Check Your Shelves

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!

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

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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.

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Natalie Padilla Young, author of the amazing collection of poetry This Was Once All Under Water, talked with us from southern Utah about her new collection. This was so Utah, and so fitting for the upcoming 2023 Utah Humanities Book Festival.

See Natalie in Helper on 10/21 with Cindy King. Thanks to Nancy Takacs for hosting!

Check Your Shelves sat down with Betsy Gaines Quammen to talk about her forthcoming book, TRUE WEST, forthcoming for Torrey House Press this October. 

This book tackles the western mythologies that have damaged so many lives and led to events like January 6th.

Quammen will be in Utah for at least TWO events of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. 

Go see her!

This podcast is made possible in partnership with Utah Humanities as part of the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. Produced by The Banyan Collective.