26 Aug Talking Gourds: Bardic Trails Features Pete Anderson of Crestone, 9/2!
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.
Having most recently directed the Crestone Poetry Festival, poet and author Peter Anderson will be featured presenter for the Tuesday Sept. 2nd Bardic Trails session beginning at 7 pm. For more information on his work, check out petehowardanderson.com.
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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Pete Anderson, courtesy Talking Gourds
Pete Anderson’s books include “Riding the Wheel,” a collection of prose poems and haiku that celebrates the natural world on the edge of the Sangre de Cristos; Reading Colorado; an anthology of place-based writings which won a 2024 Colorado Book Award; “Heading Home— Field Notes,” a collection of flash prose and prose poems exploring rural life and the modern day eccentricities of the American West; and “First Church of the Higher Elevations,” a collection of essays on wildness, mountain places, and the life of the spirit.
Anderson lives on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where he edited and published Pilgrimage Magazine; served as poetry editor for the Mountain Gazette; taught at Adams State University; and wrote a column for Colorado Central Magazine.
For those that like prompts, this month’s will be “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.
October’s featured presenter will be Betsy Quammen (formerly a reporter for the old Telluride Watch when I was editor) telling ghost stories; November Beth Franklin of Boulder who runs the Colorado Poets Center will read; and December will bring CMarie Fuhrman of Idaho (and currently heading up the poetry program at Western Colorado University in Gunnison).
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