Joel Long will read from his new poems at 5:00 on Friday at the Utah Arts Festival on the Big Mouth Stage.
Joel Long’s most recent book Lessons in Disappearance was published by
Blaine Creek Press in 2012. Knowing Time by Light, a finalist for the
Utah Book Award, was published by the same press in 2010. His book
Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published
in 1999. Long’s chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every
Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab
Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow
Springs, Poems and Plays, and Seattle Review and anthologized in
American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place. He received the Mayor’s Artist Award for
Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award
from Writers at Work.
Joel Long
