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Stephen Trimble | Katharine Coles | David Lee | Alex Caldiero |
Stephen Trimble2008-2009 Wallace Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah |
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Stephen Trimble was born in Denver, his family's base for roaming the West with his geologist father. After a liberal arts education at Colorado College, he worked as a park ranger in Colorado and Utah, earned a master’s degree in ecology at the University of Arizona, served as director of the Museum of Northern Arizona Press, and for five years lived near Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been a full-time free-lance writer and photographer since 1981.
Trimble will spend the 2008-2009 academic year as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center.
Trimble has received significant awards for his photography, his non-fiction, and his fiction, and the breadth of those awards mirrors the wide embrace of his work: The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation; The National Cowboy Museum’s Western Heritage "Wrangler" Award; and a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Colorado College, honoring his efforts to increase our understanding of Western landscapes and peoples and his choice to remain a stubborn generalist. Environmental historian James Aton has said that Trimble’s "books comprise one of the most well-rounded, sustained, and profound visions of people and landscape that we have ever seen in the American West."
As writer, editor, and photographer Trimble has published more than twenty books. His bedrock focus is the land "western wildlands and natural history" including:
We are pleased and honored to have Stephen Trimble give our keynote address at the Friday luncheon banquet.
Katharine ColesPoet Laureate of Utah |
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Katharine Coles’ fourth collection of poems, Fault, came out from Red Hen Press in June of 2008. Previous books include three poetry collections, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch, and two novels, Fire Season and The Measurable World. An ongoing collaboration with visual artist Maureen O’Hara Ure has resulted in several joint installations and an artist’s book, Swoon. Her commissioned works include Passages, a sequence of poems permanently installed in Salt Lake City at the Gateway’s Passages Park, for which Coles also served on the design team; and "The Numbers," permanently installed as part of Anna Campbell Bliss’s "Numbers and Measure" in the Leroy Cowles Mathematics Building at the University of Utah. This summer, she finished Burnt Letters, a nonfiction book about her grandparents.
Katharine Coles is a professor in the English Department at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and literature and directs, with co-director Fred Adler, the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, which she founded. She has just begun a two-year appointment as the Inaugural Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Poet Laureate of Utah.
David LeeFormer Poet Laureate of Utah |
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Since the publication of his first book of poems, the Porcine Legacy (1974), David Lee has written a poetry book unlike any in American letters. His poems are informed by a background that is unique to the world of poetry: he has studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer, is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers; he has raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton, and recently retired as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University.
David Lee was named Utah's first Poet Laureate, and has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The recipient of the Utah Governor's Award for lifetime achievement in the arts, he has also been honored as one of Utah's top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities.
Books by David Lee:
"Lee joins the ranks of Frost and Hayden Carruth as poets whose treatment of rural life in lines cast in genuine vernacular goes far beyond what we often mean by 'regional poetry'." -The Year in Poetry 1999
"Reading Lee's poetry is like sitting on a wide porch in the summer with a favorite uncle you don't see often and listening to him ramble along with tales of local townfolk. Lee captures the grit and authenticity of 'country' speech."-Library Journal"
Lee's splendid ear for idiomatic, vernacular speech imbues his work with a kind of red-dirt, hog-wallow lyricism, with the direct and uncompromising impact of common talk, and it isn't surprising that his readings tend to be standing-room-only affairs." -Bloomsbury Review
"Lee writes the kind of poems that might find poetry readers in the most unlikely places." -Rain Taxi
"One can only wish for more poets like David Lee. Not poets who write the same way he does.but more poets willing to make their own music.He doesn't have time for small talk, he's to busy with real and vital things to say: he entertains us, enlightens us, makes us laugh and feel good laughing, makes us taste the sadness of our world." -The Chowder Review
"Lee's calculatedly simple narratives are wonderfully wrought." -Booklist
"Lee's evocative use of dialect preserves both the tragic and the humorous." -Publishers Weekly
"For Lee, humor is the secret of sanity." -The Beloit Poetry Journal
"He shapes the characters of the rural American west, and their memories, their versions of things, into tales of recognition and redemption." -Neon
"Lee...makes a universe out of the world around him." -Desert News
Alex CaldieroPolyartist, Sonosopher, and Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University |
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Reading/Performative Works by Alex Caldiero on Thursday evening in Maybird Room (7:30 pm), immediately following the Opening Night Reception in Golden Cliff Lobby (6:00-7:30 pm)
Alex Caldiero was born in the ancient town of Licodia Eubea, near Catania, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States at age nine and was raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. He attended Queens College in Flushing, New York, and was apprenticed to the sculptor Michael Lekakis and the poet-bard Ignazio Buttitta. Caldiero has traveled through Sicily, Sardinia, Turkey, and Greece collecting proverbs, tales, and folk instruments. He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, the society for the preservation of the Sicilian language and traditions, and is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Utah Performing Arts Tour, and the Best Poetry Award from the Association for Mormon Letters. Caldiero has lived in Utah since 1980 with his wife and children, and is Poet/Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University.
Caldiero's work has been reviewed by Village Voice and The New York Times and he is included in "A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes." He has performed at the Utah Arts Festival, several times on National Public Radio, on the Poetry Bus Tour in 2006, at The New School for Social Research, the Pritchard Art Gallery, the Salt Lake Art Center, Utah Valley University, the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and on Brazilian TV. His notable performance of Ginsberg's Howl on the 50th Anniversary its first reading drew a record poetry crowd at the Salt Lake City Library. Recently, Caldiero has performed together with various members of Theta Naught, an ensemble that describes their music as "Psychodelicious Music". Alex intones his poetry while the band plays. Recent performative works include:
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José Javier Abasolo (biography below in Spanish) will be our guest author and will serve as respondent in a special session sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture entitled "El Mundo Literario de José Javier Abasolo: Sesión homenaje al escritor y su obra" that will take place on Friday, October 9 from 10:15-11:45 am in Superior A. This session was organized and will be chaired by Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, Emeritus Professor at the University of Alabama, and Joy Landeira of the University of Northern Colorado, and will include presentations by Ricardo Landeira of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will speak on "La versión policiaca de la novelística de Javier Abasolo" and Jennifer N. Brady of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose paper is entitled "Multiple Narrators, Folds, and Mirrored Constructions in José Javier Abasolo's El aniversario de la independencia." Please join us in welcoming José Javier Abasolo at what will be a very exciting session.
José Javier Abasolo (Bilbao, España, 1957) es Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Deusto. Ha trabajado como abogado y desempeñado varios puestos en las administraciones públicas, como Secretario de un Juzgado de Instrucción (dedicado a asuntos penales), y Jefe de la Oficina de Información de la Administración del Estado en Bilbao. En la actualidad trabaja para el Departamento de Justicia, Empleo y Seguridad Social de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, como experto en cooperativas.
En el campo de la literatura tiene una larga trayectoria como autor de novela negra. Hasta el momento ha publicado los siguientes libros, todos dentro del género policial o sus aledaños: Lejos de aquel instante (1997, Premio de Novela Prensa Canaria 1996 y finalista del Premio Hammett 1997, traducido al francés), Nadie es inocente (1998, traducido al francés e italiano), Una investigación ficticia (2000), Hollywood-Bilbao (2004), El color de los muertos (2005), Antes de que todo se derrumbe (2006, Premio de Narrativa García Pavón 2005), El aniversario de la independencia (2006, Premio Farolillo de Papel de los libreros de Bilbao) y Heridas permanentes (2007).
Es asimismo colaborador de la revista digital sobre género negro La Gangsterera así como de la publicación impresa del mismo nombre, y comentarista de obras de dicho género en el programa literario de radio "El encantador de palabras" que se emite en el País Vasco. Publica también artículos en el suplemento cultural de periódico municipal Bilbao y en el diario El Correo de Bilbao.
Es un asistente asiduo a la Semana Negra que se celebra en Gijón, así como a las "Jornadas de Novela Negra" que se celebran anualmente en Barcelona desde hace cuatro años. En los dos últimos años, dentro de los actos que se celebran en Bilbao con motivo de la Feria del Libro, ha colaborado en la organización de los actos dedicados al género policíaco.
Su charla versará en torno a su novelística reciente. Patrocinada por el Ministro de Cultura de España y el Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
Jan Whitt |
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Women's Caucus Breakfast and Talk by Jan Whitt ~ "How (and Why) the News Media Scare Women"
(Saturday, 8:30-10:00 am in Summit Room Level 10 - by reservation)
Jan Whitt is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Author of Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism and Women in American Journalism: A New History, Whitt is interested in how and why women are either omitted from or targeted by media texts. She will discuss three case studies that highlight negative media coverage of women in the history of journalism, local news coverage, and political campaigns, and she will suggest ways the coverage can be more fair and balanced in the future.
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Publishing Forum with William Germano, "Scholarly Publishing and the New Media"
(Friday, 1:30-3:00 pm in Alpine C)
William Germano William Germano received his B.A. from Columbia and his Ph.D. in English from Indiana University. He studies and writes on intellectual production, the material culture of the book, and literature and the allied arts. He is particularly interested in the writing life of scholars, a subject he has written on in Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He has published in PMLA, minnesota review, Scholarly Publishing, SPAN, Publishing Research Quarterly, PNR, and other publications, and writes frequently for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
For over twenty years he directed programs in scholarly publishing, first as editor-in-chief at Columbia University Press and then as vice-president and publishing director at Routledge; during his publishing career he developed wide experience with disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences, working with many extraordinary scholars, among them Peter Galison, Jacques Derrida, Cornel West, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gilles Deleuze, bell hooks, Herbert Gans, Stephen Orgel, Michael Taussig, Dario Fo, Sander Gilman, Stephen Greenblatt, Arthur Danto, Raymond Williams, Paul Willis, Stanley Aronowitz, David Bordwell, Julia Kristeva, Wayne Koestenbaum, James Elkins, Marjorie Garber, Peter Stallybrass, Fredric Jameson, Diana Fuss, and Martin Jay.
He has taught in the graduate program in publishing at NYU, is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, and has given workshops and seminars on professional scholarly writing across North America and in Europe and New Zealand.
His current research interests include the processes by which scholars generate scholarship, the history of book indexes and the organization of knowledge in the Early Modern period, and the aesthetic and cultural work of opera. He is beginning work on a book entitled What Opera Knows that will explore the kinds of knowledge embodied in operatic expression as well as preparing new editions of his books on writing.
Thanks to all of our guest speakers for joining us in Snowbird!
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