Editor Beth Conover and local contributors Stephen Trimble and John Daley present How the West Was Warmed\: Responding to Climate Change in the Rockies\, an entertaining and enlightening collection of essays that develops a portrait of the wide range of responses to climate change in the Rocky Mountain West.
UPDATE\: Local contributor Chip Ward is unable to attend.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T082053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100319T020000Z UID:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/percival-everett-and-karen-volkman URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/percival-everett-and-karen-volkman SUMMARY:Percival Everett and Karen Volkman DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the University of Utah English Department and Creative Writing Program\, the Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 2009-2010 season of the Guest Writers Series (GWS).
PERCIVAL EVERETT\, author of sixteen novels\, three collections of short fiction\, and two volumes of poetry. Among his novels are The Water Cure (2008)\, Wounded\, Glyph\, Erasure\, American Desert\, For Her Dark Skin\, Zulus\, Cutting Lisa\, Watershed\, and God's Country.
KAREN VOLKMAN‘s first book\, Crash’s Law (1996)\, was a National Poetry Series selection and her second book\, Spar\, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She recently authored her third book\, Nomina.
The readings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T082053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T020000Z UID:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/mark-spragg-and-laura-bell URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/mark-spragg-and-laura-bell SUMMARY:Mark Spragg and Laura Bell DESCRIPTION:Meet two talented western authors in one evening\: Mark Spragg and Laura Bell.
Spragg’s new work Bone Fire continues the truthful and compassionate story of the characters who peopled Spragg's bestselling novel An Unfinished Life which was chosen by the Rocky Mountain News as the Best Book of 2004. Laura Bell’s debut memoir\, Claiming Ground\, is a stirring portrayal of a woman making her own stamp as a sheepherder in remote Wyoming.
The event will feature a reading by both authors\, followed by Q &\; A and booksigning.
Co-sponsored
by the Stegner Center.
Venue updated Feb. 25\, 2010
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T082053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100320T200000Z UID:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/lindsey-leavitt-and-princess-hire URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/lindsey-leavitt-and-princess-hire SUMMARY:Lindsey Leavitt and Princess For Hire DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T082053Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T020000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100321T020000Z UID:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/nicole-walker-and-noisy-egg URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/nicole-walker-and-noisy-egg SUMMARY:Nicole Walker and This Noisy Egg DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR