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Poet laureate finds creativity in tragedy

Tori Waltz October 26, 2018

“What is the power of art to represent some of the worst things that can happen to us?” Paisley Rekdal, a University of Utah english professor and esteemed poet, asked the audience at a poetry...

Graphic by Madison Osborn

Storytelling: Changing the world one brain at a time

Zac Watts November 9, 2017

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is perhaps one of the most important books in American history. Enraged by the injustices perpetrated against African American slaves and laws that would...

(Source: Tribune News Service)

The world is a bookstore: National Undergrad Literature Conference

Jeweliette Cordero April 6, 2017

Around 160 students from all across the U.S. and Canada came to showcase their work in the 32nd National Undergraduate Literature Conference, held annually at Weber State University, with an opening banquet...

Adding lights is an inexpensive way to make your dorm feel more at home. (Abby Van Ess / The Signpost)

Decorate your dorm on the cheap

Jeweliette Cordero September 12, 2016

It’s the new school year and that often means a new room. Whether you’re a new or returning student living in the dorms, the sigh of moving is a shared reaction. Although moving is rough and...

Romance author Joy Spraycar shows her booth at the Utah Authors Fair at the Courtyard Marriott in Ogden.

Local authors share stories, encourage reading

Christina Huerta October 13, 2015

Hastings Entertainment store hosted its annual Authors Fair on Sunday at the Ogden Marriot, with 40 local authors exhibiting their newest works. The authors fair is an opportunity for local authors...

Banned Books Week rounded out with reading

Christina Huerta October 6, 2015

Oct. 3 marked the last day of Banned Books Week 2015.  To commemorate the week-long celebration, a group of readers gathered at Ogden’s Historic 25th Street on Saturday to publicly read excerpts from...

Sprucing up summer reading

June 12, 2015

Summer reading is the best time for some people to catch up on popular titles. They peruse book stores and libraries to pick up those books that they’ve been meaning to read, like Divergent, Unbroken,...

Four thought-provoking books for spring

March 23, 2015

It is not the books we read and go on with life that we remember. It is the books we read and keep contemplating that stick with us  for life. I have often found myself having a hard time coming back...

Cheap Weekly: Traveling on the cheap through fiction

March 2, 2015

It’s a well-established fact that college students are strapped for time. Between classes, work, homework and that magical yet elusive thing called a social life, leisure time can be hard to come...

5 Libros que todo Hispanohablante debe de leer

January 15, 2015

Desde que era una niña he tenido  gran interés por la lectura. Empece leyendo cosas simples y divertidas como Harry Potter, Romeo y Julieta, Frankenstein, El diario de Ana Frank y por supuesto no...

English department offers free book exchange

October 25, 2014

Walking on the fourth floor of Elizabeth Hall, students might stop to pick up a book from a new bookshelf. Signs on the shelf read "books," "textbooks," "magazines" and the most prominent, “Take a...

'The Best of Me' another tragic love story

October 11, 2014

Nicholas Sparks is the author of many romance novels that have been turned into extremely successful films. "The Best of Me," set to be released on Oct. 17, will be Sparks' ninth novel that has been...

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