reviewed by Neil Shelley I’m not a feminist scholar. In fact, I shamefully admit to a relative ignorance of the feminist literary theories, attitudes, and texts available to me as a reader. I say this as a sort of disclaimer for my limited response to poet Jan Minich’s […]
“When you have fire, that’s where you are,” she said as she rubbed ash across dancer Efren Corado Garcia’s face. The other dancers followed suit, rubbing the ashes from campfires grown cold across their faces and hands. Poignant words from Ida Yellowman, one of the three Navajo guides […]
“We were changed.” It’s a phrase Zvi Gotheiner says repeatedly as we discuss his new work, “Dancing the Bears Ears,” being performed this week at Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT). It becomes almost a mantra. A rhythmic punctuation mark to pace his thoughts. It’s something he said repeatedly along […]
Sept. 28-30, Ririe-Woodbury’s six artists undertook the task of creating for their audience a sense of Parallax — the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions. What ‘object’ was the viewer intended to see differently: the idea of […]
The 1-5-B, Episode 7: Michael Gills reads from Emergency Instructions On Thursday, September 28, Utah writer Michael Gills came to Salt Lake City’s Finch Lane Gallery as part of READ LOCAL, a collaboration between Salt Lake City Arts Council and 15 Bytes, with financial support from Utah Humanities, […]
The 1-5-B, Episode 6: Joe Totten reads from “The Starling Killers” On Thursday, September 28, Utah writer Joe Totten came to Salt Lake City’s Finch Lane Gallery as part of READ LOCAL, a collaboration between Salt Lake City Arts Council and 15 Bytes, with financial support from Utah […]
Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme and published in conjunction with an exhibition by the same name, Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950, is the winner of this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award for Art Book. As our review of the publication concluded: “Like […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry: Paisley Rekdal for Imaginary Vessels. The judges’ citation for the book follows: In a luminescent language, Paisley Rekdal’s fifth collection of poetry, “Imaginary Vessels,” explores a broad assortment of both the anticipated […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction: Michael Gills’ The House Across from the Deaf School, a collection of inter-related stories set in the rural South. The judges’ citation for the book follows: Both a straight-talker and a […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction: Scott Abbott’s Immortal for Quite Some Time, not a memoir but “a fraternal meditation on the question, ‘Are we friends, my brother?’’” The book opens in 1991, as Abbott, his […]
In 1966, Salt Lake City’s “Japan Town” was demolished to build the Salt Palace Convention Center, taking with it a deep cultural memory of institutionalized prejudice. Although many Japanese immigrants came to America between 1884 and 1907, Asian immigrants were prevented from becoming naturalized citizens until 1952. A […]
“Have you ever heard of mammal watching?” a professor once asked me. “Besides whale watching?” I admitted that I hadn’t. “Sure,” he continued, “we humans like to watch animals of all kinds, but have you ever heard of a self-described snaker? Met an insect-looker at a party? […]
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