26 Nov Talking Gourds: CMarie Fuhrman Featured 12/2!
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.
Indigenous poet, writer and administrator CMarie Fuhrman is featured on Tuesday, December 2, 7 p.m.
Bardic Trails is a project of the <href=”https://www.tellurideinstitute.org/talking-gourds/”>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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CMarieFuhrman, courtesy Talking Gourds.
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of “Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems” (Floodgate 2020) and co-editor of Native Voices (Tupelo 2019). She has published poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals including Emergence Magazine, Platform Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Cutthroat a Journal of the Arts, Whitefish Review, Broadsided Press, Taos International Journal of Poetry and Art, as well as several anthologies.
CMarie is a regular columnist for the Inlander, translations editor for Broadsided Press, Non-Fiction editor for High Desert Journal, and Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. She is the Director of Poetry for Western Colorado University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program where she also teaches Nature Writing.
CMarie also is the 2021-2023 Idaho Writer in Residence and resides in the mountains of West Central Idaho with her partner Caleb and their dogs Carhartt and Cisco.
For those that like prompts, we are suggesting “Giving Thanks” although poems on any subject are welcome. 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.
The Stories & Poems Norwood series at the Lone Cone Library will be shutting down indefinitely due to declining attendance and loss of funding, so no more Third Thursday live events in Norwood.
However, the Wilkinson Library and Talking Gourds will be starting a new Stories & Poems series at the all-purpose community room on the third Tuesday of every month starting in December with Montrose metaphysical poet Tracy Lightsey.
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 a lot of local arts entities to start a monthly music and poetry event somewhere in town with the beginning of the new year.
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