What's New
Gail Gunnarson Schimmelpfenning's The Frozen Kingdom is one of two finalists for the 2009 Utah Book Award in the poetry category. The other poetry book finalist is by Lance Larsen.
The 2010 Book Concert will be held Saturday evening, Oct 16, from 6:30 pm at the Salt Lake City Main Library (SLC downtown location: 210 East 400 South). At 7 pm, Rosalyn Whitaker Ostler will read selections from her winning book: Walking the Earth Barefoot.
Utah State Poetry Society members may submit poems to the 2010 Panorama from June 15 to July 31 ...more...
Rosalyn Whitaker Ostler - USPS Poet of the Year, 2010
30-Apr-10 The Salt Lake Tribune article on the Spring Festival contest winners.
USPS 2010 Spring Festival was held April 23 - 24 at the SLC airport Hilton. For the competition results, see the winners list and the judges' comments. For the manuscript award, see the Pearle M. Olsen Book Award Winners.
16-Mar10 thespectrum.com article on the poetry winners in the Spring Salon contest sponsored by the Mesquite Fine Art Gallery, Mesquite, UT. USPS winners include Leah Zollinger, Lin Floyd, and Gary Christian.
Stacy Julin was a winner of the Tiger's Eye Press 2009 Chapbook Contest ...more...
16-Jan-10 Desert News article, Live Poets Society: Salt Lake City poets push art form's rebirth, by Elaine Jarvik looks at poetry across Utah, including our Utah State Poetry Society.
Interesting "web poem" about surviving cancer by Suz Anne Wipperling
Interested in Haiku? See the Contests page for more details.
USPS Book of the Year info added to the Publications section.
Valley Mental Health and the National Alliance for Mental Illness/Utah will be publishing a literary journal in the Spring of 2010. ...more...
USPS 2009 Poet of the Year: Gail Schimmelpfennig ...more...
The 2009 Panorama is now available....more...