David Lee was Utah’s first poet laureate.
In 2001, he was finalist-runner up for United States Poet Laureate. He is the author of two dozen volumes of poetry, including “The Porcine Canticles,” “My Town,” “So Quietly the Earth,” “Last Call” and “Rusty Barbed Wire: Selected Poems.”
Lee will speak on Wednesday, October 22, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Union 73 Coffee Shop.
His awards include multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Western States Book Award,
Mountain and Plains States Booksellers Award, Critics’ Choice Award, Utah Book Awards, New York Public Library’s Poetry Book of the Year, and others.
The Utah Humanities Council and Utah Education Association named him one of the top 12 writers in Utah literary history and he was the fifth academic in Utah higher education to be named a Lifetime Fellow by the Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This event is sponsored by the Northeast Community College English Department through its Visiting Writers Series. All events are free and open to the public. For further information contact: Bonnie Johnson-Bartee, coordinator, at 402-844-7673 or bonnie@northeast.edu.
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