27 Feb Talking Gourds: Bardic Trails (on Zoom) Features Teow Lim Goh, 3/4!
Talking Gourds welcomes Teow Lim Goh as its featured guest for the Zoom reading on 3/4/2025, 7 p.m.
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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Denver’s Teow Lim Goh will be the featured poet at the monthly, first Tuesday Bardic Trails virtual poetry reading, March 4 at 7 pm MST.
Goh, courtesy Talking Gourds
“As my oldest daughter has married into a Chinese-American family, and my grandmother — who was born and raised in Japan — had many friends incarcerated at Angel Island and I’ve had the pleasure of reading Goh’s excellent Islanders,” notes Art Goodtimes, Talking Gourds director. “I’m extra pleased that Bardic Trails is hosting Teow.”
Poet, essayist, and critic, Goh writes from the nexus of people and place. She is the author of three poetry collections: “Islanders” (2016), “Faraway Places “(2021), and “Bitter Creek” (2025). Her essay collection, “Western Journeys” (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction. In her first book, “Islanders” Goh wrote about the history of Chinese exclusion and detention at California’s Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910 and 1940.
“One of my projects is to recover the stories of Chinese immigrants in the American West,” Goh explains on her website . “I also write about art, nature, politics, and environmental issues.”
For those that like prompts, March’s will be the “China.” Virtual attendees are encouraged to bring a story or poem to share each month after the featured reader — their own work or someone else’s, about the prompt or not.
Talking Gourds, more:
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program hosts the free Bardic Trails virtual zoom series on the first Tuesday of each month. The Wilkinson Public Library continues as a collaboration partner and fiscal agent, with town support from Commission for Community Assistance, Arts & Special Events.
No longer needing to register with the library, participants are encouraged to visit https://www.tellurideinstitute.org/western-slope-calendar to get the zoom link each month, if they aren’t already on our mailing list. Thanks to the Cantor Family, the Guttman Family Foundation, CCAASE and the Fischer and Cantor contest participants for supporting our program and projects.
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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