Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven books of poetry, including Nightingale, Appropriate: A Provocation, and, most recently, West: A Translation, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is the editor and creator of the digital archive projects West, Mapping Literary Utah, and Mapping Salt Lake City. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes, the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, a
Fulbright Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. A former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she directs the American West Center.
My Events
Writing about Place: A Workshop on poetry and prose
Wednesday, October 16 6:30PM - 8:30PM
@ Frontier Homestead State Park Museum
Defining a Sense of Place; A writing workshop that will focus on finding a sense of place through words and documenting a place through poetry. A reading and refreshments will follow the writing workshop.
“West: A Translation” A Reading and Discussion with Paisley Rekdal
Thursday, October 17 11:30AM
@ Southern Utah University: APEX at Hunter Alumni Center: Gilbert Great Hall
A reading and discussion with former Utah Poet Laureate, Paisley Rekdal, as she revisits history through the untold stories of migrants who worked on the transcontinental railroad.