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UH_17BF_cover_final.indd 1 8/2/17 11:18 AM 2 Table of Contents American Fork...... 2 Welcome to the 20th Annual Blanding...... 2 Boulder...... 2 Utah Humanities Book Festival! Brigham City...... 2 Cedar City...... 2 Over the past 20 years, we’ve inspired Utah communities by offering the state’s largest annual book festival. Our inaugural festival, Ephraim...... 3 known then as The Great Salt Lake Book Festival, started in 1998 and was a one-day event featuring 30 authors at Westminster Escalante...... 3 College. Twenty years later, our annual Utah Humanities Book Festival now spans two months each September and October. Helper...... 3 We grew to 122 events in 16 communities in 2016. We’ve expanded our reach by partnering with libraries, community centers, Layton...... 3 cultural organizations, and more to serve upwards of 12,000 Utahns every fall. Lehi...... 3 Each year, we hear very personal stories about how an author or book has generated conversation, insight, and understanding. We Logan...... 3 hear about communities coming together and collectively immersing in books of all types — everything from historical fiction to Moab...... 3 comedy to poetry. We listen to individuals talk about how their personal or professional lives were affected in life-changing ways Ogden...... 4 by talking with an author who inspired them. We hear about how we’ve helped to improve Utah communities through books, Orem...... 5 reading, and the resulting conversations … in short, through the humanities. Park City...... 5 Provo...... 5 We invite you to use this guide to the events, but times, locations, and other details can change, so we recommend you check our website at http://www.utahhumanities.org/BookFestival.html for updates and for detailed information on all events and presenters. Roy...... 5 Salt Lake City...... 6 We are committed to ensuring that all people, regardless of disability, have equal and full access to our programs and events. If you Spanish Fork...... 8 require any accommodations, please submit a request to Michael McLane at [email protected] or at 801-359-9670. St. George...... 8 West Jordan...... 8 Join us for this year’s statewide festival in celebration of all things bookish and our milestone 20th anniversary!

American Fork October 6, 7 PM | Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch experiences writing stories. This will be an interactive, fun, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will share and exciting night for all ages. A book signing will follow. September 26, 7 PM | American Fork Library discuss her work as part of the Cliff Notes October 3, 7 PM | Brigham City Public Library Jennifer The American Fork Library welcomes Writing Conference. Trommer’s work has Come meet twelve Utah authors and learn more about their Nielsen , author of A Night Divided, The appeared in O Magazine, TEDx, and on work in a rapid fire “Speed Date with a Book” format. Scourge, the Ascendance trilogy, and the Mark A Prairie Home Companion. In 2015, she There’ll be refreshments and time to chat and mingle with all of the Thief Trilogy to discuss her popular was appointed Poet Laureate of Colorado’s the authors. For more info and a list of authors, visit: http:// young adult novels. Bring books for Jennifer Western Slope. bcpl.lib.ut.us/ to sign! October 7, 7 PM | Boulder Creek Ranch October 10, 7 PM | Brigham City Public Library Blanding NY Times best-selling travel writer Steven Author and pharmacist Gregg Luke discusses how his study Nightingale visits the Boulder Creek Ranch of medicine influences his writing. Luke is the author of five October 23, 7 PM | Blanding Public Library as part of the Cliff Notes Writing Conference. novels, including Do No Harm and Deadly Undertakings. Nightingale’s Granada: A Pomegranate in the Join Navajo Nation Poet Laureate October 17, 7 PM | Brigham City Public Library Laura Tohe for a special public event Hand of God is currently the No. 1 travel Clair M. Poulson during her series of school visits book in the world. He is also the author of discusses a life’s work in the criminal justice around San Juan County. Tohe will two novels, one short fiction collection and system, including eight years as the Duchesne County Sheriff, discuss her work and the writing six poetry collections. and how those experiences affected his work as an author of process. She is the author or editor of crime thrillers. Poulson is the author of three dozen books, the four books, most recently Code Talker Brigham City most recent being The Search. October 24, 7PM | Brigham City Public Library Stories, as well as a chapbook. She is September 14, 4 PM & 7 PM | Brigham City also an accomplished librettist. Public Library Tired of writing in circles or flying by the seat of your pants when you write? Join author Joy Spraycar for “Plotting for Join us for either (or both!) of two Pantsers,” a discussion to help get through those obstacles and Boulder sessions of the Parent/Kid Book get a firm grip on goals, motivations, and more in your work. October 5-8 | Boulder Community Center Group at Brigham City Public The BoulderCliff Notes Writing Conference is one of the Library. This month’s book will be best little writing conferences in the West taught by some of Tyler Whitesides’ Janitors. Cedar City the top writers in the nation. This year is no exception October 2, 7 PM | Brigham September 26, 11:30 AM | Student Center with Steven Nightingale, Rosemerry Wahtola City Public Library Theater, Southern Utah University Trommer and of course our own David Lee. For Join Tyler Whitesides at the library Novelist, poet, and essayist Debra Monroe will visit SUU more info or to register, visit: boulderheritage.org. as he talks about the power books as part of their 2017 Art of Literature series. Monroe is a have to take you to many places and worlds. He’ll Flannery O’Connor Award winner and the author of six share some of his favorite books and tell about his own books, including 2015’s My Unsentimental Education.

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October 5, 6:30 PM | Artisan’s Gallery Escalante October 12, 7 PM | Logan Public Library Artisan’s Gallery, SUU, and Sugarhouse Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor joins poet Richard October 5, 6 PM | Kiva Koffeehouse Review host poet Gaylord Brewer. His Robbins for the Helicon West series at Logan Public Library. most recent publication is a cookbook/ David Lee returns to Kiva Koffeehouse to talk poetry and Sinor released two books in 2017 — Letters Like the Day: On memoir, The Poet’s Guide to Food, people, small town life, and vast landscapes. Lee was Utah’s Reading Georgia O’Keeffe, and the memoir, Ordinary Trauma. Drink, & Desire. He has published 900 first Poet Laureate and has become a key organizer and faculty Robbins has published widely for decades and has a new and poems in journals and anthologies and member for the annual Cliff Notes Writing Conference. selected collection out this year titled Body Turn to Rain. is the author of ten poetry collections. October 26, 7 PM | Logan Public Library October 10, 11:30 AM | Student Center Theater, Helper The Helicon West series welcomes Charles Waugh, editor of Southern Utah University. October 17, 6:30 PM | the anthology Wild Mustard: New Voices From Vietnam and SUU presents novelist Julie Simon and poet Richard Helper City Library poet Jonathan Travelstead, author of Conflict Tours. Robbins. Simon is the author of The Ghost Town Preservation The Helper City Library welcomes October 28, 7 PM | Logan Public Library Society and teaches at SUU. Robbins has published six bestselling Young Adult author Helicon West hosts poets Matthew Cooperman and Aby books of poetry and has received awards from The Loft, the Jennifer Nielsen, who will discuss Kaupang. Cooperman is the author of five collections, most Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the her work, which includes the recently Spool. Kaupang is the author of two books, most Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. Ascendance trilogy, A Night Divided, recently Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me, and she is currently and The Scourge. October 12-13 | Hunter Conference Center, serving as the Poet Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado. Southern Utah University October 20, 7 PM | Templeton Studios, SUU’s conference titled Poetry, Ecology, and Place in Spring Glen Moab a Technological World will explore the intersections of September 28, 7 PM | Grand County Library contemporary poetry, ecology, and technology through Logan Poet Laureate Star Coulbrooke and USU Eastern readings and workshops by poets and scholars whose work Professor Emeritus Jan Minich will discuss and share portions The Moab Festival of Science and the Grand pertains to sustainability and the western region. Co- of their new collections, The Spines of Memoryand Wild Roses County Library present novelist Sylvia Torti. sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values. at a special event at Templeton Studios. Set in and around a research laboratory in experiences writing stories. This will be an interactive, fun, For more information and a list of participating authors, visit: which two scientists are experimenting on exciting night for all ages. A book signing will follow. https://www.suu.edu/hss/english/index.html Layton birds to discover the origins of memory and birdsong, Torti’s Cages is a complex October 3, 7 PM | Brigham City Public Library October 19, 11:30 AM | Gilbert Great Hall, October 5, 7 PM | Layton Heritage Museum interweaving of biological, philosophical, Come meet twelve Utah authors and learn more about their Southern Utah University Historian Eileen Hallet Stone visits the and mystical themes. Torti is Dean of the Honors work in a rapid fire “Speed Date with a Book” format. SUU welcomes Maria Hinojosa, who will discuss her work Layton Heritage Museum to discuss her College at the University of Utah. There’ll be refreshments and time to chat and mingle with all as a journalist and executive producer of Latino USA, a radio latest book Hidden History of Utah. Stone is October 6, 7 PM | Grand County Library the authors. For more info and a list of authors, visit: http:// show on National Public Radio. Hinojosa is also the author also the author of A Homeland in the West: bcpl.lib.ut.us/ of two books: Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Utah Jews Remembered and the co-author of Return once more to a galaxy far, far away when Ian Doescher October 10, 7 PM | Brigham City Public Library Son, a motherhood memoir; and Crews: Gang Members Talk Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and brings his sublime Shakespearean retelling of George Lucas’ with Maria Hinojosa. epic Star Wars to the Grand County Library. ’Tis a tale told Author and pharmacist Gregg Luke discusses how his study Minority Groups in Utah. by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearsome of medicine influences his writing. Luke is the author of five October 26, 4:30 PM | Gilbert Great Stormtroopers, signifying … pretty much everything. novels, including Do No Harm and Deadly Undertakings. Hall, Southern Utah University Lehi October 10, 7 PM | Grand County Library October 17, 7 PM | Brigham City Public Library Contributors to Torrey House Press’ Edge of October 10, 6:30 PM | Garden at Dry Creek Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears Former Utah Poet Laureate David Lee returns to the Grand Clair M. Poulson discusses a life’s work in the criminal justice Join children’s author Lindsay Eagar for the launch party of will take part in a panel on Native American County Library. Few poets working today have a keener eye system, including eight years as the Duchesne County Sheriff, her new book, Race to the Bottom of the Sea! Find out how roles in public lands. Panelists include for the complexities of small town life, mythology, and how and how those experiences affected his work as an author of Fidelia Quail escapes her pirate captors and retrieves treasure Jacqueline Keeler, Luci Tapahonso, Lyle the two blend together. Lee is the author of nearly twenty crime thrillers. Poulson is the author of three dozen books, the lost on the ocean floor. Places in the signing line are reserved Balenquah, and Heid Erdrich. books and is professor emeritus at Southern Utah University. most recent being The Search. for those who purchase a copy of Race to the Bottom of the Sea October 17, 7 PM | Grand County Library October 24, 7PM | Brigham City Public Library from The King’s English. Ephraim Explore the environmental history Tired of writing in circles or flying by the seat of your pants October 12, 12:30 PM | Eccles Center of the United States and its complex when you write? Join author Joy Spraycar for “Plotting for Logan for Performing Arts relationship with its national parks Pantsers,” a discussion to help get through those obstacles and October 4, 2:30 PM | Caine Room, Family Life with historian Mark Fiege. Fiege is the get a firm grip on goals, motivations, and more in your work. Convocations at Snow College present Utah’s Bldg., Utah State University author of The Republic of Nature and first Poet Laureate,David Lee. Lee is the USU hosts poet, essayist, and Kenyon an editor for the collection National author of a dozen collections, most recently Cedar City Review editor David Baker, who will Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-eyed discuss and share his wide-ranging Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea.” September 26, 11:30 AM | Student Center Susans, or, Poems New and Used From the work. Baker is the author of eleven Theater, Southern Utah University Bandera Rag and Bone Shop. His collection October 19, 7 PM | Back of Beyond Books collections of poetry and six books of Novelist, poet, and essayist Debra Monroe will visit SUU News From Down to the Café was nominated for the prose. He is the recipient of awards Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor discusses her new book as part of their 2017 Art of Literature series. Monroe is a Pulitzer Prize and, in 2001, he was a finalist for the position of and grants from the Guggenheim on Georgia O’Keefe, Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia Flannery O’Connor Award winner and the author of six United States Poet Laureate. Foundation, National Endowment for O’Keefe at Back of Beyond Books. Sinor is the author of two books, including 2015’s My Unsentimental Education. the Arts, and the Mellon Foundation. other books, including 2017’s memoir Ordinary Trauma.

http://www.utahhumanities.org/BookFestival.html http://www.utahhumanities.org/BookFestival.html 4 Archives Month 2017 What is Utah Humanities? Destination History Utah Humanities empowers Utahns to improve their communities through active engagement in the humanities. In addition to Series our annual Book Festival, UH offers free public humanities programs throughout the state. Our Center for Local Initiatives offers grants for a wide variety of locally created humanities projects, ranging from discussions to interpretive exhibits to oral histories. We also partner with groups interested in designing and hosting “community In honor of the annual Archives Month, conversations” to discuss current issues and concerns through the perspectives of history, philosophy, and literature. the Division of Archives and Records Service will provide exhibits and a series of Our Center for Community Heritage offers Heritage Workshops to build capacity with museums and other groups involved events around the theme of “Destination in the preservation and interpretation of Utah’s cultural heritage. Museums, community groups, schools, and many other organizations are able to fund their humanities projects through our grant lines and workshops. History.” For information visit: www. utaharchivesmonth.org In Ogden and Cedar City, our Center for Educational Access offers a free year-long college humanities course for non- traditional adult students called Venture. In Salt Lake City, we offer an accredited interdisciplinary humanities course for Friday, October 6, Noon underserved 10th and 11th grade students called the Clemente Course. These courses have changed lives in measurable ways Carl Aldrich, a ranger at the Territorial and nearly all of our graduates continue pursuing their education. Statehouse State Park, will present “Territorial Statehouse: Utah’s First State UH’s Center for the Book looks forward to welcoming you to the Book Festival each year for a celebration of reading and Park and Oldest Government Building” at the pleasure and insight it brings. If you value programs like this Book Festival, please make a donation to UH online at www. the White Memorial Chapel at the Utah State utahhumanities.org or by mail at 202 West 300 North, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84103. Capitol (86 E 300 N, SLC, UT 84103). If you’re interested in ideas, philosophy, history, books … in short, the entire human world around you, connect with us and stay in touch. Visit our website at www.utahhumanities.org, become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/

Friday, October 13, Noon utahhumanitiescouncil, and Twitter at twitter.com/utahhumanities. Dr. Justina Parsons-Bernstein, Heritage and Interpretation Resources Manager, will present “Diamonds of Utah: Celebrating 60 September 28, 7 PM | Eccles Art Center Years of State Parks in Utah” at the Utah Ogden Weber Book Links will present its inaugural Distinguished State Capitol at the White Memorial Chapel. September 16, 10:30 AM | Pleasant Valley Literary Arts Advocate Award to Dr. L. Mikel Vause. Vause Branch, Weber County Library Friday, October 20, Noon will discuss his passion for the humanities, love for literature, Cicily Kind, a global specialist on the Storytellers extraordinaire Karl Behling and Janine and how these translate into action and change for a better International Team at the Utah Office of Nishiguchi will enchant children of all ages with tales from local and global community. Tourism, will present “The History of Tourism One Thousand and One Nights. From “Aladdin’s Wonderful October 4, 7 PM | Ogden Union Station in Utah” at the White Memorial Chapel. Lamp” to “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor,” audiences will be transported by magic carpet to other lands and other Professor and museum curator Ryan D. Paul will discuss the Tuesday, October 24, Noon times. evolution of superhero comics and what they teach us about being human. Holly Hansen of Family History Expos, September 21, 6:30 PM | Pleasant Valley Inc., will present “Visualizing Historical Branch, Weber County Library October 5, 6 PM | Room 312, Union Bldg., Weber State University Boundaries: Overlay Historical Maps on Join Kevin Blankinship, Lecturer in Arabic Language & Google Earth.” This event will be held at the Culture at the University of Utah, for a fun, informative talk Weber State welcomes acclaimed essayist Jaquira Díaz. Díaz is Utah State Archives. on “Imagination, Orient, and the One Thousand and One the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose, and recipient of Arabian Nights.” It will address the 1,001 Nights as a popular two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Friday, October 27, Noon folktale in the medieval Islamic world and as a window on the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship Dr. Susan S. Rugh, professor of history at Orient in the modern West. to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. Brigham Young University, will present “The September 22, 6:30 PM | Ogden Nature Center October 6, 7 PM | Ogden Union Station Making of Modern Motels in Utah: How to Join Union Research the Recent Past“ at the White Author and journalist Mark Sundeen visits the Ogden Nature Station for a very Memorial Chapel. Center to discuss his new book, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America, a search for what a sustainable, special reading ethical, authentic future might actually look like. and conversation with nationally Utah State History Conference 2017 September 27, 7 PM | Ogden Union Station and critically Looking for some new reading? Renowned poet and NEA fellow Eduardo acclaimed poets Corral visits Ogden Union Station to share his Learn the best 2017 Utah history book Kaveh Akbar work and take part in a live LITerally podcast and Erika L. Sánchez. Sanchez is a 2017-2019 Princeton at the free Utah History Conference. interview with Kase Johnstun. Corral’s work Arts Fellow and the author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Local Matters, on October 11. Details at has been praised for its seamless blending of Daughter and Lessons on Expulsion. Kaveh Akbar is the history.utah.gov English and Spanish and its tender treatment founding editor of Divedapper and the author of Calling a of history. Wolf a Wolf.

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October 7, 11 AM | Ogden High School October 5, 7 PM | Orem Public Library Provo Join us for the 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing books for students in middle grades can be tough, but September 21, 11 AM | Room B192, Day, hosted by Weber Book Links. The day will be filled with Utah is a hotbed for this kind of literature, and Orem Reads JFSB Building, Brigham Young workshops, contests, and activities culminating in a special wants to help out. Join them for a workshop on Writing for University appearance from Brandon Mull. For more information and Middle Grades with Matthew Kirby, an acclaimed author of a schedule of events, visit: https://brandonmullogdenvisit. books for children and young adults. The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Benjamin Madley wordpress.com/ October 16, 7 PM | Orem Public Library presents historian , who will discuss his new book, An American October 7, 4 PM | Auditorium, Join us for the Orem Reads finale and a visit Ogden High School Genocide: The United States and the from the renowned author of Summerlost, Ally California Indian Catastrophe. NY Times bestselling author Brandon Condie. Summerlost is a poignant exploration October 3, 6 PM | Pioneer Book Mull will be the keynote presenter at the of family and tragedy, friendship and healing, 2nd Annual Science Fiction and Fantasy all set against the backdrop of a small town’s Rock Canyon Poets are pleased to present a free, multi-session Day. Mull is the author of the acclaimed theatre festival. community poetry writing workshop entitled “Inspired.” Fablehaven series as well as The Candy October 25, 1 PM | Fulton Library Facilitators will help participants create new work in response Shop War, the Beyonders trilogy, and Auditorium, Utah Valley University to discussions, writing prompts and exercises. The second numerous other popluar young adult half of the workshop will take place on October 16. For more Utah Valley University welcomes Jacqueline Keeler, Luci novels. information, contact [email protected]. Tapahonso, Lyle Balenquah, and Heid Erdrich, contributors October 5, 7:30 PM | Enliten Bakery & Café October 14, 6:30 PM | Ogden Union Station to Torrey House Press’ Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Join us for a special Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Reading. the Bear’s Ears. These four authors will discuss their work on The Speak for Yourself series at Enliten Bakery hosts poet Students, professors, writers, and other Ogden community the book and the issues surrounding access and autonomy for Matthew Minicucci, author of Small Gods. Small Gods draws members will share Ms. Brooks’ work as a celebration of the Native Americans in Utah’s newest monument. from sources as heterogeneous as the Pauline letters, the natural centennial of her birth. sciences, mathematics, and astronomy in order to explore, inhabit, celebrate, and mourn the mutability of love and the October 17, 6 PM | The Treehouse Museum Park City vulnerabilities of attachment. Join us at the Treehouse Museum for September 14, 6:30 PM | Park City October 13, Noon | a special evening with author and Public Library Harold B. Lee Library, illustrator Ashley Wolff for a book Dr. John Day, M.D., author of The Longevity Plan: Seven Brigham Young University launch party for her new book Where, Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, will speak about BYU hosts novelist Margot Singer, who Oh Where, Is Baby Bear? There will his experience and lessons learned while living at the Longevity will discuss and share work from her be lots of bear-themed activities for Village in China. the whole family. Wolff is the author and/or new novel Underground Fugue. Singer September 23, 5:30 PM | illustrator of more than 60 books for children. is also the author of the award-winning Park City Public Library October 26, 7 PM | Weber County Library, collection Pale of Settlement. Mark Sundeen Pleasant Valley Branch visits the Park City Public Library to discuss his book Roy Join professional storyteller, Cherie Davis, as she brings to life The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good October 4, 6 PM | Southwest Branch, terrifying tales of haunted locations around Utah. Young and Life in Today’s America, a chronicle Weber County Library old alike will be enthralled by Cherie’s spine tingling accounts of modern-day visionaries and from her new book, Spooks and Saints, Intriguing Ghost Legends iconoclasts yearning for “the simple Come talk fiction with a variety of different local authors. This of Salt Lake City. life” in modern America. event will feature a panel with Judy Baker, Marie Higgins, Mary Martinez, Stanalei Fletcher, Karla Jay, Patricia G. October 27, 6:30 PM | Ogden Union Station September 30, 2 PM | Park City Public Library and Stevenson as well as workshops from Lisa Dawn Macdonald, Murder Mystery at the Station. Join some of Ogden’s most The Park City Public Library welcomes the inimitable Johnny Worthen, and Aaron Yeager. talented improvisers as they lead you through the twists and turns Shannon and Dean Hale along with their new Princess in October 10, 6:30 PM | of a hilarious literary murder mystery. Pre-registration required. Black adventure! Who is that masked avenger at the mysterious Southwest Branch, Weber playdate? Join us and find out. County Library Orem October 10, 11 AM | Silver Lodge at Deer Valley September 18, 7 PM | Orem Public Library Why does Hollywood love Utah so Join Park City Friends of the Library at their annual luncheon. much? Come meet film historian Orem Reads kicks off with a special visit from theUtah This year’s guest author is High West Distillery co-founder and author James D’Arc and learn Shakespeare Festival PLAY Team, who tour the state doing Jane Perkins, who will discuss her new book The Golden Elixir about the long history of film educational outreach for Cedar City’s acclaimed annual festival of the West: Whiskey and the Shaping of America. Tickets are $36 in Utah. Then stick around for and provide the perfect intro to this year’s book choice, Ally in advance and can be purchased at www.ParkCityLibrary.org/ a screening of the family favorite Condie’s Summerlost, which takes place in the midst of a October 18, 7 PM | Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter The Sandlot, much of which was theater festival. Historian Mark Fiege visits the Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter filmed in Ogden. September 25, 7 PM | Orem Public Library to discuss his book The Republic of Nature as well as his work Orem Reads presents Shakespeare for Families, a fun and on national parks in the United States and around the world. informative crash course on The Bard and his work to get Fiege is the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American readers ready for this year’s Orem Reads book, Summerlost. Studies at Montana State University.

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September 20, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference Weller Book Works Salt Lake City Room, The City Library September 8, 7 PM | Sorenson Unity Center Events Calendar City Art presents poet Adam Gianelli and essayist and Join Friends of the Great Salt Lake for the 4th Annual travel writer Kase Johnstun. Gianelli’s debut, Tremulous 607 Trolley Square, Salt Lake City Alfred Lambourne Prizes. Prizes in visual and literary Hinge, is just out from University of Iowa Press. Johnstun https://www.wellerbookworks.com arts will be awarded and work from the competition will is a widely published travel writer and hosts the LITerally be on display. The Prizes were established as an annual podcast. recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired Tuesdays, September 12, 19, & 26; September 21, 7 PM | Gore School of by our inland sea. Business Auditorium, Westminster College October 5, 12, 19, & 26 at 9 AM September 14, 7 PM | Finch Lane Gallery Breakfast Club with Catherine Weller at co- The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks series welcomes poets sponsor Coffee Connection! Have a cup of coffee Poet and labor activist Rodrigo Toscano visits the Finch Jay Hopler and Evie Shockley to Westminster College. Lane Gallery as part of the Guest Writers Series. He is the and danish with Catherine Weller, who has all your Hopler’s The Abridged History of Rainfall was a National author of five poetry collections and works for the Labor Book Award finalist, and Shockley is the author of the new early morning book news and gossip. Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, black and a critical study titled Renegade Poetics. the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, September 23, 7 PM | Monday, September 11, 8 PM Communication Workers of America, and National Day Auditorium, The City Library Weller Book Works Free Play Reading Series: Laborers Organizing Network. Join Utah Humanities and the Becky Shaw, by Gina Gionfriddo. Presented by September 15, 7 PM | Finch Lane Gallery Wasatch Theatre Company. City Library for a live recording Bring your lunch and plenty of questions to a lunchtime of PRI’s Live Wire with Luke colloquium with poet, playwright, and labor activist Burbank. Live Wire is a weekly Wednesdays, September 13, 27; Rodrigo Toscano at Finch Lane Gallery. Toscano is the one-hour variety show with a October 11, 25 at 6 PM author of several collections of poetry, including Deck of modern twist. It blends music Lit Knit with Catherine the Knit Chick. Join Deeds and Explosion Rocks Springfield. from up-and-coming artists, Catherine the Knit Chick for crafts and September 15, 7 PM | Weller Book Works original sketch comedy, spoken word, and interviews with conversation. writers, filmmakers, comedians, and people who think cool Weller Book thoughts. Live Wire pairs the shared experience of theater Works hosts Sunday, September 24, 3 PM with the intimacy of radio to connect communities. More poets Franny Wine Drinkers with a Reading Problem Book info can be found on the Utah Humanities Book Festival Choi and website. Club. In partnership with We Olive, we present Abraham a different culinary-themed title for discussion Smith. Choi September 25, 7 PM | Weller Book Works over wine and small plates at We Olive Trolley is a writer, Join us at Weller Book Works for “Writing About Rights,” Square. September’s title is Kitchen Confidential: performer, featuring poets Robert Terashima and Rob Carney. Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony and teaching artist as well as the author of Floating, Terashima’s Issei and Other Poems strikes an important Bourdain. Brilliant, Gone. Smith is the author of two collections, chord at this time of collective amnesia we find ourselves most recently Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer, and a in, telling the story of his own family living under the Friday, September 30, 6:30 PM recent addition to Weber State’s English faculty. Oriental Exclusion proclamation of 1907. Carney is the Collector’s Book Salon. This salon will feature September 16, 8 PM | Sugar Space author of four books, most recently 88 Maps, and writes a column called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain.org Madelyn Garrett, head of the Rare Books Division at Adrian Todd Zuniga is back for the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library and the fifth installment of Literary September 27, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference organizer of the University’s Book Arts Program. Death Match in Salt Lake City! Room, The City Library Highbrow meets lowbrow on- City Art presents poets Matthew Cooperman and Friday, October 6, 7 PM stage in this literary game show. Aby Kaupang. Both Cooperman and Kaupang have Virginia Webb, Wildcats, Wagons, Wives, and The contestants this year are authored numerous books and chapbooks. They have Wardens. Webb’s book gives the male perspective Franny Choi, Abraham Smith, Josh Hanagarne, and also collaborated on a number of works, most notably the of living polygamy. Raised in the early 20th Danielle Susi while the judges are KRCL’s Lara Jones, ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and Alexander Ortega, century in the hills and valleys around the Utah/ SLUG’s and Red Fred Project founder Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities, both of which examine Dallas Graham. Tickets are $10 in advance and can be Idaho border, Albert joins his father in leaving the aspects of autism and life with their daughter, Maya. purchased at http://thesugarspace.com/buy-tickets/. Doors LDS Church to live plural marriage, going to prison September 28, 3:30 PM | LNCO Building, open at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. twice for choosing to do so. University of Utah Campus September 19, 7 PM | Tower Theatre Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang visit the Saturday, October 7, 7 pm Weller Book Works and Salt Lake Film Society present University of Utah to discuss their work and ongoing Emily Clark, Art Triumphant. Art Triumphant is actor, author and producer Bruce Campbell at the Tower collaborative projects. Cooperman is the author of five Emily Clark’s first collection of poetry and features Theatre as part of his Hail to the Chin tour. Join in the Last books and a professor at Colorado State University. Fan Standing game show and qualify to be one of four fans 25 poems covering wide-ranging topics such as: Kaupang is the author of two books and the current Poet on-stage with Bruce in a winner-take-all fan extravaganza! Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado. art, writing, love, life, philosophy, religion, history, Tickets available at http://www.bruce-campbell.com/ and politics. booktour-saltlakecity

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September 20, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference September 28, 3:30 PM | LNCO 1110, October 5, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference Room, Room, The City Library University of Utah The City Library The King’s English City Art presents poet Adam Gianelli and essayist and The University of Utah hosts historianPhil Deloria, author Join Artes de Mexico en Utah as they present the Fifth travel writer Kase Johnstun. Gianelli’s debut, Tremulous of numerous books, including Indians in Unexpected Places Annual Sor Juana Prizes in Poetry and Short Stories. Prizes Bookshop Events Hinge, is just out from University of Iowa Press. Johnstun and Playing Indian. Deloria is a specialist in Native American will be awarded for two poems and two short stories written is a widely published travel writer and hosts the LITerally history and the history of the American West and is a Trustee in Spanish by high school students and adults residing in Utah Calendar podcast. of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. with one category for those whose primary language is Spanish 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City and another for those for whom Spanish is a second language. September 21, 7 PM | Gore School of September 28, 7 PM | http://www.kingsenglish.com/ Business Auditorium, Westminster College Multipurpose Room, The Sor Juana Prizes are the first statewide prize for original South City Campus writing in Spanish. The Anne Newman Sutton Weeks series welcomes poets October 6, 12 PM | Finch Lane Gallery Jay Hopler and Evie Shockley to Westminster College. Salt Lake Community College Friday, September 15, 7 PM Hopler’s The Abridged History of Rainfall was a National welcomes award-winning poet Eduardo The Hive Mind Book Club presents a discussion with authors Singer-songwriter Dar Williams | What I Book Award finalist, and Shockley is the author of the new Corral. Corral is the author of Slow David Baker and Philip Schaefer. Schaefer’s collection, Bad Found in a Thousand Towns black and a critical study titled Renegade Poetics. Lightning and the first Latino to win Summon, was the 2016 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize winner Thursday, October 5, 7 PM September 23, 7 PM | the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Among and Baker was the judge who selected Schaefer’s book. Craig Harline | A World Ablaze: The Rise Auditorium, The City Library his many awards are an NEA fellowship and the Discovery/The October 6, 7 PM | Clubhouse on South Temple Nation Award. of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Join Utah Humanities and the Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling at September 29, 10 AM | Art Access Reformation City Library for a live recording The Bee: True Stories from the Hive! Ten storytellers picked of PRI’s Live Wire with Luke Art Access and the VA Salt Lake City Health System invite all at random from a hat have five minutes each to tell a true Friday, October 13, 7 PM Burbank. Live Wire is a weekly veterans and active duty military personnel to take part in a story on the theme of the night without notes. Bring your Mylene Dressler | The Last to See Me one-hour variety show with a four-week Veterans Poetry Writing Workshop. Facilitated by friends. Have a drink. Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained. Doors at modern twist. It blends music Jon Sebba, this series will help participants through discussion 6 PM, stories at 7 PM. Tickets are $18 and are available at Saturday, October 14, 7 PM from up-and-coming artists, of other poetic works and examination of both process and thebeeslc.org. This event is 21+. At the Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia original sketch comedy, spoken word, and interviews with themes. Dates are 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20. Cost: $10. October 11, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference Room, WayCraig Johnson | The Western Star writers, filmmakers, comedians, and people who think coolContact Heather Brown at the VA Medical Center at heather. The City Library thoughts. Live Wire pairs the shared experience of theater [email protected] Wednesday, October 18, 7 PM City Art welcomes novelist Sylvia Torti and poet Richard with the intimacy of radio to connect communities. More Paul Cohen | The Glamshack September 30, 7 PM | The King’s Robbins. Torti’s new book, Cages, is a complex interweaving info can be found on the Utah Humanities Book Festival English Bookshop of biological, philosophical, and mystical themes. Robbins’ Friday, October 27, 7 PM website. The King’s English hosts poetDana Levin and essayist, new book, Body Turn to Rain is a new and selected collection Annette McGivney | The Pure Land September 25, 7 PM | Weller Book Works memoirist, and brand new Utah Poet Laureate Paisley that showcases several decades of poetic work. Join us at Weller Book Works for “Writing About Rights,” Rekdal. Levin is the author of four books, including last year’s October 12, 7 PM | The King’s English Bookshop featuring poets Robert Terashima and Rob Carney. Banana Palace. Rekdal’s new nonfiction book, The Broken Margot Singer returns to Salt Lake to discuss October 17, 7 PM | Auditorium, The City Library Terashima’s Issei and Other Poems strikes an important Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of her new novel, Underground Fugue, which Join Guest Writers Series and The Utah Film chord at this time of collective amnesia we find ourselves Vietnam will be released shortly before the event. explores intergenerational relationships Center for a special screening of A Late Style in, telling the story of his own family living under the October 4, 7 PM | Auditorium, against the backdrop of terrorist attacks in of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet. This Oriental Exclusion proclamation of 1907. Carney is the Utah Museum of Fine Arts London. Singer’s collection of short stories, innovative documentary explores Levis’ author of four books, most recently 88 Maps, and writes a Art historian Hikmet Loe will discuss her new work on The Pale of Settlement, won the Flannery childhood working alongside Mexican- column called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain.org Land Art icon Robert Smithson and his Utah masterpiece O’Connor Award for short fiction. American field hands, his three marriages, September 27, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference Spiral Jetty. Loe’s presentation will be preceded by a special October 14, 10 AM | Art Access friendships with America’s greatest poets, Room, The City Library presentation of Smithson’s filmSpiral Jetty. and his own words. Director Michele Poulos will The personal essay is the backbone of contemporary creative City Art presents poets Matthew Cooperman and be present for a discussion after the screening. October 4, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference Room, nonfiction, and many essays are means of exploring trauma or Aby Kaupang. Both Cooperman and Kaupang have The City Library loss. Such work helps create both empathy and community for October 18, 12 PM | Finch Lane Gallery authored numerous books and chapbooks. They have City Art presents Matthew Minicucci and Gaylord Brewer. those with like experience. Art Access invites those interested Join Michele Poulos, director of A Late Style of Fire: Larry also collaborated on a number of works, most notably the Minicucci is the author of Translation as well as the recently in the form to take part in a four-week Writing Through Levis, American Poet, for a lunchtime colloquium at the Finch ongoing projects NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) and released collection Small Gods from New Issues Press. Brewer’s Grief: Personal Essay Writing workshop. Dates are 10/14, Lane Gallery. Poulos will discuss her work on the film as well Jungle Book: A Memoir of Abilities, both of which examine most recent publication is a cookbook/memoir, The Poet’s 10/21, 10/28, and 11/4. Cost: $30. Contact elise@accessart. as her time spent researching Levis and his work. aspects of autism and life with their daughter, Maya. Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire. org for more details and to register. October 18, 7 PM | 4th Floor Conference Room, September 28, 3:30 PM | LNCO Building, October 5, 7 PM | Finch Lane Gallery October 15, 2 PM | The King’s English Bookshop The City Library University of Utah Campus The Guest Writers Series welcomes poetsPhilip Schaefer and Join author/illustrator duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen for Essayist and memoirist Jennifer Sinor joins poet and essayist Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang visit the David Baker to Finch Lane Gallery. Schaefer’s collection, Bad a special storytime for their new picture book, The Wolf, the Michael Sowder for the City Art series. Sinor released two University of Utah to discuss their work and ongoing Summon, was the winner of the 2016 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Duck, and the Mouse. With a nod to traditional fables and a books in 2017 — Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia collaborative projects. Cooperman is the author of five Prize. David Baker is the author of eleven collections of poetry wink to the reader, the award-winning Barnett and Klassen O’Keeffe, and the memoir, Ordinary Trauma. Sowder is the books and a professor at Colorado State University. and is the poetry editor at the Kenyon Review. offer a tale of cooperation and creative cuisine that is sure to author of three books, including House Under the Moon and Kaupang is the author of two books and the current Poet go down easy. Places in the signing line are reserved for those Whitman’s Ecstatic Union. Laureate of Fort Collins, Colorado. who buy a copy of The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse from The King’s English.

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October 19, 7 PM | Libby Gardner Concert Utah Humanities Hall, University of Utah 202 West 300 North The Tanner Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1108 Humanities 801-359-9670 Center presents www.utahhumanities.org authors Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon in conversation for the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values. Zadie Smith is a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University. Michael Chabon is the chairman of the board of directors at the MacDowell Colony. Both are bestselling novelists whose works have received numerous awards. October 25, 7 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. October 26, 7 PM | Gore School of Business Auditorium, Westminster College Lisa Bickmore and Lia Purpura visit Westminster College as Nebo School District Indian Education Program. Tapahonso part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Series. Bickmore’s and Keeler are prominent Native American voices in literature West Jordan flickerwon the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. Purpura and journalism and will share their stories of working with October 10, 7 PM | is the author of eight collections of poetry, essays, and numerous tribes on issues tied to the Bears Ears Monument. Viridian Event Center, translations. West Jordan Library St. George As part of their ongoing programming Spanish Fork October 7, 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM | tied to Ken Burns’ new documentary October 27, 6:30 PM | Gardner Center, Dixie State University The Vietnam War, KUED and Salt Lake County Library Services present Larsen Elementary School Tween Author Boot Camp The Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal. Rekdal Luci Tapahonso returns to St. George! Tween will discuss hew new nonfiction work The Broken Country: and Jacqueline Author Boot Camp is a non-profit On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam. Keeler visit event geared to youth ages 9 to Rekdal is author of seven other books, including five poetry Spanish Fork 12 years old. It is formatted like collections and two memoirs. to discuss their a mini writing conference. Tween contributions to ABC has classes from the tweens’ favorite authors, including Torrey House NY Times bestsellers, door prizes and dinner. There is an Press’ Edge of optional writing contest and a book signing at the end of the Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bear’s Ears as part of the conference.

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