Seasons of Stories

Don’t miss An Evening of Poetry with Utah State Poet Laureate, Lance Larsen.
 
Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, Genius Loci, was recently published by University of Tampa Press.  His earlier collections include Backyard Alchemy (2009), In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005), and Erasable Walls (1998).  He holds a PhD from the University of Houston.  His work appears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.  His nonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays.  He is currently working on Seventeen Ways to Float, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory which won 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition. 
 
Lance grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving an LDS mission.  He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walks on his hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food.  He sometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter and multi-media artist.  Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writing at BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair.  He and Jacqui recently directed a study abroad program in Madrid.  In 2012, he was named to a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate.
 
Season of Stories 2013-14 is a series of presentations at the St. George Opera House. Presented in conjunction with the Dixie Tellers – a chapter of the Utah Storytelling Guild.