{"id":37306,"date":"2018-02-11T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37306"},"modified":"2018-09-14T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T02:22:16","slug":"the-earths-crust-giving-rise-to-mountain-latest-issue-of-orogeny-launches-feb-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-earths-crust-giving-rise-to-mountain-latest-issue-of-orogeny-launches-feb-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth\u2019s Crust Giving Rise to Mountain: Latest Issue of \u201cOrogeny\u201d Launches Feb. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Since 2015, Rock Canyon Poets in Provo has proven to be a community hub for poets to \u201cpromote the disciplined study of writing poetry as a serious art form.\u201d With a little more than 50 members born out of a group of close friends from Utah Valley University\u2019s creative writing program and from other open mic opportunities, the group began as a way of looking for something more \u201cacademic\u201d and to hopefully further establish camaraderie. The growth of individual poets in the association is aptly showcased in the launch of the group\u2019s annual collection. The third edition of\u00a0Orogeny<\/em>\u00a0will be celebrated Tuesday Feb. 13, at Provo\u2019s Pioneer Book.<\/p>\n

The amount of academic focus and \u201cconsistent workshopping\u201d within the group over the last few years has built up anticipation for this publication and its unveiling. Rock Canyon Poets\u2019 co-founder, Trish Hopkinson, talks about this evolution of the group\u2019s poets: \u201cThe poems [in this third print edition] demonstrate this growth,\u201d she says in an email interview. \u201cEach issue of\u00a0Orogeny\u00a0<\/em>is better than the previous.\u201d The word \u201corogeny\u201d is a geological term derived from the Greek \u1f44\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3, mountain, and \u03b3\u03ad\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c3, birth. \u201cAn orogenic episode,\u201d she says, \u201cis the process whereby collisions and separations in the earth\u2019s crust give rise to mountains. Co-founder Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen and I found this to be an excellent metaphor for how poets create.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous issues of\u00a0Orogeny<\/em>\u00a0have provided an impressive mix of content. Regarding the last edition, Hopkinson says, \u201cI was able to share the manuscript with some of our favorite Utah poets and poetry professors who were generous enough to write summaries and praise\u201d for it. Former Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen, wrote, \u201cIn short you\u2019ll find poets dreaming their way onto the page. By dreaming, I mean closing their eyes to see better, opening them to grab up any details they missed. Transformation is their state flower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shiffler-Olsen wrote her own thoughts on the latest edition:<\/p>\n

The poets whose work comprises the third volume of Orogeny offer us a journey through landscapes of the interior and exterior, through moments proximal and distant. These poems are the sedimentary collection of life\u2019s work, detailing what it means to be human. Ideas are built up, unspooled, rethreaded, woven, and laid flat. In the poetic process of observation and evaluation, these voices offer means whereby all may find equalizing access to the beauty and darkness on the mountain path.<\/em><\/p>\n

The upcoming live event this week is sure to please. It is \u201ca pleasure to see themes coming together and complementing each other,\u201d Hopkinson says, referring to \u201ca widely diverse group\u201d of poets included.<\/p>\n

At the upcoming launch, poets will read from their various contributions to\u00a0Orogeny<\/em>, followed by an open mic, light refreshments and a book signing. \u201cWe do have a pretty amazing group of poets with a wonderful variety of backgrounds and education,\u201d says Hopkinson. \u201cMany have been published in literary magazines and have books out as well. Others are emerging poets with great talent and potential. Sometimes we have chairs trailing into the bookstore aisles and other times, [it\u2019s] a small gathering. Each reading is eclectic and introduces the audience to poets they may never had heard of before as well as to poetry forms and styles they may not yet be familiar with\u2013from sonnets to slam and everything in between.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock Canyon Poets sponsors reading events each month. \u201cMost months,\u201d says Hopkinson \u201cwe also have feature poets who come share their work, including nationally known poets like Meg Day and C Dylan Bassett, as well as Utah favorites such as Laura Hamblin, Rob Carney, Kimberly Johnson, Nancy Takacs, Jan Minich and others.\u201d Their next feature poet on March 14 is RCP member Tacey Atsitty, whose full-length collection\u00a0Rain Scald<\/em>\u00a0is now available for pre-order from the University of New Mexico Press. In April, National Poetry Month, the group will present one of the last living Beat poets from San Francisco\u2013Neeli Cherkovski.<\/p>\n

Rock Canyon Poets also hosts monthly workshops for its members along with an annual workshop for the community in the fall, entitled \u201cInspired.\u201d This free, two-session event is sponsored each fall by Pioneer Book and Utah Humanities in conjunction with the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Participants are encouraged to submit their poem to be included in a printed anthology; contributors receive a free copy. The third issue of\u00a0Inspired<\/em>\u00a0was released in November. One particularly unusual entry in each issue is a crowd-sourced poem created by attendees of the annual Provo Pride Festival.<\/p>\n

Membership in Rock Canyon Poets is by invitation or portfolio submission only. For more information, contact Rock Canyon Poets,\u00a0rockcanyonpoets@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrogeny\u201d Launch Party,\u00a0Pioneer Book Provo<\/a>, Feb. 13,\u00a0<\/em>6:30 \u2013 8:00 pm, copies of \u201cOrogeny\u201d will be available for $10, light refreshments.<\/em><\/p>\n

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