Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction, and seven books of poetry, most recently, West: A Translation, which won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Utah Book Award in Poetry, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Reading the West Poetry Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her work has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and various state arts council awards. The former Utah poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah where she directs the American West Center.
Professor Paisley Rekdal
Articles by Professor Paisley Rekdal
Snapshots of Censorship: The Cost of Criticizing the President
“If we allow important conversations to be censored out of fear of retaliation by the government, we risk losing our Democracy.”