![]() ![]() ![]() Rekdal was the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020. "Appropriate: A Provocation," which examines cultural appropriation, was published by W.W. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, "The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam." A new collection of poems, Nightingale, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's Metamorphoses, was published in 2019 and won the Washington State Book Award. She is the author of a book of essays, "The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee," the hybrid photo-text memoir, "Intimate," and five books of poetry In 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Laureate Fellowship. Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of "West: A Translation," as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. These writers of poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction meet with students in class or other venues to discuss their work and careers. The River Readings at Augustana brings literary artists to campus each year from around the country. The event is free and open to the public. The 2022 River Reading will welcome Paisley Rekdal, poet laureate of Utah, who will read from her work April 27. ![]()
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