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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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In honor of tonight’s Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café Fifth Anniversary/Anne Waldman Lune Release Celebration, I had to talk to the glowing, cratery satellite ball orbiting the whole situation, Joseph Braun. I’ve known Joe since he came to Boulder in 2011, and now it would be hard to imagine The Scene without him. When you …
Paintings coated the walls depicting celebrities and statesmen of all eras in unusual and potentially compromising positions (was this some kind of time travel cult?). Around one year and a half ago, I received a cryptic message from a mysterious and vaporous personage. The message read, "If you ever wish to see your precious …
Continue reading “20,000 Leagues Under Longmont” by Professor Pierre M. Arronax
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 …
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