{"id":37800,"date":"2017-11-06T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37800"},"modified":"2018-09-19T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:22:59","slug":"15b-book-awards-reading-bring-a-friend-who-doesnt-read-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/15b-book-awards-reading-bring-a-friend-who-doesnt-read-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"15B Book Awards Reading: Bring a Friend Who Doesn\u2019t Read Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postmetadata\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry\">\n<div id=\"attachment_43019\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43019\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Stacked.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Paisley Rekdal by Austen Diamond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the Three Tenors can draw stadium-size crowds, why not poets?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/asphodel-greeny-flower-excerpt\"><em>Asphodel, That Greeny Flower<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by 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 long-remembered truths and provides ample argument for why poetry\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>sell out the Salt Palace or Vivint Smart Home Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is difficult<\/p>\n<p>To get the news from poems<\/p>\n<p>Yet men die miserably every day<\/p>\n<p>For lack of what is found there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Readers of poems understand this statement to be true, but many more deserve to learn as much.<\/p>\n<p>Great poems do this: they unearth some aspect of experience and needle it forward into light. Upon recognition, our understanding shines forward and back because poetic truth (which Aristotle placed above the historical) enjoys a quality of timelessness. The often quoted lines of Williams reveal as much about our human condition now as ever before.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Nov. 9, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal will read alongside previous Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles and longtime word-shaker, sonosopher, poet, and polyartist Alex Caldiero\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/index.php\/2017-15-bytes-book-awards-poetry\/\">finalists for this year\u2019s 15 Bytes Book Award in poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of this night to honor all three and experience their poetry read out loud, we caught up with Paisley Rekdal (this year\u2019s winner of the 15 Bytes\u00a0award) to learn a bit more about our Poet Laureate as a neighbor and friend in the community.<\/p>\n<p>On any given Sunday, Paisley prefers jogging and practicing guitar. She collects kaleidoscopes, which she describes as \u201csurprisingly hard to find.\u201d She isn\u2019t a collector of books, per se, because she purchases them to read. \u201cOnce read, however, they rarely leave my house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This should not suggest that she can find the book she\u2019s looking for: \u201cI have hundreds of books, and stupidly I just put them on my shelves without alphabetizing them. Which means that I can spend up to half an hour trying to find the poetry book I really want to read again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to choose between mornings and nights, modern and vintage, Paisley responds with classic wit: \u201cBoth to both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to choose\u00a0<em>a category<\/em>\u00a0and name\u00a0<em>the one<\/em>, she says, \u201cDrink. Rye Whiskey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our final question:\u00a0<em>What do you love?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who displays real curiosity and enthusiasm,\u201d Paisley concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Having been on the \u201cpoetry road\u201d to read and promote her work nonstop for the past six weeks (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington), Paisley Rekdal will return to share the stage with Katharine Coles and Alex Caldiero for a remarkable night of spunk and poems to spare.<\/p>\n<p>In the name of enthusiasm and curiosity:\u00a0<em>Be there<\/em>\u00a0with someone who wouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017 15 Bytes Book Awards (Poetry)<\/strong><br \/>\nPresentation and Readings<br \/>\n<em>Paisley Rekdal (winner)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Alex Caldiero (finalist)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Katharine Coles (finalist)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theprintedgarden.com\/index.html\">The Printed Garden Bookshop<br \/>\n<\/a>9445 S. Union Square, Sandy<br \/>\n7:00 p.m.<a href=\"http:\/\/theprintedgarden.com\/index.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reception, book sale and signings will follow<br \/>\n<strong>Free and Open to the Public<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of Paisley Rekdal by Austen Diamond If the Three Tenors can draw stadium-size crowds, why not poets?\u00a0Asphodel, That Greeny Flower\u00a0by Williams Carlos Williams (d. 1963) is an institutionally well-established poem among writers, coffee shop patrons, bar flies and academics. 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