30 Mar Talking Gourds: Trish Hopkinson featured at April 1st Bardic Trails!
Talking Gourds “Stories & Poems” Bardic Trails series happens the first Tuesday of each month. Featured guests give a 15-20 minute presentation each, followed by a short Q & A period after the presentation. Then there’s a passing of the gourd, when community members are encouraged to share stories or poems.
Bardic Trails is a project of the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program, in collaboration with Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library. “Stories & Poems Norwood” is free and open to all ages, thanks to the generosity of the library, a Town of Telluride CCAASE grant, private donors and Talking Gourds’ Fischer & Cantor poetry contests.
For more information, text 970-729-0220 or email Goodtimes at art@tellurideinstitute.org. To visit the Talking Gourds website go to: www.tellurideinstitute.org/talking-gourds
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Trish Hopkinson of Palisade will be the featured poet at the monthly first Tuesday Bardic Trails virtual poetry reading, April 1, at 7 pm MST.
Hopkinson is a veteran poet and strong advocate for the literary arts. Find her online at SelfishPoet.com and in western Colorado where she runs the regional poetry group Rock Canyon Poets and is a board member of the International Women’s Writing Guild.
Trish Hopkinson, courtesy Talking Gourds.
Hopkinson’s poetry has been published in several lit mags and journals, including Sugar House Review, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, Cultural Daily, and The Penn Review.
Her full length book, “A Godless Ascends” was published by Lithic Press in March 2024. Her fourth e-chapbook, “Almost Famous,” was published by Yavanika Press in 2019. Hopkinson’s third chapbook, “Footnote,” was published by Lithic Press in 2017.
Hopkinson happily answers to labels such as atheist, feminist, and empty nester. She enjoys traveling, live music, and craft beer.
For those that like prompts, this month’s will be the “Mountains.”
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.
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