02 May Talking Gourds: Kathryn Winograd Featured at Bardic Trails, 5/5!
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, essayist and photographer Kathryn Winograd of Littleton will be the featured performer for the Telluride Institute’s first Tuesday Talking Gourds’ Bardic Trails virtual stories & poems series Tuesday May 5th at 7 pm MST.
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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Winograd, credit, WillSardinsky.
A happy retiree after 40 years of teaching, Winograd wanders the banks of the South Platte River in Colorado and the meadows along Phantom Canyon where an old 1800s homesteader once wagon-drove the milk of his cowherd to an old Cripple Creek and Victor railroad stop. She is the author of several poetry and creative nonfiction books including “Air Into Breath,” an alternate for the Yale Series for Younger Poets and winner of the Colorado Books Award.
“Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children,” was the winner of an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Bronze Medal in the Essay category. Winograd’s most recent book, “This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye,” a hybrid of poetry, prose, and photography, received an honorable mention by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Art Book.
Winograd has published poems and creative nonfiction in journal as widely diverse as Cricket Magazine for Kids and The New Yorker. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Workshop and a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver.
A founding faculty member for the Ashland University MFA program, she also taught poetry and creative nonfiction for Regis University’s Mile High MFA.
For those that like prompts, we are suggesting “the more-than-human worlds of birds,” 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.
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