The 15Th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival Each Oct., During National Book Month, We Offer a Free State-Wide Book Festival…
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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL UTAH HUMANITIES Sept. 22-Oct. 31, 2012 • Statewide Thanks to our Sponsors David and Sherrie Gee Welcome to the 15th Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival Each Oct., during National Book Month, we offer a free state-wide book festival…. the oldest and only book festival of its kind in Utah! It is an author-rich opportunity to meet engaging writers and have conversations with them about their ideas and books. www.utahhumanities.org This year we mark 15 amazing years of celebrating books with Utahns 801. 359. 9670 • 801. 531. 7869 (fax) (fax) 7869 531. 801. • 9670 359. 801. S.L.C. UT S.L.C. Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1108 UT City, Lake Salt across the state. We invite you to use this program as a guide to the Permit No. 2794 No. Permit PAID 202 West 300 North 300 West 202 events and check our website at www.utahhumanities.org for updates. U.S. Postage U.S. Utah Humanities Council Humanities Utah Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit We look forward to seeing you at events throughout the month! 1 Northern Tremonton OCT. 17, 7 PM OCT. 11, 6:30 PM Brigham City Public Library Pleasant Valley Library OCT. 5, 7 PM 26 East Forest St. 5568 South Adams Ave. Holmgren Historical Farm Join Matthew Kirby, author of the young Brodi Ashton discusses her debut novel, 460 North 300 East adult books Icefall and The Clockwork Everneath. Nikki Beckett has six months The Utah Humanities Book Festival in Three, as he discusses his work. Born before the Everneath comes to claim conjunction with Holmgren Historical in Utah, but her, six months for good-byes she can’t Farm are excited to present acclaimed with a father in in find the words for, six months to find indigenous poet, musician and activist the Navy, he lived redemption, if it exists. Nikki longs to Joy Harjo reading from her new memoir all over—Rhode Island, Maryland, Cali- spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and try- Crazy Brave in the Holmgren Historical fornia, and Hawaii. As an undergraduate ing to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack. But there’s just one Barn. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth at Utah State University, he majored in problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading history. He then went on to earn MS and the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. EdS degrees in School Psychology. Kirby Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. OCT. 25, 12:30 PM currently lives in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. Weber State University Library, Special Collections Brigham City OCT. 18, 3:30 PM Blogger, author, and Mormon foodways expert Brock Cheney OCT. 2, 7 PM Brigham City Public Library brings his knowledge to Weber State University to discuss his new book Plain But Wholesome, a groundbreaking foray into Brigham City Public Library 26 East Forest St. Mormon food history. 26 East Forest St. Representatives from the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Romance is the best-selling fiction genre of all time, with novels Nation will share the history, stories, and craftwork that are an ranging from historical to contemporary, suspenseful to humor- intricate part of their cultural past and present lives. Providence ous. What makes love stories so popular? What lifts a romance OCT. 13, 5 PM from good to great? Award-winning romance author Sarah M. Old Rock Church, 10 South Main Street Eden will answer these questions and more when she presents Logan Celebrate the traditional Sauerkraut Dinner in Providence with “An Author’s Guide to Romance. ” SEPT. 21, 2 PM David B. Haight Alumni House blogger, author, and Mormon foodways expert Brock Cheney. OCT. 3, 7 PM Utah State University Join us for an afternoon and evening of food, great cars, enter- tainment, vendors, and visiting with old and new friends. Brigham City Public Library William Adler will receive the Evans Biography Award from 26 East Forest St. the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies for his book Susan Swetnam discusses her new book on labor leader Joe Hill, The Man Who Never Died. Adler will Vernal Books, Bluster & Bounty: Local Politics speak about Hill and the research that went into the book. and Carnegie Library Building Grants OCT. 18, 7 PM in the Intermountain West, 1890-1920 OCT. 11, 7 PM Uintah County Library, 155 East Main Street and the history of Carnegie Libraries in Logan Library, 255 North Main Archivist and lover of rivers, Roy Webb discusses the Green Utah and the West. Swetnam is Professor of Lance Larsen, current Utah poet laureate; Katharine Coles, River and what its damming has hidden from view. After more English at Idaho State University. She researches and writes former Utah poet laureate; and Star Coulbrooke, head of than 50 years of planning, the Green River was dammed in about narratives ranging from Idaho pioneer life stories to nov- Helicon West, will read and discuss the accessibility of poetry 1963 as part of the Colorado River Storage Project. Today els, and about Intermountain West history and culture. and how poets engage in the community. many people enjoy boating and fishing on Flaming Gorge Reservoir, but few know about what lies under the water. In OCT. 25, 7 PM OCT. 9, 7 PM Lost Canyons of the Green River, Webb takes the reader back in Brigham City Public Library Logan Library, 255 North Main time to discover what lay along this section of the Green River 26 East Forest St. Poets William Trowbridge & Shanan before Flaming Gorge Dam was built. Ballam discuss the freedoms and restric- In Big Rigs and Long Hitches: Freighting in the Old West, Mi- tions of writing persona poems. William chael Zimmer, author of ten novels, discusses his research for Trowbridge’s latest poetry collection is Ship the novel The Long Hitch, a Western Story set in Corinne, Utah, Ft. Duchesne of Fool. He was recently appointed to a and along the Utah to Montana Road in the 1870s. Zimmer OCT. 24 two-year term as Poet Laureate of Mis- will share stories and period art on the hazards and humor to souri. Shanan Ballam holds an MFA from Uintah River High School be found along the Western trails. the University of Nebraska. She has taught Poet Héctor Ahumada discusses poetry and reads from his work. Ahumada is a Chilean artist, and a naturalized US OCT. 16, 7 PM poetry, fiction writing, literature, and academic writing for the past 14 years. Her citizen. He is the recipient of Mayor’s Literary Award in Lit- Brigham City Public Library erature. He studied at the Viña del Mar Fine Arts School and 26 East Forest St. chapbook, The Red Riding Hood Papers, was released in 2010. the State Technical University in Chile. In the United States, Josi Kilpack is currently writing a culinary he studied at Brigham Young University and the University mystery series. She discusses how the reci- of Utah. Ahumada’s poems have been published in Great and pes work into the plot, Ogden Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, Hispanic Cantos: A Collection which comes first – the OCT. 9, 7 PM of Utah Latino Poetry, Deseret News, Venceremos, Echo Canyon, title recipe or the story Pleasant Valley Library, 5568 South Adams Ave. and Mission San Francisco newspapers. that goes with it, and how other authors Lisa Mangum have made it work. Kilpack has sixteen discusses her new YA novel, After Hello. What published novels. She’s the Best of State if the first day of your relationship was the only day you had? in fiction recipient for 2012 and lives When Sam’s and Sara’s paths cross, neither one is prepared for in Willard with her husband and four what they will find out about each other and about themselves children. when they form an unlikely partnership in search of an elusive work of art. Central 2 Moroni Wendover West Jordan OCT. 3, 10 AM OCT. 10 OCT. 25, 7 PM Moroni Elementary School Wendover High School Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. Renowned children’s author Poet Héctor Ahumada discusses poetry and 1825 W. George Ancona discusses his his own work with students at Wendover The Utah Humanities Council and Salt books and photography with High School. Ahumada is a Chilean artist and Lake County Library Services present students in Moroni. Ancona grew the recipient of Mayor’s Literary Award in NCAA Wrestling Champion Anthony up in Coney Island, New York Literature. He studied at the Viña del Mar Fine Arts School and Robles. Robles discusses his life, his new where he became interested in his father’s hobby, photography. the State Technical University in Chile. In the United States, memoir, Unstoppable, and how he overcame disability and hard- He is an award-winning photographer and author of books for he studied at Brigham Young University and the University ship to rise to the top of his sport. He is a three-time all-Amer- young readers, including Mayeros: A Yucatec Maya Family; Bar- of Utah. Ahumada’s poems have been published in Great and ican wrestler, the 2011 NCAA National Wrestling Champion, rio: Jose’s Neighborhood, Ole! flamenco; Earth Daughter, and The Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, Hispanic Cantos: A Collection of and a Nike-sponsored athlete. He was also born without his Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home. He has photographed and Utah Latino Poetry, Deseret News, Venceremos, Echo Canyon, and right leg. Unstoppable is not just an exciting sports memoir or an written about everything from horses to helicopters.