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Colorado in Black and White: Poetry and Writing
 A 4-part workshop with David Rothman

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Date: February 26, 7:00 pm-8:00pm
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Location: Crested Butte Library
Details: Please call the Library to reserve your spot today: 970-349-6535 What does it mean to be a poet and writer in and of Colorado? Join Western Slope Poet Laureate and long-time Crested Butte resident David J. Rothman for four sessions in which we consider the poetry (and some of the prose) of Colorado in English, beginning with Whitman, Longfellow, Robinson Jeffers and Katherine Lee Bates (who wrote “America the Beautiful”), through Yale Younger Poet and Denver journalist Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Mina Loy, Nellie Burgett Miller, the recently rediscovered work of Belle Turnbull, Colorado poets of mid-century such as Allen Ginsberg, John Denver and Kurt Brown, and then some diverse contemporary poets such as Mary Crow, Wendy Videlock, Aaron Abeyta, Rosemerry Trommer, Jim Tipton, Art Goodtimes, Uche Ogbuji, Dave Mason, Joe Hutchison and more. Along the way we will also look at some of the many thousands of poems that came out of the mining camps and the urban newspapers in Colorado’s history, the better to understand what it might mean to be a strong writer in and of this place. In addition to serving as the current Western Slope Poet Laureate, David J. Rothman directs the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western State Colorado University, along with the poetry concentration in the program. As part of his duties he also serves as editor of THINK, the program’s internationally distributed journal of poetry and criticism, and directs the annual conference Writing the Rockies. With Toni Todd, he is co-director of the Gunnison Arts Center’s Headwaters Poetry Festival and Reading Series and he also serves as Resident Poet of Colorado Public Radio. He directs the New Western Slope Chamber Music Series at Crested Butte’s Center for the Arts, and was co-founder of the Crested Butte Music Festival and founder of Conundrum Press, now an imprint of Bower House Books in Denver. He serves as a coach for students state-wide in the NEA high school recitation competition Poetry Out Loud, and just completed a four-year term as Southwest States Representative on the board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). He has published many books of poetry and prose, including The Elephant’s Chiropractor, which was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and Living the Life: Tales from America’s Mountains & Ski Towns, much of which is set in the Crested Butte area. In his spare time, he….wait a minute, he doesn’t have any spare time.
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Upcoming Events
  TIME   EVENT   LOCATION
Monday, Feb 26
  7:00pm-8:00pm Colorado in Black and White: Poetry and Writing Crested Butte Library
Tuesday, Feb 27
  9:00am Coffee with the Community Crested Butte Library
  10:00am Drought Planning and Water Management Workshop Pioneer Room, Montrose County Fairgrounds
  12:00pm-1:00pm Alzheimer's Association Support Group Gunnison Senior Center/ Rec Center
  5:30pm-7:30pm Cement Creek Commons Chamber Business After Hours 207 Elcho Ave. (formally Rubens)
  5:30pm-7:30pm February Women's Networking Night Dogwood Cocktail Cabin - 309 3rd Street, Crested Butte, CO
Wednesday, Feb 28
  9:00am Open Wheel Throwing The Art Studio; 111 Elk Ave Crested Butte, CO 81224
  6:00pm Laser Toner Transfers GAC Clay Studio
  8:00pm-10:30pm Open Mic Night High Alpine Brewing Company
Thursday, Mar 1
   Gunny Night Live GAC Black Box Theatre
  10:00am-9:00pm Paragon People's Fair 132 Elk Ave. Paragon Art Gallery
  10:00am-11:30am Writing Workshop: Character Development Crested Butte Library
  5:00pm Full Moon Party Crested Butte Mountain Resort, the Umbrella Bar at Ten Peaks
  6:00pm Make A Splash Watercolor GAC Art Studios
  6:30pm-8:00pm Wildlife 101: Management in the Gunnison Basin ICELab @ Western State Colorado University
  7:30pm Western Vocal Showcase Concert Kincaid Concert Hall, Western State CO University
  8:00pm-11:00pm Ladies Night w/DJ AK One INTRINZIK 512 East Main
Friday, Mar 2
   USASA Boardercross/Skiercross Crested Butte Mountain Resort
  -3:00pm Call for Nominations Election sites in Gunnison & Crested Butte
  5:00pm First Friday ArtWalk & Music Gunnison Downtown
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