Present, Future and Past of RMWF 2012
Today is the third day of Rocky Mountain Writers Festival, and there is so much to report that this will probably be pretty long.
TODAY: 7 pm College Market. "University night prose, poetry, unbridled smartness". Readers are: Brandon Hall, Erin Gray, Jeff Pearson, Joan Juskie (me!), Mitch Christensen, Sarah Thurber, and Susan Swetnam. Emcee: Carlen Donovan. Find out more about College Market Coffee House on their web page or on their Facebook page. Great coffee, tea, other beverages, plus snacks (especially the Cherry Mocha Biscotti). My favorite drink is the Shot in the Dark--a shot of espresso in a cup of dark roast coffee--you're AWAKE!
TOMORROW: 7 pm Main Street Coffee and News. Jill Jorgensen, Emcee. Local Writers plus Utah writers: Star Colebrook and some of her writing students from Logan Utah. Great coffee, tea and other beverages, plus snacks. Tony's coffee house has been a frequent place for literary readings over the years. I love the way he makes Chai Tea.
YESTERDAY: I sat at the same table with Jill Jorgensen, who is doing the RMWF on Facebook. Be sure to check there also for her updates and pictures. She got wonderful pictures of most of the readers and musicians last night.
Cathy Peppers was the emcee and opened with upcoming announcements. She mentioned the remaining events: university night on Thursday, etc.--they are listed completely in blog entries below this one. She thanked Penny Pink for having it at Portneuf Valley Brewing--there were sure some wonderful looking meals and snacks being delivered. They also have wonderful beer, wine, etc. She mentioned the flyer on the Literary Pavers and suggested people do a poetry walk. I want to add that if you haven't done it in awhile, there are plenty of NEW pavers out there to see. She then opened the reading with some poems.
The first half started with Bethany Schultz Hurst, who has recently been promoted to Assistant professor. Bethany and I (Joan Juskie) both got our MFA's at Eastern Washington University, though mine was 15+ years earlier than hers. As always, she had wonderful poetry. Next came Jessica McAleese, a local singer songwriter, who plays with Steelhead Redd. I think she is Pocatello's best songwriter, and enjoyed her new concrete channel song, as well as "Artificial Sweet." Jackie Johnson Maughan who read a chapter, "The Run" from her novel The Highway Man. It had beautiful imagery of the salmon doing their run. Finally Greg Mladenka played his song about the trains, and followed with a song about salmon and extinction. Then came break, when people got treats and more beer....or whatever their pleasure.
Cindy Allen started the next session talking about Adrienne Rich's recent death, and reading her creative response to it. She is one of Cathy Pepper's students, and had some amazing poems. Festival favorite Roger Schmidt was next, with an essay on hearing and not seeing. Laughter and smiles always highlight his readings. Cathy commented, "The depth of talent in this town continues to blow me away." How true! Then Jen Hawkins, who is finishing her degree in English, philosophy and art read some of her explosive poetry. She is amazing! Finally the evening concluded with singer-songwriter Angier Wills. He did his song "Alvarado, TX" and a new one "Satelite Sky". Find out more about him and his music on the Elvis Has Left the Building site.
This was one of the best readings I've been to and if you missed it, you will be pleased to know that Jim Mariani from Pocatello's channel 12 filmed it and it will be shown at a later time.
TODAY: 7 pm College Market. "University night prose, poetry, unbridled smartness". Readers are: Brandon Hall, Erin Gray, Jeff Pearson, Joan Juskie (me!), Mitch Christensen, Sarah Thurber, and Susan Swetnam. Emcee: Carlen Donovan. Find out more about College Market Coffee House on their web page or on their Facebook page. Great coffee, tea, other beverages, plus snacks (especially the Cherry Mocha Biscotti). My favorite drink is the Shot in the Dark--a shot of espresso in a cup of dark roast coffee--you're AWAKE!
TOMORROW: 7 pm Main Street Coffee and News. Jill Jorgensen, Emcee. Local Writers plus Utah writers: Star Colebrook and some of her writing students from Logan Utah. Great coffee, tea and other beverages, plus snacks. Tony's coffee house has been a frequent place for literary readings over the years. I love the way he makes Chai Tea.
YESTERDAY: I sat at the same table with Jill Jorgensen, who is doing the RMWF on Facebook. Be sure to check there also for her updates and pictures. She got wonderful pictures of most of the readers and musicians last night.
Cathy Peppers was the emcee and opened with upcoming announcements. She mentioned the remaining events: university night on Thursday, etc.--they are listed completely in blog entries below this one. She thanked Penny Pink for having it at Portneuf Valley Brewing--there were sure some wonderful looking meals and snacks being delivered. They also have wonderful beer, wine, etc. She mentioned the flyer on the Literary Pavers and suggested people do a poetry walk. I want to add that if you haven't done it in awhile, there are plenty of NEW pavers out there to see. She then opened the reading with some poems.
The first half started with Bethany Schultz Hurst, who has recently been promoted to Assistant professor. Bethany and I (Joan Juskie) both got our MFA's at Eastern Washington University, though mine was 15+ years earlier than hers. As always, she had wonderful poetry. Next came Jessica McAleese, a local singer songwriter, who plays with Steelhead Redd. I think she is Pocatello's best songwriter, and enjoyed her new concrete channel song, as well as "Artificial Sweet." Jackie Johnson Maughan who read a chapter, "The Run" from her novel The Highway Man. It had beautiful imagery of the salmon doing their run. Finally Greg Mladenka played his song about the trains, and followed with a song about salmon and extinction. Then came break, when people got treats and more beer....or whatever their pleasure.
Cindy Allen started the next session talking about Adrienne Rich's recent death, and reading her creative response to it. She is one of Cathy Pepper's students, and had some amazing poems. Festival favorite Roger Schmidt was next, with an essay on hearing and not seeing. Laughter and smiles always highlight his readings. Cathy commented, "The depth of talent in this town continues to blow me away." How true! Then Jen Hawkins, who is finishing her degree in English, philosophy and art read some of her explosive poetry. She is amazing! Finally the evening concluded with singer-songwriter Angier Wills. He did his song "Alvarado, TX" and a new one "Satelite Sky". Find out more about him and his music on the Elvis Has Left the Building site.
This was one of the best readings I've been to and if you missed it, you will be pleased to know that Jim Mariani from Pocatello's channel 12 filmed it and it will be shown at a later time.
posted by pocatello.readings at Thursday, April 05, 2012
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