Jan Hamer has been contributing to the Utah literary scene for many years, not only by publishing her own collection of poems and essays titled A Story by Ravens (2022, Binary Press Publications) but also by training the next generation of writers and creatives in Utah. Hamer taught at Weber State University (WSU) for 24 years before retiring last fall. During her time at WSU, Hamer was the head advisor for Weber’s literary journal Metaphor for nine years. Through her efforts, she helped cultivate new up-and-coming writers while also providing them a place to show off their works with Metaphor. To celebrate her achievements, Metaphor renamed their annual writing contest the Jan Hamer Award. With her newfound free time, Hamer is looking to release two new projects soon— And Fifteen More Minuets of Fame and I’Amour Fou. She has graciously given us a sneak preview of And Fifteen More  Minuets of Fame.

And Fifteen More Minuets of Fame
Sonically Logical Words to Live By

Learn from your parents and piers, not from those who sit ideally by: be idol free!

When in the throws of new love, it is off-pudding to engage in excess snaking.

Your wiliness to serve may not be a couscous activity; remember our indented target.

The surf and lord relationship is a thing of the paste, so it is not suppressing that you must cast off the morays of a previous time.

Do not touch that pile of ruble with a ten-foot pull—it is full of toxic waist.

You have diluted yourself into believing that dinosaurs were whipped out by natural phenomenon and thatShakespier was alive when they roamed the ear.

Study the Chinese polishers and they will demon straight some cleaver ways to continue your education, some educational steeping stones: provided, of course, that you yarn to learn.

Even the most freak quietly preformed cosmetic surgery cannot nip your problems in the butt unless you undergo a therapeutic regiment of Slimefast and rice patties, with an occasional Felt of Fish from McDonalds.

Rules are maid for a reason: do not smug drugs across the boarder, try to pros light in Germany, sale oxy cotton, or cause a raucous by hitting someone with a garden ho.

Remember: when people are none-employed and in a dyer situation, they may have no grater desire than to stand on the corner of busty streets in cheep cloths and pray for life to clam down.

When improvised people become unwed teenage patents, it is not an easy feet for them to be part of the in crowed, climb the social latter, or earn the respect of their pears.

The Civil War may have been an attempt to keep the Union in tacked after the South succeeded, but it’s not like the country wasn’t spit up already.

Career paths to consider: become a hired private I, get a certificate in wielding, or work at the LDS canary.

The main key is this: dimply believe in yourself, despite the heard ships you may go threw.

And take car of yourself: After all, Hue Heffner had the swain flu, and it turned into ammonia in his lung; he was in a comma for weeks. Don’t let this happen to you.

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