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For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Salt Lake City-based Matthew Ivan Bennett, resident playwright at Plan-B Theatre Company, listed by American Theater magazine as one of 14 companies nationwide exemplifying social action and civic engagement. A fixture in the local theater scene and beyond, Bennett is currently working […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Springville-based fiction writer Akramah Cofie. His novel-in-progress, “A Fortnight in ’79,” tells the story of Emilia, a woman who refuses to let die her dream of getting an education. It also gives a glimpse of Ghana, in the latter part of […]
If the Three Tenors can draw stadium-size crowds, why not poets? Asphodel, That Greeny Flower by Williams Carlos Williams (d. 1963) is an institutionally well-established poem among writers, coffee shop patrons, bar flies and academics. The modernist love poem discovers a certitude so resonant as to be mistaken […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Patricia G. Karamesines, novelist, poet, blogger and nonfiction writer who today offers two poems. Originally from Virginia, Karamesines now lives outside of Blanding. Her novel The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books) is a unique Utah murder mystery, set at the site of an archaeological dig […]
A year ago, in early November, poet Brad Roghaar opened the Ogden Mayor’s Awards in the Arts by reading one of his works about a city at the confluence of two rivers. His first official duty as the city’s inaugural poet laureate, he’d written the poem for that […]
Reviewed by Lis Pankl Trish Hopkinson’s most recent volume of poetry, Footnote, is a deeply personal tribute to her favorite poems, prose, music, and films. She takes references from these works throughout to extrapolate into her own subject, often responding to the creator of the text or to […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Gerald Elias, violinist and former Utah Symphony associate concertmaster and author of the Daniel Jacobus mystery series, the most recent of which, Playing with Fire (Severn Press, 2016), is a finalist for this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award in fiction. 15 Bytes […]
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 […]
The 1-5-B, Episode 8: Joe Totten and Michael Gills On Writing On Thursday, September 28, Utah writers Joe Totten and 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
