Check Your Shelves Utah Humanities

Check Your Shelves Ep. 10 - Artes de Mexico
We had such a great opportunity to chat with the Executive Director of Artes de Mexico, Fanny Guadalupe Blauer, and poets Aaron Garcia and Lina Vega-Morrison on the show. We had a ball but ran out of time!

Check Your Shelves Ep. 9 - Christopher Cokinos Still as Bright
Chris Cokinos, author of Still is Bright, joined the Check Your Shelves to talk about the book, to talk about the sky, to talk about time in a simulator, and to talk about life and writing and research. This episode is so full of interesting insights into all of these things that you have to listen.
 
NOTE: Chris' Moab date will be 10/10 and 10/11 (not 10/12 as noted in the podcast).

Check Your Shelves Ep. 8 - Rachael Bush, League of Utah Writers President
We sat down with Rachael Bush, the current President of the League of Utah Writers. We talked about the upcoming conferences, about our partnership in bringing back the Utah Book Award, and many other great things, including how LUW serves its writers and how it is such an amazing resource statewide, nationally, and internationally!

Literary Death Match with Adrian Todd Zuniga Presented by Utah Humanities.
 
This episode of Check Your Shelves brought together the host of Literary Death Match, Adrian Todd Zuniga and an ensemble cast of writers, and the puns and funs never stop throughout. Get a glimpse into Zuniga's insights about the long-running show and the writers who competed in Ogden 2023!

Paisley Rekdal joined us in studio to talk about her newest book, West: A Translation. West: A Translation was Utah and Utah Humanities’ Adult selection for the 2023 Library of Congress, long listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and so much more.
You can find the full text of the book and videos that accompany each poem and translation at westtrain.org. We encourage you to buy the book and experience the multi-media art on your own.
As always, an enlightening podcast with Rekdal.
 
 

We got the very cool opportunity to chat with author, researcher, and writer Erika Bsumek on the Check Your Shelves Podcast. She delves so deeply into the dispossession of indigenous people's through architecture and infrastructure along the Colorado River and Glen Canyon. Such a great listen. You'll learn something. We did!
Erika will be speaking at two events this week. Join her!
Oct 5, 2023, 11:00 am -
BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
The Charles Redd Center for Utah Humanities Reading with Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundation of Glen Canyon Dam, Infrastructures of Dispossession on The Colorado Plateau
366 Spencer W Kimball TowerProvo , UT 84602-4702Map [+]
Oct 6, 2023, 4:00 pm --
Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Branch
Glen Canyon Institute presents Erika Bsumek, author of The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau, and Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona.
210 E 400 SSalt Lake City , UT 84111-2804Map [+]