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Every other place is different than the place you live. Like Phoenix Arizona. There they have those tall pain-spike cactuses that raise their arms up and go 'yay!' They have palm trees in their shopping centers that invite you to have a beer on the asphalt like a Corona commercial. And they have a great …
The first weekend of Beyond Academia Free Skool Summer Poetry Camp has passed and it was a mixed bag of emotions... June 30th A riotous inspiring good time reading Richard Brautigan’s June 30th, June 30th on Pearl Street with Rob Geisen. July 1st Outside at Boulder Writers Warehouse along the North Boulder Farmers Ditch, the …
Continue reading “BAFS Summer Poetry Camp Intro Weekend Recap and What’s Next!” by Cicada Musselman
Jack Collom passed away on July 2nd, 2017 at the age of 85. Here's a link to the Daily Camera's write up on him I wrote the following acrostic for Ellie Swensson's Turnout Zine this spring while taking Jack Collom's final Eco Poetics class. I Wouldn’t Be Here If It Weren’t for Jack Collom I don’t …
Continue reading “I Wouldn’t Be Here If It Weren’t for Jack Collom” by Jonathan Montgomery
Denver's Mathias Svalina is the author of five books, most recently The Wine-Dark Sea from Sidebrow Books. He is an editor for Octopus Books & runs a Dream Delivery Service (www.dreamdeliveryservice.com). Along with being a featured reader for At the Inkwell Denver: Men of Verse June 18th at BookBar, he will be delivering dreams to subscribers in …
Continue reading Mathias Svalina interviewed by Hillary Leftwich
The canon doesn’t represent us; it was written by rich, overeducated, able-bodied, academic cis hetero white guys long, long ago in a villa on a Martha’s Vineyard far, far away. We care about social justice, and hope to write complex characters which challenge power structures we hope to alter. Challenging stereotypes can be difficult, …
“There’s a bunch of poets who meet down a back alley at midnight when there’s a full moon to read poems,” said Sarah. “No, there’s not,” I said. “Yeah, there is. I’ve been to it.” I’d not really been up to Boulder very often. There was maybe one time when I was almost 21 when …
Continue reading “A Tribe Called Boulder: My Introduction to Boulder Poetry” by Brice Maiurro
The Madwoman I remember a Bohemian Concern I had back in September 2011. I was doing my first feature at the brand new Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café and needed to blow the audience away. So I turned to my trusty poetry allies for help, like Marcus If. “I need you to be The Beast …
You open your notebook, flip to a crisp page, uncap your pen and hesitate with that doe-in-the-headlights terror. You open your notebook, your fingers poised above the keys, typing, then erasing, then typing the word “the”, over and over again. And realize as the seconds tick by and the paranoia grows that absolutely nothing is there. …
This February we held a contest over who could go to the most events on the Boulder Poetry Tribe Calendar that month, with the winner receiving a puff piece on the website. There was stiff competition between several of the poetry scene's die hards, but in the end two competitors rose to the top. The winner …
On Sunday, March 12th, the Boulder Office of Arts and Culture and the Boulder Writer's Warehouse, the latter headed up by area poet/celestial witch goddess ellie swennson, collaborated in the dedication of a piece of public art. I had spent the early part of that day at Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland for the …
Continue reading “When You Wish Upon a Star: A Constellatory” by Eric Raanan Fischman
