During her time as Utah's poet laureate, paisleyrekdal has started many projects to connect the state's poetry scene. Her biggest is the Utah Poetry Festival, and it's going on now.
. She described it as “a web archive of all the Utah writers past and present” that allows people to research and find Utah writers.” which she was commissioned to write in advance of the May 2019 statewide celebration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, when the “Golden Spike” was driven at Promontory, Utah, in 1869.
“No one knows who wrote the poem, but the poem elegizes a fellow detainee who committed suicide,” she said. “I wanted to use that poem as a lens into thinking about so many of the workers’ lives, the ways that the Transcontinental [Railroad] really shaped American immigration law, labor law ideas about race, gender and culture.”
And while Rekdal said “there are no Utah poems” — in that there are no poems that sum up all the facets of the state — she did list three poems, whose writers were in or from Utah, that she particularly loves:” by May Swenson • “I just love the way she twists and turns this opening phrase to reconsider feeling and intimacy.”” by Larry Lewis • “I simply adore Larry Levis, and the way he’s able to balance the personal and the philosophical so perfectly.
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