Articles on Utah literary arts, Utah authors, Utah literature and poetry published in 15 Bytes.
READ LOCAL First is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Each month, 15 Bytes offers works-in-progress and / or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction and memoir. Today, 15 Bytes […]
In our efforts to expand our coverage of the literary arts in Utah, we’re publishing Utah Arts & Museums’ monthly “Bite-Size Poetry” here on our blog. Look for it as one of our Sunday literary posts. Laura Stott recites her poem “Boundaries.” READ LOCAL FirstJoin us on the […]
When we’re in the office working on 15 Bytes, we love listening to music on KRCL and listening to news and talk on KUER. So, we know, like most of Utah, that Doug Fabrizio’s Radio West is a state treasure. In the past week Radio West has posted […]
In the beginning was the word, and in it, revealed, through its fullness, the possibility of both blasphemy and redemption. Both/and. Because Mormonism is a vast tent, and also an unbalanced one, most of its stakes on one side. Less and more active, perfection and atonement, sexual […]
The ”Sediment” in the title of this book of poems is radioactive dust blown downwind from nuclear explosions at the Nevada Test Site; the “Veil” is a Mormon symbol that represents the separation between God and man, but also, according to the LDS.org website, “a God-given forgetfulness that […]
In our efforts to expand our coverage of the literary arts in Utah, we’re publishing Utah Arts & Museums’ monthly “Bite-Size Poetry” here on our blog. Look for it as one of our Sunday literary posts. Paisley Rekdal recites her poem “Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner.” READ LOCAL […]
What does DIRT taste like? Here are 36 different ways of tasting, seeing, feeling, and experiencing dirt. Reading this collection, skillfully collected by Barbara Richardson, is like being served a small plate dinner with 36 different tastes. Richardson, a past winner of the Utah Book Award, is the […]
SUNDAY BLOG READ is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Each month, 15 Bytes offers works-in-progress and / or recently published work by some of the state’s most celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction and memoir. Today, 15 Bytes […]
In our efforts to expand our coverage of the literary arts in Utah, we’ll be publishing Utah Arts & Museums’ monthly “Bite-Size Poetry” here on our blog. Look for it as one of our Sunday literary posts. Ben Gunsberg recites his poem “I didn’t understand how to erase […]
I saw the best minds of my generation” [Janis, Jimi, Jim, Kurt, Amy, the kid who lived around the corner] “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for […]
In the 15th Century morality play Everyman, the common conceit is that mankind will come upon a day of reckoning whereupon each man’s life will be scored by each of his good deeds. Everyman, reminded of death at all turns, seeks assurance from his fellows that he has […]
Idaho-based Braden Hepner is this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award winner in fiction for his debut novel Pale Harvest (Torrey House Press). With a setting inspired largely by Cache Valley, Utah, the book is a lyrical recounting of young Jack Selvedge and a coterie of family and friends […]
