Helicon West Features Two Authors

Two authors with work published by Utah’s Outlaw Artists Press are the featured readers at the next Helicon West event, Thursday, Feb, 26, at 7 p.m. at True Aggie Café, 117 North Main, Logan, Utah.

“If you like poetry that tells a powerful story, you won’t want to miss this event,” said Star Coulbrooke, director of the Department of English writing center at Utah State University.

 

Helicon West, sponsored by the Writing Center, is a bi-monthly open-mic reading series. Events are open to the public.

 

The evening’s guests are Katie Kingston and Jan Minich. Helicon West also features local poetry groups, creative writing classes, high school students, writing-contest winners and others. The Feb. 12 event featured Michael Sowder’s graduate poetry writing class from USU. The open microphone session welcomed a variety of community and student voices, with more than 70 people in attendance.

 

Kingston is the author of three chapbooks of poetry and was a 2008 finalist in the May Swenson Poetry Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editor of Isotope (Utah State University), for her poem, Vista Verde.

 

Minich lives in Wellington, Utah, and also spends time in Bayfield, Wis. Published widely in journals, he is also the author of three books of poetry. Minich taught literature and writing at the College of Eastern Utah for 25 years.

 

Helicon West invites everyone to share poetry or other material at its open microphone nights every second and fourth Thursday of the month during USU semesters at True Aggie Café, 117 N. Main, Logan, Utah. Activities begin at 7 p.m.

 

All readings are eligible for publication on community broadsides. For more information, contact Coulbrooke at star.coulbrooke@usu.edu.

 

Source: Department of English
Contact: Star Coulbrooke, star.coulbrooke@usu.edu