Joel Long will read from his new poems at 5:00 on Friday at the Utah Arts Festival on the Big Mouth Stage.
Joel Long’s most recent book Lessons in Disappearance was published by Blaine Creek Press in 2012. Knowing Time by Light, a finalist for the Utah Book Award, was published by the same press in 2010. His book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 1999. Long’s chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Poems and Plays, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place. He received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work.
Joel Long’s most recent book Lessons in Disappearance was published by Blaine Creek Press in 2012. Knowing Time by Light, a finalist for the Utah Book Award, was published by the same press in 2010. His book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 1999. Long’s chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Poems and Plays, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place. He received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work.
Joel Long