Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube
  • News
    • Campus
    • Local
    • World
  • Arts and Entertainment
    • Performing Arts
    • Visual Arts
    • Music
    • Film
    • Fashion
  • Lifestyle
    • Campus Happenings
    • Community Happenings
    • Food
    • Business
    • Travel
    • Calendar
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Video
    • Globe News
    • What’s Bruin
    • Bruin Lens
    • Film
    • Music
    • Globe Shorts
  • Radio
Search
75.8 F
Salt Lake City
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
  • Newsletter Signup
  • Contests
  • About The Globe
    • Staff
    • Jobs
    • Issue PDFs
Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Privacy Policy
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
The Globe The Globe
The Globe The Globe
  • News
    • Campus
    • Local
    • World
  • Arts and Entertainment
    • Performing Arts
    • Visual Arts
    • Music
    • Film
    • Fashion
  • Lifestyle
    • Campus Happenings
    • Community Happenings
    • Food
    • Business
    • Travel
    • Calendar
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Video
    • Globe News
    • What’s Bruin
    • Bruin Lens
    • Film
    • Music
    • Globe Shorts
  • Radio
Home Arts and Entertainment SLCC poet laureate launches new reading series
  • Arts and Entertainment
  • News
  • Campus
  • Lifestyle
  • Campus Happenings

SLCC poet laureate launches new reading series

By
Jayel Kirby
-
February 22, 2016
0
Tarfia Faizullah talks with Orlan Owen
Guest poet reader Tarfia Faizullah visits with adjunct English instructor Orlan Owen as she signs his copy of her book Feb. 11 at South City Campus. (Jayel Kirby)

When English professor Lisa Bickmore was named Salt Lake Community College’s poet laureate by President Deneece Huftalin last spring, Bickmore proposed that part of her job would be to “organize and curate a poetry reading series, as SLCC has never had a reading series.”

The SLCC Poetry Reading Series commenced on Thursday, Feb. 11 in the South City Campus multipurpose room, featuring guest poet Tarfia Faizullah.

Tarfia Faizullah at podium
“Seam” author Tarfia Faizullah reads her poetry Feb. 11 at South City Campus. (Jayel Kirby)

A powerful poet

Bickmore states that she chose Faizullah for the inaugural event because of her first book, “Seam” — a collection of Faizullah’s poetry about Bangladeshi women who were raped by Pakistani soldiers as a military tactic during the Liberation War of 1971.

Bickmore feels that Faizullah’s work is “a powerful reminder” of what poetry and other “creative” genres can do.

“The work [is an example] of making history visible, of amplifying the voices of those we have not heretofore heard, of showing us with great vividness worlds to which we have not attended,” Bickmore says.

In addition to the poetry reading, Faizullah visited poetry and publication studies classes and led a public forum to discuss critical poetry writing earlier in the day at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus.

Suggestions wanted for future readers

Bickmore plans to have a reading every spring and fall semester. She is currently working on selecting a poet for next fall and welcomes any suggestions for future guest poets.

“I’m looking for readers from outside SLCC,” Bickmore says, “mainly to bring in widely diverse voices we wouldn’t be likely to hear otherwise.”

In response to queries about how the next event will be publicized, Bickmore says she will try to have future event information posted on SLCC’s website.

Anyone with questions about the SLCC Poetry Reading Series can contact Professor Bickmore via email at lisa.bickmore@slcc.edu.

  • TAGS
  • events
  • Lisa Bickmore
  • poet laureate
  • Poetry
  • poetry reading series
  • Salt Lake Community College
  • Seam
  • Tarfia Faizullah
  • writing
Jayel Kirby

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

Six people cutting ribbon for Alder Plaza grand opening

Grand opening of Alder Plaza attracts many students, faculty, and staff, drawing a plethora of positive responses

Two poets discuss mother tongues and ‘their right to coexist’ for SLCC event

Multiple esports teams playing a video game in a classroom computer lab

Esports competitors test their skills during event at SLCC Redwood campus

Information cards and pamphlets placed on a table

Womxn share stories about identity and struggle in new anthology series

Rio Cortez on stage behind podium reading poetry

NYT bestselling author, Utah native shares her work of Black identity for SLCC reading

The Globe
ABOUT US
About The Globe
Staff
Jobs
Issue PDFs
FOLLOW US
Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube
  • About The Globe
  • Staff
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
© 2025 The Globe