cotranslated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most recently Facing the River (Ecco Press, 1995), and is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translation, including What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World (Ecco Press, 2012); The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (Ecco Press, 1994); and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (Ecco Press, 1984).\N\NMost recently, he received the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry by the Academy of American Poets. Hass served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and is Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is pleased to present an evening with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass on October 5th at 6:00 PM in the Boulder Community Center.

Robert Hass' books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems (Ecco Press, 2010); Time and Materials (2007), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; Sun Under Wood: New Poems (Ecco Press, 1996), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Human Wishes (Ecco Press, 1989); Praise (Ecco Press, 1979), which won the William Carlos Williams Award; and Field Guide (Yale University Press, 1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series.

Hass has also cotranslated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most recently Facing the River (Ecco Press, 1995), and is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translation, including What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World (Ecco Press, 2012); The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (Ecco Press, 1994); and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (Ecco Press, 1984).

Most recently, he received the 2014 Wallace Stevens Award for proven mastery in the art of poetry by the Academy of American Poets. Hass served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and is Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley.

This event is made possible with support from the Boulder Heritage Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191005T220000 UID:DE3E31E7-6DAB-4504-9B8C-C82B8DB752C5 SUMMARY:Literary Death Match CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1612 DESCRIPTION:Literary Death Match, hosted my Adrian Todd Zuniga, is coming to Ogden, Utah, for the very first time. The event pits writers against writers in a fun, intelligent, and poetic way! This years line up includes contestants Laura Stott, Jake Alvey, David Lindes, and Jan Bottiglieri and judges Kara van de Graaf, Molly Gaudry, and Amir Jackson. It’s a fun, exciting night! Join us at Good Company Theater on October 5, 2019 for entertaining evening.\N\NContestants: \N\NDavid Lindes is a writer, singer-songwriter, and producer. His work has been featured on PRI's The World and NPR. Born in Guatemala City, he immigrated to the United States at age 9 and spent his adolescence in the agricultural communities of California’s Central Coast. He later graduated in Latin American Studies from Brigham Young University. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and four kids. \N\NLaura Stott is the author of the book of poems, Blue Nude Migration (forthcoming, Lynx House Press, 2020) and In the Museum of Coming and Going (New Issues, 2014). Her poems can also be found in publications such as The Rupture, The Adirondack Review, Kettle Blue Review, Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Copper Nickel, and Memorious. She is an instructor of English at Weber State University.  \N\NJake Alvey's an eclectic live performer. His poetic endeavors have spanned bar-rooms, ballrooms, bookstores, auditoriums, and punk rock basement shows across the country. Jake's 2018 alma-mater is Weber State University, where he received awards and publication in poetry and literary research. He currently resides in Ogden, Utah\N\NJan Bottiglieri lives and writes in suburban Chicago. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University and is an editor with the poetry annual RHINO. She's been a professional business writer and editor for more than 20 years, but she's been writing poems even longer than that and plans to keep it up. She loves movies, baking, and trying, and is an occasional contributor at FThisMovie! \N\N\NJudges: \N\NKara van de Graaf is the author of Spitting Image, winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry (SIU Press, 2018). Individual poems appear widely in national literary journals, including The Southern Review, AGNI, New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the anthology Best New Poets. Other honors include the Hoepfner Award from Southern Humanities Review, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from Sewanee Writers Conference. Kara serves as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Utah Valley University and live in Salt Lake City, Utah.\N\NMolly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart and Desire: A Haunting. Currently, she is a Steffensen Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. \N\NAmir Jackson started Nurture The Creative Mind, what he describes as his life's purpose, to engage and empower young people through the arts. Since NCM's conception in 2007, Amir has positively impacted more than 12,000 young people in the community and has received numerous awards for his work including the Ogden Mayor's Award and the Red Cross Hero's Recogniton Award. Amir is also a TEDx fellow and currently sits on the boards for the Utah Cultural Alliance, WESTAF multicultural committee, The Utah Museums Association, and the Ogden City Visitor's Bureau.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Literary Death Match, Weber Book Links, Good Company Theatre, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Literary Death Match, hosted my Adrian Todd Zuniga, is coming to Ogden, Utah, for the very first time. The event pits writers against writers in a fun, intelligent, and poetic way! This years line up includes contestants Laura Stott, Jake Alvey, David Lindes, and Jan Bottiglieri and judges Kara van de Graaf, Molly Gaudry, and Amir Jackson. It’s a fun, exciting night! Join us at Good Company Theater on October 5, 2019 for entertaining evening.

Contestants:

David Lindes is a writer, singer-songwriter, and producer. His work has been featured on PRI's The World and NPR. Born in Guatemala City, he immigrated to the United States at age 9 and spent his adolescence in the agricultural communities of California’s Central Coast. He later graduated in Latin American Studies from Brigham Young University. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and four kids.

Laura Stott is the author of the book of poems, Blue Nude Migration (forthcoming, Lynx House Press, 2020) and In the Museum of Coming and Going (New Issues, 2014). Her poems can also be found in publications such as The Rupture, The Adirondack Review, Kettle Blue Review, Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Copper Nickel, and Memorious. She is an instructor of English at Weber State University.  

Jake Alvey's an eclectic live performer. His poetic endeavors have spanned bar-rooms, ballrooms, bookstores, auditoriums, and punk rock basement shows across the country. Jake's 2018 alma-mater is Weber State University, where he received awards and publication in poetry and literary research. He currently resides in Ogden, Utah

Jan Bottiglieri lives and writes in suburban Chicago. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University and is an editor with the poetry annual RHINO. She's been a professional business writer and editor for more than 20 years, but she's been writing poems even longer than that and plans to keep it up. She loves movies, baking, and trying, and is an occasional contributor at FThisMovie!


Judges:

Kara van de Graaf is the author of Spitting Image, winner of the Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry (SIU Press, 2018). Individual poems appear widely in national literary journals, including The Southern Review, AGNI, New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the anthology Best New Poets. Other honors include the Hoepfner Award from Southern Humanities Review, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from Sewanee Writers Conference. Kara serves as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Utah Valley University and live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart and Desire: A Haunting. Currently, she is a Steffensen Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. 

Amir Jackson started Nurture The Creative Mind, what he describes as his life's purpose, to engage and empower young people through the arts. Since NCM's conception in 2007, Amir has positively impacted more than 12,000 young people in the community and has received numerous awards for his work including the Ogden Mayor's Award and the Red Cross Hero's Recogniton Award. Amir is also a TEDx fellow and currently sits on the boards for the Utah Cultural Alliance, WESTAF multicultural committee, The Utah Museums Association, and the Ogden City Visitor's Bureau.

This event is made possible with the support of Literary Death Match, Weber Book Links, Good Company Theatre, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191005T000000 UID:A0BAB909-5507-4BB4-BE40-B4038B8B2AF6 SUMMARY:Scott Graham and Chuck Greaves CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1661 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Scott Graham and Chuck Greaves. \N\NIn Scott Graham's ARCHES ENEMY, a famed sandstone arch in the park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkey-wrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle Ortega race to uncover the killer even as they become murder targets themselves.\N\NOf Chuck Greaves' CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS, Publisher's Weekly writes, "The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel from Greaves (Hard Twisted). Elaborate and poetic descriptions of Cortez, Colo., dictate an unhurried pace and reflect the core of the novel. Addie Decker left the town for college in Los Angeles and fell in love with museums and classical music and academia, none of which she had been exposed to back home. She never really wanted to return, having fallen in love with L.A., but she goes back for the funeral of her grandmother Vivian. Addie brings her laid-back lover Bradley Sommers, who heads the university’s Center for Climate Change and has never seen the rugged West. Two complications make Addie’s plan of a quick visit problematic: she has inherited Vivian’s beloved Red Rocks Ranch, and the reportedly nefarious Archer-Mason corporation has designs on the entire region and wants to acquire Red Rocks. These developments raise the stakes but don’t obscure the novel’s central question: can one go home again? Greaves explores this question with both passion and compassion, taking readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West." \N\NThis event is made possible by Torrey House Press and The King's English Bookshop. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Scott Graham and Chuck Greaves.

In Scott Graham's ARCHES ENEMY, a famed sandstone arch in the park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her death, ensnaring archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family in lethal questions of environmental monkey-wrenching and political intrigue. As more deaths follow, Chuck and his wife Janelle Ortega race to uncover the killer even as they become murder targets themselves.

Of Chuck Greaves' CHURCH OF THE GRAVEYARD SAINTS, Publisher's Weekly writes, "The landscape looms large in this contemplative novel from Greaves (Hard Twisted). Elaborate and poetic descriptions of Cortez, Colo., dictate an unhurried pace and reflect the core of the novel. Addie Decker left the town for college in Los Angeles and fell in love with museums and classical music and academia, none of which she had been exposed to back home. She never really wanted to return, having fallen in love with L.A., but she goes back for the funeral of her grandmother Vivian. Addie brings her laid-back lover Bradley Sommers, who heads the university’s Center for Climate Change and has never seen the rugged West. Two complications make Addie’s plan of a quick visit problematic: she has inherited Vivian’s beloved Red Rocks Ranch, and the reportedly nefarious Archer-Mason corporation has designs on the entire region and wants to acquire Red Rocks. These developments raise the stakes but don’t obscure the novel’s central question: can one go home again? Greaves explores this question with both passion and compassion, taking readers on a lyrical, vivid tour of the West."

This event is made possible by Torrey House Press and The King's English Bookshop.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191007T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191007T133000 UID:2DDBACF7-FB47-4A72-9105-95276DF9FAF1 SUMMARY:Brian Evenson Visit Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1497 DESCRIPTION:Utah State University presents acclaimed author Brian Evenson on Monday October 7th at 12:30 PM in the Merrill Cazier Library. Evenson's new book, Song for the Unraveling World, was published in June of 2019. \N\NBRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State University presents acclaimed author Brian Evenson on Monday October 7th at 12:30 PM in the Merrill Cazier Library. Evenson's new book, Song for the Unraveling World, was published in June of 2019.

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191007T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191007T000000 UID:1ED76B54-4AD0-4B37-A2CD-EDACAFD2210C SUMMARY:Reading by Julie Clark Simon CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1635 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University is happy to host Julie Clark Simon on October 7, 5:30 PM at the Huntsman Reading Room of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library. \N\NBorn and raised in Santa Monica, California, Julie Clark grew up reading books on the beach while everyone else surfed. After attending college at University of the Pacific, and a brief stint working in the athletic department at University of California, Berkeley, she returned home to Santa Monica to teach. She now lives there with her two young sons and a golden doodle with poor impulse control. The Ones We Choose is her first novel.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University is happy to host Julie Clark Simon on October 7, 5:30 PM at the Huntsman Reading Room of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library.

Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, Julie Clark grew up reading books on the beach while everyone else surfed. After attending college at University of the Pacific, and a brief stint working in the athletic department at University of California, Berkeley, she returned home to Santa Monica to teach. She now lives there with her two young sons and a golden doodle with poor impulse control. The Ones We Choose is her first novel.

This event is made possible with the support of Southern Utah University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191007T000000 UID:6CE36CA5-BF65-4F3A-B521-7A03229226EE SUMMARY:Brian Switek CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1613 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links is please to host Brian Switek in the Roy Library (Weber County Library, Southwest Branch) on Monday, October 7th at 7:00 PM. \N\NA prolific writer, Brian regularly covers the latest prehistoric discoveries on his Scientific American blog Laelaps. His fossil-filled tweets have led Business Insider to call him one of the top "science social media wizards" and HLN to dub him one of "Twitter's 8 coolest geeks", as well, and he has just partnered with Parallax Film to host Dinologue, a new website and videocast all about what's new with the really, really old. And in a childhood dream come true, Brian was also hired to be the "resident paleontologist" for Jurassic World.\N\NIn between blogs, Brian also freelances for a variety of publications - from National Geographic to io9 - and writes books. His first, Written in Stone, was an exploration about what evolution's great transitions tell us about our place in nature, and his second, My Beloved Brontosaurus, was a critically-acclaimed romp with the new dinosaurs science is bringing to life. He also wrote two new books in 2014 - the National Geographic special issue When Dinosaurs Ruled and the children's book Prehistoric Predators, illustrated by Julius Csotonyi. His next book, due in 2017, is tentatively titled Skeleton Keys and will explore how bones are not so much totems of death as symbols of vitality.\N\NThis event is made possible by Weber Books Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links is please to host Brian Switek in the Roy Library (Weber County Library, Southwest Branch) on Monday, October 7th at 7:00 PM.

A prolific writer, Brian regularly covers the latest prehistoric discoveries on his Scientific American blog Laelaps. His fossil-filled tweets have led Business Insider to call him one of the top "science social media wizards" and HLN to dub him one of "Twitter's 8 coolest geeks", as well, and he has just partnered with Parallax Film to host Dinologue, a new website and videocast all about what's new with the really, really old. And in a childhood dream come true, Brian was also hired to be the "resident paleontologist" for Jurassic World.

In between blogs, Brian also freelances for a variety of publications - from National Geographic to io9 - and writes books. His first, Written in Stone, was an exploration about what evolution's great transitions tell us about our place in nature, and his second, My Beloved Brontosaurus, was a critically-acclaimed romp with the new dinosaurs science is bringing to life. He also wrote two new books in 2014 - the National Geographic special issue When Dinosaurs Ruled and the children's book Prehistoric Predators, illustrated by Julius Csotonyi. His next book, due in 2017, is tentatively titled Skeleton Keys and will explore how bones are not so much totems of death as symbols of vitality.

This event is made possible by Weber Books Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191008T210000 UID:F4CAD067-D6E1-4673-B8EA-A8C22CFC28BD SUMMARY:Terry Tempest Williams at the St. George Literary Arts Festival CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1482 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Terry Tempest Williams as the keynote speaker for 2019 Festival. Williams will discuss her new book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing. This event is free and open to the public. Terry will be speaking in the JEFFREY R. HOLLAND BLDG. ZION ROOM #527, which has a beautiful panoramic view of the city from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.  \N\NTerry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.\N\NShe looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction, citing the drought outside her door and at times, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders, art, and, always, in the land itself. She asks, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?”\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Terry Tempest Williams as the keynote speaker for 2019 Festival. Williams will discuss her new book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing. This event is free and open to the public. Terry will be speaking in the JEFFREY R. HOLLAND BLDG. ZION ROOM #527, which has a beautiful panoramic view of the city from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. 

Terry Tempest Williams is one of our most impassioned defenders of public lands. A naturalist, fervent activist, and stirring writer, she has spoken to us and for us in books like The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In these new essays, Williams explores the concept of erosion: of the land, of the self, of belief, of fear. She wrangles with the paradox of desert lands and the truth of erosion: What is weathered, worn, and whittled away through wind, water, and time is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.

She looks at the current state of American politics: the dire social and environmental implications of recent choices to gut Bears Ears National Monument, sacred lands to Native People of the American Southwest, and undermine the Endangered Species Act. She testifies that climate change is not an abstraction, citing the drought outside her door and at times, within herself. Images of extraction and contamination haunt her: “oil rigs lighting up the horizon; trucks hauling nuclear waste on dirt roads now crisscrossing the desert like an exposed nervous system.” But beautiful moments of relief and refuge, solace and spirituality come—in her conversations with Navajo elders, art, and, always, in the land itself. She asks, urgently: “Is Earth not enough? Can the desert be a prayer?”

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191008T210000 UID:BD32F0EF-8898-4A61-9F6E-2032B1C65821 SUMMARY:Ada Limon at Ogden High School CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1514 DESCRIPTION:Weber State University Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities presents acclaimed poet Ada Limon at Ogden High School on Tuesday, October 8th at 7:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public.\N\NAda Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including\NThe Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.\N\NThis event is made possibe with support from Weber State University Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities, Ogden School Foundation, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber State University Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities presents acclaimed poet Ada Limon at Ogden High School on Tuesday, October 8th at 7:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public.

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including
The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

This event is made possibe with support from Weber State University Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities, Ogden School Foundation, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191008T210000 UID:41A31568-6509-4A78-A092-195E8C68AB3C SUMMARY:Coyote Tales Featuring Pam Houston CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1519 DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Kayenta Center for Performing Arts for another installment of Coyote Tales. THE THEME FOR THE EVENING’S STORIES IS: “YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME” Prepare a 5 minute story about an experience that is so unlikely or improbable that others have found it incredible. Have you ridden out a situation that was almost too preposterous to have taken place? A string of events that couldn’t be more unusual? This evening’s stories will recount true yet implausible, outlandish or just plain out of the ordinary tales. \N\NCoyote Tales are live, open-mic style storytelling events with amateur and experienced storytellers. This event is a curated event of invited storytellers. It is the ultimate showdown of words! 10 top storytellers take the stage to delight the audience during a cocktail reception to benefit the Kayenta Arts Foundation. After the show, the audience members use their wallets to vote for the best COYOTE TALE of the evening. The theme for the evening’s stories is: ART MATTERS. Our featured storyteller for this evening is Pam Houston. \N\NPam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. \N\NHer stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century among other anthologies. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards. \N\NFor more information on this event and upcoming events, please check out our website at: http://coyotetalesstories.com/\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Center for the Arts at Kayenta, Petite Feast, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at the Kayenta Center for Performing Arts for another installment of Coyote Tales. THE THEME FOR THE EVENING’S STORIES IS: “YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME” Prepare a 5 minute story about an experience that is so unlikely or improbable that others have found it incredible. Have you ridden out a situation that was almost too preposterous to have taken place? A string of events that couldn’t be more unusual? This evening’s stories will recount true yet implausible, outlandish or just plain out of the ordinary tales.

Coyote Tales are live, open-mic style storytelling events with amateur and experienced storytellers. This event is a curated event of invited storytellers. It is the ultimate showdown of words! 10 top storytellers take the stage to delight the audience during a cocktail reception to benefit the Kayenta Arts Foundation. After the show, the audience members use their wallets to vote for the best COYOTE TALE of the evening. The theme for the evening’s stories is: ART MATTERS. Our featured storyteller for this evening is Pam Houston.

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton.

Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century among other anthologies. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards.

For more information on this event and upcoming events, please check out our website at: http://coyotetalesstories.com/

This event is made possible with the support of Center for the Arts at Kayenta, Petite Feast, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191008T000000 UID:4D7929C1-2EB1-463F-AFAB-D572940600A2 SUMMARY:Speed Date with a Book at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#utahauthor DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Library is a perfect matchmaker for you and your next book! Join them Tuesday, October 8th at 7pm for a speed date with over 10 authors and their attractive pages. \N\NAuthors include: Amy and Greg Newbold, Karen M. Edwards, Mary Martinez, Kathryn Jones, Michael Norman, Cody Dean, Jenny Flake Rabe, Sara Fitzgerald, Marie Higgins, M.L. Everett, Jo Schneider, Karl Beckstrand\N\NThis event is brought to you by Brigham City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Library is a perfect matchmaker for you and your next book! Join them Tuesday, October 8th at 7pm for a speed date with over 10 authors and their attractive pages.

Authors include: Amy and Greg Newbold, Karen M. Edwards, Mary Martinez, Kathryn Jones, Michael Norman, Cody Dean, Jenny Flake Rabe, Sara Fitzgerald, Marie Higgins, M.L. Everett, Jo Schneider, Karl Beckstrand

This event is brought to you by Brigham City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T000000 UID:AB4893CF-DDA1-4E00-BA49-EEEEACCDE9B0 SUMMARY:Reading by Shanan Ballam and Ben Ginsburg CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1634 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University is happy to host Shanan Ballam and Ben Ginsburg. \N\NShanan Ballam was recently named Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, will be published by Main Street Rag in May 2019. It is available for purchase here: Main Street Rag Online Bookstore.\N\NBen Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His poetry appears in CutBank, Tupelo Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He's authored one poetry collection, Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and one poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). He's been been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.\N\NThis event is made possible by Utah Humanities, Artisan's Gallery, and Southern Utah University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University is happy to host Shanan Ballam and Ben Ginsburg.

Shanan Ballam was recently named Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, will be published by Main Street Rag in May 2019. It is available for purchase here: Main Street Rag Online Bookstore.

Ben Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His poetry appears in CutBank, Tupelo Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He's authored one poetry collection, Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and one poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). He's been been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.

This event is made possible by Utah Humanities, Artisan's Gallery, and Southern Utah University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T000000 UID:D83B97EE-2D29-44FA-AE4E-188A1519854A SUMMARY:Robison Wells CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1606 DESCRIPTION:Meet local author Robison Wells! Robison Wells is the author of the young adult thriller Variant, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2011. \N\NThis event was made possible by Weber Book Links, Utah Humanities, and Weber County Library System\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet local author Robison Wells! Robison Wells is the author of the young adult thriller Variant, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2011.

This event was made possible by Weber Book Links, Utah Humanities, and Weber County Library System
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T000000 UID:458FCBF7-3437-4464-A336-A711BB00E206 SUMMARY:History of Quilting, Part 3 CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1646 DESCRIPTION:Orem has had quilters about as long as it has had settlers. Join two of Orem's award-winning quilters, Shirley Olsen and Linda Williams, as they share some of their masterful quilts and the stories behind them.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem has had quilters about as long as it has had settlers. Join two of Orem's award-winning quilters, Shirley Olsen and Linda Williams, as they share some of their masterful quilts and the stories behind them.

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T203000 UID:ED358D54-515E-4DDE-B40F-E5BBF6776CBB SUMMARY:How to Self-Publish Through Print, Ebooks, and Audiobooks by Liz Adair CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1554 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Liz Adair. Do you have dreams of being a published writer? In this crash course, fiction writer Adair will provide you with helpful tips on how to self-publish your work across a number of platforms and build your audience. Explore the pro's and con's of each approach and ask questions from an experienced prize-winning author. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Book Bungalow.\N\NBio: A late bloomer, Liz Adair published her first mystery (The Lodger) just as AARP started sending invitations to join. After writing three in the Spider Latham series, Liz moved into romantic suspense with The Mist of Quarry Harbor. Liz took a break from suspense to write Counting the Cost, a novel based on family history. The book won the 2009 Whitney Award and was a finalist for the Willa Award and Arizona Publisher Association's Glyph Award.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Liz Adair. Do you have dreams of being a published writer? In this crash course, fiction writer Adair will provide you with helpful tips on how to self-publish your work across a number of platforms and build your audience. Explore the pro's and con's of each approach and ask questions from an experienced prize-winning author. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at the Book Bungalow.

Bio: A late bloomer, Liz Adair published her first mystery (The Lodger) just as AARP started sending invitations to join. After writing three in the Spider Latham series, Liz moved into romantic suspense with The Mist of Quarry Harbor. Liz took a break from suspense to write Counting the Cost, a novel based on family history. The book won the 2009 Whitney Award and was a finalist for the Willa Award and Arizona Publisher Association's Glyph Award.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T000000 UID:297C4B14-A958-4992-8ED9-E8286D59610F SUMMARY:City Art: Dan O'Brien and Natalie Young CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1609 DESCRIPTION:City Art is pleased to host Brian Evenson and Molly Gaudry on Wednesday, October 9th at 7pm in the Special Collections Room of the City Library. \N\NBRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.\N\NMolly is the founder of Lit Pub and the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the PEN/Osterweil. The verse novel has been taught at Brown, Wesleyan, Cornell College, Queens College, CUNY, and other creative writing programs in the US. As of Halloween 2018, its sequel Desire: A Haunting is also available. Molly is a PhD candidate and Steffensen Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. Summers, she teaches at the Yale Writers' Workshop.\N\NThis event is made possible by City Art Reading Series and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art is pleased to host Brian Evenson and Molly Gaudry on Wednesday, October 9th at 7pm in the Special Collections Room of the City Library.

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

Molly is the founder of Lit Pub and the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the PEN/Osterweil. The verse novel has been taught at Brown, Wesleyan, Cornell College, Queens College, CUNY, and other creative writing programs in the US. As of Halloween 2018, its sequel Desire: A Haunting is also available. Molly is a PhD candidate and Steffensen Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. Summers, she teaches at the Yale Writers' Workshop.

This event is made possible by City Art Reading Series and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191009T000000 UID:15B23BBA-1CDE-4F9B-BC89-5A454709AF6D SUMMARY:William Kamkwamba CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1650 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Education Foundation is happy to welcome William Kamkwamba to the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library on Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 PM. \N\NWilliam Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy and modifying them to fit his needs. The windmill he built powers four lights and two radios in his family home.\N\NAfter reading about Kamkwamba on Mike McKay's blog Hactivate (which picked up the story from a local Malawi newspaper), TEDGlobal Conference Director Emeka Okafor spent several weeks tracking him down at his home in Masitala Village, Wimbe, and invited him to attend TEDGlobal on a fellowship. Onstage, Kamkwamba talked about his invention and shared his dreams: to build a larger windmill to help with irrigation for his entire village, and to go back to school.\N\NFollowing Kamkwamba's moving talk, there was an outpouring of support for him and his promising work. Members of the TED community got together to help him improve his power system (by incorporating solar energy), and further his education through school and mentorships. Subsequent projects have included clean water, malaria prevention, solar power and lighting for the six homes in his family compound; a deep-water well with a solar-powered pump for clean water; and a drip irrigation system. Kamkwamba himself returned to school, and is now attending the African Leadership Academy, a new pan-African prep school outside Johannesburg, South Africa.\N\NKamkwamba's story is documented in his autobiography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. A documentary about Kamkwamba, called William and the Windmill, won the Documentary Feature Grand Jury award at SXSW in 2013 (watch a trailer ). You can support his work and other young inventors at MovingWindmills.org.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of the Park City Education Foundation, the Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Education Foundation is happy to welcome William Kamkwamba to the Jim Santy Auditorium in the Park City Library on Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 PM.

William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, is a born inventor. When he was 14, he built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap, working from rough plans he found in a library book called Using Energy and modifying them to fit his needs. The windmill he built powers four lights and two radios in his family home.

After reading about Kamkwamba on Mike McKay's blog Hactivate (which picked up the story from a local Malawi newspaper), TEDGlobal Conference Director Emeka Okafor spent several weeks tracking him down at his home in Masitala Village, Wimbe, and invited him to attend TEDGlobal on a fellowship. Onstage, Kamkwamba talked about his invention and shared his dreams: to build a larger windmill to help with irrigation for his entire village, and to go back to school.

Following Kamkwamba's moving talk, there was an outpouring of support for him and his promising work. Members of the TED community got together to help him improve his power system (by incorporating solar energy), and further his education through school and mentorships. Subsequent projects have included clean water, malaria prevention, solar power and lighting for the six homes in his family compound; a deep-water well with a solar-powered pump for clean water; and a drip irrigation system. Kamkwamba himself returned to school, and is now attending the African Leadership Academy, a new pan-African prep school outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kamkwamba's story is documented in his autobiography, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope. A documentary about Kamkwamba, called William and the Windmill, won the Documentary Feature Grand Jury award at SXSW in 2013 (watch a trailer ). You can support his work and other young inventors at MovingWindmills.org.

This event is made possible with the support of the Park City Education Foundation, the Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T143000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T154500 UID:ECBB51B0-2C02-4C13-B01B-E009C74D58B4 SUMMARY:DSU presents Shanan Ballam and Ben Gunsberg CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1672 DESCRIPTION:Dixie State University welcomes Shanan Ballam and Ben Gunsberg for a writing workshop. The workshop will take place in the Holland Building, Rm 470. \N\NShanan Ballam was recently named Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, will be published by Main Street Rag in May 2019. It is available for purchase here: Main Street Rag Online Bookstore.\N\NBen Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His poetry appears in CutBank, Tupelo Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He's authored one poetry collection, Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and one poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). He's been been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.\N\NThis event was made possible by Dixie State University and St. George Literary Arts Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dixie State University welcomes Shanan Ballam and Ben Gunsberg for a writing workshop. The workshop will take place in the Holland Building, Rm 470.

Shanan Ballam was recently named Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, will be published by Main Street Rag in May 2019. It is available for purchase here: Main Street Rag Online Bookstore.

Ben Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His poetry appears in CutBank, Tupelo Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He's authored one poetry collection, Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and one poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). He's been been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.

This event was made possible by Dixie State University and St. George Literary Arts Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T190000 UID:06B2B72B-FCF3-4F27-8808-9CE7B0213D19 SUMMARY:Jennifer Nielsen: Parent/Kid Group CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#nielsen DESCRIPTION:Attend the P/K (Parent/Kid) Book Group at 4 p.m. or 7 p.m.\N\NPick-up a copy of the book at the library in advance starting Thursday, 12 Sept. at 4 and 7 p.m. (at the P/K Book Group) while copies last, and come discuss Jennifer Nielsen's work on Thursday, 10 October and enjoy a book-related snack.\N\NThen bring your copy to the event on Monday, 28 October 2019 at 7 p.m. and have your copy signed by Jennifer Nielsen!\N\NThis event is brought to you by Brigham City. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Attend the P/K (Parent/Kid) Book Group at 4 p.m. or 7 p.m.

Pick-up a copy of the book at the library in advance starting Thursday, 12 Sept. at 4 and 7 p.m. (at the P/K Book Group) while copies last, and come discuss Jennifer Nielsen's work on Thursday, 10 October and enjoy a book-related snack.

Then bring your copy to the event on Monday, 28 October 2019 at 7 p.m. and have your copy signed by Jennifer Nielsen!

This event is brought to you by Brigham City. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T200000 UID:3DF7CE2B-8B56-472F-8592-C50CA7D8918C SUMMARY:DSU welcomes Shanan Ballam and Ben Gunsburg CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1673 DESCRIPTION:Dixie State University welcomes Shanan Ballam and Ben Gunsberg. Their reading will take place in the Holland Building, Rm 457 at 6:00 PM. \N\NShanan Ballam was recently named Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, will be published by Main Street Rag in May 2019. It is available for purchase here: Main Street Rag Online Bookstore.\N\NBen Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His poetry appears in CutBank, Tupelo Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He's authored one poetry collection, Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and one poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). He's been been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.\N\NThis event was made possible by Dixie State University and St. George Literary Arts Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dixie State University welcomes Shanan Ballam and Ben Gunsberg. Their reading will take place in the Holland Building, Rm 457 at 6:00 PM.

Shanan Ballam was recently named Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, will be published by Main Street Rag in May 2019. It is available for purchase here: Main Street Rag Online Bookstore.

Ben Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His poetry appears in CutBank, Tupelo Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review, among other magazines. He's authored one poetry collection, Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and one poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). He's been been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.

This event was made possible by Dixie State University and St. George Literary Arts Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T220000 UID:489F9C3C-D269-459C-84DA-132522A6D65D SUMMARY:The Bee: True Stories from the Hive CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://www.thebeeslc.org/events/intransit DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of community storytelling; Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.\N\NThe theme of the night this time is In Transit: stories of travel through air, land, and sea, and what happened to you along the way.\N\NBring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.\N\N6pm Doors. 7pm Stories. General admission seating / ADA Accessible. $15 / 21+\N\NDinner from Rye Diner will be available to purchase before stories and during intermission (vegan and vegetarian options).\N\NTICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH @ 10:00AM\N\NWhen purchasing tickets, you'll have the option of contributing an additional $10 or $15 to our Storyteller Scholarship Fund, which we use to support storytellers for whom the cost would be prohibitive to attend our shows and workshops. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening of community storytelling; Ten storytellers picked at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true story on the theme of the night without notes.

The theme of the night this time is In Transit: stories of travel through air, land, and sea, and what happened to you along the way.

Bring your friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.

6pm Doors. 7pm Stories. General admission seating / ADA Accessible. $15 / 21+

Dinner from Rye Diner will be available to purchase before stories and during intermission (vegan and vegetarian options).

TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH @ 10:00AM

When purchasing tickets, you'll have the option of contributing an additional $10 or $15 to our Storyteller Scholarship Fund, which we use to support storytellers for whom the cost would be prohibitive to attend our shows and workshops. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T200000 UID:246404F0-E5C3-47DC-B920-7F5CEE6FCB22 SUMMARY:Books & Bridges' Sacred Text Series: The New Testament CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1694 DESCRIPTION:As part of Books and Bridges' religious literacy project, Thomas Wayment, Professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, will discuss the collection of early Christian writings known as the New Testament. As a translator of the text, he will examine the radical nature of the Good News, probe the resistance of a small community against Roman society, and address the scripture’s lasting influence on the world of ethics and ideas. A Q&A and refreshments will follow. The lecture is free, open to the public, and made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.\N\NThis event is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As part of Books and Bridges' religious literacy project, Thomas Wayment, Professor of Classics at Brigham Young University, will discuss the collection of early Christian writings known as the New Testament. As a translator of the text, he will examine the radical nature of the Good News, probe the resistance of a small community against Roman society, and address the scripture’s lasting influence on the world of ethics and ideas. A Q&A and refreshments will follow. The lecture is free, open to the public, and made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.

This event is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T210000 UID:C34CCB6E-1363-452A-B768-8D8BA258F681 SUMMARY:Helicon West Presents Star Coulbrooke CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1480 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West presents poet Star Coulbrooke at the Logan Library at 7:00 PM on Thursday, October 10th. \N\NStar Coulbrooke, Poet Laureate of Logan City Utah, is co-founder and coordinator of Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series that publishes community broadsides, and Poetry At Three, a local poetry writing group celebrating its twentieth year.\N\NStar’s poems are published nationally in dozens of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press, 2003), with Kenneth W. Brewer, the late former poet laureate of Utah. Her chapbook, Walking the Bear (Outlaw Artists Press 2011), is a tribute to the Bear River. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Helicon West, the Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West presents poet Star Coulbrooke at the Logan Library at 7:00 PM on Thursday, October 10th.

Star Coulbrooke, Poet Laureate of Logan City Utah, is co-founder and coordinator of Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers series that publishes community broadsides, and Poetry At Three, a local poetry writing group celebrating its twentieth year.

Star’s poems are published nationally in dozens of literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She co-authored a chapbook, Logan Canyon Blend (Blue Scarab Press, 2003), with Kenneth W. Brewer, the late former poet laureate of Utah. Her chapbook, Walking the Bear (Outlaw Artists Press 2011), is a tribute to the Bear River.

This event is made possible with the support of Helicon West, the Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T210000 UID:868D6377-1F86-4A26-BC00-D64B1E3E88B8 SUMMARY:Brian Evenson at the Orem Library CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1498 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads welcomes renowned author Brian Evenson to the Orem Library on Thursday, October 10, at 7:00 PM. \NEvenson's new book, Song for the Unraveling World, was published in June of 2019. \N\NBRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Orem Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads welcomes renowned author Brian Evenson to the Orem Library on Thursday, October 10, at 7:00 PM.
Evenson's new book, Song for the Unraveling World, was published in June of 2019.

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

This event is made possible with support from the Orem Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T203000 UID:195372D7-DEDB-4FA3-AA40-29AAF2B533F9 SUMMARY:Make Your Life Read Like a Novel CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1555 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Dororthy Allred Solomon. We all have a story to tell. In this helpful session, Solomon will provide you with the tools to shape the stuff of your life into a full-blown captivating narrative. You can find Solomon and her years of expertise and wisdom in room 121 of the Udvar-Hazy Building at Dixie State University. \N\NBio: Dorothy Allred Solomon is an American author and educator committed to informing people about the pros and cons of polygamous lifestyles. Solomon is the author of five books, including Inside Out: Creative Writing in the Classroom and Their Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women. She has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, Larry King Live, and more. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Dixie State University, Heritage Writers Guild, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Dororthy Allred Solomon. We all have a story to tell. In this helpful session, Solomon will provide you with the tools to shape the stuff of your life into a full-blown captivating narrative. You can find Solomon and her years of expertise and wisdom in room 121 of the Udvar-Hazy Building at Dixie State University.

Bio: Dorothy Allred Solomon is an American author and educator committed to informing people about the pros and cons of polygamous lifestyles. Solomon is the author of five books, including Inside Out: Creative Writing in the Classroom and Their Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women. She has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, Larry King Live, and more.

This event is made possible with support from Dixie State University, Heritage Writers Guild, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T200000 UID:D8B6EBE9-1107-420A-9F74-C1E1C36048F2 SUMMARY:Jake Skeets CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1633 DESCRIPTION:\NSalt Lake Community College is excited to host Jake Skeets on October 10, 7:00 PM on at the South City Campus, Multipurpose Room (1575 South State Street, SLC, UT 84115). \N\NJake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called Cloudthroat and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: A Diné Writers’ Collective and currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. He is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, forthcoming September 2019.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Salt Lake Community College is excited to host Jake Skeets on October 10, 7:00 PM on at the South City Campus, Multipurpose Room (1575 South State Street, SLC, UT 84115).

Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called Cloudthroat and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: A Diné Writers’ Collective and currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. He is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, forthcoming September 2019.

This event is made possible with the support of Salt Lake Community College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T000000 UID:6B9B9A08-7FC1-426C-8889-96EA7BFF67CA SUMMARY:Provo Library presents Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham, and Raina Telgemeier CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1670 DESCRIPTION:Provo Library welcomes Shannon Hale, Leuyen Pham, and Raina Telgemeier to share their new graphic novels. \N\N***\N\NShannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. After nineteen years of writing and dozens of rejections, she published her first book, The Goose Girl, an ALA Teens' Top Ten. Enna Burning and River Secrets are companion books to Goose. Princess Academy is a Newbery Honor Book and New York Times best seller. Austenland, her first book for adults, is a Book Sense pick. She and her husband are co-writing a series of graphic novels for kids. \N\N***\N****\NLeUyen Pham is the award-winning and critically acclaimed illustrator of more than sixty books for children. LeUyen (pronounced Lay-Win) is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Julianne Moore’s picture book series, Freckleface Strawberry, Kelly DiPucchio’s picture book Grace for President, and Shannon and Dean Hale’s middle grade series Princess in Black. LeUyen is also the illustrator of God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Twenty-One Elephants by Phil Bildner, the Vampirina Ballerina picture book series by Anne Marie Pace, and The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman.\N\NLeUyen is the author and illustrator of Big Sister Little Sister, There’s No Such Thing as Little, A Piece of Cake, All the Things I Love About You, and The Bear Who Wasn’t There. She is also the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the groundbreaking graphic memoir Real Friends.\N\NBorn in Vietnam, LeUyen and her family fled the country on the second-to-last transport out of Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War.\N\N***\N\NRaina Telgemeier is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Smile, Drama, Sisters, and Ghosts, all #1 New York Times bestsellers. She also adapted and illustrated four graphic novel versions of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-sitters Club series, and has contributed short stories to many anthologies. Raina’s accolades include three Eisner Awards, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and many Best-of and Notables lists. Raina lives and works in San Francisco, CA.\N\N***\NThis event is made possible by Provo Library \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Provo Library welcomes Shannon Hale, Leuyen Pham, and Raina Telgemeier to share their new graphic novels.

***

Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. After nineteen years of writing and dozens of rejections, she published her first book, The Goose Girl, an ALA Teens' Top Ten. Enna Burning and River Secrets are companion books to Goose. Princess Academy is a Newbery Honor Book and New York Times best seller. Austenland, her first book for adults, is a Book Sense pick. She and her husband are co-writing a series of graphic novels for kids.

***
****
LeUyen Pham is the award-winning and critically acclaimed illustrator of more than sixty books for children. LeUyen (pronounced Lay-Win) is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Julianne Moore’s picture book series, Freckleface Strawberry, Kelly DiPucchio’s picture book Grace for President, and Shannon and Dean Hale’s middle grade series Princess in Black. LeUyen is also the illustrator of God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Twenty-One Elephants by Phil Bildner, the Vampirina Ballerina picture book series by Anne Marie Pace, and The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman.

LeUyen is the author and illustrator of Big Sister Little Sister, There’s No Such Thing as Little, A Piece of Cake, All the Things I Love About You, and The Bear Who Wasn’t There. She is also the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the groundbreaking graphic memoir Real Friends.

Born in Vietnam, LeUyen and her family fled the country on the second-to-last transport out of Saigon in the final days of the Vietnam War.

***

Raina Telgemeier is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Smile, Drama, Sisters, and Ghosts, all #1 New York Times bestsellers. She also adapted and illustrated four graphic novel versions of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-sitters Club series, and has contributed short stories to many anthologies. Raina’s accolades include three Eisner Awards, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and many Best-of and Notables lists. Raina lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

***
This event is made possible by Provo Library

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191010T203000 UID:785211BE-AFEE-4DE2-80C9-2E8BB3929B92 SUMMARY:Romance: Is this a Kissing Book by Julie Wright CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1561 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host award-winning novelist Julie Wright. In Is This a Kissing Book?, Wright will address issues pertinent to romance writers to help them develop and publish their craft! This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Book Bungalow. \N\NBio: Julie Wright wrote her first book when she was fifteen. She's written over twenty novels since then. She is a Whitney Awards winner for best romance with her book Cross My Heart and a Crown Heart recipient for the novel The Fortune Café.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Dixie State University, the Book Bungalow, and Heritage Writers Guild. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host award-winning novelist Julie Wright. In Is This a Kissing Book?, Wright will address issues pertinent to romance writers to help them develop and publish their craft! This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Book Bungalow.

Bio: Julie Wright wrote her first book when she was fifteen. She's written over twenty novels since then. She is a Whitney Awards winner for best romance with her book Cross My Heart and a Crown Heart recipient for the novel The Fortune Café.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Dixie State University, the Book Bungalow, and Heritage Writers Guild. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191011T210000 UID:BAEC9C35-AF7E-493C-BA07-D737A0615318 SUMMARY:Rebecca Lawton at The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1503 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press and the King's English Bookshop present essayist Rebecca Lawton at the bookshop on Friday, October 11 at 7:00 PM. \N\NRebecca Lawton is a Western author, fluvial geologist, and former Colorado River guide. Her books about water and river subcultures include Reading Water: Lessons from the River (San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year Finalist). Her pieces for general audiences have been published in Aeon, Audubon, Brevity, Hakai, Orion, Shenandoah, Sierra, Undark, and many other journals. Her creative writing honors include a 2014/15 Fulbright Scholarship, the 2006 (inaugural) Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, the 2015 (inaugural) Waterston Desert Writing Prize, a 2014 WILLA award for original softcover fiction, Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and residencies at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers, The Island Institute, and PLAYA. She lives at the Cascade Mountain-Great Basin interface in Summer Lake, Oregon, where she directs PLAYA’s residency program for artists, writers, and scientists.\N\NIn her new essay collection, The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West, Lawton shows the deep connections between human need for refuge and nature’s birthright of water, shade, and sustenance.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press and the King's English Bookshop present essayist Rebecca Lawton at the bookshop on Friday, October 11 at 7:00 PM.

Rebecca Lawton is a Western author, fluvial geologist, and former Colorado River guide. Her books about water and river subcultures include Reading Water: Lessons from the River (San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year Finalist). Her pieces for general audiences have been published in Aeon, Audubon, Brevity, Hakai, Orion, Shenandoah, Sierra, Undark, and many other journals. Her creative writing honors include a 2014/15 Fulbright Scholarship, the 2006 (inaugural) Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, the 2015 (inaugural) Waterston Desert Writing Prize, a 2014 WILLA award for original softcover fiction, Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and residencies at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers, The Island Institute, and PLAYA. She lives at the Cascade Mountain-Great Basin interface in Summer Lake, Oregon, where she directs PLAYA’s residency program for artists, writers, and scientists.

In her new essay collection, The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West, Lawton shows the deep connections between human need for refuge and nature’s birthright of water, shade, and sustenance.

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191011T203000 UID:F69A7A9C-FCC4-4B02-B216-EC4262DAE6C4 SUMMARY:Putting Together a Winning Proposal for a Nonfiction Book by Jerry Borrowman CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1562 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival welcomes Jerry Borrowman on Friday, October 11th at 7:00 PM. In "Putting Together a Winning Proposal for a Nonfiction Book," Jerry Borrowman will teach you how to make your dreams of publishing a non-fiction book come true! This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Book Bungalow.\N\NBio: Jerry Borrowman has authored seventeen books of biography, historical fiction, and inspirational non-fiction. “Compassionate Soldier” earned the “George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in 2018. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow, Dixie State University, the Heritage Writers Guild, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival welcomes Jerry Borrowman on Friday, October 11th at 7:00 PM. In "Putting Together a Winning Proposal for a Nonfiction Book," Jerry Borrowman will teach you how to make your dreams of publishing a non-fiction book come true! This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Book Bungalow.

Bio: Jerry Borrowman has authored seventeen books of biography, historical fiction, and inspirational non-fiction. “Compassionate Soldier” earned the “George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in 2018.

This event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow, Dixie State University, the Heritage Writers Guild, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T110000 UID:7F58CBBD-EAB3-4618-BEBC-09DC450D5B96 SUMMARY:Christopher Phillips at the St. George Literary Arts Festival CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1483 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival welcomes Christopher Phillips on Saturday, October 12th at 10:00 AM. Phillips presentation is titled "The Sorcery of Literature." This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Udvar-Hazy Building, Room 121. \N\NChristopher Phillips, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Democracy Café (DemocracyCafe.org), dedicated to making ours a more connected understanding, and participatory world. Its flagship Socrates Cafe and Democracy Cafe endeavors continue to gain momentum worldwide after 22 years, with recently established groups in places like Qatif and Saihat, Saudi Arabia, Sujarat, India, and Seoul, South Korea, and throughout Poland. He is author of works including the critically acclaimed Constitution Café: Jefferson’s Brew for a True Revolution, the bestsellers Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy and Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy, published in about 15 languages all told, and children’s books The Philosophers’ Club and Day of Why. His newest book, A Child at Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life, ispublished in Spanish by Penguin Random House and by Skyhorse in English (it will also soon be out in Hindi and Portuguese). He has been a Network Ethics Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Education Fellow at the National Constitution Center, and a Senior Writing and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He also travels the globe giving presentations and workshops, is an Investment Advisor Representative for Martin Capital Advisors, and is currently working on two new book projects, one on spirituality and the other on democracy. He is incredibly pleased and honored to facilitate the discourse at the 6th Annual Conversation with the Constitution.  \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival welcomes Christopher Phillips on Saturday, October 12th at 10:00 AM. Phillips presentation is titled "The Sorcery of Literature." This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Udvar-Hazy Building, Room 121.

Christopher Phillips, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Democracy Café (DemocracyCafe.org), dedicated to making ours a more connected understanding, and participatory world. Its flagship Socrates Cafe and Democracy Cafe endeavors continue to gain momentum worldwide after 22 years, with recently established groups in places like Qatif and Saihat, Saudi Arabia, Sujarat, India, and Seoul, South Korea, and throughout Poland. He is author of works including the critically acclaimed Constitution Café: Jefferson’s Brew for a True Revolution, the bestsellers Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy and Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy, published in about 15 languages all told, and children’s books The Philosophers’ Club and Day of Why. His newest book, A Child at Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life, ispublished in Spanish by Penguin Random House and by Skyhorse in English (it will also soon be out in Hindi and Portuguese). He has been a Network Ethics Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Education Fellow at the National Constitution Center, and a Senior Writing and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He also travels the globe giving presentations and workshops, is an Investment Advisor Representative for Martin Capital Advisors, and is currently working on two new book projects, one on spirituality and the other on democracy. He is incredibly pleased and honored to facilitate the discourse at the 6th Annual Conversation with the Constitution.  

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T115000 UID:0EEA3E9A-0B09-40FE-816C-BA07E3F467F9 SUMMARY:Character Development in Short Stories by Danielle Dubrowsky CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1563 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Danielle Dubrasky. Dubrowsky This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, Room 220. \N\NBio: Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University and Director, Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. Danielle’s poetry has appeared in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill & Parchment. Her poems have also been published in the limited edition art book Invisible Shores, by the Red Butte press of the University of Utah. Her chapbook “Ruin and Light” won the Anabiosis Press chapbook competition. She was a finalist for White Pines Press.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Danielle Dubrasky. Dubrowsky This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, Room 220.

Bio: Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University and Director, Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. Danielle’s poetry has appeared in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill & Parchment. Her poems have also been published in the limited edition art book Invisible Shores, by the Red Butte press of the University of Utah. Her chapbook “Ruin and Light” won the Anabiosis Press chapbook competition. She was a finalist for White Pines Press.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T115000 UID:5C501E4B-3A49-48DE-A796-4FF9E056E219 SUMMARY:Juanita Brooks/Fawn Brodie: Who's the Real Historian? by Doug Alder CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1564 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Doug Alder. Alder will discuss the works of two prominent historians of Mormon history, Juanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203. \N\NBio: Douglas D. Alder, received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah in 1957 and 1959. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, in 1966. He did research for his doctoral dissertation on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Vienna. He was a professor of History at Utah State University from 1963 to 1986. He was appointed president of Dixie College and served from 1986 to 1993. He remained at Dixie, teaching History full-time until 1999. From 2002 to 2009 he was an adjunct professor there. Since then he has been doing historical research and writing. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Doug Alder. Alder will discuss the works of two prominent historians of Mormon history, Juanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203.

Bio: Douglas D. Alder, received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Utah in 1957 and 1959. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, in 1966. He did research for his doctoral dissertation on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Vienna. He was a professor of History at Utah State University from 1963 to 1986. He was appointed president of Dixie College and served from 1986 to 1993. He remained at Dixie, teaching History full-time until 1999. From 2002 to 2009 he was an adjunct professor there. Since then he has been doing historical research and writing.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T115000 UID:5FD9F3C3-FED1-4B22-9996-DB79DF87648E SUMMARY:The Importance of Writing Badly by Brock Diethier CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1565 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Brock Diethier. Diethier will discuss the Importance of Writing Badly. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 204. \N\NBio: Brock Dethier retired from Utah State University last June after forty-three years of teaching writing and writing teachers. He has published five books for college composition teachers and students, as well as two books of poems. His book 21 Genres and How to Write Them is a compilation of most of his best ideas about writing. He also won the 2006 Teacher of the Year Award for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences while at USU.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Brock Diethier. Diethier will discuss the Importance of Writing Badly. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 204.

Bio: Brock Dethier retired from Utah State University last June after forty-three years of teaching writing and writing teachers. He has published five books for college composition teachers and students, as well as two books of poems. His book 21 Genres and How to Write Them is a compilation of most of his best ideas about writing. He also won the 2006 Teacher of the Year Award for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences while at USU.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T115000 UID:5BAF6E34-610C-4AF4-9B77-351C48B8D608 SUMMARY:Signs You're Ready to Submit to a Publisher: Kathy Jenkins CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Kathryn Jenkins. Jenkins will discuss Signs you're ready to submit to a publisher. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 219. \N\NBio: Former managing editor at Covenant Communications, Kathryn Jenkins has more than forty-five years of experience with the written word, including serving as vice-president of a Salt Lake City publishing company and general and book editor at a university press. She is the author or co-author of more than a hundred published books, including an award-winning book-length poetry manuscript. She now serves as a consultant in all areas of publishing.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Kathryn Jenkins. Jenkins will discuss Signs you're ready to submit to a publisher. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 219.

Bio: Former managing editor at Covenant Communications, Kathryn Jenkins has more than forty-five years of experience with the written word, including serving as vice-president of a Salt Lake City publishing company and general and book editor at a university press. She is the author or co-author of more than a hundred published books, including an award-winning book-length poetry manuscript. She now serves as a consultant in all areas of publishing.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T125000 UID:B2AFCD15-22D8-41CA-9B71-59D72B059DCF SUMMARY:Signs You May Want to Self-Publish CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Kathryn Jenkins. Jenkins will discuss Signs You May Want to Self-Publish. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, Room 219. \N\NBio: Former managing editor at Covenant Communications, Kathryn Jenkins has more than forty-five years of experience with the written word, including serving as vice-president of a Salt Lake City publishing company and general and book editor at a university press. She is the author or co-author of more than a hundred published books, including an award-winning book-length poetry manuscript. She now serves as a consultant in all areas of publishing.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Kathryn Jenkins. Jenkins will discuss Signs You May Want to Self-Publish. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, Room 219.

Bio: Former managing editor at Covenant Communications, Kathryn Jenkins has more than forty-five years of experience with the written word, including serving as vice-president of a Salt Lake City publishing company and general and book editor at a university press. She is the author or co-author of more than a hundred published books, including an award-winning book-length poetry manuscript. She now serves as a consultant in all areas of publishing.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T125000 UID:264F2309-24D4-4E7C-92EC-1FD2C425508D SUMMARY:Making History Come Alive by Jerry Borrowman CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Jerry Borrowman. Borrowman will discuss how to make history come alive in your writing. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203. \N\NBio: Jerry Borrowman is an award-winning author of historical fiction, co-authored biography, and creative historical non-fiction. His seventeenth book was just published, Invisible Heroes of World War II by Shadow Mountain Press. Two of his books have won the George Washington Gold Medal for contributing to the cause of liberty. His sixteenth book, Compassionate Soldier, won the national Gold award from Foreword Reviews.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Jerry Borrowman. Borrowman will discuss how to make history come alive in your writing. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203.

Bio: Jerry Borrowman is an award-winning author of historical fiction, co-authored biography, and creative historical non-fiction. His seventeenth book was just published, Invisible Heroes of World War II by Shadow Mountain Press. Two of his books have won the George Washington Gold Medal for contributing to the cause of liberty. His sixteenth book, Compassionate Soldier, won the national Gold award from Foreword Reviews.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T125000 UID:801F1C04-B6B9-4EC7-A33B-F662F0549133 SUMMARY:What Makes a Strong Script by Debora Threedy CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Debora Threedy. Threedy will discuss what makes a strong script. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 220. \N\NBio: With degrees in theatre arts and law, Debora Threedy has had four full-length plays and several shorter pieces produced by Plan-B Theatre in Salt Lake. Two of her plays had public staged readings at the Utah Shakespeare Festival through its New American Playwrights Project, and her play The Third Crossing was one of the winners of the 2010 Fratti-Newman New Political Play contest in New York. The End of the Horizon will be produced at Kayenta next year.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Debora Threedy. Threedy will discuss what makes a strong script. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 220.

Bio: With degrees in theatre arts and law, Debora Threedy has had four full-length plays and several shorter pieces produced by Plan-B Theatre in Salt Lake. Two of her plays had public staged readings at the Utah Shakespeare Festival through its New American Playwrights Project, and her play The Third Crossing was one of the winners of the 2010 Fratti-Newman New Political Play contest in New York. The End of the Horizon will be produced at Kayenta next year.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T125000 UID:1D5ADCB1-C42D-461F-A29C-0CFCB62F6CCC SUMMARY:Using Myth and Fairy Tale in Poetry by Shanan Ballam CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Shanan Ballam. Ballam will discuss the use of myth and fairy tale in poetry. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 204. \N\NBio: Shanan Ballam is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers (published by Finishing Line, 2010), and two full-length poetry collections, Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability, 2015) and Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2019). With an MFA in Poetry Writing from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, she now teaches poetry writing, fiction writing, and composition for Utah State University. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Shanan Ballam. Ballam will discuss the use of myth and fairy tale in poetry. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 204.

Bio: Shanan Ballam is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers (published by Finishing Line, 2010), and two full-length poetry collections, Pretty Marrow (Negative Capability, 2015) and Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2019). With an MFA in Poetry Writing from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, she now teaches poetry writing, fiction writing, and composition for Utah State University.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T170000 UID:761B163F-A4D9-40B5-9EC9-90E3692BD03E SUMMARY:Alt Press Fest at The City Library CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1615 DESCRIPTION:Alt Press Fest showcases Utah’s vibrant alternative-press community. Featuring over forty zine creators, unique printing demonstrations, and creative activities for the whole family. Alt Press Fest is an annual celebration of zines, all forms of alternative press, and the awesome people who create in Salt Lake City. Besides browsing the creator booths, you can also pick up a zine with the CWC’s Zine Vending Machine, see demonstrations of gelatin printing, steamroller printing, and try out different creative activities.\N\NAlt Press is freedom, creativity, expression, and a little bit of anarchy. It’s DIY publishing, where creators have total control of their work from concept to production.\N\NThis event is made possible by the City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Alt Press Fest showcases Utah’s vibrant alternative-press community. Featuring over forty zine creators, unique printing demonstrations, and creative activities for the whole family. Alt Press Fest is an annual celebration of zines, all forms of alternative press, and the awesome people who create in Salt Lake City. Besides browsing the creator booths, you can also pick up a zine with the CWC’s Zine Vending Machine, see demonstrations of gelatin printing, steamroller printing, and try out different creative activities.

Alt Press is freedom, creativity, expression, and a little bit of anarchy. It’s DIY publishing, where creators have total control of their work from concept to production.

This event is made possible by the City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T145000 UID:1BAF3673-847E-476F-AE94-C22ED2E5BCBA SUMMARY:Socrates Cafe and How to Do It Right CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Christopher Phillips. Phillips will discuss Socrates Cafe, a gathering where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange thoughtful ideas and experiences. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203. \N\NBio: Christopher Phillips, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Democracy Café (DemocracyCafe.org), dedicated to making our world more connected, understanding, and participatory. Its flagship Socrates Café and Democracy Café endeavors continue to gain momentum worldwide after more than two decades, with recently established groups in: Qatif and Saihat, Saudi Arabia; Sujarat, India; Seoul, South Korea; and throughout Poland. He is the author of such works as the critically acclaimed Constitution Café: Jefferson’s Brew for a True Revolution, and bestsellers Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy and Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy, as well as children’s books, The Philosophers Club and Day of Why. His newest book, A Child at Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life is published in Spanish by Penguin Random House and by Skyhorse in English. He has been a Network Ethics Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Education Fellow at the National Constitution Center, and a Senior Writing and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He travels the globe giving presentations and workshops while currently working on two new book projects—one on spirituality and the other on democracy.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Christopher Phillips. Phillips will discuss Socrates Cafe, a gathering where people from different backgrounds get together and exchange thoughtful ideas and experiences. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203.

Bio: Christopher Phillips, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Democracy Café (DemocracyCafe.org), dedicated to making our world more connected, understanding, and participatory. Its flagship Socrates Café and Democracy Café endeavors continue to gain momentum worldwide after more than two decades, with recently established groups in: Qatif and Saihat, Saudi Arabia; Sujarat, India; Seoul, South Korea; and throughout Poland. He is the author of such works as the critically acclaimed Constitution Café: Jefferson’s Brew for a True Revolution, and bestsellers Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy and Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy, as well as children’s books, The Philosophers Club and Day of Why. His newest book, A Child at Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life is published in Spanish by Penguin Random House and by Skyhorse in English. He has been a Network Ethics Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Education Fellow at the National Constitution Center, and a Senior Writing and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He travels the globe giving presentations and workshops while currently working on two new book projects—one on spirituality and the other on democracy.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T155000 UID:31CB9CCE-5910-4E0C-B3FC-0B8858B8E568 SUMMARY:Writing Fiction that Sells by David Farland CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host David Farland. Farland will discuss writing fiction that sells. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 220. \N\NBio: David Farland is an international best-selling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award, Whitney Award, and the International Book Award. Best known for his New York Times best-selling fantasy series The Runelords, he is also the lead judge for one of the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy writing competitions, and has helped such writers as Brandon Sanderson, James Dashner, and Stephenie Meyer launch their careers.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, & Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host David Farland. Farland will discuss writing fiction that sells. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 220.

Bio: David Farland is an international best-selling author with over 50 novels in print. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Special Award, Whitney Award, and the International Book Award. Best known for his New York Times best-selling fantasy series The Runelords, he is also the lead judge for one of the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy writing competitions, and has helped such writers as Brandon Sanderson, James Dashner, and Stephenie Meyer launch their careers.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, & Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T145000 UID:2D944259-1D35-4C9F-AF9A-16257CD9E885 SUMMARY:The Poetry of Prose: Art of the Lyric Essay CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Cindy King. King will discuss the art of the lyric essay. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 204. \N\Nbio: Cindy King’s work has appeared in The Sun, Callaloo, North American Review, Gettysburg Review, Crab Orchard Review, River Styx, Back Warrior, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Zoonotic, her book-length poetry manuscript, will be published by Tinderbox Editions in 2020. Her chapbook, Easy Street, will be published by Dancing Girl Press in July 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Dixie State University and Faculty Editor of The Southern Quill. She serves on the Artistic Committee of the Blank Theatre in Hollywood, California, as a reader of scripts for the theter’s Living Room Series.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Cindy King. King will discuss the art of the lyric essay. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 204.

bio: Cindy King’s work has appeared in The Sun, Callaloo, North American Review, Gettysburg Review, Crab Orchard Review, River Styx, Back Warrior, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Zoonotic, her book-length poetry manuscript, will be published by Tinderbox Editions in 2020. Her chapbook, Easy Street, will be published by Dancing Girl Press in July 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Dixie State University and Faculty Editor of The Southern Quill. She serves on the Artistic Committee of the Blank Theatre in Hollywood, California, as a reader of scripts for the theter’s Living Room Series.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T145000 UID:5143286B-C1DD-486C-8C60-4D7DDE53F6E2 SUMMARY:Finding Your Brand, Building Your Markets CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Zack Lust. Lust will discuss how to find your brand and build your market. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 219. \N\NBio: Zach Lust is the CEO and Partner at Tenth Muse Design. With an accounting background, Zach found his passion in inspiring long-term growth with community focused businesses by aligning them with brand strategy. Working in St. George has allowed him to become an advocate for the entrepreneur. He believes in smart growth that holistically guides them in producing a strong brand, no matter the size of their business.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Zack Lust. Lust will discuss how to find your brand and build your market. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 219.

Bio: Zach Lust is the CEO and Partner at Tenth Muse Design. With an accounting background, Zach found his passion in inspiring long-term growth with community focused businesses by aligning them with brand strategy. Working in St. George has allowed him to become an advocate for the entrepreneur. He believes in smart growth that holistically guides them in producing a strong brand, no matter the size of their business.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T160000 UID:09FB161D-AD3A-48AF-B07A-8853F6A0092E SUMMARY:Utah Poet of the Year Markay Brown at the St. George Literary Arts Festival CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1485 DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival and the Utah State Poetry Society present Utah Poet of the Year Markay Brown on Saturday, October 12th at 3:00 PM in Room 204 of the Udvar-Hazy Building on the Dixie State University Campus. \N\NMarkay Brown was named Poet of the Year - 2019 for her collection of poetry entitled Planted in a Storm soon to be published by the Utah State Poetry Society as the Society’s most notable book of the year at the Utah State Poetry Spring Festival.\N \NBrown was awarded First Place in the 2014 Utah Original Writing Competition judged by Richard Howard of Columbia University for her poetry collection, Eve’s Child. Her poems have appeared in Segullah, Provo/Orem Word, Utah Life Magazine, 15 Bytes,\NEncore, Dove Song, Southern Quill and elsewhere. \N\NMarkay is a graduate of BYU, serves as President of Redrock Writers, member of the Dixie Poets, and Member of the Board of Directors for the annual St. George Literary Arts Festival. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, Heritage Writers Guild, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival and the Utah State Poetry Society present Utah Poet of the Year Markay Brown on Saturday, October 12th at 3:00 PM in Room 204 of the Udvar-Hazy Building on the Dixie State University Campus.

Markay Brown was named Poet of the Year - 2019 for her collection of poetry entitled Planted in a Storm soon to be published by the Utah State Poetry Society as the Society’s most notable book of the year at the Utah State Poetry Spring Festival.

Brown was awarded First Place in the 2014 Utah Original Writing Competition judged by Richard Howard of Columbia University for her poetry collection, Eve’s Child. Her poems have appeared in Segullah, Provo/Orem Word, Utah Life Magazine, 15 Bytes,
Encore, Dove Song, Southern Quill and elsewhere.

Markay is a graduate of BYU, serves as President of Redrock Writers, member of the Dixie Poets, and Member of the Board of Directors for the annual St. George Literary Arts Festival.

This event is made possible with support from the Utah State Poetry Society, Heritage Writers Guild, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T155000 UID:B4C6B3E3-F539-451C-88AB-933DD4CF5455 SUMMARY:Writing Personal Histories Your Family will Read CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Ann Cannon. Cannon will discuss how to write personal histories your family will read. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203. \N\NBio: Ann Cannon is an advice columnist and the author of I’ll Tell You What, a collection of columns about her family life and famous father published in the Salt Lake Tribune. She has also written a number of award-winning books for young readers, including Charlotte’s Rose. She works as a part-time bookseller at The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake and frequently teaches creative writing and memoir classes.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Ann Cannon. Cannon will discuss how to write personal histories your family will read. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 203.

Bio: Ann Cannon is an advice columnist and the author of I’ll Tell You What, a collection of columns about her family life and famous father published in the Salt Lake Tribune. She has also written a number of award-winning books for young readers, including Charlotte’s Rose. She works as a part-time bookseller at The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake and frequently teaches creative writing and memoir classes.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T155000 UID:FC883F2F-9B7E-43F5-A7C5-DACD1C782B34 SUMMARY:What is this Novel Really Saying? by Tanya Parker Mills CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.stgeorgelitartsfest.org/ DESCRIPTION:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Tanya Parker Mills. Mills will discuss innovative strategies for reading novels. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 219. \N\NBio: Tanya Parker Mills is an award-winning author and a bookseller, having opened The Book Bungalow in downtown St. George only last year. Her first novel, The Reckoning, won the Indie Next Book Award for Multicultural Fiction in 2009 and the 2010 Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Award for Mainstream/Literary Fiction. Both her first and second novels (A Night on Moon Hill) were Whitney Award Finalists.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The St. George Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce they will host Tanya Parker Mills. Mills will discuss innovative strategies for reading novels. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the DSU Udvar-Hazy Building, room 219.

Bio: Tanya Parker Mills is an award-winning author and a bookseller, having opened The Book Bungalow in downtown St. George only last year. Her first novel, The Reckoning, won the Indie Next Book Award for Multicultural Fiction in 2009 and the 2010 Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Award for Mainstream/Literary Fiction. Both her first and second novels (A Night on Moon Hill) were Whitney Award Finalists.

This event is made possible with support from the Heritage Writers Guild, Dixie State University, the St. George Arts Commission, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T203000 UID:0793DAB9-D37E-4D37-A15F-7F61FAB52A3B SUMMARY:Centennial Family Ball CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1647 DESCRIPTION:Bring the family and kick up your heels at the Orem Centennial Family Ball. Come dressed as your favorite literary character or historical figure (no masks or weapons) and enjoy musical hits from the last 100 years.\N\NThis event is made possible with the support of Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bring the family and kick up your heels at the Orem Centennial Family Ball. Come dressed as your favorite literary character or historical figure (no masks or weapons) and enjoy musical hits from the last 100 years.

This event is made possible with the support of Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191012T210000 UID:18A8D5FA-7794-4A70-B411-7818A41BBBA7 SUMMARY:Weller Book Works welcomes Kris Millgate CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1696 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works welcome Kris Millgate, as she reads and signs My Place Among Men, Saturday, October 12, at 7 PM.\NKris Millgate has covered outdoor news nationwide for more than two decades. In that time, she;'s earned credibility, trust and praise, but her most significant achievement is finding her place among men.\N\NMy Place Among Men explores the reality of a woman working in a man’s world. Each chapter examines an actual news story Kris covered while also revealing the humorous and awkward interaction between genders on assignment.\NAlong with legitimate natural resource issues and real people antics, there is the intrigue of the Wild West. Its wildlife and wild lands fascinate people worldwide. From under Utah’s Green River to over Idaho’s highest peaks, the descriptive narrative takes readers on unreal, yet true, adventures. Read about tracking grizzlies, hiding under sagebrush and fighting over public land in this memoir. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works welcome Kris Millgate, as she reads and signs My Place Among Men, Saturday, October 12, at 7 PM.
Kris Millgate has covered outdoor news nationwide for more than two decades. In that time, she;'s earned credibility, trust and praise, but her most significant achievement is finding her place among men.

My Place Among Men explores the reality of a woman working in a man’s world. Each chapter examines an actual news story Kris covered while also revealing the humorous and awkward interaction between genders on assignment.
Along with legitimate natural resource issues and real people antics, there is the intrigue of the Wild West. Its wildlife and wild lands fascinate people worldwide. From under Utah’s Green River to over Idaho’s highest peaks, the descriptive narrative takes readers on unreal, yet true, adventures. Read about tracking grizzlies, hiding under sagebrush and fighting over public land in this memoir. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191014T190000 UID:F94A942D-7A15-40CB-8462-A1E142798AC7 SUMMARY:Tiny Bus Concert with the Family Trade CREATED:20260416T080138Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080138Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1706 DESCRIPTION:Join Brian Laidlaw and Ashley Hanson from the folk-Americana band the Family Trade for a Happy Hour performance in front of their traveling venue, Gus the Bus - a little yellow school bus - and learn more about what they have planned for their time in Green River.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Brian Laidlaw and Ashley Hanson from the folk-Americana band the Family Trade for a Happy Hour performance in front of their traveling venue, Gus the Bus - a little yellow school bus - and learn more about what they have planned for their time in Green River.

This event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191014T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191014T000000 UID:C5B65D5C-0380-43F4-8B71-EAD884228A25 SUMMARY:Shane Burcaw/Kate Aylward CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1589 DESCRIPTION:Shane Burcaw is an author, blogger, and co-creator of the non-profit, Laughing at My Nightmare. His latest book, "Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse," is a collection of non-fiction essays about the day-to-day life with a degenerative disease, family, and love. Experience Burcaw's wit, humor, and grace as he and his fiance talk about awkward assumptions and situations. Speaking with Shane, is Hannah Aylward, his fiance and co-author of their next book, "Interabled" (2021). \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Shane Burcaw is an author, blogger, and co-creator of the non-profit, Laughing at My Nightmare. His latest book, "Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse," is a collection of non-fiction essays about the day-to-day life with a degenerative disease, family, and love. Experience Burcaw's wit, humor, and grace as he and his fiance talk about awkward assumptions and situations. Speaking with Shane, is Hannah Aylward, his fiance and co-author of their next book, "Interabled" (2021).

This event is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T210000 UID:9727B8DD-1624-450B-9D08-3D4D53A9716B SUMMARY:7th Annual Sor Juana Awards CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1520 DESCRIPTION:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Seventh Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories on Thursday, October 10th at 6:00 PM in the 4th floor conference room of The City Library. \N\NThis year, prizes will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah (eight prizes in total), in the following categories: Category I for those whose primary language at home is Spanish and, Category II for those who speak Spanish as a second language. The Sor Juana Prizes are the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish.\N\NFor more info, contact Artes de Mexico en Utah at: www.admin@artesmexut.org\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Seventh Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories on Thursday, October 10th at 6:00 PM in the 4th floor conference room of The City Library.

This year, prizes will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah (eight prizes in total), in the following categories: Category I for those whose primary language at home is Spanish and, Category II for those who speak Spanish as a second language. The Sor Juana Prizes are the first state-wide prize for original writing in Spanish.

For more info, contact Artes de Mexico en Utah at: www.admin@artesmexut.org

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 UID:9487AECF-4BCA-4B33-BEB6-97CF8B85BD20 SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Workshop: Inspired CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1668 DESCRIPTION:The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Persona Poems. A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using the imagined voice of another person, place, or thing. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\Nhttps://rockcanyonpoets.com/2019/08/31/inspired-a-free-community-poetry-writing-workshop-sign-up-soon-space-is-limited-2/\N\NThis event is made possible through the support of Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Persona Poems. A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using the imagined voice of another person, place, or thing. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two sessions, followed by a reception and poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

https://rockcanyonpoets.com/2019/08/31/inspired-a-free-community-poetry-writing-workshop-sign-up-soon-space-is-limited-2/

This event is made possible through the support of Rock Canyon Poets and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T203000 UID:7803AAFA-BE80-49B3-B7AE-B874B18D30EF SUMMARY:Hometown Ballad Songwriting Workshop with Brian Laidlaw and Ashley Hanson CREATED:20260416T080138Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080138Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1707 DESCRIPTION:Join Brian Laidlaw and Ashley Hanson for a free, public, all-ages songwriting workshop focused on exploring and celebrating connection to home, place, and Green River. Participants will learn new songwriting craft skills, participate in collaborative song-writing, and leave with the start (or completion) of a new Hometown Ballad!\N\NThis event is made possible through Epicenter and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Brian Laidlaw and Ashley Hanson for a free, public, all-ages songwriting workshop focused on exploring and celebrating connection to home, place, and Green River. Participants will learn new songwriting craft skills, participate in collaborative song-writing, and leave with the start (or completion) of a new Hometown Ballad!

This event is made possible through Epicenter and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T210000 UID:77BAC0FB-6A78-4314-93C0-79AFD0F7AE25 SUMMARY:Poets Z.G. Tomaszaewski and Laura Stott Rogers at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1537 DESCRIPTION:Poets Z.G. Tomaszewski and Laura Stott Rogers share their work at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00 PM. \N\NZ.G. Tomaszewski has three published works; "River Nocturne," “All Things Dusk ” an International Poetry Prize winner selected by Li-Young Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press in 2015 as well as the chapbook “Mineral Whisper” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Tomaszewski currently resides in the midwest lending his hands to preventative maintenance in historical spaces. Because traveling tends to offer such a wealth of creative inspiration and fresh perspective, he spends much of his free time applying for artist residencies, reading (and re-reading) books from his private home-library, occasionally stopping to write on hiking trails and giving readings as well as poetry lectures when time allows. When there’s a pause in that routine, Tomaszewski can be found making music, tending to the garden, listening to the porch chimes with his lips to a cup of perfumed green tea, rummaging through thrift stores with a ponderous agenda and going for long drives exercising his northern-eyes pointing out every red-tail hawk, deer and sandhill crane in sight to his lover.\N\NLaura Stott holds an M.F.A. from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers (Eastern Washington University) and teaches at Weber State University. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Redactions, Sugar House Review, and Rock and Sling.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Z.G. Tomaszewski and Laura Stott Rogers share their work at the Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:00 PM.

Z.G. Tomaszewski has three published works; "River Nocturne," “All Things Dusk ” an International Poetry Prize winner selected by Li-Young Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press in 2015 as well as the chapbook “Mineral Whisper” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Tomaszewski currently resides in the midwest lending his hands to preventative maintenance in historical spaces. Because traveling tends to offer such a wealth of creative inspiration and fresh perspective, he spends much of his free time applying for artist residencies, reading (and re-reading) books from his private home-library, occasionally stopping to write on hiking trails and giving readings as well as poetry lectures when time allows. When there’s a pause in that routine, Tomaszewski can be found making music, tending to the garden, listening to the porch chimes with his lips to a cup of perfumed green tea, rummaging through thrift stores with a ponderous agenda and going for long drives exercising his northern-eyes pointing out every red-tail hawk, deer and sandhill crane in sight to his lover.

Laura Stott holds an M.F.A. from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers (Eastern Washington University) and teaches at Weber State University. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cutbank, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, Redactions, Sugar House Review, and Rock and Sling.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 UID:9BF28E03-66FE-461A-A855-EB80FD8C61C4 SUMMARY:Teen Book Discussion and JM Sullivan Visit CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1607 DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an evening exploring Second Star, a newly published young adult novel, with the author herself J. M. Sullivan. Discuss this riveting space opera retelling of Peter Pan and learn about the writing process.\N\NBeginning September 23, fifteen free copies will be given to teens ages 12-18 on a first come basis. Books will be available for purchase at the program. Please call 801-337-2690 or visit the reference desk with any questions. \N\NThis program was made possible by Weber Book Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities.. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Enjoy an evening exploring Second Star, a newly published young adult novel, with the author herself J. M. Sullivan. Discuss this riveting space opera retelling of Peter Pan and learn about the writing process.

Beginning September 23, fifteen free copies will be given to teens ages 12-18 on a first come basis. Books will be available for purchase at the program. Please call 801-337-2690 or visit the reference desk with any questions.

This program was made possible by Weber Book Links, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities..
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 UID:E180229C-2542-4DBE-8470-8D3DC4A8EF0E SUMMARY:The Future of Poetry: Danielle Dubrasky and Natalie Young CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1622 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University is happy to host Danielle Dubrasky and Lee Modesitt to discuss the Future of Poetry in the SUU library. \N\NDanielle Beazer Dubrasky’s poetry has been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill&Parchment. She is the author of the chapbook “Ruin and Light” selected by Anabiosis Press and a limited edition art book “Invisible Shores” published through Red Butte Press. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Southern Utah University where she directs an Ecopoetry and Place writing conference. \N\NThis event is made possible by Southern Utah University. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University is happy to host Danielle Dubrasky and Lee Modesitt to discuss the Future of Poetry in the SUU library.

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky’s poetry has been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill&Parchment. She is the author of the chapbook “Ruin and Light” selected by Anabiosis Press and a limited edition art book “Invisible Shores” published through Red Butte Press. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Southern Utah University where she directs an Ecopoetry and Place writing conference.

This event is made possible by Southern Utah University. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191015T000000 UID:6AECF7E2-3EC2-4CC3-A748-4AD5858631D8 SUMMARY:Brigham City Writers CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1664 DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Library is excited to launch the Brigham City Writers Anthology: Spirals. \N \NAuthors include: E.B. Wheeler, Keri Montgomery, McKel Jensen, Dede Mattix, Kathy Davidson, Betti Avari, Mike Nelson, Rachael Jessop, Alice M. Batzel, Valerie Odenthal, and Steve Odenthal.\N \NBook sales and signing at this event!\N \NSpirals is a collection of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction that features multiple works by eleven authors in the Northern Utah writing community. The book includes ideas both real and imagined, humor and fear, lighthearted stories and darker tales, and the distant future and nostalgic past.\N \NThe Brigham City Writers is a chapter of the League of Utah Writers.\N\NThis event is made possible by Brigham City Writers and Brigham City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Library is excited to launch the Brigham City Writers Anthology: Spirals.
 
Authors include: E.B. Wheeler, Keri Montgomery, McKel Jensen, Dede Mattix, Kathy Davidson, Betti Avari, Mike Nelson, Rachael Jessop, Alice M. Batzel, Valerie Odenthal, and Steve Odenthal.
 
Book sales and signing at this event!
 
Spirals is a collection of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction that features multiple works by eleven authors in the Northern Utah writing community. The book includes ideas both real and imagined, humor and fear, lighthearted stories and darker tales, and the distant future and nostalgic past.
 
The Brigham City Writers is a chapter of the League of Utah Writers.

This event is made possible by Brigham City Writers and Brigham City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191016T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191016T000000 UID:145C20BC-98FB-4D6C-ACA9-900613910783 SUMMARY:Annual Author Luncheon CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1590 DESCRIPTION:Leslie MIller, Park City resident and editor of "Reimagining: A Place for the Wild" is the featured speaker at the Annual Friends of the Library Luncehon at Silver Lake Lodge. To purchase tickets, ask a librarian or visit parkcitylibrary.org/about/friends-of-the-library. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Leslie MIller, Park City resident and editor of "Reimagining: A Place for the Wild" is the featured speaker at the Annual Friends of the Library Luncehon at Silver Lake Lodge. To purchase tickets, ask a librarian or visit parkcitylibrary.org/about/friends-of-the-library.

This event is made possible with support from the Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191016T210000 UID:AD158B11-5840-4A2D-ABC0-E31BCEFB5E42 SUMMARY:Rebecca Lawton at Back of Beyond Books CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1516 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press and the Back of Beyond Books present essayist Rebecca Lawton at the bookshop on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 PM. \N\NRebecca Lawton is a Western author, fluvial geologist, and former Colorado River guide. Her books about water and river subcultures include Reading Water: Lessons from the River (San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year Finalist). Her pieces for general audiences have been published in Aeon, Audubon, Brevity, Hakai, Orion, Shenandoah, Sierra, Undark, and many other journals. Her creative writing honors include a 2014/15 Fulbright Scholarship, the 2006 (inaugural) Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, the 2015 (inaugural) Waterston Desert Writing Prize, a 2014 WILLA award for original softcover fiction, Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and residencies at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers, The Island Institute, and PLAYA. She lives at the Cascade Mountain-Great Basin interface in Summer Lake, Oregon, where she directs PLAYA’s residency program for artists, writers, and scientists.\N\NIn her new essay collection, The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West, Lawton shows the deep connections between human need for refuge and nature’s birthright of water, shade, and sustenance.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press and the Back of Beyond Books present essayist Rebecca Lawton at the bookshop on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 PM.

Rebecca Lawton is a Western author, fluvial geologist, and former Colorado River guide. Her books about water and river subcultures include Reading Water: Lessons from the River (San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year Finalist). Her pieces for general audiences have been published in Aeon, Audubon, Brevity, Hakai, Orion, Shenandoah, Sierra, Undark, and many other journals. Her creative writing honors include a 2014/15 Fulbright Scholarship, the 2006 (inaugural) Ellen Meloy Fund Award for Desert Writers, the 2015 (inaugural) Waterston Desert Writing Prize, a 2014 WILLA award for original softcover fiction, Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and residencies at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers, The Island Institute, and PLAYA. She lives at the Cascade Mountain-Great Basin interface in Summer Lake, Oregon, where she directs PLAYA’s residency program for artists, writers, and scientists.

In her new essay collection, The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West, Lawton shows the deep connections between human need for refuge and nature’s birthright of water, shade, and sustenance.

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191016T000000 UID:76B6B853-3519-4A47-B68B-ECFBD71B5885 SUMMARY:Z.G. Tomaszewski & Paisley Rekdal at City Art CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1538 DESCRIPTION:City Art is pleased to welcome Z.G. Tomszewski and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal on Wednesday, October 16th at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Special Collections of the City Library. \N\NZ.G. Tomaszewski has three published works; "River Nocturne," “All Things Dusk ” an International Poetry Prize winner selected by Li-Young Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press in 2015 as well as the chapbook “Mineral Whisper” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Tomaszewski currently resides in the midwest lending his hands to preventative maintenance in historical spaces. Because traveling tends to offer such a wealth of creative inspiration and fresh perspective, he spends much of his free time applying for artist residencies, reading (and re-reading) books from his private home-library, occasionally stopping to write on hiking trails and giving readings as well as poetry lectures when time allows. When there’s a pause in that routine, Tomaszewski can be found making music, tending to the garden, listening to the porch chimes with his lips to a cup of perfumed green tea, rummaging through thrift stores with a ponderous agenda and going for long drives exercising his northern-eyes pointing out every red-tail hawk, deer and sandhill crane in sight to his lover.\N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and six books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and Nightingale. She is also the author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Appropriate: A Provocation, a book-length essay examining cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.\N\NHer work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art is pleased to welcome Z.G. Tomszewski and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal on Wednesday, October 16th at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Special Collections of the City Library.

Z.G. Tomaszewski has three published works; "River Nocturne," “All Things Dusk ” an International Poetry Prize winner selected by Li-Young Lee and published by Hong Kong University Press in 2015 as well as the chapbook “Mineral Whisper” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Tomaszewski currently resides in the midwest lending his hands to preventative maintenance in historical spaces. Because traveling tends to offer such a wealth of creative inspiration and fresh perspective, he spends much of his free time applying for artist residencies, reading (and re-reading) books from his private home-library, occasionally stopping to write on hiking trails and giving readings as well as poetry lectures when time allows. When there’s a pause in that routine, Tomaszewski can be found making music, tending to the garden, listening to the porch chimes with his lips to a cup of perfumed green tea, rummaging through thrift stores with a ponderous agenda and going for long drives exercising his northern-eyes pointing out every red-tail hawk, deer and sandhill crane in sight to his lover.

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and six books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and Nightingale. She is also the author of The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Appropriate: A Provocation, a book-length essay examining cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative’s Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others. She teaches at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web project Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate.

This event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191017T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191017T000000 UID:99A70263-76D1-4D32-ABAB-9A258995BDEA SUMMARY:Javier Zamora & Diane Williams CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1616 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series is happy to host Diane Williams and Javier Zamora at the Finch Lane Gallery. \N\NJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His first full-length collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, September 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. \N\NDiane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of nine books, including The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, published by Soho Press in 2018.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Finch Lane Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series is happy to host Diane Williams and Javier Zamora at the Finch Lane Gallery.

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His first full-length collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, September 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.

Diane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of nine books, including The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, published by Soho Press in 2018.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Finch Lane Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191018T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191018T000000 UID:25927FFF-1F7D-4E07-B208-40F0E5657277 SUMMARY:Diane Williams and Javier Zamora at the Finch Lane Gallery CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1652 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series is happy to host Diane Williams and Javier Zamora at the Finch Lane Gallery. The Guest Writers Series will bring the pizza; you bring your burning questions. \N\NJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His first full-length collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, September 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. \N\NDiane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of nine books, including The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, published by Soho Press in 2018.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Finch Lane Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series is happy to host Diane Williams and Javier Zamora at the Finch Lane Gallery. The Guest Writers Series will bring the pizza; you bring your burning questions.

Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His first full-length collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, September 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.

Diane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of nine books, including The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, published by Soho Press in 2018.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, Finch Lane Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191018T210000 UID:F6954D9D-15DB-48AC-BCF8-031001A84CEE SUMMARY:Craig Childs, Zak Podmore, and Amy Irvine at Star Hall CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1541 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press and Back of Beyond Books present authors Craig Childs, Amy Irvine, and Zak Podmore at Star Hall on Friday, October 18th at 7:00 PM. Childs, Irvine, and Podmore will discuss their new books out from Torrey House Press. \N\NCraig Childs:\N\NWriter and adventurer Craig Childs dwells upon desert icons—human, animal, and otherwise—in these contemplative and visceral essays.\N\NFrom the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.\N\NAmy Irvine: \N\NAs Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.\N\NZak Podmore: \N\NAfter losing his river-running mother to cancer, author and paddler Zak Podmore disappears into the American West’s iconic canyon country to heal. What he finds is a wilderness infused with personal stories, as well as a landscape strained by political, environmental, and cultural tensions. A trip down the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park leads to a confrontation with US immigration policy. While canoeing down a rare release of water in the Colorado River delta, Podmore questions the economic foundations of Western water management. He reports on uranium tailings near the San Juan River, dam removals on Washington’s Elwha River, and a tourist development in the Grand Canyon. Moving and provocative, CONFLUENCE follows in the tradition of Thoreau or Edward Abbey — it takes us into the wild but always has one eye turned back toward the blessings and ills of civilization.\N\NThis event made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Back of Beyond Books, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press and Back of Beyond Books present authors Craig Childs, Amy Irvine, and Zak Podmore at Star Hall on Friday, October 18th at 7:00 PM. Childs, Irvine, and Podmore will discuss their new books out from Torrey House Press.

Craig Childs:

Writer and adventurer Craig Childs dwells upon desert icons—human, animal, and otherwise—in these contemplative and visceral essays.

From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.

Amy Irvine:

As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.

Zak Podmore:

After losing his river-running mother to cancer, author and paddler Zak Podmore disappears into the American West’s iconic canyon country to heal. What he finds is a wilderness infused with personal stories, as well as a landscape strained by political, environmental, and cultural tensions. A trip down the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park leads to a confrontation with US immigration policy. While canoeing down a rare release of water in the Colorado River delta, Podmore questions the economic foundations of Western water management. He reports on uranium tailings near the San Juan River, dam removals on Washington’s Elwha River, and a tourist development in the Grand Canyon. Moving and provocative, CONFLUENCE follows in the tradition of Thoreau or Edward Abbey — it takes us into the wild but always has one eye turned back toward the blessings and ills of civilization.

This event made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Back of Beyond Books, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191018T000000 UID:722EB6E6-E80C-47BB-BA3A-3E69F1201F8D SUMMARY:15 Bytes Book Awards in Poetry CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1692 DESCRIPTION:Artists of Utah presents the 15 Bytes Book Award for Non-fiction. This year's book award winner Rob Carney will read alongside finalists Lance Larsen. \N\NTacey Atsitty’s poetry has an exceptionally strong connection to place in a bone-dry desert landscape inhabited by modern-day Navajos and Mormons as well as ghosts of the past. Rain scald is a skin disease that horses get from too much moisture, or as Atsitty writes, when standing (in rain) for so long, you no longer hear/ or feel it falling — you believe it’s stopped. Step away — Her words pull the reader across a cultural boundary using imagery and metaphors drawn from a Navajo worldview. \N\NLance Larsen’s What the Body Knows is a dazzling array of anaphoric prose poems, interspersed with poems with questions and answers, allowing the poet’s trust of sudden thought and language to jolt him away, trust what the brain sparks, what the body has retained, and to feel the present more wholly. This book doesn’t flinch. Its poems are searchlights for where he is in the moment, where wild connections and memories surface, in a voice that loves honesty and humor.\N\NThe Book of Sharks reads like Apocrypha; the language feels like it earned something from time or is itself infused with time. This book brings the sharks to you alive and swimming all the while invoking the prehistoric flavors and fears that sharks invoke in us. \N\NThis event is made possible by Artists of Utah 15 Bytes, The Printed Garden, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artists of Utah presents the 15 Bytes Book Award for Non-fiction. This year's book award winner Rob Carney will read alongside finalists Lance Larsen.

Tacey Atsitty’s poetry has an exceptionally strong connection to place in a bone-dry desert landscape inhabited by modern-day Navajos and Mormons as well as ghosts of the past. Rain scald is a skin disease that horses get from too much moisture, or as Atsitty writes, when standing (in rain) for so long, you no longer hear/ or feel it falling — you believe it’s stopped. Step away — Her words pull the reader across a cultural boundary using imagery and metaphors drawn from a Navajo worldview.

Lance Larsen’s What the Body Knows is a dazzling array of anaphoric prose poems, interspersed with poems with questions and answers, allowing the poet’s trust of sudden thought and language to jolt him away, trust what the brain sparks, what the body has retained, and to feel the present more wholly. This book doesn’t flinch. Its poems are searchlights for where he is in the moment, where wild connections and memories surface, in a voice that loves honesty and humor.

The Book of Sharks reads like Apocrypha; the language feels like it earned something from time or is itself infused with time. This book brings the sharks to you alive and swimming all the while invoking the prehistoric flavors and fears that sharks invoke in us.

This event is made possible by Artists of Utah 15 Bytes, The Printed Garden, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191021T000000 UID:7D61F238-CDEB-4EAF-9F11-9EC349360368 SUMMARY:Diana Delgado and Leticia Hernandez Linares CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1649 DESCRIPTION:The Glendale Library is please to welcome poets Diana Delgado and Leticia Hernández-Linares. After the reading, there will be a Q&A discussion moderated by youth poet Chelsea Guevara. \N\NSet in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley, Diana Marie Delgado’s debut poetry collection follows the coming-of-age of a young Mexican-American woman trying to make sense of who she is amidst a family and community weighted by violence and addiction. With bracing vulnerability, the collection chronicles the effects of her father’s addiction and her brother’s incarceration, asking the reader to consider reclamation and the power of the self.\N\NLeticia Hernández-Linares is an educator, interdisciplinary artist, and author of the poetry collection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press, 2015). She is also the co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published, her work appears in collections and journals such as Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, Street Art San Francisco, This Bridge We Call Home, Huizache, and Pilgrimage. A 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate, she is the recipient of four San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grants, and has received support from the Creative Work Fund and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. A long time community worker and Mission resident, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Visit her: joinleticia.com\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Glendale Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Glendale Library is please to welcome poets Diana Delgado and Leticia Hernández-Linares. After the reading, there will be a Q&A discussion moderated by youth poet Chelsea Guevara.

Set in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley, Diana Marie Delgado’s debut poetry collection follows the coming-of-age of a young Mexican-American woman trying to make sense of who she is amidst a family and community weighted by violence and addiction. With bracing vulnerability, the collection chronicles the effects of her father’s addiction and her brother’s incarceration, asking the reader to consider reclamation and the power of the self.

Leticia Hernández-Linares is an educator, interdisciplinary artist, and author of the poetry collection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press, 2015). She is also the co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published, her work appears in collections and journals such as Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, Street Art San Francisco, This Bridge We Call Home, Huizache, and Pilgrimage. A 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate, she is the recipient of four San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grants, and has received support from the Creative Work Fund and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. A long time community worker and Mission resident, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Visit her: joinleticia.com

This event is made possible with support from Glendale Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191022T000000 UID:D39C6C33-BB3F-4F10-AC17-9ADBF6EE2E76 SUMMARY:Janet Johnson: The Evolution of a Picture Book CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#johnson DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Library is happy to host Janet Johnson on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm. Johnson will be presenting The Evolution of a Picture Book: from idea to reality.\N \NPicture books are enjoyed by young children, older children, and even adults. Despite the seemingly simplistic storytelling, picture books are complicated and involve a lot of people to bring it to life. Author Janet Sumner Johnson will discuss the behind-the-scenes workings of creating a picture book from idea, through the submission process, to working with an editor and illustrator. If you've ever had questions such as whether an author needs to be (or know) an illustrator to get published, or how much input an author has on the images, you won't want to miss this presentation!\N \NJanet Sumner Johnson lives in Logan, Utah with her husband and three kids. She sings in the shower, attends dance parties in her kitchen, and ruthlessly beats her kids at card games. Though her full-time occupation as evil tyrant/benevolent dictator (aka mom) takes most of her time, she sneaks in writing at night when her inner funny bone is fully unleashed. She is the author of the middle grade book The Last Great Adventure of the PB&J Society (Capstone, 2016), and the soon-to-be-released picture book Help Wanted: Must Love Books (Capstone, March 2020). You can learn more about her at her website: janetsumnerjohnson.com\N \NThis event is brought to you by Brigham City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Library is happy to host Janet Johnson on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm. Johnson will be presenting The Evolution of a Picture Book: from idea to reality.

Picture books are enjoyed by young children, older children, and even adults. Despite the seemingly simplistic storytelling, picture books are complicated and involve a lot of people to bring it to life. Author Janet Sumner Johnson will discuss the behind-the-scenes workings of creating a picture book from idea, through the submission process, to working with an editor and illustrator. If you've ever had questions such as whether an author needs to be (or know) an illustrator to get published, or how much input an author has on the images, you won't want to miss this presentation!
 
Janet Sumner Johnson lives in Logan, Utah with her husband and three kids. She sings in the shower, attends dance parties in her kitchen, and ruthlessly beats her kids at card games. Though her full-time occupation as evil tyrant/benevolent dictator (aka mom) takes most of her time, she sneaks in writing at night when her inner funny bone is fully unleashed. She is the author of the middle grade book The Last Great Adventure of the PB&J Society (Capstone, 2016), and the soon-to-be-released picture book Help Wanted: Must Love Books (Capstone, March 2020). You can learn more about her at her website: janetsumnerjohnson.com
 
This event is brought to you by Brigham City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191022T000000 UID:0D6F9020-CDE3-4E17-ADD8-C3420E7A5D13 SUMMARY:Queen Bee Bookstore Presents Jessica Jones CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1676 DESCRIPTION:The Queen Bee Bookstore is happy to host paranormal writer and investigator Jennifer Jones. \N\NFrom Ogden up to Logan, northern Utah claims more than its fair share of restless spirits. The Ben Lomond Hotel was rumored to be the site of a honeymooning bride who tragically drowned in her bathtub, only to have her distraught son consequently commit suicide in the adjoining room. The iconic Union Station still houses passengers in the form of apparitions and disembodied voices. The owner of the Shooting Star Saloon purportedly continues to monkey around with the jukebox and a phantom piano, while Crystal Hot Springs hosts a bevy of spirits, including a crying child, a stabbing victim and multiple pool-related fatalities. Author Jennifer Jones unearths the stories behind the ghosts that continue to preside over their final destinations.\N\NThis event is made possible by The Queen Bee and Weber Book Links!\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Queen Bee Bookstore is happy to host paranormal writer and investigator Jennifer Jones.

From Ogden up to Logan, northern Utah claims more than its fair share of restless spirits. The Ben Lomond Hotel was rumored to be the site of a honeymooning bride who tragically drowned in her bathtub, only to have her distraught son consequently commit suicide in the adjoining room. The iconic Union Station still houses passengers in the form of apparitions and disembodied voices. The owner of the Shooting Star Saloon purportedly continues to monkey around with the jukebox and a phantom piano, while Crystal Hot Springs hosts a bevy of spirits, including a crying child, a stabbing victim and multiple pool-related fatalities. Author Jennifer Jones unearths the stories behind the ghosts that continue to preside over their final destinations.

This event is made possible by The Queen Bee and Weber Book Links!
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191023T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191023T150000 UID:71295CEB-F1C3-4E07-B463-4147C3DC287C SUMMARY:Robin Wall Kimmerer at Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1487 DESCRIPTION:Utah State University hosts a reading from renowned author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer on October 23rd at 1:30 pm in Room 101 of the Merrill Cazier Library.\N\NRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Trippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State University hosts a reading from renowned author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer on October 23rd at 1:30 pm in Room 101 of the Merrill Cazier Library.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Trippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191023T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191023T000000 UID:DFDE4108-2009-41FE-AE9B-B1703F2AE7A5 SUMMARY:Robin Wall Kimmerer at Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1488 DESCRIPTION:The Ecology Center at USU is pleased to present author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer. Kimmerer will give a presentation on her work on October 23rd at 4:00 pm in Room 133 of the Life Sciences Building (LSB) on the Utah State University campus. \N\NRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Trippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ecology Center at USU is pleased to present author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer. Kimmerer will give a presentation on her work on October 23rd at 4:00 pm in Room 133 of the Life Sciences Building (LSB) on the Utah State University campus.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Trippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191023T203000 UID:C1A7F7B9-A56C-4E57-B9FA-885C491D3F11 SUMMARY:Spooky Stories around the Campfire with the Authors of Haunted Salt Lake City! CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1698 DESCRIPTION:Join us around the campfire, Wednesday, October 23, at 6 PM, as Laurie Allen, Cassie Ashton, Kristen Clay & Nannette Watts share spooky stories from Haunted Salt Lake City! FREE tote bag with purchase!\N\NA campfire inside Weller Book Works? YES! Campfire treats? YES! Spooky stories about local hauntings told by four authors around a campfire? YES! Don't forget your FREE tote bag*, terrific for your trick-or-treating adventures. A perfect way for you and your family to kick off the Halloween season!\N\NAbout Haunted Salt Lake City:\N\NUncovering ghost stories in Salt Lake City leads to a spooky mixture of legend, lore and local history. A young female apparition likes to surprise guests of the McCune Mansion by leaping from a mirror. Believed to be stationed at Fort Douglas, a Civil War vet named Clem still teases female visitors. Staff at the historic Devereaux Mansion, once a major social center, relented in their vain nightly attempts to keep the lights off and let the spirits continue their eternal party. And nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Cross still visit patients in the hospital they established. The guides of Story Tours' Salt Lake City Ghost Tour reveal characters who just can't seem to leave the valley.\N\NAbout the authors:\N\NStoryteller Kristen Clay is the creator and director of Story Tours: Ogden and Salt Lake City Ghost Tours and Hysterical History Tours. Laurie Allen manages Ogden Story Tours and has been with Ogden and SLC Tours since its inception; she also tells American history stories. Cassie Howard-Ashton told stories with SLC Tours for more than ten years. She is a relationship coach and committee chair for the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. Nannette Watts manages SLC Story Tours. She is the author of Youth Tell and a director of National Youth Storytelling with Timpanogos Storytelling.\N\NThe storytelling will be followed by a signing.\N\N*with purchase. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us around the campfire, Wednesday, October 23, at 6 PM, as Laurie Allen, Cassie Ashton, Kristen Clay & Nannette Watts share spooky stories from Haunted Salt Lake City! FREE tote bag with purchase!

A campfire inside Weller Book Works? YES! Campfire treats? YES! Spooky stories about local hauntings told by four authors around a campfire? YES! Don't forget your FREE tote bag*, terrific for your trick-or-treating adventures. A perfect way for you and your family to kick off the Halloween season!

About Haunted Salt Lake City:

Uncovering ghost stories in Salt Lake City leads to a spooky mixture of legend, lore and local history. A young female apparition likes to surprise guests of the McCune Mansion by leaping from a mirror. Believed to be stationed at Fort Douglas, a Civil War vet named Clem still teases female visitors. Staff at the historic Devereaux Mansion, once a major social center, relented in their vain nightly attempts to keep the lights off and let the spirits continue their eternal party. And nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Cross still visit patients in the hospital they established. The guides of Story Tours' Salt Lake City Ghost Tour reveal characters who just can't seem to leave the valley.

About the authors:

Storyteller Kristen Clay is the creator and director of Story Tours: Ogden and Salt Lake City Ghost Tours and Hysterical History Tours. Laurie Allen manages Ogden Story Tours and has been with Ogden and SLC Tours since its inception; she also tells American history stories. Cassie Howard-Ashton told stories with SLC Tours for more than ten years. She is a relationship coach and committee chair for the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. Nannette Watts manages SLC Story Tours. She is the author of Youth Tell and a director of National Youth Storytelling with Timpanogos Storytelling.

The storytelling will be followed by a signing.

*with purchase. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191023T210000 UID:90869E4A-351B-4EC0-926C-255DA5A2487A SUMMARY:Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson at City Art CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1517 DESCRIPTION:City Art is pleased to welcome Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson, all of whom have recent new titles out from Black Lawrence Press. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in Conference Room B (Lower Urban floor, City Library). \N\NCourtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, and Monkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Her reviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for a Pushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Award and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.\N\NRob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of four previous books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in his forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.\N\NSunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Indiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated for two Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:City Art is pleased to welcome Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson, all of whom have recent new titles out from Black Lawrence Press. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in Conference Room B (Lower Urban floor, City Library).

Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, and Monkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Her reviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for a Pushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Award and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.

Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of four previous books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in his forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.

Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Indiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated for two Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University.

This event is made possible with support from City Art, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191024T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191024T200000 UID:CF835CF7-5B4B-433A-B3A7-E8037E61BE99 SUMMARY:Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080135Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080135Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1518 DESCRIPTION:Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson visit Weber State University to share new work from their recent books published by Black Lawrence Press. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room in Stewart Library @ 6pm. \N\NCourtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, and Monkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Her reviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for a Pushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Award and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.\N\NRob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of four previous books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in his forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.\N\NSunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Indiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated for two Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University. She lives in northern Utah with her husband and three young sons.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber State University Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Courtney Craggett, Rob Carney, and Sunni Brown Wilkinson visit Weber State University to share new work from their recent books published by Black Lawrence Press. This event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Hetzel-Hoellein Room in Stewart Library @ 6pm.

Courtney Craggett holds a PhD in English with specializations in creative writing and multi-ethnic American literature from the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her short stories appear in The Pinch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Booth, Juked, Word Riot, and Monkeybicycle, among others, and were featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Her reviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Twice nominated for a Pushcart, Courtney is the editors’ choice winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Award and the winner of The Pinch’s Spring 2017 Featured Contributor Award. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.

Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of four previous books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Poecology, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of other journals, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in his forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks. He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.

Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, BODY, Sugar House Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Indiana Review and other journals and anthologies and has been nominated for two Pushcarts. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University and teaches at Weber State University. She lives in northern Utah with her husband and three young sons.

This event is made possible with support from Weber State University Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191024T000000 UID:0FEC327C-509A-4586-8D92-8AB71D62664A SUMMARY:Helicon West features Nancy Takacs and Jan Minic CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1648 DESCRIPTION:Helicon West is happy to feature Nancy Takacs and Jan Minic in Room 255 of Logan Library. \N\NNancy Takacs has recently won a Pushcart Prize (2020 anthology) for "Dearest Water," published in Clover. Her poems appear in The Harvard Review, Kestrel, Hayden's Ferry Review, Nimrod, Weber, and many other literary journals. She is the recipient of awards, the 2018 15 Bytes Poetry Prize, The Nation/Discovery Award, and many more. \N\NJan Minich’s Wild Roses: Poems, was published by Mayapple Press in 2017, tracing the emotional lives of Utah outlaw women, and other female historical characters. He is the author of The Letters of Silver Dollar, and two chapbooks: History of a Drowning, and Wild Roses. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West is happy to feature Nancy Takacs and Jan Minic in Room 255 of Logan Library.

Nancy Takacs has recently won a Pushcart Prize (2020 anthology) for "Dearest Water," published in Clover. Her poems appear in The Harvard Review, Kestrel, Hayden's Ferry Review, Nimrod, Weber, and many other literary journals. She is the recipient of awards, the 2018 15 Bytes Poetry Prize, The Nation/Discovery Award, and many more.

Jan Minich’s Wild Roses: Poems, was published by Mayapple Press in 2017, tracing the emotional lives of Utah outlaw women, and other female historical characters. He is the author of The Letters of Silver Dollar, and two chapbooks: History of a Drowning, and Wild Roses.

This event is made possible with support from Helicon West, Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191025T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191025T200000 UID:AB28AFCC-6867-4EE1-9465-8B92EC7B9E8D SUMMARY:Concert with the Family Trade CREATED:20260416T080138Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080138Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1708 DESCRIPTION:Brian Laidlaw & Ashley Hanson from the Family Trade will present a public concert, showcasing songs and poems from their time in Green River. They will be joined on stage with local performers who have attended their workshops and event at the Green River Bible Church.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brian Laidlaw & Ashley Hanson from the Family Trade will present a public concert, showcasing songs and poems from their time in Green River. They will be joined on stage with local performers who have attended their workshops and event at the Green River Bible Church.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191025T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191025T210000 UID:7F268FB0-C070-40E2-889B-9462A8B18D12 SUMMARY:Collectors Book Salon: Seth Stewart CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1693 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works welcome Seth Stewart. Stewart will discuss and share examples of how writers have grappled with writing and talking about music throughout the centuries. Music is often compared to language, but describing it in concrete written terms proves difficult. Theorists developed technical vocabulary that waxes esoteric, while lay descriptions can be abstract and overly subjective. Drawing from his experience as a classically trained composer and rock musician, Stewart will present historical milestones of musical literature, from the cosmology-infused narratives of ancient Greece, to the birth of musicology in the 18th century, to modern mass-media coverage of the latest pop album. He’ll share examples of philosophic approaches of Pythagoras and Augustine; social conventions of Beethoven’s time; the complex technical terminology of Schoenberg; and the laypersons’ methods of Rolling Stone Magazine. Seth will guide our exploration of how various authors made synesthetic bridges to make words describe the experience of music.\N\NThis event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works welcome Seth Stewart. Stewart will discuss and share examples of how writers have grappled with writing and talking about music throughout the centuries. Music is often compared to language, but describing it in concrete written terms proves difficult. Theorists developed technical vocabulary that waxes esoteric, while lay descriptions can be abstract and overly subjective. Drawing from his experience as a classically trained composer and rock musician, Stewart will present historical milestones of musical literature, from the cosmology-infused narratives of ancient Greece, to the birth of musicology in the 18th century, to modern mass-media coverage of the latest pop album. He’ll share examples of philosophic approaches of Pythagoras and Augustine; social conventions of Beethoven’s time; the complex technical terminology of Schoenberg; and the laypersons’ methods of Rolling Stone Magazine. Seth will guide our exploration of how various authors made synesthetic bridges to make words describe the experience of music.

This event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191026T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191026T160000 UID:1DFEB4B8-8346-450F-878F-F86D7111434B SUMMARY:Mountain West Cener Evenas Awards Writers' Workshop for Auto/Biography CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1666 DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in writing autobiography or biography?  Do you have a start on a project but needs some additional inspiration or maybe need a nudge from concept to composition?  The Mountain West Center at Utah State University in connection with the Evans Biography Awards is hosting a Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography.\N\NThis workshop will be open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers.\N\NWhen: October 26, 2019 - 9AM to 4 PM\N\NWhere: Salt Lake City Public Library-Main\N\N For more information or to register visit https://mountainwest.usu.edu or email mwc@usu.edu.\N\NThis event is make possible with support from the Mountain West Center at Utah State University and the Evans Biography Awards.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Are you interested in writing autobiography or biography?  Do you have a start on a project but needs some additional inspiration or maybe need a nudge from concept to composition?  The Mountain West Center at Utah State University in connection with the Evans Biography Awards is hosting a Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography.

This workshop will be open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers.

When: October 26, 2019 - 9AM to 4 PM

Where: Salt Lake City Public Library-Main

For more information or to register visit https://mountainwest.usu.edu or email mwc@usu.edu.

This event is make possible with support from the Mountain West Center at Utah State University and the Evans Biography Awards.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191026T210000 UID:02BA72CB-544B-4F2B-8BCC-1E6B5DB6F38C SUMMARY:Weller Book Works presents Brent Weeks CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1695 DESCRIPTION:Weller's welcomes author Brent Weeks for a reading and signing of the final book in the Lightbringer series, The Burning White, Saturday, October 26, at 7 PM.\N\NIn the stunning conclusion to the epic, New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, kingdoms clash as Kip must finally escape his family’s shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?\N\NBrent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. He wrote on bar napkins and lesson plans before landing his dream job years and thousands of pages later. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their daughters.\N\NThis event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller's welcomes author Brent Weeks for a reading and signing of the final book in the Lightbringer series, The Burning White, Saturday, October 26, at 7 PM.

In the stunning conclusion to the epic, New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, kingdoms clash as Kip must finally escape his family’s shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?

Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. He wrote on bar napkins and lesson plans before landing his dream job years and thousands of pages later. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their daughters.

This event is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191028T000000 UID:37A275A2-140B-442E-87EF-87B10447B9C7 SUMMARY:Jennifer Nielsen, The Power of the Book CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html#nielsen DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Library is happy to host Jennifer NIelsen on Tuesday, October 28th at 7:00PM. \N\NJennifer Nielsen is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling Author of The Ascendance Trilogy, The Traitor’s Game Trilogy, A Night Divided, Resistance, and other titles. Her most recent release is the historical, Words on Fire. She lives in Northern Utah with her family, a cat that hallucinates, and a dog that won’t play fetch. https://jennielsen.com/\N\NThis event is made possible by the support of Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Library is happy to host Jennifer NIelsen on Tuesday, October 28th at 7:00PM.

Jennifer Nielsen is the award winning and New York Times Bestselling Author of The Ascendance Trilogy, The Traitor’s Game Trilogy, A Night Divided, Resistance, and other titles. Her most recent release is the historical, Words on Fire. She lives in Northern Utah with her family, a cat that hallucinates, and a dog that won’t play fetch. https://jennielsen.com/

This event is made possible by the support of Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191028T000000 UID:43859FAA-776F-4C5B-8138-B81309745AD9 SUMMARY:Rebecca Clarren at the King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1626 DESCRIPTION:The King's English is happy to host award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren. Clarren has been writing about the rural West for twenty years.Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and nine grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as MotherJones, High Country News, The Nation, and Salon.com. Her debut novel, Kickdown (Sky Horse Press, 2018), was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. She lives in Portland, Ore. with her husband and two young sons.\N\NThis event is made possible by The King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English is happy to host award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren. Clarren has been writing about the rural West for twenty years.Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and nine grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as MotherJones, High Country News, The Nation, and Salon.com. Her debut novel, Kickdown (Sky Horse Press, 2018), was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. She lives in Portland, Ore. with her husband and two young sons.

This event is made possible by The King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191029T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191029T123000 UID:F8D41E25-522F-4C67-AFBF-2FB0CCC44558 SUMMARY:Karin Anderson and Rebecca Claren CREATED:20260416T080136Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080136Z URL:https://www.suu.edu/tanner/schedule.html DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University is pleased to announce they will be hosting Karin Anderson and Rebecca Claren in the Whiting Room of the Conference Center on October 29th at 11:30am. \N\NAuthor Karin Anderson will read from and discuss her new book, Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. Anderson is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University where she focuses on creative writing, lit theory, wilderness and environmental writing, LGBTQ lit, contemporary narrative genres, and honor legacies. Her work has appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Quarter After Eight, Western Humanities Review, Sunstone, Saranac Review, American Literary Review, and Fiddleback. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a finalist in Quarter After Eight, and awarded "Best Short Story by a Utah Author." Karin holds degrees from Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah; she hails from the Great Basin.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, the Tanner Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University is pleased to announce they will be hosting Karin Anderson and Rebecca Claren in the Whiting Room of the Conference Center on October 29th at 11:30am.

Author Karin Anderson will read from and discuss her new book, Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. Anderson is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University where she focuses on creative writing, lit theory, wilderness and environmental writing, LGBTQ lit, contemporary narrative genres, and honor legacies. Her work has appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Quarter After Eight, Western Humanities Review, Sunstone, Saranac Review, American Literary Review, and Fiddleback. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a finalist in Quarter After Eight, and awarded "Best Short Story by a Utah Author." Karin holds degrees from Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah; she hails from the Great Basin.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, the Tanner Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191030T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191030T000000 UID:2B2EDAFF-CE66-47BA-A1C0-F84335170638 SUMMARY:El Desencanto Film Screening and Discussion CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1678 DESCRIPTION:Artes de Mexico en Utah welcomes Aaron Shulman for a film screening of El Descencanto by Jaime Chávarri.\N\NSpecial one-time screening of the 1976 Spanish documentary El Desencanto (The Disenchantment), directed by Jaime Chávarri. A cult classic in Spain on a par with Grey Gardens, El Desencanto tells the story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented literary family whose eccentricities and transgressive exhibitionism turned them into a phenomenon in Spain the year after dictator Francisco Franco died. As they drink and smoke and argue, talking about everything from drug use to suicide, the members of the family deconstruct the myths of their history in order to craft a new collective narrative. Think The Royal Tenenbaums, except the people are real. Aaron Shulman, author of the first book about the Panero family in English, titled The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War, will introduce the film and also join us for a conversation after the screening. \N\NThis event is made possible by Artes de Mexico and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artes de Mexico en Utah welcomes Aaron Shulman for a film screening of El Descencanto by Jaime Chávarri.

Special one-time screening of the 1976 Spanish documentary El Desencanto (The Disenchantment), directed by Jaime Chávarri. A cult classic in Spain on a par with Grey Gardens, El Desencanto tells the story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented literary family whose eccentricities and transgressive exhibitionism turned them into a phenomenon in Spain the year after dictator Francisco Franco died. As they drink and smoke and argue, talking about everything from drug use to suicide, the members of the family deconstruct the myths of their history in order to craft a new collective narrative. Think The Royal Tenenbaums, except the people are real. Aaron Shulman, author of the first book about the Panero family in English, titled The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War, will introduce the film and also join us for a conversation after the screening. 

This event is made possible by Artes de Mexico and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191031T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191031T000000 UID:B69F0CE1-CC98-449E-AA7F-5597B0ED8B60 SUMMARY:UVU welcomes Karin Anderson and Lynn Kilpatrick CREATED:20260416T080137Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080137Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1662 DESCRIPTION:Utah Valley University welcomes Karin Anderson, Lynn Kilpatrick and other UVU authors for a panel on the Unheard Voices of the American West. Find them at CB510. \N\NAnderson's BEFORE US LIKE A LAND OF DREAMS follows a disheartened Utah mother traveling an evocative route through the sites of her arid Western ancestry. As her narration fades, the dead speak their stories: a ragged Mormon boy; a hoarder’s queer son; descendants of British squatters. They give no answers, but conjure vivid moments set in iconic—and diminishing—American places.\N\NThis event is made possible by the support of Utah Valley University and Torrey House Press. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Valley University welcomes Karin Anderson, Lynn Kilpatrick and other UVU authors for a panel on the Unheard Voices of the American West. Find them at CB510.

Anderson's BEFORE US LIKE A LAND OF DREAMS follows a disheartened Utah mother traveling an evocative route through the sites of her arid Western ancestry. As her narration fades, the dead speak their stories: a ragged Mormon boy; a hoarder’s queer son; descendants of British squatters. They give no answers, but conjure vivid moments set in iconic—and diminishing—American places.

This event is made possible by the support of Utah Valley University and Torrey House Press. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200701T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200701T210000 UID:F76BD4A9-2D83-496B-BEF0-C191D58AB21C SUMMARY:65th Anniversary of HOWL CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1879 DESCRIPTION:Time passes and Ginsberg’s HOWL keeps unfolding fresh reminders of who we are both as individuals and as a nation. HOWL is a grand acknowledgment of the Madness and Greed that threatens our lives; It is a call for a new conscience and consciousness: a Beatific Vision wherein EVERY THING THAT LIVES IS HOLY. (W. Blake)\N\NOct 7th, 2020 marks the 65th anniversary of the first Reading of HOWL at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955.\N\NStarting with the 40th anniversary, and every five years since, Caldiero has channeled and reincarnated this poem---more than a poem: it is a prophecy!\N\NSo we have arrived at HOWL@65! Follow the Facebook Live on Ken Sanders Rare Books page: https://www.facebook.com/kensandersrarebooks\N\NAnd Caldiero is in good company:\N\NWith musicians Kate MacLeod, Christian Aspelund and Gentry Densley;\N\NPoets/Writers Scott Abbott, Sara Caldiero, Pretty Pretty, Hector Ahumada, Melissa Bond and Ken Sanders, and last but far from least, filmmaker Trent Harris.\N\NThis event is made possible by the Salt Lake Masonic Temple, Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Time passes and Ginsberg’s HOWL keeps unfolding fresh reminders of who we are both as individuals and as a nation. HOWL is a grand acknowledgment of the Madness and Greed that threatens our lives; It is a call for a new conscience and consciousness: a Beatific Vision wherein EVERY THING THAT LIVES IS HOLY. (W. Blake)

Oct 7th, 2020 marks the 65th anniversary of the first Reading of HOWL at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955.

Starting with the 40th anniversary, and every five years since, Caldiero has channeled and reincarnated this poem---more than a poem: it is a prophecy!

So we have arrived at HOWL@65! Follow the Facebook Live on Ken Sanders Rare Books page: https://www.facebook.com/kensandersrarebooks

And Caldiero is in good company:

With musicians Kate MacLeod, Christian Aspelund and Gentry Densley;

Poets/Writers Scott Abbott, Sara Caldiero, Pretty Pretty, Hector Ahumada, Melissa Bond and Ken Sanders, and last but far from least, filmmaker Trent Harris.

This event is made possible by the Salt Lake Masonic Temple, Ken Sanders Rare Books, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200910T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200910T200000 UID:08DE066C-73C8-4DCC-8ABB-ECBFB008116B SUMMARY:The Heritage of Persian Literature CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1909 DESCRIPTION:Lily Alavi, Professor of Literature at University of Utah, will discuss the heritage of Persian literature with a focus on women authors and poets. A Q&A will follow.\N\NRegister here now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kZaW_rF3SEClxy_ANi5Hfw \N\NThis event was made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.\N\NThis series is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lily Alavi, Professor of Literature at University of Utah, will discuss the heritage of Persian literature with a focus on women authors and poets. A Q&A will follow.

Register here now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kZaW_rF3SEClxy_ANi5Hfw

This event was made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.

This series is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200910T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200910T000000 UID:9C80318A-AC0A-474F-A4CB-713006D58023 SUMMARY:Park City Library presents Pam Houston CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1826 DESCRIPTION:Park City's One Book One Community presents Pam Houston. \N\NEveryone is encouraged to read Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country and then join an online conversation with the author on Thursday, September 10th at 7pm. \N\NFacebook live at www.facebook.com/ParkCityLibrary\Nor through Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89197945320\N\N"Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in a relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure--passionately. An unstoppable heart song." -Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto\N\NPam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. \N\NHer stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century among other anthologies. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards. \N\NShe teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. \N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Summit County Library, Park City Library, Dolly's Bookstore, and Utah Humanities. This event is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. For more information, see www.utahhumanities.org X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City's One Book One Community presents Pam Houston.

Everyone is encouraged to read Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country and then join an online conversation with the author on Thursday, September 10th at 7pm.

Facebook live at www.facebook.com/ParkCityLibrary
or through Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89197945320

"Deep Creek is a love letter to earth, animals, and the best of humanity. Pam Houston has taken our heartache and woven it back into hope. Her stories of love, loss, and a life lived in a relationship to land give us good reasons not to give up on ourselves or each other. This is the book we need right now to remind us how to endure--passionately. An unstoppable heart song." -Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit's Manifesto

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton.

Her stories have been selected for volumes of The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Short Stories of the Century among other anthologies. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award and several teaching awards.

She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

This event was made possible with support from the Summit County Library, Park City Library, Dolly's Bookstore, and Utah Humanities. This event is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. For more information, see www.utahhumanities.org X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200910T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200910T000000 UID:4811F0C5-C35C-4387-88FA-EA2BF4F7BA5C SUMMARY:Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1827 DESCRIPTION:Stokes Nature Center is excited to host Julia Corbett, author of Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday\N\NAdmission is Free\N\NJulia Corbett is a professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and narrative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) won the 2018 Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction. It examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it. \N\NJoin us for a conversation with Julia and book signing about her new award-winning book.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Stokes Nature Center, Utah Public Radio,The King's English, the Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stokes Nature Center is excited to host Julia Corbett, author of Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday

Admission is Free

Julia Corbett is a professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah. With a background in journalism and environmental studies, she writes both academic research and narrative nonfiction about human relationships with the natural world. Her third book, Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday (Sep. 2018, University of Nevada Press) won the 2018 Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction. It examines the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us to reimagine our relationship with it.

Join us for a conversation with Julia and book signing about her new award-winning book.

This event is made possible with support from the Stokes Nature Center, Utah Public Radio,The King's English, the Logan Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200912T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200912T123000 UID:03087D39-1E95-4C22-B10C-7F071D335C96 SUMMARY:Women in Science Fiction CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1923 DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion on the role of women, both as creators and stars, in science fiction in the past and at present, including a look at the rise of women of color in the genre.\N\NTo register, click on this link:\Nhttps://bit.ly/32GWnFJ\N\NPanelists include:\N\NDr. Lisa Yaszek (Moderator), Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, and author of such books as "Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction" and "The Future is Female."\N\NChinelo Onwualu, the non-fiction editor for Anathema Magazine, and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African Speculative Fiction. Her work has been featured in several anthologies and magazines.\N\NMalka Older, an author who lives in The Netherlands, and is best known in science fiction circles for her series, The Centenal Cycle (Infomocracy, Null States, and State Tectonics).\N\NSheila Williams, longtime editor of "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine, has won the Hugo Award twice for Best Short Form Editor and has published numerous anthologies and articles. She also co-founded the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boom Bungalow and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A panel discussion on the role of women, both as creators and stars, in science fiction in the past and at present, including a look at the rise of women of color in the genre.

To register, click on this link:
https://bit.ly/32GWnFJ

Panelists include:

Dr. Lisa Yaszek (Moderator), Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, and author of such books as "Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction" and "The Future is Female."

Chinelo Onwualu, the non-fiction editor for Anathema Magazine, and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African Speculative Fiction. Her work has been featured in several anthologies and magazines.

Malka Older, an author who lives in The Netherlands, and is best known in science fiction circles for her series, The Centenal Cycle (Infomocracy, Null States, and State Tectonics).

Sheila Williams, longtime editor of "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine, has won the Hugo Award twice for Best Short Form Editor and has published numerous anthologies and articles. She also co-founded the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.

This event is made possible with support from Boom Bungalow and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200912T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200912T200000 UID:FA5959CC-ED82-494E-8F3C-1B9D624FF9AC SUMMARY:Westminster Slam Community Poetry Workshop featuring Rachel Eliza Griffiths CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://zoom.us/j/99894593508?pwd=RXhYa2pLQXZYWkFMNFVMS2wzVEthZz09 DESCRIPTION:Westminster Slam is excited to host Rachel Eliza Griffiths for a two-hour generative poetry workshop. \N\NRegister for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfu2tpzgvGtwrTkHKrQQDYG-fjnaAogHY\N\NEdwidge Danticat says, "Rachel Eliza Griffiths' mother died around the same time as mine. As we both mourned, she sent me incandescent words to comfort me, phrases that read like invocations, and felt like salves and balms. Her work has always wowed me with its beauty, depth, and luminosity, and there it was also healing me. Radiantly elegiac, this hybrid work of poetry and photographs is one we all need for living, loving, and letting go."\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Westminster Slam, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster Slam is excited to host Rachel Eliza Griffiths for a two-hour generative poetry workshop.

Register for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfu2tpzgvGtwrTkHKrQQDYG-fjnaAogHY

Edwidge Danticat says, "Rachel Eliza Griffiths' mother died around the same time as mine. As we both mourned, she sent me incandescent words to comfort me, phrases that read like invocations, and felt like salves and balms. Her work has always wowed me with its beauty, depth, and luminosity, and there it was also healing me. Radiantly elegiac, this hybrid work of poetry and photographs is one we all need for living, loving, and letting go."

This event is made possible with support from Westminster Slam, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200914T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200914T210000 UID:FC9427B8-C920-4131-9C65-D23D02243173 SUMMARY:Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1828 DESCRIPTION:Utah State University is excited to host Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Join us for a reading and Q&A facilitated by Dr. Eric Morales.\N\NAccess the Zoom link here: https://zoom.us/j/94606684366?pwd=aDBPTCtrcEpsdkdxY2RvWmI3TEsvQT09\N\NRoberto Lovato is a writer and journalist working out of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. He recently completed a a 3-year commitment as a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research. Roberto is also the recipient of a crisis reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center. His journalistic work spans the entire hemisphere and centers on some of the border-smashing issues of our time: immigration, the drug war, national security and climate change. His work also explores the intimate link between the online and offline worlds, between storytelling and social movements.\N\NAn urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Robert Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State University is excited to host Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Join us for a reading and Q&A facilitated by Dr. Eric Morales.

Access the Zoom link here: https://zoom.us/j/94606684366?pwd=aDBPTCtrcEpsdkdxY2RvWmI3TEsvQT09

Roberto Lovato is a writer and journalist working out of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. He recently completed a a 3-year commitment as a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research. Roberto is also the recipient of a crisis reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center. His journalistic work spans the entire hemisphere and centers on some of the border-smashing issues of our time: immigration, the drug war, national security and climate change. His work also explores the intimate link between the online and offline worlds, between storytelling and social movements.

An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Robert Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time—and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201017 UID:E66940BC-4DC1-4202-B876-FB23B4FC97D0 SUMMARY:Welcoming Week: The Infiltrators Film Screening CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1836 DESCRIPTION:The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College presents The Infiltrators. This event will be made available for free online from September 15 to October 16. \N\NVisit https://theinfiltrators.vhx.tv/checkout/slcc-lhc-presents-the-infiltrators/purchase and use the PROMO CODE: LHC2020\N\NWithout warning, Claudio Rojas is detained by ICE officials outside his Florida home. He is transferred to the Broward Transitional Center, a detention facility used as a holding space for imminent deportations. Terrified of never seeing him again, Claudio’s family contacts the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA), a group of activist Dreamers known for stopping deportations. Believing that no one is free as long as one is in detention, NIYA enlists Marco Saavedra to self-deport with the hopes of gaining access to the detention center and impeding Claudio’s expulsion. Once inside, Marco discovers a complex for-profit institution housing hundreds of multinational immigrants, all imprisoned without trial.\N\NDirectors Cristina Ibarra (in her Sundance debut) and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer, 2008 Sundance Film Festival) design a hybrid cinematic language, combining familiar documentary form and scripted narrative to map an uncharted domain: inside an Obama-era immigration detention system. Based on true events, The Infiltrators is both a suspenseful account of a high-stakes mission and an emotionally charged portrait of visionary youth fighting for their community.\N\NThis event is a part of Welcoming Week 2020, a program by Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans dedicated to highlighting the contributions of immigrant and refugee communities. This event is made possible with support from The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College, The Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Division of Museums and Arts, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College presents The Infiltrators. This event will be made available for free online from September 15 to October 16.

Visit https://theinfiltrators.vhx.tv/checkout/slcc-lhc-presents-the-infiltrators/purchase and use the PROMO CODE: LHC2020

Without warning, Claudio Rojas is detained by ICE officials outside his Florida home. He is transferred to the Broward Transitional Center, a detention facility used as a holding space for imminent deportations. Terrified of never seeing him again, Claudio’s family contacts the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA), a group of activist Dreamers known for stopping deportations. Believing that no one is free as long as one is in detention, NIYA enlists Marco Saavedra to self-deport with the hopes of gaining access to the detention center and impeding Claudio’s expulsion. Once inside, Marco discovers a complex for-profit institution housing hundreds of multinational immigrants, all imprisoned without trial.

Directors Cristina Ibarra (in her Sundance debut) and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer, 2008 Sundance Film Festival) design a hybrid cinematic language, combining familiar documentary form and scripted narrative to map an uncharted domain: inside an Obama-era immigration detention system. Based on true events, The Infiltrators is both a suspenseful account of a high-stakes mission and an emotionally charged portrait of visionary youth fighting for their community.

This event is a part of Welcoming Week 2020, a program by Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans dedicated to highlighting the contributions of immigrant and refugee communities. This event is made possible with support from The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College, The Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Division of Museums and Arts, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200915T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200915T210000 UID:8DAC103D-2983-4C84-8D8B-2FD43A0C1458 SUMMARY:UndocuMigration Project CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1831 DESCRIPTION:The Mayor's Office for New Americans invites you to take part in Hostile Terrain 94, a nation-wide art project commemorating migrants who lost their lives crossing the US-Mexico border. Join us in the creation of toe tags for the exhibit and for a dialogue on immigration and visibility in Salt Lake City. \N\NFacilitated by Chelsea Guevara, Makaio Kimbrough, Taylor Cunningham, and Willy Palomo.\N\NRegister for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtd-6spjkvGdDkkjTi2fEEJ6BmLJRfhwzx\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Mayor's Office for New Americans invites you to take part in Hostile Terrain 94, a nation-wide art project commemorating migrants who lost their lives crossing the US-Mexico border. Join us in the creation of toe tags for the exhibit and for a dialogue on immigration and visibility in Salt Lake City.

Facilitated by Chelsea Guevara, Makaio Kimbrough, Taylor Cunningham, and Willy Palomo.

Register for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtd-6spjkvGdDkkjTi2fEEJ6BmLJRfhwzx

This event is made possible with support from the Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200916T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200916T200000 UID:23F037A1-C6F3-4195-B03C-224B5614CCDC SUMMARY:Treasures of World Literature: Labyrinth of Solitude by Mexican Poet Octavio Paz CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1910 DESCRIPTION:Keri Gonzalez, Professor of Literature at the University of Utah, will discuss Labyrinth of Solitude by Mexican poet Octavio Paz. Paz enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a master poet and essayist. Although Mexico figures prominently in Paz’s work—one of his best-known books, The Labyrinth of Solitude, for example, is a comprehensive portrait of Mexican society—Los Angeles Times contributor Jascha Kessler called Paz “truly international.” World Literature Today’s Manuel Duran felt that Paz’s “exploration of Mexican existential values permit[ted] him to open a door to an understanding of other countries and other cultures” and thus appeal to readers of diverse backgrounds. “What began as a slow, almost microscopic examination of self and of a single cultural tradition widens unexpectedly,” Duran continued, “becoming universal without sacrificing its unique characteristic.” Paz won the Nobel Prize in 1990, and died eight years later at the age of 84. His passing was mourned as the end of an era for Mexico. According to his obituary in Americas, “Paz’s literary career helped to define modern poetry and the Mexican personality.” A Q&A will follow.\N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7OC31eYGTgKze1G5WxlhSw \N\NThis event was made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.\N\NThis series is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Keri Gonzalez, Professor of Literature at the University of Utah, will discuss Labyrinth of Solitude by Mexican poet Octavio Paz. Paz enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a master poet and essayist. Although Mexico figures prominently in Paz’s work—one of his best-known books, The Labyrinth of Solitude, for example, is a comprehensive portrait of Mexican society—Los Angeles Times contributor Jascha Kessler called Paz “truly international.” World Literature Today’s Manuel Duran felt that Paz’s “exploration of Mexican existential values permit[ted] him to open a door to an understanding of other countries and other cultures” and thus appeal to readers of diverse backgrounds. “What began as a slow, almost microscopic examination of self and of a single cultural tradition widens unexpectedly,” Duran continued, “becoming universal without sacrificing its unique characteristic.” Paz won the Nobel Prize in 1990, and died eight years later at the age of 84. His passing was mourned as the end of an era for Mexico. According to his obituary in Americas, “Paz’s literary career helped to define modern poetry and the Mexican personality.” A Q&A will follow.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7OC31eYGTgKze1G5WxlhSw

This event was made possible by a grant from Utah Humanities.

This series is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200917T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200917T180000 UID:5C20F506-70ED-4102-B5F0-11B9E16CA5CC SUMMARY:Eco-Poetry and the Essay: Creative Writing and Pedagogy Conference CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1830 DESCRIPTION:Southern Utah University Department of English is excited to host Eco-Poetry and the Essay Author Panel featuring Paisley Rekdal, David Marquis, and Pam Houston, moderated by Simmons Buntin, editor of Terrain.org.\N\NClick here to join: https://suu-edu.zoom.us/w/99982220150?tk=fVJ_dueXvxgSYZYnRCKg1HQ1GSEy33W-iyKs4Vjk9FE.DQIAAAAXR2ebdhZFUXZieXROMFFvYVN6dW9Lb3R1U013AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=UlgyeW9hSzBGbE55N2t5YjFvMWEzZz09\N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.\N\NDavid Marquis grew up on the high, dry plains of West Texas listening to family stories of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, of World War II and starting over after years of lean times. The River Always Wins is a meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation Alliance since 2011. He brings an unerring belief in the connective and healing power of nature to The River Always Wins.\N\NPam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Terrain, and Utah Humanities. This event is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. For more information, see www.utahhumanities.org X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Southern Utah University Department of English is excited to host Eco-Poetry and the Essay Author Panel featuring Paisley Rekdal, David Marquis, and Pam Houston, moderated by Simmons Buntin, editor of Terrain.org.

Click here to join: https://suu-edu.zoom.us/w/99982220150?tk=fVJ_dueXvxgSYZYnRCKg1HQ1GSEy33W-iyKs4Vjk9FE.DQIAAAAXR2ebdhZFUXZieXROMFFvYVN6dW9Lb3R1U013AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=UlgyeW9hSzBGbE55N2t5YjFvMWEzZz09

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.

David Marquis grew up on the high, dry plains of West Texas listening to family stories of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, of World War II and starting over after years of lean times. The River Always Wins is a meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation Alliance since 2011. He brings an unerring belief in the connective and healing power of nature to The River Always Wins.

Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

This event is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Terrain, and Utah Humanities. This event is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. For more information, see www.utahhumanities.org X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200917T210000 UID:D5454EA0-7563-4E5B-BACA-07AB2C411F19 SUMMARY:Welcoming Week: Youth Artists Conversation CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1829 DESCRIPTION:The Mayor's Office for New Americans presents a roundtable with four incredible youth immigrant/refugee artists from Utah.\N\NAccess the Zoom link here:\Nhttps://zoom.us/j/95007482534?pwd=ZkRNUlhMYThSNkQ3SndubEJZS1BsQT09\N\NThis event was made possible by the Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Humanities, and Utah Division of Arts and Museums\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Mayor's Office for New Americans presents a roundtable with four incredible youth immigrant/refugee artists from Utah.

Access the Zoom link here:
https://zoom.us/j/95007482534?pwd=ZkRNUlhMYThSNkQ3SndubEJZS1BsQT09

This event was made possible by the Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Humanities, and Utah Division of Arts and Museums
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200917T000000 UID:B384AC93-54C4-4BEF-BE72-D0C632FFC6D5 SUMMARY:Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series presents Shara McCallum CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1832 DESCRIPTION:The Anne Sutton Newman Weeks Poetry Series is excited to present Shara McCallum. \N\NClick here to register now: https://westminstercollege.edu/student-life/events-and-performances/poetry-series\N\NOriginally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books of poetry published in the US and UK, including No Ruined Stone (forthcoming in 2021) and Madwoman (winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club). Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Dutch, and Turkish. She is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. McCallum is a Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State University and on the faculty of the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Westminster College, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Anne Sutton Newman Weeks Poetry Series is excited to present Shara McCallum.

Click here to register now: https://westminstercollege.edu/student-life/events-and-performances/poetry-series

Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books of poetry published in the US and UK, including No Ruined Stone (forthcoming in 2021) and Madwoman (winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club). Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Dutch, and Turkish. She is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. McCallum is a Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State University and on the faculty of the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program.

This event is made possible with support from Westminster College, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200917T000000 UID:CA2D4E4E-8437-45CB-8630-867058E32E75 SUMMARY:Weber book Links presents Julia Keanini CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1834 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links presents Julia Keanini. Keanini is a self-published author who has built a thriving business. Her Pickled Plum Publishing company is so successful that her husband Lyle left his career as an attorney to help advance her writing career!\N\NAccess the event here: https://tinyurl.com/yd9zsgfd\N\NKeanini is the author of more than 30 clean romance books published on Amazon in the past five years. She had a #1 best seller with her third book, The Mean Girl and the New Guy. Keanini is a RONE Award finalist and had two books nominated for the Swoony Award last year. Book four of her new Whisling Island series (published under the pen name Julia Clemens) was released on August 25, 2020. This series is available in paperback at the Weber County Library.\N\NJulia and Lyle Keanini will share her experience as an author, their experience working together as publishers, advice for what steps to take and what mistakes to avoid to be successful, and tips on promoting books online through Amazon and Facebook.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Works, Weber County Library system, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links presents Julia Keanini. Keanini is a self-published author who has built a thriving business. Her Pickled Plum Publishing company is so successful that her husband Lyle left his career as an attorney to help advance her writing career!

Access the event here: https://tinyurl.com/yd9zsgfd

Keanini is the author of more than 30 clean romance books published on Amazon in the past five years. She had a #1 best seller with her third book, The Mean Girl and the New Guy. Keanini is a RONE Award finalist and had two books nominated for the Swoony Award last year. Book four of her new Whisling Island series (published under the pen name Julia Clemens) was released on August 25, 2020. This series is available in paperback at the Weber County Library.

Julia and Lyle Keanini will share her experience as an author, their experience working together as publishers, advice for what steps to take and what mistakes to avoid to be successful, and tips on promoting books online through Amazon and Facebook.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Works, Weber County Library system, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200918T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200918T180000 UID:CFBEFC36-601F-40B5-AA26-8C4F164CD45E SUMMARY:"David Farland in Conversation with Writers of the Future Winners" CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1922 DESCRIPTION:NYT bestselling author David Farland will talk with some of the recent winners featured in Volume 36 of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. He has been editing and helping to judge this world-famous contest for many years now.\N\NTo register for this event, click on this link: https://bit.ly/32PPkKW.\N\NThe winners include: Storm Humbert ("Stolen Sky"), Leah Ning ("Yellow and Pink") and Daniel Bitton (who illustrated for the story, "Molting Season").\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:NYT bestselling author David Farland will talk with some of the recent winners featured in Volume 36 of L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. He has been editing and helping to judge this world-famous contest for many years now.

To register for this event, click on this link: https://bit.ly/32PPkKW.

The winners include: Storm Humbert ("Stolen Sky"), Leah Ning ("Yellow and Pink") and Daniel Bitton (who illustrated for the story, "Molting Season").

This event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200918T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200918T000000 UID:7CBCAAA8-EC01-4220-AC65-2E6939296056 SUMMARY:Hood Criatura: A Queer Poetry Workshop by fei hernandez CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1837 DESCRIPTION:Moab Pride is excited to host a queer youth poetry workshop with fei hernandez. \N\NRegister for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwof--oqDMuHNQmrAqEDiWrcskLJ-P800KW\N\NIn this stunning debut collection, Inglewood-raised poet féi hernandez weaves an intricate latticework of stories in the betwixt and between. Hood Criatura explores the intersections of trans and queer resilience, citizenship and belonging, and resistance against gentrification that threatens both city and the body. hernandez’s poems take us through a coming-of-age story that delineates the existential wars of gender, race, sexuality, and im/migration, as well as the pains and joys that bind communities, family, and love. In a world that seeks to simplify and reduce the self to binary boundaries, Hood Criatura serves as a reminder of what it means to exist unbounded, to claim all of the multitudes within us that make us who we are. Masterfully juxtaposed in myriad poetic forms throughout the book, these poems are a love letter to all of us who exist within liminal spaces and who dare to claim one’s true self.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Moab Pride and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Moab Pride is excited to host a queer youth poetry workshop with fei hernandez.

Register for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwof--oqDMuHNQmrAqEDiWrcskLJ-P800KW

In this stunning debut collection, Inglewood-raised poet féi hernandez weaves an intricate latticework of stories in the betwixt and between. Hood Criatura explores the intersections of trans and queer resilience, citizenship and belonging, and resistance against gentrification that threatens both city and the body. hernandez’s poems take us through a coming-of-age story that delineates the existential wars of gender, race, sexuality, and im/migration, as well as the pains and joys that bind communities, family, and love. In a world that seeks to simplify and reduce the self to binary boundaries, Hood Criatura serves as a reminder of what it means to exist unbounded, to claim all of the multitudes within us that make us who we are. Masterfully juxtaposed in myriad poetic forms throughout the book, these poems are a love letter to all of us who exist within liminal spaces and who dare to claim one’s true self.

This event is made possible with support from Moab Pride and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200919T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200919T000000 UID:E10C887A-7AA5-4F51-8C76-1E770ADF06F3 SUMMARY:Rachel Eliza Griffiths and John Murillo CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1839 DESCRIPTION:The King's English is thrilled to host Rachel Eliza Griffiiths and John Murillo. \N\NRegister for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtdO-grz0oE9ZDLi6qFx5uBlRdpyrGUGFv\N\NIn radiant poems―set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics―Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother’s death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.\N\NJohn Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father’s fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker “to become something unbreakable.” The presence of these and poetic forbears—Gil Scott-Heron, Yusef Komunyakaa—provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice.\N\NThis event is made possible by the King's English, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English is thrilled to host Rachel Eliza Griffiiths and John Murillo.

Register for the event here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtdO-grz0oE9ZDLi6qFx5uBlRdpyrGUGFv

In radiant poems―set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics―Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother’s death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.

John Murillo’s second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father’s fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker “to become something unbreakable.” The presence of these and poetic forbears—Gil Scott-Heron, Yusef Komunyakaa—provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice.

This event is made possible by the King's English, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200919T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200919T180000 UID:842C76FF-B39A-4F77-BED2-D163C20F3632 SUMMARY:American Polygamy/American Zion: A Conversation with Craig L. Foster and Marianne T. Watson CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1838 DESCRIPTION:The Book Bungalow is excited to host Betsy Gaines Quammen, Craig L. Foster, and Marianne T. Watson for a conversation about their books American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West and American Polygamy: A History of Fundamentalist Mormon Faith. \N\NREGISTRATION REQUIRED! Register for this event at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dYRpLORBQp-YY7iUhWiavw\N\NAMERICAN ZION\N\NWhat happens when members of an American religion—one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship—assert possession over western federal lands, armed with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war? American Zion is the story of the ongoing feud between Mormon ranching family the Bundys, the federal government, and the American public. Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the roots of the Bundys’ cowboy confrontations, and how history has shaped an often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage.\N\NAMERICAN POLYGAMY\N\NToday’s Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently end their cherished plural family arrangements. While some Fundamentalists like Warren Jeffs go rogue and corrupt their beliefs in heinous crimes, most hold steadfastly to a religion they say is biblical and restored by the first Latter-day Saint prophet, Joseph Smith, in the early 1800s. Mormon historians Craig Foster and Marianne Watson present more than two hundred photos and exclusive insights to explain how an estimated thirty thousand Fundamentalist Mormons still venerate a much-debated legacy—despite its difficult challenges—and persist in living plural marriage.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, the Book Bungalow, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Book Bungalow is excited to host Betsy Gaines Quammen, Craig L. Foster, and Marianne T. Watson for a conversation about their books American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West and American Polygamy: A History of Fundamentalist Mormon Faith.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Register for this event at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dYRpLORBQp-YY7iUhWiavw

AMERICAN ZION

What happens when members of an American religion—one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship—assert possession over western federal lands, armed with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war? American Zion is the story of the ongoing feud between Mormon ranching family the Bundys, the federal government, and the American public. Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the roots of the Bundys’ cowboy confrontations, and how history has shaped an often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage.

AMERICAN POLYGAMY

Today’s Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to permanently end their cherished plural family arrangements. While some Fundamentalists like Warren Jeffs go rogue and corrupt their beliefs in heinous crimes, most hold steadfastly to a religion they say is biblical and restored by the first Latter-day Saint prophet, Joseph Smith, in the early 1800s. Mormon historians Craig Foster and Marianne Watson present more than two hundred photos and exclusive insights to explain how an estimated thirty thousand Fundamentalist Mormons still venerate a much-debated legacy—despite its difficult challenges—and persist in living plural marriage.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, the Book Bungalow, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200919T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200919T000000 UID:52F274A2-3D8A-4497-847D-C9897E20C291 SUMMARY:Where Are You From: Yamile Saied Mendez CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1916 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Children's Museum is excited to present Where Are You From by Yamile Saied Mendez. \N\NRegister for the event here :https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2MAhs-8vQR6wHn92tNDCHA\N\NWhen a girl is asked where she’s from—where she’s really from—none of her answers seems to be the right one.\N\NUnsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn’t give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one.\N\NWhere am I from?\NYou’re from hurricanes and dark storms, and a tiny singing frog that calls the island people home when the sun goes to sleep…\N\NWith themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home, this powerful, lyrical picture book will resonate with readers young and old, from all backgrounds and of all colors—especially anyone who ever felt that they don’t belong.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Treehouse Children's Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Children's Museum is excited to present Where Are You From by Yamile Saied Mendez.

Register for the event here :https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2MAhs-8vQR6wHn92tNDCHA

When a girl is asked where she’s from—where she’s really from—none of her answers seems to be the right one.

Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn’t give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one.

Where am I from?
You’re from hurricanes and dark storms, and a tiny singing frog that calls the island people home when the sun goes to sleep…

With themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home, this powerful, lyrical picture book will resonate with readers young and old, from all backgrounds and of all colors—especially anyone who ever felt that they don’t belong.

This event is made possible with support from the Treehouse Children's Museum and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200921T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200921T190000 UID:350D52E2-6C98-4198-81BD-15DEE8757EA2 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Ogden Overlook Trail CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1924 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links invites you to traverse the Ogden Overlook Trail and contemplate literature inspired by our landscapes.\N\NBefore your journey, enjoy this insightful video featuring poet Laura Stott and BYU professor John Bennion and their illuminating commentary about the trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVO40M8uQkI\N\NMake sure to take a trip to the Ogden Overlook Trail sometime before 9/24. Find information about the Overlook Trail here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/uwcnf/recreation/bicycling/recarea/?recid=9560&actid=24\N\NAfter your journey, join Laura Stott, John Bennion, and Robyn Hyde at 6pm on 9/24 for a virtual conversation about Overlook Trail and the literature our landscapes have inspired. Register via Zoom here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsf-yhqDgtHNWBX1Vuxi8glZbq8wLpVsTr\N\N\NA photo scan of Laura Stott's poems can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17YwIxW7VL85i38BJRWC6Ao1pA2OuUgWe?usp=sharing\N\NThis program was made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, Westminster College, Brigham Young University, and Weber State University's Center for Community Engaged Learning. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links invites you to traverse the Ogden Overlook Trail and contemplate literature inspired by our landscapes.

Before your journey, enjoy this insightful video featuring poet Laura Stott and BYU professor John Bennion and their illuminating commentary about the trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVO40M8uQkI

Make sure to take a trip to the Ogden Overlook Trail sometime before 9/24. Find information about the Overlook Trail here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/uwcnf/recreation/bicycling/recarea/?recid=9560&actid=24

After your journey, join Laura Stott, John Bennion, and Robyn Hyde at 6pm on 9/24 for a virtual conversation about Overlook Trail and the literature our landscapes have inspired. Register via Zoom here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsf-yhqDgtHNWBX1Vuxi8glZbq8wLpVsTr


A photo scan of Laura Stott's poems can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17YwIxW7VL85i38BJRWC6Ao1pA2OuUgWe?usp=sharing

This program was made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, Westminster College, Brigham Young University, and Weber State University's Center for Community Engaged Learning. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200921T000000 UID:4B9521FE-D1C0-4B21-B35E-96B2C896509E SUMMARY:Savage Conversations / Crooked Hallelujahs CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1841 DESCRIPTION:The Multicultural Inclusion Center at Dixie State University is excited to host Native Herstories, a reading and Q&A with LeAnne Howe and Kelli Jo Ford.\N\NAccess the event here: https://tinyurl.com/ydyhybne\N\NSAVAGE CONVERSATIONS BY LEANNE HOWE\N\NMay 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events—until now. Savage Conversations is a daring account of a former first lady and the ghosts that tormented her for the contradictions and crimes on which this nation is founded. \N\NCROOKED HALLELUJAHS BY KELLI JO FORD\N\NCrooked Hallelujah is an intricate, soulful look at four generations of Cherokee women pushed (in Philip Larkin's phrase) to the side of their own lives. At turns gripping and moving, Kelli Jo Ford's characters and the Oklahoma and Texas landscape take center stage in a truly modern drama. Ford sidesteps the easy tropes of spirituality and connection to nature and has created a modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully-realized characters. A huge achievement. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Dixie State University, the Book Bungalow, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Multicultural Inclusion Center at Dixie State University is excited to host Native Herstories, a reading and Q&A with LeAnne Howe and Kelli Jo Ford.

Access the event here: https://tinyurl.com/ydyhybne

SAVAGE CONVERSATIONS BY LEANNE HOWE

May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events—until now. Savage Conversations is a daring account of a former first lady and the ghosts that tormented her for the contradictions and crimes on which this nation is founded.

CROOKED HALLELUJAHS BY KELLI JO FORD

Crooked Hallelujah is an intricate, soulful look at four generations of Cherokee women pushed (in Philip Larkin's phrase) to the side of their own lives. At turns gripping and moving, Kelli Jo Ford's characters and the Oklahoma and Texas landscape take center stage in a truly modern drama. Ford sidesteps the easy tropes of spirituality and connection to nature and has created a modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully-realized characters. A huge achievement.

This event is made possible with support from Dixie State University, the Book Bungalow, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200922T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200922T170000 UID:DE40B285-434C-4AF7-9945-C535BBFD20D7 SUMMARY:Welcoming Zapotec Narratives into the classroom: A session for educators with Pergentino José author of Red Ants. CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1917 DESCRIPTION:This special session with Zapotec author, Pergentino José, is an opportunity for educators to discuss strategies for incorporating Zapotec and other indigenous narratives and themes into their teaching practice. This event will be in conducted in English with a Sierra Zapotec translator. Educators of Social Studies, Ethnic Studies and Writing are highly encouraged to participate. \N\NOnline event registration required\N\NRegistration page: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvceyrqz0tGNMBU007f8xzVjUqqDFlzONK\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This special session with Zapotec author, Pergentino José, is an opportunity for educators to discuss strategies for incorporating Zapotec and other indigenous narratives and themes into their teaching practice. This event will be in conducted in English with a Sierra Zapotec translator. Educators of Social Studies, Ethnic Studies and Writing are highly encouraged to participate.

Online event registration required

Registration page: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvceyrqz0tGNMBU007f8xzVjUqqDFlzONK

This event is made possible with support from Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200922T200000 UID:1FCC88CB-3608-400C-9AA2-6D8221A6364C SUMMARY:Red Ants with Pergentino José CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1914 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah is pleased to present Zapotec author, Pergentino José.\N\NRegister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsd-6pqzIoHNZ9TGF6hYCklZ2LJ67gFWXr\N\NA literary triumph by a member of the Mexico20 (the list that boasts Valeria Luiselli and Carlos Velasquez, among others), Red Ants is the first-ever literary translation from the Sierra Zapotec. This vibrant collection of short stories by one of Mexico’s most promising young authors updates magical realism for the 21st century. Red Ants paints a candid picture of indigenous Mexican life—an essential counterpoint to cultural products of the colonial gaze. José’s fantastical stories tackle themes of family, love, and independence in his signature style: unapologetically personal, coolly emotional, and always surprising.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, The King's English, Utah Humanities, and Artes de Mexico en Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah is pleased to present Zapotec author, Pergentino José.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsd-6pqzIoHNZ9TGF6hYCklZ2LJ67gFWXr

A literary triumph by a member of the Mexico20 (the list that boasts Valeria Luiselli and Carlos Velasquez, among others), Red Ants is the first-ever literary translation from the Sierra Zapotec. This vibrant collection of short stories by one of Mexico’s most promising young authors updates magical realism for the 21st century. Red Ants paints a candid picture of indigenous Mexican life—an essential counterpoint to cultural products of the colonial gaze. José’s fantastical stories tackle themes of family, love, and independence in his signature style: unapologetically personal, coolly emotional, and always surprising.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, The King's English, Utah Humanities, and Artes de Mexico en Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200923T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200923T190000 UID:A70A2052-C8D2-49C6-BACA-A321D7C10C2B SUMMARY:The Case for Universal Healthcare by David Colton CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1851 DESCRIPTION:Except for the United States, all developed nations provide their citizens with quality, affordable health care. Even with Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and the Affordable Care Act, nearly 25 million Americans do not have health insurance. Millions that do can only afford high deductible plans, which may prevent them from accessing all but emergency care.\N\NThe U.S. is divided on political, fiscal, and religious grounds particularly in regard to the role of the social contract in governance. Conservatives believe that health care should\Nbe an individual responsibility with costs managed through the free market and little or no government. Liberals believe that assuring health care is a shared responsibility, though the government guarantees all have access. Because of this polarization, there has been limited effort to discuss health care from the perspective of our values and expectations as a society.\N\NAccess the event through Zoom: https://utah.zoom.us/j/98510800650 \N\NPassword: 510017\N\NBackground Reading: The Case for Universal Health Care, chapter 11: The Ethical & Moral Case for Universal Health Care: Contact linda.carrlee@hsc.utah.edu for pdf.\N\N\NOptional additional readings: Liberal and Conservative Representation of the Good Society: A (Social) Structural Topic Modeling Approach. Sterling, Joanna, Jost, John, and\NHardin, Curtis. Sage Open Publications, April-June 2019, 1-13. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244019846211\N\NWhen It Comes to Universal Health Care, What Would Jesus Do? December 19, 2019\Nhttps://universalhealthcarenow.com/when-it-comes-to-universal-health-care-what-would\N-jesus-do/\N\NDavid Colton, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.Ed., is a retired health care administrator and retired adjunct professor of health care administration at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA. Dr. Colton created the Checklist for Assessing Organizational Readiness to Reduce Seclusion and Restraint, which has been adopted by a number of organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His research interests, publications, and conference presentations have focused on quality improvement in health care. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support from Evening Ethics and Utah Humanities. \N\NDisclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.\N\NACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical\Neducation for physicians. \N\NNONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable\Nnotice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director, \NOEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Except for the United States, all developed nations provide their citizens with quality, affordable health care. Even with Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and the Affordable Care Act, nearly 25 million Americans do not have health insurance. Millions that do can only afford high deductible plans, which may prevent them from accessing all but emergency care.

The U.S. is divided on political, fiscal, and religious grounds particularly in regard to the role of the social contract in governance. Conservatives believe that health care should
be an individual responsibility with costs managed through the free market and little or no government. Liberals believe that assuring health care is a shared responsibility, though the government guarantees all have access. Because of this polarization, there has been limited effort to discuss health care from the perspective of our values and expectations as a society.

Access the event through Zoom: https://utah.zoom.us/j/98510800650

Password: 510017

Background Reading: The Case for Universal Health Care, chapter 11: The Ethical & Moral Case for Universal Health Care: Contact linda.carrlee@hsc.utah.edu for pdf.


Optional additional readings: Liberal and Conservative Representation of the Good Society: A (Social) Structural Topic Modeling Approach. Sterling, Joanna, Jost, John, and
Hardin, Curtis. Sage Open Publications, April-June 2019, 1-13. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244019846211

When It Comes to Universal Health Care, What Would Jesus Do? December 19, 2019
https://universalhealthcarenow.com/when-it-comes-to-universal-health-care-what-would
-jesus-do/

David Colton, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.Ed., is a retired health care administrator and retired adjunct professor of health care administration at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA. Dr. Colton created the Checklist for Assessing Organizational Readiness to Reduce Seclusion and Restraint, which has been adopted by a number of organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His research interests, publications, and conference presentations have focused on quality improvement in health care.

This event is made possible with the support from Evening Ethics and Utah Humanities.

Disclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.

ACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.

NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable
notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,
OEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200924T000000 UID:E527BAC8-9578-4483-9A00-11324C4B2ADF SUMMARY:Author Panel: Josi Kilpack, Yamile Saied Mendez, J. Scott Savage, and Kathryn Purdie CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1844 DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Public Library is excited to host four incredible Utah authors for a panel on writing and publishing.\N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X44eFWa1TK2uOP8ZFTvpxA\N\NJ Scott Savage is the author of 17 published novels, including the Far World series, the Case File 13 series, and the Mysteries of Cove series. He lives in a canyon of the Rocky Mountains. He has four children, five grandchildren, and an awesome wife. He loves camping, reading, playing games, and of course WRITING! He has been able to meet lots of authors, too, which is awesome, because he loves to read.\NHe has had lots of jobs including plumber, CEO of an internet company, French Chef, and radio talk show host. He says that his favorite job ever is being an author, and the best thing about writing books for kids is that he gets to go visit great schools and hear from awesome kids.\N\NAuthor website: www.jscottsavage.com\N\NYamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. She’s a PB, MG, and YA author. Yamile is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx MG and YA authors. She’s represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary.\N\NAuthor website: yamilesmendez.com\N\NKathryn Purdie is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the BURNING GLASS series and BONE CRIER’S MOON. She lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three children. Kathryn is a trained classical actress who studied at the Oxford School of Drama. In her spare time, she loves writing songs on her guitar for her characters, binge-watching TV, and devouring Peanut Butter M&Ms.\N\NAuthor website: kathrynpurdie.com\N\NJosi S. Kilpack hated to read until her mother handed her a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond when she was 13. From that day forward, she read everything she could get her hands on and credits her writing “education” to the many novels she has “studied” since then. She began writing her first novel in 1998 and has written thirty-three novels, one cookbook, and several short stories since then. She is a four-time Whitney Award winner, including two Novel of the Year awards for Lord Fenton's Folly and As Wide as the Sky and a Best of State winner in Fiction. She writes her national women's fiction under the pen name of Jessica Pack (say Josi Kilpack really fast and you'll see why she chose it). Josi currently lives in Northern Utah and is the mother of 4 wonderful kids.\N\NAuthor Website: www.josiskilpack.com\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Public Library is excited to host four incredible Utah authors for a panel on writing and publishing.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X44eFWa1TK2uOP8ZFTvpxA

J Scott Savage is the author of 17 published novels, including the Far World series, the Case File 13 series, and the Mysteries of Cove series. He lives in a canyon of the Rocky Mountains. He has four children, five grandchildren, and an awesome wife. He loves camping, reading, playing games, and of course WRITING! He has been able to meet lots of authors, too, which is awesome, because he loves to read.
He has had lots of jobs including plumber, CEO of an internet company, French Chef, and radio talk show host. He says that his favorite job ever is being an author, and the best thing about writing books for kids is that he gets to go visit great schools and hear from awesome kids.

Author website: www.jscottsavage.com

Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. She’s a PB, MG, and YA author. Yamile is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx MG and YA authors. She’s represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary.

Author website: yamilesmendez.com

Kathryn Purdie is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the BURNING GLASS series and BONE CRIER’S MOON. She lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband and three children. Kathryn is a trained classical actress who studied at the Oxford School of Drama. In her spare time, she loves writing songs on her guitar for her characters, binge-watching TV, and devouring Peanut Butter M&Ms.

Author website: kathrynpurdie.com

Josi S. Kilpack hated to read until her mother handed her a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond when she was 13. From that day forward, she read everything she could get her hands on and credits her writing “education” to the many novels she has “studied” since then. She began writing her first novel in 1998 and has written thirty-three novels, one cookbook, and several short stories since then. She is a four-time Whitney Award winner, including two Novel of the Year awards for Lord Fenton's Folly and As Wide as the Sky and a Best of State winner in Fiction. She writes her national women's fiction under the pen name of Jessica Pack (say Josi Kilpack really fast and you'll see why she chose it). Josi currently lives in Northern Utah and is the mother of 4 wonderful kids.

Author Website: www.josiskilpack.com

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200924T200000 UID:77FFFA95-B345-4360-9D81-0CA7F935F550 SUMMARY:The Last Tiger is Somewhere CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1846 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is pleased to host Rob Carney and Scott Poole, authors of The Last Tiger is Somewhere. \N\NRegister on Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd-CvqjgtGt1suegRLMrs7qspnmfBFJFk\N\NIn The Last Tiger Is Somewhere, two poets from the West bring their work together and take apart the news. Recent history gets jigsawed. Current events get skewered. The result is thirty praise songs, fairy tales, guilty verdicts, and mathematical equations. There are prayers here, and new commandments. There are portraits and photographic negatives. And an introduction by Carney and an afterword by Poole form a frame around it all. Rob Carney and Scott Poole turn the news on its head in The Last Tiger Somewhere, a poetry collection that brings together the best of both poets.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is pleased to host Rob Carney and Scott Poole, authors of The Last Tiger is Somewhere.

Register on Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd-CvqjgtGt1suegRLMrs7qspnmfBFJFk

In The Last Tiger Is Somewhere, two poets from the West bring their work together and take apart the news. Recent history gets jigsawed. Current events get skewered. The result is thirty praise songs, fairy tales, guilty verdicts, and mathematical equations. There are prayers here, and new commandments. There are portraits and photographic negatives. And an introduction by Carney and an afterword by Poole form a frame around it all. Rob Carney and Scott Poole turn the news on its head in The Last Tiger Somewhere, a poetry collection that brings together the best of both poets.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works, The City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200925T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200925T190000 UID:AE72E868-3F1E-49D9-AA7F-B49147DEADD2 SUMMARY:Evening Ethics: The Case for Universal Healthcare by David Colton CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1852 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation and Q&A with David Colton, author of The Case for Universal Healthcare.\N\NWith the exception of the United States, all developed nations provide their citizens with quality, affordable health care. And, despite its having expanded access through such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and the Affordable Care Act, nearly 20 million Americans still do not have health insurance. Worse, efforts by the Republican Party to dismantle the ACA and increases in premiums could leave millions more without the financial means to afford treatment when needed.\N\NCountries that guarantee health coverage to all their citizens have done so recognizing the health of the nation is dependent on the health of their people. This has not occurred in the United States, not only because powerful forces have mounted a vast campaign against it, but also because no plan with clear solutions and guidelines has yet emerged.\N\NJoin us for a presentation and conversation about universal health care with David Colton, PhD, MPA, MEd. Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqf-2orzIjE9300s85A7pYgtZDs5Si8OVW\N\NDavid Colton is a retired health care administrator and retired adjunct professor of health care administration at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA. Dr. Colton created the Checklist for Assessing Organizational Readiness to Reduce Seclusion and Restraint, which has been adopted by a number of organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His research interests, publications, and conference presentations have focused on quality improvement in health care.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a presentation and Q&A with David Colton, author of The Case for Universal Healthcare.

With the exception of the United States, all developed nations provide their citizens with quality, affordable health care. And, despite its having expanded access through such programs as Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and the Affordable Care Act, nearly 20 million Americans still do not have health insurance. Worse, efforts by the Republican Party to dismantle the ACA and increases in premiums could leave millions more without the financial means to afford treatment when needed.

Countries that guarantee health coverage to all their citizens have done so recognizing the health of the nation is dependent on the health of their people. This has not occurred in the United States, not only because powerful forces have mounted a vast campaign against it, but also because no plan with clear solutions and guidelines has yet emerged.

Join us for a presentation and conversation about universal health care with David Colton, PhD, MPA, MEd. Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqf-2orzIjE9300s85A7pYgtZDs5Si8OVW

David Colton is a retired health care administrator and retired adjunct professor of health care administration at Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA. Dr. Colton created the Checklist for Assessing Organizational Readiness to Reduce Seclusion and Restraint, which has been adopted by a number of organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His research interests, publications, and conference presentations have focused on quality improvement in health care.

This event was made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200926T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200926T210000 UID:65DD9561-F7E7-4B4F-95FC-327E3774F84C SUMMARY:Spit Love: A Queer Poetry Slam CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1847 DESCRIPTION:Moab Pride is delighted to present the FIFTH Spit Love: a queer poetry slam!\N\NIn light of COVID19 we have contingency plans. Our first option will be to have performers come, and have the event be open at partial capacity, with ushers ensuring proper spacing. In the case of another shut down we will plan to stream it live and virtually.\N\NWe are inviting poets who are willing to follow COVID protocol, prepared for adaptive planning, and from Western Colorado or Utah (of course both states on occupied indigenous land) ONLY. We are explicitly asking folks not in our immediate and adjacent communities to wait until 2021 to attend Moab Pride!\N\NThis year to ensure ample space and stipends for all poets \Nwe are are only having seven poets.\N\NSpit Love is a LOVE themed slam. We do NOT censor storytelling ❤ but invite the poets to explore the layers of queer joy when considering poems for Spit L O V E.\N\NPurrks include:\N- Housing at the Lazy Lizard for Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday evenings, September 24th-26th.\N- We will have dinner provided Friday and Saturday, as well as plenty of snack attacks and left overs.\N-$150 for every poet!\N-We will be provided gas money!\NTo qualify:\N1. You are queer.\N2. You are part of the first 7 poets.\N\N\NRegistration:\NRegistration for poets will begin June 9th.\NPOETS\N1. Reina Kapiolani Pahul\N2. Desirae Lynn\N3.\N4.\N5.\N6.\N7.\N\NTo register, send an email to moabpridefest@gmail.com subject: Spit Love Registration\N\N\NStructure:\NFirst Round (all poets): 1 Minute\NSecond Round (all poets): 3 Minutes\NThird Round (top 5 accumulative score): 2 Minutes\NFinal Round (top three): 3 Minutes\NJust email cali.bulmash@gmail.com with any questions!\N\NThis event is made possible by Moab Pride and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Moab Pride is delighted to present the FIFTH Spit Love: a queer poetry slam!

In light of COVID19 we have contingency plans. Our first option will be to have performers come, and have the event be open at partial capacity, with ushers ensuring proper spacing. In the case of another shut down we will plan to stream it live and virtually.

We are inviting poets who are willing to follow COVID protocol, prepared for adaptive planning, and from Western Colorado or Utah (of course both states on occupied indigenous land) ONLY. We are explicitly asking folks not in our immediate and adjacent communities to wait until 2021 to attend Moab Pride!

This year to ensure ample space and stipends for all poets
we are are only having seven poets.

Spit Love is a LOVE themed slam. We do NOT censor storytelling ❤ but invite the poets to explore the layers of queer joy when considering poems for Spit L O V E.

Purrks include:
- Housing at the Lazy Lizard for Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday evenings, September 24th-26th.
- We will have dinner provided Friday and Saturday, as well as plenty of snack attacks and left overs.
-$150 for every poet!
-We will be provided gas money!
To qualify:
1. You are queer.
2. You are part of the first 7 poets.


Registration:
Registration for poets will begin June 9th.
POETS
1. Reina Kapiolani Pahul
2. Desirae Lynn
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

To register, send an email to moabpridefest@gmail.com subject: Spit Love Registration


Structure:
First Round (all poets): 1 Minute
Second Round (all poets): 3 Minutes
Third Round (top 5 accumulative score): 2 Minutes
Final Round (top three): 3 Minutes
Just email cali.bulmash@gmail.com with any questions!

This event is made possible by Moab Pride and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200926T200000 UID:0064471B-ACEB-45A1-8713-267A59B8B764 SUMMARY:Sugar House Review presents John Sibley Williams CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1848 DESCRIPTION:Sugar House Review is excited to present John Sibley Williams, author of Skin Memory. \N\NA Zoom link will be added soon. \N\N"Both imaginative and lucid, Skin Memory offers a rich cartography of our world as we’ve made it, a world of overlapping skins (human, animal, earth) that caress and wound and scar one another. Here there is no false nature/culture binary, but earth as palimpsest – a body made up of bodies, histories, and dreams of the future. Like the tattered fragments of Borges’ Map of the Empire, Williams’ world is always charged with mystery alongside human desire and folly: wherever our endeavors mark the landscape, there too the scrub grass peeks through." \N\N- Sarah Rose Nordgren\N\NJohn Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. He has also served as editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies, Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013) and Motionless from the Iron Bridge (barebones books, 2013). A nineteen-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Laux/Millar Prize, Wabash Prize, Philip Booth Award, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Vallum Award for Poetry. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a freelance poetry editor, writing coach, and literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, Colorado Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and various anthologies. \N\NJohn holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. He teaches poetry for Literary Arts as part of their Writers in the Schools program and works as a poetry editor and mentor for The Poetry Barn and WriteByNight. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and boisterous twin toddlers, Kaiya and Gabriel.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow, Sugar House Review, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sugar House Review is excited to present John Sibley Williams, author of Skin Memory.

A Zoom link will be added soon.

"Both imaginative and lucid, Skin Memory offers a rich cartography of our world as we’ve made it, a world of overlapping skins (human, animal, earth) that caress and wound and scar one another. Here there is no false nature/culture binary, but earth as palimpsest – a body made up of bodies, histories, and dreams of the future. Like the tattered fragments of Borges’ Map of the Empire, Williams’ world is always charged with mystery alongside human desire and folly: wherever our endeavors mark the landscape, there too the scrub grass peeks through."

- Sarah Rose Nordgren

John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. He has also served as editor of two Northwest poetry anthologies, Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013) and Motionless from the Iron Bridge (barebones books, 2013). A nineteen-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Laux/Millar Prize, Wabash Prize, Philip Booth Award, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Vallum Award for Poetry. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a freelance poetry editor, writing coach, and literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Review, Colorado Review, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and various anthologies.

John holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. He teaches poetry for Literary Arts as part of their Writers in the Schools program and works as a poetry editor and mentor for The Poetry Barn and WriteByNight. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and boisterous twin toddlers, Kaiya and Gabriel.

This event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow, Sugar House Review, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200928T210000 UID:335028F9-9D47-4AA1-93D0-E239F92B7BCF SUMMARY:Books of the 19th Century CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1856 DESCRIPTION:Join Reid Moon of Moon’s Rare Books(moonsrarebooks.com) as heshares some literary treasures from the time of Louisa May Alcott. You will get to see some rare first editions and some examples of children’s and adult books of bygone days. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Moon's Rare Books, Orem Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Reid Moon of Moon’s Rare Books(moonsrarebooks.com) as heshares some literary treasures from the time of Louisa May Alcott. You will get to see some rare first editions and some examples of children’s and adult books of bygone days. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary/

This event is made possible with support from Moon's Rare Books, Orem Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200928T210000 UID:F47E8F33-78C9-4A2F-803B-1E3225E5C66D SUMMARY:An evening with Sadie Hoagland and Siân Griffiths CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1867 DESCRIPTION:The Printed Garden is excited to host fiction reading with the deft and delightful Sadie Hoagland and Siân Griffiths.\N\NRegister for this reading and Q&A now: \Nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkcOugrD4vGty_Q-QDmCCYfeH7CDFvXCf-\N\NSadie Hoagland is author of "American Grief in Four Stages," a collection of stories that imagines trauma as a space in which language fails us and narrative escapes us. These stories play with form and explore the impossibility of elegy and the inability of our culture to communicate grief, or sympathy, outside of cliché. As a whole, this collection asks the reader to envisage the ways in which we suffer as both unbearably painful and unbearably American.\N\NIn ten short stories brimming with captivating imagery, Siân Griffiths, author of The Heart Keeps Faulty Time, spins the familiar on its heels. Clown parents parse their disappointment in their non-clown son and their fears for his future in a nuclear-armed world. A clockwork girl discovers a discarded and disemboweled female body. Aliens, mermaids, and dragons call to us. Unorthodox and lyric, witty and heart-felt, The Heart Keeps Faulty Time bears witness to the struggle to reconcile our visions of ourselves with the reality of our circumstances.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Printed Garden. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Printed Garden is excited to host fiction reading with the deft and delightful Sadie Hoagland and Siân Griffiths.

Register for this reading and Q&A now:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkcOugrD4vGty_Q-QDmCCYfeH7CDFvXCf-

Sadie Hoagland is author of "American Grief in Four Stages," a collection of stories that imagines trauma as a space in which language fails us and narrative escapes us. These stories play with form and explore the impossibility of elegy and the inability of our culture to communicate grief, or sympathy, outside of cliché. As a whole, this collection asks the reader to envisage the ways in which we suffer as both unbearably painful and unbearably American.

In ten short stories brimming with captivating imagery, Siân Griffiths, author of The Heart Keeps Faulty Time, spins the familiar on its heels. Clown parents parse their disappointment in their non-clown son and their fears for his future in a nuclear-armed world. A clockwork girl discovers a discarded and disemboweled female body. Aliens, mermaids, and dragons call to us. Unorthodox and lyric, witty and heart-felt, The Heart Keeps Faulty Time bears witness to the struggle to reconcile our visions of ourselves with the reality of our circumstances.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Printed Garden. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200929T210000 UID:52756C17-38AA-439A-A736-2761991102AF SUMMARY:A Poetic Evening with Rob Carney and Ken Waldman CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://zoom.us/j/94317640568?pwd=MWVhSlJITHl4SFh3aGVLOFM3M1lRZz09 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is excited to host poets Rob Carney and Ken Waldman.\N\NJoin us via Zoom for a reading and Q&A: https://zoom.us/j/94317640568?pwd=MWVhSlJITHl4SFh3aGVLOFM3M1lRZz09\N\NRob Carney is author of Facts and Figures: Poetry. There's a lunatic logic at work in these poems, from the opening section of thirteen facts to the final pages inspired by Christopher Smart, the 18th-century poet locked away in an asylum with his cat. Here, astrophysics becomes an empathy lesson, spelling lessons give way to magic, and the best healing witch in Louisiana shares the stage with orcas and a hermit crab. Add to that a math exam that doesn't add up, and if/then conditionals that add up strangely; plus, the worst fire in Spokane, Washington, and the origin story of owls. Facts and Figures is saner than a calendar. Calendars have twelve months, but the year—like this book—has thirteen moons.\N\NKen Waldman is author of Sports Page. Mark D. Baumgartner writes, "It's easy to get lost in Ken Waldman's Sports Page. There is joy here, poem after poem: the easy turn of 6-4-3 double play, the hard drop ofa backhand return. The breadth of his reach is startling. Baseball and basketball, tennis and golf, fishing swimming, and even chess all find their way into the poems gathered here. Walkdman transports us from the field to the press box to our own personal spaces, where we battle invisible ghosts and unlikely dreams and, sometimes, we lose. Sports Page shows us again and again the deep beauty in the struggle. these are poems with fight, poems with grit, poems with genuine and unmistakable grace."\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is excited to host poets Rob Carney and Ken Waldman.

Join us via Zoom for a reading and Q&A: https://zoom.us/j/94317640568?pwd=MWVhSlJITHl4SFh3aGVLOFM3M1lRZz09

Rob Carney is author of Facts and Figures: Poetry. There's a lunatic logic at work in these poems, from the opening section of thirteen facts to the final pages inspired by Christopher Smart, the 18th-century poet locked away in an asylum with his cat. Here, astrophysics becomes an empathy lesson, spelling lessons give way to magic, and the best healing witch in Louisiana shares the stage with orcas and a hermit crab. Add to that a math exam that doesn't add up, and if/then conditionals that add up strangely; plus, the worst fire in Spokane, Washington, and the origin story of owls. Facts and Figures is saner than a calendar. Calendars have twelve months, but the year—like this book—has thirteen moons.

Ken Waldman is author of Sports Page. Mark D. Baumgartner writes, "It's easy to get lost in Ken Waldman's Sports Page. There is joy here, poem after poem: the easy turn of 6-4-3 double play, the hard drop ofa backhand return. The breadth of his reach is startling. Baseball and basketball, tennis and golf, fishing swimming, and even chess all find their way into the poems gathered here. Walkdman transports us from the field to the press box to our own personal spaces, where we battle invisible ghosts and unlikely dreams and, sometimes, we lose. Sports Page shows us again and again the deep beauty in the struggle. these are poems with fight, poems with grit, poems with genuine and unmistakable grace."

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200929T210000 UID:6DD2DABE-3168-467C-A6FC-E06F899B6F66 SUMMARY:Best Books for Book Clubs CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://zoom.us/j/99650452433 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links is excited to host our annual Best Books for Book Clubs. Learn how to choose thought provoking titles for your book club on topics sure to spark lively debate. Catch up on the best books published this year and become versed on great discussion guide resources.\N\NJoin via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99650452433\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, The Queen Bee, and Utah Humanities. See Les X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links is excited to host our annual Best Books for Book Clubs. Learn how to choose thought provoking titles for your book club on topics sure to spark lively debate. Catch up on the best books published this year and become versed on great discussion guide resources.

Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99650452433

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, The Queen Bee, and Utah Humanities. See Les X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200930T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200930T190000 UID:3DA15F21-AEF7-43C9-A53C-3C50329138DF SUMMARY:Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1853 DESCRIPTION:Join Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter and Utah Humanities Book Festival for a virtual lecture and discussion with Doug Tallamy, author of Nature's Best Hope; A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard and professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware.\N\NRecent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.\N\NThis event is free and will take place via Zoom webinar. Doug's book Nature's Best Hope is available to purchase from the Swaner EcoCenter. Please contact Hunter at hunter.klingensmith@usu.edu or 435-797-8943 to order a copy.\N\NOr iPhone one-tap:\NUS: +16699006833,,94872937241# or +12532158782,,94872937241#\N\NOr Telephone:\NDial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): \NUS: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782\NWebinar ID: 948 7293 7241\NParticipant ID: 200315\NPassword: 166347\NInternational numbers available: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/u/ad8R2Hvkz6\N\NOr an H.323/SIP room system:\NH.323:\N162.255.37.11 (US West)\N162.255.36.11 (US East)\N115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)\N115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)\N213.19.144.110 (EMEA)\N103.122.166.55 (Australia)\N209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR)\N64.211.144.160 (Brazil)\N69.174.57.160 (Canada)\N207.226.132.110 (Japan)\NWebinar ID: 948 7293 7241\NPassword: 166347\N\NSIP: 94872937241@zoomcrc.com\NPassword: 166347 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter and Utah Humanities Book Festival for a virtual lecture and discussion with Doug Tallamy, author of Nature's Best Hope; A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard and professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware.

Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

This event is free and will take place via Zoom webinar. Doug's book Nature's Best Hope is available to purchase from the Swaner EcoCenter. Please contact Hunter at hunter.klingensmith@usu.edu or 435-797-8943 to order a copy.

Or iPhone one-tap:
US: +16699006833,,94872937241# or +12532158782,,94872937241#

Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782
Webinar ID: 948 7293 7241
Participant ID: 200315
Password: 166347
International numbers available: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/u/ad8R2Hvkz6

Or an H.323/SIP room system:
H.323:
162.255.37.11 (US West)
162.255.36.11 (US East)
115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)
115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)
213.19.144.110 (EMEA)
103.122.166.55 (Australia)
209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR)
64.211.144.160 (Brazil)
69.174.57.160 (Canada)
207.226.132.110 (Japan)
Webinar ID: 948 7293 7241
Password: 166347

SIP: 94872937241@zoomcrc.com
Password: 166347 X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201001T210000 UID:B540247A-C8A3-4C81-98BC-273B9E7E7075 SUMMARY:Meg and Jo with Virginia Kantra CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1858 DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to have New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Virginia Kantra join us from her home this evening to discuss her modern retelling of the story of the two eldest March girls, Meg and Jo. This People magazine pick also received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Virginia has graciously signed bookplates for your copy of Meg and Jo, and we’ll be drawing for prizes at the conclusion of Ms. Kantra’s remarks.\N\NJoin us on Zoom on Wednesday, October 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM\N\NMeeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81372635588\N\NMeeting ID: 813 7263 5588 See Less X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We are delighted to have New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Virginia Kantra join us from her home this evening to discuss her modern retelling of the story of the two eldest March girls, Meg and Jo. This People magazine pick also received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Virginia has graciously signed bookplates for your copy of Meg and Jo, and we’ll be drawing for prizes at the conclusion of Ms. Kantra’s remarks.

Join us on Zoom on Wednesday, October 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM

Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81372635588

Meeting ID: 813 7263 5588 See Less X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201001T210000 UID:04CBB83D-4D5F-4BE5-BA92-8B35372139E2 SUMMARY:A Poetic Evening with Shira Dentz and Adam O. Davis CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://zoom.us/j/93352986458?pwd=bkRDNXN6ZkxIaXU1aTJJOCsxTGFqQT09 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is excited to host poets Shira Dentz and Adam O. Davis.\N\Nregister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcucuuhpj0uH9yEgpr4cA5s4e_UhlYLv0lA\N\NShira Dentz is author of SISYPHUSINA is a cross-genre collection of prose, poetry, visual art, and improvisatory music, centered on female aging. Faced with linguistic and literary traditions that lack rich vocabularies to describe female aging, Shira Dentz uses the hybrid form as an attempt to suture new language that reflects internal and physical processes that constitute a shifting identity. By deviating from formal classical construction, and using the recurring image of a rose, Sisyphusina circles around conventions of beauty, questioning traditional aesthetic values of continuity, coherence, and symmetry. Some of the book’s images are drawn from separate multimedia collaborations between the author and composer Pauline Oliveros, artist Kathy High, and artist Kathline Carr. A musical composition improvised by Pauline Oliveros, based on one of her text scores, titled “Aging Music,” is the book’s coda, and readers can listen to it online by scanning a QR code inside the book. The interweaving of these collaborations with the author’s voice and voices from other sources imbue this book with a porous texture, and reimagines the boundary of the book as a membrane.\N\NAdam O. Davis is author of Index of Haunted Houses. This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. There is, too, an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is excited to host poets Shira Dentz and Adam O. Davis.

register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcucuuhpj0uH9yEgpr4cA5s4e_UhlYLv0lA

Shira Dentz is author of SISYPHUSINA is a cross-genre collection of prose, poetry, visual art, and improvisatory music, centered on female aging. Faced with linguistic and literary traditions that lack rich vocabularies to describe female aging, Shira Dentz uses the hybrid form as an attempt to suture new language that reflects internal and physical processes that constitute a shifting identity. By deviating from formal classical construction, and using the recurring image of a rose, Sisyphusina circles around conventions of beauty, questioning traditional aesthetic values of continuity, coherence, and symmetry. Some of the book’s images are drawn from separate multimedia collaborations between the author and composer Pauline Oliveros, artist Kathy High, and artist Kathline Carr. A musical composition improvised by Pauline Oliveros, based on one of her text scores, titled “Aging Music,” is the book’s coda, and readers can listen to it online by scanning a QR code inside the book. The interweaving of these collaborations with the author’s voice and voices from other sources imbue this book with a porous texture, and reimagines the boundary of the book as a membrane.

Adam O. Davis is author of Index of Haunted Houses. This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words, the more charged they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. There is, too, an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment, and persists, despite being in the past, present, or future. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut, one that will surprise, convince, and most of all, delight.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201006 UID:50BA67C5-1BD1-46CE-996C-5E1930499F11 SUMMARY:Coyote Tales CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1894 DESCRIPTION:A lot has changed recently, but one thing has remained the same. Storytelling – in all its forms – is a powerful bond that connects and unites us as individuals and communities. Through the sharing of stories, our differences matter less and our individuality is celebrated more. In these unpredictable times, Coyote Tales is committed to continue to provide a stage to share our experiences and our stories. We hope not only to entertain but to foster deeper empathy and understanding in our community with each event.\N\NPlease join us for the Third Virtual Coyote Tales Storytelling Night! The date for the event is, Friday, October 2nd, and the theme for the evening’s stories is, “Chance Meeting.” Storytellers are welcome to interpret the theme in any way they choose. We are pleased to welcome more experienced tellers to this event, but we need you too!\N\NShare your story. Please consider submitting a true, on-theme, first person, story for possible inclusion. Use your smartphone to record the audio and video of you telling your 3 minute tale. *Hints – Hold your phone horizontally when recording. It produces a better video. And, your video should be of only you telling the story. Props, accompaniments and visual aids are not allowed. Then, when you are ready to share your tale, shoot me an email through the contact link on our website and I will send you a link to upload your video to our site. Our panel of judges will choose the top ten submissions and then post them on the Coyote Tales website the evening of the show. \N\NWe will be offering a spot at a Matthew Dicks' Storytelling Workshop as the grand prize. This is a unique virtual workshop experience with only 6 other participants. Matthew Dicks is a 50-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 6-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. One of his stories has also appeared on PBS’s Stories From the Stage. Matthew is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, and the upcoming Twenty-one Truths About Love, The Other Mother and Cardboard Knight. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide. \N\NLog on to “see” the show. On October 2nd, sign on to the Coyote Tales website and watch the stories online. We have some amazing tellers lined up but are anxious to hear your story. Virtual audience members get to vote for their favorite tale of the evening too!\N\NNeed inspiration? Check out our audio archives on the Coyote Tales website, https://coyotetalesstories.com/story-archives/. \N\NWe can’t wait to gather with you to share stories live at Zion Brewery Station 2, but until the time when we can gather safely, this is virtually the next best thing. \N\NEveryone has a story - Vic \N\NThis event generously supported by Utah Humanities, Desert Dweller, Zion Brewery Station 2, and Petite Feast X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A lot has changed recently, but one thing has remained the same. Storytelling – in all its forms – is a powerful bond that connects and unites us as individuals and communities. Through the sharing of stories, our differences matter less and our individuality is celebrated more. In these unpredictable times, Coyote Tales is committed to continue to provide a stage to share our experiences and our stories. We hope not only to entertain but to foster deeper empathy and understanding in our community with each event.

Please join us for the Third Virtual Coyote Tales Storytelling Night! The date for the event is, Friday, October 2nd, and the theme for the evening’s stories is, “Chance Meeting.” Storytellers are welcome to interpret the theme in any way they choose. We are pleased to welcome more experienced tellers to this event, but we need you too!

Share your story. Please consider submitting a true, on-theme, first person, story for possible inclusion. Use your smartphone to record the audio and video of you telling your 3 minute tale. *Hints – Hold your phone horizontally when recording. It produces a better video. And, your video should be of only you telling the story. Props, accompaniments and visual aids are not allowed. Then, when you are ready to share your tale, shoot me an email through the contact link on our website and I will send you a link to upload your video to our site. Our panel of judges will choose the top ten submissions and then post them on the Coyote Tales website the evening of the show.

We will be offering a spot at a Matthew Dicks' Storytelling Workshop as the grand prize. This is a unique virtual workshop experience with only 6 other participants. Matthew Dicks is a 50-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 6-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. One of his stories has also appeared on PBS’s Stories From the Stage. Matthew is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, and the upcoming Twenty-one Truths About Love, The Other Mother and Cardboard Knight. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide.

Log on to “see” the show. On October 2nd, sign on to the Coyote Tales website and watch the stories online. We have some amazing tellers lined up but are anxious to hear your story. Virtual audience members get to vote for their favorite tale of the evening too!

Need inspiration? Check out our audio archives on the Coyote Tales website, https://coyotetalesstories.com/story-archives/.

We can’t wait to gather with you to share stories live at Zion Brewery Station 2, but until the time when we can gather safely, this is virtually the next best thing.

Everyone has a story - Vic

This event generously supported by Utah Humanities, Desert Dweller, Zion Brewery Station 2, and Petite Feast X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201002T000000 UID:F7CF8D1C-BE23-4049-927A-E85346607A04 SUMMARY:The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1863 DESCRIPTION:The U of U Black Cultural Center is excited to host Maaza Mengiste, author of the Shadow King. \N\NJoin us via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2938517741\N\NA gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record.\N\NWith the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster’s household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. Meanwhile, Mussolini’s technologically advanced army prepares for an easy victory. Hundreds of thousands of Italians―Jewish photographer Ettore among them―march on Ethiopia seeking adventure.\N\NAs the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. But how could she have predicted her own personal war as a prisoner of one of Italy’s most vicious officers, who will force her to pose before Ettore’s camera?\N\NWhat follows is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, with Hirut as the fierce, original, and brilliant voice at its heart. In incandescent, lyrical prose, Maaza Mengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.\N\NThis event was made possible by the U o U Black Cultural Center, African Student Association, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The U of U Black Cultural Center is excited to host Maaza Mengiste, author of the Shadow King.

Join us via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2938517741

A gripping novel set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record.

With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster’s household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and overwhelming rage. Meanwhile, Mussolini’s technologically advanced army prepares for an easy victory. Hundreds of thousands of Italians―Jewish photographer Ettore among them―march on Ethiopia seeking adventure.

As the war begins in earnest, Hirut, Aster, and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms against the Italians. But how could she have predicted her own personal war as a prisoner of one of Italy’s most vicious officers, who will force her to pose before Ettore’s camera?

What follows is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, with Hirut as the fierce, original, and brilliant voice at its heart. In incandescent, lyrical prose, Maaza Mengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.

This event was made possible by the U o U Black Cultural Center, African Student Association, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:5 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201002T203000 UID:E0D0C726-C2EC-4D9E-BCB2-8C2370368DE0 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents Dianne Oberhansly CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1925 DESCRIPTION:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to host fiction writer Dianne Nelson Oberhansly for a reading and Q&A about their work. \N\NTo sign up, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/book-festival?authuser=0\N\NDIANNE NELSON OBERHANSLY is the author of A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, which received the 1992 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the coauthor of the novel Downwinders: An Atomic Tale and author of The Madonna of Starbucks: Stories, Poems and Essays Around Food. Her fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and the New England Review.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Boulder Arts Council. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to host fiction writer Dianne Nelson Oberhansly for a reading and Q&A about their work.

To sign up, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/book-festival?authuser=0

DIANNE NELSON OBERHANSLY is the author of A Brief History of Male Nudes in America, which received the 1992 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the coauthor of the novel Downwinders: An Atomic Tale and author of The Madonna of Starbucks: Stories, Poems and Essays Around Food. Her fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and the New England Review.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Boulder Arts Council. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201003T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201003T150000 UID:C8E1FBDF-467F-458A-AAE4-23B80E122468 SUMMARY:Yamile Saied Mendez Discusses FURIA With Christian McKay Heidicker CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1931 DESCRIPTION:We're delighted to announce a virtual event with Yamile Saied Martinez discussing her new book, Furia in an interview with Christian McKay Heidicker. Furia was recently selected by Reese Witherspoon as her second ever Reese's Book Club YA Pick! This event will be livestreamed from our Facebook Page on October 3rd at 2 PM. \N\NIn Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.\N\NAt home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.\N\NOn the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.\N\NBut the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.\N\NFilled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.\N\NYamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. She’s a PB, MG, and YA author. Yamile is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx MG and YA authors. She’s represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary.\N\NChristian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. Between his demon-hunting cat and his fiddling, red-headed fiancée, he feels completely protected from evil spirits. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Thieves of Weirdwood, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. cmheidicker.com\N\NJoin us on our FB page, Saturday, October 3rd at 2 PM! \Nhttps://www.facebook.com/WellerBookWorks/\N\NFuria can be ordered through wellerbookworks.com, or by calling 801-328-2586.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We're delighted to announce a virtual event with Yamile Saied Martinez discussing her new book, Furia in an interview with Christian McKay Heidicker. Furia was recently selected by Reese Witherspoon as her second ever Reese's Book Club YA Pick! This event will be livestreamed from our Facebook Page on October 3rd at 2 PM.

In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.

At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.

On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.

But the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.

Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.

Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. She’s a PB, MG, and YA author. Yamile is also part of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latinx MG and YA authors. She’s represented by Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary.

Christian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. Between his demon-hunting cat and his fiddling, red-headed fiancée, he feels completely protected from evil spirits. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Thieves of Weirdwood, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. cmheidicker.com

Join us on our FB page, Saturday, October 3rd at 2 PM!
https://www.facebook.com/WellerBookWorks/

Furia can be ordered through wellerbookworks.com, or by calling 801-328-2586.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201003T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201003T200000 UID:62A9D612-D471-49DE-850D-76A452BC2C76 SUMMARY:90-Second Newbery Film Festival CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://tinyurl.com/y6kzmoqs DESCRIPTION:The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery award-winning books in about 90 seconds.\N\NFor eight years we've screened the best kid-made movies annually in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other cities—including right here in Utah!\N\NThis year's screening will be made virtual for you and yours to enjoy from the comfort of your homes. Dress up the whole family for the at-home screening, which will be launched Saturday, October 3rd at 6pm! Follow this link to access the screening. https://tinyurl.com/y6kzmoqs The screening is hosted by the fabulous children's authors James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish) and Keir Graff (The Tiny Mansion). \N\NWe'll be showing movies made by kids in Utah and some of the best from around the country.\N\N(Interested in making your own 90-Second Newbery for next year? You can find complete details, plus video resources, at the 90-Second Newbery website: http://www.90secondnewbery.com.)\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The City Library, the Treehouse Children's Museum, Orem Public Library, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery award-winning books in about 90 seconds.

For eight years we've screened the best kid-made movies annually in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other cities—including right here in Utah!

This year's screening will be made virtual for you and yours to enjoy from the comfort of your homes. Dress up the whole family for the at-home screening, which will be launched Saturday, October 3rd at 6pm! Follow this link to access the screening. https://tinyurl.com/y6kzmoqs The screening is hosted by the fabulous children's authors James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish) and Keir Graff (The Tiny Mansion).

We'll be showing movies made by kids in Utah and some of the best from around the country.

(Interested in making your own 90-Second Newbery for next year? You can find complete details, plus video resources, at the 90-Second Newbery website: http://www.90secondnewbery.com.)

This event is made possible with support from The City Library, the Treehouse Children's Museum, Orem Public Library, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201003T203000 UID:02AB3918-C5EC-48FF-BC1F-EC51681361D1 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents David Lee CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1926 DESCRIPTION:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to host David Lee, author of Mine Tailings. \N\NGo here to sign up for the event: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/book-festival?authuser=0\N\NBorn in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah.\N \NLee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest.\N \NDavid Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. He taught for many years at Southern Utah State University.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Arts Council. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to host David Lee, author of Mine Tailings.

Go here to sign up for the event: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/book-festival?authuser=0

Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah.

Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest.

David Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. He taught for many years at Southern Utah State University.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Arts Council. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201004T203000 UID:F742EF43-D426-41AB-A00E-990F82EADFB0 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents the original Bohemian Cowboy Raymond King Shurtz CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1927 DESCRIPTION:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents Raymond King Shurtz, author of Seven Plays of the American West. \N\NTo sign up, click here: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/book-festival?authuser=0\N\N\NRaymond is a poet (also a singer-songwriter, but then, those labels co-exist comfortably). More aptly, he is a poet with a past, some of it scary-dark. His plays are brooding, melancholy, dangerous. They are crammed with raw emotions that spill out of the language into the audiences’ laps, where they explode.\N\NIf this makes him sound a bit terrifying, it doesn’t take into account that few people in Phoenix have bigger hearts or more compassionate natures. He loves people, he thrives on bringing out creativity in others. In addition to founding theater companies (Cheap Theatrix, which came after Playwright’s, for one), writing plays, composing music and songs, he is a mentor to young people, teaching for several years at Metro Arts Institute in Phoenix and founding a company there.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Boulder Arts Council and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents Raymond King Shurtz, author of Seven Plays of the American West.

To sign up, click here: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/book-festival?authuser=0


Raymond is a poet (also a singer-songwriter, but then, those labels co-exist comfortably). More aptly, he is a poet with a past, some of it scary-dark. His plays are brooding, melancholy, dangerous. They are crammed with raw emotions that spill out of the language into the audiences’ laps, where they explode.

If this makes him sound a bit terrifying, it doesn’t take into account that few people in Phoenix have bigger hearts or more compassionate natures. He loves people, he thrives on bringing out creativity in others. In addition to founding theater companies (Cheap Theatrix, which came after Playwright’s, for one), writing plays, composing music and songs, he is a mentor to young people, teaching for several years at Metro Arts Institute in Phoenix and founding a company there.

This event is made possible with support from Boulder Arts Council and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201005T210000 UID:556AE10F-5541-4139-B787-20A5DFF4AA51 SUMMARY:Grassroots Shakespeare CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1854 DESCRIPTION:The March girls loved their theatricals in the Pickwick Club almost as much as Shakespeare. We are excited to have Orem’s own Grassroots Shakespeare Company favor us with one of their favorite plays. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The March girls loved their theatricals in the Pickwick Club almost as much as Shakespeare. We are excited to have Orem’s own Grassroots Shakespeare Company favor us with one of their favorite plays. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201005T000000 UID:4D0AA9F5-7FBA-42E1-BD75-D5FCA2CF84F8 SUMMARY:A Light from the Ashes by Rachel Anne Cox CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1868 DESCRIPTION:The Weber County Library is excited to host Rachel Anne Cox, author of A Light from the Ashes. \N\NJoin via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92097957955\N\NIn the future wasteland of Virginia, Sam, the son of revolutionaries, wants nothing more than to leave the violence of his past behind him, but the impending Third Revolution and the two women he loves may not let him.\NIt is the Year of 42, and Sam travels back home after spending seven years in a work camp to find his childhood sweetheart, Gemma, married to another man and helping to lead another rebellion against the corrupt government.\NSociety has devolved into a pre-industrial agrarian world devoid of electricity and personal freedom. With the echoes of war still ringing in their ears and hearts, the citizens try to live in relative peace and not incur the wrath of the ruling Triumvirate and their army of Corsairs. But another revolution is on the horizon and this time, the women are leading the charge.\N\NWith his newly adopted family, Sophie and young Ethan, Sam encounters old enemies and adapts to his new life while trying to maintain the tentative peace which has prevailed in the land. Sam must navigate the fine lines between peace and rebellion, love and hate, in a world unforgiving of past and present offenses.\N\NVowing to protect another lost generation of children, Sophie and Sam approach the looming threat of war in different ways as they attempt to find what little humanity is left in an inhumane world, and within themselves. A strong ensemble of diverse characters paves the way to a new future free of the past\N\NThis event is made possible by Weber Book Links, Weber County Main Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Weber County Library is excited to host Rachel Anne Cox, author of A Light from the Ashes.

Join via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92097957955

In the future wasteland of Virginia, Sam, the son of revolutionaries, wants nothing more than to leave the violence of his past behind him, but the impending Third Revolution and the two women he loves may not let him.
It is the Year of 42, and Sam travels back home after spending seven years in a work camp to find his childhood sweetheart, Gemma, married to another man and helping to lead another rebellion against the corrupt government.
Society has devolved into a pre-industrial agrarian world devoid of electricity and personal freedom. With the echoes of war still ringing in their ears and hearts, the citizens try to live in relative peace and not incur the wrath of the ruling Triumvirate and their army of Corsairs. But another revolution is on the horizon and this time, the women are leading the charge.

With his newly adopted family, Sophie and young Ethan, Sam encounters old enemies and adapts to his new life while trying to maintain the tentative peace which has prevailed in the land. Sam must navigate the fine lines between peace and rebellion, love and hate, in a world unforgiving of past and present offenses.

Vowing to protect another lost generation of children, Sophie and Sam approach the looming threat of war in different ways as they attempt to find what little humanity is left in an inhumane world, and within themselves. A strong ensemble of diverse characters paves the way to a new future free of the past

This event is made possible by Weber Book Links, Weber County Main Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201005T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201005T213000 UID:6B3EC08F-B65E-434E-AF49-EFCDB769D050 SUMMARY: CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1895 DESCRIPTION:Filipino American National Historical Society - Utah is excited to host poets Barbara Jane Reyes and Paula Jane Mendoza. \N\NRegister now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvce-uqjwoGdbY4rcLSbmM6N4X_jyS8Nji\N\NBarbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry: Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2006), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA, 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015), Invocation to Daughters (City Lights, 2017), and Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA, 2020). “Barbara Jane Reyes’s Letters to a Young Brown Girl interprets the song of the broken with a ghostly call and response. There are life-saving questions here that Reyes’s poetry just might have the answers for. The who, the what, the where, and the why breakdown for the brown girl in all of us, uttered through an ancient voice, fragmented autobiography, and a mix-taped, multi-tracked lens. Reyes shows us how to dissolve and reassemble in the presence of our elders; how beauty is scalped and tainted for the sake of our mirrors; how best to arm ourselves. Letters are Reyes’ most potent weapons against imperialism, commoditization, and being single-storied. Make no mistake: this is Barbara Jane Reyes’s duende like you’ve never heard (or read) before.”\N―Willie Perdomo, author of The Crazy Bunch and The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\N\N\N"In these strange and unsettling poems, Mendoza catalogues how bodies become objects of consumption, voyeurism, and desire, and uses the imagery and politics of climate change to describe the immigrant and female body. This body, threatened with radical alteration and even collapse, reimagines itself through Mendoza's highly inventive language, and turns itself strange, mythic, and new. Mendoza's mordant, playful poems upend the 'conventional' narrative of racial and gender identity and radically rewrite our ideas of syntax to reframe the reader's gaze." --Paisley Rekdal, Utah poet laureate and author of Nightingale\N\NThis event was made possible with support from the Filipino American National Historical Society - Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Filipino American National Historical Society - Utah is excited to host poets Barbara Jane Reyes and Paula Jane Mendoza.

Register now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvce-uqjwoGdbY4rcLSbmM6N4X_jyS8Nji

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry: Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2006), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA, 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015), Invocation to Daughters (City Lights, 2017), and Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA, 2020). “Barbara Jane Reyes’s Letters to a Young Brown Girl interprets the song of the broken with a ghostly call and response. There are life-saving questions here that Reyes’s poetry just might have the answers for. The who, the what, the where, and the why breakdown for the brown girl in all of us, uttered through an ancient voice, fragmented autobiography, and a mix-taped, multi-tracked lens. Reyes shows us how to dissolve and reassemble in the presence of our elders; how beauty is scalped and tainted for the sake of our mirrors; how best to arm ourselves. Letters are Reyes’ most potent weapons against imperialism, commoditization, and being single-storied. Make no mistake: this is Barbara Jane Reyes’s duende like you’ve never heard (or read) before.”
―Willie Perdomo, author of The Crazy Bunch and The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon


"In these strange and unsettling poems, Mendoza catalogues how bodies become objects of consumption, voyeurism, and desire, and uses the imagery and politics of climate change to describe the immigrant and female body. This body, threatened with radical alteration and even collapse, reimagines itself through Mendoza's highly inventive language, and turns itself strange, mythic, and new. Mendoza's mordant, playful poems upend the 'conventional' narrative of racial and gender identity and radically rewrite our ideas of syntax to reframe the reader's gaze." --Paisley Rekdal, Utah poet laureate and author of Nightingale

This event was made possible with support from the Filipino American National Historical Society - Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T131500 UID:A659D915-91A8-4340-BDB3-75819D0415C8 SUMMARY:Book Bungalow Presents Amy Timberlake CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1911 DESCRIPTION:The Book Bungalow is excited to host Amy Timberlake, author of Skunk and Badger. \N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqc-yhrDIjHtR6m8arB_WXacTh3M7D-kEc\N\NWinnie-the-Pooh meets Wallace & Gromit in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship!\N\NNo one wants a skunk. They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Rock Rooms. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger – who prefers a quiet Rock Room and the focus of Important Rock Work – can do about it. Skunk plows into Badger’s life, and everything is upended. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed. And why-oh-why are there so many chickens? \N\NThis is the first in a series about two opposites who need to be friends. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Book Bungalow is excited to host Amy Timberlake, author of Skunk and Badger.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqc-yhrDIjHtR6m8arB_WXacTh3M7D-kEc

Winnie-the-Pooh meets Wallace & Gromit in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship!

No one wants a skunk. They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Rock Rooms. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger – who prefers a quiet Rock Room and the focus of Important Rock Work – can do about it. Skunk plows into Badger’s life, and everything is upended. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed. And why-oh-why are there so many chickens?

This is the first in a series about two opposites who need to be friends. 

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T193000 UID:C3980CFE-11C3-45EF-A83C-283A689D64ED SUMMARY:In Pain by Travis Rieder CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1889 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Travis Rieder, author of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Struggle with Opioids. \N\NRegister online here: \N https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvcuyupjMjHdNDx88S6LEtx_y6-mOAXQSv\N\NA bioethicist’s eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal—a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.\N\N\NTravis Rieder’s terrifying journey down the rabbit hole of opioid dependence began with a motorcycle accident in 2015. Enduring half a dozen surgeries, the drugs he received were both miraculous and essential to his recovery. But his most profound suffering came several months later when he went into acute opioid withdrawal while following his physician’s orders. Over the course of four excruciating weeks, Rieder learned what it means to be “dope sick”—the physical and mental agony caused by opioid dependence. Clueless how to manage his opioid taper, Travis’s doctors suggested he go back on the drugs and try again later. Yet returning to pills out of fear of withdrawal is one route to full-blown addiction. Instead, Rieder continued the painful process of weaning himself.\N\NRieder’s experience exposes a dark secret of American pain management: a healthcare system so conflicted about opioids, and so inept at managing them, that the crisis currently facing us is both unsurprising and inevitable. As he recounts his story, Rieder provides a fascinating look at the history of these drugs first invented in the 1800s, changing attitudes about pain management over the following decades, and the implementation of the pain scale at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He explores both the science of addiction and the systemic and cultural barriers we must overcome if we are to address the problem effectively in the contemporary American healthcare system.\N\NIn Pain is not only a gripping personal account of dependence, but a groundbreaking exploration of the intractable causes of America’s opioid problem and their implications for resolving the crisis. Rieder makes clear that the opioid crisis exists against a backdrop of real, debilitating pain—and that anyone can fall victim to this epidemic. \N\NThis event is made possible by the Physicians Literature and Medicine Group at the University of Utah School of Medicine, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Travis Rieder, author of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Struggle with Opioids.

Register online here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvcuyupjMjHdNDx88S6LEtx_y6-mOAXQSv

A bioethicist’s eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal—a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.


Travis Rieder’s terrifying journey down the rabbit hole of opioid dependence began with a motorcycle accident in 2015. Enduring half a dozen surgeries, the drugs he received were both miraculous and essential to his recovery. But his most profound suffering came several months later when he went into acute opioid withdrawal while following his physician’s orders. Over the course of four excruciating weeks, Rieder learned what it means to be “dope sick”—the physical and mental agony caused by opioid dependence. Clueless how to manage his opioid taper, Travis’s doctors suggested he go back on the drugs and try again later. Yet returning to pills out of fear of withdrawal is one route to full-blown addiction. Instead, Rieder continued the painful process of weaning himself.

Rieder’s experience exposes a dark secret of American pain management: a healthcare system so conflicted about opioids, and so inept at managing them, that the crisis currently facing us is both unsurprising and inevitable. As he recounts his story, Rieder provides a fascinating look at the history of these drugs first invented in the 1800s, changing attitudes about pain management over the following decades, and the implementation of the pain scale at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He explores both the science of addiction and the systemic and cultural barriers we must overcome if we are to address the problem effectively in the contemporary American healthcare system.

In Pain is not only a gripping personal account of dependence, but a groundbreaking exploration of the intractable causes of America’s opioid problem and their implications for resolving the crisis. Rieder makes clear that the opioid crisis exists against a backdrop of real, debilitating pain—and that anyone can fall victim to this epidemic.

This event is made possible by the Physicians Literature and Medicine Group at the University of Utah School of Medicine, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T000000 UID:D1BE8B2B-963D-4A45-BF83-2F2369172E4C SUMMARY:The My Myth Trilogy by Jane Alvey Harris CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://zoom.us/j/97993458537 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Works is excited to host Jane Alvey Harris, author of the My Myth Trilogy. \N\NJoin us via Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/97993458537\N\NJane Alvey Harris is the author of the My Myth Trilogy, a hard-hitting, issue-driven contemporary account of a seventeen-year-old girl whose reality fractures when her childhood abuser re-enters her life. RIVEN, SECRET KEEPER, and PRIMED are fictionalized documentations of a survivor’s journey to make peace with her wounded egos and achieve self-acceptance. Jane writes that through the process of weaving her tale, “I realized I was laying my hands directly on the tattered pieces of a buried map leading to rich interior landscapes I’d never acknowledged or explored before because I considered them ugly, worthless, and humiliating.” Best-selling RIVEN and SECRET KEEPER, the first two books in the trilogy, have won multiple awards. More importantly, they have started an international dialogue about living with PTSD, and ways in which victims of childhood abuse can do more than survive, they can thrive. Book three, PRIMED, will be released in September of 2020. RIVEN has been optioned for a feature film.\N\NThis event is supported by Weber Book Works, The Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Works is excited to host Jane Alvey Harris, author of the My Myth Trilogy.

Join us via Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/97993458537

Jane Alvey Harris is the author of the My Myth Trilogy, a hard-hitting, issue-driven contemporary account of a seventeen-year-old girl whose reality fractures when her childhood abuser re-enters her life. RIVEN, SECRET KEEPER, and PRIMED are fictionalized documentations of a survivor’s journey to make peace with her wounded egos and achieve self-acceptance. Jane writes that through the process of weaving her tale, “I realized I was laying my hands directly on the tattered pieces of a buried map leading to rich interior landscapes I’d never acknowledged or explored before because I considered them ugly, worthless, and humiliating.” Best-selling RIVEN and SECRET KEEPER, the first two books in the trilogy, have won multiple awards. More importantly, they have started an international dialogue about living with PTSD, and ways in which victims of childhood abuse can do more than survive, they can thrive. Book three, PRIMED, will be released in September of 2020. RIVEN has been optioned for a feature film.

This event is supported by Weber Book Works, The Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T000000 UID:CA5BD7F3-9F25-46E4-A876-41917D6C74AF SUMMARY:Zoom date with an author CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1843 DESCRIPTION:Many Authors. Many Books.\N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RBzcTE8ySZSUkUYzLho-gg\N\NFind out about several authors, their books, and writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format.\N\NMore about the authors on the panel:\N\NSara Fitzgerald is the author of two paranormal YA books, Darkness Within and Magic Within; these books are coming to age stories including; magic, witches, vampires and werewolves.\N\NShe is the beloved author of the Christmas stories, A Miracle for Ann and Saving Savanna. She writes semi-sweet contemporary romance novels for Champagne Books. Sara was named Writer of the Year by the League of Utah Writers in 2006.\N\NAuthor Website: Sarafitzgeraldbooks.com\N\NDaniel M Quilter grew up in Orem, Utah right at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He spent his time hiking, camping, rock climbing, and anything else outdoors. After spending two years as a missionary in Portugal, Daniel attended Utah Valley University where he graduated with a degree in communications. He is best known for writing sci-fi and fantasy novels such as the Blood-Fire Trilogy, or his upper middle-grade series: The Cross-Road Travelers.\N\NAuthor website: www.danielmquilter.com\N\NKathryn Elizabeth Jones is a lover of words and a bearer of mood swings. When she is feeling the need to inspire, she writes a Christian fiction book. If a mystery is waiting to be uncovered, she finds it. If something otherworldly is finding its way through her fingertips, she travels to it.\N\NKathryn has been a reader since she was a young child. \NAlthough she took classes in writing as a teen, it wasn’t something she really thought would become her career until she was married. And even then, it took a few more years for something worthy enough to publish to manifest itself.\NKathryn’s first book was published in 2002. Since then, many other books have found their way out of her head depending on the sort of day she is having. Kathryn is a journalist, a teacher, a mentor, an editor, a publisher, and a marketer.\N\NHer greatest joy, other than writing her next book, is meeting with readers and authors who enjoy the craft of writing as much as she does.\N\NAuthor Website: www.ariverofstones.com\N\N2019 Best Indie Book Award winner M L Everett was born in northern Utah and spent two years in the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada, where he learned to love the people, culture, and scenery. Many years later he traveled back and it was just as wonderful as he remembered.\NWhen not writing, or spending time with his wife, kids and grandson, M L enjoys watching old movies, drinking a cold coke, and eating BBQ potato chips. He is currently writing his second book.\N\NAuthor Website: authormleverett.weebly.com/\N\NJudy Baker lives in Utah with her husband and three furry kids: Stanley, a Lakeland terrier, Charlie, an Airedale terrier, and, Bruce, an eighteen pound cat.\N\NWhen not writing, she enjoys RVing with her family, stargazing through one of her many telescopes, digging in her wildflower garden, and golfing, or just swinging on the patio while plotting her next story.\N\NWhat scares Judy the most? She’s been parasailing over the ocean, ziplining over a deep canyon in Hawaii, four-wheeling on the edge of a cliff while looking down into the ocean, flew in a tiny plane with balled tires landing in a cornfield in the middle of Mexico, and rode a Harley 2500 miles, but none scares her as much as making sure she writes a great story. Her favorites: coffee, tea and summer.\N\NAuthor Website: www.judybakerauthor.com\N\NMary Martinez (AKA ML Foxx) lives in Magna, a little town west of Salt Lake City, Utah. Together with her husband, she has six grown children, and six wonderful grandsons and five beautiful granddaughters. She loves to spend time with family and friends--she includes good books as friends!\N\NMary and her husband love to travel, especially to the Caribbean for relaxing, and Italy for the wine. And most recently she discovered she was Irish and Scottish, of course they had to visit Ireland and Scotland. Mary fell in love with both, but the green hills of Ireland felt like home. With the experience from the exotic places she has visited, she is able to fill her books with colorful descriptions of cities, painting a colorful backdrop for her characters. One of her favorite US destinations is New York/Brooklyn, where her beloved Beckett's live. When she visits, she can wander their neighborhoods, favorite parks, and visit their favorite pub, Putnum's.\N\NThey are avid concert ‘Ho’s’! Yes, they pretty much want to do them all. They love outdoor amphitheaters the best and attend as many during the warmer months as possible.\N\NMary writes mostly romantic suspense, romance, women's fiction, and she has just begun to dabble in young adult mystery. During her writing career she has been a conference coordinator, workshop presenter, and chapter president for the Utah Chapter of RWA. In 2007 she was presented with the Utah RWA service award in acknowledgment and appreciation for outstanding service. Mary has also participated in numerous library panels on writing and co-presented a workshop on writing a series at the League of Utah Writers conference.\N\NMary also writes as ML Foxx. This is her first jaunt into Fantasy and Sci-Fi, she loves it. It gives her freedom of choice. In her ML persona she also loves to go to the movies and you got it… Watch the Avengers, Dead Pool, among others. Something her hubby doesn't really enjoy but humors her fantasy side. You’ll see more books soon…\NMary and her husband are also enthusiastic college football fans. They have season tickets to the UTES, University of Utah Football and they tailgate every game. They love tailgating so much, that they were married at a tailgating in 1999. GO UTES!\N\NAuthor Website: MLFoxx.com\N\NRobin Glassey grew up in Canada across from a leaky nuclear power plant, turning her into a human EMP who will most likely usher in the apocalypse. She moved to Utah and graduated from BYU with a BA in Psychology. Now she spends her time analyzing her teenage boys, converting people to Doctor Who, and writing clean YA fantasy, including The Azetha Series and the award-winning novella, The Least of Elves. Although Robin writes about epic journeys, if she ever went on one, she’d most likely die within the first mile.\N\NAuthor Website: www.robinglassey.com\N\NElizabeth Suggs is a writer, an editor, and a leader in the writing community. She obsessively writes each morning, lunch, and evening. When she’s not writing, she’s leading groups of writers through bi-weekly workshops on feedback and focused writing. She believes these meetings help writers understand themselves in the world and better prepare them for major publishers.\NAuthor Website: www.collectivedarkness.com\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Many Authors. Many Books.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RBzcTE8ySZSUkUYzLho-gg

Find out about several authors, their books, and writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format.

More about the authors on the panel:

Sara Fitzgerald is the author of two paranormal YA books, Darkness Within and Magic Within; these books are coming to age stories including; magic, witches, vampires and werewolves.

She is the beloved author of the Christmas stories, A Miracle for Ann and Saving Savanna. She writes semi-sweet contemporary romance novels for Champagne Books. Sara was named Writer of the Year by the League of Utah Writers in 2006.

Author Website: Sarafitzgeraldbooks.com

Daniel M Quilter grew up in Orem, Utah right at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He spent his time hiking, camping, rock climbing, and anything else outdoors. After spending two years as a missionary in Portugal, Daniel attended Utah Valley University where he graduated with a degree in communications. He is best known for writing sci-fi and fantasy novels such as the Blood-Fire Trilogy, or his upper middle-grade series: The Cross-Road Travelers.

Author website: www.danielmquilter.com

Kathryn Elizabeth Jones is a lover of words and a bearer of mood swings. When she is feeling the need to inspire, she writes a Christian fiction book. If a mystery is waiting to be uncovered, she finds it. If something otherworldly is finding its way through her fingertips, she travels to it.

Kathryn has been a reader since she was a young child.
Although she took classes in writing as a teen, it wasn’t something she really thought would become her career until she was married. And even then, it took a few more years for something worthy enough to publish to manifest itself.
Kathryn’s first book was published in 2002. Since then, many other books have found their way out of her head depending on the sort of day she is having. Kathryn is a journalist, a teacher, a mentor, an editor, a publisher, and a marketer.

Her greatest joy, other than writing her next book, is meeting with readers and authors who enjoy the craft of writing as much as she does.

Author Website: www.ariverofstones.com

2019 Best Indie Book Award winner M L Everett was born in northern Utah and spent two years in the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada, where he learned to love the people, culture, and scenery. Many years later he traveled back and it was just as wonderful as he remembered.
When not writing, or spending time with his wife, kids and grandson, M L enjoys watching old movies, drinking a cold coke, and eating BBQ potato chips. He is currently writing his second book.

Author Website: authormleverett.weebly.com/

Judy Baker lives in Utah with her husband and three furry kids: Stanley, a Lakeland terrier, Charlie, an Airedale terrier, and, Bruce, an eighteen pound cat.

When not writing, she enjoys RVing with her family, stargazing through one of her many telescopes, digging in her wildflower garden, and golfing, or just swinging on the patio while plotting her next story.

What scares Judy the most? She’s been parasailing over the ocean, ziplining over a deep canyon in Hawaii, four-wheeling on the edge of a cliff while looking down into the ocean, flew in a tiny plane with balled tires landing in a cornfield in the middle of Mexico, and rode a Harley 2500 miles, but none scares her as much as making sure she writes a great story. Her favorites: coffee, tea and summer.

Author Website: www.judybakerauthor.com

Mary Martinez (AKA ML Foxx) lives in Magna, a little town west of Salt Lake City, Utah. Together with her husband, she has six grown children, and six wonderful grandsons and five beautiful granddaughters. She loves to spend time with family and friends--she includes good books as friends!

Mary and her husband love to travel, especially to the Caribbean for relaxing, and Italy for the wine. And most recently she discovered she was Irish and Scottish, of course they had to visit Ireland and Scotland. Mary fell in love with both, but the green hills of Ireland felt like home. With the experience from the exotic places she has visited, she is able to fill her books with colorful descriptions of cities, painting a colorful backdrop for her characters. One of her favorite US destinations is New York/Brooklyn, where her beloved Beckett's live. When she visits, she can wander their neighborhoods, favorite parks, and visit their favorite pub, Putnum's.

They are avid concert ‘Ho’s’! Yes, they pretty much want to do them all. They love outdoor amphitheaters the best and attend as many during the warmer months as possible.

Mary writes mostly romantic suspense, romance, women's fiction, and she has just begun to dabble in young adult mystery. During her writing career she has been a conference coordinator, workshop presenter, and chapter president for the Utah Chapter of RWA. In 2007 she was presented with the Utah RWA service award in acknowledgment and appreciation for outstanding service. Mary has also participated in numerous library panels on writing and co-presented a workshop on writing a series at the League of Utah Writers conference.

Mary also writes as ML Foxx. This is her first jaunt into Fantasy and Sci-Fi, she loves it. It gives her freedom of choice. In her ML persona she also loves to go to the movies and you got it… Watch the Avengers, Dead Pool, among others. Something her hubby doesn't really enjoy but humors her fantasy side. You’ll see more books soon…
Mary and her husband are also enthusiastic college football fans. They have season tickets to the UTES, University of Utah Football and they tailgate every game. They love tailgating so much, that they were married at a tailgating in 1999. GO UTES!

Author Website: MLFoxx.com

Robin Glassey grew up in Canada across from a leaky nuclear power plant, turning her into a human EMP who will most likely usher in the apocalypse. She moved to Utah and graduated from BYU with a BA in Psychology. Now she spends her time analyzing her teenage boys, converting people to Doctor Who, and writing clean YA fantasy, including The Azetha Series and the award-winning novella, The Least of Elves. Although Robin writes about epic journeys, if she ever went on one, she’d most likely die within the first mile.

Author Website: www.robinglassey.com

Elizabeth Suggs is a writer, an editor, and a leader in the writing community. She obsessively writes each morning, lunch, and evening. When she’s not writing, she’s leading groups of writers through bi-weekly workshops on feedback and focused writing. She believes these meetings help writers understand themselves in the world and better prepare them for major publishers.
Author Website: www.collectivedarkness.com

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T000000 UID:62BF5B03-34A9-404D-A45E-92C9C386D431 SUMMARY:Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemic, and Place by Amy Irvine and Pam Houston CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1861 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library and Utah Humanities present co-authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston in a virtual event. They will be discussing the upcoming release of their book Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.\N\N"Air Mail" has a publication date of October 13th.\N\NBook synopsis:\NWhen the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Library, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library and Utah Humanities present co-authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston in a virtual event. They will be discussing the upcoming release of their book Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.

"Air Mail" has a publication date of October 13th.

Book synopsis:
When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.

This event is made possible with support from Park City Library, Torrey House Press, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T000000 UID:0EFC3646-A188-4EC8-908B-829BF6ED9AD7 SUMMARY:Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1893 DESCRIPTION:The King's English is excited to host Yamile Saied Mendez, author of Furia. A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.\N\NRegister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlfumqrDsqGtLNnEl3ctigWbEHWT3isgtv\NIn Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.\NAt home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.\N\NOn the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.\NBut the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.\N\NFilled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from King's English and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English is excited to host Yamile Saied Mendez, author of Furia. A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlfumqrDsqGtLNnEl3ctigWbEHWT3isgtv
In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.
At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.

On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.
But the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.

Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.

This event is made possible with support from King's English and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201006T210000 UID:0B83ACB5-02A2-417E-9B72-BEABBF560690 SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Community Poetry Workshop CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1907 DESCRIPTION:PROVO — The Rock Canyon Poets, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Self-Portrait Poems. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using writing prompts focused on expression of the self. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two parts virtual sessions, followed by a virtual poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\NWhere:\N\NVirtual events (platform TBD)\N\NHow to Sign-up:\N\NTo sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Attendance is limited. Come ready to write!\N\NSchedule:\N\NOct. 6, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises\N\NOct. 20, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #2: workshop first draft of poems\N\NOct. 27, 2020, midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology\N\NNov. 10, 2020, 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Virtual anthology launch party, contributors reading, anthologies will be mailed\N\NThe Utah Humanities Book Festival runs from September 10 - October 31 with events in several cities throughout Utah. For more information, visit their web site utahhumanities.org.\N\NCo-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.\N\NFor more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.\N\NOfficial web site: http://rockcanyonpoets.com X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:PROVO — The Rock Canyon Poets, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Self-Portrait Poems. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using writing prompts focused on expression of the self. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two parts virtual sessions, followed by a virtual poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

Where:

Virtual events (platform TBD)

How to Sign-up:

To sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Attendance is limited. Come ready to write!

Schedule:

Oct. 6, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises

Oct. 20, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #2: workshop first draft of poems

Oct. 27, 2020, midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology

Nov. 10, 2020, 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Virtual anthology launch party, contributors reading, anthologies will be mailed

The Utah Humanities Book Festival runs from September 10 - October 31 with events in several cities throughout Utah. For more information, visit their web site utahhumanities.org.

Co-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official web site: http://rockcanyonpoets.com X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201007T000000 UID:6F9E131F-229A-4929-916F-ACA16D7A81C3 SUMMARY:Louisa May Alcott and her times CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1857 DESCRIPTION:Louisa May Alcott lived over 150 years ago. What were the unusual aspects of her life that made her such a legendary novelist? Dr. Keith Lawrence, professor of Early American Literature at BYU discusses the life and works of Louisa May Alcott, what her writing says to us today, and why it is important. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Louisa May Alcott lived over 150 years ago. What were the unusual aspects of her life that made her such a legendary novelist? Dr. Keith Lawrence, professor of Early American Literature at BYU discusses the life and works of Louisa May Alcott, what her writing says to us today, and why it is important. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary/

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201007T000000 UID:CE454DD6-5AD1-4527-9867-C91539E72E47 SUMMARY:Black Lantern by Chris Bodily CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://zoom.us/j/96109350128 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links is excited to host Chris Bodily, author of the graphic novel Black Lantern. \N\NJoin us via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96109350128\N\NBlack Lantern is truly epic—the first book clocks in at 250 pages—and Bodily estimates that it will take him three more volumes to tell the story in its entirety. As such, Bodily has found himself taking inspiration from the heavy lines and simple designs of cartoons like The Simpsons and especially Scooby Doo, with which Black Lantern shares a sense of spooky fun. Simplifying his art style was sometimes challenging for Bodily, whose work can have an incredible level of detail and intricacy. “Making comics is a lot more difficult than just making an illustration,” he says. “Part of my big approach to drawing is improvising and letting it be what it’s gonna be. But in a comic, you have two illustrations that are right next to each other. If they’re not consistent and don’t look like each other, you notice.” Even so, Bodily’s simplified stye is far from basic—his characters are dynamic and instantly recognizable—and he allows himself to get crazy with detail on some of the book’s splash pages.\N\NThis event is made possible by the Queen Bee, Weber Book Works, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links is excited to host Chris Bodily, author of the graphic novel Black Lantern.

Join us via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96109350128

Black Lantern is truly epic—the first book clocks in at 250 pages—and Bodily estimates that it will take him three more volumes to tell the story in its entirety. As such, Bodily has found himself taking inspiration from the heavy lines and simple designs of cartoons like The Simpsons and especially Scooby Doo, with which Black Lantern shares a sense of spooky fun. Simplifying his art style was sometimes challenging for Bodily, whose work can have an incredible level of detail and intricacy. “Making comics is a lot more difficult than just making an illustration,” he says. “Part of my big approach to drawing is improvising and letting it be what it’s gonna be. But in a comic, you have two illustrations that are right next to each other. If they’re not consistent and don’t look like each other, you notice.” Even so, Bodily’s simplified stye is far from basic—his characters are dynamic and instantly recognizable—and he allows himself to get crazy with detail on some of the book’s splash pages.

This event is made possible by the Queen Bee, Weber Book Works, Weber County Library System, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201007T203000 UID:3B8AFDD0-AF2C-4F6B-BE6B-3D91EF35E4E0 SUMMARY:Aloha Rodeo with Julian Randall CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1871 DESCRIPTION:Grand County Library welcomes Julian Smith and David Wolman, authors of Aloha Rodeo. \N\NRegister now via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld--uqDsoHtX8AqWqlRMZt7fbkODGjU1J\N\Nn August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world’s greatest rodeo. Steer-roping virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka’au’a had travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions—and American legends.\N\NAn unforgettable human drama set against the rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the conventional history of the American West.\N\NWhat few understood when the three paniolo rode into Cheyenne is that the Hawaiians were no underdogs. They were the product of a deeply engrained cattle culture that was twice as old as that of the Great Plains, for Hawaiians had been chasing cattle over the islands’ rugged volcanic slopes and through thick tropical forests since the late 1700s.\N\NTracing the life story of Purdy and his cousins, Wolman and Smith delve into the dual histories of ranching and cowboys in the islands, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Cheyenne, “Holy City of the Cow.” At the turn of the twentieth century, larger-than-life personalities like “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Theodore Roosevelt capitalized on a national obsession with the Wild West and helped transform Cheyenne’s annual Frontier Days celebration into an unparalleled rodeo spectacle, the “Daddy of ‘em All.”\N\NThe hopes of all Hawaii rode on the three riders’ shoulders during those dusty days in August 1908. The U.S. had forcibly annexed the islands just a decade earlier. The young Hawaiians brought the pride of a people struggling to preserve their cultural identity and anxious about their future under the rule of overlords an ocean away. In Cheyenne, they didn’t just astound the locals; they also overturned simplistic thinking about cattle country, the binary narrative of “cowboys versus Indians,” and the very concept of the Wild West. Blending sport and history, while exploring questions of identity, imperialism, and race, Aloha Rodeo spotlights an overlooked and riveting chapter in the saga of the American West.\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Grand County Library welcomes Julian Smith and David Wolman, authors of Aloha Rodeo.

Register now via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld--uqDsoHtX8AqWqlRMZt7fbkODGjU1J

n August 1908, three unknown riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with wildflowers, to compete in the world’s greatest rodeo. Steer-roping virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka’au’a had travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions—and American legends.

An unforgettable human drama set against the rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith’s Aloha Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the conventional history of the American West.

What few understood when the three paniolo rode into Cheyenne is that the Hawaiians were no underdogs. They were the product of a deeply engrained cattle culture that was twice as old as that of the Great Plains, for Hawaiians had been chasing cattle over the islands’ rugged volcanic slopes and through thick tropical forests since the late 1700s.

Tracing the life story of Purdy and his cousins, Wolman and Smith delve into the dual histories of ranching and cowboys in the islands, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Cheyenne, “Holy City of the Cow.” At the turn of the twentieth century, larger-than-life personalities like “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Theodore Roosevelt capitalized on a national obsession with the Wild West and helped transform Cheyenne’s annual Frontier Days celebration into an unparalleled rodeo spectacle, the “Daddy of ‘em All.”

The hopes of all Hawaii rode on the three riders’ shoulders during those dusty days in August 1908. The U.S. had forcibly annexed the islands just a decade earlier. The young Hawaiians brought the pride of a people struggling to preserve their cultural identity and anxious about their future under the rule of overlords an ocean away. In Cheyenne, they didn’t just astound the locals; they also overturned simplistic thinking about cattle country, the binary narrative of “cowboys versus Indians,” and the very concept of the Wild West. Blending sport and history, while exploring questions of identity, imperialism, and race, Aloha Rodeo spotlights an overlooked and riveting chapter in the saga of the American West.


This event is made possible with support from the Grand County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201007T000000 UID:DD296ED0-C5BD-4C00-9A63-BE96A7F6A477 SUMMARY:The Electric Brain by Dr. R. Douglas Fields CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1872 DESCRIPTION:Westminster College Neuroscience Club is excited to host Dr. R. Douglas Fields, the author of Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better.\N\NJoin us via Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/97626501662?pwd=NXRHQ1BQZVNvcENxWVNXbEtiOE1pdz09\N\NMeeting ID: 976 2650 1662\NPasscode: 878642\N\NAnalyzing brainwaves, the imperceptible waves of electricity surging across your scalp, has been possible for nearly a century. But only now are neuroscientists becoming aware of the wealth of information brainwaves hold about a person’s life, thoughts, and future health.\N\NFrom the moment a reclusive German doctor discovered waves of electricity radiating from the heads of his patients in the 1920s, brainwaves have sparked astonishment and intrigue, yet the significance of the discovery and its momentous implications have been poorly understood. Now, it is clear that these silent broadcasts can actually reveal a stunning wealth of information about any one of us.\N\NIn Electric Brain, world-renowned neuroscientist and author R. Douglas Fields takes us on an enthralling journey into the world of brainwaves, detailing how new brain science could fundamentally change society, separating fact from hyperbole along the way.\N\NIn this eye-opening and in-depth look at the most recent findings in brain science, Fields explores groundbreaking research that shows brainwaves can:\N\N- Reveal the type of brain you have—its strengths and weaknesses and your aptitude for learning different types of information\N- Allow scientists to watch your brain learn, glean your intelligence, and even tell how adventurous you are\NExpose hidden dysfunctions—including signifiers of mental illness and neurological disorders\N- Render your thoughts and transmit them to machines and back from machines into your brain\N- Meld minds by telepathically transmitting information from one brain to another \N- Enable individuals to rewire their own brains and improve cognitive performance. \N\NWritten by one of the neuroscientists on the cutting edge of brainwave research, Electric Brain tells a fascinating and obscure story of discovery, explains the latest science, and looks to the future—and the exciting possibilities in store for medicine, technology, and our understanding of ourselves.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Westminster College, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster College Neuroscience Club is excited to host Dr. R. Douglas Fields, the author of Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better.

Join us via Zoom. https://zoom.us/j/97626501662?pwd=NXRHQ1BQZVNvcENxWVNXbEtiOE1pdz09

Meeting ID: 976 2650 1662
Passcode: 878642

Analyzing brainwaves, the imperceptible waves of electricity surging across your scalp, has been possible for nearly a century. But only now are neuroscientists becoming aware of the wealth of information brainwaves hold about a person’s life, thoughts, and future health.

From the moment a reclusive German doctor discovered waves of electricity radiating from the heads of his patients in the 1920s, brainwaves have sparked astonishment and intrigue, yet the significance of the discovery and its momentous implications have been poorly understood. Now, it is clear that these silent broadcasts can actually reveal a stunning wealth of information about any one of us.

In Electric Brain, world-renowned neuroscientist and author R. Douglas Fields takes us on an enthralling journey into the world of brainwaves, detailing how new brain science could fundamentally change society, separating fact from hyperbole along the way.

In this eye-opening and in-depth look at the most recent findings in brain science, Fields explores groundbreaking research that shows brainwaves can:

- Reveal the type of brain you have—its strengths and weaknesses and your aptitude for learning different types of information
- Allow scientists to watch your brain learn, glean your intelligence, and even tell how adventurous you are
Expose hidden dysfunctions—including signifiers of mental illness and neurological disorders
- Render your thoughts and transmit them to machines and back from machines into your brain
- Meld minds by telepathically transmitting information from one brain to another
- Enable individuals to rewire their own brains and improve cognitive performance.

Written by one of the neuroscientists on the cutting edge of brainwave research, Electric Brain tells a fascinating and obscure story of discovery, explains the latest science, and looks to the future—and the exciting possibilities in store for medicine, technology, and our understanding of ourselves.

This event is made possible with support from Westminster College, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201007T210000 UID:C5F34F37-EEFE-4767-AA2E-4837BCA07C75 SUMMARY:Virtual Event With Becky Wallace and Abigail Johnson Discussing FAR FROM NORMAL and GIRL ON THE RUN CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1937 DESCRIPTION:We're delighted to be hosting a virtual conversation with Becky Wallace and Abigail Johnson as they talk about their new books, Far From Normal and Girl on the Run, respectively. The discussion will be livestreamed on our Facebook page on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m.\N\NFar From Normal: \N\NMaddie McPherson is sick of Normal―both her hometown of Normal, Illinois and being the ‘normal’ sibling. But when she lands a summer internship with a sports marketing firm, she finally has a chance to crawl out of her genius brother’s shadow. Not to mention, a glowing letter of recommendation could secure her admission to her dream college.\N\NBut Maddie’s nickname is “CalaMaddie” for a reason, and when the company tasks her with repairing the image of teen soccer phenom Gabriel Fortunato, she wonders if she’s set herself up for embarrassment. Gabriel is a tabloid magnet, who’s best-known for flubbing Italy’s World Cup hopes. As Maddie works with him to develop “pleasant and friendly” content for social media, she also learns he’s thoughtful, multi-talented, and fiercely loyal―maybe even to a fault. Falling for a footballer is exactly how CalaMaddie would botch this internship, but with the firm pressuring her to get the job done, perhaps her heart is worth risking?\N\NGirl on the Run:\N\NKatelyn wants the best for her widowed mom. Surprising her with an online dating profile seems like a good idea.\N\NIt isn’t. Katelyn’s mom hasn’t just been acting overprotective all these years–she’s been hiding something. And now that anyone can find them online , Katelyn is in a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of the past–not only her mom’s, but also her own.\N\NAs Katelyn’s world unravels , she begins to trust the guy who brought this nightmare to her door and to doubt the one person she never thought she would. Because her mom has been hiding for a reason: she’s been waiting.\N\NJoin us on our FB page, Wednesday, October 7th at 7 PM! https://www.facebook.com/WellerBookWorks/\N\NFar From Normal and Girl on the Run can be ordered through wellerbookworks.com, or by calling 801-328-2586.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:We're delighted to be hosting a virtual conversation with Becky Wallace and Abigail Johnson as they talk about their new books, Far From Normal and Girl on the Run, respectively. The discussion will be livestreamed on our Facebook page on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m.

Far From Normal:

Maddie McPherson is sick of Normal―both her hometown of Normal, Illinois and being the ‘normal’ sibling. But when she lands a summer internship with a sports marketing firm, she finally has a chance to crawl out of her genius brother’s shadow. Not to mention, a glowing letter of recommendation could secure her admission to her dream college.

But Maddie’s nickname is “CalaMaddie” for a reason, and when the company tasks her with repairing the image of teen soccer phenom Gabriel Fortunato, she wonders if she’s set herself up for embarrassment. Gabriel is a tabloid magnet, who’s best-known for flubbing Italy’s World Cup hopes. As Maddie works with him to develop “pleasant and friendly” content for social media, she also learns he’s thoughtful, multi-talented, and fiercely loyal―maybe even to a fault. Falling for a footballer is exactly how CalaMaddie would botch this internship, but with the firm pressuring her to get the job done, perhaps her heart is worth risking?

Girl on the Run:

Katelyn wants the best for her widowed mom. Surprising her with an online dating profile seems like a good idea.

It isn’t. Katelyn’s mom hasn’t just been acting overprotective all these years–she’s been hiding something. And now that anyone can find them online , Katelyn is in a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of the past–not only her mom’s, but also her own.

As Katelyn’s world unravels , she begins to trust the guy who brought this nightmare to her door and to doubt the one person she never thought she would. Because her mom has been hiding for a reason: she’s been waiting.

Join us on our FB page, Wednesday, October 7th at 7 PM! https://www.facebook.com/WellerBookWorks/

Far From Normal and Girl on the Run can be ordered through wellerbookworks.com, or by calling 801-328-2586.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201008T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201008T163000 UID:E10E1CF7-8D57-441F-AFE3-74CDB3B17B71 SUMMARY:Virtual Event With Edward Power and Craig Gordon in Conversation: DRAGONS IN THE SNOW CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1938 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual conversation between Edward Power and Craig Gordon, discussing their new book, Dragons in the Snow: Avalanche Detectives and The Race to Beat Death in the Mountains. The conversation will be livestreamed from our Facebook page on Thursday, October 8th at 3 p.m.\N\NEdward Power sets the reader down in the midst of a February 2017 blizzard that raked Utah’s Uinta Range as nine snowboarders made their way into the backcountry for a day of intense adventure. As the boarders were taking their first turns, expert avalanche forecaster Craig Gordon was tracking the storm and its impact, posting one of the most dire avalanche forecasts and warnings in his career.\N\NIn Dragons in the Snow, Power delves into the research and science behind avalanche forecasting and rescue, weaving in the art of backcountry skiing as well as dramatic tales of avalanche accidents, rescues, and recoveries. And he paints compelling portraits of the men and women who have made the study of avalanches their life’s work. The tales told by these avalanche forecasters, as well as the stories of the backcountry riders who may "wake the dragon" make for not just a compelling read, but also a powerful tool for raising avalanche awareness in everyone who plays in the winter backcountry.\N\NJoin us on our FB page, Thursday, October 8th at 3 PM! https://www.facebook.com/WellerBookWorks/\N\NDragons in the Snow can be ordered through wellerbookworks.com, or by calling 801-328-2586.\N\Nthis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a virtual conversation between Edward Power and Craig Gordon, discussing their new book, Dragons in the Snow: Avalanche Detectives and The Race to Beat Death in the Mountains. The conversation will be livestreamed from our Facebook page on Thursday, October 8th at 3 p.m.

Edward Power sets the reader down in the midst of a February 2017 blizzard that raked Utah’s Uinta Range as nine snowboarders made their way into the backcountry for a day of intense adventure. As the boarders were taking their first turns, expert avalanche forecaster Craig Gordon was tracking the storm and its impact, posting one of the most dire avalanche forecasts and warnings in his career.

In Dragons in the Snow, Power delves into the research and science behind avalanche forecasting and rescue, weaving in the art of backcountry skiing as well as dramatic tales of avalanche accidents, rescues, and recoveries. And he paints compelling portraits of the men and women who have made the study of avalanches their life’s work. The tales told by these avalanche forecasters, as well as the stories of the backcountry riders who may "wake the dragon" make for not just a compelling read, but also a powerful tool for raising avalanche awareness in everyone who plays in the winter backcountry.

Join us on our FB page, Thursday, October 8th at 3 PM! https://www.facebook.com/WellerBookWorks/

Dragons in the Snow can be ordered through wellerbookworks.com, or by calling 801-328-2586.

this event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201008T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201008T193000 UID:9537D2DA-5794-4E30-A95F-C5839E393692 SUMMARY:Evening Ethics: On Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1890 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Evening Ethics Discussion facilitated by Travis Rieder that focuses on the ethical challenges posed by opioids and their use in the US healthcare system. \N\NJoin Zoom: https://utah.zoom.us/\Nj/94223504451\NPassword: 789209\N\NIf you have learned about America’s opioid crisis primarily from the media or politicians, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the problem is a rather simple one. We must stop excess prescribing of opioids and prevent heroin from coming in over the southern border or fentanyl from coming through the US Postal Service from China. The problem is not simple, however. This laser-like focus on drug supply is an outdated War on Drugs approach to fighting addiction and overdose, and it simply doesn’t work. Indeed, it often makes things worse. For this reason, I argue that it takes genuine effort to determine what we should do in response to America’s drug problem. That is: we need to do ethics. Solving America’s opioid crisis is not a problem just for public health, or for medicine; it’s a problem for ethics and policy. And on my view, in order to determine what we should do, we need to better understand the nature of drugs and addiction. The goal of this discussion is to touch on all of these topics.\N\NBackground Readings: \N\N“What Chronic Pain Patients are Deeply Afraid Of,” in the NYTimes, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/opioid-crisis-addiction.html\N\N“Solving the Opioid Crisis isn’t just a Public Health Challenge—It’s a Bioethics Challenge,” forthcoming from the Hastings Center Report\N\NRecommended Reading for those Interested in Dr. Rieder’s broader story and view: \N\NIn Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids\N\NThis event is made possible with the support from Utah Humanities, The King's English, and The Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine as part of the Evening Ethics Discussion Regularly Scheduled Series.\N\NDisclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.\NACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical\Neducation for physicians.\NNONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,\NOEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an Evening Ethics Discussion facilitated by Travis Rieder that focuses on the ethical challenges posed by opioids and their use in the US healthcare system.

Join Zoom: https://utah.zoom.us/
j/94223504451
Password: 789209

If you have learned about America’s opioid crisis primarily from the media or politicians, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the problem is a rather simple one. We must stop excess prescribing of opioids and prevent heroin from coming in over the southern border or fentanyl from coming through the US Postal Service from China. The problem is not simple, however. This laser-like focus on drug supply is an outdated War on Drugs approach to fighting addiction and overdose, and it simply doesn’t work. Indeed, it often makes things worse. For this reason, I argue that it takes genuine effort to determine what we should do in response to America’s drug problem. That is: we need to do ethics. Solving America’s opioid crisis is not a problem just for public health, or for medicine; it’s a problem for ethics and policy. And on my view, in order to determine what we should do, we need to better understand the nature of drugs and addiction. The goal of this discussion is to touch on all of these topics.

Background Readings:

“What Chronic Pain Patients are Deeply Afraid Of,” in the NYTimes, here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/opinion/opioid-crisis-addiction.html

“Solving the Opioid Crisis isn’t just a Public Health Challenge—It’s a Bioethics Challenge,” forthcoming from the Hastings Center Report

Recommended Reading for those Interested in Dr. Rieder’s broader story and view:

In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids

This event is made possible with the support from Utah Humanities, The King's English, and The Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine as part of the Evening Ethics Discussion Regularly Scheduled Series.

Disclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.
ACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,
OEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201008T210000 UID:597E2314-A945-4399-A1BF-DBC6EB5542C5 SUMMARY:Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series presents Laurie Ann Guerrero CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1833 DESCRIPTION:The Anne Sutton Newman Weeks Poetry Series is excited to present Laurie Ann Guerrero\N\NRegister here: https://westminstercollegeslc.formstack.com/forms/laurie_ann_guerrero_poetry_reading\N\NLaurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio. She is the author of a chapbook, Babies Under the Skin (Panhandler Publishing, 2008); Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (Notre Dame, 2013) winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize; and A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre 2015). I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected is forthcoming in Fall 2020 from TCU Press). Guerrero was appointed Poet Laureate of San Antonio in 2014, the Poet Laureate of State of Texas in 2016, and is the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She will judge Westminster’s student writing awards and the 2021 ellipsis prize. www.laurieannguerrero.com\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Westminster College, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Anne Sutton Newman Weeks Poetry Series is excited to present Laurie Ann Guerrero

Register here: https://westminstercollegeslc.formstack.com/forms/laurie_ann_guerrero_poetry_reading

Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio. She is the author of a chapbook, Babies Under the Skin (Panhandler Publishing, 2008); Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (Notre Dame, 2013) winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize; and A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre 2015). I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected is forthcoming in Fall 2020 from TCU Press). Guerrero was appointed Poet Laureate of San Antonio in 2014, the Poet Laureate of State of Texas in 2016, and is the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She will judge Westminster’s student writing awards and the 2021 ellipsis prize. www.laurieannguerrero.com

This event is made possible with support from Westminster College, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201008T210000 UID:E8FFEA8C-1035-4C6A-BC05-CC1F45A5E123 SUMMARY:Utah Vocal Arts Academy CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1855 DESCRIPTION:As a woman, Louisa May Alcott was a pioneer on many fronts. In addition to being a successful novelist, her parents provided a stop on the Underground Railroad, she was a suffragist, a feminist, a Civil War nurse, and active in the temperance movement. Tonight we celebrate women in the arts by featuring songs by female composers and lyricists. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary/\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library, Utah Vocal Arts, Academy, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As a woman, Louisa May Alcott was a pioneer on many fronts. In addition to being a successful novelist, her parents provided a stop on the Underground Railroad, she was a suffragist, a feminist, a Civil War nurse, and active in the temperance movement. Tonight we celebrate women in the arts by featuring songs by female composers and lyricists. You can catch this performance on the Orem Public Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OremLibrary/

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library, Utah Vocal Arts, Academy, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201009T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201009T133000 UID:899442A5-4151-4B86-82A2-F1E59C3EF12A SUMMARY:Shadows, then Light: Activist Panel CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1835 DESCRIPTION:The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College presents Shadows, then Light, an activist panel featuring Marco Saavedra and Viridiana Martinez. Both activists infiltrated an ICE detention center to organize incarcerated migrants. \N\NThis event will be made available online.\N\NYou can access the book Shadows, then Light here: https://shadowsthenlight.com/ Shadows then Light honors the movement of undocumented youth coming out of the shadows in an effort to not only to claim human dignity, but, also, to shine light back into the shadows, where the majority of community members remain, facing the dehumanizing threat of discrimination, detention and deportation.\N\NThis event is a part of Welcoming Week 2020, a program by Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans dedicated to highlighting the contributions of immigrant and refugee communities. This event is made possible with support from The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College, The King's English, The Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Division of Museums and Arts, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College presents Shadows, then Light, an activist panel featuring Marco Saavedra and Viridiana Martinez. Both activists infiltrated an ICE detention center to organize incarcerated migrants.

This event will be made available online.

You can access the book Shadows, then Light here: https://shadowsthenlight.com/ Shadows then Light honors the movement of undocumented youth coming out of the shadows in an effort to not only to claim human dignity, but, also, to shine light back into the shadows, where the majority of community members remain, facing the dehumanizing threat of discrimination, detention and deportation.

This event is a part of Welcoming Week 2020, a program by Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans dedicated to highlighting the contributions of immigrant and refugee communities. This event is made possible with support from The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Salt Lake Community College, The King's English, The Mayor's Office for New Americans, Utah Division of Museums and Arts, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201009T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201009T210000 UID:1D13F67B-1E56-4557-89E5-A0AEDAC0C20B SUMMARY:Neruda Film Screening and Q&A with Mark Eisner CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1873 DESCRIPTION:Artes de Mexico en Utah invites you to join us for a film screening of Neruda and a Q&A with Mark Eisner, author of Neruda: The Poet's Calling. \N\NRegister via Zoom here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpceuhqzovGdBVAaZqb4cbfaD4I5YvEPb5\N\NFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic love.\N\NNeruda: The Poet’s Calling is the product of fifteen years of research by Mark Eisner, writer, translator, and documentary filmmaker. The book vividly depicts Neruda’s monumental life, potent verse, and ardent belief in the “poet’s obligation” to use poetry for social good. It braids together three major strands of Neruda’s life—his world-revered poetry; his political engagement; and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal life—forming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.\N\NThe fascinating events of Neruda’s life are interspersed with Eisner’s thoughtful examinations of the poems, both as works of art in their own right and as mirrors of Neruda’s life and times. The result is a book that animates Neruda’s riveting story in a new way—one that offers a compelling narrative version of Neruda’s life and work, undergirded by exhaustive research, yet designed to bring this colossal literary figure to a broader audience.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artes de Mexico en Utah invites you to join us for a film screening of Neruda and a Q&A with Mark Eisner, author of Neruda: The Poet's Calling.

Register via Zoom here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpceuhqzovGdBVAaZqb4cbfaD4I5YvEPb5

Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic love.

Neruda: The Poet’s Calling is the product of fifteen years of research by Mark Eisner, writer, translator, and documentary filmmaker. The book vividly depicts Neruda’s monumental life, potent verse, and ardent belief in the “poet’s obligation” to use poetry for social good. It braids together three major strands of Neruda’s life—his world-revered poetry; his political engagement; and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal life—forming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.

The fascinating events of Neruda’s life are interspersed with Eisner’s thoughtful examinations of the poems, both as works of art in their own right and as mirrors of Neruda’s life and times. The result is a book that animates Neruda’s riveting story in a new way—one that offers a compelling narrative version of Neruda’s life and work, undergirded by exhaustive research, yet designed to bring this colossal literary figure to a broader audience.

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201010T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201010T140000 UID:D0E78968-361B-4F9A-9550-98BB9753BE4E SUMMARY:Book Bungalow features Elizabeth C. Bunce CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1912 DESCRIPTION:Book Bungalow is excited to host, Elizabeth C. Bunce, author of Premeditated Myrtle.\N\NJoin us via Zoom. A link will be provided soon.\N\NTwelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet Victorian village of Swinburne, England.\N\NWhen her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and solve the crime, even if nobody else believes her — not even her father, the town prosecutor.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book Bungalow is excited to host, Elizabeth C. Bunce, author of Premeditated Myrtle.

Join us via Zoom. A link will be provided soon.

Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet Victorian village of Swinburne, England.

When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and solve the crime, even if nobody else believes her — not even her father, the town prosecutor.

This event was made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201010T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201010T163000 UID:9353CF43-2B20-45FF-9BAE-10A3B421E6F5 SUMMARY:Resistencia Feminista: Contemporary Mexican Poetry CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1918 DESCRIPTION:Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations.\N\NRegister online now to get the link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrdeihqTktG9K9LtYMbws5zmAUD_ZLbxhm\N\N“What does resistance mean to you in your experience of our current moment? What do you see as the role of poetry within Mexico’s current social movements?”\N\NIn what promises to be a stimulating dialogue, the poets will respond to these questions while also reading their celebrated verse.\N\NThis event is part the launch of a groundbreaking new anthology, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, from Tin House. As Julia Alvarez writes in her poignant introduction, “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.”\N\NThis extraordinary collection is rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today.\N\NOne of those icons, Kyra Galvan, will be with us this afternoon, virtually from Mexico City. The poets will also be reading the great Rosario Castellanos, another poet in the anthology, talking about what her legacy has meant to their development and writing today.\N\NThe other featured poets include:\NChary Gumeta,Chiapas\NXel-Ha López Méndez, Guadalajara\NZel Cabrera, Mexico City\NFacilitated by Violeta Orozco (Vio Letra) and TBA\NBios and pics coming shortly.\N\NThe event will be in English, with bilingual readings of the poetry.\N\NThe anthology will be released on September 15. For more information and to pre-order it now, please visit www.redpoppy.net\N\NThe poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.\N\NIncluded in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essential, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.\N\NPraise for Resistencia:\N\N“Resistencia could not be more timely. It is a stunning collection of revelations and witness. . . . Indispensable.”\N-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels\N\N"A groundbreaking collection of works by over 50 poets, Resistencia is alive with bravery, feminism, strength, agency, protest, power and hope."\N– Ms. Magazine\N\N“I read Resistencia in one sitting, rather breathlessly... The poems do not soothe but shake us awake, and they call on us to do what they have done: to witness, to listen, to not only speak but sing.”\N- Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones\N\N"Even surrounded in death and destruction, there is a vibrancy in the lines. There is joy. There is living. Beauty’s put forward bravely.”\N- David Thomas Martinez\N\N“Reading these poems, I felt as if this brilliant chorus of writers, living and departed, was delivering a call to action: ‘We have been here all along, fighting. Won’t you join us?’”\N- Frances de Pontes Peebles, author of The Air You Breathe\N\NPlease support this project, support these poets, support your soul by pre-ordering the book today: www.redpoppy.net, or wherever books are sold. En México, el libro está actualmente disponible en www.amazon.com.mx\N\NAnd please join us for this impactful afternoon, Saturday, October 10th.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Red Poppy, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations.

Register online now to get the link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrdeihqTktG9K9LtYMbws5zmAUD_ZLbxhm

“What does resistance mean to you in your experience of our current moment? What do you see as the role of poetry within Mexico’s current social movements?”

In what promises to be a stimulating dialogue, the poets will respond to these questions while also reading their celebrated verse.

This event is part the launch of a groundbreaking new anthology, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, from Tin House. As Julia Alvarez writes in her poignant introduction, “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.”

This extraordinary collection is rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today.

One of those icons, Kyra Galvan, will be with us this afternoon, virtually from Mexico City. The poets will also be reading the great Rosario Castellanos, another poet in the anthology, talking about what her legacy has meant to their development and writing today.

The other featured poets include:
Chary Gumeta,Chiapas
Xel-Ha López Méndez, Guadalajara
Zel Cabrera, Mexico City
Facilitated by Violeta Orozco (Vio Letra) and TBA
Bios and pics coming shortly.

The event will be in English, with bilingual readings of the poetry.

The anthology will be released on September 15. For more information and to pre-order it now, please visit www.redpoppy.net

The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.

Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essential, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.

Praise for Resistencia:

“Resistencia could not be more timely. It is a stunning collection of revelations and witness. . . . Indispensable.”
-Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels

"A groundbreaking collection of works by over 50 poets, Resistencia is alive with bravery, feminism, strength, agency, protest, power and hope."
– Ms. Magazine

“I read Resistencia in one sitting, rather breathlessly... The poems do not soothe but shake us awake, and they call on us to do what they have done: to witness, to listen, to not only speak but sing.”
- Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

"Even surrounded in death and destruction, there is a vibrancy in the lines. There is joy. There is living. Beauty’s put forward bravely.”
- David Thomas Martinez

“Reading these poems, I felt as if this brilliant chorus of writers, living and departed, was delivering a call to action: ‘We have been here all along, fighting. Won’t you join us?’”
- Frances de Pontes Peebles, author of The Air You Breathe

Please support this project, support these poets, support your soul by pre-ordering the book today: www.redpoppy.net, or wherever books are sold. En México, el libro está actualmente disponible en www.amazon.com.mx

And please join us for this impactful afternoon, Saturday, October 10th.

This event is made possible with support from Red Poppy, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201010T000000 UID:78F123E4-3676-4E84-9AC6-8B6442996653 SUMMARY:April Jones Prince CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1840 DESCRIPTION:Treehouse Children's Museum is excited to host April Jones Prince. \N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RsJ20NZCQXqA9nFpMMaTJg \N\NWhen April Jones Prince was in first grade, she decided she wanted to be an archaeologist. "I envisioned myself digging up precious historical artifacts and living in a palace," she says. "Obviously, I didn't know much about the accommodations of archaeologists in the field!" She did know that she was curious about the details of the past--what people did, ate, and wore. "I grew up fascinated by these things. My mom is a costume historian and my dad is practically a walking history book, so maybe it was inevitable."\N\NApril was also fascinated by books, ideas, and stories. As a child, she loved reading and being read to. When she grew older, April realized she also loved to write. Even back then, her work had a strong nonfiction bent. "I secretly enjoyed writing research papers in school," she admits. "In college I was a journalism major, and I loved that too. But journalistic writing is so practical--nothing as romantic as being a novelist or poet! Perhaps for that reason, I never really thought of myself as a writer until I began writing for children."\N\NToday, April feels she has found the perfect vocation: writing about history for young people. "I love taking tantalizing people or 'nuggets' from history and weaving them into stories that are exciting and engaging for children," she says. April enjoys both the writing, and the research. "The research stage is exciting and unpredictable. In a way, I guess it's my own kind of archaeology--digging up old documents and visiting the nooks and crannies of historical sites and museums. I certainly experience an archaeologist's thrill of discovery."\N\NApril finds a special delight in creating books for young readers. "The books we love as children affect us like no other books we read in our lifetimes--they stay with us and shape us. Plus, they give kids the perfect opportunity to crawl into the lap of someone who loves them and listen to a good story. What could be better?"\N\NFind activities and teacher guides, and learn more about April and her books at www.apriljonesprince.com.\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Works, The Queen Bee, Treehouse Children's Museum, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Treehouse Children's Museum is excited to host April Jones Prince.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RsJ20NZCQXqA9nFpMMaTJg

When April Jones Prince was in first grade, she decided she wanted to be an archaeologist. "I envisioned myself digging up precious historical artifacts and living in a palace," she says. "Obviously, I didn't know much about the accommodations of archaeologists in the field!" She did know that she was curious about the details of the past--what people did, ate, and wore. "I grew up fascinated by these things. My mom is a costume historian and my dad is practically a walking history book, so maybe it was inevitable."

April was also fascinated by books, ideas, and stories. As a child, she loved reading and being read to. When she grew older, April realized she also loved to write. Even back then, her work had a strong nonfiction bent. "I secretly enjoyed writing research papers in school," she admits. "In college I was a journalism major, and I loved that too. But journalistic writing is so practical--nothing as romantic as being a novelist or poet! Perhaps for that reason, I never really thought of myself as a writer until I began writing for children."

Today, April feels she has found the perfect vocation: writing about history for young people. "I love taking tantalizing people or 'nuggets' from history and weaving them into stories that are exciting and engaging for children," she says. April enjoys both the writing, and the research. "The research stage is exciting and unpredictable. In a way, I guess it's my own kind of archaeology--digging up old documents and visiting the nooks and crannies of historical sites and museums. I certainly experience an archaeologist's thrill of discovery."

April finds a special delight in creating books for young readers. "The books we love as children affect us like no other books we read in our lifetimes--they stay with us and shape us. Plus, they give kids the perfect opportunity to crawl into the lap of someone who loves them and listen to a good story. What could be better?"

Find activities and teacher guides, and learn more about April and her books at www.apriljonesprince.com.


This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Works, The Queen Bee, Treehouse Children's Museum, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201012T140000 UID:5040C126-CC23-481F-ADCE-0F222FE3339D SUMMARY:Intercambios: Queer Latinx Poetics Across Fronteras Ft Francisco Aragon, Luis Boix, and Alberto Lopez Serrano CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1874 DESCRIPTION:Artes de Mexico en Utah is excited to host Intercambios: Queer Latinx Poetics Across Fronteras. The event will feature Francisco Aragón (Nicaragua/US), Leonardo Boix (Argentina; UK), and Alberto López Serrano (El Salvdador). \N\NRegister now for the reading and conversation via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclc-6trzspGt2m96UqazH3OseXfzdrxd9x\N\NFrancisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. A native of San Francisco, California, he holds degrees in Spanish from UC Berkeley, NYU, and the University of Notre Dame. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies where he established Letras Latinas. A CantoMundo fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop, Aragón is the author of two books, Puerta del Sol and Glow of Our Sweat, as well as editor of the anthology, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. His third book, After Rubén, is slated for publication in 2020. His Tongue a Swath of Sky, his fourth chapbook, was released in 2019.\N\N\NLeonardo Boix has published in both English and Spanish, including "10: Poets of the New Generation" by Bloodaxe, "Why Poetry?" by Verve Poetry Press, the Poetry Review, Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), The Morning Star, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and elsewhere. Boix is also an international journalist (economics, politics and culture) and is regularly published in The Guardian, The Morning Star, The Miami Herald, as well as all the major Latin American journals and newspapers such as Revista Proceso, Diario Perfil and El Telégrafo.\N\NAlberto López Serrano is a professor of Mathematics, director of La Casa del Escritor-Museo Salarrué (Ministerio de Cultura de El Salvador), and director of the Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad. His publications include the books La nave falta (2007, 2017), Cien sonetos de Alberto (2009) and Cantos para mis muchachos (2014, 2017). \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artes de Mexico en Utah is excited to host Intercambios: Queer Latinx Poetics Across Fronteras. The event will feature Francisco Aragón (Nicaragua/US), Leonardo Boix (Argentina; UK), and Alberto López Serrano (El Salvdador).

Register now for the reading and conversation via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclc-6trzspGt2m96UqazH3OseXfzdrxd9x

Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. A native of San Francisco, California, he holds degrees in Spanish from UC Berkeley, NYU, and the University of Notre Dame. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies where he established Letras Latinas. A CantoMundo fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop, Aragón is the author of two books, Puerta del Sol and Glow of Our Sweat, as well as editor of the anthology, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. His third book, After Rubén, is slated for publication in 2020. His Tongue a Swath of Sky, his fourth chapbook, was released in 2019.


Leonardo Boix has published in both English and Spanish, including "10: Poets of the New Generation" by Bloodaxe, "Why Poetry?" by Verve Poetry Press, the Poetry Review, Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT), The Morning Star, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and elsewhere. Boix is also an international journalist (economics, politics and culture) and is regularly published in The Guardian, The Morning Star, The Miami Herald, as well as all the major Latin American journals and newspapers such as Revista Proceso, Diario Perfil and El Telégrafo.

Alberto López Serrano is a professor of Mathematics, director of La Casa del Escritor-Museo Salarrué (Ministerio de Cultura de El Salvador), and director of the Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad. His publications include the books La nave falta (2007, 2017), Cien sonetos de Alberto (2009) and Cantos para mis muchachos (2014, 2017).

This event is made possible with support from Artes de Mexico en Utah, The King's English, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201012T000000 UID:7689121D-203A-4428-BD64-39C1F7A27B57 SUMMARY:The King's English Presents Jennifer Sinor and Patrick Madden CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1875 DESCRIPTION:The King's English is excited to host Jennifer Sinor and Patrick Madden for a reading and Q&A . \N\NRegister now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld-mhpzkrGNfV1MdA3-IZ9tsmLSygg1S_\N\NSky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through. Beginning with the conception of her first son, which coincided with the tragic death of her uncle on an Alaskan river, and ending a decade later in the Himalayan home of the Dalai Lama, Sinor offers a lyric exploration of language, love, and the promise inherent in the stories we tell: to remember.\N\NIn these essays, Sinor takes us through the mountains, deserts, and rivers of the West and along with her on her travels to India. Whether rooted in the dailiness of raising children or practicing yoga, Sinor searches for the places where grace resides. The essays often weave several narrative threads together in the search for relationship and connection. A mother, writer, teacher, and yoga instructor, Sinor ultimately tackles the most difficult question: how to live in a broken world filled with both suffering and grace.\N\N In English disparate means “different” or “miscellaneous”—apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means “nonsense,” “folly,” or “absurdity,”—words appropriate to Madden’s goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability.\N\NIn this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essays—which slip in quietly under the guise of a borrowed form, abruptly attack, and promptly escape, leaving laughter and contemplation in their wake. Madden also incorporates cameos from guest essayists, including Mary Cappello, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Lazar, Michael Martone, Jericho Parms, and Wendy S. Walters, much like a musician features other performers.\N\NDisparates reflects the current zeitgeist by taking on important issues with a touch of cleverness, a dash of humor, and a little help from one’s friends.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English is excited to host Jennifer Sinor and Patrick Madden for a reading and Q&A .

Register now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld-mhpzkrGNfV1MdA3-IZ9tsmLSygg1S_

Sky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through. Beginning with the conception of her first son, which coincided with the tragic death of her uncle on an Alaskan river, and ending a decade later in the Himalayan home of the Dalai Lama, Sinor offers a lyric exploration of language, love, and the promise inherent in the stories we tell: to remember.

In these essays, Sinor takes us through the mountains, deserts, and rivers of the West and along with her on her travels to India. Whether rooted in the dailiness of raising children or practicing yoga, Sinor searches for the places where grace resides. The essays often weave several narrative threads together in the search for relationship and connection. A mother, writer, teacher, and yoga instructor, Sinor ultimately tackles the most difficult question: how to live in a broken world filled with both suffering and grace.

In English disparate means “different” or “miscellaneous”—apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means “nonsense,” “folly,” or “absurdity,”—words appropriate to Madden’s goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstract subjects as happiness and memory and unpredictability.

In this vein, Madden takes sidelong swipes at weighty topics via form, with wildly meandering essays, abandoned essays in honor of the long tradition of essayists disparaging their own efforts, and guerrilla essays—which slip in quietly under the guise of a borrowed form, abruptly attack, and promptly escape, leaving laughter and contemplation in their wake. Madden also incorporates cameos from guest essayists, including Mary Cappello, Matthew Gavin Frank, David Lazar, Michael Martone, Jericho Parms, and Wendy S. Walters, much like a musician features other performers.

Disparates reflects the current zeitgeist by taking on important issues with a touch of cleverness, a dash of humor, and a little help from one’s friends.

This event is made possible with support from The King's English and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201013T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201013T200000 UID:35462767-B899-4EDC-9405-0112ABA941D3 SUMMARY:Air Mail Book Launch with Amy Irvine and Pam Houston CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1892 DESCRIPTION:When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.\N\NREGISTRATION REQUIRED for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-30wRASeQgaIj2UdDTB3Kw\NJoin authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston for a virtual discussion with Torrey House Press publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen. You can purchase a copy of Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place from The King's English Bookshop at https://www.kingsenglish.com/. The King's English offers curbside pickup Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-30wRASeQgaIj2UdDTB3Kw
Join authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston for a virtual discussion with Torrey House Press publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen. You can purchase a copy of Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place from The King's English Bookshop at https://www.kingsenglish.com/. The King's English offers curbside pickup Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201013T000000 UID:80F2F05F-DFBF-4F5A-B219-34449524ADE2 SUMMARY:Champions of Change CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1845 DESCRIPTION:Stories of powerhouse women who pushed for justice in politics, medicine, art, music, religion, tribal leadership, and more.\N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1F5fbhsCTSGOCnRPiRYrtw\N\NIn fighting to pass the 19th Amendment, brave suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline B. Wells fought to end laws and take down barriers that prevented them from voting. Champions of Change introduces young readers not only to Anthony and Wells, but also to a diverse group of firsts and freedom-fighters in America’s fight for equality, such as:\N\NZitkala-Sa, co-founder of the National Council of American Indians\NMartha Hughes Cannon, America’s first female state senator\NHannah Kaaepa, an advocate for Hawaiian women’s rights\NBarbara Toomer, who was jailed 35 times for protests that led to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act\Nand the women of the Kanab Town Council, one of the first all-female city councils in the country.\NThis timely collection of mini biographies highlights 25 champions for justice, includes colorful portraitures of each, and presents actual photos of the individuals.\N\NNaomi Watkins, Ph.D. is an educational consultant, women’s advocate, and community builder. A former middle school English teacher, she specializes in curriculum development and school district consulting. She has been published in international journals such as The Reading Teacher, Journal of Children's Literature, TESOL Journal, and Middle School Journal.\N\NAuthor Website: naomiwatkins.net\N\NKatherine Kitterman is the historical director for Better Days 2020, an organization that explores stories of women who shaped Utah’s history. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American History at American University in Washington, D.C., where she has worked to bring history to life at the Smithsonian Institution, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Woodrow Wilson House.\N\NAuthor Website:\N\NBrooke Smart is an illustrator based in Sandy, Utah, with a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University. Her illustration clients include the New York Times, Gathre, Better Days 2020, Bravery Magazine, and private commissions. Brooke recently won honorable mention in the 2016 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Portfolio Showcase in New York City.\N\NAuthor Website: www.brooke-smart.com\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Library, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stories of powerhouse women who pushed for justice in politics, medicine, art, music, religion, tribal leadership, and more.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1F5fbhsCTSGOCnRPiRYrtw

In fighting to pass the 19th Amendment, brave suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline B. Wells fought to end laws and take down barriers that prevented them from voting. Champions of Change introduces young readers not only to Anthony and Wells, but also to a diverse group of firsts and freedom-fighters in America’s fight for equality, such as:

Zitkala-Sa, co-founder of the National Council of American Indians
Martha Hughes Cannon, America’s first female state senator
Hannah Kaaepa, an advocate for Hawaiian women’s rights
Barbara Toomer, who was jailed 35 times for protests that led to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act
and the women of the Kanab Town Council, one of the first all-female city councils in the country.
This timely collection of mini biographies highlights 25 champions for justice, includes colorful portraitures of each, and presents actual photos of the individuals.

Naomi Watkins, Ph.D. is an educational consultant, women’s advocate, and community builder. A former middle school English teacher, she specializes in curriculum development and school district consulting. She has been published in international journals such as The Reading Teacher, Journal of Children's Literature, TESOL Journal, and Middle School Journal.

Author Website: naomiwatkins.net

Katherine Kitterman is the historical director for Better Days 2020, an organization that explores stories of women who shaped Utah’s history. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American History at American University in Washington, D.C., where she has worked to bring history to life at the Smithsonian Institution, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Woodrow Wilson House.

Author Website:

Brooke Smart is an illustrator based in Sandy, Utah, with a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University. Her illustration clients include the New York Times, Gathre, Better Days 2020, Bravery Magazine, and private commissions. Brooke recently won honorable mention in the 2016 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Portfolio Showcase in New York City.

Author Website: www.brooke-smart.com

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Library, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201013T203000 UID:F70A29FC-6575-45CC-BD83-5B6B5F8C6236 SUMMARY:Sugar House Review presents Dayna Patterson CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1915 DESCRIPTION:Sugar House Review presents Dayna Patterson, author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall.\N\NRegister and attend via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdeiuqDIpE9A6ex1gKjFfq8p-SNJ8Ay6_\N\NIn her debut collection of poetry and lyric essay, Patterson grapples with a patriarchal and polygamous heritage. After learning about her mother’s bisexuality, Patterson befriends doubt while simultaneously feeling the urge to unearth a feminist theology, one that envisions God the Mother taking pride of place at the banquet table.\N\NDayna Patterson’s creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, POETRY, North American Review, Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Zone 3, and others. She is the author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020), a hybrid collection of poetry and lyric essay that explores her Mormon ancestry and upbringing, her’s mother’s coming out as bisexual, and the author’s eventual apostasy from the faith she was raised in. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019).\N\NPatterson is a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry and the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, an online literary journal dedicated to publishing literature at the intersection of faith and doubt. She earned a BA in English from Utah State University (2004), an MA in Literature from Texas State-San Marcos (2008), and an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University (2017), where she served as the managing editor of Bellingham Review. She has also served as the poetry editor for Exponent II Magazine.\N\NPatterson was a co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention poetry prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky, and she has been a Sustainable Arts Fellow at Mineral School Artist’s Residency.\NThis event is made possible with support from Sugar House Review and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sugar House Review presents Dayna Patterson, author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall.

Register and attend via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdeiuqDIpE9A6ex1gKjFfq8p-SNJ8Ay6_

In her debut collection of poetry and lyric essay, Patterson grapples with a patriarchal and polygamous heritage. After learning about her mother’s bisexuality, Patterson befriends doubt while simultaneously feeling the urge to unearth a feminist theology, one that envisions God the Mother taking pride of place at the banquet table.

Dayna Patterson’s creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, POETRY, North American Review, Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Zone 3, and others. She is the author of If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books, 2020), a hybrid collection of poetry and lyric essay that explores her Mormon ancestry and upbringing, her’s mother’s coming out as bisexual, and the author’s eventual apostasy from the faith she was raised in. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press, 2019).

Patterson is a co-editor of Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry and the founding editor-in-chief of Psaltery & Lyre, an online literary journal dedicated to publishing literature at the intersection of faith and doubt. She earned a BA in English from Utah State University (2004), an MA in Literature from Texas State-San Marcos (2008), and an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University (2017), where she served as the managing editor of Bellingham Review. She has also served as the poetry editor for Exponent II Magazine.

Patterson was a co-winner of the 2019 #DignityNotDetention poetry prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky, and she has been a Sustainable Arts Fellow at Mineral School Artist’s Residency.
This event is made possible with support from Sugar House Review and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201014T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201014T193000 UID:1AB46B98-C98A-410F-9086-60CD79333088 SUMMARY:Weber State University presents Brandon Hobson CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1877 DESCRIPTION:Weber State University hosts Brandon Hobson for a reading and Q&A. \N\NRegister via Zoom: https://weber.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdOyppj4iGNzeUabp61kB4GQM4UJoQWBs\N\NDr. Brandon Hobson is the author of the forthcoming novel, The Removed, as well as the novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, winner of the Reading the West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction has appeared in such places as McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, NOON, and elsewhere. Hobson is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University and also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber State University hosts Brandon Hobson for a reading and Q&A.

Register via Zoom: https://weber.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvdOyppj4iGNzeUabp61kB4GQM4UJoQWBs

Dr. Brandon Hobson is the author of the forthcoming novel, The Removed, as well as the novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, winner of the Reading the West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction has appeared in such places as McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, NOON, and elsewhere. Hobson is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University and also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.

This event is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201014T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201014T203000 UID:B1657491-3325-438D-B148-3B454C3BB310 SUMMARY:Hood Criaturas: An evening of poetry with féi hernandez and Janel Pineda CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1876 DESCRIPTION:The Divine Intervention Collective is excited to host féi hernandez and Janel Pineda for an evening of poetry and conversation. \N\NRegister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldu6trjouG9wqHXMIT91U3bhLidU7BaEu\N\Nféi hernandez féi hernandez (b.1993 Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico) is an Inglewood-raised immigrant trans non-binary visual artist, writer, and healer. féi is an Advisory Board Member of Gender Justice Los Angeles and was one of the artists for Forward Together’s 2019 Trans Day of Resilience Campaign. They are a Co-Founder of ING Fellowship which provides mentorship to Inglewood youth working on projects to counteract gentrification and was also a femmetor for the 2019-2020 Seeds of Liberación (SOL) leadership development program for young transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) people in Los Angeles. They are a certified Reiki and Akashic Records practitioner who utilizes a decolonial approach to ancestral energetic healing. féi collects Pokémon plushies \N\N\NJANEL PINEDA is a Los-Angeles born Salvadoran poet, activist, and educator. She has performed her poetry internationally in both English and Spanish, and been published in LitHub, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the U.S. and wildness, among others. Janel is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths, University of London as a Marshall Scholar. Her first poetry chapbook Lineage of Rain was published by Haymarket Books. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Divine Intervention Collective, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Divine Intervention Collective is excited to host féi hernandez and Janel Pineda for an evening of poetry and conversation.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldu6trjouG9wqHXMIT91U3bhLidU7BaEu

féi hernandez féi hernandez (b.1993 Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico) is an Inglewood-raised immigrant trans non-binary visual artist, writer, and healer. féi is an Advisory Board Member of Gender Justice Los Angeles and was one of the artists for Forward Together’s 2019 Trans Day of Resilience Campaign. They are a Co-Founder of ING Fellowship which provides mentorship to Inglewood youth working on projects to counteract gentrification and was also a femmetor for the 2019-2020 Seeds of Liberación (SOL) leadership development program for young transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex (TGI) people in Los Angeles. They are a certified Reiki and Akashic Records practitioner who utilizes a decolonial approach to ancestral energetic healing. féi collects Pokémon plushies


JANEL PINEDA is a Los-Angeles born Salvadoran poet, activist, and educator. She has performed her poetry internationally in both English and Spanish, and been published in LitHub, The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the U.S. and wildness, among others. Janel is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths, University of London as a Marshall Scholar. Her first poetry chapbook Lineage of Rain was published by Haymarket Books.

This event is made possible with support from Divine Intervention Collective, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201015T143000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201015T154500 UID:69422042-07A9-4FB2-9A11-074F5CF41021 SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop with John Murillo CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1942 DESCRIPTION:SUU English Department is excited to host John Murillo, author of Kontemporary Amerika Poetry.\N\NClick here to access the event: https://suu-edu.zoom.us/j/98652137215?pwd=M1BwcXRCK25NMnYvc0txYXhTTE8yZz09\N\NKontemporary Amerikan Poetry is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father’s fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker “to become something unbreakable.” The presence of these and poetic forbears—Gil Scott-Heron, Yusef Komunyakaa—provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from SUU - Department of English and Utah Humanities. \N\NMade possible with support from SUU and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SUU English Department is excited to host John Murillo, author of Kontemporary Amerika Poetry.

Click here to access the event: https://suu-edu.zoom.us/j/98652137215?pwd=M1BwcXRCK25NMnYvc0txYXhTTE8yZz09

Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father’s fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long-ago mentor who pushed the speaker “to become something unbreakable.” The presence of these and poetic forbears—Gil Scott-Heron, Yusef Komunyakaa—provide a context for strength in the face of danger and anger. At the heart of the book is a sonnet crown triggered by the shooting deaths of three Brooklyn men that becomes an extended meditation on the history of racial injustice and the notion of payback as a form of justice.

This event is made possible with support from SUU - Department of English and Utah Humanities.

Made possible with support from SUU and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201015T000000 UID:20EF6A4C-925C-4A1B-864C-01B0121AF8FD SUMMARY:Marilyn Price CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1946 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Children's Museum is excited to host puppeteer and storyteller Marilyn Price. \N\NMarilyn Price weaves a finely- crafted performance filled with storytelling, puppetry and wisdom.\N\NRegister here; https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XLf-sWsvS3-I9aPBVLvEEQ\N\NFrom traditional folktales to original works, Marilyn captivates audiences of all ages. Her stories are carefully selected, and told with irresistible wit and detail deserving of the story and the audience. Combining entertainment with some of life's most treasured values, this nationally–acclaimed storyteller, educator and puppeteer inspires her audiences to open their minds and their hearts.\N\NHer puppets–an art form themselves–have drawn praise from her peers, and she often amazes audiences by animating common objects, anything from household cleaning supplies to carryout food packaging. As a teacher, historian, craftsman or entertainer, the result is always the same: Marilyn moves her hands, tells the story and the audience comes to life!\N\NThis event is made possible by Treehouse Children's Museum, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Children's Museum is excited to host puppeteer and storyteller Marilyn Price.

Marilyn Price weaves a finely- crafted performance filled with storytelling, puppetry and wisdom.

Register here; https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XLf-sWsvS3-I9aPBVLvEEQ

From traditional folktales to original works, Marilyn captivates audiences of all ages. Her stories are carefully selected, and told with irresistible wit and detail deserving of the story and the audience. Combining entertainment with some of life's most treasured values, this nationally–acclaimed storyteller, educator and puppeteer inspires her audiences to open their minds and their hearts.

Her puppets–an art form themselves–have drawn praise from her peers, and she often amazes audiences by animating common objects, anything from household cleaning supplies to carryout food packaging. As a teacher, historian, craftsman or entertainer, the result is always the same: Marilyn moves her hands, tells the story and the audience comes to life!

This event is made possible by Treehouse Children's Museum, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201015T200000 UID:40A23C1A-B923-45D7-930D-C5C837B34872 SUMMARY:An evening of poetry with Laura Stott and Rob Carney CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1878 DESCRIPTION:The King's English is excited to host Laura Stott and Rob Carney for an evening of poetry and a Q&A. \N\NRegister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpc-yurDkqEt2HOgKCvNOYKFx4J9cnHWIg\N\N"Who are the blue nudes? A garden of succulents? A small town of fallen birds? A woman 'folded into a ball of tears'? In Laura Stott's bewitched collection of poems Blue Nude Migration, the figures Henri Matisse cut out of blue-tinted paper when he was too ill to paint migrate off the gallery walls. It is a shadow-world we follow them into, a strange and charmed earth, one no longer defined but open to meaning: 'I give a blue moon to the old woman. / She places it on her cheek.' This is a beautiful book."―Melissa Kwasny, author of Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today\N\NRob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of five previous collections, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of others, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in THE BOOK OF SHARKS (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. FACTS AND FIGURES is his latest book.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English is excited to host Laura Stott and Rob Carney for an evening of poetry and a Q&A.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpc-yurDkqEt2HOgKCvNOYKFx4J9cnHWIg

"Who are the blue nudes? A garden of succulents? A small town of fallen birds? A woman 'folded into a ball of tears'? In Laura Stott's bewitched collection of poems Blue Nude Migration, the figures Henri Matisse cut out of blue-tinted paper when he was too ill to paint migrate off the gallery walls. It is a shadow-world we follow them into, a strange and charmed earth, one no longer defined but open to meaning: 'I give a blue moon to the old woman. / She places it on her cheek.' This is a beautiful book."―Melissa Kwasny, author of Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

Rob Carney is originally from Washington state. He is the author of five previous collections, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press 2006), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of others, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for seven of the poems included in THE BOOK OF SHARKS (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City. FACTS AND FIGURES is his latest book.

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201019T210000 UID:12BDAE92-1C46-4321-A1E5-CB3101C860D6 SUMMARY:The Beauty of Your Face with Sahar Mustafah CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1919 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works invites you to join Sahar Mustafah for a reading and Q&A about her novel The Beauty of Your Face.\N\NRegister here now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfuutrjoiEtdeOsQgLwsDasiRgV_hgamx\N\NA uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter―radicalized by the online alt-right―attacks the school.\N\NAs Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories: the bigotry she faced as a child, her mother’s dreams of returning to Palestine, and the devastating disappearance of her older sister that tore her family apart. Still, there is the sweetness of the music from her father’s oud, and the hope and community Afaf finally finds in Islam.\N\NThe Beauty of Your Face is a profound and poignant exploration of one woman’s life in a nation at odds with its ideals, an emotionally rich novel that encourages us to reflect on our shared humanity. If others take the time to really see us, to look into our face, they will find something indelibly familiar, something achingly beautiful gazing back.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works invites you to join Sahar Mustafah for a reading and Q&A about her novel The Beauty of Your Face.

Register here now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfuutrjoiEtdeOsQgLwsDasiRgV_hgamx

A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter―radicalized by the online alt-right―attacks the school.

As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories: the bigotry she faced as a child, her mother’s dreams of returning to Palestine, and the devastating disappearance of her older sister that tore her family apart. Still, there is the sweetness of the music from her father’s oud, and the hope and community Afaf finally finds in Islam.

The Beauty of Your Face is a profound and poignant exploration of one woman’s life in a nation at odds with its ideals, an emotionally rich novel that encourages us to reflect on our shared humanity. If others take the time to really see us, to look into our face, they will find something indelibly familiar, something achingly beautiful gazing back.

This event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201020T000000 UID:BBE69B08-4F85-40BE-BE77-E051C2D3759C SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Community Poetry Workshop CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1908 DESCRIPTION:PROVO — The Rock Canyon Poets, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Self-Portrait Poems. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using writing prompts focused on expression of the self. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two parts virtual sessions, followed by a virtual poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.\N\NWhere:\N\NVirtual events (platform TBD)\N\NHow to Sign-up:\N\NTo sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Attendance is limited. Come ready to write!\N\NSchedule:\N\NOct. 6, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises\N\NOct. 20, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #2: workshop first draft of poems\N\NOct. 27, 2020, midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology\N\NNov. 10, 2020, 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Virtual anthology launch party, contributors reading, anthologies will be mailed\N\NThe Utah Humanities Book Festival runs from September 10 - October 31 with events in several cities throughout Utah. For more information, visit their web site utahhumanities.org.\N\NCo-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.\N\NFor more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.\N\NOfficial web site: http://rockcanyonpoets.com X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:PROVO — The Rock Canyon Poets, in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, presents “Inspired,” a free community poetry writing workshop in October. This year’s theme is Self-Portrait Poems. In this workshop, participants learn how to create poems using writing prompts focused on expression of the self. Offered annually in participation with the Utah Humanities Book Festival by Rock Canyon Poets & Pioneer Book, this workshop is presented in two parts virtual sessions, followed by a virtual poetry reading. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology and contributors will receive a free copy.

Where:

Virtual events (platform TBD)

How to Sign-up:

To sign-up, email your name and contact information to rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com. Attendance is limited. Come ready to write!

Schedule:

Oct. 6, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #1: share prompts, craft demonstration, writing exercises

Oct. 20, 2020, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Workshop Part #2: workshop first draft of poems

Oct. 27, 2020, midnight – Final poem submission due for anthology

Nov. 10, 2020, 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Virtual anthology launch party, contributors reading, anthologies will be mailed

The Utah Humanities Book Festival runs from September 10 - October 31 with events in several cities throughout Utah. For more information, visit their web site utahhumanities.org.

Co-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in January 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official web site: http://rockcanyonpoets.com X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201020T210000 UID:ED09771E-9985-470C-8264-6E6A42051161 SUMMARY:The Beethoven Sequence with Gerald Elias CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1920 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works invites you to join Gerald Elias, author of the Beethoven Sequence, for a reading and Q&A.\N\NRegister here now\N\NFrom the pen of Salt Lake City novelist Gerald Elias, author of the critically acclaimed Daniel Jacobus mystery series, comes his first thriller. The Beethoven Sequence, the story of a mentally imbalanced political outsider who makes an improbable ascent to the presidency of the United States, is scheduled for a September 8 release by Level Best Books.\N\NA rural Colorado machine shop mechanic, Layton Stolz is obsessed with the music of Beethoven and its message of freedom for mankind. Building a cult-like empire of acolytes, by the time he is elected president his message has metastasized into a cancerous ideology, and his political machine is bent upon eliminating his opponents. \N\NOne of them is Ballard Whitmore, a graduate of Brigham Young University who was imprisoned on trumped-up sexual misconduct charges. Whitmore and female reporter Sandy Duckworthy, the only person who believes his story, risk their lives in their quest for his exoneration and the downfall of President Layton Stolz.\N\NThe Beethoven Sequence is truly a novel suited to our turbulent times. Conceived well before the current White House administration, it contains prescient parallels of what could happen when political power, supported by a critical mass of indoctrinated acolytes, goes unchecked.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works, Book Club, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works invites you to join Gerald Elias, author of the Beethoven Sequence, for a reading and Q&A.

Register here now

From the pen of Salt Lake City novelist Gerald Elias, author of the critically acclaimed Daniel Jacobus mystery series, comes his first thriller. The Beethoven Sequence, the story of a mentally imbalanced political outsider who makes an improbable ascent to the presidency of the United States, is scheduled for a September 8 release by Level Best Books.

A rural Colorado machine shop mechanic, Layton Stolz is obsessed with the music of Beethoven and its message of freedom for mankind. Building a cult-like empire of acolytes, by the time he is elected president his message has metastasized into a cancerous ideology, and his political machine is bent upon eliminating his opponents.

One of them is Ballard Whitmore, a graduate of Brigham Young University who was imprisoned on trumped-up sexual misconduct charges. Whitmore and female reporter Sandy Duckworthy, the only person who believes his story, risk their lives in their quest for his exoneration and the downfall of President Layton Stolz.

The Beethoven Sequence is truly a novel suited to our turbulent times. Conceived well before the current White House administration, it contains prescient parallels of what could happen when political power, supported by a critical mass of indoctrinated acolytes, goes unchecked.

This event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works, Book Club, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201002 UID:0D7A6DB0-FA00-4BC2-9C58-B8E1531CECB3 SUMMARY:Premios de Sor Juana 2020 CREATED:20260416T080140Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080140Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1936 DESCRIPTION:Celebra con nosotros de manera virtual a los participantes galardonados del concurso de poesia, prosa y arte visual. Los ganadores recitarán y mostrarán sus maravillosas obras al publico. Te esperamos!\N\NRegistrate aqui: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdOGgqjwtGNdYyCU5iGAc1HJNosFq0AF-\N\NThis event is made possible by Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Celebra con nosotros de manera virtual a los participantes galardonados del concurso de poesia, prosa y arte visual. Los ganadores recitarán y mostrarán sus maravillosas obras al publico. Te esperamos!

Registrate aqui: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqdOGgqjwtGNdYyCU5iGAc1HJNosFq0AF-

This event is made possible by Artes de Mexico en Utah and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201021T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201021T200000 UID:B13F1693-55E2-426D-AB32-B01C211E0014 SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Discussion with Linda Hogan and Paisley Rekdal CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1891 DESCRIPTION:Join Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal for a poetry reading and conversation as part of the Utah Book Festival.\N\NAbout the authors:\N\NLinda Hogan (Chickasaw) Former Faculty at Indian Arts Institute, Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation, and Professor Emerita from the University of Colorado, is an internationally recognized public reader, speaker, and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. In July, 2014, DARK. SWEET. New and Selected Poems, was published from Coffee House Press. Her other books are Indios (Wings Press, 2012) INDIOS is a long poem and also a one woman performance piece) ROUNDING THE HUMAN CORNERS (Coffee House Press, April 2008, Pulitzer nominee) and the well-regarded novel PEOPLE OF THE WHALE (Norton, August 2008). Works include novels MEAN SPIRIT, a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, the Mountains and Plains Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. This is a book about the oil book in Oklahoma, affecting numerous tribal nations SOLAR STORMS, a finalist for the International Impact Award, and and New York Times Notable Book of Year. POWER was also a finalist for the International Impact Award in Ireland. It was based on the killing of a Florida Panther, a most endangered species. Poems from Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings. Purchase a copy of Linda Hogan's latest collection of poetry, A History of Kindness at https://www.torreyhouse.org/a-history-of-kindness\N\NPaisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal for a poetry reading and conversation as part of the Utah Book Festival.

About the authors:

Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) Former Faculty at Indian Arts Institute, Writer in Residence for The Chickasaw Nation, and Professor Emerita from the University of Colorado, is an internationally recognized public reader, speaker, and writer of poetry, fiction, and essays. In July, 2014, DARK. SWEET. New and Selected Poems, was published from Coffee House Press. Her other books are Indios (Wings Press, 2012) INDIOS is a long poem and also a one woman performance piece) ROUNDING THE HUMAN CORNERS (Coffee House Press, April 2008, Pulitzer nominee) and the well-regarded novel PEOPLE OF THE WHALE (Norton, August 2008). Works include novels MEAN SPIRIT, a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, the Mountains and Plains Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. This is a book about the oil book in Oklahoma, affecting numerous tribal nations SOLAR STORMS, a finalist for the International Impact Award, and and New York Times Notable Book of Year. POWER was also a finalist for the International Impact Award in Ireland. It was based on the killing of a Florida Panther, a most endangered species. Poems from Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings. Purchase a copy of Linda Hogan's latest collection of poetry, A History of Kindness at https://www.torreyhouse.org/a-history-of-kindness

Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's The Metamorphoses, was published spring 2019. Appropriate: A Provocation, which examines cultural appropriation, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.

This event is made possible with support from Torrey House Press and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201022T000000 UID:01D5B69B-BB44-4CFE-98E9-C5DA0E7E03D0 SUMMARY:Press and Publishers Panel CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1842 DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Library is excited to host a panel of cutting edge presses and publishers, including Torrey House Press, Sugar House Review, and more TBA. \N\NFollow the link for access to the Zoom registration: http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Library is excited to host a panel of cutting edge presses and publishers, including Torrey House Press, Sugar House Review, and more TBA.

Follow the link for access to the Zoom registration: http://bcpl.lib.ut.us/bookfestival.html

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201022T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201022T210000 UID:0D4B4E1C-B031-45A2-A343-FD01E2EDF8FC SUMMARY:An evening with Paula Jane Mendoza and Matty Layne Glasgow CREATED:20260416T080139Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080139Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/1880 DESCRIPTION:Steamboat Mountain Reading Series is excited to host a poetry reading and Q&A with Paula Jane Mendoza and Matty Layne Glasgow. \N\NRegister here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdO6rrDkjG9KnkTdCdnExyTLV7OCMyqoM\N\N"In these strange and unsettling poems, Mendoza catalogues how bodies become objects of consumption, voyeurism, and desire, and uses the imagery and politics of climate change to describe the immigrant and female body. This body, threatened with radical alteration and even collapse, reimagines itself through Mendoza's highly inventive language, and turns itself strange, mythic, and new. Mendoza's mordant, playful poems upend the 'conventional' narrative of racial and gender identity and radically rewrite our ideas of syntax to reframe the reader's gaze." --Paisley Rekdal, Utah poet laureate and author of Nightingale\N\NMatty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), selected by Richard Blanco for the 2017 Benjamin Saltman Award. He is a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah where he’s pursuing his PhD in Creative Writing and serves as the Managing Editor of Quarterly West and the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator. Matty’s work has appeared in Poetry Daily, Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, Houston Public Media, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University. \N \NThis event is made possible with support from the Steamboat Writers Series, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Steamboat Mountain Reading Series is excited to host a poetry reading and Q&A with Paula Jane Mendoza and Matty Layne Glasgow.

Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdO6rrDkjG9KnkTdCdnExyTLV7OCMyqoM

"In these strange and unsettling poems, Mendoza catalogues how bodies become objects of consumption, voyeurism, and desire, and uses the imagery and politics of climate change to describe the immigrant and female body. This body, threatened with radical alteration and even collapse, reimagines itself through Mendoza's highly inventive language, and turns itself strange, mythic, and new. Mendoza's mordant, playful poems upend the 'conventional' narrative of racial and gender identity and radically rewrite our ideas of syntax to reframe the reader's gaze." --Paisley Rekdal, Utah poet laureate and author of Nightingale

Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019), selected by Richard Blanco for the 2017 Benjamin Saltman Award. He is a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah where he’s pursuing his PhD in Creative Writing and serves as the Managing Editor of Quarterly West and the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator. Matty’s work has appeared in Poetry Daily, Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Denver Quarterly, Houston Public Media, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University.

This event is made possible with support from the Steamboat Writers Series, The King's English, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210902T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210902T210000 UID:749C0B30-023B-4C72-BE9A-754E687C65C8 SUMMARY:In Conversation: Meredith Hall and Lily Brooks-Dalton CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2200 DESCRIPTION:Join Weller Book Works on YouTube to connect with two NYT Best Sellers Meredith Hall and Lily Brooks-Dalton. \N\Nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_YfzIBsh9lleA\N\NMeredith Hall's memoir Without a Map was instantly recognized as a classic of the genre and became a New York Times bestseller. It was named a best book of the year by Kirkus and BookSense, and was an Elle magazine Reader’s Pick of the Year. Hall was a recipient of the 2004 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her work has appeared in Five Points, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The New York Times, and many other publications. Hall divides her time between Maine and California.\N\NLILY BROOKS-DALTON’S novel, Good Morning, Midnight (Random House, 2016), has been translated into 17 languages and is the inspiration for the film adaptation, The Midnight Sky. Her memoir, Motorcycles I’ve Loved (Riverhead, 2014), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She currently lives in Los Angeles.\N\N\NThis program is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Weller Book Works on YouTube to connect with two NYT Best Sellers Meredith Hall and Lily Brooks-Dalton.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_YfzIBsh9lleA

Meredith Hall's memoir Without a Map was instantly recognized as a classic of the genre and became a New York Times bestseller. It was named a best book of the year by Kirkus and BookSense, and was an Elle magazine Reader’s Pick of the Year. Hall was a recipient of the 2004 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her work has appeared in Five Points, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The New York Times, and many other publications. Hall divides her time between Maine and California.

LILY BROOKS-DALTON’S novel, Good Morning, Midnight (Random House, 2016), has been translated into 17 languages and is the inspiration for the film adaptation, The Midnight Sky. Her memoir, Motorcycles I’ve Loved (Riverhead, 2014), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She currently lives in Los Angeles.


This program is made possible by Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210904T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210904T200000 UID:99EB380D-5604-42BB-9EA1-8DB64526D7FB SUMMARY:Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2201 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is thrilled to host Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts. \N\NPart graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.\N\NWomen warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.\N\NWake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere.\N\NUsing in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca’s own story as the legacy of slavery shapes life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her.\N\NIllustrated beautifully in black and white, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. The story of both a personal and national legacy, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is thrilled to host Dr. Rebecca Hall, author of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts.

Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.

Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere.

Using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca’s own story as the legacy of slavery shapes life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her.

Illustrated beautifully in black and white, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. The story of both a personal and national legacy, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210905T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210905T150000 UID:137D6190-72E8-4647-A95C-4944301E6EC5 SUMMARY:Landspeed: Bonneville Women of Land Speed Racing CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2135 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is revved to host Louise Ann Noeth, author of Bonneville Women of Land Speed Racing. \N\NAt Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential. Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records—35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Equally impressive are the women who helped propel the helmeted gals into glory. Few know how many women are skilled fabricators, mechanics, crew chiefs, and all-round land speed racing experts, all working out on a brutal, merciless, and barren sodium-soaked playa. And for decades dedicated volunteers have not only put down that all-important starting line but erected a speed village that inspired tens of thousands to visit, taunting the timing lights run after run. Since 1949, women have played an integral part. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world.\N\N“LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth raced jet dragsters, helped capture the current 458-mile-per-hour world wheel-driven record, and guided the Breedlove and Fossett teams. Touchstones throughout land speed racing are her books, photographs, articles, and award-winning Fuel For Thought column.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is revved to host Louise Ann Noeth, author of Bonneville Women of Land Speed Racing.

At Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential. Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records—35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Equally impressive are the women who helped propel the helmeted gals into glory. Few know how many women are skilled fabricators, mechanics, crew chiefs, and all-round land speed racing experts, all working out on a brutal, merciless, and barren sodium-soaked playa. And for decades dedicated volunteers have not only put down that all-important starting line but erected a speed village that inspired tens of thousands to visit, taunting the timing lights run after run. Since 1949, women have played an integral part. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world.

“LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth raced jet dragsters, helped capture the current 458-mile-per-hour world wheel-driven record, and guided the Breedlove and Fossett teams. Touchstones throughout land speed racing are her books, photographs, articles, and award-winning Fuel For Thought column.

This program is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210907T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210907T000000 UID:496ABE82-3FA1-4A30-9160-CB38363BB9A6 SUMMARY:Storyteller Donald Davis CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2088 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a delightful evening of Appalachian folk tales, tall tales, and family stories with storyteller Donald Davis, a Timpanogos Storytelling Festival favorite who hails from North Carolina.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah County Library system and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a delightful evening of Appalachian folk tales, tall tales, and family stories with storyteller Donald Davis, a Timpanogos Storytelling Festival favorite who hails from North Carolina.

This event is made possible with support from Utah County Library system and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210908T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210908T200000 UID:36B5A189-E2D7-4D14-8FD0-F1CA2800DBD3 SUMMARY:Canyonlands Carnage with Scott Graham CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2206 DESCRIPTION:Join the King's English on Crowdcast for an evening with Scott Graham, author of Canyonlands Carnage. \N\NGo to www.kingsenglish.com for the link. \N\NWhen suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier—or turns on them instead.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The King's English, and Torrey House Press. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the King's English on Crowdcast for an evening with Scott Graham, author of Canyonlands Carnage.

Go to www.kingsenglish.com for the link.

When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier—or turns on them instead.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The King's English, and Torrey House Press. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210910T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210910T200000 UID:632C3778-C26C-4B3C-94A9-62A87877B49B SUMMARY:Weller Book Works Presents Susan Nguyen, Sara Sams, and Bo Schwabacher CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2164 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is excited to host Asian poets Susan Nguyen, Sara Sams, and Bo Schwabacher. \N\NCatch the event at the Weller Book Works Utah channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_YfzIBsh9lleA\N\N\NDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and epistolary poems, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father’s disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu’s freckles.\N\NBo Schwabacher's OMMA, SEA OF JOY AND OTHER ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS is a book of equal parts defiance and grief. The Korean adoptee narrator speaks from a place often heavy with silence. Short lines suspended in white space speak to the tenuous grip, the narrow stairs that allow the narrator to contain herself, with great effort. Madness, spiritual cannibalism, and grief are ritualized, even washed here; each poem seems to bleed and then purify what was invoked in the last. These poems are exquisite―spiritual drama inside the charged theater of language."—Sun Yung Shin\N\N“Each poem Sara Sams writes is a reckoning with man-made devastation. In her brilliant debut collection, she proves herself to be a poet of immense personal and historical depth as she investigates complicity in one of history’s most frightening discoveries: the atomic bomb. The result is a haunting and intimate conversation about language and truth.”\N\N–Diana Marie Delgado, author of Tracing the Horse, a New York Times Noteworthy Pick\N\NThis program is made possible with support of Weller Book Works. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is excited to host Asian poets Susan Nguyen, Sara Sams, and Bo Schwabacher.

Catch the event at the Weller Book Works Utah channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_YfzIBsh9lleA


Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and epistolary poems, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father’s disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu’s freckles.

Bo Schwabacher's OMMA, SEA OF JOY AND OTHER ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS is a book of equal parts defiance and grief. The Korean adoptee narrator speaks from a place often heavy with silence. Short lines suspended in white space speak to the tenuous grip, the narrow stairs that allow the narrator to contain herself, with great effort. Madness, spiritual cannibalism, and grief are ritualized, even washed here; each poem seems to bleed and then purify what was invoked in the last. These poems are exquisite―spiritual drama inside the charged theater of language."—Sun Yung Shin

“Each poem Sara Sams writes is a reckoning with man-made devastation. In her brilliant debut collection, she proves herself to be a poet of immense personal and historical depth as she investigates complicity in one of history’s most frightening discoveries: the atomic bomb. The result is a haunting and intimate conversation about language and truth.”

–Diana Marie Delgado, author of Tracing the Horse, a New York Times Noteworthy Pick

This program is made possible with support of Weller Book Works.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210911T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210911T120000 UID:911357FE-1EF0-43D4-8E24-B2DBD6B2AB15 SUMMARY:As Strong As the River with Sarah Noble CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2150 DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Book Bungalow with Sarah Noble \N\NLittle cub wants to be big and strong like all the other bears because there's nothing bigger or stronger than a bear... or is there?\N\NJoin this curious bear cub as it learns from its mother how to hunt, fish, scratch and be patient in this beautiful debut picture book from Sarah Noble. Touching on themes of nature, nurture, and the importance of family, this is the perfect story for any curious young reader starting to question the world around them. In the vein of a classical animal picture book, As Strong as the River is designed to be the perfect bedtime story reading for parents and children.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us in the Book Bungalow with Sarah Noble

Little cub wants to be big and strong like all the other bears because there's nothing bigger or stronger than a bear... or is there?

Join this curious bear cub as it learns from its mother how to hunt, fish, scratch and be patient in this beautiful debut picture book from Sarah Noble. Touching on themes of nature, nurture, and the importance of family, this is the perfect story for any curious young reader starting to question the world around them. In the vein of a classical animal picture book, As Strong as the River is designed to be the perfect bedtime story reading for parents and children.

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210911T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210911T120000 UID:ADB4C2E7-77DC-4DB3-A2D5-0884737F682C SUMMARY:The Desert Between Us CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2132 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Library is excited to host Phyllis Barber, local author of The Desert Between Us. \N\NThe Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock.\N\NGeoffrey Scott, one of the roadbuilders, decides to venture north to discover new opportunities in the opening of the American West when he—and the camels—are no longer needed. Geoffrey arrives in St. Thomas, Nevada, a polygamous settlement caught up in territorial fights over boundaries and new taxation. There, he falls in love with Sophia Hughes, a hatmaker obsessed with beauty and the third wife of a polygamist. Geoffrey believes Sophia wants to be free of polygamy and go away with him to a better life, but Sophia’s motivations are not so easily understood. She had become committed to Mormon beliefs in England and had moved to Utah Territory to assuage her spiritual needs.\N\NThe death of Sophia’s child and her illicit relationship with Geoffrey generate a complex nexus where her new love for Geoffrey competes with societal expectations and a rugged West seeking domesticity. When faced with the opportunity to move away from her polygamist husband and her tumultuous life in St. Thomas, Sophia becomes tormented by a life-changing decision she must face alone.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Library is excited to host Phyllis Barber, local author of The Desert Between Us.

The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock.

Geoffrey Scott, one of the roadbuilders, decides to venture north to discover new opportunities in the opening of the American West when he—and the camels—are no longer needed. Geoffrey arrives in St. Thomas, Nevada, a polygamous settlement caught up in territorial fights over boundaries and new taxation. There, he falls in love with Sophia Hughes, a hatmaker obsessed with beauty and the third wife of a polygamist. Geoffrey believes Sophia wants to be free of polygamy and go away with him to a better life, but Sophia’s motivations are not so easily understood. She had become committed to Mormon beliefs in England and had moved to Utah Territory to assuage her spiritual needs.

The death of Sophia’s child and her illicit relationship with Geoffrey generate a complex nexus where her new love for Geoffrey competes with societal expectations and a rugged West seeking domesticity. When faced with the opportunity to move away from her polygamist husband and her tumultuous life in St. Thomas, Sophia becomes tormented by a life-changing decision she must face alone.

This program is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210913T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210913T200000 UID:3F9D16F4-7F0C-4998-8419-6BDAB6066A40 SUMMARY:Utah's Latin America in Black and White (Spanish Presentation) CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2133 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library is happy to present Emma Greally, author of Utah's Latin America in Black and White. \N\NIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then my hope is to overflow the pages of this book with the rich and varied stories of LatinX Utahns who left their native countries in pursuit of "The American Dream." From the author: My goal was to capture the personalities, fortitude, courage, and passion of my subjects through black and white portraiture and to document their valuable contributions to Utah and the greater United States. My motivation to photograph this project in black and white was to highlight the issues of race and systemic discrimination inherent in the current immigration debate. I believe that we, as a society, are faced with a binary, or "black and white," choice regarding how we treat one another, either with mutual respect and inclusivity or otherwise.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library is happy to present Emma Greally, author of Utah's Latin America in Black and White.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then my hope is to overflow the pages of this book with the rich and varied stories of LatinX Utahns who left their native countries in pursuit of "The American Dream." From the author: My goal was to capture the personalities, fortitude, courage, and passion of my subjects through black and white portraiture and to document their valuable contributions to Utah and the greater United States. My motivation to photograph this project in black and white was to highlight the issues of race and systemic discrimination inherent in the current immigration debate. I believe that we, as a society, are faced with a binary, or "black and white," choice regarding how we treat one another, either with mutual respect and inclusivity or otherwise.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210914T000000 UID:AD3DCE12-9C6F-418D-94C0-4A2DE2902459 SUMMARY:Twice Alive with Forrest Gander CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2076 DESCRIPTION:Join WSU for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander. \N\NFind us outside on the west side of Elizabeth Hall or in Elizabeth Hall, Room 229\N\NIF YOU NEED ANY ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THIS EVENT, PLEASE EMAIL PALOMO@UTAHHUMANITIES.ORG. \N\NIn the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.\N\NWhile conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California, where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber State University, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join WSU for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander.

Find us outside on the west side of Elizabeth Hall or in Elizabeth Hall, Room 229

IF YOU NEED ANY ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THIS EVENT, PLEASE EMAIL PALOMO@UTAHHUMANITIES.ORG.

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.

While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma—several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California, where he lives—but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.

This event is made possible with support from Weber State University, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210914T200000 UID:D6FB627C-4EE1-4D9B-B430-8A884BD5AC7D SUMMARY:Utah's Latin America in Black and White (Spanish Presentation) CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2167 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library is happy to present Emma Greally, author of Utah's Latin America in Black and White. \N\NIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then my hope is to overflow the pages of this book with the rich and varied stories of LatinX Utahns who left their native countries in pursuit of "The American Dream." From the author: My goal was to capture the personalities, fortitude, courage, and passion of my subjects through black and white portraiture and to document their valuable contributions to Utah and the greater United States. My motivation to photograph this project in black and white was to highlight the issues of race and systemic discrimination inherent in the current immigration debate. I believe that we, as a society, are faced with a binary, or "black and white," choice regarding how we treat one another, either with mutual respect and inclusivity or otherwise.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library is happy to present Emma Greally, author of Utah's Latin America in Black and White.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then my hope is to overflow the pages of this book with the rich and varied stories of LatinX Utahns who left their native countries in pursuit of "The American Dream." From the author: My goal was to capture the personalities, fortitude, courage, and passion of my subjects through black and white portraiture and to document their valuable contributions to Utah and the greater United States. My motivation to photograph this project in black and white was to highlight the issues of race and systemic discrimination inherent in the current immigration debate. I believe that we, as a society, are faced with a binary, or "black and white," choice regarding how we treat one another, either with mutual respect and inclusivity or otherwise.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210914T210000 UID:0DAD204D-2081-49B6-8CEF-EBE0160D1C19 SUMMARY:Evening Ethics: Lightning Flowers by Katherine Standefer CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2099 DESCRIPTION:What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir, Standefer tells the story of her troubled relationship to her own ICD, from her harrowing experience in the American healthcare system to her global journey to the mines and factories where the minerals in her device may have originated. \N\NJoin us for a conversation with Katherine E. Standefer about the ethics behind medical technology. Zoom link to be provided soon. \N\NDeeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to death, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life. \N\NThis event is made possible with the support from Utah Humanities, The King's English, and The Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine as part of the Evening Ethics Discussion Regularly Scheduled Series.\N\NAccreditation: The University of Utah School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.\N\NAMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.\N\NNONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT\N\NThe University of Utah does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, status as a disabled individual, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information or protected veteran’s status, in employment, treatment, admission, access to educational programs and activities, or other University benefits or services. Additionally, the University endeavors to provide reasonable accommodations and to ensure equal access to qualified persons with disabilities. Inquiries concerning perceived discrimination or requests for disability accommodations may be referred to the University’s Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator: Director, Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, 201 South Presidents Circle, Rm.135, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112,801-581-8365 (voice/tdd), 801-585-5747 (fax), or online at: www.oeo.utah.edu .\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir, Standefer tells the story of her troubled relationship to her own ICD, from her harrowing experience in the American healthcare system to her global journey to the mines and factories where the minerals in her device may have originated.

Join us for a conversation with Katherine E. Standefer about the ethics behind medical technology. Zoom link to be provided soon.

Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to death, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.

This event is made possible with the support from Utah Humanities, The King's English, and The Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine as part of the Evening Ethics Discussion Regularly Scheduled Series.

Accreditation: The University of Utah School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT

The University of Utah does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, status as a disabled individual, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information or protected veteran’s status, in employment, treatment, admission, access to educational programs and activities, or other University benefits or services. Additionally, the University endeavors to provide reasonable accommodations and to ensure equal access to qualified persons with disabilities. Inquiries concerning perceived discrimination or requests for disability accommodations may be referred to the University’s Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator: Director, Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, 201 South Presidents Circle, Rm.135, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112,801-581-8365 (voice/tdd), 801-585-5747 (fax), or online at: www.oeo.utah.edu .
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210914T000000 UID:DC1E7637-13DF-4576-B3AD-10CDBCA0CFD0 SUMMARY:Fire! with Plan B Theatre Company CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2098 DESCRIPTION:Utah was the birthplace of Wallace Thurman, a gay Black man who became a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Join us for a live reading of "Fire!" by Jenifer Nii, which premiered as the Wallace Thurman half of Plan-B Theatre's WALLACE in 2010. Read by Carleton Bluford. Directed by Jerry Rapier.\N\NRegistration Link\Nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dfg97bptRV-RGlMLKV5f9g \N\NCarleton Bluford is an actor/singer/writer from North Ogden, Utah. Regional theatre credits include creating roles in Plan-B Theatre's WALLACE, THE THIRD CROSSING, A/VERSION OF EVENTS, and ONE BIG UNION, as well as productions at Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, Hale Centre Theatre-Orem and West Valley, Moonlght Amphitheatre (San Diego), and Musical Theatre West (Long Beach). He has sung with Luther Vandross, Natalie Cole, and Kristin Chenoweth, and was invited to sing for the Mayor of Long Beach. He is the first African American playwright to have a world premiere staged in Utah: MAMA at Plan-B Theatre, where his new play, THE CLEAN-UP PROJECT, premieres in February of 2022. He has also written a screenplay, “Cowboy,” which he is working on getting produced. He has worked extensively in film in Utah and recently booked his first co-starring role in L.A. as Seth on “The Conners.” \N\NJenifer Nii is a Salt Lake City-based playwright and is the first Asian American playwright to have a world premiere staged in Utah...this very play at Plan-B Theatre. She has also premiered her plays THE AUDACITY, THE WEIRD PLAY, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, RUFF!, THE SCARLET LETTER, and SUFFRAGE at Plan-B and was also one of 12 contributors to (in)divisible. Jenifer received one of 10 inaugural Writers Alliance Grants from the Dramatists Guild Foundation (THE WEIRD PLAY) and is a two-time nominee for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for Best Play Produced Outside New York (THE SCARLET LETTER, SUFFRAGE). RUFF! will be seen at Birmingham Children's Theatre in Alabama this season.\N\NJerry Rapier has been Artistic Director of Plan-B Theatre since 2000. He has directed more than 30 productions for the company, including five of Jenifer's plays (including the original production of this piece!) and Carleton's play MAMA. Jerry is a recipient of Salt Lake City's Mayor's Artist Award in the Performing Arts and is the first person of color ever to lead a professional arts organization in Utah. \N\NThis program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. For more info, visit here: to be provided soon. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Plan B Theatre, the Mayor's Office for New Americans - Salt Lake County, and Welcoming Week 2021. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah was the birthplace of Wallace Thurman, a gay Black man who became a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Join us for a live reading of "Fire!" by Jenifer Nii, which premiered as the Wallace Thurman half of Plan-B Theatre's WALLACE in 2010. Read by Carleton Bluford. Directed by Jerry Rapier.

Registration Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dfg97bptRV-RGlMLKV5f9g

Carleton Bluford is an actor/singer/writer from North Ogden, Utah. Regional theatre credits include creating roles in Plan-B Theatre's WALLACE, THE THIRD CROSSING, A/VERSION OF EVENTS, and ONE BIG UNION, as well as productions at Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, Hale Centre Theatre-Orem and West Valley, Moonlght Amphitheatre (San Diego), and Musical Theatre West (Long Beach). He has sung with Luther Vandross, Natalie Cole, and Kristin Chenoweth, and was invited to sing for the Mayor of Long Beach. He is the first African American playwright to have a world premiere staged in Utah: MAMA at Plan-B Theatre, where his new play, THE CLEAN-UP PROJECT, premieres in February of 2022. He has also written a screenplay, “Cowboy,” which he is working on getting produced. He has worked extensively in film in Utah and recently booked his first co-starring role in L.A. as Seth on “The Conners.”

Jenifer Nii is a Salt Lake City-based playwright and is the first Asian American playwright to have a world premiere staged in Utah...this very play at Plan-B Theatre. She has also premiered her plays THE AUDACITY, THE WEIRD PLAY, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, RUFF!, THE SCARLET LETTER, and SUFFRAGE at Plan-B and was also one of 12 contributors to (in)divisible. Jenifer received one of 10 inaugural Writers Alliance Grants from the Dramatists Guild Foundation (THE WEIRD PLAY) and is a two-time nominee for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for Best Play Produced Outside New York (THE SCARLET LETTER, SUFFRAGE). RUFF! will be seen at Birmingham Children's Theatre in Alabama this season.

Jerry Rapier has been Artistic Director of Plan-B Theatre since 2000. He has directed more than 30 productions for the company, including five of Jenifer's plays (including the original production of this piece!) and Carleton's play MAMA. Jerry is a recipient of Salt Lake City's Mayor's Artist Award in the Performing Arts and is the first person of color ever to lead a professional arts organization in Utah.

This program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. For more info, visit here: to be provided soon.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Plan B Theatre, the Mayor's Office for New Americans - Salt Lake County, and Welcoming Week 2021. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210915T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210915T000000 UID:1FA8EFC7-DB5F-448D-9042-7B09E6DBC9FC SUMMARY:Water: A Biography with Giulio Boccaletti CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2208 DESCRIPTION:The King's English is excited to virtually host Biulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography\N\NGo to www.kingsenglish.com for the Crowdcast link. \N\NWriting with authority and brio, Giulio Boc­caletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer­sity of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ­ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization.\N \NWe see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.\N \NExtraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from The King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English is excited to virtually host Biulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography

Go to www.kingsenglish.com for the Crowdcast link.

Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boc­caletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Univer­sity of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civ­ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization.

We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.

Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth.

This program is made possible with support from The King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210915T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210915T210000 UID:E253F9E7-41C7-4944-81A9-09D330B37EE4 SUMMARY:Stories of Maize with Jorge Rojas and Dr. Roberto Rodriguez CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2162 DESCRIPTION:Kimball Art Center is excited to host Artist-in-Residence Jorge Rojas in conversation with Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, author of Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas. This program is a part of People of Corn, an exhibition by Jorge Rojas. \N\N“If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.\N\NFollow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture.\N\NRodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maíz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to maíz culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The “hidden transcripts” of corn in everyday culture—art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (maíz-based foods like the tortilla)—have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living maíz culture of ancient knowledge.\N\NRoberto Rodriguez, PhD – or Dr. Cintli – is an associate professor, in the Mexican American Studies Department, at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime-award-winning journalist/columnist who returned to school in 2003 in pursuit of a Master's degree (2005) and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications (Jan. 2008) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. While there, he co-produced with Patrisia Gonzales, Amoxtli San Ce Tojuan, a 2005 documentary on origins and migrations. Also, Ethinic Studies at UC Berkeley published a collection of their columns (Gonzales-Rodriguez, Uncut and Uncensored, 1996). Prior to returning to school he was a nationally syndicated columnist, first with Chronicle features and then with Universal Press Syndicate. He is the author of Justice: A Question of Race (Bilingual Review Press, 1997); it documents his 7 ½ year quest for justice in the courtroom, involving 2 trials, stemming from a case of police brutality that almost cost him his life. His research focus at the University of Arizona is on Maiz culture on this continent, which includes its relationship to the Ethnic Studies controversies nationwide. He teaches classes on the history of maiz, Mexican/Chicano/Chicana culture and politics and the history of red-brown journalism. As part of his work, he has developed and published on the concept of running epistemology (International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 2012. In 2013, a major digitized collection of Mexican and Indigenous media was inaugurated by the University Arizona Libraries, based on a class he created: The History of Red-Brown Journalism. He recently wrote for Diverse Issues in Higher Education and currently writes for Truthout’s Public Intellectual Project. His book, “Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother: Nin Tonantzin Non Centeotl” was published by the University of Arizona Press 2014. He works with the concepts of elder-youth epistemology and running epistemology and was the 2013 Baker-Clark Human Rights award from American Educational Research Association.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Kimball Art Center, Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Kimball Art Center is excited to host Artist-in-Residence Jorge Rojas in conversation with Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, author of Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas. This program is a part of People of Corn, an exhibition by Jorge Rojas.

“If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.

Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture.

Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maíz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to maíz culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The “hidden transcripts” of corn in everyday culture—art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (maíz-based foods like the tortilla)—have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living maíz culture of ancient knowledge.

Roberto Rodriguez, PhD – or Dr. Cintli – is an associate professor, in the Mexican American Studies Department, at the University of Arizona. He is a longtime-award-winning journalist/columnist who returned to school in 2003 in pursuit of a Master's degree (2005) and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications (Jan. 2008) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. While there, he co-produced with Patrisia Gonzales, Amoxtli San Ce Tojuan, a 2005 documentary on origins and migrations. Also, Ethinic Studies at UC Berkeley published a collection of their columns (Gonzales-Rodriguez, Uncut and Uncensored, 1996). Prior to returning to school he was a nationally syndicated columnist, first with Chronicle features and then with Universal Press Syndicate. He is the author of Justice: A Question of Race (Bilingual Review Press, 1997); it documents his 7 ½ year quest for justice in the courtroom, involving 2 trials, stemming from a case of police brutality that almost cost him his life. His research focus at the University of Arizona is on Maiz culture on this continent, which includes its relationship to the Ethnic Studies controversies nationwide. He teaches classes on the history of maiz, Mexican/Chicano/Chicana culture and politics and the history of red-brown journalism. As part of his work, he has developed and published on the concept of running epistemology (International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 2012. In 2013, a major digitized collection of Mexican and Indigenous media was inaugurated by the University Arizona Libraries, based on a class he created: The History of Red-Brown Journalism. He recently wrote for Diverse Issues in Higher Education and currently writes for Truthout’s Public Intellectual Project. His book, “Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother: Nin Tonantzin Non Centeotl” was published by the University of Arizona Press 2014. He works with the concepts of elder-youth epistemology and running epistemology and was the 2013 Baker-Clark Human Rights award from American Educational Research Association.

This program is made possible with support from the Kimball Art Center, Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210916T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T140000 UID:5B190CC1-81BE-45D4-905C-692DEE576D67 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild : Aztlan CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2178 DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez and Tania Pachedco on Antelope Island for a deep dive into the history and folklore about Aztlan, the legendary homeland of the Mexica. Participants will take a two hour hike with Dr. Rodriguez and reflect on the importance of Aztlan to contemporary conversations about place, identity, and social justice. \N\NEmail Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org to RSVP. We have 5 public spots available. \N\NBring water, sturdy shoes, a notebook, and a writing utensil. We ask that all participants take an offering of water to leave at Antelope Island. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, Antelope Island State Park, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez and Tania Pachedco on Antelope Island for a deep dive into the history and folklore about Aztlan, the legendary homeland of the Mexica. Participants will take a two hour hike with Dr. Rodriguez and reflect on the importance of Aztlan to contemporary conversations about place, identity, and social justice.

Email Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org to RSVP. We have 5 public spots available.

Bring water, sturdy shoes, a notebook, and a writing utensil. We ask that all participants take an offering of water to leave at Antelope Island.

This program is made possible with support from the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, Antelope Island State Park, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210916T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T200000 UID:3E918365-F538-4BDD-89BE-8301D510EC25 SUMMARY:Ken Brewer Celebration of Writing Inaugural Reading by Christopher Cokinos CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2197 DESCRIPTION:The Ken Brewer Celebration of Writing will honor the legacy of the late Ken Brewer, beloved USU Professor, Utah Poet Laureate, and indefatigable champion of poetry in Cache Valley and the Rocky Mountains.\N\NFind us in the USU Amphitheater. \N\NThe inaugural reading will be given by Christopher Cokinos, who was a colleague and friend of Ken's who taught at Utah State University for nearly 10 years before taking a position at the University of Arizona. Since then he's returned every year to a cabin in Logan Canyon. His love of the Wasatch and Utah is reflected in his work, which includes The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, the lyric essay collection Bodies of the Holocene and his chapbook Held as Earth. Most recently he's the author of the New American Press Prize-winning poetry collection The Underneath and co-editor of Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from USU. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ken Brewer Celebration of Writing will honor the legacy of the late Ken Brewer, beloved USU Professor, Utah Poet Laureate, and indefatigable champion of poetry in Cache Valley and the Rocky Mountains.

Find us in the USU Amphitheater.

The inaugural reading will be given by Christopher Cokinos, who was a colleague and friend of Ken's who taught at Utah State University for nearly 10 years before taking a position at the University of Arizona. Since then he's returned every year to a cabin in Logan Canyon. His love of the Wasatch and Utah is reflected in his work, which includes The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, the lyric essay collection Bodies of the Holocene and his chapbook Held as Earth. Most recently he's the author of the New American Press Prize-winning poetry collection The Underneath and co-editor of Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight.

This program is made possible with support from USU. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210916T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T200000 UID:24809372-2FA8-4D7F-B599-1B99AC0FCD03 SUMMARY:Back to Silicon Valley with Marlene CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2248 DESCRIPTION:The 70s nostalgia is strong in this memoir from Marlene Bumgarner, who embarked on a homesteading experiment with her husband and friends in Northern California in the nascent days of Silicon Valley, once known as The Valley of Heart’s Delight. Join the author for a reading and Q&A. \N\NRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvc-2hpzsoHdG_fy46NQMtWY5o24EBvJuK\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 70s nostalgia is strong in this memoir from Marlene Bumgarner, who embarked on a homesteading experiment with her husband and friends in Northern California in the nascent days of Silicon Valley, once known as The Valley of Heart’s Delight. Join the author for a reading and Q&A.

Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvc-2hpzsoHdG_fy46NQMtWY5o24EBvJuK


This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210916T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T210000 UID:9DCCEADF-C15E-409B-99DF-AAB98AFD64E8 SUMMARY:This is the Plate with Jean Irwin CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2100 DESCRIPTION:Jean Tokuda Irwin and members of the Japanese-American Utah community will guide the audience through the cooking process for a traditional meal. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CYGpKBIKRHK1I7w2BF87SQ\N\NThe first book-length treatment of Utah’s distinctive food heritage, this volume contains work by more than sixty subject-matter experts, including scholars, community members, event organizers, journalists, bloggers, photographers, and food producers. It features recipes and photographs of food and beverages. Utah’s food history is traced from precontact Native American times through the arrival of multinational Mormon pioneers, miners, farmers, and other immigrants to today’s moment of “foodie” creativity, craft beers, and “fast-casual” restaurant-chain development. Contributors also explore the historical and cultural background for scores of food-related tools, techniques, dishes, traditions, festivals, and distinctive ingredients from the state’s religious, regional, and ethnic communities as well as Utah-based companies. In a state much influenced by Latter-day Saint history and culture, iconic items like Jell-O salads, funeral potatoes, fry sauce, and the distinctive “Utah scone” have emerged as self-conscious signals of an ecumenical Utah identity. Scholarly but lively and accessible, this book will appeal to both the general reader and the academic folklorist. \N \N\NThis program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series of programs highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. For more info, visit here: to be provided soon. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and the Mayor's Office for New Americans. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Jean Tokuda Irwin and members of the Japanese-American Utah community will guide the audience through the cooking process for a traditional meal.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CYGpKBIKRHK1I7w2BF87SQ

The first book-length treatment of Utah’s distinctive food heritage, this volume contains work by more than sixty subject-matter experts, including scholars, community members, event organizers, journalists, bloggers, photographers, and food producers. It features recipes and photographs of food and beverages. Utah’s food history is traced from precontact Native American times through the arrival of multinational Mormon pioneers, miners, farmers, and other immigrants to today’s moment of “foodie” creativity, craft beers, and “fast-casual” restaurant-chain development. Contributors also explore the historical and cultural background for scores of food-related tools, techniques, dishes, traditions, festivals, and distinctive ingredients from the state’s religious, regional, and ethnic communities as well as Utah-based companies. In a state much influenced by Latter-day Saint history and culture, iconic items like Jell-O salads, funeral potatoes, fry sauce, and the distinctive “Utah scone” have emerged as self-conscious signals of an ecumenical Utah identity. Scholarly but lively and accessible, this book will appeal to both the general reader and the academic folklorist.


This program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series of programs highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. For more info, visit here: to be provided soon.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and the Mayor's Office for New Americans. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210916T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210916T210000 UID:701D0BA4-50C8-4B99-B66C-96A63711F153 SUMMARY:Deep Creek with Pam Houston CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2101 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an enchanting evening with Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. \N\NOn her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.\N\NIn essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Stokes Nature Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an enchanting evening with Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country.

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.

In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Stokes Nature Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210917T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210917T140000 UID:AC8006C8-6F1C-49C8-9C97-D0053803F46E SUMMARY:Chinese Women and the Environment CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2102 DESCRIPTION:Join the Asia Center for an in-depth conversation with Dong isbister, Xiumei Pu, and Stephen D. Rachman, editors of Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-Ethnic Anthology of Fiction and Nonfiction, and author Burao Yilu. \N\NRegistration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H_2hCMGaRly6ZzyGNrOgpw\N\NThe stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women's experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts and environment. After five years of painstaking collection and translation, the authors present these stories of strength and sadness, defiance and resilience, urban and village life, from the days of the cultural revolution to the present. Whether a house full of hawks and eagles, a stubborn cow, or a defiant elderly couple sabotaging a lumber operation, these stories express powerful visions of the earth interwoven with human memory.\N\N布饶依露简介： 佤族 诗人 作家\N\N现为中国当代少数民族文学研究会理事、中国作家协会会员。曾在中国国家民委《中国民族》杂志任编辑、专栏记者。自1995年开始，多篇散文、诗歌、传记文学等作品，被翻译成英文、德文等，在国内外刊物发表与出版。\N\NBurao Yilu is a writer of the Va ethnic group in China, the author of an essay collection Pledge to the Sacred Tree: Songs from the Heart of a Va Woman, numerous poems including “Water Buffalo Bells,” “Moon Mountain,” and the award-winning “The Last Tribe in China-Weng Ding,” and several biographies, Four Generations of Va Women, Adventure of A Va Mother and Daughter in Beijing, and Bright Eyes from A Va. A number of her works have been translated into English, German, and other languages. Her many honors include a Best Ethnic Journalism Award from the journal China’s Ethnic Groups, and a Special Award from the Journal of Women’s Studies. She is a former editor and columnist of China’s Ethnic Groups, the official journal of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China, and the executive editor of the photo book The Poverty Alleviation Projects by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yunnan Province. She is currently a board member of the Association of Chinese Contemporary Ethnic Literature Studies, and a member of the China Writers Association. She has been selected and included in The Famous Figures of the Contemporary Arts Circles in China and Encyclopedia of China’s Ethnic Groups-Va. She believes that literature of China’s ethnic groups has the responsibility of reflecting on ancestral home ground and ethnicity.\N\NDong Isbister is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her research and teaching interests include collective memory, immigration, transnational feminism, environmental humanities, ecotourism, race and the environment, women's literature, and translation and interpreting studies. She has published scholarly and creative works in English and Chinese and won multiple grants and awards for her research and teaching.\N\NXiumei Pu is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at Westminster College. Her teaching and publications have been at the confluence of environmantl humanities and feminist studies. She is the author of “Turning Weapons into Flowers: Ecospiritual Poetics and Politics of Bön and Ecowomanism'' and other writings on transcultural understanding of gender and the environment. She has collaborated on several publications with Dong Isbister (University of Wisconsin-Platteville) and Stephen Rachman (Michigan State University), including Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-ethnic Fiction and Nonfiction, “Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China,” and "(Re) connecting People and the Land: Ecomemory in Environmental Writings by Ethnic Minority Women Writers in China". She is the recipient of a Public Engagement Seed Grant from the Whiting Foundation for a public humanities project “Mountains and Stories: Building Community Among Asian Refugees and Immigrants in Salt Lake Valley.”\N\NStephen Rachman teaches in the Department of English at Michigan State University, where he was former Director of the American Studies Program and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Laboratory. He is the editor of The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (Rutgers University Press) and a co-author of the award-wining Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (Oxford University Press), co-editor of The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Chinese Women Writers on the Environment (McFarland Press). He has written on Poe, Pearl S. Buck, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, literature and medicine, cities, and popular culture. He is currently completing a study of Poe entitled The Jingle Man: Edgar Allan Poe and the Problems of Culture.\N\NThis program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series of programs highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. For more info, visit here: to be provided soon. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Mayor's Office of New Americans, Westminster College, The Asia Center at the University of Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Asia Center for an in-depth conversation with Dong isbister, Xiumei Pu, and Stephen D. Rachman, editors of Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-Ethnic Anthology of Fiction and Nonfiction, and author Burao Yilu.

Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H_2hCMGaRly6ZzyGNrOgpw

The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women's experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts and environment. After five years of painstaking collection and translation, the authors present these stories of strength and sadness, defiance and resilience, urban and village life, from the days of the cultural revolution to the present. Whether a house full of hawks and eagles, a stubborn cow, or a defiant elderly couple sabotaging a lumber operation, these stories express powerful visions of the earth interwoven with human memory.

布饶依露简介： 佤族 诗人 作家

现为中国当代少数民族文学研究会理事、中国作家协会会员。曾在中国国家民委《中国民族》杂志任编辑、专栏记者。自1995年开始，多篇散文、诗歌、传记文学等作品，被翻译成英文、德文等，在国内外刊物发表与出版。

Burao Yilu is a writer of the Va ethnic group in China, the author of an essay collection Pledge to the Sacred Tree: Songs from the Heart of a Va Woman, numerous poems including “Water Buffalo Bells,” “Moon Mountain,” and the award-winning “The Last Tribe in China-Weng Ding,” and several biographies, Four Generations of Va Women, Adventure of A Va Mother and Daughter in Beijing, and Bright Eyes from A Va. A number of her works have been translated into English, German, and other languages. Her many honors include a Best Ethnic Journalism Award from the journal China’s Ethnic Groups, and a Special Award from the Journal of Women’s Studies. She is a former editor and columnist of China’s Ethnic Groups, the official journal of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China, and the executive editor of the photo book The Poverty Alleviation Projects by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yunnan Province. She is currently a board member of the Association of Chinese Contemporary Ethnic Literature Studies, and a member of the China Writers Association. She has been selected and included in The Famous Figures of the Contemporary Arts Circles in China and Encyclopedia of China’s Ethnic Groups-Va. She believes that literature of China’s ethnic groups has the responsibility of reflecting on ancestral home ground and ethnicity.

Dong Isbister is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Her research and teaching interests include collective memory, immigration, transnational feminism, environmental humanities, ecotourism, race and the environment, women's literature, and translation and interpreting studies. She has published scholarly and creative works in English and Chinese and won multiple grants and awards for her research and teaching.

Xiumei Pu is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at Westminster College. Her teaching and publications have been at the confluence of environmantl humanities and feminist studies. She is the author of “Turning Weapons into Flowers: Ecospiritual Poetics and Politics of Bön and Ecowomanism'' and other writings on transcultural understanding of gender and the environment. She has collaborated on several publications with Dong Isbister (University of Wisconsin-Platteville) and Stephen Rachman (Michigan State University), including Chinese Women Writers on the Environment: A Multi-ethnic Fiction and Nonfiction, “Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China,” and "(Re) connecting People and the Land: Ecomemory in Environmental Writings by Ethnic Minority Women Writers in China". She is the recipient of a Public Engagement Seed Grant from the Whiting Foundation for a public humanities project “Mountains and Stories: Building Community Among Asian Refugees and Immigrants in Salt Lake Valley.”

Stephen Rachman teaches in the Department of English at Michigan State University, where he was former Director of the American Studies Program and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Laboratory. He is the editor of The Hasheesh Eater by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (Rutgers University Press) and a co-author of the award-wining Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow (Oxford University Press), co-editor of The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Chinese Women Writers on the Environment (McFarland Press). He has written on Poe, Pearl S. Buck, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, literature and medicine, cities, and popular culture. He is currently completing a study of Poe entitled The Jingle Man: Edgar Allan Poe and the Problems of Culture.

This program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series of programs highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. For more info, visit here: to be provided soon.

This program is made possible with support from the Mayor's Office of New Americans, Westminster College, The Asia Center at the University of Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210917T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210917T193000 UID:8DCCAE66-6A4D-4796-B929-59EBBA99604A SUMMARY:Scary Stories for Young Foxes CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2207 DESCRIPTION:The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe.\N\NWhen Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow . . . and other things too scary to mention.\N\NFeaturing eight interconnected stories and sixteen hauntingly beautiful illustrations, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from The King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe.

When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow . . . and other things too scary to mention.

Featuring eight interconnected stories and sixteen hauntingly beautiful illustrations, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book.

This program is made possible with support from The King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210917T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210917T210000 UID:2F8756BE-14C4-4131-BC1D-B94C970B9E2B SUMMARY:Garden Reading with Nan Seymour, Sunni Wilkinson, and Ben Gunsberg CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2145 DESCRIPTION:Join the Lavender House for an enchanting evening in their garden complete with flowers and poetry. The reading will feature special guests Sunni Wilkinson, Nan Seymour, and Ben Gunsberg. \N\NSunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry can be found in Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, SWWIM, Crab Orchard Review and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press 2019, finalist for the Hudson Prize) and The Ache and the Wing (winner of Sundress’s 2020 Chapbook Prize). She also won New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize and the 2020 Joy Harjo Prize from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.\N\NOver the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offer an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City.\N\NBen Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He received a BA from Miami University (OH) before earning an MFA from the University of Alabama and a PhD from the University of Michigan, where he was the Sylvia Duffy Engle Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. Gunsberg is the author of the poetry collection Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and the chapbook Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). His poems appear in numerous literary magazines, including Poetry Daily, DIAGRAM, and Mid-American Review. He has been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His work has been honored by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the Great River Shakespeare Festival. Gunsberg’s poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Lavender House. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Lavender House for an enchanting evening in their garden complete with flowers and poetry. The reading will feature special guests Sunni Wilkinson, Nan Seymour, and Ben Gunsberg.

Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry can be found in Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, SWWIM, Crab Orchard Review and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press 2019, finalist for the Hudson Prize) and The Ache and the Wing (winner of Sundress’s 2020 Chapbook Prize). She also won New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize and the 2020 Joy Harjo Prize from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.

Over the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offer an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City.

Ben Gunsberg is an Associate Professor of English at Utah State University. He received a BA from Miami University (OH) before earning an MFA from the University of Alabama and a PhD from the University of Michigan, where he was the Sylvia Duffy Engle Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. Gunsberg is the author of the poetry collection Welcome, Dangerous Life (Turning Point, 2018) and the chapbook Rhapsodies with Portraits (Finishing Line, 2015). His poems appear in numerous literary magazines, including Poetry Daily, DIAGRAM, and Mid-American Review. He has been a finalist or semifinalist for a number of book contests, including the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham and Pollack prizes and The Georgia Prize. His work has been honored by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the Great River Shakespeare Festival. Gunsberg’s poetry manuscript, Cut Time, won the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award for Poetry Writing. He lives in Logan, Utah, at the foot of the Bear River Mountains.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Lavender House. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210918T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210918T110000 UID:BED4ADF3-353D-4B44-9016-6821F6DD9F33 SUMMARY:One Book One Community Book Discussion - The Book of Delights by Ross GAy CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2168 DESCRIPTION:Discuss Book of Delights by Ross Gay together before the author event. We'll be in the Reading Garden. \N\NThe winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders.\N\NIn The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room. But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than anything other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world--his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis.\N\NThe Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.\N\NThis program is made possible with support of Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Discuss Book of Delights by Ross Gay together before the author event. We'll be in the Reading Garden.

The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders.

In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room. But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than anything other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world--his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis.

The Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.

This program is made possible with support of Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210918T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210918T000000 UID:79899D57-207A-4EC0-9B5E-26FD0E05620C SUMMARY:The Mobility Project with Danny Quintana CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2136 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is grateful to host Danny Quintana, author of The Mobility Project. \N\NFor 20 years Lisa Murphy, Jeff Murphy and a group of volunteers traveled the world with the Mobility Project, delivering the gift of mobility to the poorest people on the planet. They helped tens of thousands of disabled poor to gain mobility and hope. The disabled received wheelchairs, walkers, crutches from the United States, items they never would be able to afford. Like Simon of Cyrene, we helped people carry their cross of disability. From the hot tropical jungles of Costa Rica, Thailand, Sao Tome, to the deserts of Afghanistan, the disabled poor got a new chance at life. Our thanks was their immense gratitude. Their families were helped by no longer having to carry their disabled members. People who were often trapped in their homes as shut ins for years were finally able to come out and be a part of their societies. Accident and disease as well as age can cause anyone to have a major disability. In poor countries this is especially difficult for the disabled. Come and read along and enjoy these incredible adventures in humanitarian work.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is grateful to host Danny Quintana, author of The Mobility Project.

For 20 years Lisa Murphy, Jeff Murphy and a group of volunteers traveled the world with the Mobility Project, delivering the gift of mobility to the poorest people on the planet. They helped tens of thousands of disabled poor to gain mobility and hope. The disabled received wheelchairs, walkers, crutches from the United States, items they never would be able to afford. Like Simon of Cyrene, we helped people carry their cross of disability. From the hot tropical jungles of Costa Rica, Thailand, Sao Tome, to the deserts of Afghanistan, the disabled poor got a new chance at life. Our thanks was their immense gratitude. Their families were helped by no longer having to carry their disabled members. People who were often trapped in their homes as shut ins for years were finally able to come out and be a part of their societies. Accident and disease as well as age can cause anyone to have a major disability. In poor countries this is especially difficult for the disabled. Come and read along and enjoy these incredible adventures in humanitarian work.

This program is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210918T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210918T170000 UID:8156310F-B78D-48E6-85CB-61F03D75EE27 SUMMARY:Poetry and Feathers with Abraham Smith and local orinthologists CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2246 DESCRIPTION:Poetry and Feathers, Aligning Poetry and Science at the Nature Center in Ogden, Utah. Ogden City Poet Laureate, Abraham Smith, and a naturalist from the Nature Center will team up for bird themed poetry and interesting bird facts.  \N\NThis event is part of the 24th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. This annual free festival is the Utah Humanities’ gift to the community, allowing us to explore all sorts of ideas by interacting with great writers. The complete program is available at www.utahhumanities.org.\NOur thanks to the Book Festival’s major sponsors:  George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund, Summit County RAP, Weber County R.A.M.P., The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, The King’s English Bookshop, Weller Book Works, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and Catalyst.\N\N\N\N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poetry and Feathers, Aligning Poetry and Science at the Nature Center in Ogden, Utah. Ogden City Poet Laureate, Abraham Smith, and a naturalist from the Nature Center will team up for bird themed poetry and interesting bird facts.  

This event is part of the 24th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. This annual free festival is the Utah Humanities’ gift to the community, allowing us to explore all sorts of ideas by interacting with great writers. The complete program is available at www.utahhumanities.org.
Our thanks to the Book Festival’s major sponsors:  George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund, Summit County RAP, Weber County R.A.M.P., The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, The King’s English Bookshop, Weller Book Works, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and Catalyst.





X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210918T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210918T200000 UID:5106D751-5E2A-421B-AD9B-A2EAE9ED8C79 SUMMARY:Home is Not a Country with Safia Elhillo CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2104 DESCRIPTION:Emerald Project is excited to host Safia Elhillo, acclaimed poet and author of HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY, a novel-in-verse for teens. \N\NZoom link to be provided soon. \N\NNima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn’t different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she can’t, and suddenly her only refuge is gone.\N \NAs the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen—the name her parents meant to give her at birth—Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone else’s. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.\N\NThis program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, the Emerald Project, Utah Humanities, and the Mayor's Office for New Americans. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Emerald Project is excited to host Safia Elhillo, acclaimed poet and author of HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY, a novel-in-verse for teens.

Zoom link to be provided soon.

Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn’t different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she can’t, and suddenly her only refuge is gone.

As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen—the name her parents meant to give her at birth—Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone else’s. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.

This program is a part of Welcoming Week 2021, a series highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees.

This program is made possible with support from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, the Emerald Project, Utah Humanities, and the Mayor's Office for New Americans. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210918T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210918T000000 UID:86CDE698-8285-4F39-81DC-F93DB8EA0002 SUMMARY:Children's Treehouse Museum features April Jones Prince CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2079 DESCRIPTION:The Children's Treehouse Museum presents April Jones Prince via Zoom. \N\NRegister here: https://tinyurl.com/3p9j8ppt\N\NApril finds a special delight in creating books for young readers. "The books we love as children affect us like no other books we read in our lifetimes--they stay with us and shape us. Plus, they give kids the perfect opportunity to crawl into the lap of someone who loves them and listen to a good story. What could be better?" \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, the Children's Treehouse Museum, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Children's Treehouse Museum presents April Jones Prince via Zoom.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3p9j8ppt

April finds a special delight in creating books for young readers. "The books we love as children affect us like no other books we read in our lifetimes--they stay with us and shape us. Plus, they give kids the perfect opportunity to crawl into the lap of someone who loves them and listen to a good story. What could be better?"

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, the Children's Treehouse Museum, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210920T210000 UID:17093C63-6D36-477A-94E8-87E2F2220F71 SUMMARY:Orem Reads: A Taste of Appalachia CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2092 DESCRIPTION:The mountain terrain of Appalachia prevented large-scale farms, so the settlers grew only what they needed to feed their families. Corn, vegetables, pork, chicken, berries, and apples have been and continue to be regional favorites. Tonight celebrity chef Nancy Judd shares mouth-watering recipes from Appalachian cuisine. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Utah County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The mountain terrain of Appalachia prevented large-scale farms, so the settlers grew only what they needed to feed their families. Corn, vegetables, pork, chicken, berries, and apples have been and continue to be regional favorites. Tonight celebrity chef Nancy Judd shares mouth-watering recipes from Appalachian cuisine.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Utah County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210920T000000 UID:1B66030B-5ABA-4959-814D-12D5C08BAD5C SUMMARY:Intercambios: Lesbian Poetics Across Fronteras CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2103 DESCRIPTION:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah for an enchanting reading and conversation with three of Latin America's sharpest lesbian poets. \N\NZoom link to be provided soon. \N\NEly Rosa Zamora left her native Venezuela after graduating from the National School for the Performing Arts in Caracas. She came to New York in 1998 invited by the legendary Judith Malina to join The Living Theater. In 2009 she received an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. She is the author of the poetry collections He sentido un gesto removerlo todo, (2019), La nitidez del embudo, (2015), Unspecific Object, an artist book in collaboration with Barbara Madsen, (2015), Sin lengua y otras imposibilidades dramáticas, (2013), and Sin lengua/No Tongue, (2011). Her work has been presented in Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, England, Italy, Morocco and the United States. Her book Unspecific Object, in collaboration with Barbara Madsen, is in the permanent collection of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Museum of Art; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; and Lafayette College, Easton, PA. She is the director and producer of the bilingual poetry reading series Voces de la ciudad/ Voices of the City in New York City, and she is a Spanish professor at Middlesex County College, NJ. \N\NJoshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet. Her work has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Poem-a-day @ Poets.org, Denver Quarterly, and Washington Square Review, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: I’m Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks 2019), and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2016). She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at UC Riverside.\N\NMarielos Olivo (San Salvador, 12/27/1977) Lesbian feminist, psychologist and poet. Currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her work tackles the gendered violence, social justice, and lesbian feminism. Her poems have been published in Diario CoLatina, online journals El Beisman, Revista Mare and more. \N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Artes de Mexico en Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Artes de Mexico en Utah for an enchanting reading and conversation with three of Latin America's sharpest lesbian poets.

Zoom link to be provided soon.

Ely Rosa Zamora left her native Venezuela after graduating from the National School for the Performing Arts in Caracas. She came to New York in 1998 invited by the legendary Judith Malina to join The Living Theater. In 2009 she received an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. She is the author of the poetry collections He sentido un gesto removerlo todo, (2019), La nitidez del embudo, (2015), Unspecific Object, an artist book in collaboration with Barbara Madsen, (2015), Sin lengua y otras imposibilidades dramáticas, (2013), and Sin lengua/No Tongue, (2011). Her work has been presented in Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, England, Italy, Morocco and the United States. Her book Unspecific Object, in collaboration with Barbara Madsen, is in the permanent collection of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Museum of Art; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; and Lafayette College, Easton, PA. She is the director and producer of the bilingual poetry reading series Voces de la ciudad/ Voices of the City in New York City, and she is a Spanish professor at Middlesex County College, NJ.

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet. Her work has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Poem-a-day @ Poets.org, Denver Quarterly, and Washington Square Review, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: I’m Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks 2019), and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2016). She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at UC Riverside.

Marielos Olivo (San Salvador, 12/27/1977) Lesbian feminist, psychologist and poet. Currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her work tackles the gendered violence, social justice, and lesbian feminism. Her poems have been published in Diario CoLatina, online journals El Beisman, Revista Mare and more.


This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Artes de Mexico en Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210920T210000 UID:F2B9EA3C-2036-4558-BB36-B2E54A560143 SUMMARY:Weber Book Links presents Kat Smith and Rob Carney CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2142 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links is excited to present Kat Smith and Rob Carney!\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsc-6trz0uHtKhfk0pPtf-6k3j3cPdpjfS\N\NKathryn Smith is a poet and mixed media artist based in Spokane, WA. She is the author of Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, winner of the 2019 Jake Adam York Prize, as well as the collection Book of Exodus and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin, winner of the 2018 Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bellingham Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Redivider, and elsewhere.\N\NIn Rob Carney’s eighth collection, the titles call out in one voice and the poems respond in another, sometimes directly, sometimes diagonally, but always memorably. The book begins with a current event that sparks a time-travel quest for justice, and then keeps on journeying: from Utah to the ocean; from humor to elegy; from lessons learned at Sea School, to a man who makes money as a silhouette, to a literary church and final congregational Amen. Among the forty poems here is one titled “I’ve Still Got My Passport.” Think of this book as a passport too. It’s a trip.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links is excited to present Kat Smith and Rob Carney!

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsc-6trz0uHtKhfk0pPtf-6k3j3cPdpjfS

Kathryn Smith is a poet and mixed media artist based in Spokane, WA. She is the author of Self-Portrait with Cephalopod, winner of the 2019 Jake Adam York Prize, as well as the collection Book of Exodus and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin, winner of the 2018 Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bellingham Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Redivider, and elsewhere.

In Rob Carney’s eighth collection, the titles call out in one voice and the poems respond in another, sometimes directly, sometimes diagonally, but always memorably. The book begins with a current event that sparks a time-travel quest for justice, and then keeps on journeying: from Utah to the ocean; from humor to elegy; from lessons learned at Sea School, to a man who makes money as a silhouette, to a literary church and final congregational Amen. Among the forty poems here is one titled “I’ve Still Got My Passport.” Think of this book as a passport too. It’s a trip.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210921T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210921T200000 UID:E7FEBCE4-253E-4CD6-917E-7F39EEA26B36 SUMMARY:Tips for Magicians by Celesta Rimington CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2209 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop presents Tips for Magicians by Celsta Rimington. \N\NHarrison Boone used to sing. His mom was a famous soprano who performed in all the great theaters. But when she died unexpectedly last year, the music stopped for Harrison too. He finds comfort in practicing magic tricks to become a master magician.\N\NIf only Harrison knew the right magic to stop his dad from hitting the road for a new job and sending him to live with his aunt Maggie in an art village named Muse in the southern Utah desert. The residents of Muse believe in a magical entity that used to grant wishes to the winner of the town's annual art contest, but the muse hasn't been seen in years.\N\NCan Harrison connect with his inner artist, find the missing muse, and win the wish that will give him back a normal life?\N\NIf you need any accessibility accommodations, please email palomo@utahhumanities.org. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from The King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop presents Tips for Magicians by Celsta Rimington.

Harrison Boone used to sing. His mom was a famous soprano who performed in all the great theaters. But when she died unexpectedly last year, the music stopped for Harrison too. He finds comfort in practicing magic tricks to become a master magician.

If only Harrison knew the right magic to stop his dad from hitting the road for a new job and sending him to live with his aunt Maggie in an art village named Muse in the southern Utah desert. The residents of Muse believe in a magical entity that used to grant wishes to the winner of the town's annual art contest, but the muse hasn't been seen in years.

Can Harrison connect with his inner artist, find the missing muse, and win the wish that will give him back a normal life?

If you need any accessibility accommodations, please email palomo@utahhumanities.org.

This program is made possible with support from The King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210921T210000 UID:CBC973FE-353B-41ED-A772-0605D75B1D4D SUMMARY:Christian Heidicker CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2096 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library presents spooky author Christian Heidicker. \N\NExact room to be announced. \N\NChristian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His demon-hunting cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps him protected him from evil spirits. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Thieves of Weirdwood, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. cmheidicker.com\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library presents spooky author Christian Heidicker.

Exact room to be announced.

Christian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His demon-hunting cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps him protected him from evil spirits. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Thieves of Weirdwood, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. cmheidicker.com

This program is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210921T210000 UID:0610C45C-904C-4963-9BA9-C9DA131006CB SUMMARY:A Girl from Nowhere with Tiffany Rosenham CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2152 DESCRIPTION:Join Tiffany Rosenham at the Book Bungalow for an inside look at A Girl From Nowhere. \N\NNinety-four countries. Thirty-one schools. Two bullets. Now it’s over . . . or so she thinks.\N\NSophia Hepworth has spent her life all over the world--moving quickly, never staying in one place for too long. She knows to always look over her shoulder, to be able to fight to survive at a moment’s notice. She has trained to be ready for anything.\N\NExcept this. Suddenly it’s over. Now Sophia is expected to attend high school in a sleepy Montana town. She is told to forget the past, but she’s haunted by it. As hard as she tries to be like her new friends and live a normal life, she can’t shake the feeling that this new normal won’t last.\N\NThen comes strong and silent Aksel, whose skills match Sophia’s, and who seems to know more about her than he’s letting on . . .\N\NWhat if everything Sophia thought she knew about her past is a lie?\N\NCinematic and breathtaking, Tiffany Rosenhan’s debut stars a fierce heroine who will risk everything to save the life she has built for herself.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Tiffany Rosenham at the Book Bungalow for an inside look at A Girl From Nowhere.

Ninety-four countries. Thirty-one schools. Two bullets. Now it’s over . . . or so she thinks.

Sophia Hepworth has spent her life all over the world--moving quickly, never staying in one place for too long. She knows to always look over her shoulder, to be able to fight to survive at a moment’s notice. She has trained to be ready for anything.

Except this. Suddenly it’s over. Now Sophia is expected to attend high school in a sleepy Montana town. She is told to forget the past, but she’s haunted by it. As hard as she tries to be like her new friends and live a normal life, she can’t shake the feeling that this new normal won’t last.

Then comes strong and silent Aksel, whose skills match Sophia’s, and who seems to know more about her than he’s letting on . . .

What if everything Sophia thought she knew about her past is a lie?

Cinematic and breathtaking, Tiffany Rosenhan’s debut stars a fierce heroine who will risk everything to save the life she has built for herself.

This program is made possible with support from utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210922T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210922T210000 UID:077E42A2-6E7A-43F8-B252-C08C13E0DA34 SUMMARY:What Beauty There Is with Corey Anderson CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2105 DESCRIPTION:Book Bungalow is excited to feature Utah writer Corey Anderson. What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson's stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive—perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff.\N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/3iutvbA\N\NTo understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning.\N\NWinter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.\N\NLiving in harsh poverty, Jack Dahl is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing—except each other. And now Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the drug money that sent his father to prison.\N\NHe chooses the money.\N\NAva Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up on Jack’s trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or speak, and help the brothers survive.\N\NChoices. They come at a price.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book Bungalow is excited to feature Utah writer Corey Anderson. What Beauty There Is is Cory Anderson's stunning YA novel about brutality and beauty, and about broken people trying to survive—perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, Laura Ruby, and Meg Rosoff.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3iutvbA

To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning.

Winter in Idaho. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones.

Living in harsh poverty, Jack Dahl is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing—except each other. And now Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the drug money that sent his father to prison.

He chooses the money.

Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Now Victor Bardem is stalking the same money as Jack. When he picks up on Jack’s trail, Ava must make her own wrenching choice: remain silent or speak, and help the brothers survive.

Choices. They come at a price.

This event is made possible with support from the Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210923T210000 UID:FA6EEB55-6BB4-4C95-9748-F889D337A8F8 SUMMARY:Bike Week/Spoke Series: Kailey Kornhauser CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2106 DESCRIPTION:Four months after starring in Shimano’s film “All Bodies on Bikes“, cyclist Kailey Kornhauser continues to advance the cycling space in her message that cycling is for everyone. UofU graduate Kailey started cycling because she couldn’t afford a car. “Then, I thought, in the back of my head, ‘If I do this, I’ll lose weight and look like all the other cyclists.’ But that was not my reality.” \N\NRegister here: https://bikeutah.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/bikeutah/eventRegistration.jsp?event=66\N\NJoin us for a conversation with Kailey Kornhauser over zoom on September 23, 2021 at 7pm MST - you’ll learn about how to find joy in cycling, set the tone, and build an all-body inclusive space within your place of work, study, play and life.\N\NThis Spoke Series is in partnership with Kailey Kornhauser, Bike Utah, University of Utah Sustainability Office, and Utah Humanities Book Festival. Kailey will build from the language and lessons in the book, “What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat" By Aubrey Gordon and there will be a time for Q&A at the end of Kailey’s talk. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Four months after starring in Shimano’s film “All Bodies on Bikes“, cyclist Kailey Kornhauser continues to advance the cycling space in her message that cycling is for everyone. UofU graduate Kailey started cycling because she couldn’t afford a car. “Then, I thought, in the back of my head, ‘If I do this, I’ll lose weight and look like all the other cyclists.’ But that was not my reality.”

Register here: https://bikeutah.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/bikeutah/eventRegistration.jsp?event=66

Join us for a conversation with Kailey Kornhauser over zoom on September 23, 2021 at 7pm MST - you’ll learn about how to find joy in cycling, set the tone, and build an all-body inclusive space within your place of work, study, play and life.

This Spoke Series is in partnership with Kailey Kornhauser, Bike Utah, University of Utah Sustainability Office, and Utah Humanities Book Festival. Kailey will build from the language and lessons in the book, “What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat" By Aubrey Gordon and there will be a time for Q&A at the end of Kailey’s talk. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210924T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210924T120000 UID:D1E79023-2B7C-4F8C-8C57-95210B99916B SUMMARY:Guest Writers Series Presents Alicia Stallings CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2252 DESCRIPTION:The Guest Writers Series is excited to host A. E. Stallings via Zoom! \N\NRegister here: https://utah.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lMnGQPLkT6WJXmF0HWpdlw\N\NA.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and a verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics, and has been a regular faculty member at the West Chester Poetry Conference and the Sewanee Summer Writers' Conference. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist, John Psaropoulos, and their two argonauts, Jason and Atalanta.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, University of Utah, Department of English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Guest Writers Series is excited to host A. E. Stallings via Zoom!

Register here: https://utah.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lMnGQPLkT6WJXmF0HWpdlw

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and a verse translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics, and has been a regular faculty member at the West Chester Poetry Conference and the Sewanee Summer Writers' Conference. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist, John Psaropoulos, and their two argonauts, Jason and Atalanta.

This event is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, University of Utah, Department of English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210924T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210924T200000 UID:6FB46D7F-E9C4-48C9-B5FF-E07D66B0B582 SUMMARY:Setsuko's Secret with Shirley Shirley Ann Higuchi CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2210 DESCRIPTION:The King's English presents Shirley Ann Higuchi, author of Setsuko's Secret. \N\NRegister here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tke-presents-online/register\N\NAs children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.\N\NOnly after a serious cancer diagnosis did Shirley's mother, Setsuko, share her vision for a museum at the site of the former camp, where she had been donating funds and volunteering in secret for many years. After Setsuko's death, Shirley skeptically accepted an invitation to visit the site, a journey that would forever change her life and introduce her to a part of her mother she never knew.\NNavigating the complicated terrain of the Japanese American experience, Shirley patched together Setsuko's story and came to understand the forces and generational trauma that shaped her own life. Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into the "camp life" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.\N\NIf you need accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org\N\NThis program is made possible with support from The King's English X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English presents Shirley Ann Higuchi, author of Setsuko's Secret.

Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tke-presents-online/register

As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.

Only after a serious cancer diagnosis did Shirley's mother, Setsuko, share her vision for a museum at the site of the former camp, where she had been donating funds and volunteering in secret for many years. After Setsuko's death, Shirley skeptically accepted an invitation to visit the site, a journey that would forever change her life and introduce her to a part of her mother she never knew.
Navigating the complicated terrain of the Japanese American experience, Shirley patched together Setsuko's story and came to understand the forces and generational trauma that shaped her own life. Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into the "camp life" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.

If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org

This program is made possible with support from The King's English X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210924T210000 UID:239145A6-42DC-41F8-9AF2-1EE30347B9AB SUMMARY:UHSPSI Virtual Indie Slam CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2240 DESCRIPTION:This is the first opportunity of 21-22 for our high school poets to stunt statewide. Sign up by emailing palomo@utahhumanities.org with your name and school. 3 mins time limit, no props. Lets rock!\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and UHSPSI. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This is the first opportunity of 21-22 for our high school poets to stunt statewide. Sign up by emailing palomo@utahhumanities.org with your name and school. 3 mins time limit, no props. Lets rock!

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and UHSPSI. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210924T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210924T210000 UID:F89B8010-5917-418B-8130-1E0E259ED160 SUMMARY:Let the Wild Grasses Grow with Kase Johnstun CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2077 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Let The Wild Grasses Grow, the debut book release for Kase Johnstun. \N\NFind at St. Joseph Catholic High School's auditorium at 7pm for a reading and Q&A with the Ogden author. \N\NLet the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Torrey House PRess. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Celebrate Let The Wild Grasses Grow, the debut book release for Kase Johnstun.

Find at St. Joseph Catholic High School's auditorium at 7pm for a reading and Q&A with the Ogden author.

Let the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Torrey House PRess. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210925T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210925T110000 UID:AD0E8336-FAC8-45E1-8FE8-4AD1A196807D SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Birding with Eli Knapp CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2244 DESCRIPTION:Admission is free but we’d appreciate knowing you’re coming please register using the button below. \N\NFollow this link to access the registration: http://logannature.org/humanities-in-the-wild\N\NThis Humanities in the Wild will be exploring the human impact on our feathered friends. Join Eli Knapp author of Dead Serious and local bird experts Ellis Juhlin and Aimee Van Tatenhove for a birding adventure as we walk from Stokes Nature Center to 2nd Dam and back. (Approximately 2 miles). Please dress appropriately and bring a reusable water bottle.\N\NEnjoy readings from the book, and a Q & A session inside the Nature Center following our birding adventure along with light refreshments! \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Torrey House Press, and Stokes Nature Center X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Admission is free but we’d appreciate knowing you’re coming please register using the button below.

Follow this link to access the registration: http://logannature.org/humanities-in-the-wild

This Humanities in the Wild will be exploring the human impact on our feathered friends. Join Eli Knapp author of Dead Serious and local bird experts Ellis Juhlin and Aimee Van Tatenhove for a birding adventure as we walk from Stokes Nature Center to 2nd Dam and back. (Approximately 2 miles). Please dress appropriately and bring a reusable water bottle.

Enjoy readings from the book, and a Q & A session inside the Nature Center following our birding adventure along with light refreshments!

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Torrey House Press, and Stokes Nature Center X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210925T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210925T130000 UID:D1C1AD81-21A3-47A7-9A1A-297636EC2399 SUMMARY:Nita's Day with Kathy MacMillan CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2153 DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Bungalow for an awesome session with Kathy MacMillan, author of Nita's Day. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/3zkvlx6\N\NSign language makes it easy to communicate with your child, and Nita makes it fun! The second book in the Little Hands Signing series (which introduced the bestselling Nita's First Signs), Nita's Day teaches ten new and essential ASL signs for every parent and child to know: wake up, change, clothes, eat, potty, go, play, bath, book, and bed. A simple story about Nita and her parents teaches each sign in context. Even better, each page slides open to reveal accurate instructions on how to make each sign, plus tabs on the side of each page make it simple to locate every sign for later reference. No signing book collection is complete without Nita!\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Book Bungalow for an awesome session with Kathy MacMillan, author of Nita's Day.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3zkvlx6

Sign language makes it easy to communicate with your child, and Nita makes it fun! The second book in the Little Hands Signing series (which introduced the bestselling Nita's First Signs), Nita's Day teaches ten new and essential ASL signs for every parent and child to know: wake up, change, clothes, eat, potty, go, play, bath, book, and bed. A simple story about Nita and her parents teaches each sign in context. Even better, each page slides open to reveal accurate instructions on how to make each sign, plus tabs on the side of each page make it simple to locate every sign for later reference. No signing book collection is complete without Nita!

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210925T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210925T130000 UID:251FFAC0-0799-40AD-831E-839F58691257 SUMMARY:Christian Heidicker CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2144 DESCRIPTION:The North Branch of the Weber County Library is excited to host Christian McKay Heidicker. \N\NChristian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His demon-hunting cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps him protected him from evil spirits. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Thieves of Weirdwood, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. cmheidicker.com\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Weber County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The North Branch of the Weber County Library is excited to host Christian McKay Heidicker.

Christian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His demon-hunting cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps him protected him from evil spirits. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Thieves of Weirdwood, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. cmheidicker.com

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Weber County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210925T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210925T200000 UID:86327B8E-F418-4A9A-A487-CC6758649589 SUMMARY:"An Evening With D. Michael Quinn's Three Most Controversial Books" featuring a discussion with scholars Ben Park, Katie Ludlow Rich and Blaire Ostler CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2174 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with D. Michael Quinn's three most controversial books, featuring a discussion with scholars Ben Park and Katie Ludlow Rich. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZBPceaf8T8WwhY1kg89f0A\N\NDennis Michael Quinn (March 26, 1944 – April 21, 2021)[1] was an American historian who focused on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1976 until he resigned in 1988. At the time, his work concerned church involvement with plural marriage after the 1890 Manifesto, when new polygamous marriages were officially prohibited. He was excommunicated from the church as one of the September Six and afterwards was openly gay.[2][3] Quinn nevertheless identified as a Latter-day Saint and continued to believe in many LDS teachings, though he did not actively practice the faith. \N\NHe's most known for his works Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, The Mormon Hierarchy, and Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Sunstone Education Foundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening with D. Michael Quinn's three most controversial books, featuring a discussion with scholars Ben Park and Katie Ludlow Rich.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZBPceaf8T8WwhY1kg89f0A

Dennis Michael Quinn (March 26, 1944 – April 21, 2021)[1] was an American historian who focused on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1976 until he resigned in 1988. At the time, his work concerned church involvement with plural marriage after the 1890 Manifesto, when new polygamous marriages were officially prohibited. He was excommunicated from the church as one of the September Six and afterwards was openly gay.[2][3] Quinn nevertheless identified as a Latter-day Saint and continued to believe in many LDS teachings, though he did not actively practice the faith.

He's most known for his works Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, The Mormon Hierarchy, and Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Sunstone Education Foundation. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210927T210000 UID:167FD03B-50D4-4824-9C78-B311C413A919 SUMMARY:Utah Poetry Slam features Abi Goddey CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2107 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Poetry Slam is excited to feature Abi Goddey, author and organizer of 365 Poetry, a long-running open mic series catering to Utah's refugee and immigrant communities. \N\NSign up link to compete will be provided soon. \N\NHosted by: TBA\N\NRules: 3 minutes, no props, no nudity. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Poetry Slam is excited to feature Abi Goddey, author and organizer of 365 Poetry, a long-running open mic series catering to Utah's refugee and immigrant communities.

Sign up link to compete will be provided soon.

Hosted by: TBA

Rules: 3 minutes, no props, no nudity.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210927T210000 UID:53ED1CEB-5FA8-48C3-BF20-4295E9D72EDD SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Quilt Trunk Show CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2093 DESCRIPTION:The isolation and hardship of mountain living brought Appalachian women together to stitch and bond over quilting projects. These quilts often expressed family history and local events, using patterns from Scottish, Irish, and German folk traditions blended with Native American,\NAmish, and Quaker influences. Join us as quilting author and teacher Carmen Geddes shares some of her favorite award-winning quilts.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Utah County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The isolation and hardship of mountain living brought Appalachian women together to stitch and bond over quilting projects. These quilts often expressed family history and local events, using patterns from Scottish, Irish, and German folk traditions blended with Native American,
Amish, and Quaker influences. Join us as quilting author and teacher Carmen Geddes shares some of her favorite award-winning quilts.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Utah County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210927T210000 UID:CAD4F282-AF91-4A84-86BD-8ED68F18B73B SUMMARY:Big Book of Family Games CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2151 DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Bungalow and Brad Berger, author of the Big Book of Family Games. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/2W2CljQ\N\NBring family and friends together for hours of entertainment and real social interaction. The Big Book of Family Games: 101 Original Group Games That Don't Need Charging brings people together for hours of hilarious, interactive, technology-free fun that requires virtually nothing more than pens and paper. This travel-friendly book guarantees hours of engaging entertainment with 101 original, rigorously tested games that challenge each player's ability to strategize, bluff, read minds, memorize, think quickly, solve puzzles, and more. No texting, tweeting, or web surfing allowed! \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Book Bungalow and Brad Berger, author of the Big Book of Family Games.

Register here: https://bit.ly/2W2CljQ

Bring family and friends together for hours of entertainment and real social interaction. The Big Book of Family Games: 101 Original Group Games That Don't Need Charging brings people together for hours of hilarious, interactive, technology-free fun that requires virtually nothing more than pens and paper. This travel-friendly book guarantees hours of engaging entertainment with 101 original, rigorously tested games that challenge each player's ability to strategize, bluff, read minds, memorize, think quickly, solve puzzles, and more. No texting, tweeting, or web surfing allowed!

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210928T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210928T193000 UID:ECD78D04-9BC1-49A0-8E22-0C62106454B5 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Native Rock Imagery CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2203 DESCRIPTION:Join the Museum of Moab for an in-depth dive of Native Rock Imagery in Moab. \N\NJoin here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89376529384\N\NBefore attending this online event, we recommend you: \N\N1) Check out this cool trailer for the hikes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tz1diSBcSQ\N\N2) Visit one of these sites in Moab\N\NA) Moonflower Canyon: https://www.blm.gov/visit/moonflower-canyon-recreation-area\N\NB) Birthing Rock: https://www.gjhikes.com/2016/01/birthing-rock.html\N\NC) Poison Spider Mesa: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/poison-spider-mesa-trail\N\NMr. Bertram Tsavadawa is a guide of the Ancient Pathways Tours. He belongs to the corn clan from the village of Old Oraibi, 3rd Mesa. He wants to share his knowledge and experience, insights into everyday Hopi life ways. He offers unique sightseeing tour both informative and entertaining.\N\NDon Montoya is a former archeologist for the Bureau of Land Management, where he conducted consultation with Native American tribes who have ancestral claim to the use of resources in the region. He currently works on special projects with Utah State Parks.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Museum of Moab. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Museum of Moab for an in-depth dive of Native Rock Imagery in Moab.

Join here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89376529384

Before attending this online event, we recommend you:

1) Check out this cool trailer for the hikes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tz1diSBcSQ

2) Visit one of these sites in Moab

A) Moonflower Canyon: https://www.blm.gov/visit/moonflower-canyon-recreation-area

B) Birthing Rock: https://www.gjhikes.com/2016/01/birthing-rock.html

C) Poison Spider Mesa: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/poison-spider-mesa-trail

Mr. Bertram Tsavadawa is a guide of the Ancient Pathways Tours. He belongs to the corn clan from the village of Old Oraibi, 3rd Mesa. He wants to share his knowledge and experience, insights into everyday Hopi life ways. He offers unique sightseeing tour both informative and entertaining.

Don Montoya is a former archeologist for the Bureau of Land Management, where he conducted consultation with Native American tribes who have ancestral claim to the use of resources in the region. He currently works on special projects with Utah State Parks.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Museum of Moab. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210928T210000 UID:98242B13-C6B1-4C98-BE7D-5B40A1A81B8E SUMMARY:When We Make It with Elisabet Velasquez CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2108 DESCRIPTION:Westminster College is excited to feature Nuyorican author Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make It. \N\NMalouf 201, Westminster College \N\NAn unforgettable young adult debut novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to “make it,” touching on themes of mental illness, sexual assault, food insecurity and gentrification, in the Nuyorican literary tradition of Nicholasa Mohr and the work of contemporary writer Elizabeth Acevedo.\N\NSarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has been denied.\N\NWhen We Make It is a love letter to girls who were taught to believe they would not make it at all. The verse is evocative and insightful, and readers are sure to be swept into Sarai’s world and rooting for her long after they close the book.\N\NThis program was made possible with support from Westminster College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Westminster College is excited to feature Nuyorican author Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make It.

Malouf 201, Westminster College

An unforgettable young adult debut novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to “make it,” touching on themes of mental illness, sexual assault, food insecurity and gentrification, in the Nuyorican literary tradition of Nicholasa Mohr and the work of contemporary writer Elizabeth Acevedo.

Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has been denied.

When We Make It is a love letter to girls who were taught to believe they would not make it at all. The verse is evocative and insightful, and readers are sure to be swept into Sarai’s world and rooting for her long after they close the book.

This program was made possible with support from Westminster College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210930 UID:27FA8E78-081A-4E7F-A27F-3163CB926B12 SUMMARY:Queer Magic CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2148 DESCRIPTION:Drawing from Tomas Prower's Queer Magic, Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder will cover magic from minoritized genders and sexualities. \N\NThe episode will release on BuzzSprout 9/29: https://mancy.buzzsprout.com/\N\NQueer Magic provides nourishment for LGBTQ+ souls and their allies who are interested in learning about the significant presence and influence of queer folks throughout history. Explore fascinating insights into queer relationships and spiritual practices from different regions of the world. Learn about deities, heroes, and historical figures who embody the power of the queer spirit. Discover inspiring contributions from contemporary LGBT+ Pagans, Catholics, Buddhists, Muslims, and others as they share personal stories of their experiences as well as spells, prayers, and meditations from their own practices. With practical suggestions and enlightening perspectives, this book is a unique resource for LGBT+ spiritual seekers who want to experience the sustaining energy and strength of the worldwide queer community.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Mancy. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Drawing from Tomas Prower's Queer Magic, Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder will cover magic from minoritized genders and sexualities.

The episode will release on BuzzSprout 9/29: https://mancy.buzzsprout.com/

Queer Magic provides nourishment for LGBTQ+ souls and their allies who are interested in learning about the significant presence and influence of queer folks throughout history. Explore fascinating insights into queer relationships and spiritual practices from different regions of the world. Learn about deities, heroes, and historical figures who embody the power of the queer spirit. Discover inspiring contributions from contemporary LGBT+ Pagans, Catholics, Buddhists, Muslims, and others as they share personal stories of their experiences as well as spells, prayers, and meditations from their own practices. With practical suggestions and enlightening perspectives, this book is a unique resource for LGBT+ spiritual seekers who want to experience the sustaining energy and strength of the worldwide queer community.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Mancy. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210929T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210929T190000 UID:A4C11ACC-32E1-4E49-A822-9352BD5AAB2A SUMMARY:The Past We Step Into with Richard Scharine CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2156 DESCRIPTION:Join Book Bungalow in the Zoom room for a powerful conversation with Richard Scharine, author of The Paat We Step In. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/3kz6arU\N\NA young couple finds themselves hip-deep in sex, social change, the Arts, Civil Rights, politics, warfare, and - ultimately - children, as they negotiate the paths of self-discovery spanning over fifty years and four continents.\N\NIn the twelve stories of Richard Scharine's The Past We Step Into, we experience the America we remember, the America we want to forget, and the America we dream of achieving.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Book Bungalow in the Zoom room for a powerful conversation with Richard Scharine, author of The Paat We Step In.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3kz6arU

A young couple finds themselves hip-deep in sex, social change, the Arts, Civil Rights, politics, warfare, and - ultimately - children, as they negotiate the paths of self-discovery spanning over fifty years and four continents.

In the twelve stories of Richard Scharine's The Past We Step Into, we experience the America we remember, the America we want to forget, and the America we dream of achieving.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210929T210000 UID:FBAC1741-E8D8-44DB-9B7D-5D088C89659F SUMMARY:When We Make It with Elisabet Velasquez CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2109 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library is excited to feature Nuyorican author Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make It. \N\NAn unforgettable young adult debut novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to “make it,” touching on themes of mental illness, sexual assault, food insecurity and gentrification, in the Nuyorican literary tradition of Nicholasa Mohr and the work of contemporary writer Elizabeth Acevedo.\N\NSarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has been denied.\N\NWhen We Make It is a love letter to girls who were taught to believe they would not make it at all. The verse is evocative and insightful, and readers are sure to be swept into Sarai’s world and rooting for her long after they close the book.\N\NThis program was made possible with support from Park City and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library is excited to feature Nuyorican author Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make It.

An unforgettable young adult debut novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to “make it,” touching on themes of mental illness, sexual assault, food insecurity and gentrification, in the Nuyorican literary tradition of Nicholasa Mohr and the work of contemporary writer Elizabeth Acevedo.

Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has been denied.

When We Make It is a love letter to girls who were taught to believe they would not make it at all. The verse is evocative and insightful, and readers are sure to be swept into Sarai’s world and rooting for her long after they close the book.

This program was made possible with support from Park City and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210929T210000 UID:A3853A20-5CAC-45A9-97E8-1DA41FE85235 SUMMARY:Tanner Humanities Center presents Anthony Doerr CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2204 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Humanities Center is excited to host acclaimed author Anthony Doerr at the U o U Alumni House. \N\NPurchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anthony-doerr-cloud-cuckoo-land-a-novel-tickets-162474400305\N\NAnthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be published on September 28, 2021.\N\NFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.\N\NSet in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.\N\NThirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.\N\NFive hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.\N\NLike Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the U o U Tanner Humanities Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Humanities Center is excited to host acclaimed author Anthony Doerr at the U o U Alumni House.

Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anthony-doerr-cloud-cuckoo-land-a-novel-tickets-162474400305

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be published on September 28, 2021.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.

Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.

Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.

Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.

This program is made possible with support from the U o U Tanner Humanities Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211003 UID:DE80369C-72A0-44A1-951C-3E1F96325DEB SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2111 DESCRIPTION:Register for the annual Cliff Notes Writing Conference featuring former poet laureate David Lee, Nancy Takacs, and Mike Branch. The Conference will feature readings, workshops, and other opportunities to build your literary community.\N\NLearn more here: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/register\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Arts Council. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Register for the annual Cliff Notes Writing Conference featuring former poet laureate David Lee, Nancy Takacs, and Mike Branch. The Conference will feature readings, workshops, and other opportunities to build your literary community.

Learn more here: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/register

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Arts Council.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210930T000000 UID:FA290EA8-82D9-42F4-B1DD-8557AB067CDD SUMMARY:Self-Publishing Panel CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2078 DESCRIPTION:Ages 18 and older. Five local authors and publishers will discuss their work and the available alternatives for self-publishing: Felice Austin, author of Awake as In Ancient Days: The Christ-Centered Kundalini Yoga Experience; Ben Behunin, author of Authentically Ruby, a novel; Vince Font, founder of Glass Spider Publishing; Kaylee Nipko, author of Growing the Alphabet, a children’s book; and Margaret Pettis, author of In the Temple of the Stars, a poetry collection\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ages 18 and older. Five local authors and publishers will discuss their work and the available alternatives for self-publishing: Felice Austin, author of Awake as In Ancient Days: The Christ-Centered Kundalini Yoga Experience; Ben Behunin, author of Authentically Ruby, a novel; Vince Font, founder of Glass Spider Publishing; Kaylee Nipko, author of Growing the Alphabet, a children’s book; and Margaret Pettis, author of In the Temple of the Stars, a poetry collection

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210930T210000 UID:24953C1F-FF59-46B5-ADE0-F97955A0DDD8 SUMMARY:Blossom as a Cliffrose CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2110 DESCRIPTION:The Stokes Nature Center is excited to host Karin Anderson and Danielle Dubrasky, editors of Blossom as a Cliffrose; Mormon Legacies and The Beckonsing of the Wild.\N\NBlossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by talented writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter-day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges us to examine the myriad ways our own deeply rooted heritage shapes our personal relationship with landscape.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Stokes Nature Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Stokes Nature Center is excited to host Karin Anderson and Danielle Dubrasky, editors of Blossom as a Cliffrose; Mormon Legacies and The Beckonsing of the Wild.

Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by talented writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter-day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges us to examine the myriad ways our own deeply rooted heritage shapes our personal relationship with landscape.

This program is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Stokes Nature Center, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210930T210000 UID:DB5914BE-FC6A-4618-A900-28FA06C7790B SUMMARY:Boulder Cliff Notes features David Lee CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2112 DESCRIPTION:Boulder Cliff Notes is excited to feature former Utah poet laureate David Lee. \N\NBorn in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah.\N \NLee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest.\N \NDavid Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. He taught for many years at Southern Utah State University.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Boulder Cliff Notes is excited to feature former Utah poet laureate David Lee.

Born in west Texas, David Lee is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Porcine Legacy (1974), Driving and Drinking (1979), The Porcine Canticles (1984), Wayburne Pig (1997), News from Down to the Café: New Poems (1999), and A Legacy of Shadows: Selected Poems (1999). Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and the only white baseball player for a Negro League team. He received a PhD in literature, with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton, from the University of Utah.

Lee explores the interaction of humans and the natural world in his poetry, depicting rural landscapes and lives and often employing a rural American dialect. His collection So Quietly the Earth (2004) portrays the lands of the American Southwest.

David Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The first poet laureate of Utah, Lee received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. He taught for many years at Southern Utah State University.

This program is made possible with support from the Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211001T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211001T200000 UID:3B400C84-7FFD-44C2-A607-D7C2A517D72F SUMMARY:Introduction to Blerd Poetry CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2284 DESCRIPTION:Instructors: Schkyra Morning, Ashley Finley, and Jayrod Garrett.\N\NLink: https://www.facebook.com/events/534334247658085\N\NLocation of the class: Maven Create at 177 E 900 S # 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (find them at - https://mavencreateslc.com/)\N\NOn the heels of the Genre Underground event for Comic-Con, poets Ashley Finley, Wynter Storm, and Jayrod P. Garrett are joining forces to teach a poetry workshop for Blerds (Black Nerds).\N\NThis is a UBLAC event being run for any Black writer interested in writing nerdy poetry. It can be about science, fandoms, stories, and even spirituality. Bring us all your nerdiness and we'll help you develop words out of it.\NPer each writer who attends we'll be charging $25 to pay for our venue, our teachers, and any supplies we think you may need (https://intro-to-blerd-poetry.bpt.me.) \N\NWe'll be at Maven Create (177 E 900 S # 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84111) by the good graces of Versatile Image. \N\NLink to payment for class: https://intro-to-blerd-poetry.bpt.me.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Utah Black Artist Collective. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Instructors: Schkyra Morning, Ashley Finley, and Jayrod Garrett.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/534334247658085

Location of the class: Maven Create at 177 E 900 S # 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (find them at - https://mavencreateslc.com/)

On the heels of the Genre Underground event for Comic-Con, poets Ashley Finley, Wynter Storm, and Jayrod P. Garrett are joining forces to teach a poetry workshop for Blerds (Black Nerds).

This is a UBLAC event being run for any Black writer interested in writing nerdy poetry. It can be about science, fandoms, stories, and even spirituality. Bring us all your nerdiness and we'll help you develop words out of it.
Per each writer who attends we'll be charging $25 to pay for our venue, our teachers, and any supplies we think you may need (https://intro-to-blerd-poetry.bpt.me.)

We'll be at Maven Create (177 E 900 S # 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84111) by the good graces of Versatile Image.

Link to payment for class: https://intro-to-blerd-poetry.bpt.me.

This event is made possible with support from the Utah Black Artist Collective. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211001T210000 UID:F4BF9669-68AD-4985-865D-09FD50920E3B SUMMARY:Boulder Cliff Notes features Nancy Takacs CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2113 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to host Nancy Takacs at 7pm on Friday, October 1st, Boulder Community Center.\N\NNancy Takacs was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. She attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, earning an MFA in Poetry. Author of several books of poems, Nancy is an emerita professor at USU Eastern/CEU. The Worrier poems received the 2016 Juniper Prize for Poetry, the 2018 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Blue Patina was awarded the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Prize, for her poem “Dearest Water,” she has received the 2016 runner-up award for the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize,\N\NThis program is made possible with support by Boulder Arts Council and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to host Nancy Takacs at 7pm on Friday, October 1st, Boulder Community Center.

Nancy Takacs was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. She attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, earning an MFA in Poetry. Author of several books of poems, Nancy is an emerita professor at USU Eastern/CEU. The Worrier poems received the 2016 Juniper Prize for Poetry, the 2018 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Blue Patina was awarded the 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Prize, for her poem “Dearest Water,” she has received the 2016 runner-up award for the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize,

This program is made possible with support by Boulder Arts Council and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211001T000000 UID:5BA04036-7742-4AA1-93C5-0E4773C9F1D3 SUMMARY:Dead Serious with Eli Knapp CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2215 DESCRIPTION:Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.\N\Nif you need any accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Torrey House Press and the Printed Garden. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.

if you need any accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Torrey House Press and the Printed Garden. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211001T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211001T213000 UID:8B4BD19F-1280-4728-8143-8979E8957EF3 SUMMARY:One Bronze Knuckle with Kenneth Gordon CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2154 DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Book Bungalow for an awesome evening with Kenneth Gordon, author of One Bronze Knuckle \N\NJonathan Berger, known locally as The Bergermeister, is the head of Bergerton’s illustrious Berger family. The Bergers have prospered in the town ever since Jon’s great-great-grandfather refused to move from the spot where his donkey cart toppled over on the side of the road. Fortune smiles upon them—until a catastrophic fire strikes during the annual Feast of Sullivan, and they find themselves scattered to the winds.\N\NRunaway grandchildren, a pitchfork-armed local militia, rival churches, a home for wayward boys, goat caves converted to a makeshift prison: their adventures are seemingly endless. But as they explore the world beyond the confines of their little town, circling ever nearer to the great island City, they also discover the connections that hold steadfast between them, no matter what the distance.\N\NNarrated by a witch whose knack for storytelling far outstrips her questionable magical talent, this charming debut paints a world where anything might happen—and most of it does.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at the Book Bungalow for an awesome evening with Kenneth Gordon, author of One Bronze Knuckle

Jonathan Berger, known locally as The Bergermeister, is the head of Bergerton’s illustrious Berger family. The Bergers have prospered in the town ever since Jon’s great-great-grandfather refused to move from the spot where his donkey cart toppled over on the side of the road. Fortune smiles upon them—until a catastrophic fire strikes during the annual Feast of Sullivan, and they find themselves scattered to the winds.

Runaway grandchildren, a pitchfork-armed local militia, rival churches, a home for wayward boys, goat caves converted to a makeshift prison: their adventures are seemingly endless. But as they explore the world beyond the confines of their little town, circling ever nearer to the great island City, they also discover the connections that hold steadfast between them, no matter what the distance.

Narrated by a witch whose knack for storytelling far outstrips her questionable magical talent, this charming debut paints a world where anything might happen—and most of it does.

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T123000 UID:EC361904-6E65-4827-B73F-625E874FB990 SUMMARY:Survivor: What It Means to Teens with Heart, Liver, and Kidney Transplants CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2129 DESCRIPTION:The National Kidney Foundation for Utah and Idaho is grateful to present Survivors: What it Means to Teens with Heart, Liver, and Kidney Transplants. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jhm_HwR-SumJUwwQCG55Sw\N\NPopular media often focuses on the drama of organ transplants--waiting on transplant lists or enduring long surgeries--not the unpredictability of post-transplant life. In Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors: Miracle-Like, Susan J. Sample shares stories from poetry workshops held for 12 years at the National Kidney Foundation of Utah and Idaho’s Youth Transplant Kamp where adolescents explored the physical, emotional, and existential challenges of being survivors. Along with Sample, many of the young authors will read their poetry and discuss how they continue to live with hope and gratitude.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the National Kidney Foundation for Utah and Idaho. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The National Kidney Foundation for Utah and Idaho is grateful to present Survivors: What it Means to Teens with Heart, Liver, and Kidney Transplants.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jhm_HwR-SumJUwwQCG55Sw

Popular media often focuses on the drama of organ transplants--waiting on transplant lists or enduring long surgeries--not the unpredictability of post-transplant life. In Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors: Miracle-Like, Susan J. Sample shares stories from poetry workshops held for 12 years at the National Kidney Foundation of Utah and Idaho’s Youth Transplant Kamp where adolescents explored the physical, emotional, and existential challenges of being survivors. Along with Sample, many of the young authors will read their poetry and discuss how they continue to live with hope and gratitude.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the National Kidney Foundation for Utah and Idaho. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T120000 UID:99D4140E-A1F3-43AE-ABAB-1985BC8B0899 SUMMARY:Dead Serious CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2169 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library is eager to host Eli Knapp, author of Dead Serious: Wild Hope and the Sixth Extinction.\N\NThrough personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library is eager to host Eli Knapp, author of Dead Serious: Wild Hope and the Sixth Extinction.

Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject.

This program is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T120000 UID:44AECDC9-8460-407E-BCD8-ED69482F1367 SUMMARY:The Mystery of Luci's Missing Lantern with Melissa Marsted CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2249 DESCRIPTION:Join, Luci, a western firefly as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern. Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is? She takes the readers into Logan Canyon, meeting a moose and her calf, some bats in Logan Cave, a bluebird at Jardine Juniper and other birds, fish, and mammals along the way. The animals encourage Luci to keep going in search of her missing lantern, but only time will tell when she will find out the truth about her light. Have you ever wondered about the life cycle of fireflies and why they glow? The Mystery of Luci’s Missing Lantern is filled with creative and joyful illustrations to spark your interest in this unique insect and Cache County.Firefly Park draws visitors annually to witness the magic of hundreds of western fireflies in late spring and early summer. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Old House on Main and Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join, Luci, a western firefly as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern. Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is? She takes the readers into Logan Canyon, meeting a moose and her calf, some bats in Logan Cave, a bluebird at Jardine Juniper and other birds, fish, and mammals along the way. The animals encourage Luci to keep going in search of her missing lantern, but only time will tell when she will find out the truth about her light. Have you ever wondered about the life cycle of fireflies and why they glow? The Mystery of Luci’s Missing Lantern is filled with creative and joyful illustrations to spark your interest in this unique insect and Cache County.Firefly Park draws visitors annually to witness the magic of hundreds of western fireflies in late spring and early summer.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Old House on Main and Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T130000 UID:A914B952-5220-4F23-9C2D-478719F55AAB SUMMARY:Land and Sea with Moana 'Ulu'ave-Hafoka CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2177 DESCRIPTION:Lost Eden Gallery is excited to host Moana 'Ulu'ave-Hafoka, author of Land and Sea, a children's book about the environment. \N\NMoana 'Ulu'ave-Hafoka was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to 'Alama and Losaline 'Ulu'ave, both of Niuafo'ou, Tongatapu. In her senior year of high school, she won the Oprah Winfrey High School Essay Contest and Gates Millennium Scholarship which enabled her to attend any four year college on a full-ride scholarship. In 2012, after spending some time in New Zealand, she graduated with University Honors from Brigham Young University in English and Sociology. Her honors thesis was entitled, Tauhi Va: Nourishing the Space Between--A Collection of Essays which dealt with her love of growing up in Glendale and her identities as a Mormon, Tongan, and American. In May 2014, she graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While there, she received multiple honors including, the 2014 Intellectual Contribution & Faculty Tribute Award and the Leadership in Education Award. After graduate school, Moana pursued a career in public service in her hometown. First, working in her local community center and most recently, as a Policy Advisor for Diversity & Human Rights in the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office. Today, you can find Moana, and her husband, Maika, living in Salt Lake City with their children and working as the Bridge Program Director of the Pacific Islands Studies Initiative at the University of Utah. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Lost Eden Gallery and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lost Eden Gallery is excited to host Moana 'Ulu'ave-Hafoka, author of Land and Sea, a children's book about the environment.

Moana 'Ulu'ave-Hafoka was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to 'Alama and Losaline 'Ulu'ave, both of Niuafo'ou, Tongatapu. In her senior year of high school, she won the Oprah Winfrey High School Essay Contest and Gates Millennium Scholarship which enabled her to attend any four year college on a full-ride scholarship. In 2012, after spending some time in New Zealand, she graduated with University Honors from Brigham Young University in English and Sociology. Her honors thesis was entitled, Tauhi Va: Nourishing the Space Between--A Collection of Essays which dealt with her love of growing up in Glendale and her identities as a Mormon, Tongan, and American. In May 2014, she graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While there, she received multiple honors including, the 2014 Intellectual Contribution & Faculty Tribute Award and the Leadership in Education Award. After graduate school, Moana pursued a career in public service in her hometown. First, working in her local community center and most recently, as a Policy Advisor for Diversity & Human Rights in the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office. Today, you can find Moana, and her husband, Maika, living in Salt Lake City with their children and working as the Bridge Program Director of the Pacific Islands Studies Initiative at the University of Utah.

This program is made possible with support from Lost Eden Gallery and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T200000 UID:54ADEAEC-B7F5-4683-BCA0-8A98B0E61A09 SUMMARY:Tabernacles of Clay with Taylor Petrey CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2175 DESCRIPTION:Join Taylor Petrey, author of Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ssgKGYd2Stu2uH-9IFibKA\N\NTaylor G. Petrey’s trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself.\N\NAs Petrey details, LDS leaders have embraced the idea of fixed identities representing a natural and divine order, but their teachings also acknowledge that sexual difference is persistently contingent and unstable. While queer theorists have built an ethics and politics based on celebrating such sexual fluidity, LDS leaders view it as a source of anxiety and a tool for the shaping of a heterosexual social order. Through public preaching and teaching, the deployment of psychological approaches to “cure” homosexuality, and political activism against equal rights for women and same-sex marriage, Mormon leaders hoped to manage sexuality and faith for those who have strayed from heteronormativity.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Sunstone Education Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Taylor Petrey, author of Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ssgKGYd2Stu2uH-9IFibKA

Taylor G. Petrey’s trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself.

As Petrey details, LDS leaders have embraced the idea of fixed identities representing a natural and divine order, but their teachings also acknowledge that sexual difference is persistently contingent and unstable. While queer theorists have built an ethics and politics based on celebrating such sexual fluidity, LDS leaders view it as a source of anxiety and a tool for the shaping of a heterosexual social order. Through public preaching and teaching, the deployment of psychological approaches to “cure” homosexuality, and political activism against equal rights for women and same-sex marriage, Mormon leaders hoped to manage sexuality and faith for those who have strayed from heteronormativity.

This program is made possible with support from the Sunstone Education Foundation and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T200000 UID:97EF73EC-F211-448D-A02F-925B64DB0642 SUMMARY:The Mystery of Luci's Missing Lantern with Melissa Marsted CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2250 DESCRIPTION:Join, Luci, a western firefly as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern.\N\NThis event will be available via Facebook live and in-person. \N\N Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is? She takes the readers into Logan Canyon, meeting a moose and her calf, some bats in Logan Cave, a bluebird at Jardine Juniper and other birds, fish, and mammals along the way. The animals encourage Luci to keep going in search of her missing lantern, but only time will tell when she will find out the truth about her light. Have you ever wondered about the life cycle of fireflies and why they glow? The Mystery of Luci’s Missing Lantern is filled with creative and joyful illustrations to spark your interest in this unique insect and Cache County.Firefly Park draws visitors annually to witness the magic of hundreds of western fireflies in late spring and early summer. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Entrada Institute. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join, Luci, a western firefly as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern.

This event will be available via Facebook live and in-person.

Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is? She takes the readers into Logan Canyon, meeting a moose and her calf, some bats in Logan Cave, a bluebird at Jardine Juniper and other birds, fish, and mammals along the way. The animals encourage Luci to keep going in search of her missing lantern, but only time will tell when she will find out the truth about her light. Have you ever wondered about the life cycle of fireflies and why they glow? The Mystery of Luci’s Missing Lantern is filled with creative and joyful illustrations to spark your interest in this unique insect and Cache County.Firefly Park draws visitors annually to witness the magic of hundreds of western fireflies in late spring and early summer.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Entrada Institute. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T210000 UID:841C7BCC-CE80-4AA7-8D77-EF956677479C SUMMARY:The Mancy Podcast LIVE!!! - Magic and Salt Lake City CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2146 DESCRIPTION:Join Mancy for the first ever live recording of an episode in the Box at the Gateway! Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder are going to be covering the magic embedded in Salt Lake City. Grid system with streets pointed towards the temple? Masonic architecture? They'll cover it all and more! \N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Box, Mancy, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Mancy for the first ever live recording of an episode in the Box at the Gateway! Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder are going to be covering the magic embedded in Salt Lake City. Grid system with streets pointed towards the temple? Masonic architecture? They'll cover it all and more!

This program is made possible with support from the Box, Mancy, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T210000 UID:EC002113-3047-4018-8865-66BC4A939F0A SUMMARY:Boulder Cliff Notes features Mike Branch` CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2114 DESCRIPTION:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to feature Pulitizer Prize-nominated author, Mike Branch. \N\N\NMike Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert. His work includes nine published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa (Island Press). He has four recent books: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness (Shambhala / Roost Books, 2016), Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert (Shambhala / Roost Books, 2017), and ‘The Best Read Naturalist’: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (co-edited with Clinton Mohs, University of Virginia Press, 2017), and How to Cuss in Western (Shambhala / Roost Books, 2018).\N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Art Council. \N\Nz X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Boulder Cliff Notes Writing Conference is excited to feature Pulitizer Prize-nominated author, Mike Branch.


Mike Branch is a writer, humorist, environmentalist, father, and desert rat who lives with his wife and two young daughters in the western Great Basin Desert. His work includes nine published books, one of which is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa (Island Press). He has four recent books: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness (Shambhala / Roost Books, 2016), Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert (Shambhala / Roost Books, 2017), and ‘The Best Read Naturalist’: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (co-edited with Clinton Mohs, University of Virginia Press, 2017), and How to Cuss in Western (Shambhala / Roost Books, 2018).


This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Boulder Art Council.

z X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211002T210000 UID:F1838A8D-D4CB-4F12-96E2-EAC98587191C SUMMARY:Let the Wild Grasses Grow with Kase Johnstun CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2155 DESCRIPTION:Join Kase Johnstun, author of Let the Wild Grasses Grow, at the St. George Chamber of Commerce. \N\NLet the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Book Bungalow, and the St. George Chamber of Commerce. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Kase Johnstun, author of Let the Wild Grasses Grow, at the St. George Chamber of Commerce.

Let the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Book Bungalow, and the St. George Chamber of Commerce. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211003T210000 UID:82CE6741-E002-45E2-9348-B0CFA6C3F77B SUMMARY:Prayers Not Meant for Heaven with Nan Seymour CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2138 DESCRIPTION:Laziz Kitchen is happy to host the book launch party for Prayers Not Meant for Heaven by legendary local Nan Seymour. \N\NOver the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offer an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Under the Umbrella Bookstore, Utah Humanities, and Laziz Kitchen. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Laziz Kitchen is happy to host the book launch party for Prayers Not Meant for Heaven by legendary local Nan Seymour.

Over the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offer an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City.

This event is made possible with support from Under the Umbrella Bookstore, Utah Humanities, and Laziz Kitchen. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211004T210000 UID:A5BC4030-814E-4C30-A9FA-EBC4F3E802C1 SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Cemetery Secrets and Spine-Tingling Tales CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2094 DESCRIPTION:Do you hold your breath when you pass a cemetery or shudder when you see a black cat in the daytime? Celebrate the spooky superstitions and folk tales of Appalachia with an evening of ghost stories with two of our favorite award-winning storytellers, Liz Sargent and Stephen Gashler.\N\NThis program is made possible with Utah County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Do you hold your breath when you pass a cemetery or shudder when you see a black cat in the daytime? Celebrate the spooky superstitions and folk tales of Appalachia with an evening of ghost stories with two of our favorite award-winning storytellers, Liz Sargent and Stephen Gashler.

This program is made possible with Utah County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211004T000000 UID:F7543BB7-2563-4F84-9A64-90A338285228 SUMMARY:1001 Voices on Climate Change with Devi Lockwood CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2143 DESCRIPTION:The Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library is excited to host Devi Lockwood, author of 1,001 Voices on Climate Change. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SW66lOP6TReuI6SarFGwTQ\N\NA journalist travels the world to collect personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities.\N\NIt’s official: 2020 will be remembered as the year when apocalyptic climate predictions finally came true. Catastrophic wildfires, relentless hurricanes, melting permafrost, and coastal flooding have given us a taste of what some communities have already been living with for far too long. Yet we don’t often hear the voices of the people most affected. Journalist Devi Lockwood set out to change that.\N\NIn 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, Lockwood travels the world, often by bicycle, collecting first-person accounts of climate change. She talks to indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the UN climate conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. She rides through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to listen to marionette puppeteers and novice Buddhist monks. From Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Arctic, and the Peruvian Amazon, she finds that ordinary people sharing their stories does far more to advance understanding and empathy than even the most alarming statistics and studies. This book is a hopeful global listening tour for climate change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed the future to help us avoid the worst.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Weber County Library. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Southwest Branch of the Weber County Library is excited to host Devi Lockwood, author of 1,001 Voices on Climate Change.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SW66lOP6TReuI6SarFGwTQ

A journalist travels the world to collect personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities.

It’s official: 2020 will be remembered as the year when apocalyptic climate predictions finally came true. Catastrophic wildfires, relentless hurricanes, melting permafrost, and coastal flooding have given us a taste of what some communities have already been living with for far too long. Yet we don’t often hear the voices of the people most affected. Journalist Devi Lockwood set out to change that.

In 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, Lockwood travels the world, often by bicycle, collecting first-person accounts of climate change. She talks to indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the UN climate conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. She rides through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to listen to marionette puppeteers and novice Buddhist monks. From Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Arctic, and the Peruvian Amazon, she finds that ordinary people sharing their stories does far more to advance understanding and empathy than even the most alarming statistics and studies. This book is a hopeful global listening tour for climate change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed the future to help us avoid the worst.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, and Weber County Library.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211005T000000 UID:1F2588F8-B3E0-4209-88F5-D2DA7C520EBE SUMMARY:Best Books for Book Clubs CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2081 DESCRIPTION:Ages 18 and older. Learn how to choose thought provoking titles for your book club on topics sure to spark lively debate. Catch up on the best books published this year and become versed on great discussion guide resources. Find out what the Weber County Library and the Utah State Library have to offer for your book club.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ages 18 and older. Learn how to choose thought provoking titles for your book club on topics sure to spark lively debate. Catch up on the best books published this year and become versed on great discussion guide resources. Find out what the Weber County Library and the Utah State Library have to offer for your book club.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211005T210000 UID:CD52DC51-FFEF-46DD-B1C4-A1DE2601464A SUMMARY:Speed Date with a Book at Brigham City Public Library CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2115 DESCRIPTION:Looking for a new book to curl up to at night? Join Brigham City Library for Speed date with a book. You'll get the chance to meet local authors and hear about their latest work. \N\N\NIf you feel better attending virtually, use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXwa-KSyR-Om179c9TsBHQ\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Looking for a new book to curl up to at night? Join Brigham City Library for Speed date with a book. You'll get the chance to meet local authors and hear about their latest work.


If you feel better attending virtually, use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXwa-KSyR-Om179c9TsBHQ

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211005T210000 UID:ED3CF66D-FFEC-4D53-A68C-F3B8AA74BA52 SUMMARY:Land of Cranes with Aida Salazar CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2163 DESCRIPTION:Join the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library for an evening with the powerful Aida Salazar, author of Land of Cranes and the Moon Within, and Marcos Nieves, director of Zoila. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DvjIl_feTO2cQpy3i0XH3Q?fbclid=IwAR1Vyy6nQxt_wfh2FKYljGubyhvlkm6vi0GxOZTxE7qEE9fms0dSvdizgRQ \N\NNine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel violence in Mexico. He says that Betita and her family are cranes that have returned to their promised land, Aztlán, land of the cranes. But one day, Papi is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. Their voices fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?\N\NFrom the author of The Moon Within comes a heartbreaking story in verse of those subjected to unimaginable cruelty, yet who still find the hope to dream and carry on.\N\NZoila By Marcos Nieves | 2020 | 3 min | Short\NDespite her age, an elderly Salvadoran immigrant woman pushes her cart through the streets of Los Angeles, selling clothes to support herself and hoping to one day have her own stand.\N\NMarcos Nieves is a queer and Mexican immigrant director, DP, and editor. He began his work as an immigrant activist and social justice filmmaker. He directed and co-produced his first documentary, Almost American (2010), which screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival. He was a fellow at Brave New Films, where his short digital documentary, Preying on Puerto Rico (2016), went viral within hours and reached over 7 million views. He went on to creating other viral videos that have reached over 30 million views. In 2017 he directed The Right to Thrive: Immigrant Voices in Healthcare, a three-part documentary series commissioned by The California Immigrant Policy Center. In 2018, he directed “Police Brutality,” a short documentary in the Decolonize Justice series funded by Latino Justice. In the last decade, he has created short documentaries on immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, healthcare access, HIV education, educational justice, economic inequality, wage theft, mass incarceration, and more. He is a member of the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective and a co-founder of La Producción, a production company run by undocumented immigrants. His most recent work, Zoila (2020), had its premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. He is now working on his next project My Queerceañera (2021).\NIG/Twitter: @SoyMarcosNieves\N\NThis program is made possible with support from The Sundance Film Festival, The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library for an evening with the powerful Aida Salazar, author of Land of Cranes and the Moon Within, and Marcos Nieves, director of Zoila.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DvjIl_feTO2cQpy3i0XH3Q?fbclid=IwAR1Vyy6nQxt_wfh2FKYljGubyhvlkm6vi0GxOZTxE7qEE9fms0dSvdizgRQ

Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel violence in Mexico. He says that Betita and her family are cranes that have returned to their promised land, Aztlán, land of the cranes. But one day, Papi is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. Their voices fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?

From the author of The Moon Within comes a heartbreaking story in verse of those subjected to unimaginable cruelty, yet who still find the hope to dream and carry on.

Zoila By Marcos Nieves | 2020 | 3 min | Short
Despite her age, an elderly Salvadoran immigrant woman pushes her cart through the streets of Los Angeles, selling clothes to support herself and hoping to one day have her own stand.

Marcos Nieves is a queer and Mexican immigrant director, DP, and editor. He began his work as an immigrant activist and social justice filmmaker. He directed and co-produced his first documentary, Almost American (2010), which screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival. He was a fellow at Brave New Films, where his short digital documentary, Preying on Puerto Rico (2016), went viral within hours and reached over 7 million views. He went on to creating other viral videos that have reached over 30 million views. In 2017 he directed The Right to Thrive: Immigrant Voices in Healthcare, a three-part documentary series commissioned by The California Immigrant Policy Center. In 2018, he directed “Police Brutality,” a short documentary in the Decolonize Justice series funded by Latino Justice. In the last decade, he has created short documentaries on immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, healthcare access, HIV education, educational justice, economic inequality, wage theft, mass incarceration, and more. He is a member of the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective and a co-founder of La Producción, a production company run by undocumented immigrants. His most recent work, Zoila (2020), had its premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. He is now working on his next project My Queerceañera (2021).
IG/Twitter: @SoyMarcosNieves

This program is made possible with support from The Sundance Film Festival, The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, The Salt Lake City Public Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211006T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211006T000000 UID:4ED6720A-B7A6-4079-BB77-DFCF0CF8CA7E SUMMARY:Mancy Podcast: SLC Magic CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2147 DESCRIPTION:Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder are going to be covering the magic embedded in Salt Lake City. Grid system with streets pointed towards the temple? Masonic architecture? They'll cover it all and more!\N\NThe episode will release on BuzzSprout 10/06: https://mancy.buzzsprout.com/\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Mancy. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder are going to be covering the magic embedded in Salt Lake City. Grid system with streets pointed towards the temple? Masonic architecture? They'll cover it all and more!

The episode will release on BuzzSprout 10/06: https://mancy.buzzsprout.com/

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Mancy. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211006T200000 UID:933AB2CD-55FF-4D49-AD22-E1288B0CD52E SUMMARY:Writing a Future-Forward Retrospective During A Pandemic CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2166 DESCRIPTION:Go Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87119806774?pwd=KzBLRUR5R0J4ME1qU25mRkxLdjFIZz09\N\N\NDesigner and Epicenter executive director, Maria Sykes, designer Frances Erlandson, designer Jason Dilworth, illustrator Summer Orr, and rural advocate Jamie Horter, will host a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique process of their forthcoming publication: a collection of reflections, criticisms, and examinations of the last decade of interdisciplinary creative work in rural Utah. The team will share a behind-the-scenes look at their experience collaborating during a pandemic, using platforms such as Zoom and collaborative Google Docs to weave together design, illustration, writing, and past work to shape the future of Epicenter’s practice. Why This Place? : A Future Forward Retrospective is scheduled to be released in 2022.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Epicenter. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Go Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87119806774?pwd=KzBLRUR5R0J4ME1qU25mRkxLdjFIZz09


Designer and Epicenter executive director, Maria Sykes, designer Frances Erlandson, designer Jason Dilworth, illustrator Summer Orr, and rural advocate Jamie Horter, will host a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique process of their forthcoming publication: a collection of reflections, criticisms, and examinations of the last decade of interdisciplinary creative work in rural Utah. The team will share a behind-the-scenes look at their experience collaborating during a pandemic, using platforms such as Zoom and collaborative Google Docs to weave together design, illustration, writing, and past work to shape the future of Epicenter’s practice. Why This Place? : A Future Forward Retrospective is scheduled to be released in 2022.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Epicenter. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211006T000000 UID:2D6839AE-259F-4E0D-BDE7-6F0706977258 SUMMARY:The Mike File: A Story of Hope and Grief with Stephen Trimble CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2212 DESCRIPTION:Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stephen-trimble--the/register\N\NIn The Mike File, Stephen Trimble grapples with his brother's heartrending life and death and looks behind doors he’s barricaded in himself.\N\NIn 1957, when “Stevie” was six and Mike 14, psychosis overwhelmed Mike. He never lived at home again and died alone in a Denver boarding home at 33. Journalists used Mike’s death to expose these “ratholes” warehousing people with mental illness. \N\NDetective story, social history, journey of self-discovery, and compassionate and unsparing memorial to a family and a forgotten life, The Mike File will move every reader with a relative or friend touched by psychiatric illness or disability.\N\NIf you require any accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org \N\NThis program is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/stephen-trimble--the/register

In The Mike File, Stephen Trimble grapples with his brother's heartrending life and death and looks behind doors he’s barricaded in himself.

In 1957, when “Stevie” was six and Mike 14, psychosis overwhelmed Mike. He never lived at home again and died alone in a Denver boarding home at 33. Journalists used Mike’s death to expose these “ratholes” warehousing people with mental illness.

Detective story, social history, journey of self-discovery, and compassionate and unsparing memorial to a family and a forgotten life, The Mike File will move every reader with a relative or friend touched by psychiatric illness or disability.

If you require any accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org

This program is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211006T210000 UID:8A3F02B9-3BC1-4A55-9CE4-E4B88472B45B SUMMARY:The Book of Delights by Ross Gay CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2097 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library and Summit County Library are excited to host the celebrated Ross Gay. \N\NFollow the link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88018981875\N\NThe winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders.\N\NIn The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room. But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than anything other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world--his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis.\N\NThe Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Summit County Library, Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library and Summit County Library are excited to host the celebrated Ross Gay.

Follow the link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88018981875

The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders.

In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room. But Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than anything other subject, though, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world--his garden, the flowers peeking out of the sidewalk, the hypnotic movements of a praying mantis.

The Book of Delights is about our shared bonds, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. These remarkable pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.

This program is made possible with support from Summit County Library, Park City Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211007T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211007T193000 UID:D0F397D9-B07C-4138-87D7-28657AE1E152 SUMMARY:Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2130 DESCRIPTION:Via Facebook live!\N\NTerry Tempest Williams will engage in a discussion with the Director of the Brigham City Museum of Art and History on her book “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place,” the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, and the role that water plays in Northern Utah’s delicate landscape.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and the Brigham City Museum of Art and History. \N\NThis event is part of "Hometown Habitat," a companion exhibit about the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge created to accompany H2O Today, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition touring Utah in partnership with Utah Humanities. The tour is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. For more information, see www.utahhumanities.org X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Via Facebook live!

Terry Tempest Williams will engage in a discussion with the Director of the Brigham City Museum of Art and History on her book “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place,” the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, and the role that water plays in Northern Utah’s delicate landscape.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and the Brigham City Museum of Art and History.

This event is part of "Hometown Habitat," a companion exhibit about the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge created to accompany H2O Today, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition touring Utah in partnership with Utah Humanities. The tour is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. For more information, see www.utahhumanities.org X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211007T210000 UID:F6576384-BEE9-4024-80B9-EB330BC5391C SUMMARY:The Guest Writers Series presents Camille Dungy CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2253 DESCRIPTION:Join Guest writers Series and Camille Dungy via Zoom! \N\NRegister here: https://utah.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T5Vu0szFS3OzflFsqGQKvQ\N\NCamille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, U o U Department of English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Guest writers Series and Camille Dungy via Zoom!

Register here: https://utah.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T5Vu0szFS3OzflFsqGQKvQ

Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.

This program is made possible with support from the Guest Writers Series, U o U Department of English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211008T210000 UID:4F4BF122-234B-41CF-A0A5-42B9FD7E0D76 SUMMARY:Steamboat Mountain Reading Series with Star Coulbrooke and Shanan Ballam CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2199 DESCRIPTION:Steamboard Mountain Reading Series is excited to host Star Coulbrooke and Shanan Ballam at the K-2 Gallery. \N\NStar Coulbrooke is the inaugural poet laureate of Logan City, Utah. She was born in Preston, Idaho on February 22, 1951, to a farm family with acreage along the Bear River. She quit high school to marry a Logan boy, completed her GED in 1986, and enrolled at Utah State University where she earned a BA in Literary Studies (1996) and an MA in American Studies/Folklore (1998). She has lived in Smithfield for twenty-eight years.\N\NShanan Ballam is the Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, was published by Main Street Rag in June 2019.\N\NIf you need any accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Steamboat Mountain Reading Series. \N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Steamboard Mountain Reading Series is excited to host Star Coulbrooke and Shanan Ballam at the K-2 Gallery.

Star Coulbrooke is the inaugural poet laureate of Logan City, Utah. She was born in Preston, Idaho on February 22, 1951, to a farm family with acreage along the Bear River. She quit high school to marry a Logan boy, completed her GED in 1986, and enrolled at Utah State University where she earned a BA in Literary Studies (1996) and an MA in American Studies/Folklore (1998). She has lived in Smithfield for twenty-eight years.

Shanan Ballam is the Poet Laureate for the city of Logan, Utah. Her new poetry collection Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems, a semi-finalist for the 2017 Trio House Press Louise Bogan Award and a finalist for the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize Poetry Book Competition from Inlandia Press, was published by Main Street Rag in June 2019.

If you need any accessibility accommodations, please contact palomo@utahhumanities.org.

This program is made possible with support from Steamboat Mountain Reading Series.


X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211009T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211009T110000 UID:7DBE4BAA-2BA3-4928-AB08-4221C91AE768 SUMMARY:The Mystery of Luci's Missing Lantern with Melissa Marsted CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2170 DESCRIPTION:Join Melissa Marsted for a presentation of her book, The Mystery of Luci's Missing Lantern. Reading and interpretation in Spanish will be made available. \N\NJoin, Luci, a western firefly as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern. Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is? She takes the readers into Logan Canyon, meeting a moose and her calf, some bats in Logan Cave, a bluebird at Jardine Juniper and other birds, fish, and mammals along the way. The animals encourage Luci to keep going in search of her missing lantern, but only time will tell when she will find out the truth about her light. Have you ever wondered about the life cycle of fireflies and why they glow? The Mystery of Luci’s Missing Lantern is filled with creative and joyful illustrations to spark your interest in this unique insect and Cache County.Firefly Park draws visitors annually to witness the magic of hundreds of western fireflies in late spring and early summer. Experience the magic of fireflies within the pages of this book and be sure to schedule your visit to the Stokes Nature Center and Logan Canyon.Blink…Blink…Blink!\N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter and Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Melissa Marsted for a presentation of her book, The Mystery of Luci's Missing Lantern. Reading and interpretation in Spanish will be made available.

Join, Luci, a western firefly as she emerges from her pupa/chrysalis and becomes an adult in search of her missing lantern. Luci begins her new life in Cutler Marsh, outside of Logan, Utah where she meets a blackbird and a pelican. Do they know where her light is? She takes the readers into Logan Canyon, meeting a moose and her calf, some bats in Logan Cave, a bluebird at Jardine Juniper and other birds, fish, and mammals along the way. The animals encourage Luci to keep going in search of her missing lantern, but only time will tell when she will find out the truth about her light. Have you ever wondered about the life cycle of fireflies and why they glow? The Mystery of Luci’s Missing Lantern is filled with creative and joyful illustrations to spark your interest in this unique insect and Cache County.Firefly Park draws visitors annually to witness the magic of hundreds of western fireflies in late spring and early summer. Experience the magic of fireflies within the pages of this book and be sure to schedule your visit to the Stokes Nature Center and Logan Canyon.Blink…Blink…Blink!


This program is made possible with support from the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter and Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211009T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211009T200000 UID:F113A0D0-9AF5-46F4-825B-BA5F4D781EF8 SUMMARY:Educated with Tara Westover CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2116 DESCRIPTION:St. George Literary Arts Festival is excited to feature Tara Westover, author of Educated, as our keynote speaker. \N\NZoom link: https://dixiestate.zoom.us/w/82802923470?tk=8GWMLsl91MGefKMCT939lUnk5N9StIQ82pi0-OjMjtk.DQMAAAATR3BXzhZrV0JpNENWbFI4NnhuZ2RZbjRkLVV3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&fbclid=IwAR2s_lb_QVteTbpRUGxSqk5EDTmi6dOQdE-oOzIeQC8MSvzvHJpElJQPabM\N\NBorn to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.\N\NIf you need any accessibility accommodations, please email Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Dixie State University and St. George Literary Arts Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:St. George Literary Arts Festival is excited to feature Tara Westover, author of Educated, as our keynote speaker.

Zoom link: https://dixiestate.zoom.us/w/82802923470?tk=8GWMLsl91MGefKMCT939lUnk5N9StIQ82pi0-OjMjtk.DQMAAAATR3BXzhZrV0JpNENWbFI4NnhuZ2RZbjRkLVV3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&fbclid=IwAR2s_lb_QVteTbpRUGxSqk5EDTmi6dOQdE-oOzIeQC8MSvzvHJpElJQPabM

Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

If you need any accessibility accommodations, please email Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Dixie State University and St. George Literary Arts Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211009T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211009T200000 UID:9B79600C-8CEC-4E82-B548-0A9FB59457E2 SUMMARY:The Treehouse Museum presents Brian Floca CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2082 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Museum presents Brian Floca in the Zoom room. \N\NRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S9fld8UaRp2hD79bZcb8Cg\N\N\NBrian Floca, Caldecott author and illustrator, will talk about his new book Keeping The City Moving, a tribute to healthcare and other essential workers who stayed on the streets and on the job during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book was published in April, 2021.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Treehouse Museum, and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Museum presents Brian Floca in the Zoom room.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S9fld8UaRp2hD79bZcb8Cg


Brian Floca, Caldecott author and illustrator, will talk about his new book Keeping The City Moving, a tribute to healthcare and other essential workers who stayed on the streets and on the job during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book was published in April, 2021.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, the Treehouse Museum, and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211011T210000 UID:E96FE8AE-9D0F-4938-B7CA-E17FDC22F603 SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Author Sharon McCrumb CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2095 DESCRIPTION:You’ve read the book, now meet the author! Sharyn McCrumb will read from her book The Ballad of Frankie Silver, provide some background, answer questions, and sign books.\N\NThis program is made possible by Utah Humanities and Utah County Library X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:You’ve read the book, now meet the author! Sharyn McCrumb will read from her book The Ballad of Frankie Silver, provide some background, answer questions, and sign books.

This program is made possible by Utah Humanities and Utah County Library X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211011T210000 UID:1D88791C-002F-460E-B9EA-00C9065E66E6 SUMMARY:The Bear River Massacre with Darren Parry CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2122 DESCRIPTION:Join us on Indigenous Peoples Day to honor and remember the histories of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone. The evening will feature a Q&A conversation with Darren Parry. \N\NDarren Parry is the former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation. He is the driving force behind the proposed Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation Boa Ogoi Cultural Interpretive Center. Parry served on the boards of the American West Heritage Center (Logan, UT) and the Utah State Museum Board. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Cancer Center (SLC, UT). An educator by training, in secondary education with an emphasis in history, Darren graduated from Weber State University (Ogden, UT). During the last year (2019-2020) he ran for election, unsuccessfully, to the U.S. House to represent Utah’s 1st Congressional District. In 2017 he was a receipent of the Esto Pepetua Award from the Idaho State Historical Society, for one who has preserved and promoted the history of Idaho.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us on Indigenous Peoples Day to honor and remember the histories of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone. The evening will feature a Q&A conversation with Darren Parry.

Darren Parry is the former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation. He is the driving force behind the proposed Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation Boa Ogoi Cultural Interpretive Center. Parry served on the boards of the American West Heritage Center (Logan, UT) and the Utah State Museum Board. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Cancer Center (SLC, UT). An educator by training, in secondary education with an emphasis in history, Darren graduated from Weber State University (Ogden, UT). During the last year (2019-2020) he ran for election, unsuccessfully, to the U.S. House to represent Utah’s 1st Congressional District. In 2017 he was a receipent of the Esto Pepetua Award from the Idaho State Historical Society, for one who has preserved and promoted the history of Idaho.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The Salt Lake City Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211011T210000 UID:734BCA9D-FB75-424E-A7C5-53FAF7E7B2FA SUMMARY:National Coming Out Day Open Mic ft Nan Seymour and more CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2141 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Humanities Book Festival is coming out again as an LGBTQ+ Loving Festival. To celebrate, we're inviting some of our favorite locals to share their work at the National Coming Out Day Open Mic. \N\NHosted by TBA \N\NFeaturing Nan Seymour, Lin Flores, and more. \N\NOver the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offers an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City. Prayers Not Meant for Heaven is her debut collection of Poetry. \N\NLin Flores is an author & educator out of the Salt Lake City area. Her debut chapbook, Reflections While Living in Utah is out now! When Flores isn't writing poetry, she is dedicated to teaching history & art to her wonderful students. She is currently studying poetry and working toward her MA online in creative writing at the University of New Orleans. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Under the Umbrella and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Humanities Book Festival is coming out again as an LGBTQ+ Loving Festival. To celebrate, we're inviting some of our favorite locals to share their work at the National Coming Out Day Open Mic.

Hosted by TBA

Featuring Nan Seymour, Lin Flores, and more.

Over the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offers an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City. Prayers Not Meant for Heaven is her debut collection of Poetry.

Lin Flores is an author & educator out of the Salt Lake City area. Her debut chapbook, Reflections While Living in Utah is out now! When Flores isn't writing poetry, she is dedicated to teaching history & art to her wonderful students. She is currently studying poetry and working toward her MA online in creative writing at the University of New Orleans.

This event is made possible with support from Under the Umbrella and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211012T000000 UID:4160312A-0BA5-4090-9E83-BA57BF68B3C8 SUMMARY:WSU Alumni Reading CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2083 DESCRIPTION:Hop into the Zoom room and see what's happened to some of Weber State University's most talented alumni. \N\NZoom link to be provided soon. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Hop into the Zoom room and see what's happened to some of Weber State University's most talented alumni.

Zoom link to be provided soon.

This program is made possible with support from Weber State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211012T210000 UID:1192FBAC-F976-45DA-B8E7-19DF7BB8D28A SUMMARY:Appropriation with Paisley Rekdal CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2123 DESCRIPTION:The USU - Inclusion Center is excited to host Paisley Rekdal, author of Appropriation: A Provocation, for a conversation about race, appropriation, and power. \N\NJoin us via Zoom: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/j/88970798826\N\NMeeting ID: 889 7079 8826\NPasscode: Culture\N\NA timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.\N\NHow do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. Lucid, reflective, and astute, Appropriate presents a generous new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah State University - Inclusion Center and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The USU - Inclusion Center is excited to host Paisley Rekdal, author of Appropriation: A Provocation, for a conversation about race, appropriation, and power.

Join us via Zoom: https://usu-edu.zoom.us/j/88970798826

Meeting ID: 889 7079 8826
Passcode: Culture

A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.

How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. Lucid, reflective, and astute, Appropriate presents a generous new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.

This program is made possible with support from Utah State University - Inclusion Center and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211012T200000 UID:5997ED34-D0D1-408C-9023-F832EF4D7A84 SUMMARY:Teen Writing Workshop with Tiffany Rosenhan CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2171 DESCRIPTION:Teens! Join us for a writing workshop with acclaimed author Tiffany Rosenhan. \N\NTIFFANY ROSENHAN IS THE DEBUT AUTHOR OF YOUNG ADULT SPY THRILLER, GIRL FROM NOWHERE. HER SPY SKILL IS BEING TWO PLACES AT ONCE (QUITE EASY WHEN YOU HAVE AN IDENTICAL TWIN)! SHE IS A MOTHER TO FOUR YOUNG DAUGHTERS, HAS A DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, AND LOVES TO TRAVEL WITH HER CHILDREN AND HUSBAND, A CRITICAL CARE PHYSICIAN AND STROKE SURVIVOR. SHE LIVES IN MILLCREEK, UTAH. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Teens! Join us for a writing workshop with acclaimed author Tiffany Rosenhan.

TIFFANY ROSENHAN IS THE DEBUT AUTHOR OF YOUNG ADULT SPY THRILLER, GIRL FROM NOWHERE. HER SPY SKILL IS BEING TWO PLACES AT ONCE (QUITE EASY WHEN YOU HAVE AN IDENTICAL TWIN)! SHE IS A MOTHER TO FOUR YOUNG DAUGHTERS, HAS A DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, AND LOVES TO TRAVEL WITH HER CHILDREN AND HUSBAND, A CRITICAL CARE PHYSICIAN AND STROKE SURVIVOR. SHE LIVES IN MILLCREEK, UTAH.

This program is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211013 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211014 UID:E5B5C84A-7C7F-4ACC-8AAF-CD50A1DB230B SUMMARY:Mancy Podcast: Gilgal Sculpture Garden CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2149 DESCRIPTION:Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder will be covering Gilgal Sculpture Garden, one of SLC's strangest and most mysterious outdoor parks. \N\NThe episode will release on BuzzSprout 10/13: https://mancy.buzzsprout.com/\N\NLocated at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Gilgal Sculpture Garden was envisioned, designed and created by Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. in the mid-twentieth century.\N\NTucked in the middle of the block behind houses and businesses, many are still unaware of its existence and enjoy a true sense of discovery when they visit the garden for the first time.\N\NGilgal Sculpture Garden contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems, and literary texts. As a whole, Gilgal Sculpture Garden is significant as the only identified “visionary art environment” in Utah.\N\NThe public is invited to visit the garden seven days a week. There is no admission charge. Walking tour brochures are available at the garden. Visiting hours: April/September – 8 am to 8 pm October/March – 9 am to 5 pm\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Mancy. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poet and playwright RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder will be covering Gilgal Sculpture Garden, one of SLC's strangest and most mysterious outdoor parks.

The episode will release on BuzzSprout 10/13: https://mancy.buzzsprout.com/

Located at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Gilgal Sculpture Garden was envisioned, designed and created by Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. in the mid-twentieth century.

Tucked in the middle of the block behind houses and businesses, many are still unaware of its existence and enjoy a true sense of discovery when they visit the garden for the first time.

Gilgal Sculpture Garden contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems, and literary texts. As a whole, Gilgal Sculpture Garden is significant as the only identified “visionary art environment” in Utah.

The public is invited to visit the garden seven days a week. There is no admission charge. Walking tour brochures are available at the garden. Visiting hours: April/September – 8 am to 8 pm October/March – 9 am to 5 pm

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Mancy. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211013T210000 UID:DAEF20F9-CDCA-4C80-B320-F134358221AA SUMMARY:Weller Book Works presents Rob Carney and Kase Johnstun CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2117 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works is excited to celebrate two debut books by two Utah favorites, Kase Johnstun and Rob Carney. \N\NThere is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Gardens, Rob Carney both honors this form and gives it an update for the 21st century. These 42 essays-arranged into sections titled "Environmental Studies," "Wine Is Rain in Translation," "Seven Seeds," and "Raccoon Verses"-are all short and end, haibun-style, with poems or encapsulating images. These essays are impressed by the natural world, and unimpressed by politics. They are lessons on poetic craft, and poetic themselves. They are at home in the American West but aware of the whole earth, all its landscapes and animals and magic, but also its fragility since so many of its human inhabitants are reckless and absurd. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes reverent, Accidental Gardens is always smart, and vital, and concerned.\N\NLet the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works is excited to celebrate two debut books by two Utah favorites, Kase Johnstun and Rob Carney.

There is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Gardens, Rob Carney both honors this form and gives it an update for the 21st century. These 42 essays-arranged into sections titled "Environmental Studies," "Wine Is Rain in Translation," "Seven Seeds," and "Raccoon Verses"-are all short and end, haibun-style, with poems or encapsulating images. These essays are impressed by the natural world, and unimpressed by politics. They are lessons on poetic craft, and poetic themselves. They are at home in the American West but aware of the whole earth, all its landscapes and animals and magic, but also its fragility since so many of its human inhabitants are reckless and absurd. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes reverent, Accidental Gardens is always smart, and vital, and concerned.

Let the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.

This program is made possible with support from Torrey House Press, Weller Book Works, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211014T190000 UID:95FB74FF-9361-4D0C-BE50-185E0255462C SUMMARY:Eco-Poetry and the Essay Conference CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2282 DESCRIPTION:Find us in the Starlight room of the Sharwan Smith Student Center. \N\N5:00-6:00 Readings and Q&A with Alistair Bitsoi and Laura Stott\N\N6:00-6:30 Panel on Writing about the Environment\N Terrain.org Editor Simmons Buntin, Alistair Bitsoi, Laura Stott, Karin Anderson, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky\N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the SUU English Department. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Find us in the Starlight room of the Sharwan Smith Student Center.

5:00-6:00 Readings and Q&A with Alistair Bitsoi and Laura Stott

6:00-6:30 Panel on Writing about the Environment
Terrain.org Editor Simmons Buntin, Alistair Bitsoi, Laura Stott, Karin Anderson, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky


This program is made possible with support from the SUU English Department. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211014T190000 UID:32CD4924-C4CD-4402-A129-CC84A2025A1B SUMMARY:The Original Glitch with Melanie Moyer CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2157 DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Bungalow in the Zoom room for an evening with Melanie Moyer, author of the thrilling The Original Glitch. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/2Und1tT\N\NIn the aftermath of his mentor's death, grad student Adler is left to piece together and clean up the project she left behind: an adaptive and increasingly malevolent artificial intelligence, kept locked in a virtual "box" that's no longer quite enough to keep him in check.\N\NAs he tries to manage the AI and continue Dr. Kent's research, Adler soon discovers her sociopathic creation is determined to escape his enclosure to wreak havoc on the outside world.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Book Bungalow in the Zoom room for an evening with Melanie Moyer, author of the thrilling The Original Glitch.

Register here: https://bit.ly/2Und1tT

In the aftermath of his mentor's death, grad student Adler is left to piece together and clean up the project she left behind: an adaptive and increasingly malevolent artificial intelligence, kept locked in a virtual "box" that's no longer quite enough to keep him in check.

As he tries to manage the AI and continue Dr. Kent's research, Adler soon discovers her sociopathic creation is determined to escape his enclosure to wreak havoc on the outside world.

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211014T200000 UID:1CE1601B-9D5A-4FE4-AAD5-687EE01AF567 SUMMARY:Monster Brain: Conversations with OCD CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2172 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library is eager to host Daniel Cureton, author of Monster Brain: Conversations with OCD. \N\NEnter a world where anxiety rules and compulsion is the tool. Like fighting a dragon with a tooth pick, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder takes many forms and has many techniques to torture and abuse its victims. It feeds on fear, dread, and suffering. To relieve the pain, sufferers develop habits, called compulsions, deflecting OCD's obsessive gaze for a while, before it breaks through and returns with a vengeance. This book is a work of art, on public exhibition. You will find 50 original poems and writings dealing with OCD, its affects, and rediscovering that there is life after diagnosis. Travel alongside one man's journey as he falls into the dark recesses of his mind, finds inner strength, and is reborn in this narrative of the inner worlds. Allow yourself to experience the beauty and terror of Monster Brain\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library is eager to host Daniel Cureton, author of Monster Brain: Conversations with OCD.

Enter a world where anxiety rules and compulsion is the tool. Like fighting a dragon with a tooth pick, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder takes many forms and has many techniques to torture and abuse its victims. It feeds on fear, dread, and suffering. To relieve the pain, sufferers develop habits, called compulsions, deflecting OCD's obsessive gaze for a while, before it breaks through and returns with a vengeance. This book is a work of art, on public exhibition. You will find 50 original poems and writings dealing with OCD, its affects, and rediscovering that there is life after diagnosis. Travel alongside one man's journey as he falls into the dark recesses of his mind, finds inner strength, and is reborn in this narrative of the inner worlds. Allow yourself to experience the beauty and terror of Monster Brain

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211014T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211014T200000 UID:BEDC6F3C-2314-4BA7-A190-C2F5CD2A5815 SUMMARY:McArthur Park with Judith Freeman CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2213 DESCRIPTION:\NA captivating, emotionally taut, beautifully written story about the complexities of a friendship between two women—and how it shapes, and reshapes, both of their lives\N\NJolene and Verna share complicated bonds of friendship that have crystallized over time—their lives are inextricably linked. But when Verna marries Vincent, Jolene’s ex-husband, their paths may have finally, permanently, diverged. A successful artist, Jolene travels the world, attracting attention wherever she goes. Verna, a writer, works from her home near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where she and Vincent plan to spend the rest of their lives. Then Jolene asks one more favor of Verna—to take aroad trip with her to their small hometown in Utah. It’s a journey that will force them to confront both the truths and falsehoods oftheir memories of each other and of the very beginnings of their friendship.\N\N\NIf you need accessibility accommodations, please reach out to palomo@utahhumanities.org \N\NThis program is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
A captivating, emotionally taut, beautifully written story about the complexities of a friendship between two women—and how it shapes, and reshapes, both of their lives

Jolene and Verna share complicated bonds of friendship that have crystallized over time—their lives are inextricably linked. But when Verna marries Vincent, Jolene’s ex-husband, their paths may have finally, permanently, diverged. A successful artist, Jolene travels the world, attracting attention wherever she goes. Verna, a writer, works from her home near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where she and Vincent plan to spend the rest of their lives. Then Jolene asks one more favor of Verna—to take aroad trip with her to their small hometown in Utah. It’s a journey that will force them to confront both the truths and falsehoods oftheir memories of each other and of the very beginnings of their friendship.


If you need accessibility accommodations, please reach out to palomo@utahhumanities.org

This program is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211015T210000 UID:760F1DE5-3F52-4D7D-8BCA-EA31FBFB504E SUMMARY:Slam the Islamophobia ft Antonio Lopez CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2124 DESCRIPTION:Emerald Project presents the second annual Slam the Islamophobia: a night of poetry, prose, and art performances to empower Muslim youth in Utah with special guest Antonio Lopez. As Muslim youth, our voices and experiences are often erased from mainstream conversations on identity. Come support young Muslims as they share their diverse stories and passions through poetry and other art forms! This is an annual project hosted by Emerald Project's young team of Muslims who advocate for the accurate representation of Islam. Slam the Islamophobia is a space for Muslims to safely express themselves through the arts.\N\NAntonio López is a Councilman of the City of East Palo Alto, a Chicano poet, and author of Gentefication (Four Way Books, Sept. '21). \N\N"In his debut poetry collection Gentefication, Antonio Lopez adorns novelty with innovation by rendering the reader-in addition to the objective world-in surprising new ways. As if they were exorcising our demons or, less ominously, assigning us roles that break from the typecast routines of our daily lives, these poems call to the surface aspects of ourselves that we are rarely asked to engage. Poems tender and ironic, earnest and outraged display a mind abundant with knowledge yet desperate for answers. While so much American poetry asks of the reader only their passive attention, these poems work like personal trainers. They call for the kind of mental and spiritual absorption that can make prayer feel productive." Gregory Pardlo, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Emerald Project. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Emerald Project presents the second annual Slam the Islamophobia: a night of poetry, prose, and art performances to empower Muslim youth in Utah with special guest Antonio Lopez. As Muslim youth, our voices and experiences are often erased from mainstream conversations on identity. Come support young Muslims as they share their diverse stories and passions through poetry and other art forms! This is an annual project hosted by Emerald Project's young team of Muslims who advocate for the accurate representation of Islam. Slam the Islamophobia is a space for Muslims to safely express themselves through the arts.

Antonio López is a Councilman of the City of East Palo Alto, a Chicano poet, and author of Gentefication (Four Way Books, Sept. '21).

"In his debut poetry collection Gentefication, Antonio Lopez adorns novelty with innovation by rendering the reader-in addition to the objective world-in surprising new ways. As if they were exorcising our demons or, less ominously, assigning us roles that break from the typecast routines of our daily lives, these poems call to the surface aspects of ourselves that we are rarely asked to engage. Poems tender and ironic, earnest and outraged display a mind abundant with knowledge yet desperate for answers. While so much American poetry asks of the reader only their passive attention, these poems work like personal trainers. They call for the kind of mental and spiritual absorption that can make prayer feel productive." Gregory Pardlo, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Emerald Project. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:7 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211016T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211016T120000 UID:F9F0EAFC-290E-4C61-A2DB-EC177D5A6B61 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Reflections on Coal Creek CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2283 DESCRIPTION:Walking/Writing workshop along the Cedar Canyon Trail in partnership with the Utah Humanities Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Association, co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. Picnic Lunch provided. Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Space is limited. Meet at the West Canyon Park Pavilion, 198 South 400 East at 10:00. Contact information: Danielle Dubrasky, Dubrasky@suu.edu\N\NWorkshop Leaders:\NAlistair Bitsoi—Southern Utah Reporter, Salt Lake Tribune\NDr. Helen Boswell-Taylor—Biology Professor, SUU\NMadison Daniels—Faith Community Organizer, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Southern Utah University, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and the Salt Lake Tribune. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Walking/Writing workshop along the Cedar Canyon Trail in partnership with the Utah Humanities Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Association, co-sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. Picnic Lunch provided. Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Space is limited. Meet at the West Canyon Park Pavilion, 198 South 400 East at 10:00. Contact information: Danielle Dubrasky, Dubrasky@suu.edu

Workshop Leaders:
Alistair Bitsoi—Southern Utah Reporter, Salt Lake Tribune
Dr. Helen Boswell-Taylor—Biology Professor, SUU
Madison Daniels—Faith Community Organizer, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Southern Utah University, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and the Salt Lake Tribune. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211016T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211016T160000 UID:70B0FD3F-F5BD-4F95-80EE-130C5AFC5DB5 SUMMARY:The Woman They Couldn't Silence with Kate Moore CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2118 DESCRIPTION:Book Bungalow presents NYT Best-selling author Kate Moore. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/3hR2DmU\N\NThe Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.\N \NMeanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive – until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.\N\NBut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come.\N \NWritten with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book Bungalow presents NYT Best-selling author Kate Moore.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3hR2DmU

The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.

Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive – until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.

But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come.

Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211018T210000 UID:A2CE4F7B-8C2D-462E-942C-BB9D2436DE3F SUMMARY:The Champions Quest with Frank Cole CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2119 DESCRIPTION:Brigham City Library is excited to present Frank Cole\N\NIf you feel better attending virtually, use this link: We have had some ask for a hybrid option for the events so I just set up a Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXwa-KSyR-Om179c9TsBHQ\N\NFrank L. Cole was born into a family of southern storytellers and wrote his first book at age eight. Highly superstitious and gullible to a fault, Frank will believe in any creepy story you tell him, especially ones involving ghosts and Big Foot. Currently, along with his wife and three children, he resides in the shadow of a majestic western mountain range, which is most likely haunted. Champion’s Quest - The Die of Destiny is Frank’s 13th published book.\N\NLucas Silver’s life is about to change. He thinks it’s because he’s made plans to escape from his foster home and make his way to New York, but then he and his friend Miles and two girls they’re acquainted with―Jasmine and Vanessa―find Hob and Bogie’s Curiosity Shoppe and agree to play a game of Champion’s Quest.\N\NWhen the four kids walk out the front door of the Curiosity Shoppe, they immediately discover they’re no longer in West Virginia, but transported into the game and a wild fantasy world of dangerous goblins, brutish ogres, and a powerful witch.\N\NThey must work together as a team, overcome their real-world weaknesses, and believe in themselves and each other if they are to outwit, outplay, and survive their foes in this ultimate quest to defeat a treacherous monster.\N\NChampion’s Quest: Die of Destiny is a middle-grade fantasy with themes of friendship, cooperation, perseverance, overcoming anxiety, and the emotional need to feel accepted.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Brigham City Library is excited to present Frank Cole

If you feel better attending virtually, use this link: We have had some ask for a hybrid option for the events so I just set up a Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXwa-KSyR-Om179c9TsBHQ

Frank L. Cole was born into a family of southern storytellers and wrote his first book at age eight. Highly superstitious and gullible to a fault, Frank will believe in any creepy story you tell him, especially ones involving ghosts and Big Foot. Currently, along with his wife and three children, he resides in the shadow of a majestic western mountain range, which is most likely haunted. Champion’s Quest - The Die of Destiny is Frank’s 13th published book.

Lucas Silver’s life is about to change. He thinks it’s because he’s made plans to escape from his foster home and make his way to New York, but then he and his friend Miles and two girls they’re acquainted with―Jasmine and Vanessa―find Hob and Bogie’s Curiosity Shoppe and agree to play a game of Champion’s Quest.

When the four kids walk out the front door of the Curiosity Shoppe, they immediately discover they’re no longer in West Virginia, but transported into the game and a wild fantasy world of dangerous goblins, brutish ogres, and a powerful witch.

They must work together as a team, overcome their real-world weaknesses, and believe in themselves and each other if they are to outwit, outplay, and survive their foes in this ultimate quest to defeat a treacherous monster.

Champion’s Quest: Die of Destiny is a middle-grade fantasy with themes of friendship, cooperation, perseverance, overcoming anxiety, and the emotional need to feel accepted.

This program is made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211019T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211019T200000 UID:BD41F9C0-59CA-43C5-B3EC-11FB958E2705 SUMMARY:Appropriation with Paisley Rekdal CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2251 DESCRIPTION:Find us at USU Library 101 with Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal, author of Appropriation: A Provocation\N\NA timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.\N\NHow do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. Lucid, reflective, and astute, Appropriate presents a generous new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The USU Inclusion Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Find us at USU Library 101 with Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal, author of Appropriation: A Provocation

A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.

How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. Lucid, reflective, and astute, Appropriate presents a generous new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and The USU Inclusion Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211019T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211019T000000 UID:368A32BC-9BAE-4CFC-ADAD-76A198B62CB8 SUMMARY:Rebeldita, the Fearless CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2084 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Museum presents Dr. Oriel Maria Siu, author of Rebeldita, the Fearless. \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ARtnCp9xTeydHeAT50seWQ\N\NRebeldita is a child born out of long-enduring Indigenous and Black resistances in the Americas. She knows her history and uses it to change her present in Ogreland, where Ogres steal children's parents away at night, put them in cages and send them far, far away. Through joy, intelligence, and love for her community, however, being the empowered, justice-seeker, border-smasher girl that she is, Rebeldita fights back, and with the other children, collectively, they think and act. Because ultimately, all children must realize they outnumber the Ogres. Written in fun masterful rhyming language, Rebeldita educates, motivates, and empowers both children and adults. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Museum presents Dr. Oriel Maria Siu, author of Rebeldita, the Fearless.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ARtnCp9xTeydHeAT50seWQ

Rebeldita is a child born out of long-enduring Indigenous and Black resistances in the Americas. She knows her history and uses it to change her present in Ogreland, where Ogres steal children's parents away at night, put them in cages and send them far, far away. Through joy, intelligence, and love for her community, however, being the empowered, justice-seeker, border-smasher girl that she is, Rebeldita fights back, and with the other children, collectively, they think and act. Because ultimately, all children must realize they outnumber the Ogres. Written in fun masterful rhyming language, Rebeldita educates, motivates, and empowers both children and adults. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211020T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211020T203000 UID:F5764418-144C-47A5-925C-CDF72ABC2A7C SUMMARY: Sharing the Covers: Every Couple's Guide to Better Sleep CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2173 DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Wendy Troxel at the Park City Library for a conversation about what it takes to get great sleep. \N\NDr. Wendy Troxel is a clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep specialist whose work is frequently cited in major media outlets as well as in recent bestselling books like Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution and Dr. Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep. Dr. Troxel's mission is teaching couples to prioritize sleep and helping them find solutions to maximize the sleep quality for both partners, whether sleeping together or apart.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Dr. Wendy Troxel at the Park City Library for a conversation about what it takes to get great sleep.

Dr. Wendy Troxel is a clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep specialist whose work is frequently cited in major media outlets as well as in recent bestselling books like Arianna Huffington's The Sleep Revolution and Dr. Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep. Dr. Troxel's mission is teaching couples to prioritize sleep and helping them find solutions to maximize the sleep quality for both partners, whether sleeping together or apart.

This program is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211020T210000 UID:1CCCE194-1845-4918-8790-A6A1D4E72946 SUMMARY:The Bear River Massacre with Darren Parry CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2125 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Darren Parry, author of The Bear River Massacre. \N\NIf you feel better attending virtually, use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXwa-KSyR-Om179c9TsBHQ\N\NDarren Parry is the former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation. He is the driving force behind the proposed Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation Boa Ogoi Cultural Interpretive Center. Parry served on the boards of the American West Heritage Center (Logan, UT) and the Utah State Museum Board. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Cancer Center (SLC, UT). An educator by training, in secondary education with an emphasis in history, Darren graduated from Weber State University (Ogden, UT). During the last year (2019-2020) he ran for election, unsuccessfully, to the U.S. House to represent Utah’s 1st Congressional District. In 2017 he was a receipent of the Esto Pepetua Award from the Idaho State Historical Society, for one who has preserved and promoted the history of Idaho.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening with Darren Parry, author of The Bear River Massacre.

If you feel better attending virtually, use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xXwa-KSyR-Om179c9TsBHQ

Darren Parry is the former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation. He is the driving force behind the proposed Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation Boa Ogoi Cultural Interpretive Center. Parry served on the boards of the American West Heritage Center (Logan, UT) and the Utah State Museum Board. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Cancer Center (SLC, UT). An educator by training, in secondary education with an emphasis in history, Darren graduated from Weber State University (Ogden, UT). During the last year (2019-2020) he ran for election, unsuccessfully, to the U.S. House to represent Utah’s 1st Congressional District. In 2017 he was a receipent of the Esto Pepetua Award from the Idaho State Historical Society, for one who has preserved and promoted the history of Idaho.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Brigham City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T210000 UID:D9FAB54B-6C93-4362-B966-F14C20BAE262 SUMMARY:Utah Teen Poetry Festival - Logan CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2272 DESCRIPTION:Join us at Cache Valley Center for the Arts for our first Utah Teen Poetry Festival.\N\NPlease bring your own sack lunch! Contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org for any accommodations.\N\N4PM\N\NTeacher's Poetry Workshop by Shanan Ballam (Classroom)\N\NPerformance Workshop by Dorothy McGinnis (Thatcher-Young)\N\N5pm\N\NPoetry Pedagogy Workshop by Kristen Oda (classroom)\N\NStudent Poetry Writing Workshop by Shanan Ballam (Thatcher-Young)\N\N6pm (Virtual)\N\NPoetry Out Loud Strategy ft Jean Irwin, Willy Palomo, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan (Classroom)\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-?fbclid=IwAR3pAJHYseN58Sf8yZps-tkmCu4C74zf0M5tYkqONTKAL3xESs23mZ92m4A\N\NSlam Poetry Strategy ft Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler. (Thatcher-Young)\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn?fbclid=IwAR3EIa2EkJyOIIR5P7BBtGiXjhc8BPMqq4eaQQSHIS9UsSAnprcAquK09Fc\N\N7pm - Helicon West Open Mic ft Shanan Ballam\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Cache Valley Center for the Arts, Helicon West, Utah Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at Cache Valley Center for the Arts for our first Utah Teen Poetry Festival.

Please bring your own sack lunch! Contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org for any accommodations.

4PM

Teacher's Poetry Workshop by Shanan Ballam (Classroom)

Performance Workshop by Dorothy McGinnis (Thatcher-Young)

5pm

Poetry Pedagogy Workshop by Kristen Oda (classroom)

Student Poetry Writing Workshop by Shanan Ballam (Thatcher-Young)

6pm (Virtual)

Poetry Out Loud Strategy ft Jean Irwin, Willy Palomo, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan (Classroom)

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-?fbclid=IwAR3pAJHYseN58Sf8yZps-tkmCu4C74zf0M5tYkqONTKAL3xESs23mZ92m4A

Slam Poetry Strategy ft Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler. (Thatcher-Young)

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn?fbclid=IwAR3EIa2EkJyOIIR5P7BBtGiXjhc8BPMqq4eaQQSHIS9UsSAnprcAquK09Fc

7pm - Helicon West Open Mic ft Shanan Ballam

This event is made possible with support from Cache Valley Center for the Arts, Helicon West, Utah Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T210000 UID:B94CD468-2D74-470B-B039-E012BA992261 SUMMARY:Utah Teen Poetry Festival - Provo CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2273 DESCRIPTION:oin us at the Provo Library for our first Utah Teen Poetry Festival.\N\NPlease bring your own sack lunch! Contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org for any accommodations.\N\N4PM\N\NTeacher's Poetry Workshop by Vogue Robinson\N\NPerformance Workshop by JoKyR\N\N5pm\N\NPoetry Pedagogy Workshop by Sally Wilde\N\NStudent Poetry Writing Workshop by Vogue Robinson\N\N6pm (Virtual)\N\NPoetry Out Loud Strategy ft Jean Irwin, Willy Palomo, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-?fbclid=IwAR3pAJHYseN58Sf8yZps-tkmCu4C74zf0M5tYkqONTKAL3xESs23mZ92m4A\N\NSlam Poetry Strategy ft Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn?fbclid=IwAR3EIa2EkJyOIIR5P7BBtGiXjhc8BPMqq4eaQQSHIS9UsSAnprcAquK09Fc\N\N7pm - Speak For Yourself Open Mic ft Vogue Robinson\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Provo Library, Speak For Yourself, Enliten Bakery and Cafe, Utah Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:oin us at the Provo Library for our first Utah Teen Poetry Festival.

Please bring your own sack lunch! Contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org for any accommodations.

4PM

Teacher's Poetry Workshop by Vogue Robinson

Performance Workshop by JoKyR

5pm

Poetry Pedagogy Workshop by Sally Wilde

Student Poetry Writing Workshop by Vogue Robinson

6pm (Virtual)

Poetry Out Loud Strategy ft Jean Irwin, Willy Palomo, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-?fbclid=IwAR3pAJHYseN58Sf8yZps-tkmCu4C74zf0M5tYkqONTKAL3xESs23mZ92m4A

Slam Poetry Strategy ft Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn?fbclid=IwAR3EIa2EkJyOIIR5P7BBtGiXjhc8BPMqq4eaQQSHIS9UsSAnprcAquK09Fc

7pm - Speak For Yourself Open Mic ft Vogue Robinson

This event is made possible with support from Provo Library, Speak For Yourself, Enliten Bakery and Cafe, Utah Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T190000 UID:4F730DDC-BB37-44A3-A548-D1F8CDAC52CC SUMMARY:Utah Teen Poetry Festival - Cedar City CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2288 DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom our first Utah Teen Poetry Festival.\N\NPlease bring your own sack lunch! Contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org for any accommodations.\N\NRegistration links below! \N\N4PM\N\NTeacher's Poetry Workshop by Sarah Helen Bates: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-2rrj4oGtx7Z1FEcMESvvnqu9C3yZVR\N\NPerformance Workshop by RJ Walker: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElc-6opjgvHdRrcTuG_PNfuwwdz3hs-oNY\N\N5pm\N\NPoetry Pedagogy Workshop by Darren Edwards and Danielle Dubrasky: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtd-msqDsuHtc8-KqF3kjuj_sBLpvorQ5u\N\NStudent Poetry Writing Workshop by Sugarhouse Review : https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvc-6qrz4vG9FfihSj7j7a3bwrYTSHsH4L\N\N6pm (Virtual)\N\NPoetry Out Loud Strategy ft Jean Irwin, Willy Palomo, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan \N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-?fbclid=IwAR0B3rj-W_6JVDyYAZoEshAzbT4FAn61YKgkDAFIS_BswqZeCD4FvkXVSmE\N\NSlam Poetry Strategy ft Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler\N\NRegister here: \Nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn?fbclid=IwAR0N27dUNIeYH-1EJaPn_0UBL9YE9WOh-e2JE6mta1J3612mkhV3TL26yEk\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Sugarhouse Review, SUU Department of English, Helicon West, Utah Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us on Zoom our first Utah Teen Poetry Festival.

Please bring your own sack lunch! Contact Willy Palomo at palomo@utahhumanities.org for any accommodations.

Registration links below!

4PM

Teacher's Poetry Workshop by Sarah Helen Bates: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-2rrj4oGtx7Z1FEcMESvvnqu9C3yZVR

Performance Workshop by RJ Walker: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElc-6opjgvHdRrcTuG_PNfuwwdz3hs-oNY

5pm

Poetry Pedagogy Workshop by Darren Edwards and Danielle Dubrasky: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtd-msqDsuHtc8-KqF3kjuj_sBLpvorQ5u

Student Poetry Writing Workshop by Sugarhouse Review : https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvc-6qrz4vG9FfihSj7j7a3bwrYTSHsH4L

6pm (Virtual)

Poetry Out Loud Strategy ft Jean Irwin, Willy Palomo, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-?fbclid=IwAR0B3rj-W_6JVDyYAZoEshAzbT4FAn61YKgkDAFIS_BswqZeCD4FvkXVSmE

Slam Poetry Strategy ft Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler

Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn?fbclid=IwAR0N27dUNIeYH-1EJaPn_0UBL9YE9WOh-e2JE6mta1J3612mkhV3TL26yEk


This event is made possible with support from Sugarhouse Review, SUU Department of English, Helicon West, Utah Arts and Museums, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T200000 UID:10F1087A-9C0C-40D1-B384-8BF3296A690B SUMMARY:Utah Teen Poetry Festival: Poetry Out Loud Strategy workshop CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2239 DESCRIPTION:Join Willy Palomo, Jean Tokuda Irwin, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan for a panel discussion on what it takes to become the next Poetry Out Loud champion of Utah.\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-\N\NThis project is made possible with support from Utah Arts and Museums, Utah Poetry Slam, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Willy Palomo, Jean Tokuda Irwin, Claudia Borjas, and MarKaye Hassan for a panel discussion on what it takes to become the next Poetry Out Loud champion of Utah.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qc-morTIjHNGQjRfMwRJbCRA58htLjJ3-

This project is made possible with support from Utah Arts and Museums, Utah Poetry Slam, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T200000 UID:8DFC14D6-8559-4420-83B0-48A335C195CB SUMMARY:Utah Teen Poetry Festival: Poetry Slam Strategy workshop CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2238 DESCRIPTION:Join four of Utah's most accomplished poets for a conversation about how to up your poetry slam game. Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler will be chatting and answering all your questions about poetry slam strategy.\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, Utah Humanities, and Utah Arts and Museums. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join four of Utah's most accomplished poets for a conversation about how to up your poetry slam game. Jesse Parent, RJ Walker, Chelsea Guevara, and TaneshaNicole Tyler will be chatting and answering all your questions about poetry slam strategy.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO-tqjkiHNXDdUMwozIIxhzcIwpRZFLn

This program is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, Utah Humanities, and Utah Arts and Museums. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T210000 UID:A70FCBDF-A116-4A6D-B6BB-8DB8E5A52D62 SUMMARY:Weber County Library presents Jesse Booth and Joanna Reeder CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2085 DESCRIPTION:Ages 12 and older. USA Today bestselling authors Jesse B. Booth and Joanna Reeder will discuss the Shifter Academy series for young adults. Booth and Reeder collaborate with multiple authors on the expansive series, and co-wrote the Reclaim trilogy. They will discuss the process of team-writing and how it compares to writing their solo titles. Books will be available for purchase at a book signing following the event.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ages 12 and older. USA Today bestselling authors Jesse B. Booth and Joanna Reeder will discuss the Shifter Academy series for young adults. Booth and Reeder collaborate with multiple authors on the expansive series, and co-wrote the Reclaim trilogy. They will discuss the process of team-writing and how it compares to writing their solo titles. Books will be available for purchase at a book signing following the event.

This event is made possible with support from Weber County Library, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T210000 UID:2672176C-FE32-4BA7-8767-3CE4372A8C5D SUMMARY:Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi with Peter McCoy CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2121 DESCRIPTION:Grand County Library is excited to host Peter McCoy. \N\NPETER MCCOY speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life. As an interdisciplinary, systems-oriented mycology educator with 17 years of experience, Peter is considered one of the most prominent voices in the modern mycology movement. His work is widely regarded as pioneering in the topics of accessible mushroom cultivation and mycoremediation, while his in-depth mycological knowledge has also elevated his voice to one of the foremost in the less-explored fields of fungal evolution, fungal communication, and the history of fungi in human cultures.\N\NIn 2006, Peter co-founded Radical Mycology, a grassroots mycological advocacy organization and social movement to share his life-long passion for helping others understand mycology. In the years following, Peter’s knowledge brought him to teach mushroom cultivation and applied mycology to people across the United States and Canada.\N\NIn 2016, Peter published the 650-page book Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working With Fungi to share his accumulated skills, experiences, and knowledge. The book’s unprecedented depth, breadth, and perspective on the science, applications, and cultural importance of mycology have been praised as among the most significant contributions to these fields in the 21st century. Prominent reviewers have hailed the book as the most important and comprehensive text on fungal ecology, mushroom cultivation, mycoremediation, and medicinal mushrooms written to date, and a milestone for the progress of mycology as a people’s science. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Grand County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Grand County Library is excited to host Peter McCoy.

PETER MCCOY speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life. As an interdisciplinary, systems-oriented mycology educator with 17 years of experience, Peter is considered one of the most prominent voices in the modern mycology movement. His work is widely regarded as pioneering in the topics of accessible mushroom cultivation and mycoremediation, while his in-depth mycological knowledge has also elevated his voice to one of the foremost in the less-explored fields of fungal evolution, fungal communication, and the history of fungi in human cultures.

In 2006, Peter co-founded Radical Mycology, a grassroots mycological advocacy organization and social movement to share his life-long passion for helping others understand mycology. In the years following, Peter’s knowledge brought him to teach mushroom cultivation and applied mycology to people across the United States and Canada.

In 2016, Peter published the 650-page book Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing & Working With Fungi to share his accumulated skills, experiences, and knowledge. The book’s unprecedented depth, breadth, and perspective on the science, applications, and cultural importance of mycology have been praised as among the most significant contributions to these fields in the 21st century. Prominent reviewers have hailed the book as the most important and comprehensive text on fungal ecology, mushroom cultivation, mycoremediation, and medicinal mushrooms written to date, and a milestone for the progress of mycology as a people’s science.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Grand County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211022T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211022T180000 UID:E54A5A65-B7CB-4F68-BE4A-D098AC8B67DD SUMMARY:The Museum of Whales You Will Never See CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2158 DESCRIPTION:Join author A. Kendra Greene for an evening in the Zoom Room with the Book Bungalow! \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/2VShNjd\N\NMythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.\N\NIceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: How to display what can’t be seen?\N\NIn The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us, in dreamlike anecdotes and more than thirty charming illustrations, how a seemingly random assortment of objects–a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams–can map a people’s past and future, their fears and obsessions. “The world is chockablock with untold wonders,” she writes, “there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open.”\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author A. Kendra Greene for an evening in the Zoom Room with the Book Bungalow!

Register here: https://bit.ly/2VShNjd

Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.

Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: How to display what can’t be seen?

In The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us, in dreamlike anecdotes and more than thirty charming illustrations, how a seemingly random assortment of objects–a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams–can map a people’s past and future, their fears and obsessions. “The world is chockablock with untold wonders,” she writes, “there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open.”

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211022T210000 UID:35257BD2-E25B-4CC7-ADAB-D1B94B9ABC68 SUMMARY:The Ache and the Wing with Sunni Brown Wilkinson CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2176 DESCRIPTION:Sugar House Review is happy to host John Belk and Sunni Wilkinson at the Artisans Gallery. \N\NBio: In this sublime collection, award-winning poet Sunni Brown Wilkinson shapes guilt and grief into a narrative of love, loss, and possibility. The Ache and the Wing explores the flickering, flighty nature of life by allowing a glimpse into the speaker’s world after the death of a newborn son. Bodies become houses, three-and-a-half-inch gaps appear in an old Irishman’s brain, and birdsong reverberates throughout these healing poems. Wilkinson gives life to last words. Her honest, yet delicate poems combine grief with possibility in the hope of rebuilding one’s life in the wake of absence. \N\NBio: John Belk is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University where he directs the Composition Program. The author of The Gardens of our Childhoods (forthcoming, Autumn House Press, 2022) and The Weathering of Igneous Rockforms in High-Altitude Riparian Environments (Cathexis Northwest, 2020), his poems have recently appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Sugar House Review, Crab Orchard Review, Madison Review, Salt Hill, Worcester Review, Sport Literate, and Poetry South among others. His scholarship can be found in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Forum, and edited anthologies.\N\N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Sugar House Review, Artisans Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sugar House Review is happy to host John Belk and Sunni Wilkinson at the Artisans Gallery.

Bio: In this sublime collection, award-winning poet Sunni Brown Wilkinson shapes guilt and grief into a narrative of love, loss, and possibility. The Ache and the Wing explores the flickering, flighty nature of life by allowing a glimpse into the speaker’s world after the death of a newborn son. Bodies become houses, three-and-a-half-inch gaps appear in an old Irishman’s brain, and birdsong reverberates throughout these healing poems. Wilkinson gives life to last words. Her honest, yet delicate poems combine grief with possibility in the hope of rebuilding one’s life in the wake of absence.

Bio: John Belk is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University where he directs the Composition Program. The author of The Gardens of our Childhoods (forthcoming, Autumn House Press, 2022) and The Weathering of Igneous Rockforms in High-Altitude Riparian Environments (Cathexis Northwest, 2020), his poems have recently appeared in Jet Fuel Review, Sugar House Review, Crab Orchard Review, Madison Review, Salt Hill, Worcester Review, Sport Literate, and Poetry South among others. His scholarship can be found in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Forum, and edited anthologies.



This program is made possible with support from Sugar House Review, Artisans Gallery, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211023T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211023T160000 UID:FC9CF459-1795-4007-8A2A-27048325CC89 SUMMARY: MWC-Evans Writers’ Workshop – Salt Lake City CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2198 DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in writing autobiography or biography?  Do you have a start on a project but need some additional inspiration or maybe need a nudge from concept to composition?  The Mountain West Center at Utah State University in connection with the Evans Biography Awards is hosting a Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography.\N \NThis workshop is a one-day event, open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers who might hope to someday win a prize like the Evans Biography Awards. There will be four workshop sessions (two concurrent sessions in the morning and two in the afternoon). Workshops will be presented by James Swensen, Jennifer Sinor, Phyllis Barber, and Michael Branch with a luncheon keynote given by Lisa Mangum.\N \NSpace is limited, so register early. Registration fee: $60 (covers food and workshop supplies).\N \NFor more information or to register visit www.mountainwest.usu.edu or email mwc@usu.edu.\N \NThis event is made possible with support from the Mountain West Center at Utah State University, the Evans Biography Awards, and Weller Book Works.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Are you interested in writing autobiography or biography?  Do you have a start on a project but need some additional inspiration or maybe need a nudge from concept to composition?  The Mountain West Center at Utah State University in connection with the Evans Biography Awards is hosting a Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography.
 
This workshop is a one-day event, open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers who might hope to someday win a prize like the Evans Biography Awards. There will be four workshop sessions (two concurrent sessions in the morning and two in the afternoon). Workshops will be presented by James Swensen, Jennifer Sinor, Phyllis Barber, and Michael Branch with a luncheon keynote given by Lisa Mangum.
 
Space is limited, so register early. Registration fee: $60 (covers food and workshop supplies).
 
For more information or to register visit www.mountainwest.usu.edu or email mwc@usu.edu.
 
This event is made possible with support from the Mountain West Center at Utah State University, the Evans Biography Awards, and Weller Book Works.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211023T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211023T130000 UID:F2C1EF84-06EC-4939-8043-20D9706F023A SUMMARY:Writing Workshop with A. Kendra Greene CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2159 DESCRIPTION:Join A. Kendra Greene, author of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, for a late morning writing workshop. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/3rnB73y\N\N\NA. Kendra Greene is an essayist, printer, and maker of artist’s books. She writes about collections and records radio essays and spends not enough time locking up wood type on a Vandercook proof press. \N\NShe began her museum career adhering text to the wall one trembling vinyl letter at a time. From there she went on to manage a collection of photography, costume a giant ground sloth, and keeps returning as a Visiting Artist at the Nasher Sculpture Center. \N\NHer work as an essayist started during a Fulbright to teach English in South Korea, and she earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa and a Graduate Certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book under the auspices of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She is Associate Editor of prose at the Southwest Review and lately a Fellow at Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join A. Kendra Greene, author of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, for a late morning writing workshop.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3rnB73y


A. Kendra Greene is an essayist, printer, and maker of artist’s books. She writes about collections and records radio essays and spends not enough time locking up wood type on a Vandercook proof press.

She began her museum career adhering text to the wall one trembling vinyl letter at a time. From there she went on to manage a collection of photography, costume a giant ground sloth, and keeps returning as a Visiting Artist at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

Her work as an essayist started during a Fulbright to teach English in South Korea, and she earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa and a Graduate Certificate from the University of Iowa Center for the Book under the auspices of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She is Associate Editor of prose at the Southwest Review and lately a Fellow at Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab.

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211023T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211023T180000 UID:97991266-4965-49B4-B0EF-10613D9DA524 SUMMARY:The Power of Awareness with Dan Schilling CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2196 DESCRIPTION:Join Weber Book Links in conversation with Dan Schilling, author of The Power of Awareness. \N\NModerator: Forest Griffin, Martial Arts Instructor at Monk Wise Martial Arts Academy \N\NIn his empowering book, Dan Schilling shares how to identify and avoid threats. Told with wit and wisdom, this compelling guide uses harrowing stories from Dan's special operations career and those of other experts to outline six easily implemented rules you can apply anywhere to improve your personal safety.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Weber Book Links in conversation with Dan Schilling, author of The Power of Awareness.

Moderator: Forest Griffin, Martial Arts Instructor at Monk Wise Martial Arts Academy

In his empowering book, Dan Schilling shares how to identify and avoid threats. Told with wit and wisdom, this compelling guide uses harrowing stories from Dan's special operations career and those of other experts to outline six easily implemented rules you can apply anywhere to improve your personal safety.

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211025T210000 UID:74F8E62E-B2E8-4A1B-81CE-283465B96A2D SUMMARY:Once and Future Witches CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2086 DESCRIPTION:USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches, shares her new book, A Spindle Splintered. A reimagining of the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, this Fractured Fable features the charm of Harrow’s storytelling combined with the original illustrations by Arthur Rackham, also fractured and reimagined for a new generation.\N\NRegister here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M_uDGsx-SN6Mr8GjqkW8ng\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, and the Weber County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches, shares her new book, A Spindle Splintered. A reimagining of the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, this Fractured Fable features the charm of Harrow’s storytelling combined with the original illustrations by Arthur Rackham, also fractured and reimagined for a new generation.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M_uDGsx-SN6Mr8GjqkW8ng

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, and the Weber County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211025T210000 UID:9D5CFFF3-217A-4602-BA23-855E123B9CE9 SUMMARY:Utah Poetry Slam features Nan Seymour CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2139 DESCRIPTION:Utah Poetry Slam is excited to feature Nan Seymour. \N\NOver the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offers an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City.\N\NSign up link to compete will be provided soon.\N\NHosted by: TBA\N\NRules: 3 minutes, no props, no nudity.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Poetry Slam. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Poetry Slam is excited to feature Nan Seymour.

Over the last five years, Seymour facilitated writing and storytelling workshops for hundreds of people, including cancer survivors, high school students, unsheltered writers and survivors of domestic violence. Nan offers an ongoing schedule of writing practices at her River Writing studio in Salt Lake City.

Sign up link to compete will be provided soon.

Hosted by: TBA

Rules: 3 minutes, no props, no nudity.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Poetry Slam. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211026T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T171500 UID:9BEF9B57-0544-4CA5-A1E5-1194A3CB2930 SUMMARY:A Particular Kind of Black Man with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2126 DESCRIPTION:The English Department of Dixie State University is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. \N\NFind us in the English Collaborative room in Holland 457 at DSU. \N\N3:00 PM - 4:15 PM - Craft Talk and Q&A\N\N4:15 PM to 5:00 PM - Reception\N\NTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Dixie State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The English Department of Dixie State University is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

Find us in the English Collaborative room in Holland 457 at DSU.

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM - Craft Talk and Q&A

4:15 PM to 5:00 PM - Reception

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

This program is made possible with support from Dixie State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211026T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T000000 UID:F2EEDE7C-1637-4503-BA88-2CCC54723358 SUMMARY:Amitov Ghosh CREATED:20260416T080142Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080142Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2087 DESCRIPTION:Join Weber State University in welcoming the illustrious Amitov Ghosh. \N\NVenue to be announced soon. \N\NAmitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. His most recent book, The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016.\N\NThe Circle of Reason was awarded France’s Prix Médicis in 1990, and The Shadow Lines won two prestigious Indian prizes the same year, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the International e-Book Award at the Frankfurt book fair in 2001. In January 2005 The Hungry Tide was awarded the Crossword Book Prize, a major Indian award. His novel, Sea of Poppies (2008) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2008 and was awarded the Crossword Book Prize and the India Plaza Golden Quill Award.\N\NAmitav Ghosh's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. They have been anthologized under the titles The Imam and the Indian (Penguin Random House India) and Incendiary Circumstances (Houghton Mifflin, USA). The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016 and was given the inaugural Utah Award for the Environmental Humanities in 2018. \N\NAmitav Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2018 the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber State University, the Linqquist College of Fine Arts and the Hurst Foundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Weber State University in welcoming the illustrious Amitov Ghosh.

Venue to be announced soon.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. His most recent book, The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016.

The Circle of Reason was awarded France’s Prix Médicis in 1990, and The Shadow Lines won two prestigious Indian prizes the same year, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the International e-Book Award at the Frankfurt book fair in 2001. In January 2005 The Hungry Tide was awarded the Crossword Book Prize, a major Indian award. His novel, Sea of Poppies (2008) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2008 and was awarded the Crossword Book Prize and the India Plaza Golden Quill Award.

Amitav Ghosh's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. They have been anthologized under the titles The Imam and the Indian (Penguin Random House India) and Incendiary Circumstances (Houghton Mifflin, USA). The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016 and was given the inaugural Utah Award for the Environmental Humanities in 2018.

Amitav Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2018 the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade.

This event is made possible with support from Weber State University, the Linqquist College of Fine Arts and the Hurst Foundation. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211026T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T210000 UID:2837DF73-664A-4F00-928F-FC4D9892C93C SUMMARY:A Particular Kind of Black Man with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2127 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Southern Utah University is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man, and Jeron Braxton, director of Octane. \N\NVenue: Student Theater, Sharwan Smith Student Center, SUU \N\NTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.\N\NOctane (Sundance Film Fest 2019)\NBy Jeron Braxton | 2017 | 6 min | Short\NA man's street race through hell and back parallels the black experience in America.\N\NJeron Braxton is a young, self-taught, award-winning animator making waves worldwide. His work reflects life through a black American lens using surreal ’90s video-game aesthetics. Follow Jeron’s work on Facebook (@jeron.braxton) and Twitter (@JeronBraxton)\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Sundance Film Institute, SUU and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Southern Utah University is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man, and Jeron Braxton, director of Octane.

Venue: Student Theater, Sharwan Smith Student Center, SUU

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

Octane (Sundance Film Fest 2019)
By Jeron Braxton | 2017 | 6 min | Short
A man's street race through hell and back parallels the black experience in America.

Jeron Braxton is a young, self-taught, award-winning animator making waves worldwide. His work reflects life through a black American lens using surreal ’90s video-game aesthetics. Follow Jeron’s work on Facebook (@jeron.braxton) and Twitter (@JeronBraxton)

This program is made possible with support from the Sundance Film Institute, SUU and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211027T210000 UID:FBD1FC2A-BE40-41A7-9DF3-F79013255670 SUMMARY:A Particular Kind of Black Man with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2128 DESCRIPTION:The Student Diversity and Inclusion Center at Westminster College is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. \N\NCatch us in Malouf 201 on Westminster’s campus at 7pm. \N\NTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Westminster College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Student Diversity and Inclusion Center at Westminster College is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

Catch us in Malouf 201 on Westminster’s campus at 7pm.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

This program is made possible with support from Westminster College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211027T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211027T210000 UID:CE3EBFD8-10B1-499B-91E0-E02B78A9DE38 SUMMARY:Sor Juana Writing Awards Celebration CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2202 DESCRIPTION:Artes de Mexico en Utah is excited to host the annual Sor Juana Writing Awards. Join family and friends as we celebrate the sharpest Spanish-language writers in Utah. \N\N\NRegister in advance for this meeting:\Nhttps://url2.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1mZSIS-000C7u-3n&i=57e1b682&c=r2LAUj5pZLQZhTSb9prBQ2KoHVvbA0FoyPdFcFTUJjaeoNzJxEVDGqfYl2sCTqCwfA8sg5_CtTWdxkBJ6gGoIEqoKOD4DRRrdOGdgOkGZ7KipBFUxXApngAxyLh85R-DBki1c82gLJPplE9OkD5e8lVZSLXSg_m460hum8u8tLDgqYdDxQV-0voV_4XFclbwQKlOkZ9CjLLFBY_bFjhFZtjT8z449CUEkSD38rbz7CFYGZXIfi2UcxWZ4gZWwh7Ort-kKnYDG7tYypFdnpttL4dIkx75QsJAEwCkbWdK1OQ \N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Artes de Mexico en Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artes de Mexico en Utah is excited to host the annual Sor Juana Writing Awards. Join family and friends as we celebrate the sharpest Spanish-language writers in Utah.


Register in advance for this meeting:
https://url2.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1mZSIS-000C7u-3n&i=57e1b682&c=r2LAUj5pZLQZhTSb9prBQ2KoHVvbA0FoyPdFcFTUJjaeoNzJxEVDGqfYl2sCTqCwfA8sg5_CtTWdxkBJ6gGoIEqoKOD4DRRrdOGdgOkGZ7KipBFUxXApngAxyLh85R-DBki1c82gLJPplE9OkD5e8lVZSLXSg_m460hum8u8tLDgqYdDxQV-0voV_4XFclbwQKlOkZ9CjLLFBY_bFjhFZtjT8z449CUEkSD38rbz7CFYGZXIfi2UcxWZ4gZWwh7Ort-kKnYDG7tYypFdnpttL4dIkx75QsJAEwCkbWdK1OQ


This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Artes de Mexico en Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211027T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211027T213000 UID:04913A87-AE20-4071-8A52-111E69F8EF72 SUMMARY:Every Small Thing with Mary Lou Sanelli CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2160 DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Bungalow and celebrated author Mary Lou Sanelli for a magnetic evening and reading. \N\NSo much more than a collection of essays, this is a writer's soul laid bare. Filled with universal experience, every page reveals Sanelli’s profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.\N\NIn Every Little Thing: Small Breakthroughs, Big Mistakes, Endless Lessons, Sanelli proves that a narrative essay can be wise and vulnerable and nail what matters most in our lives, all in the same breath. No one tells-truth with more heart, humor, and accountability. With a voice that speaks of life as it is everyday lived—with joy, calm, worry, and alarm—Sanelli manages to write lyrically in warm, accessible language. One can learn so much from a writer who, wherever she goes she takes her readers along with her, her experiences becoming theirs, as well. These writings will make you miss the Northwest even if you've never been there. Gliding on sentences smooth as stone with the brightness of the author's enthusiasm, this book will delight, challenge, reassure, and steer any reader toward a higher capacity to expand life’s smallest moments into our grandest triumphs.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Book Bungalow and celebrated author Mary Lou Sanelli for a magnetic evening and reading.

So much more than a collection of essays, this is a writer's soul laid bare. Filled with universal experience, every page reveals Sanelli’s profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

In Every Little Thing: Small Breakthroughs, Big Mistakes, Endless Lessons, Sanelli proves that a narrative essay can be wise and vulnerable and nail what matters most in our lives, all in the same breath. No one tells-truth with more heart, humor, and accountability. With a voice that speaks of life as it is everyday lived—with joy, calm, worry, and alarm—Sanelli manages to write lyrically in warm, accessible language. One can learn so much from a writer who, wherever she goes she takes her readers along with her, her experiences becoming theirs, as well. These writings will make you miss the Northwest even if you've never been there. Gliding on sentences smooth as stone with the brightness of the author's enthusiasm, this book will delight, challenge, reassure, and steer any reader toward a higher capacity to expand life’s smallest moments into our grandest triumphs.

This program is made possible with support from the Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T140000 UID:67AE6268-610B-4DB4-B3C0-4EA6D1B73BBB SUMMARY:A Particular Kind of Black Man with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2134 DESCRIPTION:The Convocation program at Snow College is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. \N\NCatch us in Eccles Performing Arts Center (building), Jorgensen Concert Hall (room).at noon. \N\NTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Snow College and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Convocation program at Snow College is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

Catch us in Eccles Performing Arts Center (building), Jorgensen Concert Hall (room).at noon.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

This program is made possible with support from Snow College and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T130000 UID:22FFCBCB-BC48-49BF-A904-D8BC1F4F56E9 SUMMARY:Tanner Lecture on AI and Human Values with Shoshana Zuboff CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2205 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Humanities Center is pleased to host Shoshana Zuboff, author of Surveillance Capitalism. \N\NFor Zoom details, go to thc.utah.edu. \N\NIn this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.\N\NZuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification."\N\NThe threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future.\N\NWith little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Humanities Center is pleased to host Shoshana Zuboff, author of Surveillance Capitalism.

For Zoom details, go to thc.utah.edu.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.

Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification."

The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future.

With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

This program is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T210000 UID:19CFE1D3-6A7E-4256-89A4-B06ADA3C9026 SUMMARY:A Particular Kind of Black Man with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2131 DESCRIPTION:\NPark City Library is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Park City Library is excited to host Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man. Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211029T210000 UID:8024BFC5-5EC1-4760-B1F0-BA7A569DA5DF SUMMARY:Storytelling and Craft Workshop with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2140 DESCRIPTION:Join Tope Folarin for a Storytelling and Craft Workshop focused on issues pertaining to people of color. The workshop will be followed by a reception. \N\NTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, 365 Poetry, and the Lost Eden Gallery at the Gateway. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Tope Folarin for a Storytelling and Craft Workshop focused on issues pertaining to people of color. The workshop will be followed by a reception.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, 365 Poetry, and the Lost Eden Gallery at the Gateway. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211030T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211030T190000 UID:E859AFF7-7794-4D4E-8D3B-086FAA0D2D8A SUMMARY:These Bones with Kayla Chenault CREATED:20260416T080143Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080143Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2161 DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Bungalow in the Zoom room to meet the magical Kayla Chenault, author of These Bones. \N\NRegister here: https://bit.ly/3y6B7Y8\N\NIn a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest.\N\NAs the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what's left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.\N\NThis program is made possible with support of the Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Book Bungalow in the Zoom room to meet the magical Kayla Chenault, author of These Bones.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3y6B7Y8

In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest.

As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what's left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.

This program is made possible with support of the Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211030T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211030T200000 UID:1C7150F8-0BC0-4492-9780-AE586EDF8A87 SUMMARY:Correctional with Ravi Shankar CREATED:20260416T080144Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080144Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2247 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works presents Ravi Shankar, author of Correctional.\N\NFind us on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_YfzIBsh9lleA\N\N\NBIO\N\NPushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar is the author and editor of over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including the "Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018" (Recent Works Press); W.W. Norton & Co.'s "Language for a New Century" called a "beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; the Muse India Award winning translations of 8th century Tamil poet/saint "Autobiography of a Goddess" (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press); the National Poetry Review Prize winning "Deepening Groove"; the Carolina Wren judges award winning "What Else Could it Be"; and the finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards "Instrumentality," poems from which have appeared around the world. Translated into over 12 languages and recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner as well as winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, Shankar has taught at such institutions as Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney. He has held fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Blue Mountain Center and many others. Recipient of numerous grants and awards, including multiple "Excellence-in-Teaching Awards," his students have gone on to publish dozens of books of their own. Granted fellowships by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island State Commission on the Arts, Shankar has been featured in The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC, NPR and the PBS Newshour. His essays have appeared in such places as the Georgia Review, the Hartford Courant, and for the Poetry Society of America. He has been featured at the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry International and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat, winner of a South-by-Southwest Web Award. He currently teaches for the New York Writers Workshop and lives a nomadic existence centered around Boston, Massachusetts and Sydney, Australia. In addition to performances and lectures, he is available for individual consultancy, workshops, editing and mentoring services around the world.\N\NThis event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works presents Ravi Shankar, author of Correctional.

Find us on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_YfzIBsh9lleA


BIO

Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar is the author and editor of over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including the "Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018" (Recent Works Press); W.W. Norton & Co.'s "Language for a New Century" called a "beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; the Muse India Award winning translations of 8th century Tamil poet/saint "Autobiography of a Goddess" (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press); the National Poetry Review Prize winning "Deepening Groove"; the Carolina Wren judges award winning "What Else Could it Be"; and the finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards "Instrumentality," poems from which have appeared around the world. Translated into over 12 languages and recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner as well as winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, Shankar has taught at such institutions as Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney. He has held fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Blue Mountain Center and many others. Recipient of numerous grants and awards, including multiple "Excellence-in-Teaching Awards," his students have gone on to publish dozens of books of their own. Granted fellowships by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island State Commission on the Arts, Shankar has been featured in The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC, NPR and the PBS Newshour. His essays have appeared in such places as the Georgia Review, the Hartford Courant, and for the Poetry Society of America. He has been featured at the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry International and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat, winner of a South-by-Southwest Web Award. He currently teaches for the New York Writers Workshop and lives a nomadic existence centered around Boston, Massachusetts and Sydney, Australia. In addition to performances and lectures, he is available for individual consultancy, workshops, editing and mentoring services around the world.

This event was made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220727T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220727T210000 UID:AAD067A6-92ED-43CA-9FEF-CDA34ECF8E6A SUMMARY:Happy Valley Comedy presents Flowers from the Storm CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2586 DESCRIPTION:Local comedians Dennis High, Jessica Rynn, and Cheyenne Jackson will explore the lighter side of romance with this all-ages stand-up comedy show.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by request. \N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Local comedians Dennis High, Jessica Rynn, and Cheyenne Jackson will explore the lighter side of romance with this all-ages stand-up comedy show.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220905 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221101 UID:2108AC5D-6396-41C1-9DBB-9D332B7E0A6D SUMMARY:On My Way Home ARG CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2631 DESCRIPTION:It’s estimated that about 7% of youth in the United States are LGBTQ, while 40% of youth experiencing homelessness are LGBTQ, according to True Colors United. \N\NMeet Xristy, one of the dozens of unaccompanied young adults experiencing homelessness in Utah. On My Way Home is the fictional story of one trans Latina's journey to coming to terms with her identity and home state. Along the way, she makes friends with the ghosts of some of Utah's greatest LGBTQ+ literary figures and learns the hidden history of queer survival and thriving in Utah. \N\NTo play the game, read the first scene here. The link will go live in September: https://www.decodethecity.com/about-5?fbclid=IwAR1vPXHqQfIFdBEuKbwIdPNKW5t3yA10o0rG_CusHw8uPSKpmT6DMSOtixs \N\NAccess the PDF book here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O4hM2OedToLyCHrJOyLnzh9PPGDiHKrp/view?usp=sharing\N\NFollow Xristy on her quests and help her complete her tasks. As you solve puzzles and answer crucial questions, the story will begin to reveal itself to you. \N\NWhat is an ARG? https://www.makeuseof.com/alternate-reality-augmented-reality-games-differences/ \N\NThis project was made possible with support from Under the Umbrella and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It’s estimated that about 7% of youth in the United States are LGBTQ, while 40% of youth experiencing homelessness are LGBTQ, according to True Colors United.

Meet Xristy, one of the dozens of unaccompanied young adults experiencing homelessness in Utah. On My Way Home is the fictional story of one trans Latina's journey to coming to terms with her identity and home state. Along the way, she makes friends with the ghosts of some of Utah's greatest LGBTQ+ literary figures and learns the hidden history of queer survival and thriving in Utah.

To play the game, read the first scene here. The link will go live in September: https://www.decodethecity.com/about-5?fbclid=IwAR1vPXHqQfIFdBEuKbwIdPNKW5t3yA10o0rG_CusHw8uPSKpmT6DMSOtixs

Access the PDF book here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O4hM2OedToLyCHrJOyLnzh9PPGDiHKrp/view?usp=sharing

Follow Xristy on her quests and help her complete her tasks. As you solve puzzles and answer crucial questions, the story will begin to reveal itself to you.

What is an ARG? https://www.makeuseof.com/alternate-reality-augmented-reality-games-differences/

This project was made possible with support from Under the Umbrella and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220908T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220908T190000 UID:2AFD5AA2-38FC-4D38-9819-B063AE59E48D SUMMARY:Author Blitz CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2462 DESCRIPTION:They visited your classrooms in Ogden and Weber School districts! Now come chat with them and purchase books at Roy Junior High from 5 to 7. It'll be open house format. Come and go as you please.\N\NAuthors include:\N- J. Scott Savage\N- Shelly Brown\N- Mike Thayer\N- Wendy Swore\N- Frank L Cole\N- Celesta Rimington\N- Dustin Hansen\N- Kaela Rivera\N- Chad Morris\N- Kristyn Crow\N- Annie Bailey\N- Amy and Greg Newbold\N- Jennifer Jenkins\N- Tiffany Rosenhan\N- Kathryn Purdie\N- Tricia Levenseller\N- Jeff Moore\N- Allison Hong\N- Merrill Emily\N- Inouye Huey\N- Lehua Parker\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- No ASL interpretation provided.\N- Livestream unavailable.\N- Accessible parking and walkways are available on the east and south side of the school.\N- Accessible seating is available throughout the school. There is also an elevator for accessibility to multiple levels.\N- All bathrooms in the building are accessible for disabled communities. If private bathrooms are requested, a volunteer can let people into a private faculty bathroom.\N- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask for Sadie Hoagland if needed.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Ogden School District, Weber School District, Author Blitz, and Weber Book Links X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:They visited your classrooms in Ogden and Weber School districts! Now come chat with them and purchase books at Roy Junior High from 5 to 7. It'll be open house format. Come and go as you please.

Authors include:
- J. Scott Savage
- Shelly Brown
- Mike Thayer
- Wendy Swore
- Frank L Cole
- Celesta Rimington
- Dustin Hansen
- Kaela Rivera
- Chad Morris
- Kristyn Crow
- Annie Bailey
- Amy and Greg Newbold
- Jennifer Jenkins
- Tiffany Rosenhan
- Kathryn Purdie
- Tricia Levenseller
- Jeff Moore
- Allison Hong
- Merrill Emily
- Inouye Huey
- Lehua Parker

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- No ASL interpretation provided.
- Livestream unavailable.
- Accessible parking and walkways are available on the east and south side of the school.
- Accessible seating is available throughout the school. There is also an elevator for accessibility to multiple levels.
- All bathrooms in the building are accessible for disabled communities. If private bathrooms are requested, a volunteer can let people into a private faculty bathroom.
- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask for Sadie Hoagland if needed.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Ogden School District, Weber School District, Author Blitz, and Weber Book Links X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220908T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220908T183000 UID:6BE343BF-F852-4129-9B88-AEC8F0EA0F84 SUMMARY:Whale Fall with David Baker CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2552 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop is excited to host David Baker, author or editor of 19 books including Whale Fall.\N\NDavid Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. He was born in 1954 in Bangor, Maine, grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri, and since 1983 has lived in central Ohio. He received his B.S.E. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Central Missouri and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, where he also served from 1980-83 as Editor and Poetry Editor of Quarterly West. Since 1984 Baker has taught at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he is currently a teaching Emeritus Professor of English. Baker also serves frequently on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College and at writers’ workshops around the country. After serving as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review for more than twenty-five years, he currently curates the annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop is excited to host David Baker, author or editor of 19 books including Whale Fall.

David Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic. He was born in 1954 in Bangor, Maine, grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri, and since 1983 has lived in central Ohio. He received his B.S.E. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Central Missouri and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, where he also served from 1980-83 as Editor and Poetry Editor of Quarterly West. Since 1984 Baker has taught at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he is currently a teaching Emeritus Professor of English. Baker also serves frequently on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College and at writers’ workshops around the country. After serving as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review for more than twenty-five years, he currently curates the annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220908T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220908T200000 UID:7BE72A46-2D74-42B5-B8A7-B667F92846E1 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Prison Ecologies with Uyen Hoang and Dr. Nalini Nadkarni CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2461 DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter for a short trek with ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni and University of Utah Prison Education Program organizer Uyen Hoang to discuss their work on prison ecology involving the intersections between mass incarceration and environmental degradation.\N\NHumanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired \Nsome of the American West’s greatest literature.\N\NThe inspiration for this humanities in the wild originated from Uyen's essay in the book New World Coming. This book will be available for purchase at the Swaner Gift Shop.\N\NDr. Nadkarni's interest was first drawn to rain forest ecology due to the contradiction offered by its plant life. Dr. Nadkarni and her work in the Costa Rican rain forest were featured in the 1988 PBS series, The Second Voyage of the Mimi, starring a young Ben Affleck. She maintains an interest in public outreach, and her work was highlighted on the web page of the National Science Foundation. She is the author of Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees and has delivered TED Talks on Conserving the Canopy and Life Science in Prison. She also wrote some text (foreword and quotes) for a book for young explorers entitled, Kingfisher Voyages: Rain Forest, published in 2006. Her work has included developing moss growing techniques with prisoners, as well as bringing artists, like musician and biologist G. Duke Brady, into the forest canopy to write and perform.\NAn Emeritus Professor at The Evergreen State College, she currently is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah.\N\NUyen Hoang recently graduated with a bachelor of science degree in environmental and sustainability studies from the University of Utah. She is a fellow with Uplift Climate and a volunteer with the University of Utah Prison Education Project.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation available upon request\N- Livestream can be accessed on Instagram @utahbookfest\N- Parking and pathways: There are handicap parking spaces near the Newpark plaza (on Newpark Blvd. outside of Cupla Coffee) where the access to the Swaner EcoCenter (where the event starts) is. This Humanities in the Wild will go onto a single track trail and uneven ground though.\N- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask Willy if needed.\N- Bathrooms: All of the bathrooms at the EcoCenter are accessible. We have one all gender restroom in our office space that we can provide access to as needed.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is open to the public. This program is a part of Welcoming Week, a week-long celebration of the contributions of immigrants and refugees, and the 25th anniversary of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter for a short trek with ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni and University of Utah Prison Education Program organizer Uyen Hoang to discuss their work on prison ecology involving the intersections between mass incarceration and environmental degradation.

Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired
some of the American West’s greatest literature.

The inspiration for this humanities in the wild originated from Uyen's essay in the book New World Coming. This book will be available for purchase at the Swaner Gift Shop.

Dr. Nadkarni's interest was first drawn to rain forest ecology due to the contradiction offered by its plant life. Dr. Nadkarni and her work in the Costa Rican rain forest were featured in the 1988 PBS series, The Second Voyage of the Mimi, starring a young Ben Affleck. She maintains an interest in public outreach, and her work was highlighted on the web page of the National Science Foundation. She is the author of Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees and has delivered TED Talks on Conserving the Canopy and Life Science in Prison. She also wrote some text (foreword and quotes) for a book for young explorers entitled, Kingfisher Voyages: Rain Forest, published in 2006. Her work has included developing moss growing techniques with prisoners, as well as bringing artists, like musician and biologist G. Duke Brady, into the forest canopy to write and perform.
An Emeritus Professor at The Evergreen State College, she currently is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Utah.

Uyen Hoang recently graduated with a bachelor of science degree in environmental and sustainability studies from the University of Utah. She is a fellow with Uplift Climate and a volunteer with the University of Utah Prison Education Project.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation available upon request
- Livestream can be accessed on Instagram @utahbookfest
- Parking and pathways: There are handicap parking spaces near the Newpark plaza (on Newpark Blvd. outside of Cupla Coffee) where the access to the Swaner EcoCenter (where the event starts) is. This Humanities in the Wild will go onto a single track trail and uneven ground though.
- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask Willy if needed.
- Bathrooms: All of the bathrooms at the EcoCenter are accessible. We have one all gender restroom in our office space that we can provide access to as needed.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is open to the public. This program is a part of Welcoming Week, a week-long celebration of the contributions of immigrants and refugees, and the 25th anniversary of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220908T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220908T200000 UID:194AF312-7C3B-4E76-9815-205031627975 SUMMARY:Homage to Winesburg with Michael Martone and Michael Mejia CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2551 DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Martone and Michael Mejia at Weller Book Works to discuss Homage to Winesburg.\N\NMichael Martone’s most recent books are Brooding essays, The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond, and Memoranda. Winesburg, Indiana, Four for a Quarter, Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, a collection of essays, and Double-wide, his collected early stories, Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor’s notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with Susan Neville, are other titles in print. He is also the author of The Blue Guide to Indiana, published by FC2. The University of Georgia Press published his book of essays, The Flatness and Other Landscapes, winner of the AWP Award for Nonfiction, in 2000. With Robin Hemley, he edited Extreme Fiction. With Lex Williford, he edited The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. Martone is the author of five other books of short fiction including Seeing Eye, Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List, Safety Patrol, and Alive and Dead in Indiana. He has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest and Townships: Pieces of the Midwest. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, Story, Antaeus, North American Review, Benzene, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Third Coast, Shenandoah, Bomb, and other magazines.'\N\NMichael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife and their Jack Russell Terrier.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation will only be provided by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org\N- For livestream information, call Weller Book Works.\N- PARKING Is Free And Available In The 600 South Parking Lot And Along The 700 East Buildings. There Is Also Parking Along Building A In Front Of Alice Lane And Building B In Front Of Pottery Barn. We Also Have An Underground Parking Garage That Is Accessible Along The Corner Of 500 South And Also On The Corner Of 600 East. There Is Roof Access Parking On The 500 South/700 East Corner Above Whole Foods.\NHANDICAP PARKING Is Available Throughout Trolley Square. If You Are In Need Of A Wheelchair, Please Call The Trolley Square Security Office At 801-534-0160 And They Will Bring A Wheelchair To You. (Rental Is Free)\N- We can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.\N- Single stall bathrooms are available adjacent to the bookstore, large enough for disabled people and families.\N- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support by Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Michael Martone and Michael Mejia at Weller Book Works to discuss Homage to Winesburg.

Michael Martone’s most recent books are Brooding essays, The Moon Over Wapakoneta: Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond, and Memoranda. Winesburg, Indiana, Four for a Quarter, Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, a collection of essays, and Double-wide, his collected early stories, Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor’s notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with Susan Neville, are other titles in print. He is also the author of The Blue Guide to Indiana, published by FC2. The University of Georgia Press published his book of essays, The Flatness and Other Landscapes, winner of the AWP Award for Nonfiction, in 2000. With Robin Hemley, he edited Extreme Fiction. With Lex Williford, he edited The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. Martone is the author of five other books of short fiction including Seeing Eye, Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle, Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler’s List, Safety Patrol, and Alive and Dead in Indiana. He has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest and Townships: Pieces of the Midwest. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, Story, Antaeus, North American Review, Benzene, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, Third Coast, Shenandoah, Bomb, and other magazines.'

Michael Mejia is the author of the novels TOKYO and Forgetfulness, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Western Humanities Review, co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, and a professor of English at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, where he lives with his wife and their Jack Russell Terrier.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation will only be provided by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org
- For livestream information, call Weller Book Works.
- PARKING Is Free And Available In The 600 South Parking Lot And Along The 700 East Buildings. There Is Also Parking Along Building A In Front Of Alice Lane And Building B In Front Of Pottery Barn. We Also Have An Underground Parking Garage That Is Accessible Along The Corner Of 500 South And Also On The Corner Of 600 East. There Is Roof Access Parking On The 500 South/700 East Corner Above Whole Foods.
HANDICAP PARKING Is Available Throughout Trolley Square. If You Are In Need Of A Wheelchair, Please Call The Trolley Square Security Office At 801-534-0160 And They Will Bring A Wheelchair To You. (Rental Is Free)
- We can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.
- Single stall bathrooms are available adjacent to the bookstore, large enough for disabled people and families.
- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support by Weller Book Works and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220909T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220909T200000 UID:F4DF3532-AFB7-4E1C-A609-0FD3E760BF1B SUMMARY:Lavender House with Shanan Ballam and Danielle Dubrasky CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2463 DESCRIPTION:The Lavender House welcomes the community to join us in a reading and gathering featuring poets Shanan Balam and Danielle Dubrasky. Music by local Jake Rogers\N\NDanielle Beazer Dubrasky received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. Her chapbook, Ruin and Light, won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Competition. She lives in Cedar City, Utah, homeland of one of the Paiute Indian Tribes. She teaches poetry at Southern Utah University and Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values and annual Eco-Poetry and the Essay Conference. Drift Migration meditates on the intersection of landscape, myth, and loss from various imagistic perspectives that weave mythic lyric with distinctly feminine narrative poems. The poems explore relationships, loss, trauma, and a sense of place from the lush green of the south to the stark red rock of the southwest.\N\NShanan Ballam is a poet who teaches at Utah State University and is currently poet laureate of the city of Logan. Shanan was born in Ogden, Utah and currently resides in Logan, Utah with her husband, the poet Brock Dethier.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-Star Interpreting\N- Livestream can be accessed on Instagram @utahbookfest. Depends on internet quality. \N- There are no stairs to access the event. It is street parking, with either paved (flat driveway) or stone pathways to enter the garden.\N- Seating will be fold up chairs. There is room for people with wheelchairs. \N- There is one bathroom, available for any individual, not gender specific. And plenty of room for families. However, there are steps to enter the home to access the restroom. \N- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask Willy if needed.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Lavender House. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Lavender House welcomes the community to join us in a reading and gathering featuring poets Shanan Balam and Danielle Dubrasky. Music by local Jake Rogers

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. Her chapbook, Ruin and Light, won the 2014 Anabiosis Press Competition. She lives in Cedar City, Utah, homeland of one of the Paiute Indian Tribes. She teaches poetry at Southern Utah University and Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values and annual Eco-Poetry and the Essay Conference. Drift Migration meditates on the intersection of landscape, myth, and loss from various imagistic perspectives that weave mythic lyric with distinctly feminine narrative poems. The poems explore relationships, loss, trauma, and a sense of place from the lush green of the south to the stark red rock of the southwest.

Shanan Ballam is a poet who teaches at Utah State University and is currently poet laureate of the city of Logan. Shanan was born in Ogden, Utah and currently resides in Logan, Utah with her husband, the poet Brock Dethier.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-Star Interpreting
- Livestream can be accessed on Instagram @utahbookfest. Depends on internet quality.
- There are no stairs to access the event. It is street parking, with either paved (flat driveway) or stone pathways to enter the garden.
- Seating will be fold up chairs. There is room for people with wheelchairs.
- There is one bathroom, available for any individual, not gender specific. And plenty of room for families. However, there are steps to enter the home to access the restroom.
- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask Willy if needed.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Lavender House. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220909T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220909T190000 UID:4D148E24-03D1-4B22-AD02-0E5684859BCD SUMMARY:House of Fortune with Jessie Burton CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2553 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Jessie Burotn, author of four novels, including House of Fortune.\N\NThe sequel to Jessie Burton’s million-copy bestseller The \NMiniaturist\N\N‘Elegant, atmospheric, compelling. I absolutely loved it’ - Marian Keyes\N\N‘A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller’ - Elizabeth Day\N\NIn the golden city of Amsterdam, in 1705, Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and she is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the city’s theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, all is not well – her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat. On Thea’s birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present.\N\NNella is desperate to save the family and maintain appearances, to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdam’s most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed – perhaps this will set their fortunes straight.\NAnd indeed, the ball does set things spinning: new figures enter their life, promising new futures. But their fates are still unclear, and when Nella feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, she remembers the miniaturist who entered her life and toyed with her fortunes eighteen years ago. Perhaps, now, she has returned for her . . .\N\NThe House of Fortune is a glorious, sweeping story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Jessie Burotn, author of four novels, including House of Fortune.

The sequel to Jessie Burton’s million-copy bestseller The
Miniaturist

‘Elegant, atmospheric, compelling. I absolutely loved it’ - Marian Keyes

‘A book of beauty and insight . . . awe-inspiring. Burton is a master storyteller’ - Elizabeth Day

In the golden city of Amsterdam, in 1705, Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and she is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the city’s theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, all is not well – her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat. On Thea’s birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present.

Nella is desperate to save the family and maintain appearances, to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdam’s most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed – perhaps this will set their fortunes straight.
And indeed, the ball does set things spinning: new figures enter their life, promising new futures. But their fates are still unclear, and when Nella feels a strange prickling sensation on the back of her neck, she remembers the miniaturist who entered her life and toyed with her fortunes eighteen years ago. Perhaps, now, she has returned for her . . .

The House of Fortune is a glorious, sweeping story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220909T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220909T000000 UID:B903D514-57E2-4ECE-AD47-CF4EB43B25A6 SUMMARY:Alfred Lambourne Prize Ceremony CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2618 DESCRIPTION:FRIENDS celebrates the relationship between local artists and one of Utah’s most precious natural resources, Great Salt Lake. Through artistic expressions, we enhance our capacity to build awareness about the Lake and our need to preserve and protect it for the future.\N\NJoin FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake on Friday, September 9 from 6:30-8:30 PM for the Alfred Lambourne Arts Program gallery opening and reception at the Sorenson Community Campus gallery and blackbox theater (1383 South 900 West, SLC, UT). You'll experience artistic expressions of Great Salt Lake in the categories of visual arts, literary arts, movement, and sound. We will award $500 prizes to winners in each category. Free and open to the public. \N\NOur 2022 Jurors were:\N\NJaclyn Wright (visual arts) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines traditional analog photographic techniques with contemporary digital methods, performance, and installation. Wright is a recent recipient of the Collections Engagement Grant awarded by the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as part of their funded initiative Land Art, Landscape, and the American West. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published widely. Check out her current exhibition, High Visibility (Blaze Orange) at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.\N\NWilly Palomo (literary arts) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. In 2017, he received the City of Bloomington Latino Leadership Award and the MLK Building Bridges Graduate Student Award for his work serving undocumented communities in Indiana. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. His book reviews and creative writing have been featured in Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, Antologia de Posguerra, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more.\N\NLorin Hansen (movement) is a passionate instructor, performer, and lifelong student of dance and percussion. She is a two-time international samba champion, and has taught thousands of students in the U.S., Brazil, and Canada. In 2009, Hansen founded Samba Fogo, a dance and music ensemble that regularly headlines at large events and brings arts outreach programs to thousands of students. She believes dance is deep medicine that can heal, uplift, and empower our community. Check out her recent project, Return Dance Project, which utilizes the power of dance to celebrate, protect, and restore wild spaces, and heal our relationship with land. At Return Dance Project, we are returning to the Earth, using our dancing bodies to plant seeds, transplant saplings, and restore degraded land. We are dancing forests into existence. \N\NTalia Keys (sound) is an activist-musician who has laid a loyal local foundation in Salt Lake City clubs for over a decade, and later made her name on national tours and jam festivals from coast to coast. Keys’ vintage ethos, as well as her trademark fire and brimstone stage presence, are an amalgam of her journey, identity, influences; a new twist on the rock n’ roll troubadour singing songs of struggle and ultimately, triumph. Check out her latest album, Lessons. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION\N\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram \N- On-site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Friends of Great Salt Lake and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:FRIENDS celebrates the relationship between local artists and one of Utah’s most precious natural resources, Great Salt Lake. Through artistic expressions, we enhance our capacity to build awareness about the Lake and our need to preserve and protect it for the future.

Join FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake on Friday, September 9 from 6:30-8:30 PM for the Alfred Lambourne Arts Program gallery opening and reception at the Sorenson Community Campus gallery and blackbox theater (1383 South 900 West, SLC, UT). You'll experience artistic expressions of Great Salt Lake in the categories of visual arts, literary arts, movement, and sound. We will award $500 prizes to winners in each category. Free and open to the public.

Our 2022 Jurors were:

Jaclyn Wright (visual arts) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines traditional analog photographic techniques with contemporary digital methods, performance, and installation. Wright is a recent recipient of the Collections Engagement Grant awarded by the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as part of their funded initiative Land Art, Landscape, and the American West. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published widely. Check out her current exhibition, High Visibility (Blaze Orange) at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Willy Palomo (literary arts) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. In 2017, he received the City of Bloomington Latino Leadership Award and the MLK Building Bridges Graduate Student Award for his work serving undocumented communities in Indiana. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. His book reviews and creative writing have been featured in Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, Antologia de Posguerra, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more.

Lorin Hansen (movement) is a passionate instructor, performer, and lifelong student of dance and percussion. She is a two-time international samba champion, and has taught thousands of students in the U.S., Brazil, and Canada. In 2009, Hansen founded Samba Fogo, a dance and music ensemble that regularly headlines at large events and brings arts outreach programs to thousands of students. She believes dance is deep medicine that can heal, uplift, and empower our community. Check out her recent project, Return Dance Project, which utilizes the power of dance to celebrate, protect, and restore wild spaces, and heal our relationship with land. At Return Dance Project, we are returning to the Earth, using our dancing bodies to plant seeds, transplant saplings, and restore degraded land. We are dancing forests into existence.

Talia Keys (sound) is an activist-musician who has laid a loyal local foundation in Salt Lake City clubs for over a decade, and later made her name on national tours and jam festivals from coast to coast. Keys’ vintage ethos, as well as her trademark fire and brimstone stage presence, are an amalgam of her journey, identity, influences; a new twist on the rock n’ roll troubadour singing songs of struggle and ultimately, triumph. Check out her latest album, Lessons.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram
- On-site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Friends of Great Salt Lake and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T120000 UID:1BCD0A34-6874-475D-A870-5C19302335BD SUMMARY:My Brother Otto and The Birthday Party with Meg Raby CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2554 DESCRIPTION:The King's English welcomes Meg Raby, author of My Brother Otto and The Birthday Party.\N\NThis engaging picture book shows everyday life with little crow siblings when one of them is on the autism spectrum.\N\NMy Brother Otto is a child-friendly, endearing, and fun picture book for children about the love, acceptance, and understanding a sister, Piper, has for her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum. The book provides explanations for Otto’s differences and quirkiness in an easy-to-understand language, and highlights Otto’s desires for adventure and love—just like his peers. To be more specific, My Brother Otto is a sweet story about a sister and a brother who engage in common, everyday experiences in their own unique way with the idea that kindness and understanding always win!\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English welcomes Meg Raby, author of My Brother Otto and The Birthday Party.

This engaging picture book shows everyday life with little crow siblings when one of them is on the autism spectrum.

My Brother Otto is a child-friendly, endearing, and fun picture book for children about the love, acceptance, and understanding a sister, Piper, has for her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum. The book provides explanations for Otto’s differences and quirkiness in an easy-to-understand language, and highlights Otto’s desires for adventure and love—just like his peers. To be more specific, My Brother Otto is a sweet story about a sister and a brother who engage in common, everyday experiences in their own unique way with the idea that kindness and understanding always win!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T130000 UID:EC6732D4-DD85-4815-A3F9-E5FF2E25780D SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Bees! with Katie Coles CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2464 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a short trek led by poet Katharine Coles.\N\NPoet, novelist, and editor Katharine Coles earned a BA at the University of Washington, an MA at the University of Houston, and a PhD at the University of Utah.\N\NColes is the author of several collections of poetry, including Wayward (2019), Fault (2008), Utah Book Award winner The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension (2001), and The One Right Touch (1992). She is also the author of the novels Fire Season (2005) and The Measurable World (1995). Her collaboration with visual artist Maureen O’Hara has led to the artists’ book Swoon (2003) as well as several installations. As the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Coles edited the anthology Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities (2011) and the reports Poetry & New Media: A Users’ Guide and Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry.\N\NColes has received numerous honors for her work, including a term as Utah’s poet laureate, both a fellowship and a New Forms Project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a PEN New Writer’s Award, an Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant from the National Science Foundation, and grants from the Utah Arts Council and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.\N\NAt the University of Utah, Coles has directed the Creative Writing Program; co-directed the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, with mathematician and biologist Fred Alder; and served as series editor for the University of Utah Press’s Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Book Award. She lives in Salt Lake City.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided upon request\N- No livestream will be made available. Video may be posted afterwards.\N- Parking: The event has both accessible parking and access to the seating area, though it is primarily a dirt path and grass.\N- Seating: Seating is bring your own so accessibility is up to the participant.\N- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are all gender and available for families, though there are a few stairs so less accessible for disabled communities at this time.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Stokes Nature Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a short trek led by poet Katharine Coles.

Poet, novelist, and editor Katharine Coles earned a BA at the University of Washington, an MA at the University of Houston, and a PhD at the University of Utah.

Coles is the author of several collections of poetry, including Wayward (2019), Fault (2008), Utah Book Award winner The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension (2001), and The One Right Touch (1992). She is also the author of the novels Fire Season (2005) and The Measurable World (1995). Her collaboration with visual artist Maureen O’Hara has led to the artists’ book Swoon (2003) as well as several installations. As the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Coles edited the anthology Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities (2011) and the reports Poetry & New Media: A Users’ Guide and Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry.

Coles has received numerous honors for her work, including a term as Utah’s poet laureate, both a fellowship and a New Forms Project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a PEN New Writer’s Award, an Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant from the National Science Foundation, and grants from the Utah Arts Council and the Salt Lake City Arts Council.

At the University of Utah, Coles has directed the Creative Writing Program; co-directed the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, with mathematician and biologist Fred Alder; and served as series editor for the University of Utah Press’s Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Book Award. She lives in Salt Lake City.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided upon request
- No livestream will be made available. Video may be posted afterwards.
- Parking: The event has both accessible parking and access to the seating area, though it is primarily a dirt path and grass.
- Seating: Seating is bring your own so accessibility is up to the participant.
- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are all gender and available for families, though there are a few stairs so less accessible for disabled communities at this time.
- No on-site sensory kit
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Stokes Nature Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T122000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T132000 UID:169401EF-6DBD-4100-A10D-EAF1BA582A60 SUMMARY:Hispanic Heritage Parade with Jose and Kelly Carlos CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2498 DESCRIPTION:Join the Utah Humanities Book Festival at the Hispanic Heritage Parade at the Gateway. We're bringing Jose M. and Kelly Carlos to the South Stage of the Gateway for an interactive dance and storytelling presentation perfect for the children. They will be presenting from their children's book The Corn People and introducing children to danza azteca.\N\NTake Care Utah is a program of Utah Health Policy Project that provides FREE help to people applying for health insurance to increase access to health care.\N\NTake Care Utah’s annual Hispanic Heritage Parade and Festival celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. Our goal is to attract the Hispanic community to a fun and festive event, to celebrate culture, tradition and cuisine.\N\NUtah has the highest rate of uninsured Hispanic children in the country, and Take Care Utah uses this event to build relationships with Hispanic Utahns and emphasize the importance of health care coverage, while enjoying dance performers, live music, and plenty of good food.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Livestream available on the Hispanic Heritage Parade and Festival Facebook Page\N- Parking: the parking is located around the gateway which complies with ADA regulations.\N- Seating: In the North stage area, there are a couple sitting areas provided.\N- Bathrooms: There will be portable potties on the first level in addition to the bathrooms already available at the gateway.\N- On-site sensory kit. Search for Willy Palomo from Utah Humanities.\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Health Policy Project, Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Utah Humanities Book Festival at the Hispanic Heritage Parade at the Gateway. We're bringing Jose M. and Kelly Carlos to the South Stage of the Gateway for an interactive dance and storytelling presentation perfect for the children. They will be presenting from their children's book The Corn People and introducing children to danza azteca.

Take Care Utah is a program of Utah Health Policy Project that provides FREE help to people applying for health insurance to increase access to health care.

Take Care Utah’s annual Hispanic Heritage Parade and Festival celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. Our goal is to attract the Hispanic community to a fun and festive event, to celebrate culture, tradition and cuisine.

Utah has the highest rate of uninsured Hispanic children in the country, and Take Care Utah uses this event to build relationships with Hispanic Utahns and emphasize the importance of health care coverage, while enjoying dance performers, live music, and plenty of good food.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Livestream available on the Hispanic Heritage Parade and Festival Facebook Page
- Parking: the parking is located around the gateway which complies with ADA regulations.
- Seating: In the North stage area, there are a couple sitting areas provided.
- Bathrooms: There will be portable potties on the first level in addition to the bathrooms already available at the gateway.
- On-site sensory kit. Search for Willy Palomo from Utah Humanities.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Health Policy Project, Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T160000 UID:39FDE969-A5F4-44DE-AC2D-401872BD1480 SUMMARY:CoraZones with Mauricio Novoa CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2488 DESCRIPTION:Join Plumas Colectiva at The Box Too for a special CoraZones with Mauricio Novoa, author of Memorias from the Beltway. \N\NCoraZones is a reading and writing cipher for the Utah Poetry Slam community. Corazón means heart in Spanish. CoraZones fosters a warm, inclusive space for community members to exercise and strengthen their creativity. \N\N*Please come prepared with a method of writing, be it a notepad and writing utensil, laptop, cellphone or whatever.* \N\NCoraZones will start at 2pm at Under the Umbrella Bookstore. Each session will begin with a brief introduction, including chosen pronouns, and an emotional health check-in of participants to gauge the energy people are bringing into the room. After the check-in, the host will lead a reading exercise and discussion to teach a literary technique. After the conversation, participants will have time to generate new writing. Time will be provided at the end of the hour for participants to share their newly created work, as well as share poems they are seeking feedback on. \N\NRead the rules of engagement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWXNgoB42uu7HtWUOBqctwVuah0OGfVSvaLlHNFsQ1w/edit?usp=sharing\N\NBio: Mauricio Novoa was born and raised in Glenmont, MD to Salvadoran refugees. He attended Gettysburg College, where he lived briefly after graduation. There he worked with middle and high school students in a Migrant Education after-school program, helped tutor in adult ESL classes, and volunteered at Casa de le Cultura programs. He received his Master’s degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Memorias From The Beltway is his first full-length collection of poetry. His work has also been published in The Petigru Review, Acentos Review, Blue Mesa Review, Latino Book Review, and the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States He currently lives in Austin, TX with his partner and pet tortoise, where he volunteers at Resistencia Books and the Barrio Writers program in Pflugerville. \\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION \N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram \N- Parking: Event is at the gateway right outside the planetarium Trax station. There is a parking garage. There are no stairs and entrances are Ada compliant.\N- Seating: Standard folding chairs are used. Cushioned chairs available upon request. There is space for people with wheelchairs. \N- Bathrooms: 2 Ada accessible all gender restrooms are available\N- Sensory kit on-site. Ask Willy Palomo of Utah Humanities for one. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is a part of the Hispanic Heritage Parade and Welcoming Week SLC. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Box Too, Plumas Colectiva, Utah Poetry Slam, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Plumas Colectiva at The Box Too for a special CoraZones with Mauricio Novoa, author of Memorias from the Beltway.

CoraZones is a reading and writing cipher for the Utah Poetry Slam community. Corazón means heart in Spanish. CoraZones fosters a warm, inclusive space for community members to exercise and strengthen their creativity.

*Please come prepared with a method of writing, be it a notepad and writing utensil, laptop, cellphone or whatever.*

CoraZones will start at 2pm at Under the Umbrella Bookstore. Each session will begin with a brief introduction, including chosen pronouns, and an emotional health check-in of participants to gauge the energy people are bringing into the room. After the check-in, the host will lead a reading exercise and discussion to teach a literary technique. After the conversation, participants will have time to generate new writing. Time will be provided at the end of the hour for participants to share their newly created work, as well as share poems they are seeking feedback on.

Read the rules of engagement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWXNgoB42uu7HtWUOBqctwVuah0OGfVSvaLlHNFsQ1w/edit?usp=sharing

Bio: Mauricio Novoa was born and raised in Glenmont, MD to Salvadoran refugees. He attended Gettysburg College, where he lived briefly after graduation. There he worked with middle and high school students in a Migrant Education after-school program, helped tutor in adult ESL classes, and volunteered at Casa de le Cultura programs. He received his Master’s degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Memorias From The Beltway is his first full-length collection of poetry. His work has also been published in The Petigru Review, Acentos Review, Blue Mesa Review, Latino Book Review, and the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States He currently lives in Austin, TX with his partner and pet tortoise, where he volunteers at Resistencia Books and the Barrio Writers program in Pflugerville. \

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram
- Parking: Event is at the gateway right outside the planetarium Trax station. There is a parking garage. There are no stairs and entrances are Ada compliant.
- Seating: Standard folding chairs are used. Cushioned chairs available upon request. There is space for people with wheelchairs.
- Bathrooms: 2 Ada accessible all gender restrooms are available
- Sensory kit on-site. Ask Willy Palomo of Utah Humanities for one.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is a part of the Hispanic Heritage Parade and Welcoming Week SLC.

This event is made possible with support from The Box Too, Plumas Colectiva, Utah Poetry Slam, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T160000 UID:B31304EC-9FB7-4B0E-9885-0690EA8629E1 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Irreplaceable CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2494 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Helper River Pavilion for a short trek led by poet Nan Seymour.\N\NNan Seymour is author of two collections of poetry: Prayers Not Meant for Heaven and Irreplaceable, a collective poem in praise of the Great Salt Lake. She was Poet-in-Residence at Antelope Island and is the founder and force behind the River Writing Collective.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RUQIS. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Helper River Pavilion for a short trek led by poet Nan Seymour.

Nan Seymour is author of two collections of poetry: Prayers Not Meant for Heaven and Irreplaceable, a collective poem in praise of the Great Salt Lake. She was Poet-in-Residence at Antelope Island and is the founder and force behind the River Writing Collective.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- No on-site sensory kit
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and RUQIS. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T200000 UID:D4880350-4F20-46F6-BE4D-01AAD1D727A6 SUMMARY:Steamboat Mountain Reading Series presents Nan Seymour CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2465 DESCRIPTION:Join the Steamboat Mountain Reading Series at the K2 Gallery for a magical reading with Nan Seymour, author of Irreplaceable and Prayers Not Meant for Heaven. \N\NNan Seymour is author of two collections of poetry: Prayers Not Meant for Heaven and Irreplaceable, a collective poem in praise of the Great Salt Lake. She was Poet-in-Residence at Antelope Island and is the founder and force behind the River Writing Collective. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation \N- Livestream available via K-2 Gallery Facebook\N- Parking: There is easy access to the event and parking on Main Street in Helper.\N- Seating: Accessible seating will be provided in the gallery. \N- Bathrooms: There is one bathroom off the gallery that is easily accessible.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Steamboat Mountain Reading Series. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Steamboat Mountain Reading Series at the K2 Gallery for a magical reading with Nan Seymour, author of Irreplaceable and Prayers Not Meant for Heaven.

Nan Seymour is author of two collections of poetry: Prayers Not Meant for Heaven and Irreplaceable, a collective poem in praise of the Great Salt Lake. She was Poet-in-Residence at Antelope Island and is the founder and force behind the River Writing Collective.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation
- Livestream available via K-2 Gallery Facebook
- Parking: There is easy access to the event and parking on Main Street in Helper.
- Seating: Accessible seating will be provided in the gallery.
- Bathrooms: There is one bathroom off the gallery that is easily accessible.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Steamboat Mountain Reading Series. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T200000 UID:EB864692-81AF-42AB-BF18-8525D4657C95 SUMMARY:PoetFlow with Mauricio Novoa CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2543 DESCRIPTION:PoetFlow is excited to feature Mauricio Novoa, author of Memorias of the Beltway. \N\NMauricio Novoa was born and raised in Glenmont, MD to Salvadoran refugees. He attended Gettysburg College, where he lived briefly after graduation. There he worked with middle and high school students in a Migrant Education after-school program, helped tutor in adult ESL classes, and volunteered at Casa de le Cultura programs. He received his Master’s degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Memorias From The Beltway is his first full-length collection of poetry. His work has also been published in The Petigru Review, Acentos Review, Blue Mesa Review, Latino Book Review, the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and is forthcoming in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatinNext. He currently lives in Austin, TX with his partner and pet tortoise, where he volunteers at Resistencia Books and the Barrio Writers program in Pflugerville. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation\N- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram\N- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, PoetFlow, Utah Humanities, Queen Bee Giftery, and Roosters B Street. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:PoetFlow is excited to feature Mauricio Novoa, author of Memorias of the Beltway.

Mauricio Novoa was born and raised in Glenmont, MD to Salvadoran refugees. He attended Gettysburg College, where he lived briefly after graduation. There he worked with middle and high school students in a Migrant Education after-school program, helped tutor in adult ESL classes, and volunteered at Casa de le Cultura programs. He received his Master’s degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Memorias From The Beltway is his first full-length collection of poetry. His work has also been published in The Petigru Review, Acentos Review, Blue Mesa Review, Latino Book Review, the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and is forthcoming in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatinNext. He currently lives in Austin, TX with his partner and pet tortoise, where he volunteers at Resistencia Books and the Barrio Writers program in Pflugerville.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation
- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram
- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, PoetFlow, Utah Humanities, Queen Bee Giftery, and Roosters B Street. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T190000 UID:38E9E9B3-D31F-472B-953B-E24DF7395D6D SUMMARY:Utah! with Levi Rogers CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2561 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works welcomes Levi Rogers, author of Utah! \N\NFleeing from ever present wildfires and the threat of the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupting, Lee, Becca, and their daughter Analise embark on a road-trip through the state of Utah to a wedding in Zion National Park. Set in the not-too-distant-future, Utah! is a novel about climate change and the intricacies of relationships-between family, partners, religious structures, nature, and the American West. Featuring a litany of intriguing Utah residents including ex and current Mormons, doomsday preppers, military vets, Presbyterian ministers, and Colombian housewives, these characters eventually find their paths crossing in violence, disaster, and friendship. Through desert islands, climbing gyms, beer bars, suburbia, mountains, coffee shops, long drives, and mass shootings, Utah! seeks to show the true diversity, beauty, and yes, sometimes peculiar, aspects of one of the most misunderstood states. It's a novel about the smoldering darkness beneath the surface of our individual selves and society ... and what happens when we refuse to acknowledge our past transgressions. Utah! is a slow burn of a novel that ends with an explosive finish.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation will only be provided by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org\N- For livestream information, call Weller Book Works.\N- PARKING Is Free And Available In The 600 South Parking Lot And Along The 700 East Buildings. There Is Also Parking Along Building A In Front Of Alice Lane And Building B In Front Of Pottery Barn. We Also Have An Underground Parking Garage That Is Accessible Along The Corner Of 500 South And Also On The Corner Of 600 East. There Is Roof Access Parking On The 500 South/700 East Corner Above Whole Foods.\NHANDICAP PARKING Is Available Throughout Trolley Square. If You Are In Need Of A Wheelchair, Please Call The Trolley Square Security Office At 801-534-0160 And They Will Bring A Wheelchair To You. (Rental Is Free)\N- We can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.\N- Single stall bathrooms are available adjacent to the bookstore, large enough for disabled people and families.\N- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works welcomes Levi Rogers, author of Utah!

Fleeing from ever present wildfires and the threat of the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupting, Lee, Becca, and their daughter Analise embark on a road-trip through the state of Utah to a wedding in Zion National Park. Set in the not-too-distant-future, Utah! is a novel about climate change and the intricacies of relationships-between family, partners, religious structures, nature, and the American West. Featuring a litany of intriguing Utah residents including ex and current Mormons, doomsday preppers, military vets, Presbyterian ministers, and Colombian housewives, these characters eventually find their paths crossing in violence, disaster, and friendship. Through desert islands, climbing gyms, beer bars, suburbia, mountains, coffee shops, long drives, and mass shootings, Utah! seeks to show the true diversity, beauty, and yes, sometimes peculiar, aspects of one of the most misunderstood states. It's a novel about the smoldering darkness beneath the surface of our individual selves and society ... and what happens when we refuse to acknowledge our past transgressions. Utah! is a slow burn of a novel that ends with an explosive finish.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation will only be provided by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org
- For livestream information, call Weller Book Works.
- PARKING Is Free And Available In The 600 South Parking Lot And Along The 700 East Buildings. There Is Also Parking Along Building A In Front Of Alice Lane And Building B In Front Of Pottery Barn. We Also Have An Underground Parking Garage That Is Accessible Along The Corner Of 500 South And Also On The Corner Of 600 East. There Is Roof Access Parking On The 500 South/700 East Corner Above Whole Foods.
HANDICAP PARKING Is Available Throughout Trolley Square. If You Are In Need Of A Wheelchair, Please Call The Trolley Square Security Office At 801-534-0160 And They Will Bring A Wheelchair To You. (Rental Is Free)
- We can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.
- Single stall bathrooms are available adjacent to the bookstore, large enough for disabled people and families.
- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220910T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220910T210000 UID:4CEE33F2-F8C8-47A8-9309-94EAA127B6BA SUMMARY:Coyote Tales: Tradition CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2528 DESCRIPTION:GET YOUR STORY HEARD\NBYOP (Bring your own picnic) starts at 7 PM, stories @ 7:45\NTHE THEME FOR THE EVENING’S STORIES IS: TRADITION\NPrepare a 5 minute story about customs, heritage or birthright. Think: Folklore, wisdom or ritual passed from generation to generation. Tell us YOUR story about connection to ancestry or times past.\N\NYOUR STORY MUST BE YOUR STORY\N\NWere you there? Are you the main character? Your involment in the events as they unfold is essential. We are after true, first person narratives.\N\NWe have a great line-up of storytellers but there is room on the stage for YOU too. Please contact Victoria through this website and she’ll give you all the details to participate. Even if you don’t want to get on stage, come and enjoy an amazing evening of true stories told live the Coyote Tales way.\N\Neveryone has a story\N\NTHIS EVENT IS FREE!\NPlease no standup routines or rants.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation \N- Livestream available by Coyote Tales Facebook\N- PARKING: Ivins City Park can be found in the heart of Ivins, directly behind City Hall and the Public Safety Department. Encompassing 4.7-acres, Ivins City Park is the oldest of all Parks in Ivins. This historic park hosts many community events, such as Pioneer Day and Heritage Days. It is ideal for family reunions, picnics and smaller parties. The west pavilion can comfortably seat 150 people and the east pavilion can accommodate 100.\NExisting amenities: two pavilions, a playground, baseball field, restrooms, and grassy areas to relax in. There is ample street parking and a large parking lot adjacent to the park. Curb ramps and pedestrian walkways are accessible to persons with mobility disabilities. The event is on the grass in the outfield of the ballpark.\N\N- SEATING: Seating is outdoor event style bring your own camp chairs or blanket.\N\N- BATHROOMS: Large bathrooms that are wheelchair accessible are available although there is not a changing table available. \N\N- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.\N\N- No mask policy for this event\N\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:GET YOUR STORY HEARD
BYOP (Bring your own picnic) starts at 7 PM, stories @ 7:45
THE THEME FOR THE EVENING’S STORIES IS: TRADITION
Prepare a 5 minute story about customs, heritage or birthright. Think: Folklore, wisdom or ritual passed from generation to generation. Tell us YOUR story about connection to ancestry or times past.

YOUR STORY MUST BE YOUR STORY

Were you there? Are you the main character? Your involment in the events as they unfold is essential. We are after true, first person narratives.

We have a great line-up of storytellers but there is room on the stage for YOU too. Please contact Victoria through this website and she’ll give you all the details to participate. Even if you don’t want to get on stage, come and enjoy an amazing evening of true stories told live the Coyote Tales way.

everyone has a story

THIS EVENT IS FREE!
Please no standup routines or rants.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Livestream available by Coyote Tales Facebook
- PARKING: Ivins City Park can be found in the heart of Ivins, directly behind City Hall and the Public Safety Department. Encompassing 4.7-acres, Ivins City Park is the oldest of all Parks in Ivins. This historic park hosts many community events, such as Pioneer Day and Heritage Days. It is ideal for family reunions, picnics and smaller parties. The west pavilion can comfortably seat 150 people and the east pavilion can accommodate 100.
Existing amenities: two pavilions, a playground, baseball field, restrooms, and grassy areas to relax in. There is ample street parking and a large parking lot adjacent to the park. Curb ramps and pedestrian walkways are accessible to persons with mobility disabilities. The event is on the grass in the outfield of the ballpark.

- SEATING: Seating is outdoor event style bring your own camp chairs or blanket.

- BATHROOMS: Large bathrooms that are wheelchair accessible are available although there is not a changing table available. 

- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.

- No mask policy for this event

- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8 X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220912T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220912T200000 UID:BD3339F4-63AF-4FDC-A96E-FD9C240E68FA SUMMARY:A Crime on the Bayou CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2495 DESCRIPTION:Join UBLAC for a film screening and discussion with author Matthew Van Meter. \N\NModerator: Shaadie Nunnally\N\NCrime on the Bayou, a film based on Deep Delta Justice. \NA Black teenager bravely challenges the most powerful white supremacist in 1960s Louisiana with the help of a young Jewish attorney. Systemic racism meets its match in decisive courtroom battles, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and a lifelong friendship is born.\N\NPanelists\N\NMatthew Van Meter, author of Deep Delta Justice\N\NMatthew works with people whose voices have been ignored or silenced. As a reporter, he covers criminal justice stories, focusing on the experiences of people whose lives have been upended by law enforcement and corrections. And as co-facilitator and Assistant Director of Shakespeare in Prison, he supports the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as they use the exploration of Shakespeare's plays to empower themselves and each other.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Metered parking is readily available on West Temple and 100 South between West Temple and Main Street.\NFree: The first 2 hours of parking at City Creek Center Mall are free.\NPaid parking is available at the Marriott Hotel across the street on West Temple.\NPaid parking is available at the Plaza Hotel across the street on South Temple near the TRAX station. You can also take Trax! When you depart from the Temple Square Station, we’re less than half a block from the station on West Temple.\N- on-site sensory kit available. Ask for Willy Palomo\N- Masks recommended \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from UBLAC and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join UBLAC for a film screening and discussion with author Matthew Van Meter.

Moderator: Shaadie Nunnally

Crime on the Bayou, a film based on Deep Delta Justice.
A Black teenager bravely challenges the most powerful white supremacist in 1960s Louisiana with the help of a young Jewish attorney. Systemic racism meets its match in decisive courtroom battles, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and a lifelong friendship is born.

Panelists

Matthew Van Meter, author of Deep Delta Justice

Matthew works with people whose voices have been ignored or silenced. As a reporter, he covers criminal justice stories, focusing on the experiences of people whose lives have been upended by law enforcement and corrections. And as co-facilitator and Assistant Director of Shakespeare in Prison, he supports the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people as they use the exploration of Shakespeare's plays to empower themselves and each other.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Metered parking is readily available on West Temple and 100 South between West Temple and Main Street.
Free: The first 2 hours of parking at City Creek Center Mall are free.
Paid parking is available at the Marriott Hotel across the street on West Temple.
Paid parking is available at the Plaza Hotel across the street on South Temple near the TRAX station. You can also take Trax! When you depart from the Temple Square Station, we’re less than half a block from the station on West Temple.
- on-site sensory kit available. Ask for Willy Palomo
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from UBLAC and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220913T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220913T133000 UID:4DF536FC-B1B5-48C1-8D17-20CB4FEE3283 SUMMARY:Unwell Women with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2489 DESCRIPTION:The SLCC Gender and Sexuality Resource Center presents Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn. The event will be held in the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center (SCM 1-140) , SLCC South City Campus.\N \NZoom: https://slcc-edu.zoom.us/j/83695848844?pwd=bXk3ajNlUGRUb0pJSE96aEUyTmhMZz09 \NMeeting ID: 836 9584 8844 \NPasscode: 247995\N\NA trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.\N \NElinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis.\N \NIn Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the “wandering womb” of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. \N\NPacked with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SLCC Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The SLCC Gender and Sexuality Resource Center presents Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn. The event will be held in the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center (SCM 1-140) , SLCC South City Campus.

Zoom: https://slcc-edu.zoom.us/j/83695848844?pwd=bXk3ajNlUGRUb0pJSE96aEUyTmhMZz09
Meeting ID: 836 9584 8844
Passcode: 247995

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.

Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis.

In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the “wandering womb” of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis.

Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SLCC Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220913T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220913T000000 UID:CAA7AC18-543E-461E-8ECA-41DD9D2545BE SUMMARY:Imposter with Bradleigh Godfrey CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2555 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop is excited to welcome Bradleigh Godfrey, author of Imposter. \N\NBradeigh Godfrey is a physician, mom of four, and a writer. Her medical career is focused on caring for veterans with visible and invisible disabilities, and she is passionate about improving quality of life and wellness in veterans through research, teaching, and clinical work. Her debut novel, IMPOSTER, is a psychological thriller exploring sisterhood, secrets, and the neuroscience of memory and trauma (Blackstone, September 13, 2022). She’s an avid reader and book reviewer and can be found on Instagram (@bradeighgodfrey) sharing her latest reads. Bradeigh also co-writes romantic women’s fiction under the pen name Ali Brady (www.AliBradyBooks.net).\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop is excited to welcome Bradleigh Godfrey, author of Imposter.

Bradeigh Godfrey is a physician, mom of four, and a writer. Her medical career is focused on caring for veterans with visible and invisible disabilities, and she is passionate about improving quality of life and wellness in veterans through research, teaching, and clinical work. Her debut novel, IMPOSTER, is a psychological thriller exploring sisterhood, secrets, and the neuroscience of memory and trauma (Blackstone, September 13, 2022). She’s an avid reader and book reviewer and can be found on Instagram (@bradeighgodfrey) sharing her latest reads. Bradeigh also co-writes romantic women’s fiction under the pen name Ali Brady (www.AliBradyBooks.net).

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220914T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220914T173000 UID:B5B638B6-1C03-4498-B350-6DBA2F569E6F SUMMARY:Youth High School Poetry Slam Workshop CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2491 DESCRIPTION:Join the Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative for a youth poetry workshop with Cynthia Guardado. \N\NCENIZAS \N\NCenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives have been shaped by the upheavals of global politics. The speaker of these poems—the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants—questions the meaning of homeland as she navigates life in the United States while remaining tethered to El Salvador by the long shadows cast by personal and public history. Cynthia Guardado’s poems give voice to the grief of family trauma, while capturing moments of beauty and tenderness. Maternal figures preside over the verses, guiding the speaker as she searches the ashes of history to tell her family’s story. The spare, narrative style of the poems are filled with depth as the family’s layers come to light.\N\NGuardado crafted the poems in Cenizas over a ten-year period, often traveling to El Salvador for research and to conduct interviews. The Salvadoran Civil War haunts the pages of this collection as it unflinchingly explores war, its aftermath, and the bittersweet legacies that are passed down from one generation to the next. The poems mourn those who were lost and honor the strength of the speaker’s ancestors. “All my people have been born from the ashes of volcanoes,” she writes, invoking a family lineage that has endured the atrocities committed against them. Even so, El Salvador keeps pulling the speaker back—and despite warnings of danger, she still manages to find beauty among the ruins.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. \N- Livestream on @utahbookfest Instagram\N- Parking: Disabled parking available in each of the parking lots. \N- Seating: Standard classroom chairs provided. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms with accessible stalls available throughout school. SIngle-stall available upon request. \N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo for one if needed. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is possible with support from Utah Humanities, Kearns High School, and the Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative for a youth poetry workshop with Cynthia Guardado.

CENIZAS

Cenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives have been shaped by the upheavals of global politics. The speaker of these poems—the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants—questions the meaning of homeland as she navigates life in the United States while remaining tethered to El Salvador by the long shadows cast by personal and public history. Cynthia Guardado’s poems give voice to the grief of family trauma, while capturing moments of beauty and tenderness. Maternal figures preside over the verses, guiding the speaker as she searches the ashes of history to tell her family’s story. The spare, narrative style of the poems are filled with depth as the family’s layers come to light.

Guardado crafted the poems in Cenizas over a ten-year period, often traveling to El Salvador for research and to conduct interviews. The Salvadoran Civil War haunts the pages of this collection as it unflinchingly explores war, its aftermath, and the bittersweet legacies that are passed down from one generation to the next. The poems mourn those who were lost and honor the strength of the speaker’s ancestors. “All my people have been born from the ashes of volcanoes,” she writes, invoking a family lineage that has endured the atrocities committed against them. Even so, El Salvador keeps pulling the speaker back—and despite warnings of danger, she still manages to find beauty among the ruins.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested.
- Livestream on @utahbookfest Instagram
- Parking: Disabled parking available in each of the parking lots.
- Seating: Standard classroom chairs provided. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms with accessible stalls available throughout school. SIngle-stall available upon request.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo for one if needed.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is possible with support from Utah Humanities, Kearns High School, and the Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220914T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220914T200000 UID:19504705-049D-4B32-83F7-F95573712AD8 SUMMARY:Book and Bite with Cynthia Guardado CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2490 DESCRIPTION:Join the SLCC Food Pantry for our first Book and Bite with Cynthia Guardado. We will be sharing meals from Decolonizing Your Diet by Luz Calvo and poetry by Cynthia Guardado. \N\NFind us here: West Valley Center Room 130, 3460 South 5600 West, West Valley City, UT 84128\N\NDECOLONIZE YOUR DIET\N\NMore than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases of development. Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian Mexican foods. They promote a diet that is rich in plants indigenous to the Americas (corn, beans, squash, greens, herbs, and seeds), and are passionate about the idea that Latinxs in America, specifically Mexicans, need to ditch the fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for both physical health and spiritual fulfillment.\N\NCENIZAS \N\NCenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives have been shaped by the upheavals of global politics. The speaker of these poems—the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants—questions the meaning of homeland as she navigates life in the United States while remaining tethered to El Salvador by the long shadows cast by personal and public history. Cynthia Guardado’s poems give voice to the grief of family trauma, while capturing moments of beauty and tenderness. Maternal figures preside over the verses, guiding the speaker as she searches the ashes of history to tell her family’s story. The spare, narrative style of the poems are filled with depth as the family’s layers come to light.\N\NGuardado crafted the poems in Cenizas over a ten-year period, often traveling to El Salvador for research and to conduct interviews. The Salvadoran Civil War haunts the pages of this collection as it unflinchingly explores war, its aftermath, and the bittersweet legacies that are passed down from one generation to the next. The poems mourn those who were lost and honor the strength of the speaker’s ancestors. “All my people have been born from the ashes of volcanoes,” she writes, invoking a family lineage that has endured the atrocities committed against them. Even so, El Salvador keeps pulling the speaker back—and despite warnings of danger, she still manages to find beauty among the ruins.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke. \N- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram. \N- On site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo for one. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is possible with support from SLCC Dream Center and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the SLCC Food Pantry for our first Book and Bite with Cynthia Guardado. We will be sharing meals from Decolonizing Your Diet by Luz Calvo and poetry by Cynthia Guardado.

Find us here: West Valley Center Room 130, 3460 South 5600 West, West Valley City, UT 84128

DECOLONIZE YOUR DIET

More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases of development. Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian Mexican foods. They promote a diet that is rich in plants indigenous to the Americas (corn, beans, squash, greens, herbs, and seeds), and are passionate about the idea that Latinxs in America, specifically Mexicans, need to ditch the fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for both physical health and spiritual fulfillment.

CENIZAS

Cenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives have been shaped by the upheavals of global politics. The speaker of these poems—the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants—questions the meaning of homeland as she navigates life in the United States while remaining tethered to El Salvador by the long shadows cast by personal and public history. Cynthia Guardado’s poems give voice to the grief of family trauma, while capturing moments of beauty and tenderness. Maternal figures preside over the verses, guiding the speaker as she searches the ashes of history to tell her family’s story. The spare, narrative style of the poems are filled with depth as the family’s layers come to light.

Guardado crafted the poems in Cenizas over a ten-year period, often traveling to El Salvador for research and to conduct interviews. The Salvadoran Civil War haunts the pages of this collection as it unflinchingly explores war, its aftermath, and the bittersweet legacies that are passed down from one generation to the next. The poems mourn those who were lost and honor the strength of the speaker’s ancestors. “All my people have been born from the ashes of volcanoes,” she writes, invoking a family lineage that has endured the atrocities committed against them. Even so, El Salvador keeps pulling the speaker back—and despite warnings of danger, she still manages to find beauty among the ruins.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke.
- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- On site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo for one.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is possible with support from SLCC Dream Center and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220914T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220914T000000 UID:28D90515-3E48-486E-AD35-12B276BB4724 SUMMARY:Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2556 DESCRIPTION:The King's English welcomes Taylor Brorby. \N\NTaylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Mesa Refuge, Blue Mountain Center, and the North Dakota Humanities Council.\N\NTaylor’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Orion Magazine, The Arkansas International, Southern Humanities Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He is a contributing editor at North American Review and serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press.\N\NTaylor regularly speaks around the country on issues related to extractive economies, queerness, disability, and climate change. He is the Annie Tanner Clark Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support form the King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English welcomes Taylor Brorby.

Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing up gay in a fractured land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Mesa Refuge, Blue Mountain Center, and the North Dakota Humanities Council.

Taylor’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Orion Magazine, The Arkansas International, Southern Humanities Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He is a contributing editor at North American Review and serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press.

Taylor regularly speaks around the country on issues related to extractive economies, queerness, disability, and climate change. He is the Annie Tanner Clark Fellow in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support form the King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220915T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220915T000000 UID:F474B6A9-7215-496A-A046-F977B3906C1F SUMMARY:The Spirit of Carl Sandburg CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2567 DESCRIPTION:A one-man performance and dedication to Carl Sandburg - "the people's poet" - created from Sandburg's own words and poetry.\N\NA one-man performance and dedication to Carl Sandburg - "the people's poet" - created from Sandburg's own words and poetry.\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Library.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A one-man performance and dedication to Carl Sandburg - "the people's poet" - created from Sandburg's own words and poetry.

A one-man performance and dedication to Carl Sandburg - "the people's poet" - created from Sandburg's own words and poetry.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Park City Library.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220915T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220915T203000 UID:AB9CC9AD-C9FD-4702-97D0-45F29EF81D0F SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Finding Solace in the Soil CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2619 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature Join us at Red Butte Garden for a conversation with Lily Havey, author of Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, and Dr. Bonnie Clark, author of Finding Solace in the Soil. \N\NPresented by Lily Yuriko Havey and Bonnie J. Clark \N\NDuring World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes on the Pacific coast and placed into confinement camps throughout the western US. The people incarcerated there transformed these hostile landscapes through intensive gardening, a testimony to their skill and resilience. This talk brings together two authors who have used different techniques—art and archaeology—to explore the gardens at one such camp: Amache, Colorado. This unique look at historic gardens draws from personal experience, imagination, and systematic landscape study to weave a holistic picture of these inspirational expressions of the human spirit. \N\NLily Yuriko Havey is an artist and a survivor of the Colorado Japanese American incarceration camp, Amache. The author of Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence, Havey lives and works in Salt Lake City. \N\NDr. Bonnie J. Clark leads collaborative archaeology at Amache and serves as an anthropology professor at the University of Denver. She is the author of Finding Solace in the Soil: An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram\N- On-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, The King's English Bookshop, and Red Butte Garden. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature Join us at Red Butte Garden for a conversation with Lily Havey, author of Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, and Dr. Bonnie Clark, author of Finding Solace in the Soil.

Presented by Lily Yuriko Havey and Bonnie J. Clark

During World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes on the Pacific coast and placed into confinement camps throughout the western US. The people incarcerated there transformed these hostile landscapes through intensive gardening, a testimony to their skill and resilience. This talk brings together two authors who have used different techniques—art and archaeology—to explore the gardens at one such camp: Amache, Colorado. This unique look at historic gardens draws from personal experience, imagination, and systematic landscape study to weave a holistic picture of these inspirational expressions of the human spirit.

Lily Yuriko Havey is an artist and a survivor of the Colorado Japanese American incarceration camp, Amache. The author of Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence, Havey lives and works in Salt Lake City.

Dr. Bonnie J. Clark leads collaborative archaeology at Amache and serves as an anthropology professor at the University of Denver. She is the author of Finding Solace in the Soil: An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram
- On-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, The King's English Bookshop, and Red Butte Garden. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220916T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220916T173000 UID:2DD312B0-A131-40F5-BCF0-585B9D45091B SUMMARY:The Book of Emmaus with Kevin St. Jarre CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2530 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and Q&A with Kevin St. Jarre, author of The Book of Emmaus. \N\NZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdu-srjsrGd0Fh1ylSV0HoJMtqPt7zoLR\N\NA Benedictine monastery called Emmaus has been standing on a hill overlooking the city of Prague since 1348. Around the same time that the Black Death came to its doors, so did a mysterious book. The monk who delivered it said that if someone inquires as to its existence, it must be denied. If someone were to learn of its contents, that person must be killed. The Holy Roman Church could be undone by its secrets. Hidden in the monastery by an elderly translator and lost after his death, the book has long been the subject of quests… Some will search, some will fall in love, some will die, and some will find The Book of Emmaus.\N\N-ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation\N\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a reading and Q&A with Kevin St. Jarre, author of The Book of Emmaus.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdu-srjsrGd0Fh1ylSV0HoJMtqPt7zoLR

A Benedictine monastery called Emmaus has been standing on a hill overlooking the city of Prague since 1348. Around the same time that the Black Death came to its doors, so did a mysterious book. The monk who delivered it said that if someone inquires as to its existence, it must be denied. If someone were to learn of its contents, that person must be killed. The Holy Roman Church could be undone by its secrets. Hidden in the monastery by an elderly translator and lost after his death, the book has long been the subject of quests… Some will search, some will fall in love, some will die, and some will find The Book of Emmaus.

-ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation

- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220916T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220916T000000 UID:C8F76A04-3E59-470C-B2E7-92C6FBDA9D46 SUMMARY:Habilis with Alyssa Quinn CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2557 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Alyssa Quinn, author of Habilis. \N\NA hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans and human language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride\N\NLucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herself thrust into a mysterious anthropology museum that converts into a disco club each night. Moving through its labyrinthine galleries, she tries to construct an origin story for herself and for her species. But as the night progresses, her grip on language and identity slips away until the exhibit captions rupture the text, transporting us to East Africa, where the lives of three people—British anthropologist Mary Leakey, an Indian indentured laborer building the Uganda Railway, and a curator with too many secrets—interweave to reveal the darker side of the search for origins.\N\NSurreal, spiraling, and daringly innovative, Habilis is all at once a historical reconstruction, a psychological horror, a mystery, a ghost story, and a creation myth. But above all, it is a meditation on language, desire, and the stories we tell about ourselves—especially those that might unravel us.\N\NThrough a collage of museum exhibits and Lucy’s fractured memories, the narrative destabilizes the boundary between science and myth, reality and representation, and, ultimately, the very concept of origin itself.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation. \N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\NThis event is made possible with support from\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Alyssa Quinn, author of Habilis.

A hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans and human language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride

Lucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herself thrust into a mysterious anthropology museum that converts into a disco club each night. Moving through its labyrinthine galleries, she tries to construct an origin story for herself and for her species. But as the night progresses, her grip on language and identity slips away until the exhibit captions rupture the text, transporting us to East Africa, where the lives of three people—British anthropologist Mary Leakey, an Indian indentured laborer building the Uganda Railway, and a curator with too many secrets—interweave to reveal the darker side of the search for origins.

Surreal, spiraling, and daringly innovative, Habilis is all at once a historical reconstruction, a psychological horror, a mystery, a ghost story, and a creation myth. But above all, it is a meditation on language, desire, and the stories we tell about ourselves—especially those that might unravel us.

Through a collage of museum exhibits and Lucy’s fractured memories, the narrative destabilizes the boundary between science and myth, reality and representation, and, ultimately, the very concept of origin itself.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8
This event is made possible with support from

This event is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220916T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220916T210000 UID:2EA668FD-BCAE-4E31-9BA7-F5CF7D38E9C5 SUMMARY:Plumas Open Mic and Slam with Lily Agar CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2569 DESCRIPTION:Join Plumas Colectiva for our third open mic & poetry slam! We created this space to center Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) in the slam poetry scene. Our inaugural event invites all artistic forms to the open mic: spoken word, dance, musicians, etc.\N\NIndividuals/groups are invited to sign up for the open mic and poetry slam at the beginning of the night.\N\NSuggested event donation: $5.\N\NOpen Mic and Slam Rules\N- 5 minute time limit for open mic / 3 minute for slam\N- no alcohol\N- Freedom of speech :)\N- Hate Speech will get you kicked out\N- Poetry Slam has 3 rounds. Elimination goes 8, 4, 2\N- Scoring cumulative\N- 5 judges chosen from the audience\N\NOpen Mic Prizes:\N- Crowd's Choice\N- Best Response to Prompt\N- Featured Poet's Choice\N\NOur third featured visual artist is the incredible Lily Agar. \N\NOriginally from Mexico, Lilian is an interdisciplinary artist and human rights activist based between Salt Lake City, UT; and Los Angeles, CA. With a degree in Digital Graphic Design, she has pushed her digital skills to explore social topics through her realistic artwork. She is currently starting a new path in her education to become a therapist.\N\NHer projects shine an empathetic light towards difficult social issues in hopes to provide positive art experiences. \N\NHer latest project, A Hug Away: a breathing temple of love, project explores the vital role that acceptance and respect has in young queer folx's life in the capital of the LDS religion, Utah. View the online archive here: https://www.lillyagar.com/art\N\NPreviously showcased at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, she created, New Perspective, of nine female survivors who have experienced domestic violence. \N\NOur third featured poet is Lin Flores. \N\NLin Flores (she/they) lives and works in SLC, Utah as a full time educator, poet, and creative writing student. They are enrolled in the online Creative Writing Masters' Program at University of New Orleans. Flores teaches at Herriman High School, where she strives to make a difference in the lives of young people as a history teacher and a slam poetry coach. When Flores isn't working on poetry or teaching, she is volunteering her time at Encirlce, an LGBTQ resource center in SLC. \N\NFor more info, DM us @plumascolectiva on IG or email Monica Lisette at moliayala1998@gmail.com.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation \N- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram\N- Parking: There are two accessible parking stalls/van parking stalls at the Nature Center with a curb cut leading up to the sidewalk by the Nature Center. The parking lot is seldom very busy. The walkways in the Jordan River Nature Center are paved cement The gate will be open at the start of the event and wheelchairs can easily come through the gate. There is a porch that is accessible via ramp. \N- Seating: We will have a variety of different seating, including blue lounge chairs and folding chairs. There is space for people with wheelchairs. \N- Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms, one with a urinal and one without. Both are marked for all gender use. The bathrooms do not have an accessibility button, but inside they meet ADA requirements. Staff will be on sight to open bathroom doors if requested. The bathrooms are flat and do not require a ramp to enter. \N- On-site sensory kits available\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\NThis event is made possible with support from\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Plumas Colectiva, Tracy Aviary - Jordan River Nature Center, Utah Poetry Slam and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Plumas Colectiva for our third open mic & poetry slam! We created this space to center Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) in the slam poetry scene. Our inaugural event invites all artistic forms to the open mic: spoken word, dance, musicians, etc.

Individuals/groups are invited to sign up for the open mic and poetry slam at the beginning of the night.

Suggested event donation: $5.

Open Mic and Slam Rules
- 5 minute time limit for open mic / 3 minute for slam
- no alcohol
- Freedom of speech :)
- Hate Speech will get you kicked out
- Poetry Slam has 3 rounds. Elimination goes 8, 4, 2
- Scoring cumulative
- 5 judges chosen from the audience

Open Mic Prizes:
- Crowd's Choice
- Best Response to Prompt
- Featured Poet's Choice

Our third featured visual artist is the incredible Lily Agar.

Originally from Mexico, Lilian is an interdisciplinary artist and human rights activist based between Salt Lake City, UT; and Los Angeles, CA. With a degree in Digital Graphic Design, she has pushed her digital skills to explore social topics through her realistic artwork. She is currently starting a new path in her education to become a therapist.

Her projects shine an empathetic light towards difficult social issues in hopes to provide positive art experiences.

Her latest project, A Hug Away: a breathing temple of love, project explores the vital role that acceptance and respect has in young queer folx's life in the capital of the LDS religion, Utah. View the online archive here: https://www.lillyagar.com/art

Previously showcased at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, she created, New Perspective, of nine female survivors who have experienced domestic violence.

Our third featured poet is Lin Flores.

Lin Flores (she/they) lives and works in SLC, Utah as a full time educator, poet, and creative writing student. They are enrolled in the online Creative Writing Masters' Program at University of New Orleans. Flores teaches at Herriman High School, where she strives to make a difference in the lives of young people as a history teacher and a slam poetry coach. When Flores isn't working on poetry or teaching, she is volunteering her time at Encirlce, an LGBTQ resource center in SLC.

For more info, DM us @plumascolectiva on IG or email Monica Lisette at moliayala1998@gmail.com.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Livestream available at @utahbookfest on Instagram
- Parking: There are two accessible parking stalls/van parking stalls at the Nature Center with a curb cut leading up to the sidewalk by the Nature Center. The parking lot is seldom very busy. The walkways in the Jordan River Nature Center are paved cement The gate will be open at the start of the event and wheelchairs can easily come through the gate. There is a porch that is accessible via ramp.
- Seating: We will have a variety of different seating, including blue lounge chairs and folding chairs. There is space for people with wheelchairs.
- Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms, one with a urinal and one without. Both are marked for all gender use. The bathrooms do not have an accessibility button, but inside they meet ADA requirements. Staff will be on sight to open bathroom doors if requested. The bathrooms are flat and do not require a ramp to enter.
- On-site sensory kits available
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8
This event is made possible with support from

This event is made possible with support from Plumas Colectiva, Tracy Aviary - Jordan River Nature Center, Utah Poetry Slam and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T113000 UID:85C51CF3-2B2C-4484-B217-775E535C9479 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild : Irreplaceable CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2496 DESCRIPTION:A generative writing workshop facilitated by Nan Seymour, founder of River Writing along with Raven Chavez, Bureau of Land Management Soil Scientist, and birding guide, Steve Cox. The group will meet live at the Escalante River Trailhead on Saturday, September 17th. Session 1 will go from 9am - 11:30 am. \N\NEveryone is welcome! (Ages 12+) This workshop is for anyone who would like some encouragement to find and foster their voice in relationship to place. Raven and Steve will be teaching about certain aspects of ecology along the Escalante River and Nan will provide friendly poetry-based prompts with plenty of writing encouragement but you don’t have to identify as a writer. Please bring your notebook, pen, a little courage, and a camp chair. Wear a hat, comfortable walking shoes, and drinking water.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\Nns or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis workshop is supported by Utah Humanities Council, Boulder Arts Council and the Escalante Canyons Art Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A generative writing workshop facilitated by Nan Seymour, founder of River Writing along with Raven Chavez, Bureau of Land Management Soil Scientist, and birding guide, Steve Cox. The group will meet live at the Escalante River Trailhead on Saturday, September 17th. Session 1 will go from 9am - 11:30 am.

Everyone is welcome! (Ages 12+) This workshop is for anyone who would like some encouragement to find and foster their voice in relationship to place. Raven and Steve will be teaching about certain aspects of ecology along the Escalante River and Nan will provide friendly poetry-based prompts with plenty of writing encouragement but you don’t have to identify as a writer. Please bring your notebook, pen, a little courage, and a camp chair. Wear a hat, comfortable walking shoes, and drinking water.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
ns or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This workshop is supported by Utah Humanities Council, Boulder Arts Council and the Escalante Canyons Art Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T120000 UID:A25450A3-7D3A-48C9-9CE3-3EECDC7F7268 SUMMARY:Drag Storytelling Hour with Lil Miss Hot Mess CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2467 DESCRIPTION:Bring your littles to Under the Umbrella Bookstore for Drag Storytelling Hour with special guest Lil Miss Hot Mess. \N\NKnown for throwing extravaganzas like her “Bat Mitzvah x2” and roller skating parties, Lil Miss Hot Mess has appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, as well as legendary clubs like The Stud, Hard French, Bushwig, Queen Kong, and many more. She loves packing her performances full of political satire and technology to help illuminate what a hot mess the world can be.\N\NLil Miss Hot Mess is a storyteller and serves on the board for Drag Queen Story Hour. She has hosted readings for the Brooklyn Museum, ICA LA, RuPaul’s Drag Con, Vice Media, HBO, WNET’s Let’s Learn, and numerous libraries, schools, and community groups coast-to-coast. Her children’s book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish was published in 2020, and her next book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It comes out in May 2022. \N\NHot Mess was also a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, Wired, Salon, and them., as well as in academic journals like Curriculum Inquiry, and her work has been in media around the world.\N\NWhen not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess works as a visual artist and is a professor at the University of Arizona. She splits her time between Tucson and Los Angeles.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke\N- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway. \N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available. \N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Under the Umbrella Bookstore. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bring your littles to Under the Umbrella Bookstore for Drag Storytelling Hour with special guest Lil Miss Hot Mess.

Known for throwing extravaganzas like her “Bat Mitzvah x2” and roller skating parties, Lil Miss Hot Mess has appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, as well as legendary clubs like The Stud, Hard French, Bushwig, Queen Kong, and many more. She loves packing her performances full of political satire and technology to help illuminate what a hot mess the world can be.

Lil Miss Hot Mess is a storyteller and serves on the board for Drag Queen Story Hour. She has hosted readings for the Brooklyn Museum, ICA LA, RuPaul’s Drag Con, Vice Media, HBO, WNET’s Let’s Learn, and numerous libraries, schools, and community groups coast-to-coast. Her children’s book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish was published in 2020, and her next book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It comes out in May 2022.

Hot Mess was also a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, Wired, Salon, and them., as well as in academic journals like Curriculum Inquiry, and her work has been in media around the world.

When not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess works as a visual artist and is a professor at the University of Arizona. She splits her time between Tucson and Los Angeles.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke
- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Under the Umbrella Bookstore. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T000000 UID:031940AD-3C57-4AC2-8101-9F894089FA9D SUMMARY:The Spirit of Carl Sandburg CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2568 DESCRIPTION:A one-man performance and dedication to Carl Sandburg - "the people's poet" - created from Sandburg's own words and poetry.\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A one-man performance and dedication to Carl Sandburg - "the people's poet" - created from Sandburg's own words and poetry.
This event is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T140000 UID:A5512CFE-C303-497F-9527-A8DB7E10CB94 SUMMARY:Creating and Illustrating a Picture Book: Initial Concept to Publication CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2527 DESCRIPTION:Master Children's Book author Sarah Noble will guide audience members through the process of publishing your own children's book. Join us at the Book Bungalow. \N\NAccess the Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3ezjOKo\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Master Children's Book author Sarah Noble will guide audience members through the process of publishing your own children's book. Join us at the Book Bungalow.

Access the Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3ezjOKo

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T150000 UID:8EEDD864-481D-4317-9CEA-4E2B42F67F24 SUMMARY:Scream Queers: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Faun CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2558 DESCRIPTION:Scream Queers is a book club group that meets to discuss LGBTQ+ horror! 18+ and open to all. \N\NCarmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Faun. First published in 1871 as a serial narrative in The Dark Blue, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible by Scream Queers, and Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Scream Queers is a book club group that meets to discuss LGBTQ+ horror! 18+ and open to all.

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Faun. First published in 1871 as a serial narrative in The Dark Blue, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible by Scream Queers, and Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T153000 UID:9AE5490C-FC84-42AB-89E9-9A47B4156D03 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild : Irreplaceable CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2615 DESCRIPTION:A generative writing workshop facilitated by Nan Seymour, founder of River Writing along with Raven Chavez, Bureau of Land Management Soil Scientist, and birding guide, Steve Cox. The group will meet live at the Escalante River Trailhead on Saturday, September 17th. Session 2 will go from 1pm - 3:30 pm. \N\NEveryone is welcome! (Ages 12+) This workshop is for anyone who would like some encouragement to find and foster their voice in relationship to place. Raven and Steve will be teaching about certain aspects of ecology along the Escalante River and Nan will provide friendly poetry-based prompts with plenty of writing encouragement but you don’t have to identify as a writer. Please bring your notebook, pen, a little courage, and a camp chair. Wear a hat, comfortable walking shoes, and drinking water.\N\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\Nns or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis workshop is supported by Utah Humanities Council, Boulder Arts Council and the Escalante Canyons Art Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A generative writing workshop facilitated by Nan Seymour, founder of River Writing along with Raven Chavez, Bureau of Land Management Soil Scientist, and birding guide, Steve Cox. The group will meet live at the Escalante River Trailhead on Saturday, September 17th. Session 2 will go from 1pm - 3:30 pm.

Everyone is welcome! (Ages 12+) This workshop is for anyone who would like some encouragement to find and foster their voice in relationship to place. Raven and Steve will be teaching about certain aspects of ecology along the Escalante River and Nan will provide friendly poetry-based prompts with plenty of writing encouragement but you don’t have to identify as a writer. Please bring your notebook, pen, a little courage, and a camp chair. Wear a hat, comfortable walking shoes, and drinking water.


ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
ns or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This workshop is supported by Utah Humanities Council, Boulder Arts Council and the Escalante Canyons Art Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T200000 UID:D0CD45CA-5000-4B65-81DC-A2A00586E2DE SUMMARY:Drag Storytelling Hour with Lil Miss Hot Mess CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2469 DESCRIPTION:Bring your littles to Kaffe Mercantile for Drag Storytelling Hour with special guest Lil Miss Hot Mess. \N\NASL interpretation will be provided. If you need any accommodations, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DRTWxH7Mk9Qumrta8\N\NKnown for throwing extravaganzas like her “Bat Mitzvah x2” and roller skating parties, Lil Miss Hot Mess has appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, as well as legendary clubs like The Stud, Hard French, Bushwig, Queen Kong, and many more. She loves packing her performances full of political satire and technology to help illuminate what a hot mess the world can be.\N\NLil Miss Hot Mess is a storyteller and serves on the board for Drag Queen Story Hour. She has hosted readings for the Brooklyn Museum, ICA LA, RuPaul’s Drag Con, Vice Media, HBO, WNET’s Let’s Learn, and numerous libraries, schools, and community groups coast-to-coast. Her children’s book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish was published in 2020, and her next book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It comes out in May 2022. \N\NHot Mess was also a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, Wired, Salon, and them., as well as in academic journals like Curriculum Inquiry, and her work has been in media around the world.\N\NWhen not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess works as a visual artist and is a professor at the University of Arizona. She splits her time between Tucson and Los Angeles.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke\N- Livestream available on @utahbookfest on Instagram\N- Sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- Masks required. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Queen Bee Giftery, and Kaffe Mercantile. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bring your littles to Kaffe Mercantile for Drag Storytelling Hour with special guest Lil Miss Hot Mess.

ASL interpretation will be provided. If you need any accommodations, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DRTWxH7Mk9Qumrta8

Known for throwing extravaganzas like her “Bat Mitzvah x2” and roller skating parties, Lil Miss Hot Mess has appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, as well as legendary clubs like The Stud, Hard French, Bushwig, Queen Kong, and many more. She loves packing her performances full of political satire and technology to help illuminate what a hot mess the world can be.

Lil Miss Hot Mess is a storyteller and serves on the board for Drag Queen Story Hour. She has hosted readings for the Brooklyn Museum, ICA LA, RuPaul’s Drag Con, Vice Media, HBO, WNET’s Let’s Learn, and numerous libraries, schools, and community groups coast-to-coast. Her children’s book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish was published in 2020, and her next book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It comes out in May 2022.

Hot Mess was also a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, Wired, Salon, and them., as well as in academic journals like Curriculum Inquiry, and her work has been in media around the world.

When not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess works as a visual artist and is a professor at the University of Arizona. She splits her time between Tucson and Los Angeles.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke
- Livestream available on @utahbookfest on Instagram
- Sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Queen Bee Giftery, and Kaffe Mercantile. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T000000 UID:6EE8E3A3-4A59-4221-8F2F-41218DEF94B4 SUMMARY:Loose Cannons with Diana Ragsdale CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2559 DESCRIPTION:Weller Book Works welcomes Diana Ragsdale. \N\NLoose Cannons chronicles the colorful, dysfunctional, and sometimes clinically crazy Cannon family. Written by debut author Diana Cannon Ragsdale, Loose Cannons provides an intimate look at life in Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City with parents battling mental illness and the need to live up to their royal family name—at least to those on the outside. In reality Diana’s parents were smoking and drinking Mormon swingers who were ill-prepared for the responsibilities of parenting, though her mother birthed six children by the age of 29.\N\NDiana was the rebellious outspoken daughter who often bore the brunt of her father’s rage and paranoia as he rose to fame as the county attorney ‘cleansing’ the city of criminals, filth, and immoral behavior. That is until her genius—but psychologically unstable—father became embroiled in a public scandal of his own.\N\NDeserted by their severely depressed mother at the age of six, Diana and her siblings had to learn to survive on their own. Sometimes that meant climbing out a window to dumpster dive for food or shoplifting at the local convenience store. And yet, this motley band of siblings did their best to make it through their parents’ multiple suicide attempts and trips to the psychiatric hospital without parental supervision. After her older brothers fell into the drug culture of the 1960s, Diana and her three sisters were left behind with their new, sanctimonious Mormon Church-going step-mother who also happened to be their aunt. Strict moral code and Mormon culture dominated their new household and reined in the earlier chaos, but Diana’s defiance persisted as did the parental abuse.\N\NDiana found escaping the Cannon home as an adult was far easier than escaping the pull of her Mormon faith. Her spiritual struggle continued through several disastrous marriages and affairs, culminating in the revelation of what it means to find what was lost and buried in order to live, love, and experience joy. Loose Cannons is the true story of a tough street kid turned emotionally stunted as an adult standing at the crossroads of religious fervor, mental illness, and family. And from there choosing a new way forward. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- For livestream information, call Weller Book Works.\N- PARKING Is Free And Available In The 600 South Parking Lot And Along The 700 East Buildings. There Is Also Parking Along Building A In Front Of Alice Lane And Building B In Front Of Pottery Barn. We Also Have An Underground Parking Garage That Is Accessible Along The Corner Of 500 South And Also On The Corner Of 600 East. There Is Roof Access Parking On The 500 South/700 East Corner Above Whole Foods.\NHANDICAP PARKING Is Available Throughout Trolley Square. If You Are In Need Of A Wheelchair, Please Call The Trolley Square Security Office At 801-534-0160 And They Will Bring A Wheelchair To You. (Rental Is Free)\N- We can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.\N- Single stall bathrooms are available adjacent to the bookstore, large enough for disabled people and families.\N- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weller Book Works welcomes Diana Ragsdale.

Loose Cannons chronicles the colorful, dysfunctional, and sometimes clinically crazy Cannon family. Written by debut author Diana Cannon Ragsdale, Loose Cannons provides an intimate look at life in Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City with parents battling mental illness and the need to live up to their royal family name—at least to those on the outside. In reality Diana’s parents were smoking and drinking Mormon swingers who were ill-prepared for the responsibilities of parenting, though her mother birthed six children by the age of 29.

Diana was the rebellious outspoken daughter who often bore the brunt of her father’s rage and paranoia as he rose to fame as the county attorney ‘cleansing’ the city of criminals, filth, and immoral behavior. That is until her genius—but psychologically unstable—father became embroiled in a public scandal of his own.

Deserted by their severely depressed mother at the age of six, Diana and her siblings had to learn to survive on their own. Sometimes that meant climbing out a window to dumpster dive for food or shoplifting at the local convenience store. And yet, this motley band of siblings did their best to make it through their parents’ multiple suicide attempts and trips to the psychiatric hospital without parental supervision. After her older brothers fell into the drug culture of the 1960s, Diana and her three sisters were left behind with their new, sanctimonious Mormon Church-going step-mother who also happened to be their aunt. Strict moral code and Mormon culture dominated their new household and reined in the earlier chaos, but Diana’s defiance persisted as did the parental abuse.

Diana found escaping the Cannon home as an adult was far easier than escaping the pull of her Mormon faith. Her spiritual struggle continued through several disastrous marriages and affairs, culminating in the revelation of what it means to find what was lost and buried in order to live, love, and experience joy. Loose Cannons is the true story of a tough street kid turned emotionally stunted as an adult standing at the crossroads of religious fervor, mental illness, and family. And from there choosing a new way forward.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- For livestream information, call Weller Book Works.
- PARKING Is Free And Available In The 600 South Parking Lot And Along The 700 East Buildings. There Is Also Parking Along Building A In Front Of Alice Lane And Building B In Front Of Pottery Barn. We Also Have An Underground Parking Garage That Is Accessible Along The Corner Of 500 South And Also On The Corner Of 600 East. There Is Roof Access Parking On The 500 South/700 East Corner Above Whole Foods.
HANDICAP PARKING Is Available Throughout Trolley Square. If You Are In Need Of A Wheelchair, Please Call The Trolley Square Security Office At 801-534-0160 And They Will Bring A Wheelchair To You. (Rental Is Free)
- We can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.
- Single stall bathrooms are available adjacent to the bookstore, large enough for disabled people and families.
- There will not be an on-site sensory kit.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220917T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220917T213000 UID:A166FE74-7B09-49E1-A79D-A1ADC092D69C SUMMARY:Qawwali Night with Shazia Manzoor CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2515 DESCRIPTION:The Pakistan Student Association (PSA) at the University of Utah present renowned Pakistani Punjabi Folk singer and poet Shazia Manzoor! Connecting the South Asian community from all over campus and the valley, concert-goers will enjoy a cultural experience of Pakistan and South Asia. The Pakistani community is largely underrepresented in Utah, and PSA's goal is to spread awareness of our community and culture through music, a form of art everyone enjoys. By opening this rare event not only to students but also to the public, audience members will learn about the heritage and cultural values of Pakistani people.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM:Live at Libby Streaming Concert Venue at music.utah.edu\N- PARKING: Parking available on President's Circle, Ramp on East Side of Gardner Hall is an ADA ramp. There is one ADA stall on the North Side of Gardner Hall. There are at least two stalls on the East side of Kingsbury Hall. \N- SEATING: Libby Gardner Concert Hall has Row K movable seating for ADA or wheelchair spacing and seats with ADA lift armchair seating. \N- Bathrooms: All bathrooms have larger stalls for ADA and our main bathrooms have changing stations for children\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sadie Hoagland. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is a part of Welcoming Week SLC, a week dedicated to highlighting the contributions, challenges, and histories of immigrants and refugees. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Pakistan Student Association at the University of Utah, The Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans, Welcoming America, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Pakistan Student Association (PSA) at the University of Utah present renowned Pakistani Punjabi Folk singer and poet Shazia Manzoor! Connecting the South Asian community from all over campus and the valley, concert-goers will enjoy a cultural experience of Pakistan and South Asia. The Pakistani community is largely underrepresented in Utah, and PSA's goal is to spread awareness of our community and culture through music, a form of art everyone enjoys. By opening this rare event not only to students but also to the public, audience members will learn about the heritage and cultural values of Pakistani people.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM:Live at Libby Streaming Concert Venue at music.utah.edu
- PARKING: Parking available on President's Circle, Ramp on East Side of Gardner Hall is an ADA ramp. There is one ADA stall on the North Side of Gardner Hall. There are at least two stalls on the East side of Kingsbury Hall.
- SEATING: Libby Gardner Concert Hall has Row K movable seating for ADA or wheelchair spacing and seats with ADA lift armchair seating.
- Bathrooms: All bathrooms have larger stalls for ADA and our main bathrooms have changing stations for children
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sadie Hoagland.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is a part of Welcoming Week SLC, a week dedicated to highlighting the contributions, challenges, and histories of immigrants and refugees.

This event is made possible with support from the Pakistan Student Association at the University of Utah, The Salt Lake County Mayor's Office for New Americans, Welcoming America, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220919T210000 UID:B1117CE6-93BB-4EDE-A0F2-DDF8422B23F7 SUMMARY:Brigham City Schools: Jeremy Tankard CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2497 DESCRIPTION:Join us at Brigham City Public Library to enjoy the fantastic stylings of Jeremy Tankard, author of Grumpy Bird. \N\NJeremy Tankard is the author and illustrator of some very silly picture books including the bestselling Grumpy Bird series (Grumpy Bird, Boo Hoo Bird, Hungry Bird and Sleepy Bird) and Me Hungry. His current projects include a couple of graphic novels with HarperCollins (Yorick and Bones, cowritten with his teenage daughter, Hermione). He has also illustrated books for other authors: Piggy Bunny by Rachel Vail; It’s a Tiger! by David Larochelle; Here Comes Destructorsaurus! by Aaron Reynolds; and Melvis and Elvis by iconic Canadian writer Dennis Lee. \N\NThe funny thing is, he never planned to be a writer. However, after many years of drawing pictures he decided that maybe adding some words to his art would be a nice thing to try. To his surprise he loved writing and it seemed to be a natural fit for his drawings. And to his even greater surprise those first books were bestsellers! The rest is history and he can’t imagine a life without stories. \N\NJeremy was born in Cape Town, South Africa but left at the age of four for a new life in the United States. After living in South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, his family moved to Calgary, Alberta where he spent most of his school years, finally ending up at the Alberta College of Art and Design. After a few years in Toronto he now resides, with his family, in Vancouver. \N\NWhen not making books he enjoys hiking, guitar playing, kung fu, apple pie and french fries (but not together – that would be weird). \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- Registration is required to access the events. One registration will give you the link for all of the Brigham City Library’s Book Festival events. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p-9c6RGCSGCT9xq_ZN0SPw\N- Parking: Two accessible parking stalls are available in front of the building. Buttons are available to assist with opening of the doors at the entry. An elevator is available to access the lower level of the library where Festival events will be held. \N- Seating: Chairs will be set-up by staff in advance, but all chairs are moveable and can be removed or changed out for an alternate chair.\N- Bathrooms: Two restrooms are available, marked 'men' and 'women'. These restrooms are for patron use as best fits each person's identity. Each restroom has one stall that is wheelchair accessible and has safety bars.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- No mask policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at Brigham City Public Library to enjoy the fantastic stylings of Jeremy Tankard, author of Grumpy Bird.

Jeremy Tankard is the author and illustrator of some very silly picture books including the bestselling Grumpy Bird series (Grumpy Bird, Boo Hoo Bird, Hungry Bird and Sleepy Bird) and Me Hungry. His current projects include a couple of graphic novels with HarperCollins (Yorick and Bones, cowritten with his teenage daughter, Hermione). He has also illustrated books for other authors: Piggy Bunny by Rachel Vail; It’s a Tiger! by David Larochelle; Here Comes Destructorsaurus! by Aaron Reynolds; and Melvis and Elvis by iconic Canadian writer Dennis Lee.

The funny thing is, he never planned to be a writer. However, after many years of drawing pictures he decided that maybe adding some words to his art would be a nice thing to try. To his surprise he loved writing and it seemed to be a natural fit for his drawings. And to his even greater surprise those first books were bestsellers! The rest is history and he can’t imagine a life without stories.

Jeremy was born in Cape Town, South Africa but left at the age of four for a new life in the United States. After living in South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, his family moved to Calgary, Alberta where he spent most of his school years, finally ending up at the Alberta College of Art and Design. After a few years in Toronto he now resides, with his family, in Vancouver.

When not making books he enjoys hiking, guitar playing, kung fu, apple pie and french fries (but not together – that would be weird).

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Registration is required to access the events. One registration will give you the link for all of the Brigham City Library’s Book Festival events. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p-9c6RGCSGCT9xq_ZN0SPw
- Parking: Two accessible parking stalls are available in front of the building. Buttons are available to assist with opening of the doors at the entry. An elevator is available to access the lower level of the library where Festival events will be held.
- Seating: Chairs will be set-up by staff in advance, but all chairs are moveable and can be removed or changed out for an alternate chair.
- Bathrooms: Two restrooms are available, marked 'men' and 'women'. These restrooms are for patron use as best fits each person's identity. Each restroom has one stall that is wheelchair accessible and has safety bars.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No mask policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220919T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220919T210000 UID:0BD2820D-8D68-4FF6-A20E-F38528BEAFC7 SUMMARY:Strange Children with Sadie Hoagland CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2499 DESCRIPTION:The Book Bungalow is happy to host Sadie Hoagland, author of Strange Children. \N\NAbout Strange Children: In a polygamist commune in the desert, a sixteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father’s child while the boy commits murder four hundred miles away—a crime that will slowly unravel the community.\N\NTold by eight adolescent narrators, this is a story of how people use faith to justify cruelty, and how redemption can come from unexpected places. Though seemingly powerless in the face of their fundamentalist religion, these “strange children” shift into the central framework of their world as they come of age.\N\NAbout Sadie Hoagland\N\NSadie Hoagland is a fiction writer based in Louisiana and Utah. She has a PhD in fiction from the University of Utah and an MA in Creative Writing/Fiction from UC Davis. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, Sakura Review, Grist Journal, Oyez Review, Passages North, Five Points, The Fabulist, South Carolina Review and elsewhere. She is a former editor of Quarterly West, and currently teaches fiction at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation \N- Livestream on Book Bungalow Facebook\N- Parking: We have the Green Gate Village parking lot (which is gravel) accessible from Tabernacle Street or 100 West; for those in wheelchairs it would be best to park on either Tabernacle Street or 100 West or in the Justice Center parking lot at 33 North off of 100 West. Those who park on Tabernacle can either approach the store from the front (though there are steps both to the walkway and up to our front porch) or from the driveway to the side of the store on 100 West where they will find a wheelchair ramp to our back entrance. And we have a portable wheelchair ramp allowing access up into the main floor of the store from the back cash counter.\N- Seating: pace for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: We have public bathrooms in Green Gate Village in the northeast corner across the courtyard. \N- On-site sensory kit available. \N- No mask policy \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Book Bungalow is happy to host Sadie Hoagland, author of Strange Children.

About Strange Children: In a polygamist commune in the desert, a sixteen-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl fall in love and consummate that love, breaking religious law. They are caught, and a year later, she gives birth to his father’s child while the boy commits murder four hundred miles away—a crime that will slowly unravel the community.

Told by eight adolescent narrators, this is a story of how people use faith to justify cruelty, and how redemption can come from unexpected places. Though seemingly powerless in the face of their fundamentalist religion, these “strange children” shift into the central framework of their world as they come of age.

About Sadie Hoagland

Sadie Hoagland is a fiction writer based in Louisiana and Utah. She has a PhD in fiction from the University of Utah and an MA in Creative Writing/Fiction from UC Davis. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alice Blue Review, The Black Herald, Mikrokosmos Journal, South Dakota Review, Sakura Review, Grist Journal, Oyez Review, Passages North, Five Points, The Fabulist, South Carolina Review and elsewhere. She is a former editor of Quarterly West, and currently teaches fiction at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation
- Livestream on Book Bungalow Facebook
- Parking: We have the Green Gate Village parking lot (which is gravel) accessible from Tabernacle Street or 100 West; for those in wheelchairs it would be best to park on either Tabernacle Street or 100 West or in the Justice Center parking lot at 33 North off of 100 West. Those who park on Tabernacle can either approach the store from the front (though there are steps both to the walkway and up to our front porch) or from the driveway to the side of the store on 100 West where they will find a wheelchair ramp to our back entrance. And we have a portable wheelchair ramp allowing access up into the main floor of the store from the back cash counter.
- Seating: pace for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: We have public bathrooms in Green Gate Village in the northeast corner across the courtyard.
- On-site sensory kit available.
- No mask policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220920T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220920T193000 UID:DA5A1194-1976-4089-BA15-90AF327F12FC SUMMARY:Evening Ethics: "Chronic Illness as New Territory in the Kingdom of Illness" with Meghan O’Rourke CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2544 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening ethics focusing on The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness with Meghan O'Rourke. This will be in-person (Room 2600, Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, University of Utah, SLC) and virtual. \N\NZoom: https://utah-health.zoom.us/j/91309405276\N\NMeeting ID: 91309405276 \NPasscode: 212356\N\NA landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases\N\NA silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier.\N \NDrawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, O’Rourke traces the history of Western definitions of illness, and reveals how inherited ideas of cause, diagnosis, and treatment have led us to ignore a host of hard-to-understand medical conditions, ones that resist easy description or simple cures. And as America faces this health crisis of extraordinary proportions, the populations most likely to be neglected by our institutions include women, the working class, and people of color.\N \NBlending lyricism and erudition, candor and empathy, O’Rourke brings together her deep and disparate talents and roles as critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient, synthesizing the personal and universal into one monumental project arguing for a seismic shift in our approach to disease. The Invisible Kingdom offers hope for the sick, solace and insight for their loved ones, and a radical new understanding of our bodies and our health.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM - Available via Zoom above. \N- PARKING: Four handicap labeled parking spaces on the south end of the bldg, with a ramp down to the west side of the bldg at Level 1 with power assisted doors to enter on that end, also, the main entrance, farther north on the west side has power assisted doors. There are two ways to enter classroom 2600: from the front (tables in the front of the classroom will be moved to allow for adequate space for access and egress) and by the ADA ramp on the south side of the 2600 door (labeled "2600/2680 Lecture Halls").\N- BATHROOMS: On Level 1 there are three single-stalled facilities (1-toilet/shower, the other two are only showers) off the main hall-east side (closer to the main elevators). On Level 2 (where the event will be) all restrooms have a handicap stall and changing table.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks Required\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities and Utah Humanities. \N\NDisclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.\NACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical\Neducation for physicians.\N\N\NNONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,\NOEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening ethics focusing on The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness with Meghan O'Rourke. This will be in-person (Room 2600, Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, University of Utah, SLC) and virtual.

Zoom: https://utah-health.zoom.us/j/91309405276

Meeting ID: 91309405276
Passcode: 212356

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases

A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier.

Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, O’Rourke traces the history of Western definitions of illness, and reveals how inherited ideas of cause, diagnosis, and treatment have led us to ignore a host of hard-to-understand medical conditions, ones that resist easy description or simple cures. And as America faces this health crisis of extraordinary proportions, the populations most likely to be neglected by our institutions include women, the working class, and people of color.

Blending lyricism and erudition, candor and empathy, O’Rourke brings together her deep and disparate talents and roles as critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient, synthesizing the personal and universal into one monumental project arguing for a seismic shift in our approach to disease. The Invisible Kingdom offers hope for the sick, solace and insight for their loved ones, and a radical new understanding of our bodies and our health.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM - Available via Zoom above.
- PARKING: Four handicap labeled parking spaces on the south end of the bldg, with a ramp down to the west side of the bldg at Level 1 with power assisted doors to enter on that end, also, the main entrance, farther north on the west side has power assisted doors. There are two ways to enter classroom 2600: from the front (tables in the front of the classroom will be moved to allow for adequate space for access and egress) and by the ADA ramp on the south side of the 2600 door (labeled "2600/2680 Lecture Halls").
- BATHROOMS: On Level 1 there are three single-stalled facilities (1-toilet/shower, the other two are only showers) off the main hall-east side (closer to the main elevators). On Level 2 (where the event will be) all restrooms have a handicap stall and changing table.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks Required
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities and Utah Humanities.

Disclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.
ACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.


NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,
OEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220920T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220920T210000 UID:A64E2F72-3DF6-4FE4-8E53-3FA4067DF2C6 SUMMARY:Reading Dangerously: Censorship and Books CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2570 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations. \N\NCommunity Conversation on Censorship and Books\N\NRoom: Main Auditorium\N\NRegister for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WAczEO2qr__l0uo64737irL-he8o02k7K9zFEfU5r2U/edit\N\NVenue: City Library, Salt Lake City (210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111) \N\NThe conversation will include a background presentation led by Dr. Hollis Robbins, Dean of Humanities at the University of Utah. The background presentation will provide context for the censorship of the following books by actors across the political spectrum: \N\N1) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain \N\NSource: Marshall Libraries, Timeline for Controversy surrounding The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/\N\NSource: PBS Conversation on Huckleberry Finn: https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/\N\N2) Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison \N\NSource: Intellectual Freedom Blog Overview: https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/top-10-banned-books-lawn-boy/\N\N3) I Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss\N\NSource: New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/books/dr-seuss-books.html\N\N4) All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely\N\NSource: Marshall Libraries, Timeline for Controversy surrounding All American Boys: https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/all-american-boys/\N\NSource: LitHub on the Legacy of All American Boys: https://lithub.com/five-years-later-on-the-enduring-legacy-of-all-american-boys/\N \N5) Key Local Sources \NDeseret News, Op-Ed: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2022/5/18/23077850/opinion-utah-legislature-new-law-against-pornographic-books-schools-hb374\N\NAttorney General June 1 Memo\Nhttps://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-06-01-Official-Memo-Re-Laws-Surrounding-School-Libraries.pdf\N\NNext, Dr. Robbins will provide context for three key terms in this conversation: freedom of speech, censorship, “banned,” “challenged,” and book rating. \N\NLastly, Dr Robbins will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: Teacher-Librarian Davina Sauthoff, romance author and book rater Rachel Ann Nunes, and WSU professor of communication Dr. Richard Price. \N\NSome questions include: Why is it important to talk about banned and challenged books? When is censorship appropriate? What makes a title inappropriate for public education or for certain age groups? Who gets to decide what is on the shelves of public school libraries? \N\NThe event then transitions to a conversation with the public. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: TRAX stop right in front of the library. Street parking available by the meter. Parking garage beneath the library include disabled stalls. \N- On-site sensory kit available. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Utah Humanities, and PEN America - Utah Chapter.\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations.

Community Conversation on Censorship and Books

Room: Main Auditorium

Register for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WAczEO2qr__l0uo64737irL-he8o02k7K9zFEfU5r2U/edit

Venue: City Library, Salt Lake City (210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111)

The conversation will include a background presentation led by Dr. Hollis Robbins, Dean of Humanities at the University of Utah. The background presentation will provide context for the censorship of the following books by actors across the political spectrum:

1) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Source: Marshall Libraries, Timeline for Controversy surrounding The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/

Source: PBS Conversation on Huckleberry Finn: https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/

2) Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

Source: Intellectual Freedom Blog Overview: https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/top-10-banned-books-lawn-boy/

3) I Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss

Source: New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/books/dr-seuss-books.html

4) All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Source: Marshall Libraries, Timeline for Controversy surrounding All American Boys: https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/all-american-boys/

Source: LitHub on the Legacy of All American Boys: https://lithub.com/five-years-later-on-the-enduring-legacy-of-all-american-boys/

5) Key Local Sources
Deseret News, Op-Ed: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2022/5/18/23077850/opinion-utah-legislature-new-law-against-pornographic-books-schools-hb374

Attorney General June 1 Memo
https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-06-01-Official-Memo-Re-Laws-Surrounding-School-Libraries.pdf

Next, Dr. Robbins will provide context for three key terms in this conversation: freedom of speech, censorship, “banned,” “challenged,” and book rating.

Lastly, Dr Robbins will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: Teacher-Librarian Davina Sauthoff, romance author and book rater Rachel Ann Nunes, and WSU professor of communication Dr. Richard Price.

Some questions include: Why is it important to talk about banned and challenged books? When is censorship appropriate? What makes a title inappropriate for public education or for certain age groups? Who gets to decide what is on the shelves of public school libraries?

The event then transitions to a conversation with the public.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: TRAX stop right in front of the library. Street parking available by the meter. Parking garage beneath the library include disabled stalls.
- On-site sensory kit available.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Utah Humanities, and PEN America - Utah Chapter.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220921T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220921T130000 UID:D493E487-7CF4-4ADA-BD9B-9815549ECC3B SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn with Willy Palomo CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2643 DESCRIPTION:Willy Palomo read poetry and discussed identity, literature, and social justice with the Conservice United BIPOC committee. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Willy Palomo read poetry and discussed identity, literature, and social justice with the Conservice United BIPOC committee. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220921T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220921T173000 UID:96095BAF-A63E-4230-9B47-5689E47E5332 SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Workshop with C. Valenta CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2550 DESCRIPTION:Join us in the library of Sky Ridge High School for a Teen Poetry Workshop with C. Valenta, creator of Kids at Play.\N\NCornelius was raised by a single mother of 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The adversity he faced left him with two options: follow those before him or deviate, despite the risk it carries. His question wasn’t where to start, but how to establish oneself while lacking direction. During his childhood, his mother would play music in a van that often served as their home. Unknowingly at that time, music would play a pivotal role in the years to come.\NHis hardships changed his priorities, forcing him to place his education on hold, and focus on earning a stable income. In 2015, Cornelius obtained his GED before enrolling at Salt Lake Community College. There he would study two other degrees before he found himself captivated by the music. In November of 2018, music’s impact would allow him to become C. Valenta; Creating a mouthpiece for silenced adversities.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by request only. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to request. \N- Livestream can be accessed on Instagram @utahbookfest\N- Ample parking, including disabled spots, included in front of the school. As a public school, this venue follows ADA.\N- Tables and chairs will be arranged for students, and we can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.\N- Bathrooms include stalls for disabled people. Gender inclusive and family bathrooms available. Ask a teacher for guidance.\N- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask Willy if needed.\N- No mask policy for this event.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative, Sky Rigde High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us in the library of Sky Ridge High School for a Teen Poetry Workshop with C. Valenta, creator of Kids at Play.

Cornelius was raised by a single mother of 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The adversity he faced left him with two options: follow those before him or deviate, despite the risk it carries. His question wasn’t where to start, but how to establish oneself while lacking direction. During his childhood, his mother would play music in a van that often served as their home. Unknowingly at that time, music would play a pivotal role in the years to come.
His hardships changed his priorities, forcing him to place his education on hold, and focus on earning a stable income. In 2015, Cornelius obtained his GED before enrolling at Salt Lake Community College. There he would study two other degrees before he found himself captivated by the music. In November of 2018, music’s impact would allow him to become C. Valenta; Creating a mouthpiece for silenced adversities.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by request only. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to request.
- Livestream can be accessed on Instagram @utahbookfest
- Ample parking, including disabled spots, included in front of the school. As a public school, this venue follows ADA.
- Tables and chairs will be arranged for students, and we can accommodate people with wheelchairs where they wish to be seated.
- Bathrooms include stalls for disabled people. Gender inclusive and family bathrooms available. Ask a teacher for guidance.
- There will be an on-site sensory kit provided by Utah Humanities. Ask Willy if needed.
- No mask policy for this event.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative, Sky Rigde High School, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220921T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220921T210000 UID:BA55D738-280C-43A6-8EC3-6760528F8160 SUMMARY:On My Way Home Launch Celebration CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2518 DESCRIPTION:Join the creative team of On My Way Home for a celebration of a new alternate reality game about Utah’s queer literary figures. On My Way Home follows Xristy, a recently unsheltered trans Latina on her journey to reconcile herself with her home and identity. \NAlong the way, she makes friends with the ghosts of some of Utah's greatest LGBTQ+ literary figures and learns the hidden history of queer survival and thriving in Utah. \N\NFeaturing \NPoetry by Willy Palomo, Nan Seymour, and Enan Whitby\NPuzzles by RJ Walker\NArt by Cass Webb\NPresentation by Connell O'Donovan \N\NTo play the game, read the first scene here: Link to be provided soon. \N\NFollow Xristy on her quests and help her complete her tasks. As you solve puzzles and answer crucial questions, the story will begin to reveal itself to you. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation\N- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis project was made possible with support from Under the Umbrella and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the creative team of On My Way Home for a celebration of a new alternate reality game about Utah’s queer literary figures. On My Way Home follows Xristy, a recently unsheltered trans Latina on her journey to reconcile herself with her home and identity.
Along the way, she makes friends with the ghosts of some of Utah's greatest LGBTQ+ literary figures and learns the hidden history of queer survival and thriving in Utah.

Featuring
Poetry by Willy Palomo, Nan Seymour, and Enan Whitby
Puzzles by RJ Walker
Art by Cass Webb
Presentation by Connell O'Donovan

To play the game, read the first scene here: Link to be provided soon.

Follow Xristy on her quests and help her complete her tasks. As you solve puzzles and answer crucial questions, the story will begin to reveal itself to you.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation
- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This project was made possible with support from Under the Umbrella and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220922T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220922T170000 UID:C3AE9291-71AB-49D2-9BE1-456D594E1086 SUMMARY:Reading Dangerously: Azar Nafisi CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2574 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. \N\NJoin us for a moderated conversation with Azar Nafisi. Azar Nafisi is the critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a New York Times bestseller that is published in thirty-two languages. Nafisi is also known for her other works including, Things I’ve Been Silent About, Republic of Imagination, and That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile. She has held various teaching posts across the world including at Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University, and Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai. She now resides in Washington D.C. \N\NFor the latest updates, go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/447965096996047\N\NASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Tanner Center for the Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand.

Join us for a moderated conversation with Azar Nafisi. Azar Nafisi is the critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a New York Times bestseller that is published in thirty-two languages. Nafisi is also known for her other works including, Things I’ve Been Silent About, Republic of Imagination, and That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile. She has held various teaching posts across the world including at Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University, and Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai. She now resides in Washington D.C.

For the latest updates, go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/447965096996047

ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and the Tanner Center for the Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220922T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220922T000000 UID:8FD3CDD7-8C17-4F0D-B8E1-1F495C5E6699 SUMMARY:Hell and Back with Craig Johnson CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2560 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Craig Johnson. \N\NA new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.\N\NWhat if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies–along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust–something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says your name is Walt Longmire—but you don’t remember him.\N\NIn Hell & Back, the eighteenth installment of the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the very limits of his sanity to do battle with the most dangerous advisory he’s ever faced—himself.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation. \N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Craig Johnson.

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies–along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust–something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says your name is Walt Longmire—but you don’t remember him.

In Hell & Back, the eighteenth installment of the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the very limits of his sanity to do battle with the most dangerous advisory he’s ever faced—himself.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the King's English Bookshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220923T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220923T200000 UID:54FC1952-FC67-46B9-BDAD-261DC87DC479 SUMMARY:Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah with Darren Edwards CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2502 DESCRIPTION:The Book Bungalow is excited to host Darren Edwards, author of The Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah.\N\NFrom the fanciful and revelatory to the horrifying and sorrowful, the folklore of southern Utah hints at a complex history. Whether spiritual or spooky, homegrown legends are a window to understanding local culture. Visit Grafton, Utah's most haunted ghost town. Explore what haunts Southen Utah University in Cedar City, the St. George Temple and Touquerville's "murder house." Learn about skinwalkers and the theft of Native American beliefs. Examine the numerous urban legends surrounding Route 666, "The Devil's Highway." Uncover the secrets of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the curse of Escalante Petrified Forest. Drawing on information from more than two hundred interviews, Darren M. Edwards investigates the tales and myths that permeate and persist in Utah communities throughout red rock country.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org\N- Livestream on Book Bungalow Facebook\N- Parking: We have the Green Gate Village parking lot (which is gravel) accessible from Tabernacle Street or 100 West; for those in wheelchairs it would be best to park on either Tabernacle Street or 100 West or in the Justice Center parking lot at 33 North off of 100 West. Those who park on Tabernacle can either approach the store from the front (though there are steps both to the walkway and up to our front porch) or from the driveway to the side of the store on 100 West where they will find a wheelchair ramp to our back entrance. And we have a portable wheelchair ramp allowing access up into the main floor of the store from the back cash counter.\N- Seating: pace for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: We have public bathrooms in Green Gate Village in the northeast corner across the courtyard.\N- On-site sensory kit available.\N- No mask policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Book Bungalow is excited to host Darren Edwards, author of The Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah.

From the fanciful and revelatory to the horrifying and sorrowful, the folklore of southern Utah hints at a complex history. Whether spiritual or spooky, homegrown legends are a window to understanding local culture. Visit Grafton, Utah's most haunted ghost town. Explore what haunts Southen Utah University in Cedar City, the St. George Temple and Touquerville's "murder house." Learn about skinwalkers and the theft of Native American beliefs. Examine the numerous urban legends surrounding Route 666, "The Devil's Highway." Uncover the secrets of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the curse of Escalante Petrified Forest. Drawing on information from more than two hundred interviews, Darren M. Edwards investigates the tales and myths that permeate and persist in Utah communities throughout red rock country.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org
- Livestream on Book Bungalow Facebook
- Parking: We have the Green Gate Village parking lot (which is gravel) accessible from Tabernacle Street or 100 West; for those in wheelchairs it would be best to park on either Tabernacle Street or 100 West or in the Justice Center parking lot at 33 North off of 100 West. Those who park on Tabernacle can either approach the store from the front (though there are steps both to the walkway and up to our front porch) or from the driveway to the side of the store on 100 West where they will find a wheelchair ramp to our back entrance. And we have a portable wheelchair ramp allowing access up into the main floor of the store from the back cash counter.
- Seating: pace for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: We have public bathrooms in Green Gate Village in the northeast corner across the courtyard.
- On-site sensory kit available.
- No mask policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220923T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220923T200000 UID:DE253264-FDA4-497D-BD5D-AFC7B82F5612 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Bird Qi Gong and Poetry CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2547 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature.\N\NFor this Humanities in the Wild special, join Chinese martial arts master Shifu Jung and his disciples for an introduction to bird-inspired movements. Shifu Jung will be accompanied by Plumas Colectiva, a Latinx artist and writer group consisting of Willy Palomo, Melissa Salguero, Sarah May, Chelsea Guevara, Monica Ayala, and Lin Flores. This will be an evening of poetry and movement alongside the Jordan River and its many birds. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM available on @utahbookfest Instagram\N- Parking: There are two accessible parking stalls/van parking stalls at the Nature Center with a curb cut leading up to the sidewalk by the Nature Center. The parking lot is seldom very busy. The walkways in the Jordan River Nature Center are paved cement The gate will be open at the start of the event and wheelchairs can easily come through the gate. There is a porch that is accessible via ramp. \N- Seating: We will have a variety of different seating, including blue lounge chairs and folding chairs. \N- Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms, one with a urinal and one without. Both are marked for all gender use. The bathrooms do not have an accessibility button, but inside they meet ADA requirements. Staff will be on sight to open bathroom doors if requested. The bathrooms are flat and do not require a ramp to enter. \N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Monk Wise Martial Arts Academy, Plumas Colectiva, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature.

For this Humanities in the Wild special, join Chinese martial arts master Shifu Jung and his disciples for an introduction to bird-inspired movements. Shifu Jung will be accompanied by Plumas Colectiva, a Latinx artist and writer group consisting of Willy Palomo, Melissa Salguero, Sarah May, Chelsea Guevara, Monica Ayala, and Lin Flores. This will be an evening of poetry and movement alongside the Jordan River and its many birds.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM available on @utahbookfest Instagram
- Parking: There are two accessible parking stalls/van parking stalls at the Nature Center with a curb cut leading up to the sidewalk by the Nature Center. The parking lot is seldom very busy. The walkways in the Jordan River Nature Center are paved cement The gate will be open at the start of the event and wheelchairs can easily come through the gate. There is a porch that is accessible via ramp.
- Seating: We will have a variety of different seating, including blue lounge chairs and folding chairs.
- Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms, one with a urinal and one without. Both are marked for all gender use. The bathrooms do not have an accessibility button, but inside they meet ADA requirements. Staff will be on sight to open bathroom doors if requested. The bathrooms are flat and do not require a ramp to enter.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Monk Wise Martial Arts Academy, Plumas Colectiva, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T110000 UID:13FF3ADC-2831-4DB1-B56C-BF49EF9B0510 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Urban Fantasy with Ilona Andrews CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2577 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love! \N\NJoin us for a conversation with urban fantasy author Ilona Andrews in the Ashton Auditorium! \N\NIlona Andrews is the pen name of a romantic fantasy duo with over two dozen books published to date. They have co-authored several bestselling series, including the #1 NYT bestselling urban fantasy of Kate Daniels, rustic fantasy of The Edge, paranormal romance of Hidden Legacy, and Innkeeper Chronicles, which they post as a free weekly serial. \N\NWelcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\NASL interpretation will be provided. If you need any accommodations, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DRTWxH7Mk9Qumrta8\NJoin powerhouse romance team Jules Barker, Trish LeBaron, Tiffany Chandler, and Charity West for group reading and a deep dive on the amazing work Moonrise Cove Books is doing for romance. We'll be in the Sorenson Legacy Room.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Join us for a conversation with urban fantasy author Ilona Andrews in the Ashton Auditorium!

Ilona Andrews is the pen name of a romantic fantasy duo with over two dozen books published to date. They have co-authored several bestselling series, including the #1 NYT bestselling urban fantasy of Kate Daniels, rustic fantasy of The Edge, paranormal romance of Hidden Legacy, and Innkeeper Chronicles, which they post as a free weekly serial.

Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!
ASL interpretation will be provided. If you need any accommodations, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DRTWxH7Mk9Qumrta8
Join powerhouse romance team Jules Barker, Trish LeBaron, Tiffany Chandler, and Charity West for group reading and a deep dive on the amazing work Moonrise Cove Books is doing for romance. We'll be in the Sorenson Legacy Room.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T110000 UID:C4BC05AD-00CB-4D7E-9C3A-D3BDC1272545 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Mixing Romance, Magic, and Friendship: A behind-the-scenes look at writing a collaborative series CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2578 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NJoin powerhouse romance team Jules Barker, Trish LeBaron, Tiffany Chandler, and Charity West for group reading and a deep dive on the amazing work Moonrise Cove Books is doing for romance. We'll be in the Sorenson Legacy Room. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats. \N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Join powerhouse romance team Jules Barker, Trish LeBaron, Tiffany Chandler, and Charity West for group reading and a deep dive on the amazing work Moonrise Cove Books is doing for romance. We'll be in the Sorenson Legacy Room.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T120000 UID:2945D40F-CC34-466D-B730-D68857BE17C8 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Psychology of Love with Kristin Hodson CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2562 DESCRIPTION:Orem Library is excited to host their first ever Rom Con. The Psychology of Love panel features therapist Kristin Hodson to teach us about the psychology of lovers! Find us in the Sorenson Legacy Room.\N\NKristin Hodson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an AASECT Certified Therapist. She is a mom to three wild things and a partner to her husband, Jake. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Playa Grande, Costa Rica. She is founder and executive director of The Healing Group, a Utah mental health clinic specializing in relationships.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Library is excited to host their first ever Rom Con. The Psychology of Love panel features therapist Kristin Hodson to teach us about the psychology of lovers! Find us in the Sorenson Legacy Room.

Kristin Hodson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an AASECT Certified Therapist. She is a mom to three wild things and a partner to her husband, Jake. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Playa Grande, Costa Rica. She is founder and executive director of The Healing Group, a Utah mental health clinic specializing in relationships.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T120000 UID:AB56905C-A5CC-4B72-B155-E510F348D2A3 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Young Adult Romance CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2579 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NFeaturing Kortney Keisel and Brittney Mills, this panel will explore exciting terrain of young adult romance. Keisel is the author of eight romances, including Complex and the Desolation series. Mills is the author of five series, including the Austen matchmaking series and Young Adult Rosemont High Baseball series.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation. \N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Featuring Kortney Keisel and Brittney Mills, this panel will explore exciting terrain of young adult romance. Keisel is the author of eight romances, including Complex and the Desolation series. Mills is the author of five series, including the Austen matchmaking series and Young Adult Rosemont High Baseball series.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T130000 UID:CDFEC8E6-CAF0-4E1D-842C-A1D77B42D243 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Love Song Workshop with Mel Soul and Zac Ivie CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2470 DESCRIPTION:Orem Public Library is excited to host Romance Con. Singer/Songwriter Mel Soul and rapper Zac Ivie will break down the basics of writing a great love song. Come ready to blush, write, and swoon. Find us in the Sorenson Legacy Room. \N\NMel Soul is a singer and songwriter from Orem, UT. She has been vocally trained by vocal professionals Rebecca Chock and Mindy Pack. In 2009 she had the great opportunity singing with the Provo High School Chamber Singers for an exclusive concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 2012 was when her love of songwriting began. Since then she has worked with songwriter professionals Rich Parkinson, Shane Adams, Johnny London and most recently for a brief review of her work the well known accomplished singer and songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. Her goal as a songwriter and performer is to inspire her fans to love themselves to love everyone else.\N\NZac Ivie is a true veteran of the rapidly growing Salt Lake City hip-hop scene. You might have seen him opening up for the likes of Ghostface Killa, Talib Kweli, Hieroglyphics, or any one of your favorite rappers. Though most likely you have come across him posted up at local events, showing love and support to his community. There’s no question that the Salt Lake rapper is a workhorse. All within the last year that man has gotten engaged and bought a home, all while piecing an album together. Zac Ivie stays on his grind because he knows that’s what it takes. With that said, he is mindful of how difficult it is to remain confident in yourself. “We doubt ourselves so long, that one day you catch that break.” …. And when that happens you’re either on the train or off the train. And that’s the hardest part. Waking up everyday with your wins or your losses, and then still trying to play the game with the kind of boss attitude you need in this industry.” Says Zac..\N\N-Tyki Rose + K-UTE Radio\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Public Library is excited to host Romance Con. Singer/Songwriter Mel Soul and rapper Zac Ivie will break down the basics of writing a great love song. Come ready to blush, write, and swoon. Find us in the Sorenson Legacy Room.

Mel Soul is a singer and songwriter from Orem, UT. She has been vocally trained by vocal professionals Rebecca Chock and Mindy Pack. In 2009 she had the great opportunity singing with the Provo High School Chamber Singers for an exclusive concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. 2012 was when her love of songwriting began. Since then she has worked with songwriter professionals Rich Parkinson, Shane Adams, Johnny London and most recently for a brief review of her work the well known accomplished singer and songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. Her goal as a songwriter and performer is to inspire her fans to love themselves to love everyone else.

Zac Ivie is a true veteran of the rapidly growing Salt Lake City hip-hop scene. You might have seen him opening up for the likes of Ghostface Killa, Talib Kweli, Hieroglyphics, or any one of your favorite rappers. Though most likely you have come across him posted up at local events, showing love and support to his community. There’s no question that the Salt Lake rapper is a workhorse. All within the last year that man has gotten engaged and bought a home, all while piecing an album together. Zac Ivie stays on his grind because he knows that’s what it takes. With that said, he is mindful of how difficult it is to remain confident in yourself. “We doubt ourselves so long, that one day you catch that break.” …. And when that happens you’re either on the train or off the train. And that’s the hardest part. Waking up everyday with your wins or your losses, and then still trying to play the game with the kind of boss attitude you need in this industry.” Says Zac..

-Tyki Rose + K-UTE Radio

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T130000 UID:98EEAE38-B121-4769-BAC6-D325B2125E2E SUMMARY:Romance Con: Historical Romances CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2580 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NIf all you’ve wanted is for someone to love you like you’re in Victorian England or the wild, wild west, this historical romance session is for you. Travel back in time with Katie Condie, Randee Sorenson, and Josi Kilpack for deep dives into (the?) Western(s), Regencies, and more. We will dive into the research and world-building of historical romances. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

If all you’ve wanted is for someone to love you like you’re in Victorian England or the wild, wild west, this historical romance session is for you. Travel back in time with Katie Condie, Randee Sorenson, and Josi Kilpack for deep dives into (the?) Western(s), Regencies, and more. We will dive into the research and world-building of historical romances.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T150000 UID:AFDF913F-8703-466B-9597-0A239250F937 SUMMARY:Hazardous Tales with Nathan Hale CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2503 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library for an afternoon with acclaimed author Nathan Hale. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpretation \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NNathan Hale is the author and illustrator of the Eisner-nominated, New York Times bestselling graphic novel series on American history Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. He also created the sci-fi horror comics ONE TRICK PONY and APOCALYPSE TACO. He is the illustrator of the graphic novel RAPUNZEL’S REVENGE and its sequel, CALAMITY JACK. He also illustrated Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody, The Dinosaurs' Night Before Christmas, and many others. He lives in Utah.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library for an afternoon with acclaimed author Nathan Hale.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpretation
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

Nathan Hale is the author and illustrator of the Eisner-nominated, New York Times bestselling graphic novel series on American history Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. He also created the sci-fi horror comics ONE TRICK PONY and APOCALYPSE TACO. He is the illustrator of the graphic novel RAPUNZEL’S REVENGE and its sequel, CALAMITY JACK. He also illustrated Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody, The Dinosaurs' Night Before Christmas, and many others. He lives in Utah.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T140000 UID:AE344D85-2426-4E3F-BC3F-E20C25EDBDEC SUMMARY:Romance Con: Historical Romances CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2581 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NSometimes modest is hottest! Aspen Hadley, Nellie K. Neves, and Lorin Grace will discuss their clean sweet romances. Find us in the Ashton Auditorium.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Sometimes modest is hottest! Aspen Hadley, Nellie K. Neves, and Lorin Grace will discuss their clean sweet romances. Find us in the Ashton Auditorium.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T140000 UID:E6F05359-338D-4B63-998E-B751D32F67F5 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Independent Authors CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2621 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NEscritores de Artes de Mexico en Utah van a compartir sus poemas de amor favoritos. Writers from Artes de Mexico en Utah will share their favorite love poems. Find us in the Sorenson Legacy Room.\N\NFeaturing\NCote Toledo\NGloria Arredondo\NMartha Castellanos\NLina Vega Morrison\NPatricia Ospina\NMagby Hernandez\NAarón García\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8f\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Escritores de Artes de Mexico en Utah van a compartir sus poemas de amor favoritos. Writers from Artes de Mexico en Utah will share their favorite love poems. Find us in the Sorenson Legacy Room.

Featuring
Cote Toledo
Gloria Arredondo
Martha Castellanos
Lina Vega Morrison
Patricia Ospina
Magby Hernandez
Aarón García

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8f

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T160000 UID:2FB189DA-CC26-4C54-9094-8DAC913074EF SUMMARY:CoraZones: Masha Shudovich CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2538 DESCRIPTION:CoraZones is a reading and writing cipher for the Utah Poetry Slam community. Corazón means heart in Spanish. CoraZones fosters a warm, inclusive space for community members to exercise and strengthen their creativity.\N\NMasha Shukovich will be the host for 9.24.2022.\N\NDr. Masha Shukovich is a writer, poet, storyteller, folklorist, teacher, and intuitive chef with ancestry and indigenous roots in the Balkans; the Mediterranean; and West, Central, and Northeast Asia (Siberia). She is the mother of Maya and Leela, a demigirl (she/they), a neurodivergent person, and an immigrant from a country that no longer exists. \N\N*Please come prepared with a method of writing, be it a notepad and writing utensil, laptop, cellphone or whatever.*\N\NCoraZones will start at 2pm at Under the Umbrella Bookstore. Each session will begin with a brief introduction, including chosen pronouns, and an emotional health check-in of participants to gauge the energy people are bringing into the room. After the check-in, the host will lead a reading exercise and discussion to teach a literary technique. After the conversation, participants will have time to generate new writing. Time will be provided at the end of the hour for participants to share their newly created work, as well as share poems they are seeking feedback on.\N\NRead the rules of engagement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWXNgoB42uu7HtWUOBqctwVuah0OGfVSvaLlHNFsQ1w/edit?usp=sharing\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org. \N- Livestream unavailable. \N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, Plumas Colectiva, Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:CoraZones is a reading and writing cipher for the Utah Poetry Slam community. Corazón means heart in Spanish. CoraZones fosters a warm, inclusive space for community members to exercise and strengthen their creativity.

Masha Shukovich will be the host for 9.24.2022.

Dr. Masha Shukovich is a writer, poet, storyteller, folklorist, teacher, and intuitive chef with ancestry and indigenous roots in the Balkans; the Mediterranean; and West, Central, and Northeast Asia (Siberia). She is the mother of Maya and Leela, a demigirl (she/they), a neurodivergent person, and an immigrant from a country that no longer exists.

*Please come prepared with a method of writing, be it a notepad and writing utensil, laptop, cellphone or whatever.*

CoraZones will start at 2pm at Under the Umbrella Bookstore. Each session will begin with a brief introduction, including chosen pronouns, and an emotional health check-in of participants to gauge the energy people are bringing into the room. After the check-in, the host will lead a reading exercise and discussion to teach a literary technique. After the conversation, participants will have time to generate new writing. Time will be provided at the end of the hour for participants to share their newly created work, as well as share poems they are seeking feedback on.

Read the rules of engagement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWXNgoB42uu7HtWUOBqctwVuah0OGfVSvaLlHNFsQ1w/edit?usp=sharing

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org.
- Livestream unavailable.
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, Plumas Colectiva, Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T000000 UID:71744F52-4B5C-46F2-A214-F5F025F06A88 SUMMARY:Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems by David Lee CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2576 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop welcomes David Lee, author of Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems. \N\NDavid Lee is a major figure in American letters: the author of fifteen books of poetry, a celebrated teacher, a legendary reader in classrooms, bookstores, and taverns; and the first poet laureate of Utah. His work is full of the most various qualities: soul-crushing tragedy, lyrical celebration, high comedy, storytelling ebullience. Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems, now with us at last, brings to the community of readers raw power and radical beauty.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop welcomes David Lee, author of Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems.

David Lee is a major figure in American letters: the author of fifteen books of poetry, a celebrated teacher, a legendary reader in classrooms, bookstores, and taverns; and the first poet laureate of Utah. His work is full of the most various qualities: soul-crushing tragedy, lyrical celebration, high comedy, storytelling ebullience. Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems, now with us at last, brings to the community of readers raw power and radical beauty.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from The King's English Bookshop X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T150000 UID:439683E9-BF32-401E-AE02-93D8776A7BC2 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Romantic Comedies CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2582 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novels, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NIs it love if you don’t laugh at their jokes? Come ready to guffaw, chortle, and chuckle with some of the funniest romantic comedy authors in the game, including Kortney Keisel, Brittney Mills, and Nellie Neves.\N\NWelcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NIs it love if you don’t laugh at their jokes? Come ready to guffaw, chortle, and chuckle with some of the funniest romantic comedy authors in the game, including Kortney Keisel, Brittney Mills, and Nellie Neves. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. \N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novels, romance authors, and of course love!

Is it love if you don’t laugh at their jokes? Come ready to guffaw, chortle, and chuckle with some of the funniest romantic comedy authors in the game, including Kortney Keisel, Brittney Mills, and Nellie Neves.

Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Is it love if you don’t laugh at their jokes? Come ready to guffaw, chortle, and chuckle with some of the funniest romantic comedy authors in the game, including Kortney Keisel, Brittney Mills, and Nellie Neves.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities.

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T160000 UID:6521A644-9036-4B3D-94E1-7A0AA925DE51 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Independent Authors CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2583 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!\N\NWanna write romances and be your own boss? Link up with our panel of independent authors: Jill Burrell, Angela E. Powell, and Varvara Jones. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Orem Public \NLibrary and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Welcome to our first ever Romance Con, a day dedicated exploring our favorite romance novel, romance authors, and of course love!

Wanna write romances and be your own boss? Link up with our panel of independent authors: Jill Burrell, Angela E. Powell, and Varvara Jones.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Orem Public
Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T170000 UID:DF244C6E-276E-4BC3-A77B-F919D6C39E64 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Romance Slam CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2471 DESCRIPTION:Orem Public Library is happy to host Romance Con. The Romance Poetry Slam invites the community to share their love poetry to five randomly selected judges for a chance to win $100 for the best love poems. \N\NSign up by emailing palomo@utahhumanities.org\N\N2 rounds, 3 mins, 1 winner\NPG Content Strictly Enforced\NClean Slate Scoring \NRandomized round order each round \N\NHosted by Willy Palomo \N\NIf you didn't write them a crown of sonnets, did you ever even really love them? \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Orem Public Library, and Utah Poetry Slam. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Public Library is happy to host Romance Con. The Romance Poetry Slam invites the community to share their love poetry to five randomly selected judges for a chance to win $100 for the best love poems.

Sign up by emailing palomo@utahhumanities.org

2 rounds, 3 mins, 1 winner
PG Content Strictly Enforced
Clean Slate Scoring
Randomized round order each round

Hosted by Willy Palomo

If you didn't write them a crown of sonnets, did you ever even really love them?

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Orem Public Library, and Utah Poetry Slam. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220924T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220924T180000 UID:90FE5976-58DF-4E19-881F-D253C2058055 SUMMARY:Romance Con: Keynote with Josi Kilpack CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2472 DESCRIPTION:The Romance Con will come to close with a keynote by Romance queen Josi Kilpack. \N\NJosi S. Kilpack has written more than thirty novels, a cookbook, and several novellas. She is a four-time Whitney award winner, including Best Novel 2015 for "Lord Fenton's Folly, and has been a Utah Best of State winner for Fiction. Josi loves to bake, sleep, eat, read, travel, and watch TV--none of which she gets to do as much as she would like. She writes contemporary fiction under the pen name Jessica Pack.\N\NJosi has four children and lives in Northern Utah. For more information about Josi, you can visit her website at www.josiskilpack.com \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Romance Con will come to close with a keynote by Romance queen Josi Kilpack.

Josi S. Kilpack has written more than thirty novels, a cookbook, and several novellas. She is a four-time Whitney award winner, including Best Novel 2015 for "Lord Fenton's Folly, and has been a Utah Best of State winner for Fiction. Josi loves to bake, sleep, eat, read, travel, and watch TV--none of which she gets to do as much as she would like. She writes contemporary fiction under the pen name Jessica Pack.

Josi has four children and lives in Northern Utah. For more information about Josi, you can visit her website at www.josiskilpack.com

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220925T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220925T000000 UID:A920C675-15AE-4E9D-A4D0-9584ACE4111B SUMMARY:Queer Poetry Night CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2602 DESCRIPTION:\NRiver Writing Collective welcomes all our QT’s to Under the Umbrella where we will serenade, ode, and get real with one another. Hosted by Karen. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke\N- Livestream unavailable.\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking if you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the River Writing Collective and Under the Umbrella Bookstore. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
River Writing Collective welcomes all our QT’s to Under the Umbrella where we will serenade, ode, and get real with one another. Hosted by Karen.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke
- Livestream unavailable.
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking if you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the River Writing Collective and Under the Umbrella Bookstore. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220926T000000 UID:127E2CBA-EC0A-4B71-8487-9AF55188537B SUMMARY:Ken Brewer Festival of Writing presents David Lee CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2510 DESCRIPTION:The Ken Brewer Festival of Writing welcomes David Lee, Utah's first poet laureate and author of dozens of books.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation\N- Parking: Accessible Parking Adjacent\N- Seating: First floor venue, Wheelchair and accessible access to seating. \N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NDavid Lee has published over two dozen books and his awards include the Western States Book Award, Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, Elkhorn Poetry Prize and Utah Book Awards. He was named the First Poet Laureate of Utah and held that position for a six-year term. In 2001 he was Finalist-runner-up for the position of United States Poet Laureate. He has received multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received multiple nominations for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.\N\NLee held classes at Southern Utah University for thirty two years and chaired the Department of Language, Literature, and Humanities for twenty five of those years. He received every teaching award given by the university, including being named Professor of the Year on three separate occasions. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at that institution. He was the fifth academic in Utah to be named a Lifetime Fellow by the Utah Council of Arts and Sciences and received the Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in both the Arts and Humanities.\NRetired, Lee splits his time between Boulder, Utah; Mesquite, Nevada; Silver City, Nevada; Seaside, Oregon; the Cascade River, Washington; and Benalmadena, Espana. His most recent book is Mine Tailings published by 5 Sisters Press. He reads, scribbles and wanders available graveled roads and trails, all at about the same rate and pace.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ken Brewer Festival of Writing welcomes David Lee, Utah's first poet laureate and author of dozens of books.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation
- Parking: Accessible Parking Adjacent
- Seating: First floor venue, Wheelchair and accessible access to seating.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

David Lee has published over two dozen books and his awards include the Western States Book Award, Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, Elkhorn Poetry Prize and Utah Book Awards. He was named the First Poet Laureate of Utah and held that position for a six-year term. In 2001 he was Finalist-runner-up for the position of United States Poet Laureate. He has received multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received multiple nominations for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.

Lee held classes at Southern Utah University for thirty two years and chaired the Department of Language, Literature, and Humanities for twenty five of those years. He received every teaching award given by the university, including being named Professor of the Year on three separate occasions. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at that institution. He was the fifth academic in Utah to be named a Lifetime Fellow by the Utah Council of Arts and Sciences and received the Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in both the Arts and Humanities.
Retired, Lee splits his time between Boulder, Utah; Mesquite, Nevada; Silver City, Nevada; Seaside, Oregon; the Cascade River, Washington; and Benalmadena, Espana. His most recent book is Mine Tailings published by 5 Sisters Press. He reads, scribbles and wanders available graveled roads and trails, all at about the same rate and pace.

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220926T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220926T210000 UID:E9331463-F580-415E-A5E2-6F54C7341954 SUMMARY:Utah Poetry Slam features Rachel Chidester CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2525 DESCRIPTION:Join the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring our representative at the Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam: Rachel Chidester\N\NAfter graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design and working in her career field for two years, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. Rachel has since been awarded for her work statewide and will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage later this year.\N\NJoin the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring our representative at the Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam: Rachel Chidester\N\NAfter graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design and working in her career field for two years, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. Rachel has since been awarded for her work statewide and will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage later this year.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- Parking: One block from Planetarium Trax Stop. Parking Garages ADA compliant. \N- Bathrooms: Large Single Stall bathroom available in the back \N- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Sadie. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring our representative at the Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam: Rachel Chidester

After graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design and working in her career field for two years, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. Rachel has since been awarded for her work statewide and will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage later this year.

Join the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring our representative at the Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam: Rachel Chidester

After graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design and working in her career field for two years, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. Rachel has since been awarded for her work statewide and will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage later this year.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Parking: One block from Planetarium Trax Stop. Parking Garages ADA compliant.
- Bathrooms: Large Single Stall bathroom available in the back
- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Sadie.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220927T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220927T000000 UID:32840D1E-9ACE-4B80-B86A-D0ECCA539A3F SUMMARY:Ken Brewer Festival of Writing presents David Lee CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2511 DESCRIPTION:The Ken Brewer Festival of Writing welcomes you to a conversation with David Lee, Utah's first poet laureate, in the David B. Haight Alumni Canter. \N\NDavid Lee has published over two dozen books and his awards include the Western States Book Award, Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, Elkhorn Poetry Prize and Utah Book Awards. He was named the First Poet Laureate of Utah and held that position for a six-year term. In 2001 he was Finalist-runner-up for the position of United States Poet Laureate. He has received multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received multiple nominations for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.\N\NLee held classes at Southern Utah University for thirty two years and chaired the Department of Language, Literature, and Humanities for twenty five of those years. He received every teaching award given by the university, including being named Professor of the Year on three separate occasions. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at that institution. He was the fifth academic in Utah to be named a Lifetime Fellow by the Utah Council of Arts and Sciences and received the Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in both the Arts and Humanities.\NRetired, Lee splits his time between Boulder, Utah; Mesquite, Nevada; Silver City, Nevada; Seaside, Oregon; the Cascade River, Washington; and Benalmadena, Espana. His most recent book is Mine Tailings published by 5 Sisters Press. He reads, scribbles and wanders available graveled roads and trails, all at about the same rate and pace.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org\N- Parking: Accessible Parking Adjacent\N- Seating: First floor venue, Wheelchair and accessible access to seating. \N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ken Brewer Festival of Writing welcomes you to a conversation with David Lee, Utah's first poet laureate, in the David B. Haight Alumni Canter.

David Lee has published over two dozen books and his awards include the Western States Book Award, Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, Elkhorn Poetry Prize and Utah Book Awards. He was named the First Poet Laureate of Utah and held that position for a six-year term. In 2001 he was Finalist-runner-up for the position of United States Poet Laureate. He has received multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received multiple nominations for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.

Lee held classes at Southern Utah University for thirty two years and chaired the Department of Language, Literature, and Humanities for twenty five of those years. He received every teaching award given by the university, including being named Professor of the Year on three separate occasions. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at that institution. He was the fifth academic in Utah to be named a Lifetime Fellow by the Utah Council of Arts and Sciences and received the Utah Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in both the Arts and Humanities.
Retired, Lee splits his time between Boulder, Utah; Mesquite, Nevada; Silver City, Nevada; Seaside, Oregon; the Cascade River, Washington; and Benalmadena, Espana. His most recent book is Mine Tailings published by 5 Sisters Press. He reads, scribbles and wanders available graveled roads and trails, all at about the same rate and pace.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org
- Parking: Accessible Parking Adjacent
- Seating: First floor venue, Wheelchair and accessible access to seating.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah State University and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220927T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220927T000000 UID:CE7A3EEA-8FC4-4EB1-93B3-8629822D99ED SUMMARY:Spell for Lost Things with Jenna Evan Welch CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2584 DESCRIPTION:Join author Jenna Evans Welch to celebrate her new YA novel, Spells for Lost Things. Order your copy of Spells for Lost Things from The King's English Bookshop and receive a personalized and autographed copy!\N\NThis event is free and open to the public and will take place at 3 Cups, 4670 S Holladay Village Plaza #104, Holladay.\N\NGET YOUR COPY NOW! Pre-order your signed copy of the featured book today, by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized.\NPlaces in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of the featured book from The King's English.\N\NAbout the book:\NWillow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn’t even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch.\N\NThere, she meets Mason, a loner who’s always felt out of place and has been in and out of foster homes his entire life. He’s been classified as one of the runaways, constantly searching for ways to make it back to his mom; even if she can’t take care of him, it’s his job to try and take care of her. Isn’t it?\N\NNaturally pulled to one another, Willow and Mason set out across Salem to discover the secret past of Willow’s mother, her aunt, and the ambiguous history of her family. During all of this, the two can’t help but act on their natural connection. But with the amount of baggage between them—and Willow’s growing conviction her family might be cursed—can they manage to hold onto each other?\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is supported by King's English and 3 Cups. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author Jenna Evans Welch to celebrate her new YA novel, Spells for Lost Things. Order your copy of Spells for Lost Things from The King's English Bookshop and receive a personalized and autographed copy!

This event is free and open to the public and will take place at 3 Cups, 4670 S Holladay Village Plaza #104, Holladay.

GET YOUR COPY NOW! Pre-order your signed copy of the featured book today, by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. Please specify if you will be attending the event and if you want your book personalized.
Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy of the featured book from The King's English.

About the book:
Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn’t even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch.

There, she meets Mason, a loner who’s always felt out of place and has been in and out of foster homes his entire life. He’s been classified as one of the runaways, constantly searching for ways to make it back to his mom; even if she can’t take care of him, it’s his job to try and take care of her. Isn’t it?

Naturally pulled to one another, Willow and Mason set out across Salem to discover the secret past of Willow’s mother, her aunt, and the ambiguous history of her family. During all of this, the two can’t help but act on their natural connection. But with the amount of baggage between them—and Willow’s growing conviction her family might be cursed—can they manage to hold onto each other?

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is supported by King's English and 3 Cups. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220928T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220928T200000 UID:F634D076-2774-494F-A462-A38528598AA5 SUMMARY:A Particular Kind of Black Man with Tope Folarin CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2529 DESCRIPTION:Join Weber Book Links for a reading and Q&A with one of Utah's foremost Black literary figures: Tope Folarin. \N\NTope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation. \N- Livestream at @utahbookfest on Instagram. \N- On site sensory kit available. Ask for Willy Palomo \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber County Library, and Weber Book Links\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Weber Book Links for a reading and Q&A with one of Utah's foremost Black literary figures: Tope Folarin.

Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also recently named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation.
- Livestream at @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- On site sensory kit available. Ask for Willy Palomo
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8


This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber County Library, and Weber Book Links
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220929T200000 UID:7698E3BC-350C-41CC-B1DF-B8D348DE662F SUMMARY:Favorite Poem Project CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2531 DESCRIPTION:Join us at SimpleLife Preschool & Art Studio for an evening of poetry. Bring a poem you love or one you have written to share around the campfire or just come and enjoy listening. Poems have the power to change us whether we hear them or write them. We'd love to hear the words you love!\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- Parking: Plenty of street parking out front. Cement walkway, no steps, wheelchair accessible outdoor event space. \N- Seating: Folding chairs will be provided but bringing your own camp chairs is encouraged for comfort.\N- Bathrooms: There is one bathroom open to all. (The restroom is not set up for wheelchair access)\N- No on-site sensory kit. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from SimpleLife Preschool & Art Studio, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at SimpleLife Preschool & Art Studio for an evening of poetry. Bring a poem you love or one you have written to share around the campfire or just come and enjoy listening. Poems have the power to change us whether we hear them or write them. We'd love to hear the words you love!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request. Ask Willy Palomo.
- Parking: Plenty of street parking out front. Cement walkway, no steps, wheelchair accessible outdoor event space.
- Seating: Folding chairs will be provided but bringing your own camp chairs is encouraged for comfort.
- Bathrooms: There is one bathroom open to all. (The restroom is not set up for wheelchair access)
- No on-site sensory kit.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from SimpleLife Preschool & Art Studio, Weber Book Links, and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220929T200000 UID:75B56877-61E5-410B-852E-3EBFEDD81137 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents David Lee CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2533 DESCRIPTION:Join the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at the Boulder Community Center for a special evening with acclaimed poet David Lee.\N\NSince the publication of his first books of poem, the Porcine Legacy in 1974, David Lee’s unique force has touched and inspired people from a variety of locations, background and ages, including hundreds of students and aspiring writers. A Texas native, Dave studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer, is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers, he raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton and retired after 32 years of teaching at Southern Utah University, serving for many of those years as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature.\NDave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997 serving in this capacity until 2002. Hi 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave has written 22 books, the most reason, Rusty Barbed Wire, a book of his selected poems.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/workshop\N- Parking: There is parking at the front and north side of the building with a ramp on the north side which can be accessed from either parking area.\N- Seating: All seating is on one level.\N- Bathrooms: Two gendered restrooms, no family restroom available\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at the Boulder Community Center for a special evening with acclaimed poet David Lee.

Since the publication of his first books of poem, the Porcine Legacy in 1974, David Lee’s unique force has touched and inspired people from a variety of locations, background and ages, including hundreds of students and aspiring writers. A Texas native, Dave studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer, is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers, he raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton and retired after 32 years of teaching at Southern Utah University, serving for many of those years as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature.
Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997 serving in this capacity until 2002. Hi 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave has written 22 books, the most reason, Rusty Barbed Wire, a book of his selected poems.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/workshop
- Parking: There is parking at the front and north side of the building with a ramp on the north side which can be accessed from either parking area.
- Seating: All seating is on one level.
- Bathrooms: Two gendered restrooms, no family restroom available
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220929T210000 UID:C148FD01-D6C6-4AB2-BF1D-3BC537882B7B SUMMARY:Reading Dangerously: Community Conversation on Genderqueer and L8r, G8r CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2571 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations. \N\NCommunity Conversation on Genderqueer and L8r, G8r\N\NRegister for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Imy8S7Q5QXkHYK75h-cGdqZBIMLdNAzhWnMWz3io_Lc/edit\N\NThe conversation will include a background presentation led by Dr. Kim Hackford-Peer The background presentation will provide background for Utah's sex education laws and context for the censorship of the following books by perspectives across the political spectrum: \N\N1) Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe\N\NNew York Times: How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html?auth=login-google\N\N2) L8r, G8r by Lauren Myracle \N\NThe Daily Beast Interview with Lauren Myracle: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-myracle-on-why-her-books-top-list-that-america-wants-banned\N\NNext, Dr. Hackford-Peer will contextualize for key terms in this conversation: “banned,” “challenged,” sex (act), sex ("biological sex"), gender, sex education, romance, attraction, obscene, pornography, and grooming. \N\NLastly, Dr. Hackford-Peer will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: sex and relationship therapist Kristin Hodson, Rachel Ann Nunes of My Book Cave, Annabel Sheinberg of Planned Parenthood, and school psychologist Laurel Woods. \N\NSome questions include: What age group would you consider to be appropriate for these books? Why? How does your expertise as, a sex and relationship therapist, a school psychologist, or as a sexual and reproductive health care provider shape your interaction with the book? Do you consider these books pornographic? Why or why not? How should the current sex education laws impact books like Gender Queer and L8r, G8r? How does the sexual content in Gender Queer and L8r, G8r compare to the sexual content found in other works of classic literature commonly taught to high school-aged students in Utah, such as Romeo and Juliet, The Holy Bible, and Their Eyes Were Watching God?\N\NThe event will then transition to a conversation with the public. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Utah Humanities, and Pen America - Utah Chapter.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations.

Community Conversation on Genderqueer and L8r, G8r

Register for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Imy8S7Q5QXkHYK75h-cGdqZBIMLdNAzhWnMWz3io_Lc/edit

The conversation will include a background presentation led by Dr. Kim Hackford-Peer The background presentation will provide background for Utah's sex education laws and context for the censorship of the following books by perspectives across the political spectrum:

1) Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe

New York Times: How a Debut Graphic Memoir Became the Most Banned Book in the Country: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html?auth=login-google

2) L8r, G8r by Lauren Myracle

The Daily Beast Interview with Lauren Myracle: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-myracle-on-why-her-books-top-list-that-america-wants-banned

Next, Dr. Hackford-Peer will contextualize for key terms in this conversation: “banned,” “challenged,” sex (act), sex ("biological sex"), gender, sex education, romance, attraction, obscene, pornography, and grooming.

Lastly, Dr. Hackford-Peer will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: sex and relationship therapist Kristin Hodson, Rachel Ann Nunes of My Book Cave, Annabel Sheinberg of Planned Parenthood, and school psychologist Laurel Woods.

Some questions include: What age group would you consider to be appropriate for these books? Why? How does your expertise as, a sex and relationship therapist, a school psychologist, or as a sexual and reproductive health care provider shape your interaction with the book? Do you consider these books pornographic? Why or why not? How should the current sex education laws impact books like Gender Queer and L8r, G8r? How does the sexual content in Gender Queer and L8r, G8r compare to the sexual content found in other works of classic literature commonly taught to high school-aged students in Utah, such as Romeo and Juliet, The Holy Bible, and Their Eyes Were Watching God?

The event will then transition to a conversation with the public.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Utah Humanities, and Pen America - Utah Chapter.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220929T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220929T210000 UID:36A83E25-B1CF-4B38-89B9-91C6B80B3541 SUMMARY:Orem Reads presents Grassroots Shakespeare CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2587 DESCRIPTION:Orem Reads presents Grassroots Shakespeare! The collaborative touring ensemble Grassroots Shakespeare will perform a fun, quick-paced, and very accessible abridgement of the classic tragedy performed by 4 actors and 1 musician in under an hour.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Orem Reads presents Grassroots Shakespeare! The collaborative touring ensemble Grassroots Shakespeare will perform a fun, quick-paced, and very accessible abridgement of the classic tragedy performed by 4 actors and 1 musician in under an hour.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8


This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220930T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220930T200000 UID:BA941051-B7D3-4FF9-8E73-7B8B3F1CC25C SUMMARY:Trails Foundation of Northern Utah with Nate Schweber CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2504 DESCRIPTION:NY author to discuss DeVotos’ ‘forgotten fight to save the wild’\N\NGo here for more info: https://tfnu.org/2022-author-dinner\N\NBernard DeVoto – the most famous Ogdenite you’ve probably never heard of – and his wife, Avis, will be the topic of conversation when the Trails Foundation’s Author Dinner returns this fall.\N\NNate Schweber will discuss his new book, “This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild” at the Sept. 30 event at the Timbermine Restaurant. The book is a dual biography of the DeVotos, who Schweber describes as champions of public lands and great food.\N\NThe Author Dinner is part of a year-long commemoration of Bernard DeVoto, who was born in Ogden 125 years ago on Jan. 11, 1897.\N\NSchweber’s book tells the story of the DeVotos’ public crusade to prevent millions of acres of Western public lands from being sold off for grazing and mining and efforts to tear down the National Park Service. Their opponents were Nevada Sen. Pat McCarran and his allies, J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy.\N\NAs the DeVotos struggled to stay solvent after Bernard was blacklisted by multiple magazines, he and Avis attracted powerful friends. They included Utah forester Chet Olsen, landscape photographer, Ansel Adams, book publisher, Alfred Knopf, novelist Wallace Stegner and the woman who would become Avis’ best friend, chef Julia Child.\N\NDeVoto was the first Utahn to win a Pulitzer Prize for his history, “Across the Wild Missouri,” which was part of a trilogy that documented the discovery, exploration, and settlement of the West. He also was a novelist, leading authority on Mark Twain and editor of Lewis and Clark’s journals. He used his column in Harper’s magazine, “The Easy Chair,” to advocate for protection of wild lands in the West.\N\NSchweber is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Anthony Bourdain’s Explore Parts Unknown, and other publications. His conservation articles won awards from the Outdoor Writer’s Association of America in 2015 and 2018. In 2020 a ProPublica series he contributed to won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.\N\NSchweber was born in Montana and now lives in Brooklyn.\N\NTickets for the Author Dinner will go on sale on July 5 on the TFNU web site when “This America of Ours” is published by Mariner Books. Individual tickets are $100 a seat.\N\NTables of 10 are available for $1,000. All proceeds support the work of the Trails Foundation to build and maintain trails and protect open spaces in Northern Utah.\N\NBy Ron Thornburg, Author Dinner committee chair X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:NY author to discuss DeVotos’ ‘forgotten fight to save the wild’

Go here for more info: https://tfnu.org/2022-author-dinner

Bernard DeVoto – the most famous Ogdenite you’ve probably never heard of – and his wife, Avis, will be the topic of conversation when the Trails Foundation’s Author Dinner returns this fall.

Nate Schweber will discuss his new book, “This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild” at the Sept. 30 event at the Timbermine Restaurant. The book is a dual biography of the DeVotos, who Schweber describes as champions of public lands and great food.

The Author Dinner is part of a year-long commemoration of Bernard DeVoto, who was born in Ogden 125 years ago on Jan. 11, 1897.

Schweber’s book tells the story of the DeVotos’ public crusade to prevent millions of acres of Western public lands from being sold off for grazing and mining and efforts to tear down the National Park Service. Their opponents were Nevada Sen. Pat McCarran and his allies, J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy.

As the DeVotos struggled to stay solvent after Bernard was blacklisted by multiple magazines, he and Avis attracted powerful friends. They included Utah forester Chet Olsen, landscape photographer, Ansel Adams, book publisher, Alfred Knopf, novelist Wallace Stegner and the woman who would become Avis’ best friend, chef Julia Child.

DeVoto was the first Utahn to win a Pulitzer Prize for his history, “Across the Wild Missouri,” which was part of a trilogy that documented the discovery, exploration, and settlement of the West. He also was a novelist, leading authority on Mark Twain and editor of Lewis and Clark’s journals. He used his column in Harper’s magazine, “The Easy Chair,” to advocate for protection of wild lands in the West.

Schweber is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Anthony Bourdain’s Explore Parts Unknown, and other publications. His conservation articles won awards from the Outdoor Writer’s Association of America in 2015 and 2018. In 2020 a ProPublica series he contributed to won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

Schweber was born in Montana and now lives in Brooklyn.

Tickets for the Author Dinner will go on sale on July 5 on the TFNU web site when “This America of Ours” is published by Mariner Books. Individual tickets are $100 a seat.

Tables of 10 are available for $1,000. All proceeds support the work of the Trails Foundation to build and maintain trails and protect open spaces in Northern Utah.

By Ron Thornburg, Author Dinner committee chair X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220930T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220930T200000 UID:A713AA2F-E36E-4E0E-A3C4-E9E3D4421517 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: the River Always Wins with David Marquis CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2505 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a walk and conversation with David Marquis, author of The River Always Wins.\N\NDavid Marquis is a writer and activist who lives in Dallas, Texas. Throughout his career he has worked to create lasting, positive social change in the environment, education, and human rights. Raised in West Texas during the drought of the 1950’s, he has an abiding interest in water and conservation issues.\N\NThe River Always Wins offers up a metaphor for hope in troubled times. Using the musicality of refrains and short chapters, this prose poem creates a rhythmic understanding of the power of water to both challenge and heal.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFO:\NASL interpretation provided upon request\N- No livestream will be made available. Video may be posted afterwards.\N- Parking: The event has both accessible parking and access to the seating area, though it is primarily a dirt path and grass.\N- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are all gender and available for families, though there are a few stairs so less accessible for disabled communities at this time.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Stokes Nature Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a walk and conversation with David Marquis, author of The River Always Wins.

David Marquis is a writer and activist who lives in Dallas, Texas. Throughout his career he has worked to create lasting, positive social change in the environment, education, and human rights. Raised in West Texas during the drought of the 1950’s, he has an abiding interest in water and conservation issues.

The River Always Wins offers up a metaphor for hope in troubled times. Using the musicality of refrains and short chapters, this prose poem creates a rhythmic understanding of the power of water to both challenge and heal.

ACCESSIBILITY INFO:
ASL interpretation provided upon request
- No livestream will be made available. Video may be posted afterwards.
- Parking: The event has both accessible parking and access to the seating area, though it is primarily a dirt path and grass.
- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are all gender and available for families, though there are a few stairs so less accessible for disabled communities at this time.
- No on-site sensory kit
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Stokes Nature Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220930T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220930T200000 UID:0656D34F-F800-4024-B7D3-4DACF2570C38 SUMMARY:Cece Rios and the King of Fears with Kaela Rivera CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2617 DESCRIPTION:The King's English welcomes Kaela Rivera, author of Cece Rios and the King of Fears. \N\NIn this thrilling sequel to the “spellbinding” (Booklist starred review) and “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly starred review) middle grade fantasy adventure Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, Cece and her sister Juana must journey into the stronghold of Devil’s Alley to challenge the criatura king El Cucuy. \N\NCece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana’s soul is still trapped in Devil’s Alley. As Cece tries to find a way to get it back using her new curandera abilities, Juana takes her fate in her own hands and sets off alone, intent on restoring her soul and getting revenge on El Sombrerón.\N\NBut then they discover that El Cucuy, king of the criaturas, is hunting for Cece, craving her powers for his own dark purposes. Can the Rios sisters—along with Coyote, Little Lion, and their other criatura allies—uncover his secrets and reclaim Juana’s soul? Or will the sinister forces of Devil’s Alley overcome them all?\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English welcomes Kaela Rivera, author of Cece Rios and the King of Fears.

In this thrilling sequel to the “spellbinding” (Booklist starred review) and “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly starred review) middle grade fantasy adventure Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, Cece and her sister Juana must journey into the stronghold of Devil’s Alley to challenge the criatura king El Cucuy.

Cece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana’s soul is still trapped in Devil’s Alley. As Cece tries to find a way to get it back using her new curandera abilities, Juana takes her fate in her own hands and sets off alone, intent on restoring her soul and getting revenge on El Sombrerón.

But then they discover that El Cucuy, king of the criaturas, is hunting for Cece, craving her powers for his own dark purposes. Can the Rios sisters—along with Coyote, Little Lion, and their other criatura allies—uncover his secrets and reclaim Juana’s soul? Or will the sinister forces of Devil’s Alley overcome them all?

This event is made possible with support from the King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220930T200000 UID:DA6F76CF-34A1-4193-89E1-42E3362053E4 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents Eleanor Wilner CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2535 DESCRIPTION:Join the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at the Boulder Community Center for a special evening with acclaimed novelist Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner. \N\NRobert Hodgson Van Wagoner’s second novel, The Contortionists, was awarded the 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction 2021. His first novel, Dancing Naked, was awarded the Utah Book Award by the Utah Center for the Book, and the Utah Original Writing Competition’s Publication Prize.  His short stories and author interviews have appeared in periodicals, anthologies and online publications, and have been selected for various awards, including Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, Shenandoah’s Jeanne Charpiot Goodheart Award for Fiction, Sunstone’s Brookie and D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Award, and Weber: The Contemporary West’s Dr. O. Marvin Lewis Award for Best Fiction. He has been featured as faculty/presenter at numerous writing workshops and retreats, including Writers@Work, YoungArts, Sawtooth Writers Conference, National Undergraduate Literature Conference, and Southern Utah University Writers Conference. He lives in Washington state.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: \N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/workshop\N- Parking: There is parking at the front and north side of the building with a ramp on the north side which can be accessed from either parking area. \N- Seating: All seating is on one level.\N- Bathrooms: Two gendered restrooms, no family restroom available\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at the Boulder Community Center for a special evening with acclaimed novelist Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner.

Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner’s second novel, The Contortionists, was awarded the 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction 2021. His first novel, Dancing Naked, was awarded the Utah Book Award by the Utah Center for the Book, and the Utah Original Writing Competition’s Publication Prize.  His short stories and author interviews have appeared in periodicals, anthologies and online publications, and have been selected for various awards, including Carolina Quarterly’s Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, Shenandoah’s Jeanne Charpiot Goodheart Award for Fiction, Sunstone’s Brookie and D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Award, and Weber: The Contemporary West’s Dr. O. Marvin Lewis Award for Best Fiction. He has been featured as faculty/presenter at numerous writing workshops and retreats, including Writers@Work, YoungArts, Sawtooth Writers Conference, National Undergraduate Literature Conference, and Southern Utah University Writers Conference. He lives in Washington state.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/workshop
- Parking: There is parking at the front and north side of the building with a ramp on the north side which can be accessed from either parking area.
- Seating: All seating is on one level.
- Bathrooms: Two gendered restrooms, no family restroom available
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities] X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220930T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220930T210000 UID:CC294961-94EA-4B88-8E72-586F207BB088 SUMMARY:Teen Individual Poetry Slam CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2588 DESCRIPTION:Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative will descend on Kearns High School for its first event of the year. Bring your youth poets for an open mic and individual team poetry slam. \N\NCompeting teams should have 3 poems prepared, under 3 minutes each. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: \N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Kearns High School and Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative will descend on Kearns High School for its first event of the year. Bring your youth poets for an open mic and individual team poetry slam.

Competing teams should have 3 poems prepared, under 3 minutes each.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Kearns High School and Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221001T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221001T120000 UID:EBCB42CE-99AE-4A0A-8EED-9D06D9F8AEB7 SUMMARY:Wasatch Back Local Author Celebration CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2589 DESCRIPTION:Every year the Park City Library hosts a “Wasatch Back Local Author Celebration” highlighting authors who either live in the Wasatch Back or have written content pertaining to the Wasatch Back. This year, the Park City Library is excited to host Glenn Dyer, Nancy Roe, Maya Silver, Denise Devines, and Honey Parker. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Every year the Park City Library hosts a “Wasatch Back Local Author Celebration” highlighting authors who either live in the Wasatch Back or have written content pertaining to the Wasatch Back. This year, the Park City Library is excited to host Glenn Dyer, Nancy Roe, Maya Silver, Denise Devines, and Honey Parker.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221001T200000 UID:4BD17CA9-1715-412B-A038-C8699498039E SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Conference presents Eleanor Wilner CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2534 DESCRIPTION:Join the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at the Boulder Community Center for a special evening with acclaimed poet Eleanor Wilner.\N\NEleanor Wilner is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Tourist in Hell, The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems. She is co-editor, with Maurice Manning, of The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, and a book on visionary imagination and social/personal change, Gathering the Winds. Her poems appear in over 50 anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2014 and 2016, and her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, and three Pushcart Prizes. She is a lifelong activist for civil rights and peace.\NA native of Cleveland, Ohio, she earned a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, and, believing that teaching and poetry are twinned arts, has taught nomadically over the past half-century at many colleges and universities, and perennially for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/workshop\N- Parking: There is parking at the front and north side of the building with a ramp on the north side which can be accessed from either parking area.\N- Seating: All seating is on one level.\N- Bathrooms: Two gendered restrooms, no family restroom available\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Cliff Notes Writing Conference at the Boulder Community Center for a special evening with acclaimed poet Eleanor Wilner.

Eleanor Wilner is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Tourist in Hell, The Girl with Bees in Her Hair and Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems. She is co-editor, with Maurice Manning, of The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, and a book on visionary imagination and social/personal change, Gathering the Winds. Her poems appear in over 50 anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2014 and 2016, and her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, and three Pushcart Prizes. She is a lifelong activist for civil rights and peace.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she earned a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, and, believing that teaching and poetry are twinned arts, has taught nomadically over the past half-century at many colleges and universities, and perennially for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM: https://sites.google.com/view/bouldercliffnotes/workshop
- Parking: There is parking at the front and north side of the building with a ramp on the north side which can be accessed from either parking area.
- Seating: All seating is on one level.
- Bathrooms: Two gendered restrooms, no family restroom available
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Utah Humanities] X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221003T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221003T200000 UID:19EE2B50-86E5-4F6D-AC57-6F0F93D465FE SUMMARY:Rene Colato Lainez School Visits CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2506 DESCRIPTION:The Treehouse Museum is excited to welcome Rene Colato Lainez, author of bilingual children's books. \N\NRené Colato Laínez is a Salvadoran award winning author of many bilingual/ multicultural children's books, including My Shoes and I, Loteria, Waiting for Papa, and We Play Soccer. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation.\N- Livestream at @utahbookfest on Instagram.\N- On site sensory kit available. Ask Sadie\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from The Treehouse Museum, Weber Book Links and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Treehouse Museum is excited to welcome Rene Colato Lainez, author of bilingual children's books.

René Colato Laínez is a Salvadoran award winning author of many bilingual/ multicultural children's books, including My Shoes and I, Loteria, Waiting for Papa, and We Play Soccer.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation.
- Livestream at @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- On site sensory kit available. Ask Sadie
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from The Treehouse Museum, Weber Book Links and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221003T210000 UID:E3DF331C-8E2B-475C-8ECB-1A894992251C SUMMARY:Scary Stories for Young Foxes CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2509 DESCRIPTION:Join us at Brigham City Public Library to enjoy the legendary Christian Heidicker, author of Scary Stories for Young Foxes. \N\NChristian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps the demons out of his apartment, while his other cat, Rorschach, keeps dragging them back in. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes and its companion SSFYF: The City, as well as the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives by a graveyard in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit his spirit at cmheidicker.com.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- Registration is required to access the events. One registration will give you the link for all of the Brigham City Library’s Book Festival events. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p-9c6RGCSGCT9xq_ZN0SPw\N- Parking: Two accessible parking stalls are available in front of the building. Buttons are available to assist with opening of the doors at the entry. An elevator is available to access the lower level of the library where Festival events will be held. \N- Seating: Chairs will be set-up by staff in advance, but all chairs are moveable and can be removed or changed out for an alternate chair.\N- Bathrooms: Two restrooms are available, marked 'men' and 'women'. These restrooms are for patron use as best fits each person's identity. Each restroom has one stall that is wheelchair accessible and has safety bars.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- No mask policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us at Brigham City Public Library to enjoy the legendary Christian Heidicker, author of Scary Stories for Young Foxes.

Christian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps the demons out of his apartment, while his other cat, Rorschach, keeps dragging them back in. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes and its companion SSFYF: The City, as well as the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, Cure for the Common Universe, and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. He lives by a graveyard in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit his spirit at cmheidicker.com.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Registration is required to access the events. One registration will give you the link for all of the Brigham City Library’s Book Festival events. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p-9c6RGCSGCT9xq_ZN0SPw
- Parking: Two accessible parking stalls are available in front of the building. Buttons are available to assist with opening of the doors at the entry. An elevator is available to access the lower level of the library where Festival events will be held.
- Seating: Chairs will be set-up by staff in advance, but all chairs are moveable and can be removed or changed out for an alternate chair.
- Bathrooms: Two restrooms are available, marked 'men' and 'women'. These restrooms are for patron use as best fits each person's identity. Each restroom has one stall that is wheelchair accessible and has safety bars.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- No mask policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Public Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221003T210000 UID:838DB772-AC4D-411E-A07E-B029D06E0E6D SUMMARY:Reading Dangerously: Community Conversation on Monday's Not Coming CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2572 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations. \N\NCommunity Conversation on Monday's Not Coming\N\NRegister for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/1-dQBDs51myJhecZbuJCH8qwtxcVjkGqRLZfs1Iolo4k/edit\N\NThe conversation will include a background presentation led by Dr. Crystal Rudds. The background presentation will provide background for Utah's sex education laws and context for the censorship of the following books by perspectives across the political spectrum: \N\N1) Push by Sapphire\N\NDissent: Sex, Race and Precious: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sex-race-and-precious\N\N2) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison\N\NThe Washington Post on Toni Morrison: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/28/beloved-toni-morrison-virginia/\N\N3) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson\N\NNot banned in Utah \N\NThoughtCo: https://www.thoughtco.com/speak-by-laurie-halse-anderson-627386\N\N4) Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson\N\NNewsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/black-authors-are-being-pulled-school-libraries-over-critical-race-theory-fears-1669403\N\NNext, Dr. Rudds will provide context for key terms in this conversation: “banned,” “challenged,” sex (act), sexual abuse, sex education, obscene, pornography, grooming, and critical race theory. \N\NLastly, Dr. Rudds will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: director of community engagement of the Rape Recovery Center Stephany Murguia and school psychologist Laurel Woods.\N\NSome questions include: What age group would you consider to be appropriate for these books? Why? How does your expertise as a pornography scholar, a school psychologist, a social worker, or professor of literature shape your interaction with the book? Many of the books banned for sexual violence have been written by Black women. Is this relevant to the conversation? If so, how? Compare the sexual violence in these books to works of classic literature including the Holy Bible, Greek mythology, and Shakespeare.\N\NThe conversation will then transition to a Q&A conversation with the public. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: TRAX stop right in front of the library. Parking lot with disabled spots available. \N- On-site sensory kit available.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, The Rape Recovery Center, Pen America - Utah Chapter, and Utah Humanities. \N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations.

Community Conversation on Monday's Not Coming

Register for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/1-dQBDs51myJhecZbuJCH8qwtxcVjkGqRLZfs1Iolo4k/edit

The conversation will include a background presentation led by Dr. Crystal Rudds. The background presentation will provide background for Utah's sex education laws and context for the censorship of the following books by perspectives across the political spectrum:

1) Push by Sapphire

Dissent: Sex, Race and Precious: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sex-race-and-precious

2) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Washington Post on Toni Morrison: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/28/beloved-toni-morrison-virginia/

3) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Not banned in Utah

ThoughtCo: https://www.thoughtco.com/speak-by-laurie-halse-anderson-627386

4) Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/black-authors-are-being-pulled-school-libraries-over-critical-race-theory-fears-1669403

Next, Dr. Rudds will provide context for key terms in this conversation: “banned,” “challenged,” sex (act), sexual abuse, sex education, obscene, pornography, grooming, and critical race theory.

Lastly, Dr. Rudds will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: director of community engagement of the Rape Recovery Center Stephany Murguia and school psychologist Laurel Woods.

Some questions include: What age group would you consider to be appropriate for these books? Why? How does your expertise as a pornography scholar, a school psychologist, a social worker, or professor of literature shape your interaction with the book? Many of the books banned for sexual violence have been written by Black women. Is this relevant to the conversation? If so, how? Compare the sexual violence in these books to works of classic literature including the Holy Bible, Greek mythology, and Shakespeare.

The conversation will then transition to a Q&A conversation with the public.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: TRAX stop right in front of the library. Parking lot with disabled spots available.
- On-site sensory kit available.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, The Rape Recovery Center, Pen America - Utah Chapter, and Utah Humanities.

X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221004T210000 UID:23A67810-1379-4706-A5C6-961B86289EAA SUMMARY:Storytelling Hour with Rene Colato Lainez CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2507 DESCRIPTION:The Wasatch County Library is excited to welcome Rene Colato Lainez, author of bilingual children's books.\N\NRené Colato Laínez is a Salvadoran award winning author of many bilingual/ multicultural children's books, including My Shoes and I, Loteria, Waiting for Papa, and We Play Soccer.\N\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation.\N- on-site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Wasatch County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Wasatch County Library is excited to welcome Rene Colato Lainez, author of bilingual children's books.

René Colato Laínez is a Salvadoran award winning author of many bilingual/ multicultural children's books, including My Shoes and I, Loteria, Waiting for Papa, and We Play Soccer.


ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star interpretation.
- on-site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8


This event is made possible with support from Wasatch County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221004T210000 UID:B7850F65-87A4-4265-BC41-0626A8186DD8 SUMMARY:The Book That Changed Me CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2532 DESCRIPTION:Ages 12 and older. Books have a profound effect on the way we see the world and ourselves, especially those we discover in childhood. At a time when censorship is raging, it feels right to step back and instead appreciate the good that books do. Various community members from around Weber County will briefly share the children's or YA book that changed them, that opened their minds and hearts and taught them lifelong lessons. Presented by Weber Book Links.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ages 12 and older. Books have a profound effect on the way we see the world and ourselves, especially those we discover in childhood. At a time when censorship is raging, it feels right to step back and instead appreciate the good that books do. Various community members from around Weber County will briefly share the children's or YA book that changed them, that opened their minds and hearts and taught them lifelong lessons. Presented by Weber Book Links.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Weber Book Links, Weber County Library, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221004T210000 UID:C94B170D-03A7-494F-BFC1-D154CCF66663 SUMMARY:Sarah Eden CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2592 DESCRIPTION:Sarah M. Eden is a USA Today best-selling author of witty and charming historical romances, including 2020’s Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards Gold Winner for Romance, Forget Me Not, and 2020 Holt Medallion finalist, Healing Hearts. Join us for a reading of Sarah’s work, followed by a Q&A and book signing.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Sarah M. Eden is a USA Today best-selling author of witty and charming historical romances, including 2020’s Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards Gold Winner for Romance, Forget Me Not, and 2020 Holt Medallion finalist, Healing Hearts. Join us for a reading of Sarah’s work, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221004T210000 UID:D0246261-392A-40E8-901D-C9EA2546AE78 SUMMARY:Speed Date with a Book CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2604 DESCRIPTION:Find out about several authors, their books, and writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format. Many Authors. Many Books: Brandon Greer, Elizabeth Drysdale, Mike Nelson, Britney M. Mills,Misty Black, Jennifer Decker, Sarah Fitzgerald, Johnny Worthen, Jen Spencer, Marie Higgins, K.R. Bailey, Stacey Haynes, Kathryn Elizabeth Jones, Arthur L. Hunsaker, Elizabeth Suggs, and Bennion Ellsworth!\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided byrequest. \N- Registration is required to access the events. One registration will give you the link for all of the Brigham City Library’s Book Festival events. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p-9c6RGCSGCT9xq_ZN0SPw\N- Parking: Two accessible parking stalls are available in front of the building. Buttons are available to assist with opening of the doors at the entry. An elevator is available to access the lower level of the library where Festival events will be held. \N- Seating: Chairs will be set-up by staff in advance, but all chairs are moveable and can be removed or changed out for an alternate chair.\N- Bathrooms: Two restrooms are available, marked 'men' and 'women'. These restrooms are for patron use as best fits each person's identity. Each restroom has one stall that is wheelchair accessible and has safety bars.\N- No mask policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Find out about several authors, their books, and writing life in a super fast "Speed Date with a Book" format. Many Authors. Many Books: Brandon Greer, Elizabeth Drysdale, Mike Nelson, Britney M. Mills,Misty Black, Jennifer Decker, Sarah Fitzgerald, Johnny Worthen, Jen Spencer, Marie Higgins, K.R. Bailey, Stacey Haynes, Kathryn Elizabeth Jones, Arthur L. Hunsaker, Elizabeth Suggs, and Bennion Ellsworth!

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided byrequest.
- Registration is required to access the events. One registration will give you the link for all of the Brigham City Library’s Book Festival events. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p-9c6RGCSGCT9xq_ZN0SPw
- Parking: Two accessible parking stalls are available in front of the building. Buttons are available to assist with opening of the doors at the entry. An elevator is available to access the lower level of the library where Festival events will be held.
- Seating: Chairs will be set-up by staff in advance, but all chairs are moveable and can be removed or changed out for an alternate chair.
- Bathrooms: Two restrooms are available, marked 'men' and 'women'. These restrooms are for patron use as best fits each person's identity. Each restroom has one stall that is wheelchair accessible and has safety bars.
- No mask policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Brigham City Library and Utah Humanities.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221005T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221005T130000 UID:EF051FA4-DA3B-44BB-8823-98D522D113A4 SUMMARY:Descendiendo de Mujeres Fuertes con Gloria Arredondo CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2512 DESCRIPTION:Find the SLCC Student Reading and Writing Center on the Taylorsville campus (AAB 135) for a reading featuring Gloria Arredondo. \N\NZoom Link: https://bit.ly/swrclatinx\N\NGloria Arredondo holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Chcano Studies. She is a women's rights advocate and a social communicator. She has participated in the Utah Arts Festival. In 2020, Arredondo won the Sor Juana poetry prize from Artes de Mexico en Utah for her poem Origenes. Her publications include Esencia, Elementos de Mujer, Decir Basta, and she is a columnist for La Bala and Al Rojo Magazines. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM: https://bit.ly/swrclatinx\N- PARKING: Parking map of Taylorsville Redwood Campus: http://www.slcc.edu/parking/docs/maps/taylorsville-redwood-parking-map.pdf Visitors may park in the Visitor Lot by the Student Center.\N- SEATING: The room we are in is a large classroom. There is a accessible table that raises and lowers.\N- BATHROOMS: Gender neutral bathroom is near the room we are in. (Room 100H) https://i.slcc.edu/facilities/maps/012_AAB_FP1.pdf\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from the SLCC Student Reading and Writing Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Find the SLCC Student Reading and Writing Center on the Taylorsville campus (AAB 135) for a reading featuring Gloria Arredondo.

Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/swrclatinx

Gloria Arredondo holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Chcano Studies. She is a women's rights advocate and a social communicator. She has participated in the Utah Arts Festival. In 2020, Arredondo won the Sor Juana poetry prize from Artes de Mexico en Utah for her poem Origenes. Her publications include Esencia, Elementos de Mujer, Decir Basta, and she is a columnist for La Bala and Al Rojo Magazines.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM: https://bit.ly/swrclatinx
- PARKING: Parking map of Taylorsville Redwood Campus: http://www.slcc.edu/parking/docs/maps/taylorsville-redwood-parking-map.pdf Visitors may park in the Visitor Lot by the Student Center.
- SEATING: The room we are in is a large classroom. There is a accessible table that raises and lowers.
- BATHROOMS: Gender neutral bathroom is near the room we are in. (Room 100H) https://i.slcc.edu/facilities/maps/012_AAB_FP1.pdf
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from the SLCC Student Reading and Writing Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221005T210000 UID:9672B142-2B6C-4D0F-87D6-6FE49D456178 SUMMARY:Storytelling Hour with Rene Colato Lainez CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2508 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Library is excited to welcome Rene Colato Lainez, author of bilingual children's books.\N\NRené Colato Laínez is a Salvadoran award winning author of many bilingual/ multicultural children's books, including My Shoes and I, Loteria, Waiting for Papa, and We Play Soccer.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Library is excited to welcome Rene Colato Lainez, author of bilingual children's books.

René Colato Laínez is a Salvadoran award winning author of many bilingual/ multicultural children's books, including My Shoes and I, Loteria, Waiting for Papa, and We Play Soccer.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Park City Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221005T210000 UID:C2CF3D9F-DC9A-4F59-82AA-87003F06C6DE SUMMARY:Reading Dangerously: World Classics Meetup presents Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2573 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. For this conversation, participants are expected to have completed the book and be ready to engage to discuss its contribution and legacy as a work of literature.\N\NJoin the World Classics Book Club Meetup as we read banned classic Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Daniel Cureton will lead the discussion around this classic work of Russian fiction.\N\NGo here: https://www.meetup.com/classic-lit/events/286547744/\N\NAwe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.\N\NASL interpretation available upon request. \N\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, Pen America - Utah Chapter and World Classics Book Club Meetup. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. For this conversation, participants are expected to have completed the book and be ready to engage to discuss its contribution and legacy as a work of literature.

Join the World Classics Book Club Meetup as we read banned classic Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Daniel Cureton will lead the discussion around this classic work of Russian fiction.

Go here: https://www.meetup.com/classic-lit/events/286547744/

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

ASL interpretation available upon request.

- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, Pen America - Utah Chapter and World Classics Book Club Meetup. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221006T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221006T140000 UID:F0899B70-C05A-4935-93F5-F0B666255D56 SUMMARY:Snow Convocations: The Book of Wanderers with Reyes Ramirez CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2513 DESCRIPTION:Snow Convocations is excited to host Reyes Ramirez, author of the Book of Wanderers.\N\NWhat do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter have in common?\NReyes Ramirez’s dynamic short story collection follows new lineages of Mexican and Salvadoran diasporas traversing life in Houston, across borders, and even on Mars. Themes of wandering weave throughout each story, bringing feelings of unease and liberation as characters navigate cultural, physical, and psychological separation and loss from one generation to the next in a tumultuous nation.\N\NThe Book of Wanderers deeply explores Houston, a Gulf Coast metropolis that incorporates Southern, Western, and Southwestern identities near the borderlands with a connection to the cosmos. As such, each story becomes increasingly further removed from our lived reality, engaging numerous genres from emotionally touching realist fiction to action-packed speculative fiction, as well as hallucinatory realism, magical realism, noir, and science fiction.\N\NFascinating characters and unexpected plots unpack what it means to be Latinx in contemporary—and perhaps future—America. The characters work, love, struggle, and never stop trying to control their reality. They dream of building communities and finding peace. How can they succeed if they must constantly leave one place for another? In a nation that demands assimilation, how can they define themselves when they have to start anew with each generation? The characters in The Book of Wanderers create their own lineages, philosophies for life, and markers for their humanity at the cost of home. So they remain wanderers . . . for now.\N\NSnow Convocations is excited to host Reyes Ramirez, author of the Book of Wanderers. \N\NWhat do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter have in common?\N\NReyes Ramirez’s dynamic short story collection follows new lineages of Mexican and Salvadoran diasporas traversing life in Houston, across borders, and even on Mars. Themes of wandering weave throughout each story, bringing feelings of unease and liberation as characters navigate cultural, physical, and psychological separation and loss from one generation to the next in a tumultuous nation.\N\NThe Book of Wanderers deeply explores Houston, a Gulf Coast metropolis that incorporates Southern, Western, and Southwestern identities near the borderlands with a connection to the cosmos. As such, each story becomes increasingly further removed from our lived reality, engaging numerous genres from emotionally touching realist fiction to action-packed speculative fiction, as well as hallucinatory realism, magical realism, noir, and science fiction.\N\NFascinating characters and unexpected plots unpack what it means to be Latinx in contemporary—and perhaps future—America. The characters work, love, struggle, and never stop trying to control their reality. They dream of building communities and finding peace. How can they succeed if they must constantly leave one place for another? In a nation that demands assimilation, how can they define themselves when they have to start anew with each generation? The characters in The Book of Wanderers create their own lineages, philosophies for life, and markers for their humanity at the cost of home. So they remain wanderers . . . for now.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested by 5-star Interpretation.\N- Livestream available here: https://snow.edu/academics/convocation/index.html\N- Parking: Accessible parking spaces for the venue (Eccles Center for the Performing Arts) are available in the parking lot directly across the street. Accessible walkways from the parking lot to the venue are in place and there is a ramp from the lower lobby to the upper lobby of the Eccles Center where the concert hall doors are. There is a wheelchair elevator for patrons who desire accessible seating at the front of the concert hall.\N- Seating: Accessible seating is available at the front and at the rear of the concert hall in the Eccles Center.\N- Bathrooms: Men's and women's bathrooms in the Eccles Center are equipped for disabled persons. A bathroom for trans people and families is available across the street in the Activities Center.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- No mask policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Snow College. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Snow College. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Snow Convocations is excited to host Reyes Ramirez, author of the Book of Wanderers.

What do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter have in common?
Reyes Ramirez’s dynamic short story collection follows new lineages of Mexican and Salvadoran diasporas traversing life in Houston, across borders, and even on Mars. Themes of wandering weave throughout each story, bringing feelings of unease and liberation as characters navigate cultural, physical, and psychological separation and loss from one generation to the next in a tumultuous nation.

The Book of Wanderers deeply explores Houston, a Gulf Coast metropolis that incorporates Southern, Western, and Southwestern identities near the borderlands with a connection to the cosmos. As such, each story becomes increasingly further removed from our lived reality, engaging numerous genres from emotionally touching realist fiction to action-packed speculative fiction, as well as hallucinatory realism, magical realism, noir, and science fiction.

Fascinating characters and unexpected plots unpack what it means to be Latinx in contemporary—and perhaps future—America. The characters work, love, struggle, and never stop trying to control their reality. They dream of building communities and finding peace. How can they succeed if they must constantly leave one place for another? In a nation that demands assimilation, how can they define themselves when they have to start anew with each generation? The characters in The Book of Wanderers create their own lineages, philosophies for life, and markers for their humanity at the cost of home. So they remain wanderers . . . for now.

Snow Convocations is excited to host Reyes Ramirez, author of the Book of Wanderers.

What do a family of luchadores, a teen on the run, a rideshare driver, a lucid dreamer, a migrant worker in space, a mecha soldier, and a zombie-and-neo-Nazi fighter have in common?

Reyes Ramirez’s dynamic short story collection follows new lineages of Mexican and Salvadoran diasporas traversing life in Houston, across borders, and even on Mars. Themes of wandering weave throughout each story, bringing feelings of unease and liberation as characters navigate cultural, physical, and psychological separation and loss from one generation to the next in a tumultuous nation.

The Book of Wanderers deeply explores Houston, a Gulf Coast metropolis that incorporates Southern, Western, and Southwestern identities near the borderlands with a connection to the cosmos. As such, each story becomes increasingly further removed from our lived reality, engaging numerous genres from emotionally touching realist fiction to action-packed speculative fiction, as well as hallucinatory realism, magical realism, noir, and science fiction.

Fascinating characters and unexpected plots unpack what it means to be Latinx in contemporary—and perhaps future—America. The characters work, love, struggle, and never stop trying to control their reality. They dream of building communities and finding peace. How can they succeed if they must constantly leave one place for another? In a nation that demands assimilation, how can they define themselves when they have to start anew with each generation? The characters in The Book of Wanderers create their own lineages, philosophies for life, and markers for their humanity at the cost of home. So they remain wanderers . . . for now.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested by 5-star Interpretation.
- Livestream available here: https://snow.edu/academics/convocation/index.html
- Parking: Accessible parking spaces for the venue (Eccles Center for the Performing Arts) are available in the parking lot directly across the street. Accessible walkways from the parking lot to the venue are in place and there is a ramp from the lower lobby to the upper lobby of the Eccles Center where the concert hall doors are. There is a wheelchair elevator for patrons who desire accessible seating at the front of the concert hall.
- Seating: Accessible seating is available at the front and at the rear of the concert hall in the Eccles Center.
- Bathrooms: Men's and women's bathrooms in the Eccles Center are equipped for disabled persons. A bathroom for trans people and families is available across the street in the Activities Center.
- No on-site sensory kit
- No mask policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Snow College.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Snow College. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221006T000000 UID:C01725CD-C48C-4E80-BF6A-497D1282B08E SUMMARY:Joy Harjo CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2564 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Humanities Center welcomes Joy Harjo. \NJoy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022. \N\NASL interpretation by 5-star Interpretation\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Humanities Center welcomes Joy Harjo.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022.

ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpretation

This event is made possible with support from Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221007T000000 UID:863E7872-33E9-4B75-95F9-8A5CD67A6558 SUMMARY:Railtown Reading with Juan Morales, Lin Flores, and Melissa Salguero CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2501 DESCRIPTION:It’s Latinx Poetry Night at Railtown Readings with uno, dos tres poets: Melissa Salguero (Cannibal) and Lin Flores (Reflections While in Utah) and Colorado poet Juan Morales (The Siren World) sharing their poemas y más. \N\NJuan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections: Friday and the Year That Followed (2006), The Siren World (2015), and The Handyman’s Guide to End Times, winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award. Poems have appeared in Acentos Review, Breakbeats Vol. 4 LatiNEXT, Crazyhorse, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pank, terrain.org, War, Literature, & the Arts, and elsewhere. He is a CantoMundo fellow, a Macondo fellow, the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and professor and department chair of English & World Languages at Colorado State University—Pueblo.\N\NLin Flores (she/they) lives and works in SLC, Utah as a full time educator, poet, and creative writing student. They are enrolled in the online Creative Writing Masters' Program at University of New Orleans. Flores teaches at Herriman High School, where she strives to make a difference in the lives of young people as a history teacher and a slam poetry coach. When Flores isn't working on poetry or teaching, she is volunteering her time at Encirlce, an LGBTQ resource center in SLC. \N\NMelissa Salguero (she/her/hers) is a Guatemalan poet who puts the SALT in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the human equivalent of red wine & crushed velvet. She is the author of Cannibal. Melissa uses humor to create through provoking work centering on her life, relationships, and identity. She has been featured on Write About Now Poetry and Ink & Nebula. She was a member of the Westiminster 2018 & 2019 CUPSI team and was a finalist at the 2018 Utah Arts Festival Indie Slam. When not yelling about white boys or making God metaphors, Melissa can be found feeding her online shopping addiction, blasting Glora Trevi, or living up to her title as the quintessential "bitter ex girlfriend poet". Her work (along with her emotional overflow) can be found on twitter @_Miss_Marilyn. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpreting\N- Livestream on @utahbookfest Instagram\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, Railtown Readings, Queen Bee Giftery, and the Art Plaza. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It’s Latinx Poetry Night at Railtown Readings with uno, dos tres poets: Melissa Salguero (Cannibal) and Lin Flores (Reflections While in Utah) and Colorado poet Juan Morales (The Siren World) sharing their poemas y más.

Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections: Friday and the Year That Followed (2006), The Siren World (2015), and The Handyman’s Guide to End Times, winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award. Poems have appeared in Acentos Review, Breakbeats Vol. 4 LatiNEXT, Crazyhorse, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pank, terrain.org, War, Literature, & the Arts, and elsewhere. He is a CantoMundo fellow, a Macondo fellow, the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and professor and department chair of English & World Languages at Colorado State University—Pueblo.

Lin Flores (she/they) lives and works in SLC, Utah as a full time educator, poet, and creative writing student. They are enrolled in the online Creative Writing Masters' Program at University of New Orleans. Flores teaches at Herriman High School, where she strives to make a difference in the lives of young people as a history teacher and a slam poetry coach. When Flores isn't working on poetry or teaching, she is volunteering her time at Encirlce, an LGBTQ resource center in SLC.

Melissa Salguero (she/her/hers) is a Guatemalan poet who puts the SALT in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the human equivalent of red wine & crushed velvet. She is the author of Cannibal. Melissa uses humor to create through provoking work centering on her life, relationships, and identity. She has been featured on Write About Now Poetry and Ink & Nebula. She was a member of the Westiminster 2018 & 2019 CUPSI team and was a finalist at the 2018 Utah Arts Festival Indie Slam. When not yelling about white boys or making God metaphors, Melissa can be found feeding her online shopping addiction, blasting Glora Trevi, or living up to her title as the quintessential "bitter ex girlfriend poet". Her work (along with her emotional overflow) can be found on twitter @_Miss_Marilyn.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpreting
- Livestream on @utahbookfest Instagram
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Weber Book Links, Railtown Readings, Queen Bee Giftery, and the Art Plaza. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221008T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221008T140000 UID:57422833-BB21-459A-9D74-122927BD3B00 SUMMARY:People are Wild with Margaux Meganck CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2565 DESCRIPTION:The Tracy Aviary - Jordan River Nature Center is excited to host Margaux Meganck, author of People are Wild!!!\N\NAn inviting and inventive classic-in-the-making about learning to have compassion for every living thing, gorgeously illustrated by a rising star in the picture book world.\N\NWild creatures come in all shapes and sizes. They can be playful or loud or smelly or curious or cute—just like kids!\NPeople Are Wild turns the tables and asks what animals think of us. We may not always see eye to eye, but the more we understand each other, the better we’re able to live in harmony.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM available on @utahbookfest Instagram\N- Parking: There are two accessible parking stalls/van parking stalls at the Nature Center with a curb cut leading up to the sidewalk by the Nature Center. The parking lot is seldom very busy. The walkways in the Jordan River Nature Center are paved cement The gate will be open at the start of the event and wheelchairs can easily come through the gate. There is a porch that is accessible via ramp.\N- Seating: We will have a variety of different seating, including blue lounge chairs and folding chairs.\N- Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms, one with a urinal and one without. Both are marked for all gender use. The bathrooms do not have an accessibility button, but inside they meet ADA requirements. Staff will be on sight to open bathroom doors if requested. The bathrooms are flat and do not require a ramp to enter.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Tracy Aviary - Jordan River Nature Center, Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tracy Aviary - Jordan River Nature Center is excited to host Margaux Meganck, author of People are Wild!!!

An inviting and inventive classic-in-the-making about learning to have compassion for every living thing, gorgeously illustrated by a rising star in the picture book world.

Wild creatures come in all shapes and sizes. They can be playful or loud or smelly or curious or cute—just like kids!
People Are Wild turns the tables and asks what animals think of us. We may not always see eye to eye, but the more we understand each other, the better we’re able to live in harmony.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM available on @utahbookfest Instagram
- Parking: There are two accessible parking stalls/van parking stalls at the Nature Center with a curb cut leading up to the sidewalk by the Nature Center. The parking lot is seldom very busy. The walkways in the Jordan River Nature Center are paved cement The gate will be open at the start of the event and wheelchairs can easily come through the gate. There is a porch that is accessible via ramp.
- Seating: We will have a variety of different seating, including blue lounge chairs and folding chairs.
- Bathrooms: There are two bathrooms, one with a urinal and one without. Both are marked for all gender use. The bathrooms do not have an accessibility button, but inside they meet ADA requirements. Staff will be on sight to open bathroom doors if requested. The bathrooms are flat and do not require a ramp to enter.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy Palomo.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Tracy Aviary - Jordan River Nature Center, Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221008T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221008T200000 UID:1986C16E-0A8D-41EC-8DB6-2292C0C647FD SUMMARY:Body Talk with Takwa Gordon CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2659 DESCRIPTION:Under the Umbrella is happy to host Takwa . Blending poetry and nonfiction prose into a hybrid memoir brimming with humanity, Takwa's Body Talk explores being bipolar, Black, a refugee, a woman, a Muslim, a child sexual abuse survivor, and a first-generation college student in America. Join us for a reading and conversation\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Under the Umbrella Bookstore and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Under the Umbrella is happy to host Takwa . Blending poetry and nonfiction prose into a hybrid memoir brimming with humanity, Takwa's Body Talk explores being bipolar, Black, a refugee, a woman, a Muslim, a child sexual abuse survivor, and a first-generation college student in America. Join us for a reading and conversation

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Under the Umbrella Bookstore and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221008T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221008T000000 UID:F3ADE738-5619-4106-9371-B2820AC2C6DE SUMMARY:The You I See with Danny Freeman CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2616 DESCRIPTION:The Book Bungalow is excited to welcome Danny Freeman, author of The You I See. \N\NBrandon's family are long-time members. In fact, his dad is the preacher. Alex's skeptical parents reluctantly attend after repeated invitations from a colleague of Alex's father. Alex and Brandon feel an immediate and undeniable attraction to one another, though both of them are confused about their own and each other's feelings. They soon develop an affectionate, endearing friendship, mostly by balancing out each other's opposite personalities and quoting their favorite lines from The Princess Bride until they nearly wet themselves. Brandon is loud, impulsive, irreverent, and foul-mouthed. Alex is quiet, thoughtful, shy, and considerably more precocious than Brandon.\N\NWith the support of Alex's unconventional and affirming parents, Alex and Brandon navigate the challenges of being gay teenagers in Houston in the early 1990s. They face obstacles, setbacks, misunderstandings, and outright homophobia but remain resolutely committed to their unique friendship and budding romance.\N\NFrom beginning to end, The You I See by Danny Freeman is an infectiously funny, relentlessly hopeful, and ultimately life-affirming celebration of friendship and young love in one of its many-hued variations.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Book Bungalow is excited to welcome Danny Freeman, author of The You I See.

Brandon's family are long-time members. In fact, his dad is the preacher. Alex's skeptical parents reluctantly attend after repeated invitations from a colleague of Alex's father. Alex and Brandon feel an immediate and undeniable attraction to one another, though both of them are confused about their own and each other's feelings. They soon develop an affectionate, endearing friendship, mostly by balancing out each other's opposite personalities and quoting their favorite lines from The Princess Bride until they nearly wet themselves. Brandon is loud, impulsive, irreverent, and foul-mouthed. Alex is quiet, thoughtful, shy, and considerably more precocious than Brandon.

With the support of Alex's unconventional and affirming parents, Alex and Brandon navigate the challenges of being gay teenagers in Houston in the early 1990s. They face obstacles, setbacks, misunderstandings, and outright homophobia but remain resolutely committed to their unique friendship and budding romance.

From beginning to end, The You I See by Danny Freeman is an infectiously funny, relentlessly hopeful, and ultimately life-affirming celebration of friendship and young love in one of its many-hued variations.

This event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221010T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221010T173000 UID:C566C58C-F2BA-452A-8623-D3BDC0179F7F SUMMARY:Teen Pooetry Workshop with Paul Tran CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2566 DESCRIPTION:Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative invites you to a Teen Poetry Workshop with Paul Tran, author of All The Flowers Kneeling. \N\NVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran’s debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.\N\NPaul Tran received their BA in history from Brown University and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the chancellor’s graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Paul’s work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request. \N- On-site sensory kit available. ask Willy Palomo. \N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative invites you to a Teen Poetry Workshop with Paul Tran, author of All The Flowers Kneeling.

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran’s debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.

Paul Tran received their BA in history from Brown University and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the chancellor’s graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Paul’s work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- On-site sensory kit available. ask Willy Palomo.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Utah High School Poetry Slam Initiative. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221010T200000 UID:C8D85971-C4A1-4BB1-BF71-08B8715EA820 SUMMARY:Vietnamese Food and Poetry with Paul Tran CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2493 DESCRIPTION:SLCC Food Pantry invites you to our first Books and Bites with Paul Tran. \N\NVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran’s debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.\N\NPaul Tran received their BA in history from Brown University and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the chancellor’s graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Paul’s work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere.\N\NEat Real Vietnamese Food presents recipes in two-page spread "story board" format. A full color, mouth watering photo of the finished dish along with an ingredients list and some historical information appears on the left page, and the detailed, illustrated step-by-step directions are found on the right. Ninety recipes are fully presented followed by a two special sections. The first describes in detail the preparation of the various sauces and accompaniments for the dishes, and the second describes in detail the various utensils and ingredients needed for the recipes.\N\NEat Real Vietnamese Food is a historical document, an attractive coffee table item, and a wonderful recipe book all in one.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke.\N- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram.\N- On site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo for one.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, SLCC Dream Center, The Spice Kitchen, and Under the Umbrella Bookstore. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:SLCC Food Pantry invites you to our first Books and Bites with Paul Tran.

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran’s debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.

Paul Tran received their BA in history from Brown University and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the chancellor’s graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Paul’s work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere.

Eat Real Vietnamese Food presents recipes in two-page spread "story board" format. A full color, mouth watering photo of the finished dish along with an ingredients list and some historical information appears on the left page, and the detailed, illustrated step-by-step directions are found on the right. Ninety recipes are fully presented followed by a two special sections. The first describes in detail the preparation of the various sauces and accompaniments for the dishes, and the second describes in detail the various utensils and ingredients needed for the recipes.

Eat Real Vietnamese Food is a historical document, an attractive coffee table item, and a wonderful recipe book all in one.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by Sophia Burke.
- Livestream available @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- On site sensory kit. Ask Willy Palomo for one.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, SLCC Dream Center, The Spice Kitchen, and Under the Umbrella Bookstore. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221010T000000 UID:7CA865DD-A2F1-42B7-96EC-8EF347397726 SUMMARY:Margaux Meganck School Visits CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2622 DESCRIPTION:Weber County Library is excited to host Margaux Meganck, author of People are Wild!!!\N\NAn inviting and inventive classic-in-the-making about learning to have compassion for every living thing, gorgeously illustrated by a rising star in the picture book world.\N\NWild creatures come in all shapes and sizes. They can be playful or loud or smelly or curious or cute—just like kids!\NPeople Are Wild turns the tables and asks what animals think of us. We may not always see eye to eye, but the more we understand each other, the better we’re able to live in harmony.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpreting.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber County Library is excited to host Margaux Meganck, author of People are Wild!!!

An inviting and inventive classic-in-the-making about learning to have compassion for every living thing, gorgeously illustrated by a rising star in the picture book world.

Wild creatures come in all shapes and sizes. They can be playful or loud or smelly or curious or cute—just like kids!
People Are Wild turns the tables and asks what animals think of us. We may not always see eye to eye, but the more we understand each other, the better we’re able to live in harmony.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpreting.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Weber County Library and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221011T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221011T000000 UID:60AC6918-733F-4D43-8BFF-7906DF1563A5 SUMMARY:A Book, Too, Can Be A Star CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2593 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Jennifer Adams and Charlotte Jones Voiklis, author of A Book, Too, Can Be a Star.\N\NWhen Madeleine L'Engle was very small, she often found herself awake at night, marveling at the stars. A Book, Too, Can Be a Star follows the life of one of the world's greatest creators―and gives children encouragement to lead a creative, inquisitive life.\N\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpreting. \N- No livestream will be made available\N- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop welcomes Jennifer Adams and Charlotte Jones Voiklis, author of A Book, Too, Can Be a Star.

When Madeleine L'Engle was very small, she often found herself awake at night, marveling at the stars. A Book, Too, Can Be a Star follows the life of one of the world's greatest creators―and gives children encouragement to lead a creative, inquisitive life.


ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpreting.
- No livestream will be made available
- Parking: Only neighborhood parking is available. Event area accessible via rear parking lot.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Not accessible by wheelchair.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221011T210000 UID:584CA102-2347-448D-814D-1DFAB4E28556 SUMMARY:Community Conversation on Gender in Children's Literature CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2575 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations. \N\NCommunity Conversation on Gender in Children’s Literature \N\NRegister for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EgZ9-qP8spj_DynzDdvqKHCl4eFjwHX5_MOAv4Yerpg/edit\N\NThe conversation will include a background presentation led by Laurel Woods. The background presentation will provide background for Utah's sex education laws and context for the censorship of the following books by perspectives across the political spectrum: \N\NNational Context: \N\NKX News: “Grooming”: The Ubiquitous Buzzword in the LGBTQ+ school debate: https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/grooming-the-ubiquitous-buzzword-in-lgbtq-school-debate/\N\NLocal Context\N\NCall Me Max\N\NNewsweek Source: https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-boy-book-prompts-utah-school-district-suspend-program-1569346\N\NKirkus Reviews: The Author’s Response: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/my-childrens-book-was-challenged-in-schools/\N\NJulian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love\N\NThe Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/11/i-am-proven-joyously-wrong-picture-book-about-trans-child-wins-major-prize-amid-moral-panic\N\NBecause I Am Your Daddy by Sherry North\N\NNot banned anywhere\N\NAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/Because-I-Am-Your-Daddy/dp/0810983923 \N\N4) Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley\N\NNot banned anywhere\N\NHarper Collins: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/mary-wears-what-she-wants-keith-negley?variant=32117458567202\N\NNext, our moderator will provide context for key terms in this conversation: “banned,” “challenged,” sex (“biological”), gender, transgender, cisgender, nonbinary, gender identity, gender expression, sex education, obscene, pornography, grooming. \N\NLastly, our moderator will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: Jill Rowe from Mama Dragons, therapist Jack D. Haden from Encircle, parent of a trans person Nan Seymour, literary scholar Dr. Lauren Liang. \N\NSome questions include: Do you consider these books age-appropriate for elementary school students? How do books like Julian is a Mermaid differ from Mary Wears What She Wants? Why do you believe one of these books has been targeted and the other has not? What do you understand to be a healthy gender development for elementary school students and why? Who gets to determine what a healthy gender development means for elementary school students and why? \N\NThe conversation will then transition to a Q&A conversation with the public. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- On-site sensory kit available.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, and Pen America - Utah Chapter. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. Conversations are informational and participants are encouraged but not expected to have read the book or be up to date on the conversations beforehand. Moderators and panelists opinions and statements are their own and do not represent the views and values of the sponsoring organizations.

Community Conversation on Gender in Children’s Literature

Register for the conversation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EgZ9-qP8spj_DynzDdvqKHCl4eFjwHX5_MOAv4Yerpg/edit

The conversation will include a background presentation led by Laurel Woods. The background presentation will provide background for Utah's sex education laws and context for the censorship of the following books by perspectives across the political spectrum:

National Context:

KX News: “Grooming”: The Ubiquitous Buzzword in the LGBTQ+ school debate: https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/grooming-the-ubiquitous-buzzword-in-lgbtq-school-debate/

Local Context

Call Me Max

Newsweek Source: https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-boy-book-prompts-utah-school-district-suspend-program-1569346

Kirkus Reviews: The Author’s Response: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/my-childrens-book-was-challenged-in-schools/

Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/11/i-am-proven-joyously-wrong-picture-book-about-trans-child-wins-major-prize-amid-moral-panic

Because I Am Your Daddy by Sherry North

Not banned anywhere

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Because-I-Am-Your-Daddy/dp/0810983923

4) Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley

Not banned anywhere

Harper Collins: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/mary-wears-what-she-wants-keith-negley?variant=32117458567202

Next, our moderator will provide context for key terms in this conversation: “banned,” “challenged,” sex (“biological”), gender, transgender, cisgender, nonbinary, gender identity, gender expression, sex education, obscene, pornography, grooming.

Lastly, our moderator will pose opening discussion questions to our panelists: Jill Rowe from Mama Dragons, therapist Jack D. Haden from Encircle, parent of a trans person Nan Seymour, literary scholar Dr. Lauren Liang.

Some questions include: Do you consider these books age-appropriate for elementary school students? How do books like Julian is a Mermaid differ from Mary Wears What She Wants? Why do you believe one of these books has been targeted and the other has not? What do you understand to be a healthy gender development for elementary school students and why? Who gets to determine what a healthy gender development means for elementary school students and why?

The conversation will then transition to a Q&A conversation with the public.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- On-site sensory kit available.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, and Pen America - Utah Chapter.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221012T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221012T190000 UID:3ABAF071-8A0D-4680-942E-E9A7384814E9 SUMMARY:Drift Migration with Danielle Dubrasky CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2637 DESCRIPTION:The King's English welcomes Danielle Dubrasky, author of Drift Migration. \N\NIf you need ASL interpretation, email palomo@utahhumanities.org. \N\NThis collection of poems meditates on the intersection of landscape, myth, and loss from various imagistic perspectives that weave mythic lyric with distinctly feminine narrative poems. The poems explore relationships, loss, trauma, and a sense of place from the lush green of the south to the stark red rock of the southwest.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and King's English. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English welcomes Danielle Dubrasky, author of Drift Migration.

If you need ASL interpretation, email palomo@utahhumanities.org.

This collection of poems meditates on the intersection of landscape, myth, and loss from various imagistic perspectives that weave mythic lyric with distinctly feminine narrative poems. The poems explore relationships, loss, trauma, and a sense of place from the lush green of the south to the stark red rock of the southwest.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and King's English. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221013T200000 UID:1F4322DE-A978-45F9-924B-52F785AA373F SUMMARY:Green Pond Loop Trail with Juliana Spahr CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2546 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Green Pond Loop Trail for a short trek led by Juliana Spahr. \N\NFind us here: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/green-pond-loop-trail\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NBorn in Chillicothe, Ohio, poet and scholar Juliana Spahr earned a BA in languages and literature from Bard College and a PhD in English from SUNY Buffalo. Her interests revolve around questions of transformation, language, and ecology. Concerned with politics without being overtly political, Spahr’s work crosses a variety of American landscapes, from the disappearing beaches of Hawaii to the small town of her Appalachian childhood. Her books of criticism and theory include Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (2018) and Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Green Pond Loop Trail for a short trek led by Juliana Spahr.

Find us here: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/green-pond-loop-trail

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, poet and scholar Juliana Spahr earned a BA in languages and literature from Bard College and a PhD in English from SUNY Buffalo. Her interests revolve around questions of transformation, language, and ecology. Concerned with politics without being overtly political, Spahr’s work crosses a variety of American landscapes, from the disappearing beaches of Hawaii to the small town of her Appalachian childhood. Her books of criticism and theory include Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (2018) and Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001).

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221013T200000 UID:4B5620B4-6E46-48E2-BAF4-EBFF8229C393 SUMMARY:What Are the Lived Experiences of Filipinx American Teachers? CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2655 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an author, scholarly, and lived experience dialogue.\N\NThursday, October 13, 2022\N6:00pm (Mountain Time)\NIn person at Malouf 201 on the campus of Westminster College - 1840 S 1300 E\Nand virtually.\N\NThis event is part of the School of Education's Learning With, Learning From:Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Utah initiative.\N\NA free dinner will be provided for in-person attendees.\N\NEvent Sponsor: School of Education\N\NEvent Supporter: Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Utah Humanities\N\NFor additional information, please contact Eleonor G. Castillo, Ph.D. at\Necastillo@westminstercollege.edu. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Please join us for an author, scholarly, and lived experience dialogue.

Thursday, October 13, 2022
6:00pm (Mountain Time)
In person at Malouf 201 on the campus of Westminster College - 1840 S 1300 E
and virtually.

This event is part of the School of Education's Learning With, Learning From:Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Utah initiative.

A free dinner will be provided for in-person attendees.

Event Sponsor: School of Education

Event Supporter: Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Utah Humanities

For additional information, please contact Eleonor G. Castillo, Ph.D. at
ecastillo@westminstercollege.edu. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221014T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221014T200000 UID:BD1C29A8-F8CB-4C86-B625-2027A40A579F SUMMARY:High Risk Homosexual with Edgar Gomez CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2475 DESCRIPTION:Unidxs is happy to host Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual, for a reading and conversation about his memoir about coming of age as a gay Latinx man. \N\NGomez’s witty memoir follows a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing his gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo—from his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.—and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who helped him redefine pride.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpreting\N- Livestream available on @utahbookfest on Instagram. \N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Unidxs, Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Unidxs is happy to host Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual, for a reading and conversation about his memoir about coming of age as a gay Latinx man.

Gomez’s witty memoir follows a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing his gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo—from his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.—and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who helped him redefine pride.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by 5-star Interpreting
- Livestream available on @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Unidxs, Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221015T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221015T130000 UID:5988E5E3-7C9C-4106-9764-9E2BAF3FB67D SUMMARY:Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2614 DESCRIPTION:Book Bungalow is happy to welcome Shelly Pollock, author of Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions.\N\NA story of ingenuity and perseverance.\N\NRichard Turere’s own story: Richard grew up in Kenya as a Maasai boy, herding his family’s cattle, which represented their wealth and livelihood. Richard’s challenge was to protect their cattle from the lions who prowled the night just outside the barrier of acacia branches that surrounded the farm’s boma, or stockade. Though not well-educated, 12-year-old Richard loved tinkering with electronics. Using salvaged components, spending $10, he surrounded the boma with blinking lights, and the system works; it keeps lions away. His invention, Lion Lights, is now used in Africa, Asia, and South America to protect farm animals from predators. color throughout\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Book Bungalow is happy to welcome Shelly Pollock, author of Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions.

A story of ingenuity and perseverance.

Richard Turere’s own story: Richard grew up in Kenya as a Maasai boy, herding his family’s cattle, which represented their wealth and livelihood. Richard’s challenge was to protect their cattle from the lions who prowled the night just outside the barrier of acacia branches that surrounded the farm’s boma, or stockade. Though not well-educated, 12-year-old Richard loved tinkering with electronics. Using salvaged components, spending $10, he surrounded the boma with blinking lights, and the system works; it keeps lions away. His invention, Lion Lights, is now used in Africa, Asia, and South America to protect farm animals from predators. color throughout

This event is made possible with support from Book Bungalow and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221017T210000 UID:8DAA23E3-8CA9-458A-B471-0224190F4377 SUMMARY:Messages to Our Muertxs CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2594 DESCRIPTION:Join Plumas Colectiva for a poetry and art workshop dedicated to our antepasados.\N\NWilly Palomo will lead a workshop on writing elegies for our loved ones.\N\NWilly Palomo (he/they/she) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. In 2017, he received the City of Bloomington Latino Leadership Award and the MLK Building Bridges Graduate Student Award for his work serving undocumented communities in Indiana. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. His creative writing have been featured in Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, Antologia de Posguerra, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more. He is a founding member of Plumas Colectiva, a literary and art collective of Latinx creators in the 801. He is the director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- No livestream will be made available\N- On-site sensory kit avaliable \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Plumas Colectiva, West Valley Arts, and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Plumas Colectiva for a poetry and art workshop dedicated to our antepasados.

Willy Palomo will lead a workshop on writing elegies for our loved ones.

Willy Palomo (he/they/she) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. In 2017, he received the City of Bloomington Latino Leadership Award and the MLK Building Bridges Graduate Student Award for his work serving undocumented communities in Indiana. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. His creative writing have been featured in Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, Antologia de Posguerra, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more. He is a founding member of Plumas Colectiva, a literary and art collective of Latinx creators in the 801. He is the director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- No livestream will be made available
- On-site sensory kit avaliable
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Plumas Colectiva, West Valley Arts, and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221018T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221018T200000 UID:95290EDD-CBA4-4DAD-A175-A000D2E717BD SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: When I was Red Clay with Jonathan T. Bailey CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2476 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a short trek led by Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay. \N\NJonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation.\N- No livestream will be made available. Video may be posted afterwards.\N- Parking: The event has both accessible parking and access to the seating area, though it is primarily a dirt path and grass.\N- Seating: Seating is bring your own so accessibility is up to the participant.\N- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are all gender and available for families, though there are a few stairs so less accessible for disabled communities at this time.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Torrey House Press, and Stokes Nature Center. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a short trek led by Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay.

Jonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star Interpretation.
- No livestream will be made available. Video may be posted afterwards.
- Parking: The event has both accessible parking and access to the seating area, though it is primarily a dirt path and grass.
- Seating: Seating is bring your own so accessibility is up to the participant.
- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are all gender and available for families, though there are a few stairs so less accessible for disabled communities at this time.
- No on-site sensory kit
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Torrey House Press, and Stokes Nature Center.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221018T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221018T200000 UID:1D248301-14B9-40B6-9AA7-62360140B7AF SUMMARY:Sor Juana Awards 2022 CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2514 DESCRIPTION:Artes de Mexico en Utah invites you to our 2022 Sor Juana Awards. We will be giving arts for Latinx visual art as well as Spanish-language prose and poetry. This is our biggest event of the year. You don't want to miss. \N\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Livestream on Artes de Mexico en Utah Facebook Page\N- Parking: Parking can be done on the streets surrounding the Leonardo Museum. There is also pay parking available \N- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are accesible to all genders and accomodated for people with disabilities\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Leonardo, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artes de Mexico en Utah invites you to our 2022 Sor Juana Awards. We will be giving arts for Latinx visual art as well as Spanish-language prose and poetry. This is our biggest event of the year. You don't want to miss.


ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Livestream on Artes de Mexico en Utah Facebook Page
- Parking: Parking can be done on the streets surrounding the Leonardo Museum. There is also pay parking available
- Bathrooms: Bathrooms are accesible to all genders and accomodated for people with disabilities
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask Willy.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Leonardo, Artes de Mexico en Utah, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221018T210000 UID:9467CFC4-C760-44DE-A3FD-C907304084DC SUMMARY:Something Wilder with Christina Wilder CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2596 DESCRIPTION:Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced eighteen New York Times bestselling novels. Join us for a reading of their work, followed by a Q&A and book signing.\N\NFind us in the Ashton Auditorium.\N\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by request. \N- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.\N- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.\N- no sensory kit available\N- No Mask Policy\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced eighteen New York Times bestselling novels. Join us for a reading of their work, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Find us in the Ashton Auditorium.


ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by request.
- Seating: There are 6 spaces for wheelchairs or motorized carts in the auditorium, as well as 4 other accessible seats.
- Bathrooms: The Library Hall has a men's room and women's room one accessible stall each. There are also two gender neutral/family bathrooms that are also accessible for people with disabilities.
- no sensory kit available
- No Mask Policy
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here:

This event is made possible with support from Orem Public Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221019T130000 UID:C5251491-41DE-4972-A5BB-8406B4716A11 SUMMARY:Friends of the Park City Library Annual Author Luncheon CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2595 DESCRIPTION:Join Friends of the Park City Library for our annual luncheon. Tickets: $45 - for sale at the library beginning Sept 4th ; $55 at the door the day of the event\N\NSpeaker: John Branch joined The New York Times in 2005 as a sports reporter. He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2013 for “Snow Fall,” a story about a deadly avalanche in Washington State, and was a finalist for the prize in 2012 for his series of stories about Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player who overdosed on painkillers. He is the author of three books, including “Sidecountry,” in 2021, a collection of New York Times stories. Raised in Colorado, he lives with his family near San Francisco.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Friends of the Park City Library and Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Friends of the Park City Library for our annual luncheon. Tickets: $45 - for sale at the library beginning Sept 4th ; $55 at the door the day of the event

Speaker: John Branch joined The New York Times in 2005 as a sports reporter. He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2013 for “Snow Fall,” a story about a deadly avalanche in Washington State, and was a finalist for the prize in 2012 for his series of stories about Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player who overdosed on painkillers. He is the author of three books, including “Sidecountry,” in 2021, a collection of New York Times stories. Raised in Colorado, he lives with his family near San Francisco.

This event is made possible with support from Friends of the Park City Library and Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221019T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221019T190000 UID:9BC66BC3-AB3B-446D-B415-7E8494AFABD6 SUMMARY:Writing about Place with Danielle Dubrasky and John Belk CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2638 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Writing about Place with Danielle Dubrasky and John Belk. \N\NDanielle Beazer Dubrasky is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Drift Migration (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), the chapbook Ruin and Light (Anabiosis Press, 2015), and the limited-edition/letterpress art book Invisible Shores (Red Butte Press/University of Utah, 2017). She also co-edited, with Karin Anderson, the Torrey House Press anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild in 2021. Her poems have been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Juliet,” won the 2020 Mississippi Review Nonfiction Prize.\N\NJohn Belk is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University and author of the chapbook The Weathering of Igneous Rockforms in High-Altitude Riparian Environments (Cathexis Northwest, 2020). His poems have recently appeared in Jet Fuel Review, The Maine Review, The Fourth River, poems2go, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill, Poetry South, Crab Orchard Review, and Sport Literate among others. He is also a researcher whose scholarship examines the historical ways poetry has helped create social change. His articles can be found in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Forum, and edited anthologies. John holds degrees in English and History from Texas A&M University and received his M.F.A. in Poetry and Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.\N\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a conversation about Writing about Place with Danielle Dubrasky and John Belk.

Danielle Beazer Dubrasky is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Drift Migration (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), the chapbook Ruin and Light (Anabiosis Press, 2015), and the limited-edition/letterpress art book Invisible Shores (Red Butte Press/University of Utah, 2017). She also co-edited, with Karin Anderson, the Torrey House Press anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild in 2021. Her poems have been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. Her essay, “Juliet,” won the 2020 Mississippi Review Nonfiction Prize.

John Belk is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Utah University and author of the chapbook The Weathering of Igneous Rockforms in High-Altitude Riparian Environments (Cathexis Northwest, 2020). His poems have recently appeared in Jet Fuel Review, The Maine Review, The Fourth River, poems2go, Sugar House Review, Salt Hill, Poetry South, Crab Orchard Review, and Sport Literate among others. He is also a researcher whose scholarship examines the historical ways poetry has helped create social change. His articles can be found in Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Forum, and edited anthologies. John holds degrees in English and History from Texas A&M University and received his M.F.A. in Poetry and Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.


This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221019T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221019T200000 UID:4F157411-0319-4941-921B-66B08EF8CAE9 SUMMARY:Shannon Hale CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2654 DESCRIPTION:Weber County Library is happy to present Shannon Hale. \N\NShannon Hale is an American author primarily of young adult fantasy, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy and The Goose Girl. Her first novel for adults, Austenland, was adapted into a film in 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Montana.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Weber County Library, The Queen Bee, and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber County Library is happy to present Shannon Hale.

Shannon Hale is an American author primarily of young adult fantasy, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy and The Goose Girl. Her first novel for adults, Austenland, was adapted into a film in 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Utah and the University of Montana.

This program is made possible with support from Weber County Library, The Queen Bee, and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221019T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221019T200000 UID:53AFB51B-535A-42B6-811F-822859719328 SUMMARY:When I was Red Clay with Jonathan T. Bailey CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2477 DESCRIPTION:Under the Umbrella presents Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay. \N\NThis intimate record lays bare one person’s experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Finding solace and connection in wild places, Jonathan T. Bailey lived two lives—one of trauma, the other of wonder. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates self–discovery, grief, and the loss of faith with unflinching honesty and biting humor.\N\NJonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke\N- Livestream available on @utahbookfest on Instagram.\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Under the Umbrella Bookstore, and Torrey House Press. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Under the Umbrella presents Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay.

This intimate record lays bare one person’s experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Finding solace and connection in wild places, Jonathan T. Bailey lived two lives—one of trauma, the other of wonder. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates self–discovery, grief, and the loss of faith with unflinching honesty and biting humor.

Jonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke
- Livestream available on @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8


This program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities, Under the Umbrella Bookstore, and Torrey House Press. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221020T111500 UID:7F2D9F4D-0474-448E-9026-65CE0F8788C4 SUMMARY:Poetry, Prose, and Publishing CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2639 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on Literature and Place with Sean Hill and Simmons Buntin at the Charles Hunter Room of the Hunter Alumni Center. \N\NSimmons Buntin is the editor-in-chief of Terrain.org, which he founded in 1997. He is also executive director and president of the board of Terrain Publishing, the small parent nonprofit organization that provides the business structure for Terrain.org and related educational, scientific, and literary activities.\N\NSean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book, (UGA Press, 2008).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a discussion on Literature and Place with Sean Hill and Simmons Buntin at the Charles Hunter Room of the Hunter Alumni Center.

Simmons Buntin is the editor-in-chief of Terrain.org, which he founded in 1997. He is also executive director and president of the board of Terrain Publishing, the small parent nonprofit organization that provides the business structure for Terrain.org and related educational, scientific, and literary activities.

Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book, (UGA Press, 2008).

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221020T123000 UID:C47C74BC-8346-44B8-90C4-7B3DC1689366 SUMMARY:Tanner Humanities Center Lecture with Sean Hill CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2656 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture with Sean Hill in the Whiting Room of the Hunter Alumni Center. \N\NSean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book, (UGA Press, 2008).\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a lecture with Sean Hill in the Whiting Room of the Hunter Alumni Center.

Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, (Milkweed Editions, 2014) and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book, (UGA Press, 2008).

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221020T193000 UID:04815AD6-D78B-4141-A8EB-389159EBA150 SUMMARY:Evening Ethics: The Invisible Kingdom with Megan O'Rourke CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2545 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening ethics focusing on A Way of Life with Judith Farquhar This will be in-person (Room 2600, Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, University of Utah, SLC) and virtual.\N\NZoom: https://utah-health.zoom.us/j/96466648451\NMeeting ID: 96466648451\NPasscode: 880119\N\NA short, thoughtful introduction to traditional Chinese medicine that looks beyond the conventional boundaries of Western biomedical science\N\NTraditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naïve faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical spheres in today’s China, here offers a concise and nuanced treatment that addresses enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. In this work, which is based on her 2017 Terry Lectures, “Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine,” she considers how the modern, rationalized, and scientific field of traditional Chinese medicine constructs its very real objects (bodies, symptoms, drugs), how experts think through and sort out pathology and health (yinyang, right qi / wrong qi, stasis, flow), and how contemporary doctors act responsibly to “seek out the root” of bodily disorder. Through this refined investigation, East-West contrasts collapse, and systematic Chinese medicine, no longer a mystery or a pseudo-science, can become a philosophical ally and a rich resource for a more capacious science.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- LIVESTREAM - Available via Zoom above.\N- PARKING: Four handicap labeled parking spaces on the south end of the bldg, with a ramp down to the west side of the bldg at Level 1 with power assisted doors to enter on that end, also, the main entrance, farther north on the west side has power assisted doors. There are two ways to enter classroom 2600: from the front (tables in the front of the classroom will be moved to allow for adequate space for access and egress) and by the ADA ramp on the south side of the 2600 door (labeled "2600/2680 Lecture Halls").\N- BATHROOMS: On Level 1 there are three single-stalled facilities (1-toilet/shower, the other two are only showers) off the main hall-east side (closer to the main elevators). On Level 2 (where the event will be) all restrooms have a handicap stall and changing table.\N- No on-site sensory kit\N- Masks Required\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities and Utah Humanities.\N\NDisclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.\NACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical\Neducation for physicians.\NNONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,\NOEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an evening ethics focusing on A Way of Life with Judith Farquhar This will be in-person (Room 2600, Eccles Health Sciences Education Building, University of Utah, SLC) and virtual.

Zoom: https://utah-health.zoom.us/j/96466648451
Meeting ID: 96466648451
Passcode: 880119

A short, thoughtful introduction to traditional Chinese medicine that looks beyond the conventional boundaries of Western biomedical science

Traditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naïve faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical spheres in today’s China, here offers a concise and nuanced treatment that addresses enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. In this work, which is based on her 2017 Terry Lectures, “Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine,” she considers how the modern, rationalized, and scientific field of traditional Chinese medicine constructs its very real objects (bodies, symptoms, drugs), how experts think through and sort out pathology and health (yinyang, right qi / wrong qi, stasis, flow), and how contemporary doctors act responsibly to “seek out the root” of bodily disorder. Through this refined investigation, East-West contrasts collapse, and systematic Chinese medicine, no longer a mystery or a pseudo-science, can become a philosophical ally and a rich resource for a more capacious science.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- LIVESTREAM - Available via Zoom above.
- PARKING: Four handicap labeled parking spaces on the south end of the bldg, with a ramp down to the west side of the bldg at Level 1 with power assisted doors to enter on that end, also, the main entrance, farther north on the west side has power assisted doors. There are two ways to enter classroom 2600: from the front (tables in the front of the classroom will be moved to allow for adequate space for access and egress) and by the ADA ramp on the south side of the 2600 door (labeled "2600/2680 Lecture Halls").
- BATHROOMS: On Level 1 there are three single-stalled facilities (1-toilet/shower, the other two are only showers) off the main hall-east side (closer to the main elevators). On Level 2 (where the event will be) all restrooms have a handicap stall and changing table.
- No on-site sensory kit
- Masks Required
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from the Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities and Utah Humanities.

Disclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All attendees are encouraged to use the CME system to claim their attendance. Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™; all other professions will be awarded attendance at a CME event credit that they may use for their re-credentialing purposes. All users will be able to print or save certificates. For questions regarding the CME system, please contact the UUCME Office. For questions regarding re-credentialing process or requirements, please contact your re-credentialing organization.
ACCREDITATION: The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
NONDISCRIMINATION AND DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION STATEMENT: The University of Utah does not exclude, deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran’s status, religion, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or sexual orientation in admission to or participation in its programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request, with reasonable notice. Requests for accommodations or inquiries or complaints about University nondiscrimination and disability/access policies may be directed to the Director,
OEO/AA, Title IX/Section 504/ADA Coordinator, 201 S President’s Circle, RM 135, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, 801-581-8365 (Voice/TTY), 801-585-5746 (Fax). X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221020T200000 UID:A7F8B92A-E8AA-45DC-A77E-25BC1EB298E5 SUMMARY:Servants of War with Larry Correia and Steven Diamond CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2516 DESCRIPTION:Weber Book Links is excited to present Larry Correia and Steven Diamond, authors of Servants of War.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NHORROR IN THE TRENCHES\N\NThe war between Almacia and the Empire of Kolakolvia is in its hundredth year. Casualties heap even higher on both sides as the conflict leaves no corner of the world untouched.\N\NIllarion Glaskov’s quiet life on the fringes of the empire is thrown into chaos when tragedy strikes his village. When he is conscripted into the Tsarist military, he is sent to serve in The Wall—an elite regiment that pilots suits of armor made from the husks of dead golems.\N\NBut the great war is not the only—or even the worst—danger facing Illarion, as he is caught in a millennia-old conflict between two goddesses. In order to triumph, he must survive the ravages of trench warfare, horrific monsters from another world, and the treacherous internal politics of the country he serves.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Weber County Library, Utah Humanities, and Weber Book Links. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Weber Book Links is excited to present Larry Correia and Steven Diamond, authors of Servants of War.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

HORROR IN THE TRENCHES

The war between Almacia and the Empire of Kolakolvia is in its hundredth year. Casualties heap even higher on both sides as the conflict leaves no corner of the world untouched.

Illarion Glaskov’s quiet life on the fringes of the empire is thrown into chaos when tragedy strikes his village. When he is conscripted into the Tsarist military, he is sent to serve in The Wall—an elite regiment that pilots suits of armor made from the husks of dead golems.

But the great war is not the only—or even the worst—danger facing Illarion, as he is caught in a millennia-old conflict between two goddesses. In order to triumph, he must survive the ravages of trench warfare, horrific monsters from another world, and the treacherous internal politics of the country he serves.

This event is made possible with support from Weber County Library, Utah Humanities, and Weber Book Links. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221020T210000 UID:53285164-94D1-4C2F-8A5D-754D76355A85 SUMMARY:Rural and Queer with Jonathan T. Bailey and Dave Lindsey CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2623 DESCRIPTION:Join SUU for an evening on the rural and queer experience. We will begin with a short reading by Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay. Then, we will screen Dog Valley, followed by a conversation with director/writer Dave Lindsey and Jonathan T. Bailey. \N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NDog Valley Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNc5pZ4J5FQ\N\NDog Valley is a feature-length documentary film about the 1988 kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of gay college student, Gordon Church. Set in a rural Mormon community in Southern Utah, Dog Valley examines one of the most brutal hate crimes in the United States. It explores the life of the victim and his legacy, and delves into the minds of the killers, Michael Archuleta and Lance Wood. It also shows the crimes' impact on the community and modern-day hate crimes legislation.\N\NWhen I was Red Clay lays bare one person’s experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Finding solace and connection in wild places, Jonathan T. Bailey lived two lives—one of trauma, the other of wonder. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates self–discovery, grief, and the loss of faith with unflinching honesty and biting humor.\N\NJonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Torrey House Press, The Book Bungalow, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join SUU for an evening on the rural and queer experience. We will begin with a short reading by Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay. Then, we will screen Dog Valley, followed by a conversation with director/writer Dave Lindsey and Jonathan T. Bailey.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided if requested. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org to make the request.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

Dog Valley Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNc5pZ4J5FQ

Dog Valley is a feature-length documentary film about the 1988 kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of gay college student, Gordon Church. Set in a rural Mormon community in Southern Utah, Dog Valley examines one of the most brutal hate crimes in the United States. It explores the life of the victim and his legacy, and delves into the minds of the killers, Michael Archuleta and Lance Wood. It also shows the crimes' impact on the community and modern-day hate crimes legislation.

When I was Red Clay lays bare one person’s experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Finding solace and connection in wild places, Jonathan T. Bailey lived two lives—one of trauma, the other of wonder. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates self–discovery, grief, and the loss of faith with unflinching honesty and biting humor.

Jonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.

This program is made possible with support from Southern Utah University, Torrey House Press, The Book Bungalow, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221021T200000 UID:7D616B36-3A53-44B0-B66F-27FEB5BACB2A SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: San Rafael Swell with Jonathan T. Bailey CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2517 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a short trek led by Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay. Bring water and sturdy shoes. \N\NASL interpretation upon request. If you need any accommodations, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DRTWxH7Mk9Qumrta8\N\NJonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Torrey House Press. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild is an exploratory outdoor experience that empowers participants to step into the landscapes that inspired some of the American West’s greatest literature. Join us at the Stokes Nature Center for a short trek led by Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I was Red Clay. Bring water and sturdy shoes.

ASL interpretation upon request. If you need any accommodations, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DRTWxH7Mk9Qumrta8

Jonathan T. Bailey is a photographer and conservationist who specializes in rock art. His work has contributed to the preservation of areas like the Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Uintah Basin, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Since 2013, he has partnered with the Utah Rock Art Research Association to record and protect Emery County’s fragile archaeological resources. He is most recently the author of When I Was Red Clay (Torrey House Press - August 2022), The Greater San Rafael Swell (University of Arizona Press - Spring 2022), and Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape (November 2019). His work has appeared in numerous places such as Landscape Photography Magazine, NBC News, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. Originally from Emery County, Utah, he now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, Aaron.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Torrey House Press.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221022T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221022T123000 UID:2FF4A691-B18E-4B8A-826F-783D48142967 SUMMARY:Cedar Canyon Trail and Coal Creek CREATED:20260416T080149Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080149Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2636 DESCRIPTION:Humanities in the Wild – Public event led by Writer Simmons Buntin and SUU biologist Sam Wells\N\NWalking/Writing workshop along the Cedar Canyon Trail and Coal Creek. Simmons Buntin, editor of the online literary journal Terrain.org, and SUU biologist Sam Wells will lead the workshop. \N\NRegister here: https://forms.gle/PhjCSGoNMrhcapZk8\N\NMeet at the Canyon Park, East Side Pavilion 500 East Center St. Free Picnic Lunch included with registration. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Humanities in the Wild – Public event led by Writer Simmons Buntin and SUU biologist Sam Wells

Walking/Writing workshop along the Cedar Canyon Trail and Coal Creek. Simmons Buntin, editor of the online literary journal Terrain.org, and SUU biologist Sam Wells will lead the workshop.

Register here: https://forms.gle/PhjCSGoNMrhcapZk8

Meet at the Canyon Park, East Side Pavilion 500 East Center St. Free Picnic Lunch included with registration.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and SUU. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221022T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221022T150000 UID:6352A897-079D-4F0B-9FEE-AF593D9AD9EB SUMMARY:Scream Queers: Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2599 DESCRIPTION:Scream Queers is a book club group that meets to discuss LGBTQ+ horror! 18+ and open to all.\N\NFrom international bestselling sensation Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes Echo, a thrilling descent into madness and obsession as one man confronts nature―and something even more ancient and evil answers back.\N\N“A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and adventure.” ―Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts \Nand The Pallbearers' Club\N\NNature is calling―but they shouldn't have answered.\NTravel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia―but he remembers everything.\N\NHe remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps.\N\NHe remembers how the slopes of Maudit were eerily quiet, and how, when they entered its valley, they got the ominous sense that they were not alone.\N\NHe remembers: something was waiting for them...\N\NBut it isn’t just the memory of the accident that haunts Nick. \NSomething has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him…\N\NIt’s one thing to lose your life. It’s another to lose your soul.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke\N- Livestream unavailable.\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible by Scream Queers, Under the Umbrella Bookstore, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Scream Queers is a book club group that meets to discuss LGBTQ+ horror! 18+ and open to all.

From international bestselling sensation Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes Echo, a thrilling descent into madness and obsession as one man confronts nature―and something even more ancient and evil answers back.

“A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and adventure.” ―Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
and The Pallbearers' Club

Nature is calling―but they shouldn't have answered.
Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia―but he remembers everything.

He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps.

He remembers how the slopes of Maudit were eerily quiet, and how, when they entered its valley, they got the ominous sense that they were not alone.

He remembers: something was waiting for them...

But it isn’t just the memory of the accident that haunts Nick.
Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him…

It’s one thing to lose your life. It’s another to lose your soul.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by Sophia Burke
- Livestream unavailable.
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible by Scream Queers, Under the Umbrella Bookstore, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221022T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221022T163000 UID:A33CDF92-5522-4BE2-9AA0-536649ED718E SUMMARY:The Beautiful Struggle: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2500 DESCRIPTION:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. For this conversation, participants are expected to have completed the book and be ready to engage to discuss its contribution and legacy as a work of literature. \N\NJoin the Beautiful Struggle Book Club as we read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. \N\NGoogle Meet, meet.google.com/mgm-bivy-wtv\N\NThe Bluest Eye \N\NNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.\N \NIn Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.\N \NHere, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).\N\NThe Beautiful Struggle\N\NThis group is a place for individuals of all races and backgrounds to read classic and contemporary literature written by authors from the African Diaspora (African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx etc.) and Africa. We meet twice a month and read a mix of fiction and non-fiction books. We read books from all genres including historical fiction, biographies/memoirs, mystery/crime, historical nonfiction, literary fiction, romance, sci-fi/afro-futurism and fantasy/adventure. On occasion, we also read books from Native American/First Nation writers. We appreciate great books, strive to expand our awareness of current civil rights issues, and enjoy learning from each other's perspectives. We welcome anyone who shares our love of great literature and informed discussion. We don't require a commitment to attend our meetings, so feel free to join us for one meeting or several, either way, we would love to have you!\N\NASL interpretation by request. \N\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, The Beautiful Struggle Book Club and Pen America - Utah Chapter. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Reading Dangerously invites educational professionals, parents, and the community at large to discuss challenged books and their impact on society. For this conversation, participants are expected to have completed the book and be ready to engage to discuss its contribution and legacy as a work of literature.

Join the Beautiful Struggle Book Club as we read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

Google Meet, meet.google.com/mgm-bivy-wtv

The Bluest Eye

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.

In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

The Beautiful Struggle

This group is a place for individuals of all races and backgrounds to read classic and contemporary literature written by authors from the African Diaspora (African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx etc.) and Africa. We meet twice a month and read a mix of fiction and non-fiction books. We read books from all genres including historical fiction, biographies/memoirs, mystery/crime, historical nonfiction, literary fiction, romance, sci-fi/afro-futurism and fantasy/adventure. On occasion, we also read books from Native American/First Nation writers. We appreciate great books, strive to expand our awareness of current civil rights issues, and enjoy learning from each other's perspectives. We welcome anyone who shares our love of great literature and informed discussion. We don't require a commitment to attend our meetings, so feel free to join us for one meeting or several, either way, we would love to have you!

ASL interpretation by request.

- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Tanner Humanities Center, Utah Humanities, The Beautiful Struggle Book Club and Pen America - Utah Chapter.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221024T210000 UID:C5B7AFF8-F813-4911-A4A6-33AFDA1CD994 SUMMARY:Utah Poetry Slam features Angelika Brewer CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2526 DESCRIPTION:Join the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring Ogden poet laureate Angelika Brewer. \N\NAngelika Brewer is an award-winning poet, public speaker, journalist and a creativity enthusiast from Ogden, Utah. She finds artistry where it is hiding and advocates for its continuation, which contributes to her love of writing about local, upcoming artists. She loves her family and her animals, traveling and starting a new craft every two weeks, but only sometimes completing one.\N\NJoin the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring our representative at the Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam: Rachel Chidester\N\NAfter graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design and working in her career field for two years, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. Rachel has since been awarded for her work statewide and will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage later this year.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation\N- Parking: One block from Planetarium Trax Stop. Parking Garages ADA compliant. \N- Bathrooms: Large Single Stall bathroom available in the back \N- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Sadie. \N- Masks recommended\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities. \N\NThis event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring Ogden poet laureate Angelika Brewer.

Angelika Brewer is an award-winning poet, public speaker, journalist and a creativity enthusiast from Ogden, Utah. She finds artistry where it is hiding and advocates for its continuation, which contributes to her love of writing about local, upcoming artists. She loves her family and her animals, traveling and starting a new craft every two weeks, but only sometimes completing one.

Join the Utah Poetry Slam for our monthly slam, featuring our representative at the Blackberry Peach National Poetry Slam: Rachel Chidester

After graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design and working in her career field for two years, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. Rachel has since been awarded for her work statewide and will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage later this year.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation provided by 5-star interpretation
- Parking: One block from Planetarium Trax Stop. Parking Garages ADA compliant.
- Bathrooms: Large Single Stall bathroom available in the back
- on-site sensory kit available. Ask Sadie.
- Masks recommended
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities.

This event is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, The Box, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221029T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221029T000000 UID:4C2AA5A7-0FCC-4344-985D-03D7A1CD9F52 SUMMARY:Dia de los Muertos with Solórzano CREATED:20260416T080148Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080148Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2601 DESCRIPTION:West Valley Arts welcomes all to the Utah Cultural Celebration Center for Dia de los Muertos. There will be activities and booths for the whole family from 11am to 6pm. Chicano scholar Armando Solórzano, author of Los estamos esperando: Día de Muertos en Zapotlán, will be on-site for the full duration of the event. At 12:30pm at the Main Gallery he will be making remarks about the significance of the event. Their will be an exhibit and community ofrendas.\N\NThrough photography, Armando Solórzano documents the rich cultural, spiritual, and religious syncretism captured in the Dia de los Muertos celebration of Zapotlán.\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. \N- Livestream @utahbookfest on Instagram. \N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Willy Palomo\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis event is made possible by West Valley Arts, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, and Utah Humanities X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:West Valley Arts welcomes all to the Utah Cultural Celebration Center for Dia de los Muertos. There will be activities and booths for the whole family from 11am to 6pm. Chicano scholar Armando Solórzano, author of Los estamos esperando: Día de Muertos en Zapotlán, will be on-site for the full duration of the event. At 12:30pm at the Main Gallery he will be making remarks about the significance of the event. Their will be an exhibit and community ofrendas.

Through photography, Armando Solórzano documents the rich cultural, spiritual, and religious syncretism captured in the Dia de los Muertos celebration of Zapotlán.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request.
- Livestream @utahbookfest on Instagram.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Willy Palomo
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This event is made possible by West Valley Arts, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, and Utah Humanities X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221029T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221029T160000 UID:FC6C7818-1D2D-4ACB-A244-49B61EB9515D SUMMARY:CoraZones: Willy Palomo CREATED:20260416T080147Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080147Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2537 DESCRIPTION:CoraZones is a reading and writing cipher for the Utah Poetry Slam community. Corazón means heart in Spanish. CoraZones fosters a warm, inclusive space for community members to exercise and strengthen their creativity.\N\NWilly Palomo will be the host for 10.29.2022. The theme for this CoraZones will be poetry about fathers. \N\NWilly Palomo (he/they/she) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. He is a founding member of Plumas Colectiva, a literary and art collective of Latinx creators in the 801.\N\N*Please come prepared with a method of writing, be it a notepad and writing utensil, laptop, cellphone or whatever.*\N\NCoraZones will start at 2pm at Under the Umbrella Bookstore. Each session will begin with a brief introduction, including chosen pronouns, and an emotional health check-in of participants to gauge the energy people are bringing into the room. After the check-in, the host will lead a reading exercise and discussion to teach a literary technique. After the conversation, participants will have time to generate new writing. Time will be provided at the end of the hour for participants to share their newly created work, as well as share poems they are seeking feedback on.\N\NRead the rules of engagement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWXNgoB42uu7HtWUOBqctwVuah0OGfVSvaLlHNFsQ1w/edit?usp=sharing\N\NACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:\N- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org.\N- Livestream unavailable.\N- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.\N- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.\N- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.\N- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo\N- Masks required.\N- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8\N\NThis program is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, Plumas Colectiva, Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:CoraZones is a reading and writing cipher for the Utah Poetry Slam community. Corazón means heart in Spanish. CoraZones fosters a warm, inclusive space for community members to exercise and strengthen their creativity.

Willy Palomo will be the host for 10.29.2022. The theme for this CoraZones will be poetry about fathers.

Willy Palomo (he/they/she) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. He has taught literature, creative writing, and the Poetics of Rap in universities, juvenile detention centers, community centers, and high schools. He has performed his poetry nationally and internationally at the National Poetry Slam, CUPSI, and V Festival Internacional de Poesía Amada Libertad in El Salvador. He is a founding member of Plumas Colectiva, a literary and art collective of Latinx creators in the 801.

*Please come prepared with a method of writing, be it a notepad and writing utensil, laptop, cellphone or whatever.*

CoraZones will start at 2pm at Under the Umbrella Bookstore. Each session will begin with a brief introduction, including chosen pronouns, and an emotional health check-in of participants to gauge the energy people are bringing into the room. After the check-in, the host will lead a reading exercise and discussion to teach a literary technique. After the conversation, participants will have time to generate new writing. Time will be provided at the end of the hour for participants to share their newly created work, as well as share poems they are seeking feedback on.

Read the rules of engagement here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WWXNgoB42uu7HtWUOBqctwVuah0OGfVSvaLlHNFsQ1w/edit?usp=sharing

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:
- ASL interpretation by request. Email palomo@utahhumanities.org.
- Livestream unavailable.
- Parking: Right next to Old Greek Town Trax stop. Parking available in the driveway immediately south of the store. There are two disabled parking spots next to the south door. There is more parking is you keep following the driveway.
- Seating: Folding chairs. Space for people with wheelchairs is available.
- Bathrooms: Single stall bathroom available.
- On-site sensory kit available. Ask for Sara Gonzales or Willy Palomo
- Masks required.
- Request any additional questions or accommodations here: https://forms.gle/uV8MABJVvh9bE42F8

This program is made possible with support from Utah Poetry Slam, Plumas Colectiva, Under the Umbrella, and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231002T000000 UID:7C27323F-6B57-466F-AA86-D75A6AAE8214 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Mary's Monsters with Laurie Allen CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3134 DESCRIPTION:Join professional storyteller and community-theater actress Laurie Allen in a one-woman show exploring the life and impact of Mary Shelley, told in Mary's voice and presented in theater-in-the-round staging.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join professional storyteller and community-theater actress Laurie Allen in a one-woman show exploring the life and impact of Mary Shelley, told in Mary's voice and presented in theater-in-the-round staging.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231003T000000 UID:F69D67E3-04DF-424F-911F-8A0724DF0075 SUMMARY:Railtown Reading with Tacey Atsitty and Stacie Denetsosie CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3102 DESCRIPTION:Dine'/Navajo authors Tacey Atsitty an Stacie Denetsosie will read and discuss their new work at the Weber County Library for Railtown Readings.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dine'/Navajo authors Tacey Atsitty an Stacie Denetsosie will read and discuss their new work at the Weber County Library for Railtown Readings.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231003T000000 UID:5795DA8D-A674-4D7C-83C9-DED02E1F2304 SUMMARY: The Brigham City Library hosts Speed Date with a Book, Panel Style CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3149 DESCRIPTION:Meet authors at author events on 3 October and 10 October.\NThe authors on the 10/3 will be the following!\N\NElizabeth Drysdale, \NMike Nelson, \NHeather Braegger,\NElizabeth Suggs, \Nand Amanda Norr. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet authors at author events on 3 October and 10 October.
The authors on the 10/3 will be the following!

Elizabeth Drysdale,
Mike Nelson,
Heather Braegger,
Elizabeth Suggs,
and Amanda Norr. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231005T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231005T000000 UID:FF900740-4909-4980-965C-4315BC8E8000 SUMMARY:The Charles Redd Center for Utah Humanities Reading with Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundation of Glen Canyon Dam, Infrastructures of Dispossession on The Colorado Plateau CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3132 DESCRIPTION:The Charles Redd Center for Utah Humanities Reading with Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundation of Glen Canyon Dam, Infrastructures of Dispossession on The Colorado Plateau\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Charles Redd Center for Utah Humanities Reading with Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundation of Glen Canyon Dam, Infrastructures of Dispossession on The Colorado Plateau

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231005T000000 UID:66F1AD48-538A-4FFA-9413-224E5474CD32 SUMMARY:Tanner Humanities Center presents Carmen Maria Machado CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3107 DESCRIPTION:Carmen Maria Machado\NAuthor of 'In the Dream House' and 'Her Body and Other Parts' \NReading and Discussion\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for most current information, changes, or cancellations. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Carmen Maria Machado
Author of 'In the Dream House' and 'Her Body and Other Parts'
Reading and Discussion

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for most current information, changes, or cancellations. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231006T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231006T000000 UID:80F2E2B1-A045-4019-A1D4-C792148E2B49 SUMMARY:Glen Canyon Institute presents Erika Bsumek and Andrew Curley CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3108 DESCRIPTION:Glen Canyon Institute presents Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau, and Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Glen Canyon Institute presents Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau, and Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231006T000000 UID:E758BC2D-AE47-454B-A629-97CFD479F7FF SUMMARY:Under the Umbrella Bookstore Hosts Niki Smith: Graphic Novelist CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:undertheumbrellabooks.com DESCRIPTION:This is an all-ages presentation, readalong, Q&A, and signing of her books The Deep & Dark Blue, The Golden Hour, Crossplay, and Slime Shop; Niki will be bringing sketches and models, and discussing the process of making a graphic novel. This event is free and open to all. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This is an all-ages presentation, readalong, Q&A, and signing of her books The Deep & Dark Blue, The Golden Hour, Crossplay, and Slime Shop; Niki will be bringing sketches and models, and discussing the process of making a graphic novel. This event is free and open to all. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231006T000000 UID:69E4D4B7-3812-45C5-8DBD-6EC043459B4D SUMMARY:The Entrada Institute author Morgan Sjogren CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3143 DESCRIPTION:The Entrada Institute author Morgan Sjogren for a reading and discussion about her new book Path of Light.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Entrada Institute author Morgan Sjogren for a reading and discussion about her new book Path of Light.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231006T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231006T000000 UID:660D1F7E-0E2C-4B3F-BA6F-23AB0E8734B0 SUMMARY:Van Sessions and Happy Magpie Books Present Ruben Degollado CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3103 DESCRIPTION:The Van Sessions and Happy Magpie Book and Quill host Ruben Degollado during Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll at the Monarch in Ogden, Utah.\N\N7pm: Alicia Stockman Band\N7:30pm: Author Ruben Degollado\N8:00pm: Sammy Brue\N8:30pm Comedy Set, Arvin Mitchell\N9:00pm Vincent Van Draper and the Culls\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. \N\N\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Van Sessions and Happy Magpie Book and Quill host Ruben Degollado during Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll at the Monarch in Ogden, Utah.

7pm: Alicia Stockman Band
7:30pm: Author Ruben Degollado
8:00pm: Sammy Brue
8:30pm Comedy Set, Arvin Mitchell
9:00pm Vincent Van Draper and the Culls

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates.


X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231007T104500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231007T160000 UID:7B01EC33-40A3-44C8-B7D8-BD7183688A69 SUMMARY:When Authors and Artists Meet CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3152 DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy workshops lead by authors getting their work out into the world!\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come enjoy workshops lead by authors getting their work out into the world!

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231007T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231007T000000 UID:E1324A63-532F-4743-BB58-7A870ED6C8AD SUMMARY:It Takes a Village Reading and Discussion with Laura Numeroff CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3133 DESCRIPTION:Utah-based non-profit IT TAKES A VILLAGE hosts children's book author Laura Nemeroff for a reading and discussion about the international library building mission.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah-based non-profit IT TAKES A VILLAGE hosts children's book author Laura Nemeroff for a reading and discussion about the international library building mission.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231007T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231007T000000 UID:4E880D1B-76DA-477B-BE5D-CE07BBA4E00E SUMMARY:Identity, Ancestry, and Connection: A Celebration of the works of author David Bowles CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:undertheumbrellabooks.com DESCRIPTION:In honor of the release of David’s book, The Prince & the Coyote, we will be speaking with him about the themes of ancestry, identity, connection, and Latinidad throughout his book and career. There will also be refreshments, free books, and breakout sessions. This event is free and open to all. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In honor of the release of David’s book, The Prince & the Coyote, we will be speaking with him about the themes of ancestry, identity, connection, and Latinidad throughout his book and career. There will also be refreshments, free books, and breakout sessions. This event is free and open to all. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231007T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231007T000000 UID:72D788F5-35B3-49C1-9931-0C6A3C79B9AB SUMMARY: Utah State Poetry Book Concert CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3135 DESCRIPTION:Utah State Poetry Society presents Utah Poet of the Year Award to Susan Foster. Join us to hear Susan read poems from her book The Falling Water Calls It Grief, followed by a book signing and refreshments. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah State Poetry Society presents Utah Poet of the Year Award to Susan Foster. Join us to hear Susan read poems from her book The Falling Water Calls It Grief, followed by a book signing and refreshments.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231007T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231007T000000 UID:02A24FFD-FD50-49A7-9F54-4FD533204904 SUMMARY:Weller Books Presents Ruben Degallado CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3109 DESCRIPTION:Ruben Degallado, author of the acclaimed The Family Izquierdo, will join Weller Books to read and sign books and answer questions. He will be joined by local author and musician David Lindes.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ruben Degallado, author of the acclaimed The Family Izquierdo, will join Weller Books to read and sign books and answer questions. He will be joined by local author and musician David Lindes.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231009T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231009T000000 UID:D165E179-F8C5-4E26-896C-DD28B6C07304 SUMMARY:The King's English Hosts Scarlet St. James, A Game of Gods CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3117 DESCRIPTION:The King's English hosts Scarlet St. James for Indigenous People's Day.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English hosts Scarlet St. James for Indigenous People's Day.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231010T000000 UID:CF1D9875-5610-4829-841F-9238D6280B20 SUMMARY:The Brigham City Library hosts Speed Date with a Book, Panel Style CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3150 DESCRIPTION:Meet the following authors to chat!\N\NMary Martinez\NSara Fitzgerald\NMarie Higgins\NK.R. Bailey\NStacey Haynes\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet the following authors to chat!

Mary Martinez
Sara Fitzgerald
Marie Higgins
K.R. Bailey
Stacey Haynes

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231011T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231011T000000 UID:8FF94147-2D0B-42DA-B4EF-D556BC5DA185 SUMMARY:Novelist and Marvel/DC Writer Visits The County Library/Hunter Branch CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3120 DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels, the most recent among them The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2023). . He is also the author of The Unfamiliar Garden (Mariner Books/William Morrow, 2022), The Ninth Metal (Mariner Books, 2021), The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015), Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010), as well as three books of short stories, Suicide Woods (Graywolf Press, 2019), Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Grand Central/Hachette, 2012; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006).\N\NHis craft book — Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction — was published by Graywolf Press in 2016 and is now widely taught in creative writing classrooms.\N\NHe broke in to comics in 2014, with a two-issue Batman story arc for Detective Comics. He is known for his celebrated runs on Nightwing, Green Arrow, Teen Titans, and James Bond. He He currently writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. He also writes Devil’s Highway and Year Zero for AWA Studios.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. \N\NJosh Walters\Njwalters@slcolibrary.org\N801-944-7954 \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels, the most recent among them The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2023). . He is also the author of The Unfamiliar Garden (Mariner Books/William Morrow, 2022), The Ninth Metal (Mariner Books, 2021), The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015), Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010), as well as three books of short stories, Suicide Woods (Graywolf Press, 2019), Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Grand Central/Hachette, 2012; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006).

His craft book — Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction — was published by Graywolf Press in 2016 and is now widely taught in creative writing classrooms.

He broke in to comics in 2014, with a two-issue Batman story arc for Detective Comics. He is known for his celebrated runs on Nightwing, Green Arrow, Teen Titans, and James Bond. He He currently writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. He also writes Devil’s Highway and Year Zero for AWA Studios.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates.

Josh Walters
jwalters@slcolibrary.org
801-944-7954
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231011T000000 UID:2A4518B0-9A30-4843-873B-850C14A26D0D SUMMARY:Frankenstein and Snack CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3136 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book-club style potluck discussion of chapters 1-12 of Frankenstein!\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a book-club style potluck discussion of chapters 1-12 of Frankenstein!

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T000000 UID:881502EC-A44C-4A55-B81A-7923813A6646 SUMMARY:Pintxos + Libros Talks with Rebecca Clarren CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3115 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Book Shop and Casot Wine + Work are pleased to present Pintxos + Libros, featuring Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land to discuss the book, the research, and the writing of The Cost of Free Land and more. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Book Shop and Casot Wine + Work are pleased to present Pintxos + Libros, featuring Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land to discuss the book, the research, and the writing of The Cost of Free Land and more.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T000000 UID:B4B8ED8A-F23A-411C-A188-57FBFF21A314 SUMMARY:Bears Ears Education Center with Zak Podmore and Andrew Gulliford CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3145 DESCRIPTION:Bears Ears Education Center with Zak Podmore, author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West, and Andrew Gulliford, author of multiple books about the west.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bears Ears Education Center with Zak Podmore, author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West, and Andrew Gulliford, author of multiple books about the west.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T000000 UID:EFF747DC-135A-4860-B968-4C8AAA0DA580 SUMMARY:Pam Houston Generative Workshop and Reading CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3106 DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Pam Houston is coming to Ogden to host a 45-minute generative workshop and reading to follow.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Award-winning author Pam Houston is coming to Ogden to host a 45-minute generative workshop and reading to follow.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T000000 UID:8E4804F7-CAEA-4ACE-8086-5730E3FC886E SUMMARY:Orem Reads: Grassroots Shakespeare Presents Hamlet CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3137 DESCRIPTION:Grassroots Shakespeare brings you Hamlet, the famous cautionary tale about the dangers of listening to ghosts! After the show, join us for a talk back with the actors about the themes of the play and how they relate to Frankenstein.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Grassroots Shakespeare brings you Hamlet, the famous cautionary tale about the dangers of listening to ghosts! After the show, join us for a talk back with the actors about the themes of the play and how they relate to Frankenstein.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231013T000000 UID:5E7A206F-83A4-43B2-9DE3-ABECDD8C0125 SUMMARY:The King's English Presents Kate Anderson CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3121 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Bookshop Hosts Author Kate Anderson, author of the acclaimed young adult novel, Here Lies Olive\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Bookshop Hosts Author Kate Anderson, author of the acclaimed young adult novel, Here Lies Olive

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231013T000000 UID:A1FE6047-8E0F-4941-B5B4-136063785AE1 SUMMARY:Stokes Nature Center Hosts Author Margaret Pettis CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3129 DESCRIPTION:The Utah Book Festival and Stokes Nature Center present Margaret Pettis, Former Utah Poet of the Year, author of "In the Temple of the Stars" and Phalarope." Come enjoy a poetry reading and write your own poem during a mini nature poetry workshop with Margaret. Books will be available for signing and sale.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Book Festival and Stokes Nature Center present Margaret Pettis, Former Utah Poet of the Year, author of "In the Temple of the Stars" and Phalarope." Come enjoy a poetry reading and write your own poem during a mini nature poetry workshop with Margaret. Books will be available for signing and sale.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231013T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231013T000000 UID:4185D61F-0571-42A1-8B9F-DA9529CF005B SUMMARY:Rebecca Clarren Reading and Discussion, Hosted by Ken Sander's Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3118 DESCRIPTION:Ken Sander's Rare Books and The Leonardo host Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land, to their new space at the Leonardo for a reading and discussion.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ken Sander's Rare Books and The Leonardo host Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land, to their new space at the Leonardo for a reading and discussion.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231014T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231014T000000 UID:AEC0DE63-B188-4862-8CAE-D3ABA890504B SUMMARY:Jordan River Center Hosts a Community Art Build with Eli Nixon CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3113 DESCRIPTION:Eli Nixon will lead an art build at Jordan River Nature Center. This workshop will use their book, Bloodtide: a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Eli Nixon will lead an art build at Jordan River Nature Center. This workshop will use their book, Bloodtide: a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231014T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231014T000000 UID:32B238A1-7AFC-40E1-AAAD-9877A071F8EE SUMMARY:Banned Book Reading and Book Swap at Rose Wagner Theater CREATED:20260416T080151Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080151Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2823 DESCRIPTION:- 10/14/2023\N- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM\N- Rose Wagner Theater, 138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City\N- This event will include featured readers who will share an excerpt from their favorite banned book and an open mic portion. Following this, UTU will offer banned books for sale with a selection available to swap for free. Attendees are asked to bring books of their own to either read from or swap. This event is free and open to all, and is in partnership with Damn These Heels Queer Film Fest.\N\NBanned Book Sale\N- 10/14/2023\N- 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM\N- Rose Wagner Theater, 138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City\N- Under the Umbrella will have a selection of Banned Books available to purchase in honor of Banned Book Week. There will also be educational materials and we will be discussing how to fight book bans on a local level. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:- 10/14/2023
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Rose Wagner Theater, 138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City
- This event will include featured readers who will share an excerpt from their favorite banned book and an open mic portion. Following this, UTU will offer banned books for sale with a selection available to swap for free. Attendees are asked to bring books of their own to either read from or swap. This event is free and open to all, and is in partnership with Damn These Heels Queer Film Fest.

Banned Book Sale
- 10/14/2023
- 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Rose Wagner Theater, 138 W Broadway, Salt Lake City
- Under the Umbrella will have a selection of Banned Books available to purchase in honor of Banned Book Week. There will also be educational materials and we will be discussing how to fight book bans on a local level.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231015T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231015T000000 UID:754FE558-718C-4070-BA3D-94DDE9BC0E9D SUMMARY:Jordan River Nature Center Hosts Eli Nixon for a Community Art Build CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3114 DESCRIPTION:Eli Nixon will lead an art build at Jordan River Nature Center. This workshop will use their book, Bloodtide: a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Eli Nixon will lead an art build at Jordan River Nature Center. This workshop will use their book, Bloodtide: a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231015T000000 UID:A9656206-7672-4DA9-B58A-4C6D02BB7894 SUMMARY:Back of Beyond Books and Torrey House Press Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3146 DESCRIPTION:Back of Beyond Books and Torrey House Press Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen for an evening of readings and discussion. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Back of Beyond Books and Torrey House Press Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen for an evening of readings and discussion.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231015T200000 UID:DD22A8CF-E6B0-4865-8B08-3B9378C2F411 SUMMARY:Eli Nixon Bloodtie Crabaoke Night at Survivor Wellness CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3154 DESCRIPTION:Join Eli Nixon, author of BLOODTIDE, for a talk and Crabaoke Night! \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Eli Nixon, author of BLOODTIDE, for a talk and Crabaoke Night!

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231016T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231016T000000 UID:320DE1AB-ED24-4E9E-BC5E-81EC18113D67 SUMMARY:The Springdale Community Center with Zion Canyon Mesa hosts Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3147 DESCRIPTION:The Springdale Community Center with Zion Canyon Mesa hosts Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen for an evening of reading and discussion. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Springdale Community Center with Zion Canyon Mesa hosts Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen for an evening of reading and discussion.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231017T000000 UID:E1A7D5E7-4898-42CF-8E7C-11B2BC4BD076 SUMMARY:Torrey House Press Presents Women Writing the West CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2837 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press presents Women Writing the West, a discussion moderated by Anne Holman of The King's English Bookshop.\N\NJoin Karin Anderson, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, and Betsy Gaines Quammen at Church and State for a panel discussion about women writing the west and writing women in the west. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press presents Women Writing the West, a discussion moderated by Anne Holman of The King's English Bookshop.

Join Karin Anderson, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, and Betsy Gaines Quammen at Church and State for a panel discussion about women writing the west and writing women in the west. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231017T000000 UID:73A37FDF-6DDA-4009-AF43-BFAB2DE25BAF SUMMARY:Park City Library Host Heather Sappenfield CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3122 DESCRIPTION:Park City Hosts Award-Winning Young Adult Author Heather Sappenfield for a generative workshop and presentation.\N\NSappenfield will lead a writing workshop from 5:30-6:15 and an author talk from 7pm-8pm.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Hosts Award-Winning Young Adult Author Heather Sappenfield for a generative workshop and presentation.

Sappenfield will lead a writing workshop from 5:30-6:15 and an author talk from 7pm-8pm.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231017T000000 UID:E8FD9D00-59A7-4A48-82FD-FCD37DCA7515 SUMMARY:Brigham City Library Hosts author Shelley Brown CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3148 DESCRIPTION:The Brigham City Library hosts children's book author Shelley Brown. She will talk about kindness, laughter, and books!\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Brigham City Library hosts children's book author Shelley Brown. She will talk about kindness, laughter, and books!

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231018T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231018T000000 UID:D0C2F7C4-FCDF-4090-9082-03EC3957FF45 SUMMARY:The King's English Bookshop Local Author Showcase CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2828 DESCRIPTION:The King's English hosts local authors\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English hosts local authors

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231018T000000 UID:F8AD2E59-2359-410A-9BD4-8266F00A2AC5 SUMMARY:Frankenstein Craft Night CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3138 DESCRIPTION:Bring your sewing machine to the library to make a monster of your own!\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bring your sewing machine to the library to make a monster of your own!

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231019T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231019T000000 UID:88CB21AE-5C25-4FA6-A67F-CCEB76DA4909 SUMMARY:The Malouf Foundation and Weller Book Works host Julie Whitehead CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3119 DESCRIPTION:The Malouf Foundation and Weller Book Works host Julie Whitehead, author of Shadowed: How I Became the Sex-Trafficked Mother Next Door\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Malouf Foundation and Weller Book Works host Julie Whitehead, author of Shadowed: How I Became the Sex-Trafficked Mother Next Door

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231019T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231019T000000 UID:0819CFBB-981F-456E-BC3E-EA150D40353A SUMMARY:Pinxtos and Libros Amber Caron and Lindsey Drager CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3151 DESCRIPTION:The King's English Book Shop and Casot WIne + Work are pleased to present Pinxtos and Libros, featuring Amber Caron, author of Call Up the Waters, to discuss the book, the research, and the writing of her book. She will be in conversation with Lindsey Drager, author of Archive of Other Endings, The Sorrow Proper, and The Lost Daughter Collective.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The King's English Book Shop and Casot WIne + Work are pleased to present Pinxtos and Libros, featuring Amber Caron, author of Call Up the Waters, to discuss the book, the research, and the writing of her book. She will be in conversation with Lindsey Drager, author of Archive of Other Endings, The Sorrow Proper, and The Lost Daughter Collective.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231019T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231019T000000 UID:B82B66E8-628F-4493-9037-CC25BF77F2B2 SUMMARY:Speak for Yourself Open Mic with the Rock Canyon Poets CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3153 DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Utah Book Festival, Speak for Yourself Open Mic is featuring the Rock Canyon Poets followed by a first-come-first-serve open mic. Come early to sign up! \N\NSpeak for Yourself Open Mic is a creative writing open mic featuring a diverse group of writers and provides space for everyone to have a voice. Events are held the third Thursday of every month at 7:30pm at "The Mic" in Provo Towne Center mall on the stage near the food court. \N\NRock Canyon Poets boasts diverse membership, ranging from 18 to 70+ years in age with many backgrounds--including literary journal founders, editors, ex-military, business professionals, a playwright, and a periodontist. Individually, they have received several awards and been published in magazines, anthologies, journals, chapbooks, and full-length books of poetry. Rock Canyon Poets offers poetry with the tactile clarity of tin-can messages through fuzzy strings to the audience's ears.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In collaboration with the Utah Book Festival, Speak for Yourself Open Mic is featuring the Rock Canyon Poets followed by a first-come-first-serve open mic. Come early to sign up!

Speak for Yourself Open Mic is a creative writing open mic featuring a diverse group of writers and provides space for everyone to have a voice. Events are held the third Thursday of every month at 7:30pm at "The Mic" in Provo Towne Center mall on the stage near the food court.

Rock Canyon Poets boasts diverse membership, ranging from 18 to 70+ years in age with many backgrounds--including literary journal founders, editors, ex-military, business professionals, a playwright, and a periodontist. Individually, they have received several awards and been published in magazines, anthologies, journals, chapbooks, and full-length books of poetry. Rock Canyon Poets offers poetry with the tactile clarity of tin-can messages through fuzzy strings to the audience's ears.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231020T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231020T000000 UID:3F85B7D4-8FE2-4D28-AC08-DF0A4654DE53 SUMMARY:Under the Umbrella Bookstore Hosts Willy Palomo and Las Plumas Colectiva CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3112 DESCRIPTION:Under the Umbrella Bookstore presents Willy Palomo, author of Wake the Others, and Plumas Colectiva for a night of readings and discussion with an open mic to follow.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Under the Umbrella Bookstore presents Willy Palomo, author of Wake the Others, and Plumas Colectiva for a night of readings and discussion with an open mic to follow.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231020T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231020T000000 UID:E0130A26-B7A0-45BA-B125-4B953FF568A7 SUMMARY:The Bird Poem: A Generative Environmental Community Writing Experience CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3130 DESCRIPTION:Matt Glasgow will host a generative writing experience that focuses on the fascinating worlds of birds.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Matt Glasgow will host a generative writing experience that focuses on the fascinating worlds of birds.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231020T000000 UID:5D9AF561-45F4-4078-9C56-F6A0D399F342 SUMMARY:Back of Beyond Books Hosts Amber Caron and Karin Anderson CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3142 DESCRIPTION:Back of Beyond Books with Torrey House Press Hosts Amber Caron and Karin Anderson for an evening of readings and discussion. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Back of Beyond Books with Torrey House Press Hosts Amber Caron and Karin Anderson for an evening of readings and discussion.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231021T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231021T160000 UID:07A629A9-BC32-4B81-B6B9-2EF3BBD6E59A SUMMARY:Mountain West Center - Evans Writers' Workshop CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3116 DESCRIPTION:2023 MWC-Evans Writers’ Workshop for Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates.\N \NDate: Saturday, October 21, 2023\N \NTime: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.\N \NPresenters:\NTerryl Givens\NRodney Frey\NMolly Cannon\NDarren Parry\NGlenda Cotter\N \NVenue: Utah State University – Salt Lake Center 920 W Levoy Drive, Taylorsville, Utah\N \NDescription: Are you interested in writing autobiography or biography or memoir? Do you have a start on a project but need some additional inspiration or maybe need a nudge from concept to composition? The Mountain West Center at Utah State University in connection with the Evans Biography Awards is hosting a Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography.\N \NThis workshop is a one-day event, open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers who might hope to someday win a prize like the Evans Biography Awards. There will be four workshop sessions (two concurrent sessions in the morning and two in the afternoon). Space is limited, so register early. Registration fee: $60 (covers food and workshop supplies).\N \NFor more information or to register visit https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/evans-workshop/index or email mwc@usu.edu.\N \NThis event is made possible with support from the Mountain West Center at Utah State University, the Evans Biography Awards, the Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2023 MWC-Evans Writers’ Workshop for Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates.

Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Presenters:
Terryl Givens
Rodney Frey
Molly Cannon
Darren Parry
Glenda Cotter

Venue: Utah State University – Salt Lake Center 920 W Levoy Drive, Taylorsville, Utah

Description: Are you interested in writing autobiography or biography or memoir? Do you have a start on a project but need some additional inspiration or maybe need a nudge from concept to composition? The Mountain West Center at Utah State University in connection with the Evans Biography Awards is hosting a Writers’ Workshop for Auto/Biography.

This workshop is a one-day event, open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers who might hope to someday win a prize like the Evans Biography Awards. There will be four workshop sessions (two concurrent sessions in the morning and two in the afternoon). Space is limited, so register early. Registration fee: $60 (covers food and workshop supplies).

For more information or to register visit https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/evans-workshop/index or email mwc@usu.edu.

This event is made possible with support from the Mountain West Center at Utah State University, the Evans Biography Awards, the Utah Humanities, and Weller Book Works.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231021T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231021T000000 UID:A0CA33E2-14E7-445D-9173-A47F4B96B3F3 SUMMARY:Stokes Nature:Center presents the Mollusk Identification Guide with Eric Wagner CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3128 DESCRIPTION:The Stokes Nature Center will host Eric Wagner to discuss his new book Utah Mollusk Identification Guide.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Stokes Nature Center will host Eric Wagner to discuss his new book Utah Mollusk Identification Guide.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231021T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231021T000000 UID:F3877F70-9807-4D87-9A51-6C5BF59FDF14 SUMMARY:The Swaner Eco Center Hosts Stacie Denotsosis and Katie Coles CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3124 DESCRIPTION:The Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter host Stacie Denotsosie and Katie Coles for an evening of short fiction and poetry.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter host Stacie Denotsosie and Katie Coles for an evening of short fiction and poetry.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231021T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231021T000000 UID:9D1779A3-71EE-48B4-8C6B-61450F54C784 SUMMARY:Helper Reading Series with Natalie Young and Cindy King CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3141 DESCRIPTION:The Steamboat Mountain Springs Reading Series is excited to host Natalie Padilla Young and Cindy King at the K2 Gallery in Helper, Utah.\N\NNatalie is the author of All of This Was Once Under Water, now available from Quarter Press. The first run is a limited-edition, full-color hardcover book, illustrated beautifully by the German artist Maximiliane Spieß. It is a speculative collection of poems grounded in Utah's history and scenery.\N\NCindy King’s most recent publications include poems in The Sun, Callaloo, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, African American Review, American Literary Review, TriQuarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, River Styx, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. You can hear her online on American Weekend, a production of National Public Radio, at weekendamerica.publicradio.org, rhinopoetry.org, and at cortlandreview.com. Her work has also been chosen by former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to appear on NPR’s The Slowdown. Her freelance work can be found at artsATL.com.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Steamboat Mountain Springs Reading Series is excited to host Natalie Padilla Young and Cindy King at the K2 Gallery in Helper, Utah.

Natalie is the author of All of This Was Once Under Water, now available from Quarter Press. The first run is a limited-edition, full-color hardcover book, illustrated beautifully by the German artist Maximiliane Spieß. It is a speculative collection of poems grounded in Utah's history and scenery.

Cindy King’s most recent publications include poems in The Sun, Callaloo, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Antioch Review, African American Review, American Literary Review, TriQuarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, River Styx, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. You can hear her online on American Weekend, a production of National Public Radio, at weekendamerica.publicradio.org, rhinopoetry.org, and at cortlandreview.com. Her work has also been chosen by former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to appear on NPR’s The Slowdown. Her freelance work can be found at artsATL.com.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231024T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231024T000000 UID:4E09D7D5-A41F-45E6-A234-0A9B3EF9249C SUMMARY:The Tanner Humanities Center Lecture on Human Values with David Wallace Wells CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2827 DESCRIPTION:David Wallace-Wells is currently a columnist and staff writer at The New York Times, where he writes a weekly newsletter on climate change, technology and the future of the planet. He’s also written widely on the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing vital reporting and analysis to the science and policy coverage. He was previously the Deputy Editor at New York magazine, where he wrote a column on climate change, and where his viral cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” was met with widespread acclaim, paving the way for his book. Formerly the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review, and a National Fellow at the New America Foundation, he was the co-host of the podcast 2038, which interrogated predictions about the next two decades.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:David Wallace-Wells is currently a columnist and staff writer at The New York Times, where he writes a weekly newsletter on climate change, technology and the future of the planet. He’s also written widely on the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing vital reporting and analysis to the science and policy coverage. He was previously the Deputy Editor at New York magazine, where he wrote a column on climate change, and where his viral cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” was met with widespread acclaim, paving the way for his book. Formerly the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review, and a National Fellow at the New America Foundation, he was the co-host of the podcast 2038, which interrogated predictions about the next two decades.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231024T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231024T000000 UID:E7A0C5CA-1990-4091-B4EF-CA545382C8DE SUMMARY:Under the Umbrella Bookstore Hosts Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall: Graphic Novelists CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:undertheumbrellabooks.com DESCRIPTION:The artist and author of graphic novel "Brooms" will be speaking with our graphic novel book club for a conversation with Jasmine Brooms and Teo DuVall, authors of the queer and witchy teen graphic novel. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The artist and author of graphic novel "Brooms" will be speaking with our graphic novel book club for a conversation with Jasmine Brooms and Teo DuVall, authors of the queer and witchy teen graphic novel. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T000000 UID:B312FA56-5483-4362-8321-8D7C1600B870 SUMMARY:Southern Utah University Nature Writing Panel: Writing About the Natural World CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2829 DESCRIPTION:Readings and Discussions with CMarie Fuhrman, Jennifor Sinor, Michael McLane with writing prompts, book table, and discussion.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Readings and Discussions with CMarie Fuhrman, Jennifor Sinor, Michael McLane with writing prompts, book table, and discussion.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T000000 UID:333E35E7-95A6-4E9F-A593-C197FD021190 SUMMARY:Orem Reads Chat and Snack #2 CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3139 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book-club style potluck discussion of chapters 13-24 of Frankenstein!\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a book-club style potluck discussion of chapters 13-24 of Frankenstein!

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T000000 UID:5641C134-619D-4898-B8B3-C91595486B21 SUMMARY:Kimberly Johnson Visit USU CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3127 DESCRIPTION:Author Kimberly Johnson will visit the Utah State University English Department for a reading and discussion at 12pm in Room 101 at the Library.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Kimberly Johnson will visit the Utah State University English Department for a reading and discussion at 12pm in Room 101 at the Library.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T000000 UID:284BF440-F54F-4AD6-9DBE-4308FFD8C514 SUMMARY:Karen Odden's Under a Veiled Moon Book Discussion CREATED:20260416T080150Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080150Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2820 DESCRIPTION:Meet and hear from Karen Odden, author of Under the Veiled Moon.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet and hear from Karen Odden, author of Under the Veiled Moon.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T000000 UID:0E68AB06-8CB4-4F88-AC57-246A4370C6B5 SUMMARY:“Humanities in the Wild”: A Writing Workshop along Cedar Canyon Trail CREATED:20260416T080151Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080151Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/2819 DESCRIPTION:“Humanities in the Wild”: A Writing Workshop along Cedar Canyon Trail\NCMarie Fuhrman \N\NMeet at the Ann J. Gardner Canyon Park, 151 South 400 East Bring water, snacks, a jacket, hat, pen and a notebook.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Humanities in the Wild”: A Writing Workshop along Cedar Canyon Trail
CMarie Fuhrman

Meet at the Ann J. Gardner Canyon Park, 151 South 400 East Bring water, snacks, a jacket, hat, pen and a notebook.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T120000 UID:8428A59F-B50B-41AE-A4FC-FDE8EA6C7182 SUMMARY:Park City Library Hosts Karen Oden, Mystery Author, Writing Secondary Characters CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3125 DESCRIPTION:Mystery Writer, Karen Oden, will lead a discussion and workshop on writing secondary characters.\N\NSign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-workshop-crafting-secondary-characters-with-karen-odden-tickets-714750406707?aff=oddtdtcreator X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Mystery Writer, Karen Oden, will lead a discussion and workshop on writing secondary characters.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-workshop-crafting-secondary-characters-with-karen-odden-tickets-714750406707?aff=oddtdtcreator X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T130000 UID:0852F3CC-C202-46EA-A532-01F7CBF63296 SUMMARY:Artes de Mexico Celebration CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3111 DESCRIPTION:Artes de México en Utah in partnership with The Leonardo Museum! is pleased to announce our 2023-2024 Artists-In-Residence Program and its annual celebration of writing.\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Artes de México en Utah in partnership with The Leonardo Museum! is pleased to announce our 2023-2024 Artists-In-Residence Program and its annual celebration of writing.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T000000 UID:331E5F2A-D5DF-4505-8B0C-807DAB41B098 SUMMARY:Park City Local Author Celebration CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3126 DESCRIPTION:The Park City Library Celebrates many of its local authors with booths and readings. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Park City Library Celebrates many of its local authors with booths and readings.

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T000000 UID:F2A31BDA-9B67-4501-ADC9-29DD5757EA97 SUMMARY:Personal Essay Workshop with Amy Eskind CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3123 DESCRIPTION:Park City Library will host a free Personal Essay Writing Class. Register online for this class.\N\NSign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-essays-writing-workshop-with-amy-tickets-714754438767?aff=oddtdtcreator X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City Library will host a free Personal Essay Writing Class. Register online for this class.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-essays-writing-workshop-with-amy-tickets-714754438767?aff=oddtdtcreator X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T000000 UID:57A6ABCB-AA96-4C3E-90B5-AFD94956564B SUMMARY:The Stokes Nature Center Hosts Melissa Marsted for a Book Reading of Ole's Dark Sky Journey CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3131 DESCRIPTION:The Stokes Nature Center hosts Melissa Marsted for a reading of her children's book Ole's Dark Sky and will also host a bunch of kid-friendly, dark-sky related activities!\N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Stokes Nature Center hosts Melissa Marsted for a reading of her children's book Ole's Dark Sky and will also host a bunch of kid-friendly, dark-sky related activities!

After 10/1, please contact the organizer for changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231028T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T000000 UID:E60D2A3F-780F-42BF-BA0C-3CC38D98DAEF SUMMARY: Torrey House, Weller Books, University of Utah Press Presents Teow Lim Goh and Ana Maria Spagna CREATED:20260416T080153Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080153Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3110 DESCRIPTION:Torrey House Press, The University of Utah Press, and Weller Book Works hosts Teow Lim Goh, author of two poetry collections, Islanders (2016) and Faraway Places (2021), and an essay collection Western Journeys (2022), and Ana Maria Spagna, author of nine books including PUSHED: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre. \N\NAfter 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Torrey House Press, The University of Utah Press, and Weller Book Works hosts Teow Lim Goh, author of two poetry collections, Islanders (2016) and Faraway Places (2021), and an essay collection Western Journeys (2022), and Ana Maria Spagna, author of nine books including PUSHED: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre.

After 10/1, please contact the event organizer for any changes or updates. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241001T203000 UID:E9469B75-F2AB-44DA-9841-F328E3A3D79B SUMMARY:Brigham City Speed Date and Book Author Panel CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3162 DESCRIPTION:Speed Date with a Book (Authors include: Kathy Rochell, Marie Higgins, Mary Martinez, Sara Fitzgerald, Stacey Haynes, Alysia S. Knight) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Speed Date with a Book (Authors include: Kathy Rochell, Marie Higgins, Mary Martinez, Sara Fitzgerald, Stacey Haynes, Alysia S. Knight) X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T131500 UID:C04624D9-CF7B-4471-8B60-231AD73E524F SUMMARY:Reading: Brewer Festival of Writing featuring Lindsey Drager at Utah State University CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3163 DESCRIPTION:Author Lindsey Drager will read from her new book, The Avian Hourglass, and participate in an audience Q&A. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Lindsey Drager will read from her new book, The Avian Hourglass, and participate in an audience Q&A. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T144500 UID:4FC41DB7-B3A9-45DB-9531-0CE951993804 SUMMARY:Panel discussion: The Work of Art with Lindsay Drager, Antra Sinha, and Terry Powers CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3164 DESCRIPTION:Author Lindsey Drager, ceramicist Antra Sinha, and painter Terry Powers will participate in a lively discussion about the labor that goes into their craft. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Lindsey Drager, ceramicist Antra Sinha, and painter Terry Powers will participate in a lively discussion about the labor that goes into their craft. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T200000 UID:1D2BECC1-8493-43D1-A29F-88603FB7F2C1 SUMMARY:Fear & Nature with Aurora Durfee at Logan Library, with Stokes Nature Center CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3165 DESCRIPTION:Fear and Nature is part of Stokes Nature Center and Logan Library's ongoing program on Emotions & Nature. Speaker Aurora Durfee will discuss how folklore weaves together fear with nature. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Fear and Nature is part of Stokes Nature Center and Logan Library's ongoing program on Emotions & Nature. Speaker Aurora Durfee will discuss how folklore weaves together fear with nature. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T200000 UID:1FBEBAA7-8236-4897-BE6C-88E0E1690FF3 SUMMARY:Fear & Nature with Aurora Durfee at Logan Library, with Stokes Nature Center CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3312 DESCRIPTION:Fear and Nature is part of Stokes Nature Center and Logan Library's ongoing program on Emotions & Nature. Speaker Aurora Durfee will discuss how folklore weaves together fear with nature. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Fear and Nature is part of Stokes Nature Center and Logan Library's ongoing program on Emotions & Nature. Speaker Aurora Durfee will discuss how folklore weaves together fear with nature. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T203000 UID:5649B8B6-78A5-4780-B47A-FD9B359589DD SUMMARY:Orem Reads 2024 Kick Off: "Of All the Things to Ban, not Books": An Evening with Shannon Hale CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3285 DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale at the kickoff for Orem Reads. Shannon, the author of more than 40 books ranging from picture books, graphic novels, teen fantasy, and adult romance, will discuss the impact of the recent trend in book banning on her writing career. There will be a book sale and signing after the presentation, and you can pick up your free copy of this year’s Orem Reads book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale at the kickoff for Orem Reads. Shannon, the author of more than 40 books ranging from picture books, graphic novels, teen fantasy, and adult romance, will discuss the impact of the recent trend in book banning on her writing career. There will be a book sale and signing after the presentation, and you can pick up your free copy of this year’s Orem Reads book, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241004T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241004T120000 UID:8369ABEC-29E3-4A2B-AF84-FDF3E299AE7F SUMMARY:NatureTales at Stokes Nature Center CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3167 DESCRIPTION:Our Nature Tales this week will be about a story related to fall and the oncoming winter.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our Nature Tales this week will be about a story related to fall and the oncoming winter.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241004T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241004T200000 UID:47819202-77CB-467A-83B2-522DA3309483 SUMMARY:Mustangs: Utah’s Onaqui & Cedar Mountain Herds & We Are Humans Art/Book Talk CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3193 DESCRIPTION:Join photographers and authors Robin Pendergrast & John Steele as they present two seemingly disconnected subjects: Utah’s homeless population and wild horse herds.  Both are equally passionate about and advocates for each, presenting images and words thatfoster acceptance, awareness, and advocacy.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join photographers and authors Robin Pendergrast & John Steele as they present two seemingly disconnected subjects: Utah’s homeless population and wild horse herds.  Both are equally passionate about and advocates for each, presenting images and words thatfoster acceptance, awareness, and advocacy.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241005T060000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241005T200000 UID:6FA8B63B-D3DC-4C01-A6D6-280960EB55CA SUMMARY:Information Booth at the NUT CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3173 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities will host an information booth at The NUT on Saturday 10/5. Come by for free books and to chat with the UH Crew. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities will host an information booth at The NUT on Saturday 10/5. Come by for free books and to chat with the UH Crew. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241005T070000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241005T083000 UID:5015C088-B58C-4082-AB06-B093AD41571B SUMMARY: The NUT Sunrise Poetry and Writing Hike CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3174 DESCRIPTION:Ogden Poet Laureate, along with other writers and GOAL staff, will lead a poetry and writing walk along the trails of North Fork Park at a 7am sunrise walk. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ogden Poet Laureate, along with other writers and GOAL staff, will lead a poetry and writing walk along the trails of North Fork Park at a 7am sunrise walk. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241005T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241005T140000 UID:7454534F-12B5-4552-A0A9-999F411B0903 SUMMARY:Art for all ages! Creatures from Great Salt Lake with Nan Seymour and Sarah May CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3166 DESCRIPTION:Join us in making sun-printed fabric waves using water from the Logan River. We’ll also create puppets representing creatures who make their home near the Stokes Nature Center. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us in making sun-printed fabric waves using water from the Logan River. We’ll also create puppets representing creatures who make their home near the Stokes Nature Center.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:6 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241005T193000 UID:AED8CF84-1196-4FB3-9D03-9AA566A89D98 SUMMARY:Poetry Reading Celebrating the Release of 'irreplaceable' CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3168 DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading celebrating the publication of 'irreplaceable', a polyphonic praise poem for Great Salt Lake. Readers include Star Coulbrooke, Darren Parry, Jaimi Butler, sarah ann woodbury, and Sarah May. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poetry reading celebrating the publication of 'irreplaceable', a polyphonic praise poem for Great Salt Lake. Readers include Star Coulbrooke, Darren Parry, Jaimi Butler, sarah ann woodbury, and Sarah May. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241005T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241005T190000 UID:9F25980C-FBF1-4F3E-BA2D-8BFD98859F80 SUMMARY:The NUT Sunset Poetry and Writing Hike CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3175 DESCRIPTION:Ogden Poet Laureate, along with other writers and GOAL staff, will lead a poetry and writing walk along the trails of North Fork Park at a 6pm sunset walk. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ogden Poet Laureate, along with other writers and GOAL staff, will lead a poetry and writing walk along the trails of North Fork Park at a 6pm sunset walk. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241007T203000 UID:B4A92E51-791F-4CE1-8354-8D5671B0AE29 SUMMARY:Brigham City Library Hosts Jennifer Nielsen CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3169 DESCRIPTION:Join author Jennifer Nielsen at the Brigham City Library! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author Jennifer Nielsen at the Brigham City Library! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241008T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241008T210000 UID:73AFA4F3-811C-45AD-A023-6681842DA3CF SUMMARY:Railtown Reading w/ Rone Shavers and Sadie Hoagland CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3176 DESCRIPTION:The Railtown Reading Series will host authors Rone Shavers and Sadie Hoagland at the Weber County Main Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Railtown Reading Series will host authors Rone Shavers and Sadie Hoagland at the Weber County Main Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241009T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241009T200000 UID:4F3DDA66-B95D-4837-97B4-7FC97E19EA3D SUMMARY:Poetry Slam and Open Mic hosted by Happy Magpie and Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3177 DESCRIPTION:Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer will host a poetry slam contest, followed by an open mic at Happy Magpie Book and Quill. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer will host a poetry slam contest, followed by an open mic at Happy Magpie Book and Quill. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T220000 UID:EEFC729D-A8CA-4B5A-BACA-91FF8CDC52B9 SUMMARY:Ogden Speak Easy Reading CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3178 DESCRIPTION:The Ogdenite, Deann Armes and Ogden Poet Laureate, Angelika Brewer, host Speak-Easy 2.0: A Poetry & Mixed Media Showcase at the Unspoken Bar on 25th Street. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ogdenite, Deann Armes and Ogden Poet Laureate, Angelika Brewer, host Speak-Easy 2.0: A Poetry & Mixed Media Showcase at the Unspoken Bar on 25th Street. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T200000 UID:44F05228-7C0C-4FB9-A921-51B85C76CEC0 SUMMARY:Helicon West with Shanan Ballam CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3170 DESCRIPTION:Join poet and Logan City Poet Laureate Shanan Ballam at Helicon West X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join poet and Logan City Poet Laureate Shanan Ballam at Helicon West X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T210000 UID:F72389E8-181A-43A7-A8BC-BF2392CB7AD9 SUMMARY:Chris Cokinos Reading and Star Gazing at Grand County Public Library with Back of Beyond Books CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3190 DESCRIPTION:Author Christoper Cokinos will be reading from his most recent book, "Still as Bright," a history of the moon. After the reading, there will be an opportunity to traipse across the street to the city ballfields for moon-gazing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Christoper Cokinos will be reading from his most recent book, "Still as Bright," a history of the moon. After the reading, there will be an opportunity to traipse across the street to the city ballfields for moon-gazing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241011T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241011T170000 UID:BB19A5E3-3F8F-4DA7-88D3-4243BAE58FF0 SUMMARY:Tales at The Treehouse Seminar CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3179 DESCRIPTION:Planned for teachers, librarians, and aspiring authors (ages 11 and up) each guest author will talk about their work in sessions at the Treehouse Storybook Theater. Participants will also enjoy a boxed lunch with our guests. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Planned for teachers, librarians, and aspiring authors (ages 11 and up) each guest author will talk about their work in sessions at the Treehouse Storybook Theater. Participants will also enjoy a boxed lunch with our guests. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241011T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241011T190000 UID:10AD1D2F-860D-4C3D-92F7-06DB31444F89 SUMMARY:The Book that Changed Me and Love Letters to Books CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3180 DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet Sunni Brown Wilkinson will lead a group discussion about the books that change us. Come prepared to share yours! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Award-winning poet Sunni Brown Wilkinson will lead a group discussion about the books that change us. Come prepared to share yours! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241011T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241011T210000 UID:AD96BB1E-5341-4B0E-B86F-263535096446 SUMMARY:Kevin Fedarko and Chris Cokinos Discussion at Back of Beyond Books CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3191 DESCRIPTION:Join Authors Chris Cokinos and Kevin Fedarko at Back of Beyond Books to talk about everything from the stars to the base of the Grand Canyon. Both researchers, these authors explore the skies and the earth in their latest books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Authors Chris Cokinos and Kevin Fedarko at Back of Beyond Books to talk about everything from the stars to the base of the Grand Canyon. Both researchers, these authors explore the skies and the earth in their latest books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241011T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241011T203000 UID:8FE4BA85-0277-4575-A1AD-5B5CA15C6250 SUMMARY:Happy Magpie Book and Quill host Poet James Crews CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3181 DESCRIPTION:As a professional speaker, reader, and workshop leader, James Crews has touched audiences all over the world with his message of healing and hope through the power of writing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As a professional speaker, reader, and workshop leader, James Crews has touched audiences all over the world with his message of healing and hope through the power of writing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241011T210000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241011T220000 UID:629FE735-19F5-4C3C-A834-38B4F3633500 SUMMARY:Music by the Snarling Yarns at Happy Magpie CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3182 DESCRIPTION:Come listen to the amazing Snarlin' Yarns. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come listen to the amazing Snarlin' Yarns. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T163000 UID:654A5F3A-9A50-4A13-9A8A-08F2F48540E3 SUMMARY:Tales at The Treehouse Festival CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3183 DESCRIPTION:Families are invited to meet the six guest authors and hear them read a selection from one of many published books. There will be six activities throughout the Museum based on one of the books of each author -- and so much more! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Families are invited to meet the six guest authors and hear them read a selection from one of many published books. There will be six activities throughout the Museum based on one of the books of each author -- and so much more! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T124500 UID:718EAFB8-3A8B-4C78-B983-9903AF500692 SUMMARY:American Fork Mini Conference Keynote, Jared Quan: Unleash the Power of Collaboration CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3278 DESCRIPTION:Join author Jared Quan as he speaks about the collaboration experience. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author Jared Quan as he speaks about the collaboration experience. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T160000 UID:F7F6DEBD-8B93-48FA-B5A4-9C69FA567770 SUMMARY:Artes de Mexico Sor Juana Prize Banquet and Celebration CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3195 DESCRIPTION:This award is dedicated to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H. (1651-1695), a Mexican nun from the 17th century who was known for her exceptional intellect, poetry, and writing. Sor Juana was regarded as the "tenth muse" of her time due to her brilliance in various fields, including philosophy, music, and science. In addition, she was a champion of women's and minority rights, making her an inspiration to many even today. Sor Juana's work is taught in Spanish-speaking schools and universities worldwide. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This award is dedicated to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H. (1651-1695), a Mexican nun from the 17th century who was known for her exceptional intellect, poetry, and writing. Sor Juana was regarded as the "tenth muse" of her time due to her brilliance in various fields, including philosophy, music, and science. In addition, she was a champion of women's and minority rights, making her an inspiration to many even today. Sor Juana's work is taught in Spanish-speaking schools and universities worldwide. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T134500 UID:C0C5DE54-1FA1-4E19-9DF3-C54D1AC5EC7F SUMMARY:American Fork Mini-Conference: Workshops: Daniel Quilter "Marvel Saves the Cat-Story Structure" /Johnny Worthen "The Muddled Middle" CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3279 DESCRIPTION:Join writer Daniel Quilter as he explores plotting through Marvel and "Save the Cat." X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join writer Daniel Quilter as he explores plotting through Marvel and "Save the Cat." X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T153000 UID:BC6F9A0F-2C64-4DF4-AA53-AAB2090DDD5A SUMMARY:Christopher Rivas: Brown Enough at Under the Umbrella CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3217 DESCRIPTION:"Join author Christopher Rivas for a reading from his two books--Brown Enough and You're a Good Swimmer--along with the illustrator of You're a Good Swimmer (and Utah local!) Ariel Boroff. Rivas and Boroff will do a Q&A and signing after the reading.\NBrown Enough: True Stories about Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America\NAt a time when disinformation, hate crimes, inequality, racial injustice, and white supremacy are on the rise, Brown Enough, part memoir and part social commentary, emerges, asking readers to proudly put their bodies, their identities, into the conversations of race. Brown Enough is a roller coaster of finding one's true self while simultaneously having a racial awakening amidst the struggle to be ""perfectly"" Latinx, woke, and as Brown as possible to make it in today's America.\NEvent link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christopher-rivas-brown-enough-tickets-1004713183177 " X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"Join author Christopher Rivas for a reading from his two books--Brown Enough and You're a Good Swimmer--along with the illustrator of You're a Good Swimmer (and Utah local!) Ariel Boroff. Rivas and Boroff will do a Q&A and signing after the reading.
Brown Enough: True Stories about Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
At a time when disinformation, hate crimes, inequality, racial injustice, and white supremacy are on the rise, Brown Enough, part memoir and part social commentary, emerges, asking readers to proudly put their bodies, their identities, into the conversations of race. Brown Enough is a roller coaster of finding one's true self while simultaneously having a racial awakening amidst the struggle to be ""perfectly"" Latinx, woke, and as Brown as possible to make it in today's America.
Event link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christopher-rivas-brown-enough-tickets-1004713183177 " X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T144500 UID:F9643ACB-32A0-43F4-A12E-47492BC8A679 SUMMARY:American Fork Mini Conference: Workshops: Alysia Knight "Protagonist Speed Dating" /Cheyenne Nielsen "Tips and Tricks from an Editor" CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3280 DESCRIPTION:Workshops: Alysia Knight "Protagonist Speed Dating" /Cheyenne Nielsen "Tips and Tricks from an Editor" X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Workshops: Alysia Knight "Protagonist Speed Dating" /Cheyenne Nielsen "Tips and Tricks from an Editor" X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T180000 UID:258CC641-271C-4CD5-83E4-C67EE2D88FC4 SUMMARY:James Crews Q&A and Discussion CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3184 DESCRIPTION: As a professional speaker, reader, and workshop leader, James Crews has touched audiences all over the world with his message of healing and hope through the power of writing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: As a professional speaker, reader, and workshop leader, James Crews has touched audiences all over the world with his message of healing and hope through the power of writing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T190000 UID:D385A785-CC6D-40C0-B149-B9BC9538D0EB SUMMARY:Reception at Happy Magpie Book and Quill CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3185 DESCRIPTION:Join us for drinks and conversation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for drinks and conversation. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T203000 UID:3AA8E09F-A501-418B-B24F-CCEC350788D4 SUMMARY:Literary Death Match CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3186 DESCRIPTION:Join host Adrian Todd Zuniga for his fourth Ogden, Utah event in five years. If you know, you know! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join host Adrian Todd Zuniga for his fourth Ogden, Utah event in five years. If you know, you know! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T210000 UID:2A8087A1-DB17-4171-9659-C0BB6D5D0782 SUMMARY:Kevin Fedarko presented by Grand County Public Library with Back of Beyond Books. CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3192 DESCRIPTION:KEVIN FEDARKO has spent the past twenty years writing about adventure, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. Fedarko’s first book, The Emerald Mile, won a National Outdoor Book Award as well as the Reading the West Book Award, and his second book, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, was a New York Times bestseller list. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:KEVIN FEDARKO has spent the past twenty years writing about adventure, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. Fedarko’s first book, The Emerald Mile, won a National Outdoor Book Award as well as the Reading the West Book Award, and his second book, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, was a New York Times bestseller list. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241012T210000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241012T220000 UID:EB3E3D41-C1E6-403B-9125-CD248F3339CC SUMMARY:Music by Mother Lights CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3187 DESCRIPTION:Come finish out the week with Mother Lights! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come finish out the week with Mother Lights! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241014T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241014T200000 UID:18732E00-AD3A-4DC1-AABF-2067B58DD6A3 SUMMARY:Prehistoric Claws and Jaws with Julia Lyon CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3222 DESCRIPTION:Julia Lyon discusses her book, A Dinosaur Named Ruth, based on the true story of Ruth Mason. Hands on manipulatives provided by the Frehner Museum of Natural History & N.P.: Cedar Breaks National Monument.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Julia Lyon discusses her book, A Dinosaur Named Ruth, based on the true story of Ruth Mason. Hands on manipulatives provided by the Frehner Museum of Natural History & N.P.: Cedar Breaks National Monument.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241014T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241014T200000 UID:8A74766C-5A9E-4BE0-80FC-4F7FC1915520 SUMMARY:Many Stories, One Utah: Latinx & Hispanic Collection Celebration CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3196 DESCRIPTION:"From Wallace Stegner to Brandon Sanderson, Utah is home to many celebrated authors. Far too often, however, our writers from historically marginalized groups and their important contributions are under-taught and under-discussed. Since 2021, Utah Humanities has collaborated with Utah State Library, Plumas Colectiva, and many others to curate and develop the Many Stories, One Utah: Latinx & Hispanic Collection. In the collection, you will find five books by Latinx or Hispanic authors with deep ties to Utah available for free from the Utah State Library, complete with thoughtful discussion guides created by members of Utah's Latinx and undocumented community. Learn more by visiting https://www.plumascolectiva.com/book-buzz-project\N\NJoin us for a celebration of the Many, Stories, One Utah: Latinx & Hispanic Book collection featuring Yamile Saied Méndez, Kase Johnstun, Willy Palomo, and Pilar Pobil. The authors will read short selections from their work and answer questions from the audience. " X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"From Wallace Stegner to Brandon Sanderson, Utah is home to many celebrated authors. Far too often, however, our writers from historically marginalized groups and their important contributions are under-taught and under-discussed. Since 2021, Utah Humanities has collaborated with Utah State Library, Plumas Colectiva, and many others to curate and develop the Many Stories, One Utah: Latinx & Hispanic Collection. In the collection, you will find five books by Latinx or Hispanic authors with deep ties to Utah available for free from the Utah State Library, complete with thoughtful discussion guides created by members of Utah's Latinx and undocumented community. Learn more by visiting https://www.plumascolectiva.com/book-buzz-project

Join us for a celebration of the Many, Stories, One Utah: Latinx & Hispanic Book collection featuring Yamile Saied Méndez, Kase Johnstun, Willy Palomo, and Pilar Pobil. The authors will read short selections from their work and answer questions from the audience. " X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241015T200000 UID:7CCF8B58-4D5D-46FE-8D1D-CD4126C38756 SUMMARY:Lace Up with Elaine Vickers CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3223 DESCRIPTION:In Elaine Vickers’ middle-grade novel, two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. A writing workshop will follow. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In Elaine Vickers’ middle-grade novel, two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. A writing workshop will follow. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241015T200000 UID:ED422F07-B604-4134-BD78-EDDC08C55170 SUMMARY:Utah Library of Congress Great Reads from Great Places Authors Ally Condie and Stacie Denetsosie CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3197 DESCRIPTION:Join Utah's Library of Congress Great Reads from Great Places Authors Stacie Denetsosie and Ally Condie for a reading, questions, and a book signing, supported by the King's English Bookshop at the Viridian. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Utah's Library of Congress Great Reads from Great Places Authors Stacie Denetsosie and Ally Condie for a reading, questions, and a book signing, supported by the King's English Bookshop at the Viridian. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241016T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241016T200000 UID:4BBEE0A8-5CF9-4791-B157-1E2754F6226D SUMMARY:An Evening with Great Books at the Tanner Humanities Center CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3199 DESCRIPTION:Join Tanner Humanities Center as they discuss an evening with Great Books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Tanner Humanities Center as they discuss an evening with Great Books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241016T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241016T200000 UID:CDEF8D78-18F3-40E7-93FC-587F5A1238E6 SUMMARY:Moon in the Rye Press Chapbook Authors: Lin Ostler, Rachel White, & Joel Long Read CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3198 DESCRIPTION:Poets Lin Ostler, Rachel White, and Joel Long read from their Moon in the Rye Press chapbooks. Moon in the Rye Press is the project of Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore. The press works with Utah authors to create micro-edition chapbooks of their work. Learn more about the press and the project at moonintheryepress.org. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets Lin Ostler, Rachel White, and Joel Long read from their Moon in the Rye Press chapbooks. Moon in the Rye Press is the project of Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore. The press works with Utah authors to create micro-edition chapbooks of their work. Learn more about the press and the project at moonintheryepress.org. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241016T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241016T203000 UID:B0CDEDC6-1BBA-4194-A871-8B1A32F2848E SUMMARY:Real Locations, Imagined Selves with Paisley Rekdal, Humanities in the Wild CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3224 DESCRIPTION:A writing workshop that will focus on finding a sense of place through words and documenting a place through poetry. A reading and refreshments will follow the writing workshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A writing workshop that will focus on finding a sense of place through words and documenting a place through poetry. A reading and refreshments will follow the writing workshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241017T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241017T123000 UID:86CF2155-B57D-4A8C-BFED-06D6ADC06EDB SUMMARY:“West: A Translation” with Paisley Rekdal CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3225 DESCRIPTION:“West: A Translation”-Crossing land and history through poetry A reading and discussion with former Utah Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“West: A Translation”-Crossing land and history through poetry A reading and discussion with former Utah Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241017T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241017T173000 UID:5F4F8BE7-8167-4491-8933-033E1E115815 SUMMARY:Humanities in the Wild: Following the Creative Flow with Rob Carney CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3226 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a writing/walking workshop on Thursday afternoon along Coal Creek Trail with renowned poet Rob Carney. If inclement weather: Artisans Art Gallery 94 West Center Street. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a writing/walking workshop on Thursday afternoon along Coal Creek Trail with renowned poet Rob Carney. If inclement weather: Artisans Art Gallery 94 West Center Street. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241017T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241017T190000 UID:8B14D206-02B4-4675-A1B3-AAF9DB281849 SUMMARY:Juan Morales, Teresa Dovalpage, and Kase Johnstun at Casot, with The King's English Bookshop CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3200 DESCRIPTION:Join Juan Morales, Kase Johnstun, and Teresa Dovalpage for an evening of Latine writing in Poetry, Cozy Cuban Mystery, and Literary Fiction. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Juan Morales, Kase Johnstun, and Teresa Dovalpage for an evening of Latine writing in Poetry, Cozy Cuban Mystery, and Literary Fiction. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T154500 UID:645FF206-B0D7-47DC-ADFF-EEE4B0FE33CF SUMMARY:Great Writing No Matter the Genre with Writer and Editor Lisa Mangum CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3201 DESCRIPTION:This class will walk through the basics of conflict, character, goal, motivation, adversity, and voice and show you how to incorporate them into your author's toolbox so that you can write a great story regardless of genre. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This class will walk through the basics of conflict, character, goal, motivation, adversity, and voice and show you how to incorporate them into your author's toolbox so that you can write a great story regardless of genre. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T154500 UID:5F940ED4-0C71-4129-840E-1759B7CCBCA1 SUMMARY:Kids Story Reading with the SLC Library Staff CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3202 DESCRIPTION:Join the SLC Library Staff for a Fun Reading time and Activity. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the SLC Library Staff for a Fun Reading time and Activity. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T154500 UID:B9DAE46E-F01E-4C63-9BD1-124E31C9FE89 SUMMARY:The Book(s) that Changed Your Life CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3203 DESCRIPTION:Our guest speakers and members of the audience reflect on the books that shifted the course of their lives in small and big ways. This interactive and engaging conversation will explore the power reading has to impact our lives in ways we can't always see in the moment (as well as maybe give you some ideas for your next read). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Our guest speakers and members of the audience reflect on the books that shifted the course of their lives in small and big ways. This interactive and engaging conversation will explore the power reading has to impact our lives in ways we can't always see in the moment (as well as maybe give you some ideas for your next read). X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T163000 UID:9625DBF9-1168-47DB-962F-6F3C2B08E7B9 SUMMARY:Barbara Jones Brown and Karin Anderson at Book Bungalow CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3227 DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning author Karin Anderson and Barbara Jones Brown, author and director of Signature Books, for a conversation on the Book Bungalow's patio. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join award-winning author Karin Anderson and Barbara Jones Brown, author and director of Signature Books, for a conversation on the Book Bungalow's patio. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T164500 UID:ECD4D3FD-F7B4-4B08-81D4-FF73B07C844F SUMMARY:The Joy, Wonder, and Magic of research in the Middle Grade Book CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3204 DESCRIPTION:Both presentation and craft talk, authors Hong-Merrill, Morris, and Bearce will begin with a presentation about the magic of research in middle-grade novels. They will present their own examples of how research enhanced their writing and stories. For the latter half of the hour, they will share their research processes and how they infuse research seemlessly into their writing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Both presentation and craft talk, authors Hong-Merrill, Morris, and Bearce will begin with a presentation about the magic of research in middle-grade novels. They will present their own examples of how research enhanced their writing and stories. For the latter half of the hour, they will share their research processes and how they infuse research seemlessly into their writing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T164500 UID:6DFE137D-C5AD-440F-A534-232CC0B816CE SUMMARY:Stories from the Arches with Jeff Nichols CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3205 DESCRIPTION:The extraordinary landscape of what we now call Arches National Park thrills millions of visitors every year. But people have also lived and worked in the area since long before it was a park. Jeff Nichols shares stories from the Arches, featured in the new anthology, The Arches Reader. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The extraordinary landscape of what we now call Arches National Park thrills millions of visitors every year. But people have also lived and worked in the area since long before it was a park. Jeff Nichols shares stories from the Arches, featured in the new anthology, The Arches Reader. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T164500 UID:61E233F4-14CF-41FF-97CF-70D1A65F1835 SUMMARY:Timeless Stories for a New Generation CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3211 DESCRIPTION:Join two children's book authors as they discuss how turning classic novels into books for young children can instill a love of learning at an early age. From Jane Austen to Agatha Christie, these books will spark a passion for learning and reading that will last into adulthood. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join two children's book authors as they discuss how turning classic novels into books for young children can instill a love of learning at an early age. From Jane Austen to Agatha Christie, these books will spark a passion for learning and reading that will last into adulthood. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T180000 UID:0A5AAE14-64DE-447D-9EDD-EFA9420EDE7B SUMMARY:Keynote Speaker Brandon Mull CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3206 DESCRIPTION:Join Brandon Mull for a reading, Discussion and Book Signing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Brandon Mull for a reading, Discussion and Book Signing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T190000 UID:90DC5FA5-5C00-4F22-AA32-2A4D807B9417 SUMMARY:Opening Exhibit with Poetry Readings at SUMA CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3228 DESCRIPTION:Poetry readings by Danielle Dubrasky and Natalie Young with an eco focus that bridge SUMA 's opening exhibit of Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx to the Southern Utah Book Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poetry readings by Danielle Dubrasky and Natalie Young with an eco focus that bridge SUMA 's opening exhibit of Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx to the Southern Utah Book Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T193000 UID:6AD1E4CD-48C2-4252-B7F5-8DE78EB9B2BE SUMMARY:Keynote Speaker Zak Padmore CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3207 DESCRIPTION:Join Zak Padmore for a reading, Discussion and Book Signing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Zak Padmore for a reading, Discussion and Book Signing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241018T210000 UID:6A4F76A1-68F6-40AD-8A4F-CE6D7C17060B SUMMARY:Meet and Mingle with Artists and Authors/Illustrators at the SUMA Opening Event CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3229 DESCRIPTION:The opening and readings will occur from 6-7 PM with an opportunity to explore the exhibit and mingle with multiple festival authors from 7-9 PM. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The opening and readings will occur from 6-7 PM with an opportunity to explore the exhibit and mingle with multiple festival authors from 7-9 PM. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T104500 UID:2567A223-CB7D-4196-843C-1FED0DFF2EDE SUMMARY:Picture Books for a Better Tomorrow CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3230 DESCRIPTION:Author Illustrator Daria Peoples discusses her children's books as agents of change. Come and engage with this award winning writer and illustrator.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Illustrator Daria Peoples discusses her children's books as agents of change. Come and engage with this award winning writer and illustrator.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T104500 UID:EF0FC4D0-326B-4692-82B3-D0EC57E0A946 SUMMARY:Stop Worrying about Loving Horror CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3231 DESCRIPTION:Join the panel for a discussion about the revitalization of horror as a genre and why readers should take another chance on becoming scared.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the panel for a discussion about the revitalization of horror as a genre and why readers should take another chance on becoming scared.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T104500 UID:20C4D8D1-7EE1-445F-903A-FC2FF0B05105 SUMMARY:Main Street Books: Signings CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3232 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet Karin Anderson, Lisa Bickmore, Danielle Dubrasky, and David Pace. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet Karin Anderson, Lisa Bickmore, Danielle Dubrasky, and David Pace. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T104500 UID:8DB42CD4-43D0-4B3B-B2A9-4B384A0179FD SUMMARY:Beyond the Book CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3233 DESCRIPTION:Join Utah Shakespeare Education Director, Stewart Shelley, as he shares the creative process of transforming the written word into magic on the theatrical stage. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Utah Shakespeare Education Director, Stewart Shelley, as he shares the creative process of transforming the written word into magic on the theatrical stage. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T104500 UID:78E1C192-BFF3-4469-B367-5B9C77FF404E SUMMARY:Tracks Through Time and Terrain CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3234 DESCRIPTION:These authors provide a brief history of the railroad's role in iron mining and manufacturing in Utah and how the railroad helped to make the national parks accessible for all. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:These authors provide a brief history of the railroad's role in iron mining and manufacturing in Utah and how the railroad helped to make the national parks accessible for all. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T114500 UID:93CD21D6-2656-403D-B9FC-07D163488905 SUMMARY:Graphic Novels: Where Words and Art Collide CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3235 DESCRIPTION:A brief history of graphic novels and a discussion with Nathan Hale and Ken Lamug about how and why graphic novels appeal to a broad range of ages. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A brief history of graphic novels and a discussion with Nathan Hale and Ken Lamug about how and why graphic novels appeal to a broad range of ages. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T114500 UID:64787273-D2ED-4ACE-BA96-5F63161AA55C SUMMARY:Is 90% of Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actually Real Life? CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3236 DESCRIPTION:Why is it that we find Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction so relatable and how do these authors come up with the other worldly elements that keep us hooked? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Why is it that we find Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction so relatable and how do these authors come up with the other worldly elements that keep us hooked? X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T114500 UID:BCCA56D3-145E-4BD8-B8B5-C6BC4FBC3E39 SUMMARY:Main Street Books: Signings CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3237 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet Simmons Buntin, Rob Carney, Nano Taggart, and Natalie Young. Learn more about literary magazines, purchase copies, and get them signed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet Simmons Buntin, Rob Carney, Nano Taggart, and Natalie Young. Learn more about literary magazines, purchase copies, and get them signed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T114500 UID:247652B5-6C2B-43F5-A7A4-156259E4773A SUMMARY:The Good, Bad, and the Ugly of Self Publishing CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3238 DESCRIPTION:Come and listen to three authors share their successes in and obstacles of self-publishing. Find out more about their journey in the literary world. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and listen to three authors share their successes in and obstacles of self-publishing. Find out more about their journey in the literary world. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T114500 UID:C421B684-A9AB-4DDD-8223-0F5CB84CA5C9 SUMMARY:Craft Your Narrative CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3239 DESCRIPTION:Novelist, editor, and playwright, Craig Lancaster, shares how to tap into the writer hiding inside us. Learn how to tell your story. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelist, editor, and playwright, Craig Lancaster, shares how to tap into the writer hiding inside us. Learn how to tell your story. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 UID:A557DBDD-ED4D-46DA-A1C1-FE072C2468CA SUMMARY:League of Utah Writers Banned Book Discussion at the Marmalade CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3208 DESCRIPTION:The League of Utah Writers executive committee joins Newbery Honor-winning author Christian McKay Heidicker for a discussion on the banned books that changed our lives.\N\NJoin the League of Utah Writers for a discussion on the banned books that changed our lives. We’re excited to welcome a special guest: Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Newbery Honor-winning novel Scary Stories for Young Foxes. This event is free and open to the public. All ages welcome!\N\NFollowing the discussion there will be free swag giveaways. The participating authors will not be selling books, but will gladly autograph any of their books brought from home.\N\NPanel discussion moderator: League of Utah Writers Treasurer Anna Bessesen\N\NParticipants: League of Utah Writers President Rachael Bush, Past President Bryan Young, and President-Elect Christina Allen.\N\NEvent sponsored by Let Utah Read and Utah Humanities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The League of Utah Writers executive committee joins Newbery Honor-winning author Christian McKay Heidicker for a discussion on the banned books that changed our lives.

Join the League of Utah Writers for a discussion on the banned books that changed our lives. We’re excited to welcome a special guest: Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Newbery Honor-winning novel Scary Stories for Young Foxes. This event is free and open to the public. All ages welcome!

Following the discussion there will be free swag giveaways. The participating authors will not be selling books, but will gladly autograph any of their books brought from home.

Panel discussion moderator: League of Utah Writers Treasurer Anna Bessesen

Participants: League of Utah Writers President Rachael Bush, Past President Bryan Young, and President-Elect Christina Allen.

Event sponsored by Let Utah Read and Utah Humanities. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T124500 UID:255BB0DD-C0F6-428B-8A36-B08F0405E833 SUMMARY:Scribble, Sketch, and Scribe CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3240 DESCRIPTION:Discover the full process of writing and illustrating your picture book from three talented panelists. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Discover the full process of writing and illustrating your picture book from three talented panelists. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T124500 UID:090A1AD8-FBC6-4F2B-A9A0-8243CCE51876 SUMMARY:Boundless Creativity: Artistry for Books CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3241 DESCRIPTION:Join artsFusion Director, Alisa Petersen, in creating a sketchbook/journal with a list of writing and drawing prompts. Art supplies will be provided and participants of all ages are welcomed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join artsFusion Director, Alisa Petersen, in creating a sketchbook/journal with a list of writing and drawing prompts. Art supplies will be provided and participants of all ages are welcomed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T120000 UID:62E35DFE-9AD2-4DE7-9C7C-EB452DB1E7F2 SUMMARY:Main Street Book: Signings CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3242 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet local authors Evan Jones, Janet Burton Seegmiller, and L.E. Modesitt Jr. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet local authors Evan Jones, Janet Burton Seegmiller, and L.E. Modesitt Jr. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T124500 UID:E99804F8-8B19-4115-97AC-6660D2D58DF3 SUMMARY:Southwestern Utah: Small Press, Big Impact CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3243 DESCRIPTION:Increase you knowledge about the advantages of using a regional and independent publishing house and the scope of work that these publishers provide readers. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Increase you knowledge about the advantages of using a regional and independent publishing house and the scope of work that these publishers provide readers. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T124500 UID:18A7CB86-538A-454F-B720-78383CE083A5 SUMMARY:Rhyme and Rhythm in 14 Lines CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3244 DESCRIPTION:Stewart Shelley, Education Director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, will lead us in an exploration of the artistry of the sonnet. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stewart Shelley, Education Director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, will lead us in an exploration of the artistry of the sonnet. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T134500 UID:0F73B5D7-D2C3-45CA-B1E1-C98766ED5F74 SUMMARY:Heroic History, Graphic Glory CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3245 DESCRIPTION:Thrilling, daring, and downright gruesome stories from American history in graphic novel form. Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales is an Eisner-nominated, #1 New York Times bestselling series. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Thrilling, daring, and downright gruesome stories from American history in graphic novel form. Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales is an Eisner-nominated, #1 New York Times bestselling series. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T134500 UID:FBA61BAD-B60A-47E9-A1F3-2E1EB6277751 SUMMARY:15-99 Years Old = The Actual Young Adult Audience CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3246 DESCRIPTION:What took Young Adult so long to become a genre and why has its popularity increased exponentially? Join us and explore this exciting genre. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:What took Young Adult so long to become a genre and why has its popularity increased exponentially? Join us and explore this exciting genre. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T134500 UID:76A49B02-AF2C-43A5-B4B3-A80C6D03F080 SUMMARY:Main Street Book: Signings CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3247 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet C.R. Langille, Jonathan Reddoch, and Elizabeth Suggs. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet C.R. Langille, Jonathan Reddoch, and Elizabeth Suggs. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T134500 UID:68E54EEB-2908-4054-A9C2-39BE7D69A89F SUMMARY:Shining a Light on Lit Mags CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3248 DESCRIPTION:Co-founders of Sugar House Review and the Editor-in-Chief of Terrain.org discuss what literary magazines offer writers and readers. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Co-founders of Sugar House Review and the Editor-in-Chief of Terrain.org discuss what literary magazines offer writers and readers. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T134500 UID:868EEF33-97EB-4765-A75D-C4975083E347 SUMMARY:Your Words on Center Stage CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3249 DESCRIPTION:Playwrights John DiAntonio and Craig Lancaster share their combined wisdom and experience in this discussion about bringing stories to the stage. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Playwrights John DiAntonio and Craig Lancaster share their combined wisdom and experience in this discussion about bringing stories to the stage. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T134500 UID:F50FCB70-09D3-4E52-98FC-27FA99898CC1 SUMMARY:The Draw-Off Showdown CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3250 DESCRIPTION:Four illustrators share their talents and their creative process in a draw off. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Four illustrators share their talents and their creative process in a draw off. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T153000 UID:A6FC16A3-EFA7-4A17-8412-D115CA75451C SUMMARY:Legendarium Hosts Al Hess CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3216 DESCRIPTION:"Al Hess is author of World Running Down, Key Lime Sky, Yours Celestially, and the award-winning Hep Cats of Boise series.\N \NWhen not hunched before a computer screen, Al can be found at his art desk. He does portraits in both pencil and oil paint, and loves drawing fellow authors' characters nearly as much as his own. He writes cozy and uplifting stories with queer, trans, and neurodiverse representation.\N" X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"Al Hess is author of World Running Down, Key Lime Sky, Yours Celestially, and the award-winning Hep Cats of Boise series.
 
When not hunched before a computer screen, Al can be found at his art desk. He does portraits in both pencil and oil paint, and loves drawing fellow authors' characters nearly as much as his own. He writes cozy and uplifting stories with queer, trans, and neurodiverse representation.
" X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T144500 UID:F46F8DB8-3ACC-4103-ADCA-326EFC0FF98B SUMMARY:Happy Birthday, L.E. Modesitt Jr. CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3251 DESCRIPTION:The audience gets the birthday present with this rare presentation by prolific Science Fiction writer L.E. Modesitt Jr. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The audience gets the birthday present with this rare presentation by prolific Science Fiction writer L.E. Modesitt Jr. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T144500 UID:F494CCA1-E622-4D3F-9B9F-E0D06CECE9C9 SUMMARY:Main Street Books: Signings CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3252 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet Scott Edgar, Rosalyn Eves, Jessica Tvordi, and Julie Wright. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet Scott Edgar, Rosalyn Eves, Jessica Tvordi, and Julie Wright. Purchase their books and get them signed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T144500 UID:6C52D04A-548F-4BEB-8C94-90AB1B097E99 SUMMARY:Fear Not! Poetry IS for Everyone CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3253 DESCRIPTION:Poetry isn't a gatekept genre and it's more flexible than most realize. Join four poets as they discuss why poetry is perceived as difficult and what is important about the craft. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poetry isn't a gatekept genre and it's more flexible than most realize. Join four poets as they discuss why poetry is perceived as difficult and what is important about the craft. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T144500 UID:029C4DCD-B408-4264-87D8-9660FE3ADA47 SUMMARY:It’s the West--Forge Your Own Trail CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3254 DESCRIPTION:Novelists Kase Johnstun, Craig Lancaster, and Todd Petersen explore how the West shapes storytelling across literary devices and what draws readers to this genre. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Novelists Kase Johnstun, Craig Lancaster, and Todd Petersen explore how the West shapes storytelling across literary devices and what draws readers to this genre. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T190000 UID:1681664D-163D-4A75-9614-4BAF53AE4A06 SUMMARY:Harry Potter Book Day 2024 at The Book Bungalow, Care of Magical Creatures CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3255 DESCRIPTION:"Care of Magical Creatures.” You'll visit the Owlery and engage with other magical creatures at Hogwarts and its grounds as Green Gate Village transforms into the famous magical academy, Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley, and The Burrow (home to the Weasleys). Come in costume and enjoy food, games, and activities for all ages. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"Care of Magical Creatures.” You'll visit the Owlery and engage with other magical creatures at Hogwarts and its grounds as Green Gate Village transforms into the famous magical academy, Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley, and The Burrow (home to the Weasleys). Come in costume and enjoy food, games, and activities for all ages. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T034500 UID:EBAA9E84-7ECC-488A-9897-892A342D292F SUMMARY:Creative Tensions: Freedom to Read CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3210 DESCRIPTION:Noah Baskett & Shannon Hale, facilitated by Will Neville-Rehbehn X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Noah Baskett & Shannon Hale, facilitated by Will Neville-Rehbehn X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T154500 UID:2BFD33FB-E6FD-4E50-8624-399B94332D48 SUMMARY:Elevate Your Outdoor Experience CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3256 DESCRIPTION:James Aton presents his biography of landscape artist Jimmie Jones, discussing his life and art as it relates to the outdoors. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:James Aton presents his biography of landscape artist Jimmie Jones, discussing his life and art as it relates to the outdoors. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T154500 UID:6DB26D78-BEEE-4CAF-BB5B-E16D0B6CCD7E SUMMARY:Beyond Star Crossed Lovers CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3257 DESCRIPTION:A broadened perspective of the romance novel and the impact of meaningful relationships. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A broadened perspective of the romance novel and the impact of meaningful relationships. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T154500 UID:053924C8-0D17-4E35-9471-2C533E15B35D SUMMARY:Main Street Books: Signings CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3258 DESCRIPTION:Come and meet Steve Capone Jr., John DiAntonio, Kase Johnstun, Craig Lancaster, and Todd Petersen. Learn more about their plays or purchase their books and get them signed. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come and meet Steve Capone Jr., John DiAntonio, Kase Johnstun, Craig Lancaster, and Todd Petersen. Learn more about their plays or purchase their books and get them signed. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T154500 UID:97F749A9-2D64-4422-B6FA-09045C4D7F0A SUMMARY:Artfully Crafted, Uniquely Yours CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3259 DESCRIPTION:Learn about the process of creating a small circulation of self-published work that reflects your talents and allows your voice to be heard. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn about the process of creating a small circulation of self-published work that reflects your talents and allows your voice to be heard. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T154500 UID:48789823-2CC0-44D5-AD54-0A9155200853 SUMMARY:Building Bridges Through Storytelling CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3260 DESCRIPTION:Family Advocate Coordinator Tamra Borchardt-Slayton and Cultural Resource Manager Autumn Gillard share the history of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and also share a cultural story. This session is moderated by Scott Edgar. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Family Advocate Coordinator Tamra Borchardt-Slayton and Cultural Resource Manager Autumn Gillard share the history of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and also share a cultural story. This session is moderated by Scott Edgar. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T164500 UID:D64286AA-4DA9-4133-BE38-FE59A78FF9E0 SUMMARY:Great Salt Lake Conversation with Authors and Artists CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3209 DESCRIPTION:Writers, artists, and recreationists join in conversation about the Great Salt Lake as a place of sensory and physical experience. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Writers, artists, and recreationists join in conversation about the Great Salt Lake as a place of sensory and physical experience. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T180000 UID:DEF8BB4F-8C28-48DC-8B4D-B48AFB0F7233 SUMMARY:Torrey House Press and the John Wesley Power River Museum Host Zak Padmore, Teal Lehto, and Eric Balkan CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://johnwesleypowell.com/ DESCRIPTION:Join Zak Podmore (author of Life After Dead Pool), Teal Lehto (@westernwatergirl on Tiktok and Instagram), and Erik Balken (Director of the Glen Canyon Institute) for a panel discussion on Glen Canyon, ecological redemption, and the future of water in the west. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Zak Podmore (author of Life After Dead Pool), Teal Lehto (@westernwatergirl on Tiktok and Instagram), and Erik Balken (Director of the Glen Canyon Institute) for a panel discussion on Glen Canyon, ecological redemption, and the future of water in the west. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:3 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T164500 UID:25C98A86-14DC-4FA6-8C0E-1DD0CA5098BB SUMMARY:Laurie Lee Hall Reading and Conversation - Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3212 DESCRIPTION:"Laurie Lee Hall’s growing up years were defined by the conflict between her physical condition as a boy and her inherent identity as a girl. Unable to explain or resolve her gender dysmorphia, she committed to living her adult life as a male. She became a member, devout leader, and chief architect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In her church and community, rigid adherence to gender roles is not only the norm, but the defining issue of a faith that doctrinally declares one’s gender as an “eternal identity.” Against this traditional backdrop, Hall finally received spiritual confirmation and personally accepted that she was transgender and always had been. In this remarkable memoir, Laurie Lee details how she risked everything to live true to her long-suppressed gender identity.\N\NThrough the power of lived experience, Laurie Lee’s story affirms the reality of gender identity and the strength and joy of self-acceptance." X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"Laurie Lee Hall’s growing up years were defined by the conflict between her physical condition as a boy and her inherent identity as a girl. Unable to explain or resolve her gender dysmorphia, she committed to living her adult life as a male. She became a member, devout leader, and chief architect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In her church and community, rigid adherence to gender roles is not only the norm, but the defining issue of a faith that doctrinally declares one’s gender as an “eternal identity.” Against this traditional backdrop, Hall finally received spiritual confirmation and personally accepted that she was transgender and always had been. In this remarkable memoir, Laurie Lee details how she risked everything to live true to her long-suppressed gender identity.

Through the power of lived experience, Laurie Lee’s story affirms the reality of gender identity and the strength and joy of self-acceptance." X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T174500 UID:74E260F0-93D0-40E6-85E8-C92EAE3A04A2 SUMMARY:Keynote Speaker Stacie Shannon Denetsosie CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3213 DESCRIPTION:Stacie Denetsosis, author of the award-winning collection of stories, The Missing Morningstar will give a keynote speech. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stacie Denetsosis, author of the award-winning collection of stories, The Missing Morningstar will give a keynote speech. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T200000 UID:B5927857-4D57-4336-BA99-E2B14B51E7BE SUMMARY:Bestselling Author Mike Finkel Presentation at the Utah Museum Contemporary Arts CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3214 DESCRIPTION:Finkel will deliver an energetic, enlightening, and entertaining talk at UMOCA, a talk that's about 40 minutes long, followed by an audience Q&A. He'll speak about his experiences with the world's greatest art thief, the main character of his book, ""The Art Thief."" (Which was just #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.)\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Finkel will deliver an energetic, enlightening, and entertaining talk at UMOCA, a talk that's about 40 minutes long, followed by an audience Q&A. He'll speak about his experiences with the world's greatest art thief, the main character of his book, ""The Art Thief."" (Which was just #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.)
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T193000 UID:82733E95-7FCD-463C-BA71-F3CDE88E450E SUMMARY:Tim Z. Hernandez at Ken Sanders Rare Books CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3215 DESCRIPTION:Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. His work includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and he is the recipient of the American Book Award, and the International Latino Book Award. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, C-Span, NPR’s All Things Considered, and many others. In 2018 he was recognized by the California Senate for his research on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name, which is chronicled in his book, All They Will Call You, and the sequel, They Call You Back. Hernandez holds an M.F.A. in Writing & Literature from Bennington College, and he is an Associate Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Creative Writing program. He lives in El Paso, Texas with his two children. You can find more info at www.timzhernandez.com X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. His work includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and he is the recipient of the American Book Award, and the International Latino Book Award. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, C-Span, NPR’s All Things Considered, and many others. In 2018 he was recognized by the California Senate for his research on locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, the incident made famous by Woody Guthrie’s song of the same name, which is chronicled in his book, All They Will Call You, and the sequel, They Call You Back. Hernandez holds an M.F.A. in Writing & Literature from Bennington College, and he is an Associate Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Creative Writing program. He lives in El Paso, Texas with his two children. You can find more info at www.timzhernandez.com X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241020T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241020T140000 UID:F6E4253B-B3A6-43F4-AEA8-8785015F4D5E SUMMARY:Mystery Writer Scott Graham at the Bluff Arts Festival CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3282 DESCRIPTION:Join Mystery Writer Scott Graham for the 20th Anniversary of the Bluff Arts Festival for a reading and book signing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Mystery Writer Scott Graham for the 20th Anniversary of the Bluff Arts Festival for a reading and book signing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241020T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241020T170000 UID:4B1D79CB-D7A7-4C11-844D-6857C05C9CF1 SUMMARY:BF24.07: Throughout the State CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3283 DESCRIPTION:Join Pam Houston and musical guest The Montvaldes for the 20th Anniversary of the Bluff Arts Festival for a reading and concert. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Pam Houston and musical guest The Montvaldes for the 20th Anniversary of the Bluff Arts Festival for a reading and concert. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241021T200000 UID:14DA91D2-052B-4CA7-93AE-F0BEC83C02C6 SUMMARY:Pam Houston and The Montvales at Church and State CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3218 DESCRIPTION:Join Pam Houston and musical guest The Montvaldes at Church and State for a reading and concert. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Pam Houston and musical guest The Montvaldes at Church and State for a reading and concert. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241021T193000 UID:193A22D2-2164-43D7-8A26-BDE9EB7817BD SUMMARY:Mike Finkel Author Lecture and Book Signing at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3262 DESCRIPTION:Find yourself riveted as author Michael Finkel talks about his New York Times bestselling book The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession in which he describes the strange and fascinating world of master thief Stéphane Breitwieser who stole art from museums and cathedrals all over Europe - not for money, but for passion. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Find yourself riveted as author Michael Finkel talks about his New York Times bestselling book The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession in which he describes the strange and fascinating world of master thief Stéphane Breitwieser who stole art from museums and cathedrals all over Europe - not for money, but for passion. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241021T190000 UID:23B8A169-8D6C-4A4A-839C-BDFEE35E95AA SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Reading CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3284 DESCRIPTION:The Rock Canyon Poets share their work! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Rock Canyon Poets share their work! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:4 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241022T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241022T200000 UID:51DC3ED6-2675-431B-BC06-8AE43F9B16A8 SUMMARY:Magdalene Visaggio & Paulina Ganucheau: Girlmode (virtual) CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3221 DESCRIPTION:"Join us for a hybrid virtual event with Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau!\NAbout Girlmode: A recently transitioned girl starting life at a new high school tries to figure out exactly who she is—while trying to manage who everyone else wants her to be—in this funny, unexpected, and affecting new graphic novel from Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Paulina Ganucheau.\NThe last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and no guidebook to how to be a girl, that isn't going to be easy.\NEnter Mackenize Ishikawa. She’s the girl that all girls want to be, and all the boys want to be with—and, Mackenzie has decided, Phoebe's new best friend. Mackenzie knows what it takes to survive and thrive as a girl in high school, most of all that no matter who Phoebe wants to be, or who she wants to date, she's going to need someone having her back.\NPhoebe soon realizes what Mackenzie knows too well: Being true to yourself is going to mean breaking some hearts. But as Phoebe discovers what kind of girl she is—and what kind of girl everyone around her thinks she's supposed to be—she worries one of those hearts will be her own.\NEvent link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/magdalene-visaggio-paulina-ganucheau-girlmode-tickets-1005617768817 " X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:"Join us for a hybrid virtual event with Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau!
About Girlmode: A recently transitioned girl starting life at a new high school tries to figure out exactly who she is—while trying to manage who everyone else wants her to be—in this funny, unexpected, and affecting new graphic novel from Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio and artist Paulina Ganucheau.
The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and no guidebook to how to be a girl, that isn't going to be easy.
Enter Mackenize Ishikawa. She’s the girl that all girls want to be, and all the boys want to be with—and, Mackenzie has decided, Phoebe's new best friend. Mackenzie knows what it takes to survive and thrive as a girl in high school, most of all that no matter who Phoebe wants to be, or who she wants to date, she's going to need someone having her back.
Phoebe soon realizes what Mackenzie knows too well: Being true to yourself is going to mean breaking some hearts. But as Phoebe discovers what kind of girl she is—and what kind of girl everyone around her thinks she's supposed to be—she worries one of those hearts will be her own.
Event link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/magdalene-visaggio-paulina-ganucheau-girlmode-tickets-1005617768817 " X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:47 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241022T203000 UID:9CC67762-4DBB-4A12-8A7E-EFB068B1E53D SUMMARY:Clint Stoker, 100 Loyal Readers: Building a Fanbase for Authors at The Brigham City Library CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3172 DESCRIPTION:Join Clint Stoker to learn how to build a great fan base for your work! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Clint Stoker to learn how to build a great fan base for your work! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:144 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241023T193000 UID:69D51A89-0EDF-40DE-90E4-6A093A66924F SUMMARY:Utah Library of Congress Great Reads from Great Places 2024 Authors Reading and Signing with Ally Condie and Stacie Denetsosie at Folklore Bookstore CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3261 DESCRIPTION:Join Utah's Library of Congress 2024 Great Reads from Great Places authors Ally Condie and Stacie Denetsosie for a reading, discussion, and book signing. This event is hosted by Folklore Bookstore and The Wasatch County Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Utah's Library of Congress 2024 Great Reads from Great Places authors Ally Condie and Stacie Denetsosie for a reading, discussion, and book signing. This event is hosted by Folklore Bookstore and The Wasatch County Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:358 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241024T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241024T193000 UID:E212A8E9-DD3C-4CF7-A522-6786634B1FC7 SUMMARY:A Night with Pam Houston at Summit County Library, Kimball Junction Branch CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3263 DESCRIPTION:Join Pam Houston at Summit County Library's Kimball Junction Branch for a reading, discussion, and book signing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Pam Houston at Summit County Library's Kimball Junction Branch for a reading, discussion, and book signing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:179 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241025T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241025T193000 UID:295BEE7B-31E7-4B24-A6A6-F486415B412B SUMMARY:Mystery in the Stacks at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3264 DESCRIPTION:Take part in an interactive whodunnit in the closed stacks of the Library after hours. Come prepared for a fast-paced readers' theater and be part of the action. Will you solve the mystery before the killer strikes again? Supported by the Friends of the Library. This is a ticketed event. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Take part in an interactive whodunnit in the closed stacks of the Library after hours. Come prepared for a fast-paced readers' theater and be part of the action. Will you solve the mystery before the killer strikes again? Supported by the Friends of the Library. This is a ticketed event. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:222 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T100000 UID:D7635834-F13A-4DD2-A3E5-A159B7933135 SUMMARY:Favorite Lines and Pies at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3266 DESCRIPTION:Step up to the mic to share the lines of your favorite book while enjoying a piece of your favorite pie. Literary readings, coffee, and pie for breakfast. It’s a great way to start a literature-inspired day. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Step up to the mic to share the lines of your favorite book while enjoying a piece of your favorite pie. Literary readings, coffee, and pie for breakfast. It’s a great way to start a literature-inspired day. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:188 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 UID:FCB91A9C-0F22-4C4A-970C-674558B4BA78 SUMMARY:Meet Local Authors at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3267 DESCRIPTION:Meet local artists who will have tables around the Library’s Second Floor. They will take the time to discuss their latest books, answer questions, share their writing process, and give sneak previews into their works-in-progress. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet local artists who will have tables around the Library’s Second Floor. They will take the time to discuss their latest books, answer questions, share their writing process, and give sneak previews into their works-in-progress. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:197 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 UID:CFC8D241-42B5-4734-8C7A-004C48D563BE SUMMARY:Book Craft Extravaganza at Park City LIbrary CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3268 DESCRIPTION:Join the Book Festival Craft Extravaganza to try your hand at literary crafts on the Library’s Main Floor. Make a bookmark, design a hand puppet, fold an origami design, and more. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Book Festival Craft Extravaganza to try your hand at literary crafts on the Library’s Main Floor. Make a bookmark, design a hand puppet, fold an origami design, and more. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:473 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 UID:8A9B1247-B659-4790-B57E-FDDD1ADD7044 SUMMARY:Papermaking Demonstrations at Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3269 DESCRIPTION:See how paper is made by hand. A local papermaking expert will demonstrate the age-old process of making paper. You might find yourself surprised to see what goes into making a single sheet of paper and learn that you can do it, too. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:See how paper is made by hand. A local papermaking expert will demonstrate the age-old process of making paper. You might find yourself surprised to see what goes into making a single sheet of paper and learn that you can do it, too. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:217 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 UID:6BB33AF9-6AB8-4400-814E-AA3A21C3F969 SUMMARY:Art of the Book at Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3270 DESCRIPTION:Learn about unique one-of-a-kind hand-crafted books during the Book Festival with books that are truly works of art brought to us by The Book Arts Program at the University of Utah J. Willard Library where letterpress printing, bookbinding, artists’ books, and typography are utilized to create beautiful masterworks. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn about unique one-of-a-kind hand-crafted books during the Book Festival with books that are truly works of art brought to us by The Book Arts Program at the University of Utah J. Willard Library where letterpress printing, bookbinding, artists’ books, and typography are utilized to create beautiful masterworks. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:229 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 UID:D5FFF5DD-CA46-4515-9ED3-8EE1D3ED2EF5 SUMMARY:History of the Book at Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3271 DESCRIPTION:Experience the history of the book with rare artifacts brought to us by the Rare Books Department at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. You will see rare books that vary by age, scarcity, print history, and provenance. It’s a unique opportunity to experience literary antiquity first-hand. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Experience the history of the book with rare artifacts brought to us by the Rare Books Department at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. You will see rare books that vary by age, scarcity, print history, and provenance. It’s a unique opportunity to experience literary antiquity first-hand. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:167 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T103000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T113000 UID:1191BFEA-3E17-4A5E-BC3E-EEC3CD2C221A SUMMARY:Puppet Show: Moose on the Loose at the Park City Library Morning Show CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3272 DESCRIPTION:Come with a spirit of fun to this puppet theater performance by young, local puppeteers. The whole family will laugh at the antics of what happens when there’s a Moose on the Loose in the Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come with a spirit of fun to this puppet theater performance by young, local puppeteers. The whole family will laugh at the antics of what happens when there’s a Moose on the Loose in the Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:424 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 UID:DAA13BC6-7DE0-440F-BC81-79D21EBBA723 SUMMARY:Puppet Show: Moose on the Loose at the Park City Library Afternoon Show CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3273 DESCRIPTION:Come with a spirit of fun to this puppet theater performance by young, local puppeteers. The whole family will laugh at the antics of what happens when there’s a Moose on the Loose in the Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come with a spirit of fun to this puppet theater performance by young, local puppeteers. The whole family will laugh at the antics of what happens when there’s a Moose on the Loose in the Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:317 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T153000 UID:D236B2A7-890A-4308-8F89-B3A2B60D8499 SUMMARY:Bestselling Author Lecture and Book Signing with Jack Carr at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3274 DESCRIPTION:Dive into the riveting world of Jack Carr, where fiction and reality collide in a pulse-pounding fusion of action-packed thrillers and insightful non-fiction. Listen to the author speak, stay for questions and answers, and get your book signed by Jack Carr. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Dive into the riveting world of Jack Carr, where fiction and reality collide in a pulse-pounding fusion of action-packed thrillers and insightful non-fiction. Listen to the author speak, stay for questions and answers, and get your book signed by Jack Carr. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:663 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T164500 UID:F2A5931E-EA07-402B-A1F1-2AD4C4E111A4 SUMMARY:Romancing the Book with the League of Utah Writers Romance Chapter CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3219 DESCRIPTION:Come learn about romance writing from the League of Utah Writers Romance Chapter. All experience levels welcome. We will discuss the bare bones of writing romance with an interactive game and workshop. There will be a signing with romance chapter anthologies available.Come have fun with us and celebrate the Utah Book Festival. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come learn about romance writing from the League of Utah Writers Romance Chapter. All experience levels welcome. We will discuss the bare bones of writing romance with an interactive game and workshop. There will be a signing with romance chapter anthologies available.Come have fun with us and celebrate the Utah Book Festival. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:477 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241027T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241027T140000 UID:17F461BB-1BC8-4DE4-AA1E-C0727C7B99FA SUMMARY:Dinosaur Stomp Party at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3276 DESCRIPTION:Park City events 2024 Book Festival X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Park City events 2024 Book Festival X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:559 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241027T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241027T140000 UID:9BFDEF45-9983-466C-834B-FCAC84970A82 SUMMARY:40 Diverse Books in 50 Minutes CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3275 DESCRIPTION:" ""Listen to delightful, fast-paced book talks from a panel of experienced children’s librarians as they share the latest in publishing diverse books for children. You will get plenty of reading ideas for your PreK to 8th grade readers to help them learn the joy of diverse stories.\N\NThis event is part of the Wasatch Back Book Festival. See all upcoming book festival events held at the Library here: \Nhttps://parkcity.events.mylibrary.digital/series?si=&sn=Wasatch+Back+Book+Festival"" Park City Library, Room 301 1pm - 2pm diverse voices, Children's, picture books ." X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:" ""Listen to delightful, fast-paced book talks from a panel of experienced children’s librarians as they share the latest in publishing diverse books for children. You will get plenty of reading ideas for your PreK to 8th grade readers to help them learn the joy of diverse stories.

This event is part of the Wasatch Back Book Festival. See all upcoming book festival events held at the Library here: 
https://parkcity.events.mylibrary.digital/series?si=&sn=Wasatch+Back+Book+Festival"" Park City Library, Room 301 1pm - 2pm diverse voices, Children's, picture books ." X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:297 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241027T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241027T153000 UID:3A863001-A4A7-4149-9EB9-A60672F3DCC4 SUMMARY:Julia Lyon Author Visit and Book Signing at the Park City Library CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3277 DESCRIPTION:Enjoy listening to award-winning journalist and children’s author Julia Lyon read her book A Dinosaur Named Ruth. She will tell the true story of Ruth Mason, a pioneer girl in South Dakota, who found dinosaur bones in her own backyard. Families can ask questions, do a craft, and stay for a book signing. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Enjoy listening to award-winning journalist and children’s author Julia Lyon read her book A Dinosaur Named Ruth. She will tell the true story of Ruth Mason, a pioneer girl in South Dakota, who found dinosaur bones in her own backyard. Families can ask questions, do a craft, and stay for a book signing. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:670 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241029T203000 UID:6BA0D1A6-BC21-4EE9-93F4-D9223C5B0553 SUMMARY:Titles and Treats Gala CREATED:20260416T080155Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080155Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3286 DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of Orem Reads by joining us for our Titles and Treats Gala. It’s like trick or treating for adults but with books instead of shenanigans. Decide what to read now that you’ve finished Fahrenheit 451 by discussing books with our knowledgeable librarians and nosh some autumn delectables. Costumes are optional (but there will be prizes!). For adult library patrons. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Celebrate the end of Orem Reads by joining us for our Titles and Treats Gala. It’s like trick or treating for adults but with books instead of shenanigans. Decide what to read now that you’ve finished Fahrenheit 451 by discussing books with our knowledgeable librarians and nosh some autumn delectables. Costumes are optional (but there will be prizes!). For adult library patrons. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:319 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241029T203000 UID:3813C910-2964-4FD8-8E5C-008AB0A9566D SUMMARY:Todd Hugie: “Unveiling Secrets: Inside House Down Dirt Lane” at the Brigham City Library CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3171 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an electrifying evening with Todd Hugie, author of the gripping suspense novel House Down Dirt Lane. Todd Hugie will delve into the creation of this captivating story, exploring the blend of real-life events, political intrigue, and the unseen forces that drive the narrative. Discover the inspiration behind the characters, the challenges of weaving fact with fiction, and the process of building suspense that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Whether you’re a fan of thrillers, interested in the writing process, or simply love a good story, this event promises an unforgettable experience. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for an electrifying evening with Todd Hugie, author of the gripping suspense novel House Down Dirt Lane. Todd Hugie will delve into the creation of this captivating story, exploring the blend of real-life events, political intrigue, and the unseen forces that drive the narrative. Discover the inspiration behind the characters, the challenges of weaving fact with fiction, and the process of building suspense that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Whether you’re a fan of thrillers, interested in the writing process, or simply love a good story, this event promises an unforgettable experience. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:361 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241029T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241029T210000 UID:67343EB2-9C85-4BFF-982B-2FA0CA55F42A SUMMARY:An Evening with Percival Everett CREATED:20260416T080154Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080154Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3220 DESCRIPTION:The Tanner Humanities Center welcomes Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor of English at University of South California and award-winning author of 25 novels including Erasure (adapted as the film American Fiction) and most recently James, a rewriting of Huck Finn from the perspective of Jim (now James). James has been nominated for this year's prestigious Booker Prize. \N\NEverett will participate in an unscripted conversation with University of Utah faculty members Jeremy Rosen (Associate Professor, English) and Rone Shavers (Associate Professor, Creative Writing). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tanner Humanities Center welcomes Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor of English at University of South California and award-winning author of 25 novels including Erasure (adapted as the film American Fiction) and most recently James, a rewriting of Huck Finn from the perspective of Jim (now James). James has been nominated for this year's prestigious Booker Prize.

Everett will participate in an unscripted conversation with University of Utah faculty members Jeremy Rosen (Associate Professor, English) and Rone Shavers (Associate Professor, Creative Writing). X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:733 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251001T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251001T000000 UID:CE00A002-61D7-4898-8837-C825060C8BC5 SUMMARY:Wasatch County Library Presents: Exploring Book Bans in Utah with Let Utah Read and Rebecca Cummings CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3611 DESCRIPTION:Join Wasatch County Library and Let Utah Read for a presentation and discussion with Rebecca Cummings.\N\Nhttps://library.wasatchcounty.gov/BookFestival X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Wasatch County Library and Let Utah Read for a presentation and discussion with Rebecca Cummings.

https://library.wasatchcounty.gov/BookFestival X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:713 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251002T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251002T000000 UID:BC35C6BA-40DA-4688-A367-4EEDF79E5B9A SUMMARY:Wasatch County Library Presents: Yamile Saied Méndez Writing Workshop for 10+ages CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3498 DESCRIPTION:Yamile Saied Mendez will lead a writing workshop for kids 10+, please register at the Wasatch County Library website.\N\Nhttps://library.wasatchcounty.gov/BookFestival X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Yamile Saied Mendez will lead a writing workshop for kids 10+, please register at the Wasatch County Library website.

https://library.wasatchcounty.gov/BookFestival X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1004 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251002T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251002T000000 UID:1C9E48B0-4BA3-4E93-98D9-6DB9B3DE7476 SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Festival: David Lee Reading CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3516 DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012918435#success\N\NJoin author David Lee for an in-person and online reading. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012918435#success

Join author David Lee for an in-person and online reading. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:945 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251003T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251003T000000 UID:EEC23BB2-FA50-4A30-83FD-7B85D422EB73 SUMMARY:Summit County Library Presents: Utah Book Award Finalist: The Paper Daughters of Chinatown with Authors Allison Hong Merrill and Heather B. Moore CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3499 DESCRIPTION:Utah Book Award-Finalists Allison Hong Merrill and Heather B. Moore will present and discuss their book The Paper Daughters of Chinatown. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Book Award-Finalists Allison Hong Merrill and Heather B. Moore will present and discuss their book The Paper Daughters of Chinatown. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:960 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251003T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251003T000000 UID:B918FA92-371C-4A3F-99AE-7BD619F14C9A SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Festival: John D. Lee CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3517 DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012918435#success\N\NJoin author John D. Lee for an in-person and online reading and discussion. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012918435#success

Join author John D. Lee for an in-person and online reading and discussion. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:913 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:37690E3E-2F23-4D8F-9C0C-0D04138A692D SUMMARY:Park City Library: 'zine making (all day) CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3500 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for family friendly book crafts. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for family friendly book crafts. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1021 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:2D2A4C68-0291-4CC0-842F-2DE554FFEE46 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Book arts! (all day) CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3501 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for family friendly book crafts. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for family friendly book crafts. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:963 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:C6AE91BE-0E68-4AEC-80D6-6C1EF739936D SUMMARY:Park City Library: Family Book Crafts (all day) CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3502 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for family friendly book crafts. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for family friendly book crafts. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:942 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:AE59FBF3-93F4-4E17-887F-10879450C828 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Rare Books Display (all day) CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3503 DESCRIPTION:Utah scholars will display rare books and be available to answer questions. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah scholars will display rare books and be available to answer questions. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:983 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:2D32793A-707B-4986-931B-BBA5BBA8E0B6 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Coffee Pie Breakfast: Favorite Poetry CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3504 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for coffee, pie, and poetry. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for coffee, pie, and poetry. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:957 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:071B498F-D7AD-4E1D-9665-0023BAA61269 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Local Author Meet and Greet CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3505 DESCRIPTION:Come to Park City Library to meet local authors! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Come to Park City Library to meet local authors! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:928 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:87901AE4-187A-44B7-BEFB-027862DB1ACC SUMMARY:Park City Library: Family Spanish Story Time CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3506 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for Spanish Story Time. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for Spanish Story Time. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:941 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:FE9625EE-2CB8-4979-9B87-1F1D7FE29B2F SUMMARY:Park City Library: Young Writers Workshop CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3507 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for a Young Writers Workshop. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for a Young Writers Workshop. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:876 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:0421EE9C-9102-4A35-8BD0-4FC69A3CB0C2 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Literary Puppet Show CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3508 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for a Literary Puppet Show. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for a Literary Puppet Show. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:914 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:A311C3A2-D554-49EB-B226-80CE743C1A38 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Comic/Illustration Discussion CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3509 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for a lesson on how to make comic books for beginners. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for a lesson on how to make comic books for beginners. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:866 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:B98DA5A8-59F6-4E68-86F6-0FCE74AA8BA3 SUMMARY:So You Want to Write a Book? CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.facebook.com/events/1963430181071624/ DESCRIPTION:Free mini conference hosted by Magna Library Group. Learn how to write your book from start to finish. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Free mini conference hosted by Magna Library Group. Learn how to write your book from start to finish. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:953 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:C3C6F8FA-2142-4E23-832B-ED91103C76D4 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Keynote Speaker: Kevin Fedarko Talks about A Walk in the Park CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3510 DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin Fedarko as a guest for the Friends of the Park City Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin Fedarko as a guest for the Friends of the Park City Library. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:973 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:61887E17-9AA7-4003-916F-885A3AEAF492 SUMMARY:So You Want to Write a Book? Self Editing CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.facebook.com/events/1963430181071624/ DESCRIPTION:You've finished your story, now what? Learn how to make your story shine with guest presenter Stanalei Fletcher. Stanalei is a published award winning author of Northstar Security Series. She has 20+ years of editing, and self-editing experience X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:You've finished your story, now what? Learn how to make your story shine with guest presenter Stanalei Fletcher. Stanalei is a published award winning author of Northstar Security Series. She has 20+ years of editing, and self-editing experience X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:830 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:A9DE68CE-7FFF-404E-B7FB-CC70CD46D8F9 SUMMARY:So You Want to Write a Book? Publishing CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.facebook.com/events/1963430181071624/ DESCRIPTION:Learn the differences between indie and traditional publishing, and get the tools to get it done. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn the differences between indie and traditional publishing, and get the tools to get it done. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:876 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T170000 UID:8BEA34F2-27ED-4D82-A926-82F50F4D2320 SUMMARY:Northern Utah TrailFest: Writing Workshop with Utah Humanities in the Wild CREATED:20260416T080157Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080157Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3475 DESCRIPTION:Writing Workshop with Utah Humanities in the Wild at the Northern Utah Trailfest with Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer. \N\NPlease see The NUT calendar on their website: https://www.northernutahtrailfest.com/festival-2025 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Writing Workshop with Utah Humanities in the Wild at the Northern Utah Trailfest with Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer.

Please see The NUT calendar on their website: https://www.northernutahtrailfest.com/festival-2025 X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1095 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:4F03FC13-FCA9-4A6A-8AEE-994BEF5BF238 SUMMARY:Northern Utah TrailFest: Writing Workshop with Utah Humanities in the Wild CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3525 DESCRIPTION:Join Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer to write at the NUT! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer to write at the NUT! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:897 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T190000 UID:C9BD5293-D53C-4876-9D81-810578BD6054 SUMMARY:Northern Utah TrailFest: Poetry Hike with Utah Humanities in the Wild CREATED:20260416T080157Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080157Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3476 DESCRIPTION:Poetry Hike with Utah Humanities in the Wild - Spots Limited - Registration Required. Meet at the Activity Hub Flag near Festival Entrance.\N\NPlease see The NUT calendar on their website: https://www.northernutahtrailfest.com/festival-2025 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poetry Hike with Utah Humanities in the Wild - Spots Limited - Registration Required. Meet at the Activity Hub Flag near Festival Entrance.

Please see The NUT calendar on their website: https://www.northernutahtrailfest.com/festival-2025 X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1051 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:BDC80EE8-2155-43DA-BE37-00F0F1E28DD5 SUMMARY:Northern Utah TrailFest: Poetry Hike with Utah Humanities in the Wild CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3526 DESCRIPTION:Join Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer to walk and share poetry at sunset! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer to walk and share poetry at sunset! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:889 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251004T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251004T000000 UID:70E21A99-CC84-4BD3-B55F-FC18CD73D6D6 SUMMARY:Folklore Bookshop and Wasatch County Library Present: Sy Montgomery: CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://midwaycityut.org/ DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times Bestselling Author Sy Montgomery at the Midway Town Hall. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join New York Times Bestselling Author Sy Montgomery at the Midway Town Hall. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:961 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251005T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251005T000000 UID:E6AFA935-4368-482F-AE21-838B7856D593 SUMMARY:Park City Library: Journal Making Experience CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3512 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for a lesson on how to make journals for all. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for a lesson on how to make journals for all. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:867 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251005T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251005T000000 UID:20D9B49F-BD87-4B6B-B5C0-06F222AF9A51 SUMMARY:Queer Book Fair Bonanza at Under the Umbrella Bookstore CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.undertheumbrellabookstore.com/events DESCRIPTION:Relive your childhood book fair nostalgia and kick off Banned Books Week with Under the Umbrella’s 2nd annual Queer Book Fair Bonanza! We are kicking off the weekend with Dustin Thao’s book signing and Q&A on Friday, October 3, with the main Bonanza happening Sunday, October 5! This event will be a chance to build community with local authors and support all of the wonderful queer writing happening in Utah! There will also be author readings, storytime for kids, and a stamp rally with tons of fun queer prizes from local businesses. Knock out two birds with one stone by joining our Banned Books Read-In on the same day and get a free audiobook from Libro.fm! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Relive your childhood book fair nostalgia and kick off Banned Books Week with Under the Umbrella’s 2nd annual Queer Book Fair Bonanza! We are kicking off the weekend with Dustin Thao’s book signing and Q&A on Friday, October 3, with the main Bonanza happening Sunday, October 5! This event will be a chance to build community with local authors and support all of the wonderful queer writing happening in Utah! There will also be author readings, storytime for kids, and a stamp rally with tons of fun queer prizes from local businesses. Knock out two birds with one stone by joining our Banned Books Read-In on the same day and get a free audiobook from Libro.fm! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1046 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251005T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251005T000000 UID:C247141E-5DE0-43AB-9224-C44692AC87ED SUMMARY:Park City Library: How to Get Your Book Published CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3513 DESCRIPTION:Join Park City Library staff for a lesson on a discussion on how to get your book published. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Park City Library staff for a lesson on a discussion on how to get your book published. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:891 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251005T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251005T000000 UID:F91ED412-E365-4126-9017-2F71E0D92608 SUMMARY:Park City Library Presents: Teow Lim Go: Discussion of Bitter Creek CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3514 DESCRIPTION:Teow Lim Goh presents and discusses her new book Bitter Creek. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Teow Lim Goh presents and discusses her new book Bitter Creek. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:874 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251005T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251005T000000 UID:0AA6FF11-F6DB-4019-A4C3-1788A91C5D54 SUMMARY:Park City Library Presents: Writing About Immigration in Fiction and Nonfiction CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3515 DESCRIPTION:Join fiction and nonfiction authors Teow Lim Goh, Yamile Mendez, and Kase Johnstun to talk about writing about immigration. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join fiction and nonfiction authors Teow Lim Goh, Yamile Mendez, and Kase Johnstun to talk about writing about immigration. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:868 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251005T000000 UID:EA3B34FF-9989-4B59-BB6E-E9644F343A1A SUMMARY:Cliff Notes Writing Festival: Lisa Bickmore CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3518 DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012918435#success\N\NJoin Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore for an in-person and online discussion and reading. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012918435#success

Join Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore for an in-person and online discussion and reading. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:940 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251006T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251006T000000 UID:8939CC15-24C2-4E86-87AF-8C215BBA6F67 SUMMARY:Moon in the Rye Press Reading CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://moonintheryepress.org DESCRIPTION:Poets, recently published by Moon in the Rye Press, read from their new chapbooks. Authors will answer questions and sign books.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poets, recently published by Moon in the Rye Press, read from their new chapbooks. Authors will answer questions and sign books.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:853 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251007T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251007T000000 UID:2618831C-AE5D-4CBF-8EEA-98127EB32621 SUMMARY:SUU Fall Creative Writing Conference: Reimagining the West: Walking and Writing Workshop CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3519 DESCRIPTION:Simmons Buntin, Autumn Gillard, and Sam Wells lead a walk to talk about writing and give writers prompts. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Simmons Buntin, Autumn Gillard, and Sam Wells lead a walk to talk about writing and give writers prompts. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1011 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251007T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251007T000000 UID:112D6F6A-7433-4D72-8051-883060A01B3D SUMMARY:Nomad Literary Magazine Reading, with Ken Waldman to follow CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.the-nomad.org DESCRIPTION:Join the Nomad Literary Magazine for contributor readings, followed by Ken Waldman show. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Nomad Literary Magazine for contributor readings, followed by Ken Waldman show. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:912 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251007T000000 UID:09E5AC7E-09D6-481A-B12D-5CDCA3A07E40 SUMMARY:Brigham City Library Author Speed Date with a Book Panel CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3527 DESCRIPTION:Join local authors to learn about their books! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join local authors to learn about their books! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:989 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251008T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251008T000000 UID:4EBADB9E-5AA6-4880-9B23-41B1DCBEBD87 SUMMARY:SUU Fall Creative Writing Conference: Reimagining the West: Tanner Talks CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3520 DESCRIPTION:Simmons Buntin, Karin Anderson, and Kase Johnstun discuss what it means to write the west in today's literary landscape. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Simmons Buntin, Karin Anderson, and Kase Johnstun discuss what it means to write the west in today's literary landscape. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:896 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:EFD5C4BE-DE2E-40EB-B817-6415B4EED2BA SUMMARY:SUU Fall Creative Writing Conference: Craft and Career Workshop on Poetry CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3521 DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing classroom visit with Rachel West and another poet, TBA. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Creative Writing classroom visit with Rachel West and another poet, TBA. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:958 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:6FB7B372-104B-42EE-9039-FCAE46FD156C SUMMARY:SUU Fall Creative Writing Conference: Craft and Career Workshop on Fiction CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3522 DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing classroom visit with Kase Johnstun and Karin Anderson. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Creative Writing classroom visit with Kase Johnstun and Karin Anderson. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:924 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:6534E3FA-6A0D-4699-94B9-57F724958BA4 SUMMARY:SUU Fall Creative Writing Conference: Craft and Career: Workshop on Creative Nonfiction CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3523 DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing classroom visit with Simmons Buntin. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Creative Writing classroom visit with Simmons Buntin. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:863 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:291837CC-2187-433E-82EE-D1F27C3DE20C SUMMARY:SUU Fall Creative Writing Conference: Reimagining the West: Readings CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3524 DESCRIPTION:Join Simmons Buntin, Rachel West, and another author (TBA) for an evening of readings that reimagine the west. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Simmons Buntin, Rachel West, and another author (TBA) for an evening of readings that reimagine the west. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:928 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:8E263931-BE1B-45CA-8795-FA690F00DC8D SUMMARY:Helicon West Presents: Sunni Brown Wilkinson and Darren Edwards CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://heliconwest.wordpress.com DESCRIPTION:Helicon West presents poets Sunni Brown Wilkinson and Darren Edwards. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Helicon West presents poets Sunni Brown Wilkinson and Darren Edwards. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:859 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:25B46DB5-DBE4-41F1-9984-4E5D4C7F8AB9 SUMMARY:Ogden Astronomical Society Hosts Utah Book Award Winner Christopher Cokinos CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.ogden-astronomy.org/events DESCRIPTION:Utah Book Award Winner Christopher Cokinos joins the Ogden Astronomical Society to discuss his new book. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Book Award Winner Christopher Cokinos joins the Ogden Astronomical Society to discuss his new book. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:989 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:EC43F3C0-FAC8-44E3-95C7-A9CA3EDE7452 SUMMARY:Featured Author at Legendarium CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://legendariumbooks.com DESCRIPTION:TBA -- Check Legendarium Books Event Calendar. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:TBA -- Check Legendarium Books Event Calendar. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:842 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251009T000000 UID:575EA062-6C4B-4317-9C8A-59A76DDA74E2 SUMMARY:Speak-Easy 3.0 A Poetry & Mixed Media Showcase CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.theogdenite.com/events DESCRIPTION:The Ogdenite, Ogden’s poet laureate Angelika Brewer, and Utah Humanities present Speak-Easy 2025: Poetry Jam & Mixed Media Showcase at Unspoken Bar.\N\NSpeak-Easy celebrates Ogden’s vibrant literary scene by bringing together our creative communities and fostering new ideas for artistic expression. Unspoken Bar, with its unique, speakeasy history and intimate atmosphere, provides the perfect setting for an intimate night of art, music, and poetry.\N\N2025 Lineup TBA soon! $15 per person, to be sold via Eventbrite. Food will be provided by an in-kind sponsor (TBA). Drinks for purchase by Unspoken Bar.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Ogdenite, Ogden’s poet laureate Angelika Brewer, and Utah Humanities present Speak-Easy 2025: Poetry Jam & Mixed Media Showcase at Unspoken Bar.

Speak-Easy celebrates Ogden’s vibrant literary scene by bringing together our creative communities and fostering new ideas for artistic expression. Unspoken Bar, with its unique, speakeasy history and intimate atmosphere, provides the perfect setting for an intimate night of art, music, and poetry.

2025 Lineup TBA soon! $15 per person, to be sold via Eventbrite. Food will be provided by an in-kind sponsor (TBA). Drinks for purchase by Unspoken Bar.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:1099 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251010T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251010T000000 UID:E84AB474-16D7-4918-89BA-7AC06F72E7B1 SUMMARY:Tales at Treehouse: Educator Open House with Daniel Miyares CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.treehousemuseum.org DESCRIPTION:Teachers, librarians, and parents are invited to meet the award-winning children’s book illustrator and author of dozens of books like Float, Bring Me a Rock, and Hope at Sea: An Adventure Story. Daniel will also talk about his newest publication, a graphic novel titled How to Say Good-bye in Cuban. Daniel will share ideas on how to encourage children to get excited about reading and how to arm children with strong visual literacy skills. Copies of Daniel’s books will be for sale. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Teachers, librarians, and parents are invited to meet the award-winning children’s book illustrator and author of dozens of books like Float, Bring Me a Rock, and Hope at Sea: An Adventure Story. Daniel will also talk about his newest publication, a graphic novel titled How to Say Good-bye in Cuban. Daniel will share ideas on how to encourage children to get excited about reading and how to arm children with strong visual literacy skills. Copies of Daniel’s books will be for sale. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:840 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251010T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251010T000000 UID:772E4E6D-148A-49D4-B770-6C7039107E6A SUMMARY:Utah Book Awards Ceremony CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/programs/center-for-the-book/utah-book-awards DESCRIPTION:Open to the public: Come celebrate the 2025 Utah Book Awards at this public ceremony to honor our 2025 Winners, Finalists, and Notable Reads authors. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Open to the public: Come celebrate the 2025 Utah Book Awards at this public ceremony to honor our 2025 Winners, Finalists, and Notable Reads authors. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:986 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251010T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251010T000000 UID:2FDE6243-0D10-4D7D-9D49-2B05BA3A42BA SUMMARY:Utah Book Awards Reception: Invite Only CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/programs/center-for-the-book/utah-book-awards DESCRIPTION:Private reception for Utah Book Award recipients. Invite only. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Private reception for Utah Book Award recipients. Invite only. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:813 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:08783575-0466-43F4-9F5A-2B814B31B757 SUMMARY:Cultural Arts Society of West Jordan Presents: Utah Reader's Fest CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:The Utah Reader’s Fest is a one-day celebration bringing readers and writers together in the heart of West Jordan. From morning through evening, book lovers of all ages can enjoy author panels, live readings, book signings, and the chance to discover new stories across every genre. With more than fifty Utah authors participating, plus a community book drive to support the Jordan Education Network, this free event is designed to connect people through the power of books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Utah Reader’s Fest is a one-day celebration bringing readers and writers together in the heart of West Jordan. From morning through evening, book lovers of all ages can enjoy author panels, live readings, book signings, and the chance to discover new stories across every genre. With more than fifty Utah authors participating, plus a community book drive to support the Jordan Education Network, this free event is designed to connect people through the power of books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:825 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:FAB75268-5B33-4978-B177-0990946A8169 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Special Guest Speakers Chad Morris and Shelly Brown CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Special Guest Speakers Chad Morris and Shelly Brown. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Special Guest Speakers Chad Morris and Shelly Brown. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:714 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T101500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:977408C3-6C81-4658-92D2-3EA6D53EAC12 SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Saturday Program One CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:805 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:EDA6104A-DFAA-49D3-9E48-AC9E808AD1A0 SUMMARY:Tales at Treehouse: Story Building Workshop for Families with Daniel Miyares CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.treehousemuseum.org DESCRIPTION:Member families with children between the ages of 6 and 11 will want to sign up for this free workshop with Daniel Miyares. You’ll love watching Daniel draw and craft a tale. Then he'll walk children and grown-ups through building their own stories. Seating is limited for this event to be held in the Art Garden, so don't delay signing your family up. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Member families with children between the ages of 6 and 11 will want to sign up for this free workshop with Daniel Miyares. You’ll love watching Daniel draw and craft a tale. Then he'll walk children and grown-ups through building their own stories. Seating is limited for this event to be held in the Art Garden, so don't delay signing your family up. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:744 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T111500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:735FB5D4-1504-441C-A692-C53D86ADA27F SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Saturday Program Two CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:703 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T112000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:E03FC15C-2FC3-4EFB-B0BA-14AD27A1F9BB SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author:Author readings, Children's, Middle Grade, and Young Adult CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Author readings, children's, middle grade, and young adult. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author readings, children's, middle grade, and young adult. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:794 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:19437D35-C302-461D-9828-B0D0AD08BC2F SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Midday Keynote: Ellen Hopkins CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Ellen Hopkins, the most banned author in contemporary literature, joins us! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Ellen Hopkins, the most banned author in contemporary literature, joins us! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:789 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:288581C3-03DB-4B55-A978-2CE9BCFFC098 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author panel, "Books We Read that Influenced Us to Become Writers" CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Join authors to hear what inspired them to become writers: Lyn Worthen, C.H. Lindsay, A.M. Luzzader, and Jenny Rabe.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join authors to hear what inspired them to become writers: Lyn Worthen, C.H. Lindsay, A.M. Luzzader, and Jenny Rabe.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:657 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:22C0909A-CBC5-4061-BBD1-86D711B09F64 SUMMARY:Tales at Treehouse: Fall Tales At Treehouse Book Festival Celebration CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.treehousemuseum.org DESCRIPTION:This afternoon is full of fun for families. Daniel Miyares, our amazing author guest for the Fall Treehouse Book Festival, will give a reading in the Storybook Theater and then a special presentation on Shape Drawing that families can try themselves in the Art Garden. Daniel will be signing his books for families and Treehouse will be giving copies of his books away in a special drawing, too. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This afternoon is full of fun for families. Daniel Miyares, our amazing author guest for the Fall Treehouse Book Festival, will give a reading in the Storybook Theater and then a special presentation on Shape Drawing that families can try themselves in the Art Garden. Daniel will be signing his books for families and Treehouse will be giving copies of his books away in a special drawing, too. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:766 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:EF31D253-4D23-4FDE-BD02-BB48EB98546C SUMMARY:Weber County Library Presents: Utah Book Award Winner and 2025 Utah "Great Reads from Great Places" Author Emily Inouye Huey CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://weberpl.events.mylibrary.digital DESCRIPTION:Join Utah "Great Reads" author and Utah Book Award winner Emily Inouye Huey. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Utah "Great Reads" author and Utah Book Award winner Emily Inouye Huey. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:779 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T144500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:94FC8597-9180-45D9-9B7D-6AC51C037548 SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Saturday Program Four CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:697 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T154500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:CA2BBDAE-8239-48B5-9475-352C0CF30A68 SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Saturday Program Five CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:724 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:D662E9B0-4956-455E-B7BA-AC2DC4AB3C78 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author Readings Sci-fi and Fantasy CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:765 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T164500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:1A3AEF3C-D4C9-4215-8768-DF5B3CD6ACEF SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Saturday Program Six CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:735 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:755102C7-D5A4-4A26-A382-99928D9D2A79 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author panel, "Adaptations between Media: Going to and from Books to Other Forms of Media" CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Join Bryan Young, Susan Phelon, and Becca Lee Gardner to learn about adapting your work! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Bryan Young, Susan Phelon, and Becca Lee Gardner to learn about adapting your work! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:684 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:A02E5399-0785-49D1-A084-39FFC388CFFD SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author Readings Historical CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:662 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T172000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:C016D678-6D79-4886-ABEC-6D8FCD9627C0 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author Readings Mystery and Thriller CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:768 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T174500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:F32AE261-8D4D-4933-9234-D54F5C0681C5 SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Closing Keynote: Beyond the Glittering World CREATED:20251226T160057Z DTSTAMP:20251226T160057Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Indigenous writers & writing with authors Stacie Denetsosie, Darcie Little Badger, and Amber McCrary X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:A celebration of Indigenous writers & writing with authors Stacie Denetsosie, Darcie Little Badger, and Amber McCrary X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:773 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:1A1A2C3D-D1D3-47D0-B129-8F190C2D61F5 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author Readings Romance CREATED:20251226T160057Z DTSTAMP:20251226T160057Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:680 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251011T184000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251011T000000 UID:08483471-9C20-44B3-8F41-7A6F1F2F5344 SUMMARY:Utah Reader's Fest: Author Readings Romance CREATED:20251226T160057Z DTSTAMP:20251226T160057Z URL:https://www.wjarts.org/event-details/the-utah-readers-fest DESCRIPTION:Authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:677 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251012T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251012T000000 UID:0581E6E5-45DC-4C0C-A9E3-D42BEB007DE8 SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Sunday Program One CREATED:20251226T160057Z DTSTAMP:20251226T160057Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:709 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251012T124500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251012T000000 UID:7A11D8C5-4820-4FCB-9CFD-A09527440187 SUMMARY:Wasatch Festival of Books at Library Square: Sunday Program Two CREATED:20251226T160057Z DTSTAMP:20251226T160057Z URL:https://www.wasatchfestivalofbooks.org DESCRIPTION:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Bringing together a variety of acclaimed authors, readings, and interactive public events, this two-day event is a community celebration of the power of reading—for all ages, and in all its forms. (And yes, for people who love genre stories, graphic novels, and audiobooks, this is your festival too!) All events are free and open to the public.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:808 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251013T000000 UID:36EE3794-9877-4AC5-9711-5882DA7ADDE4 SUMMARY:Weber County Library Southwest Branch Presents: Darren Perry and Carl Moore: Connecting with the Land through Story, Song, and Dance CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://weberpl.events.mylibrary.digital DESCRIPTION:Join us for storytelling, conversation, and dance featuring acclaimed author and cultural leaders Darren Parry and Carl Moore. Parry and Moore will share perspectives of Indigenous people having a sacred stewardship to take care of the land and all things - people, animals, plants, the air, the water, and the mountains. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for storytelling, conversation, and dance featuring acclaimed author and cultural leaders Darren Parry and Carl Moore. Parry and Moore will share perspectives of Indigenous people having a sacred stewardship to take care of the land and all things - people, animals, plants, the air, the water, and the mountains. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:669 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251014T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251014T000000 UID:43447D01-A456-408E-B4AF-1DE0F3C427B9 SUMMARY:Browning Presents: Ruha Benjamin at Weber State University CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weber.edu/browningpresents/ DESCRIPTION:Known for her engaging speaking style and powerful insights, Benjamin challenges audiences to rethink the relationship between innovation and justice, inviting us all to take part in shaping a world that works for everyone. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Known for her engaging speaking style and powerful insights, Benjamin challenges audiences to rethink the relationship between innovation and justice, inviting us all to take part in shaping a world that works for everyone. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:601 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251015T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251015T000000 UID:F54AB22E-A666-4F70-B101-031D86756394 SUMMARY:Utah State University English Department Brewer Festival with Author Laura Marris CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://artsci.usu.edu/calendar/?day=2025/10/15 DESCRIPTION:The Brewer Festival of Writing honors the legacy of the late Ken Brewer, beloved USU Professor, Utah Poet Laureate, and indefatigable champion of poetry in Cache Valley and the Rocky Mountains. This year’s reader will be Laura Marris, who will be reading from her book The Age of Loneliness. \N\NJoin Laura Marris and two other artists as they describe the labor and dedication necessary for their craft. Artists in three different media will share their work as well as the “ten thousand hours” that brought them there.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Brewer Festival of Writing honors the legacy of the late Ken Brewer, beloved USU Professor, Utah Poet Laureate, and indefatigable champion of poetry in Cache Valley and the Rocky Mountains. This year’s reader will be Laura Marris, who will be reading from her book The Age of Loneliness. 

Join Laura Marris and two other artists as they describe the labor and dedication necessary for their craft. Artists in three different media will share their work as well as the “ten thousand hours” that brought them there.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:644 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251015T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251015T000000 UID:3860A0E6-208A-4D20-BEF6-F847FC28A36F SUMMARY:Railtown Reading Presents: Philip W. Brown and Erica Reid CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:Join Railtown Readings for Philip W. Brown and Erica Reid. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Railtown Readings for Philip W. Brown and Erica Reid. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:837 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251015T000000 UID:C74DB985-0025-4A37-9781-CDE7AD5BF51F SUMMARY:Railtown Reading Open Mic CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:Stick around after the Railtown Reading for an Open Mic. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stick around after the Railtown Reading for an Open Mic. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:605 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251015T000000 UID:6237C6A9-652F-4450-8105-6346DCC96F12 SUMMARY:Utah Book Award authors Frank Cole and A.M. Luzzader CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3615 DESCRIPTION:Utah Book Award authors Frank Cole and A.M. Luzzader head to the Brigham City Library to talk about their YA/MG books! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Book Award authors Frank Cole and A.M. Luzzader head to the Brigham City Library to talk about their YA/MG books! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:436 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251016T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251016T000000 UID:2CD980F1-84B5-46C5-95C7-9BBEFD5B4BE1 SUMMARY:Bluff Arts Festival: Literary Events CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://bluffartsfestival.org DESCRIPTION:The Bluff Arts Festival seeks to promote a vibrant and diverse arts community in Bluff and the greater Four Corners region. We invite local residents and visitors to gain a deeper appreciation of the arts in an engaging and experiential setting. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Bluff Arts Festival seeks to promote a vibrant and diverse arts community in Bluff and the greater Four Corners region. We invite local residents and visitors to gain a deeper appreciation of the arts in an engaging and experiential setting. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:610 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251016T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251016T000000 UID:591B5E20-3284-4B4F-B6AE-75C93AFB88A4 SUMMARY:Weber State University Workshop with Philip W. Brown and Erica Reid CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weber.edu/majors/creative-writing.html DESCRIPTION:Classroom visit at Weber State University with poets Erica Reid and Philip W. Brown. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Classroom visit at Weber State University with poets Erica Reid and Philip W. Brown. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:560 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251016T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251016T000000 UID:14F8758D-7C0E-4F8C-BE93-DA4FAB0C486E SUMMARY:Weber County Library Pleasant Valley Branch Presents: Traci Abramson CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:Traci Hunter Abramson is an American mystery and suspense novelist. Her books have received Whitney Awards for best mystery/suspense novel in 2012, 2013, and 2015. Her books often feature characters involved with the FBI or CIA, inspired by her time working for the CIA. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Traci Hunter Abramson is an American mystery and suspense novelist. Her books have received Whitney Awards for best mystery/suspense novel in 2012, 2013, and 2015. Her books often feature characters involved with the FBI or CIA, inspired by her time working for the CIA. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:575 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251017T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251017T000000 UID:0281767F-FCCD-45C5-991E-2A5AD31F2C27 SUMMARY:Bluff Arts Festival: Literary Events: Language and Landscape: Writing Nonfiction with Purpose CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3529 DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Vaughn Hadenfeldt, Robin Patten, Lynne Spriggs O’Connor, Mark Sundeen. Moderated by Kirsten Johanna Allen X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panelists: Vaughn Hadenfeldt, Robin Patten, Lynne Spriggs O’Connor, Mark Sundeen. Moderated by Kirsten Johanna Allen X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:545 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251017T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251017T000000 UID:AA179343-12F0-43DC-9C9F-6235BFCF8ACC SUMMARY:Weber County Library Pleasant Valley Branch Evening with Writers: Michael Sowder CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Sowder for breathing and yoga and nonfiction. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Michael Sowder for breathing and yoga and nonfiction. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:544 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251017T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251017T000000 UID:AE3D2E96-9D4A-4596-9CD8-79B4D5A603FC SUMMARY:Bluff Arts Festival: Literary Events: What the River Knows CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3530 DESCRIPTION:Panel moderated by Zak Podmore, authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panel moderated by Zak Podmore, authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:501 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251017T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251017T000000 UID:1C1EDD30-658D-40B0-BB67-3D9715B0FD99 SUMMARY:Weber County Library Pleasant Valley Branch Evening with Writers: The Book That Changed Me CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:As an Ogden favorite, join us in South Ogden this year to ask the question: what book changed you? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As an Ogden favorite, join us in South Ogden this year to ask the question: what book changed you? X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:497 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251017T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251017T000000 UID:4E6E6836-321D-477C-A2D3-5DAC6C4E4D30 SUMMARY:Weber County Library Pleasant Valley Branch Evening with Writers: New York Times Bestseller Lyla Sage CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:New York Times Bestseller and Ogden local, Lyla Sage, comes back to Utah to talk about her new book! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:New York Times Bestseller and Ogden local, Lyla Sage, comes back to Utah to talk about her new book! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:576 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:498C6773-B736-4452-A402-29298788277E SUMMARY:Bluff Arts Festival: Literary Events: World Changing Fiction CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://bluffartsfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Panel moderated by Karin Anderson, authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panel moderated by Karin Anderson, authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:571 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:61EA15CC-ABEF-414D-A107-1BE1FB4F67D4 SUMMARY:American Fork Library Presents Jeff Nichols CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3616 DESCRIPTION:Meet Author Jeff Nichols for a Book Reading, Signing, and Q&A. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet Author Jeff Nichols for a Book Reading, Signing, and Q&A. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:488 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:A68CAB23-AE65-4378-ACCA-2C43E2853E14 SUMMARY:Local Artisan Collective Local Authors Event: Heather Green, KC Peek, and Gaynell Parker CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://localartisancollective.com/event-calendar/ DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating local authors and the power of storytelling, poetry and learning about storytelling prompts! Throughout the event, each featured writer will take the stage for up to 10 minutes to read from their book, share their creative process, or answer audience questions.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us in celebrating local authors and the power of storytelling, poetry and learning about storytelling prompts! Throughout the event, each featured writer will take the stage for up to 10 minutes to read from their book, share their creative process, or answer audience questions.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:597 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:4B6289DE-2E01-409A-A92A-2C52E1FF13F0 SUMMARY:The Stokes Nature Center Presents: The Big Read with Michael Kleber-Diggs CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:logannature.org DESCRIPTION:Join writer Michael Kleber-Diggs. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join writer Michael Kleber-Diggs. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:338 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:2AE950AA-E077-4ACD-9835-074354A27F69 SUMMARY:Weber County Library Southwest Branch Presents: Chris Carlson CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us DESCRIPTION:Join photograph and writer Chris Carlson. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join photograph and writer Chris Carlson. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:561 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:5BE00A44-C39E-4467-A2D4-BDB109A712F7 SUMMARY:The Stokes Nature Center Presents: Writing Workshop Michael Kleber-Diggs CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:logannature.org DESCRIPTION:Visiting author Michael Kleber-Diggs will lead a writing workshop to inspire participants to create their own works celebrating our natural world. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Visiting author Michael Kleber-Diggs will lead a writing workshop to inspire participants to create their own works celebrating our natural world. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:341 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:830FB4F4-DE44-41E3-A6FB-5D0D4BA50C54 SUMMARY:Local Artisan Collective Community Round Robin Story CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://localartisancollective.com/event-calendar/ DESCRIPTION:Whether you’re an avid reader, a curious writer, or just love a good story, this is your chance to connect with the voices shaping our local literary scene. We’ll also open up the floor for an author-themed open mic—so bring your words, your questions, and your curiosity.\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Whether you’re an avid reader, a curious writer, or just love a good story, this is your chance to connect with the voices shaping our local literary scene. We’ll also open up the floor for an author-themed open mic—so bring your words, your questions, and your curiosity.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:523 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:16AEE04A-DD02-4569-9559-3A7A75E09613 SUMMARY:Angelika Brewer Book Launch CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3617 DESCRIPTION:Join Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer for her book launch!\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer for her book launch!
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:465 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251018T000000 UID:6E6A7C83-F846-4E6E-9674-1E69B3517B32 SUMMARY:Reese's Book Club New York Times Bestseller Thriller Night with Ally Condie, Laura Ling Brown, and Andrea Bartz CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/programs/center-for-the-book/book-festival DESCRIPTION:It all started with Reese Witherspoon’s love of reading. She wanted to connect with fellow readers by sharing stories centered around women to elevate their voices. She began sharing her monthly reads, and the world caught on. Now, we invite you to join the journey with Ally Condie, Lauren Ling Brown, and Andrea Bartz. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It all started with Reese Witherspoon’s love of reading. She wanted to connect with fellow readers by sharing stories centered around women to elevate their voices. She began sharing her monthly reads, and the world caught on. Now, we invite you to join the journey with Ally Condie, Lauren Ling Brown, and Andrea Bartz. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:578 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251019T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251019T000000 UID:19B453BB-D756-4CB6-B6B4-405D77A0E776 SUMMARY:Bluff Arts Festival: Literary Events: Beyond the Glittering World CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://bluffartsfestival.org DESCRIPTION:Panel moderated by Malyssa Egge, authors TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panel moderated by Malyssa Egge, authors TBA X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:583 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251019T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251019T000000 UID:6B04F8E2-8D0B-4A54-8692-87FAFB68A81E SUMMARY:Glass Spider Publishing Presents: Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer Book Launch CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/programs/center-for-the-book/book-festival DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer's book launch! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us for a celebration of Ogden Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer's book launch! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:524 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251020T000000 UID:CAF01D05-A507-43F7-A912-82E62F11F4DC SUMMARY:Utah Book Award Winner Barbara Jones Brown and Rick Turley CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://library.bcutah.gov/events?n=31&r=days DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jones Brown and Rick Turley head to the Brigham City Library to talk about their Utah Book Award-winning book Vengeance is Mine. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Barbara Jones Brown and Rick Turley head to the Brigham City Library to talk about their Utah Book Award-winning book Vengeance is Mine. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:570 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251020T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251020T000000 UID:51F8FA2D-E6C7-4F4C-A869-B392341C4479 SUMMARY:Speak for Yourself Presents: Novelist Judith Hale Everett CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://rockcanyonpoets.com DESCRIPTION:Join Judith Hale Everett as a special guest for Speak for Yourself Open Mic. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Judith Hale Everett as a special guest for Speak for Yourself Open Mic. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:575 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251020T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251020T000000 UID:4A79EFBB-8C6B-425E-B6A3-DCB5185A600D SUMMARY:Speak for Yourself Open Mic CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://rockcanyonpoets.com DESCRIPTION:Stay after the Judith Hale Everett talk for the always-great open mic. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Stay after the Judith Hale Everett talk for the always-great open mic. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:537 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251021T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251021T000000 UID:3EEE6096-1F63-4F7E-8D02-D6438E43FE0A SUMMARY:Poppy's Books Book Drop CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.poppybookssf.com DESCRIPTION:Poppy's Books prepares for a Book Drop to benefit local schools. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Poppy's Books prepares for a Book Drop to benefit local schools. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:527 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251022T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251022T000000 UID:C26A2245-78BE-4C09-B5C6-6E9E3AE1EF04 SUMMARY:Provo Library Presents: Regency Romance Author Krysten Crow CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://provolibrary.gov/events?r=range&start=2025-10-22 DESCRIPTION:Join author Krysten Crow for a family-friendly reading and discussion. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join author Krysten Crow for a family-friendly reading and discussion. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:524 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251023T000000 UID:C7FD57EA-00EA-499E-B85E-65A4CBD62FCF SUMMARY:Back of Beyond Books and Grand County Library Present: Chris LaTray CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://gcld.librarycalendar.com/events/month DESCRIPTION:Join 2025 Montana "Great Reads" author Chris La Tray! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join 2025 Montana "Great Reads" author Chris La Tray! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:496 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251023T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251023T000000 UID:D0ADE9BA-EB5A-4E3F-BCC2-65B7AD6C8C35 SUMMARY:Rock Canyon Poets Orogeny 10th Anniversary Reading Event CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/ DESCRIPTION:Join the Rock Canyon Poets for their 10th Anniversary Reading of Orogeny. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the Rock Canyon Poets for their 10th Anniversary Reading of Orogeny. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:488 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251023T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251023T000000 UID:AFD6CFF8-16C5-4569-BDA6-DB380F77840B SUMMARY:Jesmyn Ward, David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/jesmyn-ward/ DESCRIPTION:Jesmyn Ward, celebrated as “the heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub) and one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, will deliver the 2025 David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Jesmyn Ward, celebrated as “the heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub) and one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, will deliver the 2025 David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:522 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251024T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251024T000000 UID:54733654-07C9-480C-BAB4-808A2ED2AA2B SUMMARY:Operation Literacy Book Drop CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.operationliteracy.org/events-1 DESCRIPTION:Follow Operation Literacy on their website and social media to see all the amazing things they are doing for the community with their local book drops! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Follow Operation Literacy on their website and social media to see all the amazing things they are doing for the community with their local book drops! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:538 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251024T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251024T000000 UID:AD36A188-8088-476B-8D24-85D73BFD43B7 SUMMARY:Operation Literacy Author Event CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://utahhumanities.org/calendar/3607 DESCRIPTION:Meet the authors, including Jennifer Nielsen, J Scott Savage, MELISSA SERON RICHARDSON, JANET SUMNER JOHNSON, and HEATHER CLARK X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Meet the authors, including Jennifer Nielsen, J Scott Savage, MELISSA SERON RICHARDSON, JANET SUMNER JOHNSON, and HEATHER CLARK X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:521 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251024T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251024T000000 UID:4830EDDC-BD5E-40C1-9FCE-9CBCE94AAB54 SUMMARY:Back of Beyond Books and Grand County Library Present: The Monkey Wrench Gang Turns 50: Literary Activism Then and Now CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://backofbeyondbooks.com DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Authors TBA. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Authors TBA. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:496 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:7DF015D6-337C-47EA-A269-A532AEEC1C97 SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Local Author Panel: “Intro. to Horror: Subverting the Norm” CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:“Intro. to Horror: Subverting the Norm” What is horror, and what are its sub-genres? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“Intro. to Horror: Subverting the Norm” What is horror, and what are its sub-genres? X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:487 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:F9AC93F7-98FE-446E-A6FF-B346C024844B SUMMARY:Provo Library Read Local CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.provolibrary.gov/readlocal-11362 DESCRIPTION:The Read Local Provo Day will celebrate local authors. Join them for a day of discussion and panels. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Read Local Provo Day will celebrate local authors. Join them for a day of discussion and panels. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:492 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:404219B4-1077-41B0-8F31-FE9FE2C96A9D SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:Utah Humanities Inaugural Horror Day as Part of The 28th Utah Humanities Book Festival. This day will be full of horror-writing panels and discussions and capped off by two keynote speeches from the two of the biggest names in Horror Fiction today: Philip Fracassi and Stephen Graham Jones.\NThis event is free and open to the public but we do ask that you RSVP so we can plan accordingly.  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Humanities Inaugural Horror Day as Part of The 28th Utah Humanities Book Festival. This day will be full of horror-writing panels and discussions and capped off by two keynote speeches from the two of the biggest names in Horror Fiction today: Philip Fracassi and Stephen Graham Jones.
This event is free and open to the public but we do ask that you RSVP so we can plan accordingly.  X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:767 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T100100 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:683F389F-3066-4637-A2E4-A8C36926109B SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Bookstores Open CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:www.culturalcelebration.org DESCRIPTION:Vendors will open to sell books. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Vendors will open to sell books. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:531 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:E5D5E15F-4426-4FBE-8318-BE2D82F53F28 SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Keynote Speaker: Philip Fracassi, Intro by Agent Elizabeth Copps CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:Horror author Philip Fracassi with keynote speech and Q&A. Agent Elizabeth Copps discusses Fracassi's work and her role in the publishing industry. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Horror author Philip Fracassi with keynote speech and Q&A. Agent Elizabeth Copps discusses Fracassi's work and her role in the publishing industry. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:505 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:09CC5101-A308-4C27-BA09-1DFCBE21CDEB SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Why I Love Horror Panel CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Elizabeth Suggs, Steve Capone, Jr., Elizabeth Copps, Lehua Parker, Lauri Schoenfeld\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panelists: Elizabeth Suggs, Steve Capone, Jr., Elizabeth Copps, Lehua Parker, Lauri Schoenfeld
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:549 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:E5FFA936-CFF8-4EC6-8765-32A6DAB8F642 SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Guide to Horror Subgenres Panel CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:Panelists: CR Langille, Bryan Young, Andrew Pixton, Kate Anderson, Jonathan Reddoch\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panelists: CR Langille, Bryan Young, Andrew Pixton, Kate Anderson, Jonathan Reddoch
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:418 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:63E76797-6903-4EA9-B51F-FBEDD683A00C SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Whisper House Press: Dread Mondays: An Anthology of Workplace Horror CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://whisperhousepress.com/whisper-house-press-hq/whisper-house-press/ DESCRIPTION:Panelists: C.R. Langille, Andrew Pixton, Jonathan Reddoch, Elizabeth Suggs. Moderated by Steve Capone, Jr. \N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panelists: C.R. Langille, Andrew Pixton, Jonathan Reddoch, Elizabeth Suggs. Moderated by Steve Capone, Jr.
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:441 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:A9884400-7A49-4662-A5E2-9DCF61B65306 SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Panel: What's Risky About Horror? CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Bryan Young, Lehua Parker, Kate Anderson, Lauri Shoenfeld\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Panelists: Bryan Young, Lehua Parker, Kate Anderson, Lauri Shoenfeld
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:463 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:4529EB42-DECB-45B3-B75D-CEC70C603191 SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Social Hour & Mass Book Signing CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:Graphic Novels & Comics: Black Cat Comics\NThe King’s English\NPrinted Garden: All other Titles not sold by authors themselves and assorted new horror\N X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Graphic Novels & Comics: Black Cat Comics
The King’s English
Printed Garden: All other Titles not sold by authors themselves and assorted new horror
X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:438 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:581FF76C-E40B-4CCD-A0E7-2576E0079EAF SUMMARY:Back of Beyond Books and Grand County Library Present: The Monkey Wrench Gang Turns 50: Literary Activism Then and Now CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://backofbeyondbooks.com DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Authors TBA. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Authors TBA. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:422 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:0AD5B7A0-5BAC-49CC-BB27-0A32F478BFA0 SUMMARY:Utah First Annual Horror Day: Keynote Speaker: Stephen Graham Jones CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://www.kingsenglish.com/events/3503020251025 DESCRIPTION:New York Times Bestselling Author Stephen Graham Jones Keynote Speech and Q&A X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:New York Times Bestselling Author Stephen Graham Jones Keynote Speech and Q&A X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:805 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251025T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251025T000000 UID:AC586D05-65F7-4D47-99EC-1831463839AD SUMMARY:Orem Library and Poppy Books Utah County Keynote Speaker Jennifer Nielsen CREATED:20260416T080159Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080159Z URL:https://www.poppybookssf.com DESCRIPTION:Utah Book Award Winner Jennifer Nielsen will give the Utah County Keynote for 2025. Be there! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Utah Book Award Winner Jennifer Nielsen will give the Utah County Keynote for 2025. Be there! X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:572 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251028T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251028T000000 UID:3A809D6F-C00B-457B-8EFB-D2218038677D SUMMARY:University of Utah Utah Book Award Honorees CREATED:20260416T080158Z DTSTAMP:20260416T080158Z URL:https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/readings-by-utah-book-award-honorees/ DESCRIPTION:As part of this year’s Utah Humanities Book Festival, the Tanner Humanities Center is hosting a reading by University of Utah writers who have been honored by the Utah Book Awards for 2025.\NFree and open to the public. Limited seating. Ticket reservations strongly recommended. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:As part of this year’s Utah Humanities Book Festival, the Tanner Humanities Center is hosting a reading by University of Utah writers who have been honored by the Utah Book Awards for 2025.
Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Ticket reservations strongly recommended. X-ACCESS:1 X-HITS:577 X-COLOR:509e2e X-SHOW-END-TIME:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR