The mountain is so pale, today--

Any color

You suggest,

It takes

Located: 1775 W New Hampshire Ave

Jasmine Khaliq is a Pakistani Mexican poet born and raised in Northern California. She holds a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, Jasmine is a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City where she lives with her partner Victor and Lucy, their beautiful dog.

clouds will hold themselves above

this ground where you are

another sort of sky

Located: Northshore Dr & Northview St

Aristotle Johns is a writer from Colorado. He lives in Salt Lake City, where he is pursuing a PhD in creative writing. Aristotle owes all and anything he is to his family and best friends.

Downtown blushes heartbeat red

at the nip of winter,

infant flakes race the train

Located: 500 S 1200 E

Located: 600 S 1200 E

Arianna Rees is a social media manager and writer who grew up in Cache Valley but now calls Salt Lake City home. When she isn't staring at a blank screen, willing words to appear, she can be found hiking in the Cottonwoods, enjoying a good film at The Broadway, or spending too much money at The King’s English.

Rooted here, heart whispers ‘home."

Located: Rosewood Park, 1400 N 1200 W

Samantha da Silva (b.1978) is a Brazilian-born artist based in Salt Lake City, UT. Shaped by migration and a desire to create, she's moved over 40 times due to natural disasters and life circumstances. Her large-scale relief sculptures, resembling topographic maps and cracked earth, explore themes of belonging and resourcefulness. An educator, she's taught globally and featured in Architectural Digest and HGTV.

The Oquirrhs in the distance

Held aloft by a corral of clouds.

Quickly now before the wind picks up.

Located: 800 W Lucy Ave

Kelly Goff is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Salt Lake City. Goff’s art practice observes how women are treated and how we experience the world. Consistent themes of exploration include power dynamics, domesticity, beauty standards and female reproductive health. The human body figures prominently in her work. Her sculptural and installation work has been exhibited locally and out of state.

Even the mountains are cheering you on.

Located: 9th Ave & J St

Holly Henderson is an artist and writer living in Salt Lake City. She creates mixed media artwork that combines words and imagery to tell a story of the shared human experience and connectedness we all experience. She is greatly inspired by family, nature, life, and love.

Dry dust salt sea westwind,

Sun chase dew rise scrub oak,

And wet pine give race.

Located: 2577 E Nottingham Way

Zach Schwingworked for almost a decade as a bicycle messenger in downtown Salt Lake City. He is currently writing and illustrating a work of hyper-modernist fiction featuring his fictional messenger persona “Hotspur.” Publication of the first novella is slated for summer/autumn 2024.

quiet eyes gaze west, there,

the jagged mountains slash through purple skies

Located: 2233 S 2000 E

Jack Myhre grew up in the shadow of the Rwenzori Mountains before periods in central North Carolina and England slowly wore him down with their empty horizons. His heart yearned for elevation again and he found his way back to jagged contour lines, this time in Utah, where he spends his time taking pictures and making pasta, pizza, and pottery.

Humpback Arcoíris – rock rojo, montaña mauve, cerulean nos lleva sky-high /

Rainbow Humpback – red rock, mauve mountain, cerulean carries us sky-high

Susan J. Wurtzburg received 1st place in the Elizabeth M. Campbell Poetry Award, 2022. She was a semi-finalist in the Crab Creek Review Poetry Competition 2022, and in the Naugatuck River Review's 14th Narrative Poetry Contest, 2022. Wurtzburg was a Community Poet in the Spring 2023 Poetry Workshop, Westminster College. Her poetry may be found online and in print.

Escucho tu constante murmurar apaciguar el bullicio, sonorizas mi paz rio Jordan /

I hear your constant murmuring calm the bustle, you sound my peace Jordan river

Born and raised in Tampico, México, father of three tender souls, César Urbizu-Rodarte immigrated two decades ago to Salt Lake City; he is a musician and a writer by conviction and a postman by career, a lover of mountain trails accompanied by his dogs, and at home, a tired soccer player enjoying a book with his cats purring on his lap.

Dragonflies summon me to apricot skies

As the river cuts the ribbon

Samantha Shelley is a writer and content creator from Essex, England. She loves cats, the library, and swimming in mountain lakes.

You are Here.

You’ll find:

Human voice, a Sacred wild,

Broad streets &

Bearded grain.

Keira Shae (M. Ed.) is a deaf Salt Lake author. She published a memoir, How the Light Gets In, with BCC in 2018. It chronicles her childhood with an uneducated mother addicted to methamphetamines and the Utah foster family that changed her life. She is a counselor for children and a proud mother of three sons.

A basin yearning to be full again,

a great lake dreaming herself whole again.

Nan Seymour is a lake-facing poet who has led community vigils on behalf of the imperiled Great Salt Lake throughout the last three Utah State legislative sessions. She assembled the praise poem called Irreplaceable, a collective love letter to the lake containing over 400 individual voices.

To the mountains, our city

must seem a herd of hills

that somehow hum and shine.

Joe Roberts lives in Salt Lake City. His work has been featured in Tiny Seed Press, Haikuniverse, petrichor magazine, and the Rocky Mountain Revival Podcast. His first chapbook, Anathema, will be published in 2024. With his free time, Joe writes music reviews for SLUG Magazine, takes communion at local coffee shops, and hikes the Wasatch Front with his partner, Brooke.

An emerald band between thirst and drowning /

Between narratives

Between homelands

Cash Mendenhall is a senior at West High School and was born and raised in Salt Lake City. He is interested in adapting our city to confront climate change and an increasingly tenuous relationship with our natural resources.

Among peaks

I am a brother and a queen

a dreaming anticline

inciting revelry

& peace

Tim Glenn is a museum professional and cultural sector enthusiast from Salt Lake City. He spends most of his time thinking about what he said in therapy the week before. He maintains a creative practice that currently revolves around single panel cartoons, mildly humorous (and mildly serious) poems, and drawing every coffee shop in SLC. In the past, Tim has also found success writing fiction, strongly worded letters, songs, typo-filled emails, and Dad-jokes.

Undocumented, yet undeterred,

In every footstep, a story conferred.

Pablo Cruz-Ayala explores the intersections between their Mexican/American heritage, and status as an undocumented immigrant through visual art. Currently studying Biomedical Engineering and Painting at the University of Utah, after which they hope to pursue a medical degree. They aim to continue nurturing and strengthening professional art and stem resources in Utah through community and research.

A cement valley with a blossom

always waiting to burst over its desert sky.

Nicolas Contreras is an American poet and artist, originally from Mar del Plata, Argentina — though He's called Utah his home for many years. As someone who values the work it takes to make a place home, he was most excited that the selections for this project would be in public spaces, for all to come across them and enjoy.

The Range eyes my

southbound course.

Sneakers are roots that move.

Paulina Burnside was born and raised in the high desert mountains of northern New Mexico educated near the U.S./Mexican borderlands. Exploring spaces by foot, bicycle, or imagination takes up most of her time.

Love is a sapling's effort

Canvas, concrete

A park bench

The corner fleur

Con ganas de conocerte

(Looking forward to meeting you)

Loving father, poet, and children's book author. Born in Seattle, John Boyack relocated to Salt Lake City in 2001 and enrolled at the University of Utah earning BA degrees in English and Political Science, and a master's degree in public administration. He loves reading, hiking, and creating with his daughter Hattie and thanks Miriam, his lightning bolt, for inspiring this poe.