December 15th , 2005
For Immediate Release
For more information:
Megan Laurie
(801) 863-7149
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Garrett McGuire
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UVSC English Professor Places First in Poetry Competition
Scott Hatch, a professor in the department of English and Literature at Utah Valley State College, won first place for poetry in the annual Western Humanities Review (WHR) 2005 Utah Writer’s competition.
Over the years Hatch has been collecting poems he wrote and decided to submit them into the WHR 2005 Utah Writer’s competition. Out of 90 submissions, Hatch’s poems were awarded first place.
“This poet has an unerring ear and a beautiful sense of how a line should be timed,” said Bill Collins, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and a judge in this competition. “I like the way his precise verbal description can suddenly switch to a more colloquial line. This poet has the gift, the light touch and yet serious ballast on board.”
Hatch’s poems will be published this spring in WHR, which is a journal of poetry, fiction and scholarship. “The UVSC Department of English and Literature has a strong but perhaps under-noticed creative writing program, especially in poetry,” said Hatch. “Every little bit of recognition validates and establishes our program a little bit more.”
For more information contact Jen Wahlquist at (801) 863-8757.
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