tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27503616529210483142024-03-05T19:21:48.157-07:00A Place to Share POETRY IdeasUtah State Poetry Society's official BLOG for sharing ideas for furthering poetry in our state. Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-73211742708724731612022-07-20T14:17:00.008-06:002022-07-20T14:21:44.048-06:00Welcome to Rachel Chidester of Utah Poetry Slam<b></b><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_--CYrJxXqmUE0ufqzfX1swyHFf8L77qGE_wquOraEs4hN_WAnyPDvgXP9TbW7EgowiU0JFi3d2RzrjeIosmcVwcpeOu3VxrRiTx9_Sml8PRxkmMiZ87y1IJtglPU2YU_mLklZCHot1gTrAv2yW-bWjZiyXzk5CncYtjxJ47As5_JEf1PBFkfEre/s780/AE5AA8B9-58A9-45E1-AA41-00819639795D_1_201_a.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="619" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_--CYrJxXqmUE0ufqzfX1swyHFf8L77qGE_wquOraEs4hN_WAnyPDvgXP9TbW7EgowiU0JFi3d2RzrjeIosmcVwcpeOu3VxrRiTx9_Sml8PRxkmMiZ87y1IJtglPU2YU_mLklZCHot1gTrAv2yW-bWjZiyXzk5CncYtjxJ47As5_JEf1PBFkfEre/w159-h200/AE5AA8B9-58A9-45E1-AA41-00819639795D_1_201_a.jpeg" width="159" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">RACHEL CHIDESTER is a native of Utah who gained interest in poetry as a teenager in high school while looking for her voice. Poetry Coach Chris Atkin got her into the competitive scene. After graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. She will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage in the <i>Blackberry Peach National Prizes for Poetry: Spoken and Heard</i> this coming October in Daytona Beach, Florida. (For more info, see <a href="https://www.nfsps.com/BBP3Guidelines.html" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">https://www.nfsps.com/BBP3Guidelines.html</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">) </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Her first chatbook </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">The Cost of Living in Utah is Good Poetr</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">y</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">has been published and will be available at Amazon. Rachel is also a locally awarded Visual Artist & an awarded Civic Engagement Advocate. Welcome to our group.</span></p>
<p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">HUMILITY <i>by Rachel Chidester</i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Humility is the butterfly we catch as children</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> And crush its wings</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> In an effort to play.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> But it's the only way</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> to metamorphose</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> into peaceful creatures.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </p>
Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-63321415297608395182022-07-15T20:21:00.012-06:002022-07-18T19:23:01.823-06:00Meet Our New Poet Laureate of Utah <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mRINpzUx5UF59ySavso9qsBuLepDELJH0SaSwVs7D5-tJVA5OnC5jsvgL1Y1m3VvQcHHhZu-NsFXiCssfyv0MArpTQbDAxolbYGNf4HN7YjHOoL2DfvPJra1acG8E8F20pvOiR-wfNj0O0trrVeGrAWqN9Hi1Fv06FOh-iw9NT8y2aDz-R-jnN7P/s272/F6F94EB4-0C73-4183-97D2-E7B2ED96C9A7_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="267" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mRINpzUx5UF59ySavso9qsBuLepDELJH0SaSwVs7D5-tJVA5OnC5jsvgL1Y1m3VvQcHHhZu-NsFXiCssfyv0MArpTQbDAxolbYGNf4HN7YjHOoL2DfvPJra1acG8E8F20pvOiR-wfNj0O0trrVeGrAWqN9Hi1Fv06FOh-iw9NT8y2aDz-R-jnN7P/w196-h200/F6F94EB4-0C73-4183-97D2-E7B2ED96C9A7_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="196" /></a></div>LISA BICKMORE was born in Dover, Delaware, and grew up living all over the United States and in Japan</span><span style="text-align: left;">. She</span><span style="text-align: left;"> earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University and is Professor Emeritus of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she was the recipient of the SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2006. At SLCC, she taught writing of all sorts, as well as publication studies, and is one of the founders of the SLCC Publication Center. As of 2019, she is the founder of the new nonprofit Lightscatter Press, which published its first book in April of 2021. </span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We give her a warm welcome as an honorary member of the Utah State Poetry Society! She is the author of three books of poems: <i>Haste</i> (Signature Books, 1994), <i>flicker</i>, which won the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press, and <i>Ephemerist</i> (Red Mountain Press, June 2017).Read her published poem <i>O Take and Seal It</i> from the online journal <i>Psaltery & Lyre.</i> See <span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><a href="https://psalteryandlyre.org/2021/04/12/o-take-and-seal-it/">https://psalteryandlyre.org/2021/04/12/o-take-and-seal-it/</a></span> </div><p></p>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-52317366597369235622022-06-17T10:02:00.026-06:002022-06-17T13:33:46.318-06:00Meet Willy Palomo of Utah Slam Poetry Chapter<div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto;"><div center="" class="separator" style="color: #111111;" text-align:=""><a 1em="" float:="" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsJMqusCGIF-vNjnOAmn93BBI9K_xkXJpIuxQVSyofVAzESJA6DInavKeQC3MtBM6fUbCxqW0voXbNo7ziY4ryUsAZes4J9Mjm5mWXqjOWT9G1N7MjHbdMT6GQc-RL8tXAaCP1V8sOO43oD7iJeaqJhwQxcQPD2vG5NdYHEn90YTe88l0yWiyf0KQ/s750/PC_Willy%20Palomo.jpg" left="" margin-bottom:="" margin-right:="" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsJMqusCGIF-vNjnOAmn93BBI9K_xkXJpIuxQVSyofVAzESJA6DInavKeQC3MtBM6fUbCxqW0voXbNo7ziY4ryUsAZes4J9Mjm5mWXqjOWT9G1N7MjHbdMT6GQc-RL8tXAaCP1V8sOO43oD7iJeaqJhwQxcQPD2vG5NdYHEn90YTe88l0yWiyf0KQ/w200-h200/PC_Willy%20Palomo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">WILLY PALOMO </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(he/they/she) is the son of two immigrants from El Salvador. In 2018, he graduated with an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and an MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. Writings can be found in </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, Antologia de Posguerra, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, and more. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">He is a founding member of Plumas Colectiva, a literary and art collective of Latin creators in the 801. He is the Director of the Utah Humanities Book Festival and President of the <u>newest</u> UTSPS Chapter-UTAH POETRY SLAM. More info on how to join this group, s</span><span style="color: white;">ee </span></span></span><i style="color: #111111; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.utahpoets.com/chapters/">https://www.utahpoets.com/chapter-utah-poetry-slam/</a></i></div><div style="color: #111111; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif"> </span></b></div><div style="color: #111111; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif"><br /></span></b></div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #111111;"> </span><span style="color: #fff2cc;">How I learned to read </span></b><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><i>by Willy Palomo</i><b> </b></span></span></span><span face="Abadi, sans-serif" style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 12pt; text-align: right;"> </span></div></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">¿Are you mi Mama? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">beckoned the birdie in our favorite book. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">Cuddled and coddled, I want to brag, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">decirte that she read to me the most,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">every night. Except if you ask Mama, it was <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">faith, not education, not knowledge, but the Holy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">Ghost which gave her the power to understand the scriptures, when she,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">humiliated, confessed to the missionaries she didn’t know how to read. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">It never occurred to me until <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">just now that if her story is true, then she never actually read me anything as a <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">kid. She must have looked at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">letters & saw nothing but another endless <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">maze of streets & signs, another <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">nameless map of New York, left to navigate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">on pure faith and instinct. She’d interpret <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">pictures the same way she’d memorize streets the same way she’d read<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">quiet gringos, smirking as she passed. In 1st grade, I made it my goal to teach her to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">read. I took out all our books in front of guests, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">spilling a library of shame into the room. I’d correct her English <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">the same way I’d correct her children’s stories the same way I now write her story <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">under a language she will never call home. There’s not a word for her<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">verdad in English, no matter how many times I try <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">write it down. From a country where poets are <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">executed & literacy meant little more than signing away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">your name next to an X, she taught me to walk without <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: right;"><span face="Abadi, sans-serif">zapatos, to read without an alphabet shackling my tongue.</span></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><p> </p>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-12243569643451015002022-02-02T07:27:00.000-07:002022-02-02T07:27:35.387-07:00Steven Leitch UTSPS President graduates... <p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sad news...too many of our poets are leaving us this year: our sweet energetic UTSPS president Steven Leitch graduated Jan 31, 2022. His leadership and enthusiasm will be greatly missed. Here's a blog about him. More details on his funeral, etc. soon. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW7oUr6OBc_6WSQ1GKtM8X9SD33_u6KgF1Ycp80Iksv8lCxPKblfc75M7McaW86FzzJWp0etQ8MsHR7dodPyf-UxJEak992Aok7ZsPmrpkBiIwUQIyFr6uIP1JsZVjrgbttADeqOIO2F5pK8MVScDWqIIjUXeF5p6S42tGdZbfbVP8kP6n468Mr3f3=s606" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="606" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiW7oUr6OBc_6WSQ1GKtM8X9SD33_u6KgF1Ycp80Iksv8lCxPKblfc75M7McaW86FzzJWp0etQ8MsHR7dodPyf-UxJEak992Aok7ZsPmrpkBiIwUQIyFr6uIP1JsZVjrgbttADeqOIO2F5pK8MVScDWqIIjUXeF5p6S42tGdZbfbVP8kP6n468Mr3f3=w400-h310" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-4057608826075631162021-09-21T11:09:00.012-06:002021-09-22T18:49:25.657-06:002021 UTSPS Book of the Year-Michael Parker<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgJDNKSYP-7zz2NbzGmB6MijtdHgAfYxq_2AiuYXAQ3G6cBZSzdJAODyyNb_WT_mwV9xm7ZDLk-viCchUSzGfmlDQKylonm0sI1U40LhaKGAwDhIDSJG0B7P4K8bRsilk6c-2fkcZ-80/s2048/michael.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1343" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgJDNKSYP-7zz2NbzGmB6MijtdHgAfYxq_2AiuYXAQ3G6cBZSzdJAODyyNb_WT_mwV9xm7ZDLk-viCchUSzGfmlDQKylonm0sI1U40LhaKGAwDhIDSJG0B7P4K8bRsilk6c-2fkcZ-80/s320/michael.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><br /><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif">MICHAEL PARKER's award winning book "Divining the Spirits in the House of the Hush and Hush" is now published. </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif">UTSPS members should be receiving their copy in the mail. </span><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif">Don’t miss his concert on Oct 16th at 2 pm via Zoom. All are invited but will need to register by Oct 9th at the latest to received a link. </span></div><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif">Contact Jon Sebba at <yossi.yasser.soldiers@gmail.com> AND Paul Ford <pmford3@gmail.com> to attend virtually. </span></div><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif">Meet MICHAEL PARKER <a href="https://utahpoetry.blogspot.com/2017/05/meet-michael-parker-of-hinterland.html" target="_blank">https://utahpoetry.blogspot.com/2017/05/meet-michael-parker-of-hinterland.html </a></span></div>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-38642049121483648682021-08-19T20:37:00.028-06:002021-08-20T10:59:03.354-06:00Meet ROBERT RIPPY from Dixie Poets<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqRr0Tw-O88sDHcHYXq5jfVuwakXrH9ZPqAjd-0ie4TTfmb0CM4J-54BfTY3T-rXuD6nHYMn7bulbnH_-qsFUuSWXejAChpIV98pC1-x_cGPfcxhGWjdok-qOYVJaAxzDOi4519Uk6TI/s352/bob.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="292" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqRr0Tw-O88sDHcHYXq5jfVuwakXrH9ZPqAjd-0ie4TTfmb0CM4J-54BfTY3T-rXuD6nHYMn7bulbnH_-qsFUuSWXejAChpIV98pC1-x_cGPfcxhGWjdok-qOYVJaAxzDOi4519Uk6TI/w166-h200/bob.jpg" width="166" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> Robert Rippy</span> started writing in the early 1970's when he became friends with the poet DeWayne Rail. Through his encouragement and guidance, Robert enrolled in an MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of California-Irvine and received his degree in 1977. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> <span> </span></span>For the next five years, he wrote poems which were published in small magazines. When his position at the college where he was teaching changed into a combination of administration and teaching, he pretty much stopped writing. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxt7chPaZGXQIt7t7LdgXh4NQeD7zXCq1Py4eQQ2Qhmb3Y23AK5Tk9cTR2ohrcUw-1kRaZZVabtWim-liXOakpaQea6h1ZjRbnBA3lMMUHXHUAjBR2MZsDum0TxUqnJHZMlUELmDhtso4/s2048/bobcover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1318" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxt7chPaZGXQIt7t7LdgXh4NQeD7zXCq1Py4eQQ2Qhmb3Y23AK5Tk9cTR2ohrcUw-1kRaZZVabtWim-liXOakpaQea6h1ZjRbnBA3lMMUHXHUAjBR2MZsDum0TxUqnJHZMlUELmDhtso4/w129-h200/bobcover.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>Thirty years later in 2016, he moved with his wife from Southern California to Sunriver in St. George and became involved in their Creative Writing group. Later, he joined Dixie Poets in St. George and is now an award winning poet. He has just published a collection of poems that is entitled<b style="font-style: italic;"> Eroding into Something Else </b>that features thirty-nine poems: fifteen from his early period and twenty-four from the last five years. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>His poems cover a full range of topics from historical themes to observations of nature's beauty, family life and beyond. His skill and techniques are amazing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Browse, No Services</b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: left;">Sign along the highway says <i>Browse</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">highway that climbs through<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">this red part of Utah.<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">I pull off, note<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">there's not much<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">to be seen here,<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">just a dirt road losing its way<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">through the junipers.<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">I judge the car wouldn't make it,<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">that it's too damned hot<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">and move on.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="text-align: justify;">But the sign stays with me–</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">that invitation and denial.</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">Come browse these mountains,</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">it says, mark the few homes</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">and wonder how this place</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">got started, got named,</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">survives. But don't stay.</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">Don't hope for a fill-up</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">or the burgers you haven't had</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">since Vegas. Just pass on by</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">and know what can never be yours,</span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;">and dream tonight you could stay<br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">and grow old with the mountains. </span>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-70481722983138599592020-08-10T20:38:00.001-06:002020-08-10T20:38:49.480-06:00Meet JON SEBBA of Valley Winds Chapter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT25zmSpW6DMibaWBO1iffC5TUtDh-ut0QIsTKW_XobohIblvkO_RuJbhb0KidU_uwvqremZHtXPHRlB8r_tE_PgYCeGxesipbrOzClTAxW8on_dYH4DuLWvTlQ70lmXdXS-mE7-3VyA4/s387/Jon+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="337" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT25zmSpW6DMibaWBO1iffC5TUtDh-ut0QIsTKW_XobohIblvkO_RuJbhb0KidU_uwvqremZHtXPHRlB8r_tE_PgYCeGxesipbrOzClTAxW8on_dYH4DuLWvTlQ70lmXdXS-mE7-3VyA4/w173-h198/Jon+%25282%2529.jpg" width="173" /></a></div> JON SEBBA has been a UTSPS member on and off since 1997. In 2013 his poe</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">try collection </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">entitled </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">Yossi, Yasser & Other Soldiers w</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">as chosen as UTSPS Book of the Year. He tells us…</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">that book prompted by my combat experience in 1967, has given me a new mission in life. I use it to show vets and others survivors of trauma how writing and poetry in particular can help calm the stormy waters of our memories.</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Jon has recently taken over as chair of the Valley Winds Chapter of UTSPS from Steven Leitch who is our new State UTSPS President. Since Jon spends his winters in Arizona, he is hoping to set up his chapter with virtual meetings which may be the way to go for us during the current pandemic.</span></div></span></div><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> A retired design engineer he loves fishing in the beautiful lakes east of SLC, fishing and writing poetry. He feels that…</span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">I have learned much and my poetry has improved thanks to the help and kind critiques of my friends at UTSPS. If one is a good observer, one can find poems anywhere, or more accurately everywhere. This one was hanging out at sunset, near a bridge on the Provo River as it enters Jordanelle Reservoir:<br /><br /></i></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><b>Arcs </b>by Jon Sebba</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> Above the splash and ripple damsel-nymphs</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">dance in sepia tones, dragonflies hesitate</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">in and out of spider silk traces</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">dangling from dusty bones</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">of a rusty bridge arch over the low sun.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">A lone youth, knee-deep in a pale-beer current,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">twitches the rod in his hand,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">sends a sunlit spark along a loop</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">in a wide oval arc that settles on water,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">light-as-a-fly.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Like a conductor at the philharmonic,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">he swings his arm back. Twist-flick,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">the point of light vaults higher and wider,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">streaks from hand to hook,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">kisses the wet surface</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">and lingers like a feather for a beat.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Suddenly, a spring rainbow</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">explodes in a splash. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Vees radiate from the line</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; 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font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">The line sings out. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">The rod and reel play until the tired fish concedes.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He draws her to him, cradles the rainbow in water,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">eases hook out of her jaw, </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">admires her sleek lines,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">then opens his hands. She gives</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">a tail-flip and smack that sound like, <i>Thank you.</i></span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria;">You’re welcome</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria;">, he murmurs and sighs.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-44616057363957882372020-07-24T19:36:00.000-06:002020-07-24T19:36:10.547-06:00Meet MICHAEL SPEARS of Rhyme and Reason Chapter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"> Welcome to Michael Spears new President of Rhyme and Reason Chapter and UTSPS Membership Coodinator. He just joined UTSPS in March 2019 and loves the association with his poet friends. Here's some background on him in his own words. "Early life was spent on the north end of the Portland Peninsula, growing up in a "Stand By Me" environment (in the most literal sense). When Mom found out her three young sons were hopping freight trains and skinny dipping in Triangle Lake, she packed her five children up and moved to Provo. I thought my life had ended. </span></div>
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Learning to love the imagery, I developed an early love for poetry from the rare visits I had with my father, who could quote poems for hours on end. Army veteran of Vietnam era, graduate of Weber State University and also the University of Utah. Enjoy reading, especially history and anything anthropological. Spring to fall is spent with wife Donna in our varied flower gardens and the vegetable garden (we are both licensed pruners and weed pullers). We have loved growing pumpkins for the grandchildren and now we have a whole new generation of Bumpkins to share them with (they are quickly outnumbering the grandchildren)." </div>
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Add a dozen sheets<br />of paper<br />two pairs of<br />safety scissors<br />several pencils<br />(with erasers),<br />a medium amount<br />of patience,<br />one kitchen table<br />or rocking chair<br />with lots of love<br />and hugs to share—<br /><br />Just start cutting<br />memories<br />to hang atop<br />the fireplace<br />above the mirror<br />or frame of door,<br />it really doesn’t matter where.</blockquote>
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Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-3756515605211400782020-07-07T16:24:00.005-06:002020-07-07T16:27:39.893-06:00Meet SUSAN GIBBONS-WOLF of Dixie Poets<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Susan Gibbons-Wolf, a St. George resident, recently received word her non-fiction children’s picture book, “P.S. Boats, Around Puget Sound” was a finalist in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The book, containing “cheerful, rhyming text” and “stunning artwork,” received rave reviews last fall at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association tradeshow. </span><span style="font-family: calibri;">The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest international awards program for independent authors and publishers. Awards are presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group </span><span style="font-family: calibri;"><a href="http://www.ibppg.com/">www.IBPPG.com</a></span><span style="font-family: calibri;"> in over 70 categories. This year’s competition received thousands of entries from all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. </span><span style="font-family: calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Gibbons-Wolf and her husband retired to Saint George two years ago from Washington state. She is a free-lance writer and studied creative writing at the University of Washington. She is a member of the Society of Children’s book Writers and Illustrators as well as the Dixie Poet Society. She joined the Utah State Poetry Society only this year. Her book is available locally at The Book Bungalow in St. George, on her website <a href="http://www.wolfpublishingllc.com/">www.wolfpublishingllc.com</a> and on Amazon. </span><span style="font-family: calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-49730959146455698692020-04-16T14:18:00.000-06:002020-04-16T14:18:10.369-06:00Corona Virus POEM by Marleen BussmaSHE'S COVID-19 FREE by Marleen Bussma<br />
Hear it read at <a href="https://www.marleenbussma.com/poems">https://www.marleenbussma.com/poems</a><br />
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Time seems to be going faster and faster. Do want to remind you all that you can still pay your dues for this year $30 and coming up next month deadlines:<br />
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2.<b> Feb 20th-</b>Register for <b>POETRY IN THE PARK</b>-our 11th year in ZION PARK will feature poet ROB CARNEY from UVU on <b>Friday March 6th</b> at Zion Park Lodge 9 am to 3 pm. Only $50 includes free park pass. Free <b>POETRY READING</b> on<b> Th night March 5</b> at 7pm this year at Hurricane Community Center 60 S 100 W.<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><a href="https://zionpark.org/event/poetry-in-the-park/" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;">https://zionpark.org/event/poetry-in-the-park/</a> <br />
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A poet, a writer, an artist, and one of the co-founders of Best Friends Animal Society near Kanab, SHARON ST. JOAN is a retired licensed wildlife rehabilitator and a life-long advocate for wildlife, wild lands, the earth, and all animals, wild and domestic. The inspiration for her poetry is the world of nature. As a child, she spent hours and days roaming among the woods of Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina. In recent years she has traveled over several continents, always seeking out forests, wildlife refuges, other wild places and the intriguing people who work to protect them, as well as the art and culture of earlier times, which was intertwined with the natural world. She feels that all of our wild lands, especially the magnificent lands of Utah which are among the most beautiful wild lands anywhere in the world, are in need of our protection, more now than ever before.</div>
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Traveling far<br />
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The tall, towering cliff, ancient<br />
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Lots happening now that our summer vacations are over. Don't miss the UTSPS Poet of the Year MARKAY BROWN's presentation of her book<i><b>...</b></i><b><i>Planted in a Storm</i></b>. </div>
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Here's a link to a fun podcast recently published online that will tell you more about MARKAY BROWN-her background, why she writes poetry and how it happens. Great insights hosted by Segullah Magazine. </div>
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<b>MARKAY BROWN i</b>s UTSPS POET OF THE YEAR and will be presenting her award winning book on <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Oct 26th</b> in the Orem Library, 58 N. State St., Orem, UT 84057, at 2 pm</span>, also presenting at <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> poetry class and reading on <b>Saturday Oct 12th</b> at Dixie State University, in conjunction with the St. George Literary Arts Festival. </span>See details below.</div>
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<b>KANAB WRITING CONFERENCE</b> NOV 7-9 in Kanab Details <a href="https://kanabwritersconference.com/">https://kanabwritersconference.com/</a><br />
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<b>POETRY CONTEST DEADLINES:</b></div>
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<b>Friday March 6, 2020 POETRY IN THE PARK </b>with<b> Poet ROB CARNEY </b>from Utah Valley University’s English Dept at Zion Park and at <b>REDROCK CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR </b>the next day in St. George Sat, March 7 with two other writers/poets. Details at <a href="http://poetry-in-the-park.com/">poetry-in-the-park.com</a> and at <a href="http://redrockwriters.org/">redrockwriters.org</a></div>
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<b>Friday, April 17, 2020 UTSPS APRIL AWARDS FESTIVAL </b>in SLC area,
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Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-62100173762101139632019-07-08T14:44:00.002-06:002019-07-08T15:07:27.697-06:00Another new member ESTHER MERRITT MANNING <br />
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Welcome to a
new member of the Valley Winds chapter ESTHER MERRITT MANNING. She discovered
poetry early in her high school days when asked to do a collage in English
Class telling about herself. Not knowing how to make<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a collage using pictures, she put together
some poems she had written. Esther tells us...<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When the
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assistant who encouraged my writing. I was able to have two of my poems
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Esther
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that she had experienced in her family from abuse. Her therapist encouraged her
writing and suggested compiling and self publishing them in 1990
in a book entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Castle Wall</i>,
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Someday my
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As winner of the nonmember's UTSPS April Festival contest, Raymond Christensen's prize was a year's membership in UTSPS. A published poet, he tells us he has always lived in Utah-Sanpete, Salt Lake, Weber and Davis County. Married with three sons, he's a tradesman, precision machinist, journeyman and has a BS in Design Engineering Technology. Raymond started writing in high school and has published his collection of poems entitled <b><i>A Few More Words Aloud in Everybody's Ear,</i></b> available from <i><a href="https://www.liferichpublishing.com/Bookstore/BookSearchResults.aspx?Author=Raymond&" style="color: clear; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.liferichpublishing.com/</a></i> He was welcomed at the Ben Lomond Chapter in 2018 and is our newest member of UTSPS. Welcome to our organization.</div>
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Unfettered boundaries</div>
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only painted on horizons.</div>
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Half spheres with bottoms</div>
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mesmerizing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Far reaches, the mind’s eye</div>
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understands before reaching.</div>
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The end in sight;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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of sea or land.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Cities, people, places and things.</div>
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Modified caves with old windows.</div>
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Surroundings; some entrapments,</div>
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some square holes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Circles of friends; cheery, trusted.</div>
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Well known pets and people too.</div>
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Who all see something</div>
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special in you.</div>
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<br />Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-30470837061245153372019-03-22T17:04:00.001-06:002019-04-06T09:35:16.353-06:00Welcome to TWILA WOOD<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBZbK_Son0d90b_1xh6lKGhs-XIYTKTJ8Vf-FZI5VwCCTGWtfxJK_8emzcSmIkc-mN5jW2yVxOGVHa10_GhY3CB3KgQ4ZPNOERb3lxBYsie0qdZTAeKRAiTJSUhPOfBfMfBUDPofjA_4/s1600/twila.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBZbK_Son0d90b_1xh6lKGhs-XIYTKTJ8Vf-FZI5VwCCTGWtfxJK_8emzcSmIkc-mN5jW2yVxOGVHa10_GhY3CB3KgQ4ZPNOERb3lxBYsie0qdZTAeKRAiTJSUhPOfBfMfBUDPofjA_4/s200/twila.png" width="153" /></a>Welcome to Twila Wood who is the new Chapter president of
Hinterlands-a friendly group of UTSPS poets who connect via the Internet. (Thanks
to Margaret Pettis who began this unique chapter several years ago.) Twila grew
up on a dairy farm in Wellsville, Utah, where she learned to love the land,
animals and the mountains next to her home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She graduated from Utah State University with a degree in English. After
teaching piano lessons for 20 years and school for 25 years-9<sup>th</sup>
grade English, speech and drama at North Cache, she retired in 2016 and has
been able to more fully enjoy her hobbies of writing, piano and reading, along
with her love of hiking, camping and boating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With various poems and personal essays published in local newspapers and
books, including “Her Touch” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mothers
of Faith </i>published by<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Covenant
Communications, Inc<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, s</i>he won two
first place awards and two honorable mentions in the UTSPS Poetry Contest last
April 2018. Twila is excited to be part of a society who shares the unique passion
of poetry. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Winter Birch</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by Twila Wood </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>When
snow draped </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>our
front birch in cotton candy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>stacked
cold sugar upon each limb, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>I’d
swing one drooping branch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>for
a shower of dazzling powder,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>sprinkling
my face with magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>of
a million tiny diamonds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>At
night she froze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>into
a white-haired ghost, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>floating
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>chimes,
moon beams peeked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Her
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>through
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>by
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>crystals
clung to her branches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>like
dainty pinwheels, spinning </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enchantment into winter.</span></div>
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</style>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-23223006180891009912019-03-09T14:56:00.001-07:002019-03-10T21:30:12.375-06:00Meet Denis Feehan from Mesquite, Nevada<br />
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poetry and short stories. He lives in Mesquite, Nevada and joined Utah State
Poetry several years ago as an At Large member. Active in music and
writing, he loves to write poetry and fiction. Serving as President of Heritage Writers Guild, a chapter of the League of Utah writers located in St. George, Utah, Denis keeps busy. He recently entered the Chaparral contest-part of Redrock Writers' annual seminar and received 3rd prize recognition in the Chimera Division for his humorous poem <i>A Very Mary Christmas.</i> He has won awards at the annual Mesquite Fine Arts annual poetry and art contest where poets enter poems and artists select a poem as inspiration for their artwork as well as awards and publishing of his poetry from the League of Utah Writers.</span><br />
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</style>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-22199674958685595692019-02-13T10:28:00.000-07:002019-02-13T10:30:50.684-07:00TIME TO REGISTER for Spring Workshops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not too late to register for UTSPS Spring writing-poetry workshops:<br />
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POETRY IN THE PARK-Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at Zion Park Lodge with Kimberly Johnson from BYU English Dept. from 9 am to 3 pm, nature hike, workshop on "Paying Attention", bring sack lunch or eat in Redrock Grill. $50-includes free park pass. Register at <a href="https://zionpark.org/event/poetry-in-the-park/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets">https://zionpark.org/event/poetry-in-the-park/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets</a> or register at the door w/o park pass.<br />
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REDROCK CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR Sat-Mar 2, 2019 at Community Bldg 250 N 250 W in St. George 9 am to 1:30 pm. Three speakers: Kimberly Johnson-<i>Writing the Details</i>, Amy Jarecki-<i>Writing Heart Stopping Historical Fiction</i>, and Reuben Wadsworth-<i>The Art of Seeing</i>. Details and register at <a href="http://redrockwriters.org/">https://redrockwriters.org/seminar_2019_faculty</a>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-23662311329635558932018-11-23T12:53:00.002-07:002018-11-23T12:57:52.377-07:00TIME is running out<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiriZGZwYd1V_iEwHMzmCgmd349Cg-vDS-pIv8ayEDjFDN2ooamHJtTGd5Fi7ttrkgdOze7wefSK9ta24Ur3L2LsJy5W6K5W5XB382Vc-fjcn29fSfzLZ43rmsyNkO2q1Bvh2kfMQMuzX0/s1600/calendar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="103" data-original-width="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiriZGZwYd1V_iEwHMzmCgmd349Cg-vDS-pIv8ayEDjFDN2ooamHJtTGd5Fi7ttrkgdOze7wefSK9ta24Ur3L2LsJy5W6K5W5XB382Vc-fjcn29fSfzLZ43rmsyNkO2q1Bvh2kfMQMuzX0/s1600/calendar.jpg" /></a>Keep in mind some <b>poetry DEADLINES </b>coming up soon.<br />
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1. <b>UTSPS DUES </b>are due by<b> Jan 5, 2019</b> which will be here before you know it right after the holidays. Dues are $25 and entitle you to lots of benefits including: Panorama, Book of the Year, reduced rates on UTSPS's Contest, and 12 poems that can be critiqued for free by the Critique Bureau. See details at<a href="http://utahpoets.com/join/join.html"> http://utahpoets.com/join/join.html</a><br />
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<b>2. ENTRIES for our annual UTSPS April Awards festival</b> are due by <b>Feb 1, 2019</b>. Start now selecting your poems and getting ready to submit them. Contest categories: <a href="http://utahpoets.com/contests/2019/UTSPSrules2019.pdf">http://utahpoets.com/contests/2019/UTSPSrules2019.pdf</a> Then mark down the date of Apr 11-12, 2019 for our<b> annual UTSPS conference at the Provo Courtyard at Marriott</b>. There are new fun categories for the contest. Who knows this may be your year to win. You can't win if you don't enter.<br />
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3. <b>REGISTRATION </b>for UTSPS's 10th annual<b> POETRY IN THE PARK</b> to be held<b> Fri, Mar 1, 2019</b> in <b>ZION PARK </b>will open online<b> Jan 1-Feb 15th, 2019. </b>Details on this fun poetry weekend are available at <a href="http://poetry-in-the-park.com/">poetry-in-the-park.com</a><b> </b>and register also for<b> Sat, Mar 2, 2019 Redrock Creative Writing Workshop </b>in <b>St. George. </b><a href="http://redrockwriters.org/">http://redrockwriters.org</a><b> </b>Don't miss this weekend of poetry workshops starring award winning poet <b>Kimberly Johnson</b> of BYU's English dept.<b> </b>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-11317660540284873962018-08-21T12:19:00.005-06:002018-08-21T12:19:49.350-06:00PANORAMA 2017 is out<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6ryFjhebEJK7e-dSXZ8KRE5u7LnVj20SXTRiWORhd9AFFb4DAcZoo_0mfTjKAX-V9k3-IRVI7aaLN1nMkQ8xcuSW44hrJDLmeG7FLqRHjM6g5PwQLGdtMlgUz-wNmwzvqFC-wz_ARQQ/s1600/panoram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="660" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6ryFjhebEJK7e-dSXZ8KRE5u7LnVj20SXTRiWORhd9AFFb4DAcZoo_0mfTjKAX-V9k3-IRVI7aaLN1nMkQ8xcuSW44hrJDLmeG7FLqRHjM6g5PwQLGdtMlgUz-wNmwzvqFC-wz_ARQQ/s200/panoram.jpg" width="143" /></a>Thanks to Jennifer & Russell Asplund for their work on pulling together another terrific PANORAMA issue filled with great poetry from UTSPS members who submitted their poems last June and were paid members. There will be an opportunity for other UTSPS poets to submit their poems for the next issue. Don't miss out, deadline to be announced.<br />
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Also coming up Redrock Writers-a chapter of UTSPS announces their Chaparral Poetry Contest for 2019. Poetry can be submitted starting Sep 1, 2018 , details at <a href="http://redrockwriters.org/">redrockwriters.org</a><br />
<br />Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-28673101820194298412018-08-04T13:05:00.001-06:002018-08-06T14:03:19.948-06:00THINK SPRING 2019<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqTxzQsGd5QwqgSg1QCBKAAhEPqF483WT9goBVx0ix1fstVQyaZz8RF0BRpb7kHt2O51BxLKjgDNsikWnQZZwZV3Ou2_ixHu_Na1q0csB5vWhTuDvkbtFdQWnO1cZo6rgLwlQhg32G2g/s1600/KimJohnson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="434" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqTxzQsGd5QwqgSg1QCBKAAhEPqF483WT9goBVx0ix1fstVQyaZz8RF0BRpb7kHt2O51BxLKjgDNsikWnQZZwZV3Ou2_ixHu_Na1q0csB5vWhTuDvkbtFdQWnO1cZo6rgLwlQhg32G2g/s200/KimJohnson.jpg" width="155" /></a><span style="color: clear; font-family: "new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "New Roman";">Here’s your chance
to visit ZION PARK on its 100th anniversary before the crowds and shuttles
begin in Southern Utah. The 10<sup>th</sup> annual <b>POETRY in the PARK</b>
workshop presented by <b>Utah State Poetry Society</b> and <b>Zion Park Forever Project
</b>will feature award winning poet <b>KIMBERLY JOHNSON</b>, BYU English
professor, on Friday, March 1, 2019 from 9 am to 3 pm. Registration: Adults-$50, College-High School students-$20. </span><br />
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<span style="color: clear; font-family: "new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "New Roman";">On Thurs, Feb 28, a FREE optional
poetry reading at 7 pm</span><span style="font-family: "new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0;"> </span><span style="color: clear; font-family: "new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "New Roman";">in Springdale's Canyon Community Center will be held sponsored by <b>ZArts</b>. (Overnight lodging
in Springdale is available at winter rates for those wishing to attend the lecture on Thursday night and Poetry in the Park on
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<span style="font-family: "new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Johnson’s PIP workshop </span><span style="font-family: "new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: clear; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "New Roman";">at the Zion Park Lodge </span>will focus on <i><b>Paying
Attention</b> </i>to details to improve your poetry. Experience a guided
nature walk or explore Zion Park on your own, bring a picnic lunch or dine at
the Redrock Grill upstairs at the Lodge, this will be a time to remember and
meet new friends. Details at<a href="http://www.poetry-in-the-park.com/"><b> </b></a></span><span style="font-family: "new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: clear;"><b><i><span style="color: clear;"><a href="http://poetry-in-the-park.com/">poetry-in-the-park.com </a> </span></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: clear;"><span style="color: clear;">Following</span><i><span style="color: clear;"> </span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: clear;"> PIP on Sat. Mar 2, 2019, Redrock Writers presents their<b> CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR</b> in nearby St. George for a separate fee. Presenters include Johnson, historical romance novelist Amy Jarecki, and Journalist-writing teacher Reuben Wadsworth. Details
at</span><span style="color: clear;"> <i><a href="http://redrockwriters.org/"><b><span style="color: clear;">redrockwriters.org</span></b></a>.</i></span></span>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-44156637724150558472018-06-20T16:51:00.000-06:002018-06-20T16:52:12.783-06:00Meet Debra Csenge of Willow Wind Poets<br />
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Debra Csenge writes, paints, and grows vegetables in Kanab,
Utah. She left her former home in Maine over 10 years ago, and now hikes the
trails of southern Utah. She holds a bachelor’s degree in studio art which she
received as a “non-conventional” student in 2004. She has worked as a
self-employed furniture maker and upholsterer, for the outdoor company LL Bean
in Freeport, Maine, and as a library assistant at Kanab City Library. She now
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She started writing poetry as a young woman, and then took
it up again about 10 years ago. She has been published by Green Horizon
Quarterly (Topsham, Maine) and by Red Rock Review, now called Kanab Arts
Magazine (Kanab, Utah). She has performed her poetry, along with other local
poets, at the Amazing Earthfest, a weeklong celebration of public lands based
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Feathery
branches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dark
against peach glowing clouds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
patches of surprising pale cerulean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
sunset</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
this expansiveness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pushes
aside my small thoughts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
busy circuitry.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am
clear and still,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the tree branches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the red cliffs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the sky windows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Into
infinity.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
linger gratefully</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
drink at the well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of
inner silence.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My
small struggles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And my
knowing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of the
great losses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dissolve
in this sweet moment.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is nothing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That
triggers this reverie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like
dark trees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Against
the sun’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parting
gift</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of pure expanding
deep.</span></blockquote>
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</style>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-11603258648719729872018-04-23T22:14:00.002-06:002018-04-23T22:19:28.636-06:00Welcome to Steven Duncan-a new UTSPS member<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I (Lin Floyd) met Steven Duncan at the recent UTSPS April Awards Festival in Provo held last weekend. He won lots of awards for his excellent poetry. Here's some info he shared about himself: <i>Steven Duncan is a Utah
Valley poet whose writing has been published by Silver Birch Press, Rock Canyon
Poets, Prolific Press, and others. He lived in Siberia for two years as a
missionary for the LDS church and now speaks fluent Russian. Steven loves both
written and spoken word poetry, and enjoys spending his evenings playing with
language and exploring new forms of expression. He recently graduated from
Brigham Young University and will attend medical school this fall in Dallas,
Texas. See <a href="http://stevenduncan.tumblr.com/poems">stevenduncan.tumblr.com/poems</a></i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Other Side of Paradise </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For F. Scott Fitzgerald</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Paradise
is not a warm place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
is not a glass of milk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">creamy
and sweet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">left
on the table </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to
turn over in a week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
is chilling, bracing. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">in
God’s cupped palms. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Paradise
is not a quiet place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
is not an empty hallway </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">waiting
for an echo </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to
paint across the walls.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
is deafening, gripping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No
man there will speak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">without
a tremble. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Earth
is milky and mild.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Earth
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heaven
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</style>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750361652921048314.post-47316824463836760092018-04-02T21:37:00.001-06:002018-04-02T21:37:31.200-06:00Don't Miss it...UTSPS APRIL AWARDS FESTIVAL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's time to gather this year in Provo at the Marriott Hotel for our annual Awards Festival. This year featuring two outstanding poets Natasha Saje from Westminister College and past Utah Poet Laureate Lance Larsen from BYU plus an opportunity to see if your poems submitted won any awards. Preregister at <a href="http://utahpoets.com/">utahpoets.com</a> by April 10th.<br />
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<u>Starts Friday April 20th :</u><br />
2:30 pm UTSPS Officers Board Meeting<br />
4:45 pm Registration Opens-$40 for festival, dinner on your own<br />
5:30 pm Festival Welcome<br />
5:40 pm Poet to Poet Conversation<br />
7:00 pm Guest Poet Natasha Saje<br />
8:00 pm Awards presentations<br />
Night Owl Read-around follows<br />
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<u>Sat, April 21st</u><br />
8:00 am Chapter President's breakfast at nearby Dennys<br />
9:00 am Award Presentations<br />
10:00 am Guest Poet Lance Larsen<br />
Lunch on your own<br />
1:30 pm Awards presentations, finishing with Book of the Year winner.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because of ill health Jim Barton
won't be teaching for us this year, but we are excited to have SHANAN BALLAM of
Utah State University's English Department joining us in our three days of poetry activities in Southern Utah in early spring. An
award winning poet, exciting teacher of poetry and creative writing, Shanan
will be presenting some fun ideas on how to improve our poetry skills. She has
chosen the theme for her presentations as A CELEBRATION OF SOUND AND SENSE. </span></div>
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-</style><span style="clear: font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She says: <i>Poets of all ages and
levels of experience will benefit from this energetic workshop where
participants will learn and practice basic poetic sound techniques, such as
alliteration and other kinds of sonic repetition. We will use our experience in
the park to gather sensory details and images for poems. Using poetry exercises
as a guide, and using the materials we have generated and gathered during the
workshop and our experiences in the park, we will write poems that will
surprise and delight writers and audiences alike.</i></span><br />
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This year's <b>POETRY IN THE PARK</b> will be held <b>Friday, March 2, 2018</b> at Zion Park Lodge from<b> 9 am to 4 pm</b>. Register by Feb 15th to receive your free Zion Park pass. Fee-$55, register online <a href="http://zionpark.org/programs/">zionpark.org/programs/</a><br />
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Come early for a free <b>ZARTS LECTURE</b> by Shanan on <b>Thursday, March 1 </b>at Canyon community Center in Springdale at 7 pm. Inexpensive lodging available in Springdale, come join us before the crowds and shuttles begin. Note there is some construction in Springdale city so come early.<br />
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Stay overnight in St. George and enjoy <b>REDROCK CREATIVE WRITING SEMINAR </b>on<b> Saturday, March 3 from 9 am to 1:30 pm </b>featuring Shanan Ballam and others Dr. Cindy King of DSU's English Dept. and Lara Candland-another award winning poet. Details at <a href="http://redrockwriters.org/">redrockwriters.org </a>Great Grandma Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791149428495689835noreply@blogger.com0