Poetry Events
UTSPS 2012 Spring Festival
The society's 2012 Spring Festival Convention (registration form) will be held April 20-21 at the Airport Hilton. Ted Kooser, a past U.S. Poet Laureate, will be the keynote speaker. Rob Carney will also be a featured speaker.
Poetry in the Park - March 30, 2012
Zion Canyon Field Institute and Utah State Poetry Society present their third annual "Poetry in the Park" in Zion National Park on Friday, March 30, 2012, from 10 am until 4 pm at the Zion National Park Nature Center. For more detail and registration form: PIP2012.pdf.
UTSPS Workshop Schedule for Nov 2011, Jan, Feb & Mar 2012
The society will again host four free workshops this winter on the
2nd Saturday of the month from 10 am to noon. All four workshops will be
held at the Bountiful/Davis Arts Center:
745 South Main Street, Bountiful, UT 84010.
November 12, 2011 with Scott Hatch
Scott Hatch teaches technical communication, publishing, and writing natural history at Utah Valley University and is Associate Director of the Capitol Reef Field Station. His poems have won the Utah Arts Council poetry competition and were selected by National Poet Laureate Billy Collins for the Western Humanities Review's 2006 Utah Writers Poetry Prize. Collins has said of him, "This poet has an unerring ear and a beautiful sense of how a line should be timed. I like the way precise verbal description can suddenly switch to a more colloquial line. This poet has the gift, the light touch, and yet serious ballast." His first collection of poetry, Mapping the Bones of the World, is available from Signature Books. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, and other journals. Workshop topic: Some tricks to anchoring your poem in the real world--which is the door to the rest of the universe.
Jan 14, 2012 with Harmony Button
Harmony Button has been nominated for the 2010 Pushcart and Best of the Web awards and was awarded the 2006 Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She has a degree from Middlebury College and an MFA from the University of Utah. You can find her work in publications such as Epiphany, BlazeVOX, Eastown Fiction, Fringe, Fiddleback, White Whale Review and SLEET Magazine. She is rising English Department Chair at The Waterford School in Sandy, UT.
Feb 11, 2012 with Chris Jones
Christopher L. Jones is a poet and writer currently living in the Wasatch Valley in Salt Lake City, Utah. Originally from Tucson, Arizona he attended college at New Mexico State University studying theater arts and philosophy and has spent the last twenty years contributing to the various arts communities he has lived in. He has published over two dozen chap books of poetry and his current novel, Waterboarded, is available in paperback and e-book thanks to the Arts Council England.
Chris’ topic is: Why do we publish and how to do it? As poets we eventually seek to have our work published. Why do we do so? Is it simply to patronize our egos or is there a deeper reason? Once we have decided to publish our work, how do we do that? In this workshop, poet and writer Chris will lead the group in an examination of why we publish our work, where to find an audience and how does the end purpose relate to us as poets and the production of our work. He will then go over the contemporary publishing landscape, the different publishing and distribution channels available to poets and how to utilize them. He will also cover social media and the internet and how these can be powerful tools in the advancement of an artist. He will end the workshop with a short reading from his latest collection of poetry, American Girl: Poems For a Daughter From Her Father.
March 10, 2012 with Joel Long
Bio to be added soon.
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