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The
Poets' Co-op Fall 2010 Open
Reading Series will be held on Thursday,
September 2nd, October 7th &
November 4th at the Loveland
Museum on the corner of Fifth & Lincoln. Readings will be
downstairs at the Foote Gallery/Auditorium from 7:00
- 9:00 p.m. Complimentary snacks will be graciously provided by HENRY'S PUB (234 E. 4th St.).
Readers & listeners
embrace all styles of original poetry and range in experience
from first time readers to published and polished “professionals.” Poets
can sign up to read the night of the reading or ahead of
time by email. Our
Fall Series Featured Readers represent a diverse mix of some
of Colorado’s finest poets. |
Our
Featured Reader for Thursday, September 2rd is Rachel Dacus.
Rachel Dacus is a California poet and consultant who raises funds for nonprofit organizations. Her poetry books are Another Circle of Delight, Femme au chapeau, and Earth Lessons. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, including Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po LISTSERV, Italy: A Love Story, and Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer’s Disease. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous print and online magazines, including Atlanta Review, Bellingham Review, Georgetown Review, Prairie Schooner, and Smartish Pace. She serves as a contributing editor at Umbrella magazine and interviews poets for Fringe Magazine and blogs at http://dacusrocket.blogspot.com. The daughter of a rocket scientist, her name is on a piece of floating space junk. You can read more about Rachel Dacus at www.dacushome.com. |
portrait sketch by Monika Kozma
Our
Featured Reader for Thursday, October 7th is M. D. Friedman.
M. D. Friedman is a poet, teacher, musician, photographer, digital artist and web designer from Lafayette, Colorado. He has published four volumes of poetry, was the winner of the Book Habit & New Zealand Poetry Society 2008 Poetry Contest and has been widely publish on the internet and small press magazines. His new genre digital poetry represents the artistic fusion of all his creative pursuits at once, and the most recent of his digital work is available on I-Tunes. He is the founder of the popular Internet Poets’ Cooperative website which features over 20 free volumes of e-books from poets around the world, over 800 audio recordings of Colorado poets reading their own work plus over 30 videos from the Poets’ Co-op TV Show. His personal web site, http://www.mdfriedman.com, offers access to all of M. D. Friedman’s creative ventures. |
Our Featured Reader for Thursday, November 4th is Lynn Wagner.
Lynn Wagner’s chapbook, No Blues This Raucous Song, won the 2009 Slapering Hol competition. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Subtropics, 5AM, Chatauqua Literary Review and other journals. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives and writes in Denver, Colorado, working as a research assistant at the School of Medicine and teaching poetry to youth at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. |
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