Issues: Issue 348 – December 2017
![SLUG Style: Meagan Gonsalves-Vorwald](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SLUG_Style_Meagan_Gonsalves-Vorwald_7-1024x681.jpg)
SLUG Style: Meagan Gonsalves-Vorwald
Meagan Gonsalves-Vorwald is a librarian at the Sweet Library Branch, a literature buff and a self-proclaimed super nerd. … read more
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![A Story’s Mask: Enter the Inner Workings of Michael Mejia’s Tokyo](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-Ed-Michael-Mejia-Natalie-Haws.jpg)
A Story’s Mask: Enter the Inner Workings of Michael Mejia’s...
Tokyo is rewarding and responsible in that its form is all about process and awareness—of readership, authorship and culture. … read more
![Track History, Tell Stories: Michael McLane on Literature, the Environment and Social Justice](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-Ed-Michael-McLane-LmSorenson.net_.jpg)
Track History, Tell Stories: Michael McLane on Literature, the Environment...
Historically and culturally diverse experiences led McLane to use storytelling and poetry to highlight social justice issues pertaining to “the intersection of human processes and how they’re detrimental to the environment—and to us.” … read more
![Jai Hamid Bashir: A Knife Delivers Us from Tenderness](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-Ed-Jai-Hamid-Bashir-Danielle-Woodall-Photography.jpg)
Jai Hamid Bashir: A Knife Delivers Us from Tenderness
Jai Hamid Bashir is a Pakistani-American teacher, creator and writer based out of Salt Lake City. You can find more of her work and musings at jaihamidbashir.com. … read more
![Utah Author Book Reviews: Dreamlives of Debris](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-ED-BookReviews-DreamlivesOfDebris-LanceOlsen-PORTRAIT-AndiOlsen.jpg)
Utah Author Book Reviews: Dreamlives of Debris
“Yet the labyrinth at play in Dreamlives is a special sort: an impossible liquid architecture that bears no center and hence no discernable perimeter.” … read more
![Paisley Rekdal: Mapping Literary Utah](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-Ed-Paisley-Rekdal-John-Barkiple-2-horizontal.jpg)
Paisley Rekdal: Mapping Literary Utah
Paisley Rekdal, creator of Mapping SLC and Utah’s current Poet Laureate, is in many ways a gatekeeper between literature and gripping relics of time. … read more
![Shaping the Future: An Interview with DPS Founder Stephen Drake](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DPS-Skis.jpg)
Shaping the Future: An Interview with DPS Founder Stephen Drake
Stephan Drake, founder of DPS Skis, realizes the vast potential of the area, and his dedication to building quality, hand-crafted skis exists to this day. … read more
![Sound, Symbolism & Meter: Utah Poetry – PoetFlow](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SLUG_PoetFlow_Call_3.jpg)
Sound, Symbolism & Meter: Utah Poetry – PoetFlow
In the past two years, many have found in PoetFlow a safe haven: a place to share intimate things in a public setting as a kind of therapy. … read more
![Localized: Exes](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-ED-Localized-Exes-JessicaBundy-4.jpg)
Localized: Exes
With a fully vitalized lineup, EXES released their ferocity in their self-titled EP, which consisted of the three remaining tracks from full-length. … read more
![Inhale, Exhale: Swen of the Wirble](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/348-ED-Art-Feature-Fringe-Gallery-Banyan-Fierer-Swen-of-the-Wirble-ColtonMarsalaPhotography.com-1.jpg)
Inhale, Exhale: Swen of the Wirble
Swen of the Wirble is designed to invoke awareness not only of the reality of natural disasters but also of personal disasters. … read more