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“When I was a little kid I served six o’clock mass as an altar boy,” Tom Peters tells me as we stand between the vintage records and paperbacks of the Beat Book Shop, his store on the Pearl Street Mall. “I set everything up, and I light the candles, and I change into my outfit… …
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 …
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Episode 10: A New Hope 2, Electric Boogaloo The year was hell, I don’t know. 2007 maybe. George Bush was sucking on hard candy in the White House and people were listening to a lot of Kid Rock for some reason. I was still a good 18 months away from my second divorce and Hannah …
Continue reading “You Will Never Be the Same, aka This Saturday is Record Store Day” by Rob Geisen
One day my girlfriend and I were walking around Pearl Street and decided to stop in one of those Tibetan gift stores, the ones with all the incensey smells and colorful tapestries and holy, golden figurines. We were casually looking for something that might empower us in the more non-Tibetan gift store realities of our …
Continue reading “Reed Bye, The Buddha of Boulder Poetry” by Jonathan Montgomery
The last time I walked into Jack’s house it was the 20th century, we read bound books, phones rang from the wall, still the clatter of his typewriter keys. As I remembered there was a sign on the door to please remove shoes, so I was glad for the fresh socks after work. I noted …
Continue reading “Jack Collom: The Kids are Tomorrow” by Marcus If
