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Paisley Rekdal, Poet Laureate of Utah, is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (2000), and the hybrid photo-text memoir Intimate, and has published six books of poetry, including Nightingale, which won the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Poetry. Her most recent works of nonfiction are a booklength essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, and Appropriate: A Provocation (2021). She guest edited Best American Poetry 2020 and has two books in progress: a hybrid book-length poem titled West: A Translation (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) and Real Toads: Imaginary Gardens: How to Read and Teach a Poem (W.W. Norton, 2024). Sponsored by the SMC Associates and SMC English Department.

This event is part of the ongoing of free literary talks & readings sponsored by the SMC Associates and the SMC English Department. Call 310-434-4003 for details and more information.