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Sunday, April 27 2-3 pm King Soopers on Uintah, Starbuck's area
Saturday, April 26, 10-11 am Couture Laundromat on Tejon near Cache La Poudre
Monday, April 21, 7-9 pmBlack Cat Books - 720 Manitou Avenue, Manitou Springs.
Hosted by Karen Sucharski as part of her Goddess Poetry Reading (Gods welcome, too!) Open to all and, by special invitation, features Julianza Shavin-Katz
Sunday, April 20, 1-3 pm Mediterranean Café
Saturday, April 19, 10 am, 515 Manitou Ave. Business of Arts Center
This reading partners with the Art Trading Card session, involving artists, public and all poets. The reading will start at 11 am. Supplies are free. The Art Trading Cards are a perfect size for pocket poems, poems to carry wherever one goes, for inspiration and pleasure.
April 12, 2008
Saturday at 4:00 PM in the East Library we will have a “gala” inauguration of our first, soon to be announced, Pikes Peak Poet Laureate. If you haven’t made a contribution to the project there is still time to receive Founding Muse recognition at this program. See the web site, PikesPeakPoetLaureate.Org, for details.
April 3, 2008
Thursday at 7:00PM in Colorado College’s Shove chapel, Billy Collins (National Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003) will present a poetry program that is free and open to the public.
March 1, 2008 What a joyful meeting! New Co-Presidents, Ceil Malek and Frances Gomeztagle introduced themselves.
For Performance Critiques: Ashley Crockett treated us to a private showing of a piece she had performed at 10-Minute Max,
Constance Davis recited a couple of masters' works from memory, and her own piece, Edges,
Ben Humphrey read his poem, one that was inspired by Georges Seurat's Sunday in the Park with George.
February 2, 2008
Bob King lead a Poetry West workshop called "Forms of Finding" on Saturday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m. - noon, Room 213 of Colorado College's Worner Center (corner of Cascade and Cache La Poudre). This workshop focussed on three exercises, two aimed at finding a poem through form (the sestina and the parallel poem) and one on discovering metaphor. Free for Poetry West members and $5.00 for non-members.
Bob King was born in Denver and received his M. A. from Colorado State University and his Ph. D. in creative writing from the University of Iowa in 1965. He’s the author of several chapbooks (Learning American, 1998; Naming Names, 2001, and What It Was Like, 2003) and a full-length collection (Old Man Laughing, 2007) as well as a creative non-fiction book (Stepping Twice into the Water: Following Dakota Waters, 2005). He has taught poetry writing at the Univ. of Alaska, Univ. of North Dakota, and Univ. of Nebraska. His website is http://robertkingpoet.com and he directs the Colorado Poets Center (http://colopoets.unco.edu).
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