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Trish Hopkinson & Jennifer Tonge poetry reading – READ LOCAL Onsite series in SLC, Thurs. 4/11 @ 7pm

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A collaboration between Salt Lake City Arts Council and 15 Bytes with support from Utah Humanities, READ LOCAL Onsite pairs emerging local writers with established writers for a reading and discussion of their work.

The event Thursday, April 11 at 7pm features two Utah poets: Rock Canyon Poets co-founder Trish Hopkinson and SLC’s Jennifer Tonge at Finch Lane Gallery (45 Finch Lane, SLC).

TRISH HOPKINSON’S poems have been published in Tinderbox, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. Her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. She is co-founder of Rock Canyon Poets and Editor-in-Chief of the group’s annual anthology, Orogeny.

JENNIFER TONGE’S poems have appeared in numerous journals, including the New England Review. Most recently, her work has appeared as part of the Visible Poetry Project and been featured on Zoetic Press’s podcast The Literary Whip.

15 Bytes Literary Editor Calvin Jolley will moderate the evening.

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Poetry reading + open mic featuring fish burton – Tuesday, April 9, 2019 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Fish Burton! The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm at Pioneer Book (450 W. Center) in historic downtown Provo on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.

fish burton is a poet who has lived in over thirty different houses. he has an m.f.a. in poetry from b.y.u. and has been published in inscape and collision magazine. his first chapbook, sonder,   is a collection of poem portraits. currently, he is a member of rock canyon poets and writes somewhere he has never lived before. find him at fishburton.com.

Burton visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Poetry reading + open mic featuring Joel Long – Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Joel Long! The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm at Pioneer Book (450 W. Center) in historic downtown Provo on Tuesday, February 12, 2019.

You can listen to Long read several of his recently published poems on Terrain.org:

FIVE POEMS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
BY JOEL LONG

You can also watch him perform his Bite Size poem “Fate of the Animals” from 2009.

Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Lessons in Disappearance and Knowing Time by Light were published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010.  His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press.  His poems and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sports Literate, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Massachusetts Review, Terrain, and Water-Stone Review, among others. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Long visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official event page: https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/

 

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Poetry reading + open mic featuring Lisa Bickmore – Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Lisa Bickmore! The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm.

Lisa Bickmore grew up living all over the United States and in Japan. She is the author of three books of poems: Haste (Signature Books, 1994), flicker, which won the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press, and Ephemerist (Red Mountain Press, June 2017). She is a professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she teaches all kinds of writing.

Bickmore visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official event page: https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/

 

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Rock Canyon Poets reading at City Art at the Downtown SLC Library – Wed. Oct. 10 @ 7pm

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City Art and Utah Humanities Book Festival are pleased to host members of the Rock Canyon Poets on Wednesday, October 10 at 7:00 PM in the 4th Floor Conference Room of The City Library. Feature poets include Rock Canyon Poets co-founder Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, Dennis Marden Clark, Lisa Connors, Michaelle Martial, and Jack Garcia.

Rock Canyon Poets boasts diverse membership, ranging from 19 to 72 years in age with many backgrounds–including literary journal founders, editors, ex-military, business professionals, a playwright, and a periodontist.  Individually, they have received several awards and been published in magazines, anthologies, journals, chapbooks, and full-length books of poetry. Rock Canyon Poets offer poetry with the tactile clarity of tin-can messages through fuzzy strings to the ears of an audience. These poems are tumbleweeds in semi-truck grills. They get stuck in your teeth, build bridges of spun sugar, and make it possible to mount a camel without a sturdy ladder.

Co-founded by Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and Trish Hopkinson in 2015, Rock Canyon Poets was established to develop camaraderie among Utah Valley poets, provide consistent workshopping and reading opportunities, and promote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form. Members meet twice a month at Pioneer Book in historic downtown Provo. The group sponsors poetry readings and an open mic on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Membership is by invitation or portfolio submission only.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Event Info

  • Presented By: Utah Humanities
  • Dates: October 10, 2018
  • Location: Salt Lake City Public Library (Main Branch)
  • Address: 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
  • Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Poetry reading + open mic featuring Lance Larsen – Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Lance Larsen! The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm.

Lance Larsen has published five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa, 2017).  A recipient of awards and fellowships from Ragdale, Sewanee, the Anderson Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts, he teaches at BYU, where he serves as department chair.  He recently co-directed a theatre study abroad program in London.

You can read a sample from his book What the Body Knows here.

Larsen visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official event page: https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/

 

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm

9/11 Tribute Poetry Reading + open mic featuring Alex Caldiero – Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Alex Caldiero for a special 9/11 tribute poetry reading. The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm.

Alex Caldiero: sonosopher, polyartists, scholar of Humanities and intermedia. Publications include Sound Weave (Differential Records), sonosuono (Elik), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), Some Love (Signature Books), Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance (saltfront); anthologized in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London), Text-Sound Texts (Morrow, NY), Fire in the Pasture & Mother in Heaven (both from Peculiar Pages), Immediate Present (Mormon Arts Center). He is the subject of the documentary Alex Caldiero…in sound…in life. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, society for Sicilian language and culture. Caldiero is Senior Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University.

Caldiero recently performed at the Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City.

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Caldiero visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official event page: https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Poetry reading + open mic featuring Rob Carney – Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Rob Carney! The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm.

Rob Carney is originally from Washington state and will be reading from his new poetry collection The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press). He is the author of four previous books, including 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and Weather Report (Somondoco Press), which won the Utah Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, Sugar House Review, Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and dozens of other journals. He is a Professor of English and Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.

Carney visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official event page: https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Poetry reading + open mic featuring Michael McLane – Tuesday, July 10, 2018 @ 6:30pm

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Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book are please to present Utah poet Michael McLane! The event begins with an open mic at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00pm. You can tune in to hear McLane read some of his poetry on KRCL’s Radioactive, Wednesday, July 4 at 6 p.m. The show will also be available via on-demand later that evening.

Michael McLane is the author of the chapbook Trace Elements and is an editor with both Sugar House Review and saltfront: studies in human habit(at). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Western Humanities Review, Colorado Review, Catalyst, Dark Mountain, Interim, Denver Quarterly, High Country News, and The Laurel Review. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah. He lives in Salt Lake City where he is the director of the Utah Center for the Book at Utah Humanities.

McLane visits Pioneer Book as a guest of the Rock Canyon Poets and Pioneer Book. The reading and open mic are open to the general public.

For more information, contact the Rock Canyon Poets, rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com.

Official event page: https://rockcanyonpoets.com/category/events/

Where: Pioneer Book – 450 West Center Street, Provo

When: Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm