28 Oct Talking Gourds: Beth Franklin Featured at Bardic Trails 11/4!
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.
Poet and painter Beth Franklin of Boulder is the featured reader at the Tuesday November 4th Bardic Trail virtual poetry series..
Bardic Trails is a project of the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program, in collaboration with Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library. “Stories & Poems” 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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Beth Franklin is the Executive Director of the Colorado Poets Center, founded by her late husband Robert W. King. She coordinates and sponsors in-person and virtual poetry readings, a yearly poetry contest for Greeley-Evans high school students in her husband’s name, and publishes The Colorado Poet newsletter.
Franklin is professor emerita at the University of Northern Colorado, where she prepared pre-service teachers in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education. A passionate believer in the importance of poetry, she is dedicated to developing and supporting local and global poetry projects.
For those who like prompts, Franklin has selected “Gratitude.” 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.
December will bring CMarie Fuhrman of Idaho (and currently heading up the poetry program at Western Colorado University in Gunnison) to the Bardic Trails series. We will skip the West End Stories & Poems series in November, with Glade Hadden and Art Goodtimes talking about the local Uranium Industry history in Naturita on Thursday, December 11th at 6 pm.
The Wilkinson Library and Talking Gourds are discussing starting a new Stories & Poems series at the all-purpose community room on the third Tuesday of every month starting in December or January. Talking Gourds’ Scot Rasor (KOTO DJ Razor Blaze) is working with Telluride Arts to continue to bring poetry to Artwalk first Thursdays in selected galleries. He is also working with local arts entities to start a monthly music and poetry event somewhere in town with the new year
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