The Word Ecstatic Schedule - Big Mouth Café Readings

See bios on presenters below.

Thursday, June 26

2:30 pm-3:15 pm - Storytelling - Julie Barnson
3:15 pm-4:00 pm - It's All Greek to Me - YouthCity
4:00 pm-5:45 pm - Storytelling - Barbara Blackhurst & Nola Van Wagener
6:00 pm-6:30 pm - Michael McLane - Leaping Morphine Poet
6:30 pm-7:00 pm - Steve Tuttle
7:00 pm-7:30 pm - Hector Ahumada - Soil and Air Poet
7:30 pm-9:00 pm - Poetry Slam (Round One)

Friday, June 27

3:00 pm-3:45 pm - Storytelling - Karl Behling
3:45 pm-4:30 pm - It's All Greek to Me - YouthCity
4:30 pm-5:00 pm - Iris Moulton - Lost Echos Poet
5:00 pm-5:30 pm - Diane Fouts - Cherry Mouth Poet
5:30 pm-6:00 pm - Lynn Kilpatrick - Fiction Mistress
6:00 pm-6:30 pm - Michael Sowder - Empty Boat Poet
6:30 pm-7:00 pm - Felicia Olivera - Fiction Mistress
7:00 pm-7:30 pm - Maria Melendez - Wild Hair Poet
7:30 pm-9:00 pm - Poetry Slam (Round Two)

Saturday, June 28

2:45 pm-3:30 pm - Storytelling - Janine Nishiguchi
3:30 pm-3:45 pm - Teen Playwrights read - YouthCity/SLAC
3:45 pm-4:30 pm - It's All Greek to Me - YouthCity
4:30 pm-5:00 pm - Harold Carr - Lyric Bass Poet
5:00 pm-5:30 pm - Steve Trimble - Non-Fiction: Bargaining for Eden
5:30 pm-6:00 pm - Melissa Bond - Burgeoning Bohemian Poet
6:00 pm-6:30 pm - Sara Caldiero - Goat in Belly Poet
6:30 pm-7:00 pm - David Stevenson - Tonka Truck Poet
7:00 pm-7:30 pm - Alex Caldiero - Shamanic Wordshaker Poet
7:30 pm-9:00 pm - Poetry Slam (Final Round)

Sunday, June 29

1:30 pm-3:00 pm - Readings from Winners of the Wasatch Ironpen.
3:00 pm-3:45 pm -  Storytelling - Suzanne Hudson
3:50 pm-4:15 pm - Teen Playwrights read - YouthCity/SLAC
4:15 pm-5:00 pm - It's All Greek to Me - YouthCity
5:00 pm-5:30 pm - Amie Tullius - Fiction Mistress
5:30 pm-6:00 pm - Jacob Paul - Fiction Maestro
6:00 pm-6:30 pm - Greg Marshall - Heavy Water Poet
6:30 pm-7:00 pm - Joel Long - Turbulent Follicle Poet
7:00 pm-7:30 pm - Kimberly Johnson - Button Belly Poet
7:30 pm-9:00 pm - Final Slamoff

Presenting Poets at the Big Mouth Café 

Lynn Kilpatrick earned her PhD in Fiction from the University of Utah in 2004. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Ninth Letter, Tin House, Denver Quarterly, Brevity, and Salt Hill. She is currently working on a lyric novel. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, son, and dog. (Photo)

Greg Marshall is from Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from Northwestern University in 2007 and now works for the Park Record.

Maria Melendez teaches creative writing and American literature at Utah State University.  Her poetry, fiction and essays appear in such magazines as Barrow Street, International Quarterly, Isotope, and Ecological Restoration, and her recent collection of poetry, How Long She'll Last in This World, was published in 2006 by the University of Arizona Press.  The collection was awarded Honorable Mention at the 2007 International Latino Book Awards, and was named a finalist for the 2007 PEN Center USA Literary Awards.

Iris Moulton began her writing career in Mrs. Jensen's 3rd grade class with the highly-acclaimed work entitled Why Wolves Howl At The Moon, and has been writing ever since. She was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and brought up by a loving and creative family. She enjoys eating, dancing, cooking, drinking, travel, and avoiding work. She has published one collection of poetry where the echoes go, and has one fake tooth.

Jacob Paul lives in Salt Lake City. He balances doctoral studies at the University of Utah's English Department with summer-long bicycle trips around the US. Sections from his novel, A Song of Ilan, have won the Richard Scowcroft Award for Prose and The Utah Writer's Contest. A chapter from Sarah/Sara appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Hunger Mountain. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College.

Michael Sowder's book of poetry, The Empty Boat, was chosen by Diane Wakoski to win the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has published two chapbooks of poetry, A Calendar of Crows, and Café Midnight, and his critical study of Walt Whitman, Whitman's Ecstatic Union, was published by Routledge in 2005.  Sowder's poems and essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and appear widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies across the nation.  He is currently working on a collection of father son poems and a collection of spiritual poems, as well as a spiritual memoir.  He is an associate professor at Utah State and poetry editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing. (photo)

Stephen Tuttle is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Utah and currently teaches at Brigham Young University. His fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse and in many other national literary journals.