Lisa Bickmore, Utah's poet laureate, has been awarded a fellowship and $50,000 by The Academy of American Poets, to foster work establishing a mobile micro-press to publish poets' work about the crisis facing the Great Salt Lake.
Bickmore said she is excited to receive the award, one of 23 fellowship recipients announced Tuesday, especially because of the vision she thinks the academy has for them. “They were interested in projects that would benefit young people, or underserved people,” Bickmore said in a phone interview Tuesday.
, its “mission is to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.”Lauren CampBickmore, a graduate of Brigham Young University, is recently retired from her job as an English professor at Salt Lake Community College. She also founded the nonprofitIn a news release, the academy said Bickmore will use the $50,000 award to “create and digitally archive micro-editions of chapbooks with writers throughout Utah.
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