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For the Jan. 9 workshop, Price Strobridge will present a workshop and critique session entitled A Grab Bag of Surprises with exercises, inspiration, and critiquing. Poets should bring six copies of a poem for small group critiques. Strobridge is a long-time member of Poetry West and a performance poet extraordinaire, well known in the community, whose abilities with language never fail to please and motivate his listeners. The workshop/critique will be at Worner Center, Cache La Poudre and Cascade, on Saturday, Jan. 9, from 10-12. Call 630-1767 for information or with questions.
The Saturday, December 5, 2009, meeting will be held at the usual time, 10 - 12 am, but at a different location, the Common House of Casa Verde Commons. The Common House is located at 1355 Lindenwood Grove. Please park on surrounding streets (ie. Columbia or Royer) unless you have special mobility needs or temporarily, while unloading.
Casa Verde Commons: Common House 
Performance poet, editor, journalist and four-term Green county commissioner in Southwestern Colorado, Art Goodtimes is a former poetry editor for Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth. He serves as poet-in-residence for the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival (25+ years) and continues as founder/director of the annual Talking Gourds poetry gatherings. The Talking Gourds tradition was an outgrowth of Dolores LaChapelle's Way of the Mountain teachings, and we've been doing gourd circles in colorado and new mexico (and soon old mexico) for 20 years now. Mr. Googtimes's latest book, As If the World Really Mattered, was published by La Alameda Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Bring a poem/quote of someone you deeply admire, and a poem or story (short 3-5 min.) of your own to read.
November 7, 2009:
The Seasons and Weather
Western Slope poet, Peggy Godfrey, will lead the November workshop. Her focus will be on influences of a season or an element of the weather. Bring six copies of a poem inspired by weather or a season.
Godfrey, who has published five collections of poems and stories, ranches near Moffat, Colorado, in the San Luis Valley, where weather and seasons influence both her work and creativity.
The December workshop will be a Talking Gourds gathering led by Art Goodtimes, Telluride performance poet extraordinaire, who returns to Poetry West after many years' absence.
10-12 noon on Saturday, October 3, 2009
"Killer Openings" workshop.
Killer openings: this workshop will survey a range of opening lines from
poems by poets living and dead. The idea is to think more astutely about
how one gets into a poem, what is set up, dramatically and lyrically, by a
good opening, and how openings pay later dividends in poems. Each
participant should bring a poem he or she is willing to revise, and we'll
talk about egress and regress, doors opening, doors closing.
About David Mason:
David Mason's books include The Country I Remember, Arrivals, and Ludlow:
A Verse Novel. His memoir, News from the Village, will be out next year,
followed by a book of essays and an opera libretto. His work appears in
many magazines, including Harpers, The Nation, The New Republic, The Times
Literary Supplement, Poetry, The Hudson Reiview, etc. He teaches various
subjects at Colorado College and lives near the Garden of the Gods.
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