Guest Author Reading Series 2007-2008
Last Updated 4/4/08
Guest Author
Reading Series 2007-2008
Last Updated 4/4/08
Lee Ann Mortensen, Coordinator: mortenle@uvsc.edu 801-863-8785.
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A. Powell
Prize Winning Poet
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Charles
Bowden, Alex Caldiero, and Scott Carrier
Investigative Reporters and Poets
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Emma
Lou Thayne, poet, and Clifton Sanders, saxophonist
In conjunction with the 3rd Annual Dialogue on Peace and Justice
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Nance
Van Winckel
Prize Winning Poet |
Douglas
Thayer
Fiction Writer In conjunction with the Eugene England Memorial Lecture Series |
J.
P. Dancing Bear, Prize Winning
Poet
and Madeleine Mysko, Nurse, Poet, and War Essayist
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| Sept. 21st at noon | Sept. 28th at noon | March 7th at 2PM | April 11 at 1PM | April 15 at 7PM | April 17 at 11:30AM |
| Student Center 206b | Student Center 206 a & b | Student Center Center Stage | LA 102 | LA 101 | Student Center 206 a & b |
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D. A. Powell is the author of three books of poetry, Tea (1998); Lunch (2000); and Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His subjects range from movies, art, and other trappings of contemporary culture to the AIDS pandemic. Powell’s work often returns to AIDS, and his three collections have been called a trilogy about the disease. As Carl Phillips wrote, in his judge’s note for Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Award, of Powell’s work, "No fear, here, of heritage nor of music nor, refreshingly, of authority. Mr. Powell recognizes in the contemporary the latest manifestations of a much older tradition: namely, what it is to be human." Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, among other awards. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco, and edits the online magazine Electronic Poetry Review.
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Charles Bowden is one of today's premier
writers on the American environment and social issues along the U.S.-Mexico
border. His recent books include A Shadow in the City: Confessions of
an Undercover Drug Warrior; Down by the River: Drugs, Money,
Murder, and Family; Blues for Cannibals: Notes from Underground;
Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America; and Desierto:
Memories of the Future. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Alex Caldiero was born in Sicily, raised in Brooklyn, attended Queens College, and now lives in Orem, Utah, with his wife, Setenay, and children. Well known for his performance works that integrate poetry with music, dance, and art—and for his appearance in the independent motion picture, Plan Ten from Outer Space—Caldiero has performed at the New School for Social Research, the Pritchard Art Gallery, the Salt Lake Art Center, and on Brazilian TV. Among his collections are Book o’ Lights, From Stone to Star, The Milk of the Mother, Toy Blood, and Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings. He has been published both in Italy and the United States, reviewed in Village Voice and the New York Times, is anthologized in Text-Sound Texts, featured in Utah: State of the Arts, and is included in the Dictionary of the Avant-Guards. Scott Carrier is an independent radio producer and writer who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His radio stories have been broadcast on All Things Considered, This American Life, and The Savvy Traveler. His print stories have been published in Harper's, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. A collection of his stories, Running After Antelope, was published in March of 2001 by Counterpoint. Some of his radio stories can be heard on hearingvoices.com. Click here to hear The Undocumented War by Bowden and Carrier. Click here to hear Caldiero on NPR.
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Emma Lou Warner Thayne
was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and received her B.A. in English and her
M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. Ms.
Thayne is the author of thirteen books of poetry, essays, fiction, and the
hymn, “Where Can I Turn for Peace?” Her books include Spaces in the
Sage, On Slim Unaccountable Bones, Things Happen, Poems of Survival, Hope
and Recovery, The Place of Knowing, and How Much for the Earth? She will
sign books after the performance. She has received numerous
awards for her poetry, prose, and essays.
Clifton Sanders is a fine Salt Lake City muscician who has been heavily influenced by his father. To hear his work go to: http://www.myspace.com/cliftonsanders
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In addition to her three poetry
books with Miami University Press, Nance Van Winckel is also the
author of the recent poetry collection No Starling (2007). She
has also authored an earlier
volume of verse, Bad Girl, with Hawk. Her poems have appeared in APR,
Ascent, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Field,
Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, High Plains Literary Review, The Journal,
Ohio Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly
Review, Paris Review, North American Review, Poetry Miscellany, The Seneca
Review, Third Coast, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch.
She has also published two collections of short stories, Limited Lifetime Warranty Quake, and Curtain Creek Farm. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship in poetry and a 1998 Washington State Artists Trust Literary Award in fiction. She is a professor in the graduate creative writing program of Vermont College.
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Doug Thayer has been called "the Mormon Hemingway" by the Midwest Book Review. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He has also published two collections of stories, the award-winning Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories and Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone and Other Stories. Most recently he published The Conversion of Jeff Williams (Signature Books, 2003), and Hooligan (2007). | J.
P. Dancing Bear has published numerous books including Gacela of
Narcissus City (2006), Billy Last Crow (2004), What Language (2002) which
won the Slipstream Press Poetry Prize, and the forthcoming Conflicted
Light (2008). Bear's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in hundreds of
publications including Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review,
Poetry East, North American Review, Atlanta Review, Verse Daily, The
National Poetry Review, Poetry International, Marlboro Review, Hotel
Amerika, Interim, Seattle Review, Permafrost, Puerto Del Sol . . . He is a
founding editor of Disquieting Muses and was the Editor-in-Chief of
Disquieting Muses/DMQ Review for five years. He is now the editor of The
American Poetry Journal. Bear is the owner of Dream Horse Press, publisher
of the first animal rights poetry anthology And We The Creatures...
Madeleine Mysko's first novel, Bringing Vincent Home (2007) was praised by war author Tim O'Brien: *[It] reads like the finest memoir . . . Rarely does a book of any sort touch me as this one did.* Mysko's first book of poetry, Crucial Blue, is forthcoming. She publishes prose and poetry in such venues as The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Commonweal, River Styx, The Christian Century, and The Baltimore Sun. A graduate of The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University, she teaches creative writing both privately and in the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs. She is also a registered nurse with experience in Assisted living. Among her awards are two Individual Artist grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and an Artscape Prize for Fiction from the City of Baltimore.
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All readings take place at Utah
