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| May 17 (Sat) | Three poets & writers: Cate Wiley, Eleanor Swanson and Sheryl Luna | ||
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Catherine Wiley was born and raised in Rochester, New York, and has lived in Denver since 1990. She teaches drama, poetry, and 20th century women writers at the University of Colorado, Denver. Her poems appear in journals such as Salamander, Kalliope, Rattle, and Colorado's own Matter, and her chapbook, Failing Better, was a finalist for the 2004 Colorado Book Award. She is currently completing two full-length plays in addition to working on new poems.
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Eleanor Swanson’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of publications including The Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, High Plains Literary Review, The Denver Quarterly, and The Southern Review. Awards include a Fiction Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature (fiction). She is also an award-winning poet. Her 2003 collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium, won the Ruth Stevens Manuscript Competition (NFPS Press) and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her most recent poetry collection, Trembling in the Bones, was published in late 2006 by Ghost Road Press. Before the Reef, her debut novel, has just been released by Plain View Press. A native of Miami, Florida, she now lives in Denver and teaches American literature and fiction and poetry workshops at Regis University, where she is a member of the English Department faculty. www.eleanorswanson.com |
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Sheryl Luna was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Her collection of poetry Pity the Drowned Horses won the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize sponsored by the Insititute of Latino Studies and the creative writing department of the University of Notre Dame. The judge was Robert Vasquez. The collection was profiled in "18 Debut Poets who Made their Mark in 2005" by Poets and Writers Magazine. A graduate of Texas Tech University, She earned a doctorate in contemporary literature from the University of North Texas and a M.F.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso. She also hold a M.A. in English from Texas Woman's University. Work has appeared in Amherst Review, Feminist Studies, Georgia Review, American Literary Review, and many other nationally acclaimed journals She's received scholarships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Napa Valley Writer's Conference and was a semi-finalist for the Nation's "Discovery Prize," a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Perugia Press Prize and the 2006 Colorado Book awards. She livesin Lafayette and teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
David Keplinger's first book, The Rose Inside, won the 1999 T.S. Eliot Prize. His essays, translations, and poems have appeared in Poetry,Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, The American Voice, and many other journals. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, thePennsylvania Council on the Arts, and elsewhere. Keplinger has directed the creative writing program at Colorado StateUniversity-Pueblo. In fall 2007 he will begin a new position as associate professor of English at American University, in Washington, D.C. Juan J. Morales was born in the U.S. but he has extended family in Ecuador and Puerto Rico; he grew up hearing family stories that inspired much of the poems in Friday and the Year that Followed, his first collection of poetry. Juan received his MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2005. His poetry has appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and War, Literature, and the Arts. His book, Friday and the Year that Followed, was published by Bedbug Press. He teaches English at Colorado State University in Pueblo, CO, where he lives with his wife, Lauren. Laura Weaver serves as the Program Director of The PassageWays Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educational renewal. Her work has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Bellingham Review, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Many Mountains Moving and other journals. Laura holds a Master's degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Last event of the season! Jeffrey Ethan Lee performs highlights of the dramatic poem identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006). For samples, audio, the author's preface, responses, student responses, and a link to an online interview etc., please visit http://identitypapers.org |
with Aaron Anstett Aaron Anstett's collections are Sustenance, No
Accident (2006 Nebraska Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize),
and the recently published Each Place the Body's. In addition
to appearing in many oddly named journals, his poems has been featured
on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and
The Writer's Almanac. He lives with his children in Colorado Springs, where
he runs a chapbook contest, organizes readings, and
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Oct. 20, 2007 (Saturday) at 7 p.m. at St John's Episcopal Church in Boulder |
Kathryn Winograd is the author of Air into Breath, a 2002 Colorado Book Award Winner in Poetry, and 2003 Colorado Author League Award Winner in Poetry. Winograd is the recipient of a Colorado Artist Fellowship in Poetry and a Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Associateship. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as TriQuarterly, The Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, and The New Yorker. Recent poetry events include featured readings for the Colorado Poetry on a Platter series, the 2003 Loveland’s Poets in the Park, Many Mountain Moving’s Literary Salon, and the Boulder Women Writer’s Event. Winograd holds a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Denver, and an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. Winograd is an English faculty member for Arapahoe Community College and coordinates the ACC Writers Studio, a literary arts organization. She is also poetry faculty for Ashland University's low residency MFA program. She has also taught poetry workshops for many institutions including University College at the University of Denver, the University of Colorado at Denver and CCCOnline. She was recently elected to be part of the Colorado Online Poetry Project for K12 students, and is currently on full time English faculty for the Arapahoe Community College. She has also developed a free online poetry resources site for K-12 teachers with the Colorado Foundation for Water Education as part of a Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant. Her newest book, a classroom resource book for K12 teachers, Stepping Into Poetry, Sideways, will be published by Scholastic, Inc. in the Fall of 2005. For more info, samples, etc., please visit: http://www.unco.edu/colopoets/poets/winograd_kathryn/index.html |
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| 11/15/2007 | Noah Eli Gordon and Joseph Lease read at Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, Colorado 80026 (303) 665-0625 Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six books, three of which were published this year: Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007; selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series), Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky 2007; in collaboration with poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson and artist Noah Saterstrom) and A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues 2007). His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including: Boston Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry Project Newsletter, and the book Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. He continues to write a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Broken
World (Coffee House Press, 2007) and Human Rights (Zoland
Books, 1998). His poem "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was
selected for The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner, 2002).
Joseph's poems have been featured on National Public Radio and published
in Boston Review, Chain, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and
elsewhere. He lives in California and teaches at the California College
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at St John.s Episcopal Church, Boulder, CO For more info, email Barbara Sorensen, Salon Coordinator |
Robert Wendell King | http://robertkingpoet.com/ Robert Wendell King was born Dec. 7, 1937, in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1955. He received his B. A. in English in 1959 from the State University of Iowa and returned to Colorado, getting his M. A. in American Literature from Colorado State University in 1961. He received his Ph. D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1965. After three years of teaching at the University of Alaska/Fairbanks, he began his career at the University of North Dakota in 1968 where he had a joint appointment teaching creative writing in the Department of English and in Elementary Education. In 1971, he was named Outstanding Professor. From 1975-1979 he also worked in the North Dakota Poet in the Schools Program. He retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of North Dakota in 1996, having received the UND Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Creative Activity, and Service. He has since lectured at the University of Nebraska and the University of Northern Colorado. He has three children—Lisa, Lynn, and Lawrence, all living in North Dakota—and he currently lives in Greeley, Colorado, where he writes and directs the Colorado Poets Center | http://colopoets.unco.edu/.
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Photo by Jeffrey Ethan Lee at UNC "Bob is one of the nicest and most talented of all the poets I have ever met. If a great man has the heart of a child, Bob is one of those who seems to have reversed the aging process by growing “greater” and greater as time has passed. He is also the rarest kind of poet, especially now. The strength of his work comes from the originality of his thought rather than any pyrotechnical devices. His work is inspired by the things that are the most fundamental to being human. But the emphasis is not upon the lowest common denominators. He somehow manages to remember the highest and purest of our common denominators and to make these available to us again in ways that remind us that human life can be a thing of beauty and joy to contemplate."
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Feb. 22, 2008 @ 7 p.m. at St John.s Episcopal Church, Boulder, CO For more info, email Barbara Sorensen, Salon Coordinator
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Please join Many Mountains Moving & Thaddeus Rutkowski on February 23, 2-4 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder for a writing workshop. Thaddeus Rutkowski will facilitate. "In this multi-genre workshop, participants will be able to work in prose or poetry, whatever they are more comfortable with. On-the-spot exercises will be given to generate new material. We might start with a first sentence, or with characters chosen by the class. We might try a language exercise: a collection of words that we'd use in a piece. We'd write for about 10 minutes, then share what we wrote and comment on it. We would complete two or three of these exercises during the meeting. Often, these exercises grow into complete works after the meeting. The workshop will also be open to previously written work, if people bring copies of short pieces on paper." Workshop
cost: $20 Contact: Barbara Sorensen, 303-823-5149, or woc@indra.com "Thaddeus Rutkowski was a special guest in my Creative Writing class and an Asian American Literature class at U of Northern Colorado, and the students loved the exercises and were indelibly impressed by his reading that night. It was a blast of riveting, hysterical and brutally poignant prose. Edgy and beautiful, he is a terrific performer and, in smaller settings, a very affable, open & enlightening presence in the classroom." —Jeffrey Ethan Lee |
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03/29/08 Come help celebrate the release of Many Mountains Moving, Volume VIII. Diane Glancy, Aaron Anstett, Jeffrey Franklin, Juan Morales, John Latham, and others! At St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, CO Email Barbara Sorensen for more info woc@indra.com. |
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April 19th (Sat.) 2008 7 p.m. Bob
Cooperman http://www.unco.edu/colopoets/poets/cooperman_robert/index.html & Marilyn
Krysl http://www.marilynkrysl.com/ St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder For more information contact Barbara Sorensen 303-823-5149 or |
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| PAST EVENTS
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February 2006 Many Mountains Moving Press & Literary Journal Presents a February Poetry Salon & Potluck Featured Readers: Chris Ransick and Aaron Abeyta Followed by book signings and open mic. Performance poetry welcomed. Bring a dish to share. Coffee, tea and wine provided. When: Friday, February 17th, 2006 Where: St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St, Boulder Time: 7:00 p.m. Contact Barbara Sorensen: (303) 823-5149 for more information A $2.00 donation would be appreciated. |
Aaron
Abeyta is originally from Antonito, Colorado and currently teaches
English at Adams State College. A graduate of the CSU M.F.A. program
in creative writing, Abeyta's first book Colcha was recently announced
as an American Book Award winner for 2002. Additionally, he won the
Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry in 1998 and the
Grand Prize for his the poem "Colcha" from the Academy of
American Poets. He has also had work published widely in literary journals
and Of Abeyta and his poetry, Ruth Heide writes that his work attempts "to preserve a culture and way of life." She cites the strong element of storytelling in his work and Abeyta explains, "I just grew up with a real strong oral tradition, especially with my grandparents. My grandparents told really good stories…To me, they were like history lessons, learning a history that's not in books. It's a cultural history." Author and teacher Chris Ransick has won awards for his books of poetry and fiction, as well as recognition for his workshops and speaking appearances. His work with writers and writing extends from his local library and schools to the international community of PEN USA's Freedom to Write Committee. A
lover of all things literary, Chris has 25 years of professional experience
with college-level courses and community workshops. A recent participant
remarked about experience a workshop with Chris, Chris's
collection of short fiction, A Return to Emptiness, was winner
of the Colorado Authors' League award for best fiction and a fiction
finalist for the 2005 Colorado Book Award. His first book,
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Aaron
Anstett received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first
collection, Sustenance, was the finalist for the 1998 Colorado
Book Award in Poetry. His second, No Accident, was selected
by Philip Levine for the Backwaters Press Prize and won the 2005 Balcones
Poetry Prize. This book is currently a finalist for the Colorado Book
Award. A new collection, Each Place the Body's, is
forthcoming from Ghost Road Press in 2007.
John Latham has published four collections of poetry in the UK, with Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets, and one collection with the Mellen Press, New York. A new collection, Sailor Boy, was recently published by the Collective Press, in the UK. He has won first prize in more than 20 national poetry competitions in the UK, and has frequently been a tutor to both the Arvon Foundation and the Taliesin Trust, UK, on 5-day residential creative writing courses. His poems (also radio stories and plays) have appeared on BBC national radio and TV, UK. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1990, and his poem Construction on the Queen’s Highway won the A.E. Housman Cup in 2002. He has worked extensively in schools, led many poetry writing workshops, taught poetry in prisons, and had writer-in-residence appointments. |
Tim Z. Hernandez won the American Book Award in 2006 for Skin Tax. He is a writer and performer originally from Central California’s San Joaquin Valley. He has studied extensively in a variety of mediums including: creative writing, physical theater and murals, and his written work, performance texts, and art have been published in various anthologies. His performances have been featured in prestigious venues such as: Los Angeles’ Getty Center Museum, The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, Stanford University, and at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. In the past, he’s been commissioned by major groups such as the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and the National Fanny Mae Foundation to write and perform his original plays on issues such as homelessness and poverty. He’s the recipient of several other notable awards including: Zora Neal Hurston Award for writers of color who exemplify great literary promise and dedication to their communities, and for his one man show, Diaries of a Macho the 2003 Best Solo Production Award, as well as the 2003 James Duval Phelan Award for best manuscript by an emerging writer sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation. When he’s not busy with classes at Naropa University, he’s on the road collaborating with a band of ahimsa locos known as Mezcal. On any other day, he’s an arts education consultant for non-profit groups, foundations, libraries, and school districts, offering workshops to youth and aspiring writers/ performers. Currently, he resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two daughters. The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation The American Book Awards, established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation, recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. The purpose of the awards is to acknowledge the excellence and multicultural diversity of American writing. |
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Jeffrey Franklin lives in Denver with his wife and their two children and is a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. He will read from his new collection, For the Lost Boys, which just came out from Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Hudson Review, New England Review, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, and Third Coast, as well as in Best American Poetry (2002). He has two book manuscripts in circulation: a scholarly book entitled Victorian Buddhism and a collection of formal verse entitled Refugees of the New Age. |
George Moore has published poetry with The Atlantic, North American Review, Colorado Review, Orion, American Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Nimrod, among others. His in-print collections include Headhunting (Edwin Mellen, 2002), The Petroglyphs at Wedding Rocks and Other Poems (Edwin Mellen, 1997), and The Long Way Around (Wyndham Hall, 1992). In addition, he recently released an e-Book collection of poetry, All Night Card Game in the Backroom of Time, which appeared last spring with Pulpbits Books; and, this summer, a limited edition chapbook in CD format with http://cdchapbooks.com/. Manuscripts have been finalists for the National Poetry Series, the Brittingham Poetry Award, and the Anhinga Poetry Prize. He is an adjunct professor of English and creative writing with the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
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Ruth Ellen Kocher is the African-American author of One Girl Babylon (New Issues Press 2003) When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering (New Issues Press, 2001), winner of the Green Rose Prize in Poetry, and Desdemona’s Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Washington Square Journal, Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Missouri Review, African American Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Antioch, among others, and has been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine She’r. She has also worked as a fellow in the Cave Canem Workshop and Retreat. She teaches in the MFA program at University of Colorado-Boulder. | |
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Jan 26, 2007 Launch Party Featuring Contributors to Vol VII, No. 1: Jeffery Bahr, Gerald Callahan, Robert King, Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Veronica Patterson, Barbara Sorensen, Laura Weaver, Kathy Winograd & Jake Adam York
Feb. 21, 22, 2007 1. Stephen
Gyllenhaal, Clips Show: Poet, film & television director will show
clips of his films at 7 p.m. in the Film Studies Theater in the Atlas
Building on the CU-Boulder campus (he will NOT be reading his poems the
night of the film screening.) Map to Atlas Building http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/building/map.html
BIO: Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (pronounced "JILL-en-hall"), born October 4, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American film and television director and poet. He is the second husband of screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, father of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal. He grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a close-knit Swedenborgian family and attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Odgen. Gyllenhaal moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1980 to pursue a career in the film industry. His reputation for the small screen would follow some time later, but first he directed the action film Certain Fury with Tatum O'Neal, Irene Cara, and Peter Fonda. He directed a string of TV movies stretching on into the '90s including Hothouse, Promised a Miracle, A Killing in a Small Town, Shattered Mind, and countless others. His work paired him with actors like Barbara Hershey, Heather Locklear, and Ed Harris, and made his name synonymous with television. Gyllenhaal also directed a select number of feature films, such as 1993's A Dangerous Woman with Debra Winger and 1995's Losing Isaiah with Jessica Lange. He directed select episodes of popular TV series, which he continued doing into the new millennium with shows like Felicity, The Shield, Robbery Homicide Division, and Everwood. As well as
being a director of fine feature films, Stephen is also a poet of emerging
reputation, whose poetry has been published in literary journals such
as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection
of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood, was published in
June, 2006 by Cantarabooks. Events are
cosponsored by Many Mountains Moving Inc., the International Film Series, For an idea of what he sounds like, please visit: http://www.stephengyllenhaal.com/
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March 30th 7 p.m. Eleanor Swanson and Bob Cooperman, will read their poetry in March at St. John's Episcopal Church, 7:00 p.m. Further details TBD. Eleanor Swanson’s most recent poetry collection is A Trembling in the Bones (Ghost Road Press, 2006). Her collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press) received the 2003 Stevens Prize and was a finalist in poetry for the 2004 Colorado Book Award. Other awards include both an NEA and state of Colorado literature fellowships. Additionally, in 2002 she was finalist for the Missouri Review’s Larry Levis Editor’s Prize and for Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda Award. She was recently twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Swanson
is a professor in the English Department at Regis University in Denver
where she teaches fiction and poetry workshops, as well as
Sigman Byrd is from Houston, Texas, and currently teaches writing at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His poems have been published in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse and many other magazines. He attended Sarah Lawrence College, Oxford University, the University of Iowa, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Under the Wanderer’s Star is his first book of poems and was chosen by Gerald Stern as the winner of the 2005 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. |
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