Michael Sowder and Jennifier Sinor to read at City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 14th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poet
Michael Sowder and essayist Jennifer Sonor will read from their work on
November 14th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the
City Art Reading Series.
Poet
and essayist Michael Sowder is an associate professor of English at Utah State
University. He is the Chair of Creative Writing and the poetry editor of the
literary magazine: Isotope: A Journal of
Literary Nature and Science Writing. Sowder’s most recent book, House under the Moon is just out from
Truman State Press.
His
first book, The Empty Boat, was
chosen by Diane Wakoski from over 720 manuscripts to win the 2004 T.S. Eliot
Prize, was a finalist for the Utah Book Award, and several of its poems were
nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
Sowder's creative nonfiction
explores the natural world as well as the worlds of poetics and teaching, and
appear widely in magazines journals throughout the country. His essays include
the following: "The Work the Landscape Calls Us To," in Placing the Academy (USU Press 2007) (nominated
for a Pushcart Prize); "The Chateau and the Chalkboard," an essay on
writers as teachers, in Dislocate: The
Literary Journal of the University of Minnesota (2006); "Place of Clear Light," an essay arising out of a visit
to a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, in Salt
Flats Annual (2007); “The Voice of the Wilderness,” in Snowy Egret (Fall 2002); “Radical Aesthetics in Walt Whitman,
Jonathan Edwards, and American Beauty,”
in Rendezvous (Fall, 2002); and Poet in Grizzly Gulch, a mountaineering
essay, forth coming in The Wasatch
Journal.
Joel Long