01 Dec Talking Gourds: Bardic Trails December Features Juan Morales!
Talking Gourds announces the Bardic Trails virtual poetry series continues with Juan Morales of Colorado College. Event takes place Tuesday, December 3, 7 pm MT.
No longer needing to register with the library, participants are encouraged to visit here to get the zoom link each month, if they aren’t already on the mailing list.
Bardic Trails is a project of the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program, in collaboration with Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library.
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Juan Morales was the judge for this year’s Fischer and Cantor Prize contests. He is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father and grew up in Colorado.
“Juan has been a great poet, teacher, editor and advocate for poetry in Southern Colorado,” said Art Goodtimes, Talking Gourds Director. “I got to know him through the poetry magazine Pilgrimage, and he’s been a friend ever since.”
Morales has authored four poetry collections, including “The Handyman’s Guide to End Times” and “Dream of the Bird Tattoo,” forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2025. Recent poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Laurel Review, Breakbeats Vol. 4 LatiNEXT, Acentos Review, terrain.org, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review, and Poetry.
Morales has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Macondo, Longleaf Writers Conference, and has served as the editor/publisher of Pilgrimage Press. He lives in Pueblo, Colorado, and is now an Assistant Professor of English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program hosts the Bardic Trails virtual zoom series on the first Tuesday of each month. The Wilkinson Public Library continues as the collaboration partner and fiscal agent, with town support from Commission for Community Assistance, Arts & Special Events. This month current San Miguel County Poet Laureate Joanna Yonder recommends as prompt: “Unanswered” — if participants desire a prompt.
Other Talking Gourds projects include the Stories & Poems Norwood live reading series in collaboration with the Lone Cone Library on the third Wednesday of every month; the Stories & Poems Naturita in collaboration with the Naturita Community Library on the third Sunday of every month; the national Fischer Poetry Prize contest and the state/national Cantor Poetry Prize contest (both now closed until April); the Western Slope Poet Laureate award in collaboration with Grand Junction’s Center of the Arts (given every two years); the San Miguel County Poet Laureate collaboration (given every two years); the annual Karen Chamberlain lifetime achievement award given in collaboration with the Mountain Words Festival of Crested Butte; and the MycoLicious MycoLuscious MycoLogical Poetry Show in conjunction with the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival.
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