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The Utah Humanities Council’s Eighth Annual Events for Teens and Young Adults
THE ORIGINAL HOWL Fifty years later the reverberations are still being felt
from this 3600 HOMAGE TO SIX GALLERY CAFE THE HOWL POETS THE WILL LOVELL QUINTET ALEX CALDIERO PERFORMING HOWL LETTERPRESS HOWL BROADSIDES, COMMEMORATIVE POSTER ART ALEX CALDIERO'S BOP BEAT WORKSHOP RARE BEAT MEMORABILIA DISPLAY OCT 1st - 8th Please join us for what promises to be an extraordinary
evening of music For further information call or e-mail: Or visit this website:
Michael O. Tunnell is the children’s author of five picture books, two chapter books, two novels, and one documentary. His novel Mailing May, illustrated by Ted Rand, was honored s 1998 ALA Notable Book and was described by The New York Times Book Review as, "A heartwarming period piece based on a true incident, lovingly told, beautifully illustrated.” Tunnell teaches children's literature at Brigham Young University in Provo . He and his wife, Glenna, have four children and two grandchildren. Tunnel will present his award-winning novel with young adult author Jeff Stone, author of the Five Ancestor series, in a session titled “Magic Lamps and Kung Fu: Fantasy Novels Empower Young Adult Readers.” (Saturday, 2:00 – 2:50, Conference Room L1)
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If you are a book seller or representative of a literary organization and would like to exhibit at this event, please click here for an exhibitor's application. For more information, please contact Rebecca Batt at 801-359-9670 or by email at batt@utahhumanities.org. Please click the links below for more information on past festivals. |
Alex
Caldiero will conduct a Beat Poetry workshop, an experiential
and theoretical run down of various methods of getting it on (artistically),
from dada chance operations to stream of consciousness to surreal automatic
writing to cut up to bop-jazz to sundry expressionist and post-expressionist
techniques, what's more...hands-on wordshaking, sound-text baking, breathing
and howling, all for the edification of the soul. This workshop is an
opportunity for Book Festival attendees to take a hands-on approach to
literature and to write and share their work under the direction of a
teacher well known for his poems as well as his performances. The workshop
will be a small taste of a larger semester-long class Caldiero will be
conducting in the fall of 2005 at Utah Valley State College. (Ken Sanders
Rare Books) (Saturday, noon - 1:00, 4th floor Conference Room)
Chris
Crutcher will present in Delta October 5. Crutcher is an author,
educator, and family therapist known for his realistic young adult fiction.
His books include: Stotan!, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Staying
Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, and, most recently, The Sledding
Hill, which Capitol Choices calls, “THE talk novel of the
year.” His fast-paced fiction -- heavily influenced by his
work as a therapist and child protection advocate -- is known for its expert
balance of comedy and tragedy, as well as its unflinching honesty
and authentic voice. He lives in Spokane , Washington . For more information
on Delta events, please contact Deb Greathouse at (435) 864-4945 or 
Will
Hobbs has a strong following among young people. He is the author
of fifteen novels for young adults and also two picture books. Seven
of his books have been named American Library Association “Best
Books.” According to Will’s official website, a theme that
runs throughout his books is best said by one of his characters: “Take
care of the land, take care of yourself, take care of each other.” Hobbs’ books
include Changes in Latitude, Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander,
Beardance, Kokopelli’s Flute, Far North, Ghost Canoe, River Thunder,
The Maze, Jason’s Gold, Down the Yukon, Wild Man Island, Jackie’s
Wild Seattle, Leaving Protection, and coming spring of 2006, Crossing
the Wire. Picture books include Beardream and Howling
Hill. For more information, please go to http://
Cartoonist Batton Lash is the creator of the humor/horror series Supernatural Law (aka Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre). Lash studied cartooning and graphic arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where his instructors included Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. After graduating he took on various art-related jobs, including copywriting and art for an ad agency and drawings for a variety of magazines, books, and other clients. In 1979 one of those clients, Brooklyn Paper Publications, asked Lash to create a comic strip, and he came up with “Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre,” which ran weekly in The Brooklyn Paper until 1996 and in The National Law Journal from 1983 to 1997.
Slam
Poetry Workshop / Poetry Slam. Marc Smith invented a new style
of poetry presentation in 1986: The Poetry Slam, which has spread across
the world into nightclubs, libraries, schools and universities. Marc,
also known as Slampapi, will appear with Jean
Howard, a popular performance poet. Jean’s work has been
featured on PBS, radio, cable and television and has also appeared in
several books and periodicals. Marc Smith and Jean Howard will conduct
a workshop about translating the written word in a Spoken Word performance.
Mr. Smith and Ms. Howard will also act as Guest Judges for the Poetry
Slam which will follow the workshop. (Workshop,
Saturday, 3:00 - 4:50, Fourth floor conference room; Slam, Saturday,
5:30 - 6:20, Main Auditorium)
Performance
poet Jean Howard participated in the original development
of the internationally acclaimed “Poetry Slam.”Her poetry
has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Burning World, Spoon
RiverReview,
and the Chicago Tribune, among seventy other literary publications.
Her book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press),
is a collaborative work with photographer Alice Hargrave. Howard has
performed
her poetry at hundreds of venues nationwide, including, the Guggenheim’s “Art
of the Motorcycle Exhibit” at the Field Museum, Chicago’s
Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harold Washington Cultural Center, the
Salt Lake Arts Festival, and of course the infamous Green Mill where
the “Slam” began. She organized the annual National Poetry
Video Festival for eight years, with her own video poems, award-winning “Nazi
Youth in Brugge,”“Via Delle Cascine,”“Harley
and The Hill,” and "Women Without Children," airing
on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation. After living in Chicago
for twenty-two years, Howard has returned to her native Salt Lake City
. For more information, please go to 
Jackie
Estrada is the editor and co-publisher of the Supernatural
Law series of graphic novels from Exhibit A Press. A professional
book editor for over 35 years, Estrada has been involved in the comics
industry in various capacities since the 1970s, including having edited
the Souvenir Book and onsite Events Guide for Comic-Con International:
San Diego numerous times. Among the books she has edited is Mike Richardson
and Steve Duin’s Comics: Between the Panels, a 500-page
four-color hardbound coffee table book published by Dark Horse Books.
Since 1990 Estrada has served as administrator of the Will Eisner Comic
Industry Awards (the “Oscars”of the industry). She was one
of the founders of Friends of Lulu, a nonprofit organization devoted
to getting more women and girls involved in comics, and served as the
organization’s president for five years. She is also a co-founder
and member of the San Diego Professional Editors’Network. Ms. Estrada’s
appearance is presented through the Utah Humanities Council’s stipend
program, in conjunction with Nigh Flight Comics. At the Great Salt
Lake Book Festival, Lash and Estrada will present “Comics: The
Sequential Art” (Saturday, 10:00-10:50, Main Auditorium).
Jeff
Stone is author of The Five Ancestors, one of 2005’s
most anticipated new children’s series. In these riveting, new
books, first-time novelist Stone weaves an exciting and addictive literary
adventure in which a quintet of young, 17th century, kung-fu warrior
monks hold the key to China's future. The Five Ancestors tells
the story of five, orphaned monks, each named after a different animal—tiger,
monkey, snake, crane and dragon—reflecting each monk's exceptional
mastery of the animal's style of kung-fu. The first book, Tiger,
was released in March, and the second book, Monkey, will be
published this fall. A kung-fu enthusiast, Stone lives in the Midwest
with his wife and two children and practices the martial arts daily.
LikeThe Five Ancestors, Stone was adopted as an infant. He began
searching for his birth mother when he was eighteen and found her fifteen
years later. One year after that, he found his birth father. Stone will
appear jointly with Michael O. Tunnel in a session titled “Magic
Lamps and Kung Fu: Fantasy Novels Empower Young Adult Readers.” (Saturday,
2:00 – 2:50,
Conference Room L1)