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...
The Lone Cone Library has teamed up with the Talking Gourds Poetry Project to host a “Stories & Poems” performance series the third Wednesday of each month. The upcoming program features Paolo Munguia, a Mexican-American poet living in Montrose who will read his work in...
Talking Gourds announces the Bardic Trails virtual poetry series continues with Eirene Hamilton of Bluff (UT) as the featured reader. Event takes place Tuesday October 1 at 7 pm MT. No longer needing to register with the library, participants are encouraged to visit here to get the...
Ed Brummel of Salida and the student winners of the Retta Award are featured at the January Talking Gourds Poetry Club, a Telluride Institute initiative. Reading takes place Tuesday January 14., 6 p.m,. at Telluride Arts HQ. Free and open to all. For more info on the student...
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds poetry program has been hosting events, festivals, readings, workshops and contests for over 25 years. The Telluride Institute is proud to announce its annual Fischer Prize national contest with over $3000 in awards and travel stipends. And for Colorado poets, that...
Michelle Bitting, Poet Laureate Emerita of Pacific Palisades, California, won the 21st Annual Fischer Prize in Poetry with her poem, “Everything Crumbling Becoming Something New.” Chosen by Judge Joan Logghe of Española, Bitting attended the awards ceremony and received her $1000 prize at the Telluride...
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds program named David J. Rothman of Crested Butte to serve as the fourth Western Slope Poet Laureate at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival this past May. [caption id="attachment_69046" align="aligncenter" width="300"] David Rothman is 4th Western Slope Poet Laureate.[/caption] Started at the Karen Chamberlain...
Dr. David Cooper, Colorado wetlands expert, featured at talk at Telluride Library 7/20, 7 p.m. Telski’s Jeff Proteau and the Telluride Institute’s Dan Collins will give brief introductions; local wetlands expert Chris Hazen will engage Cooper in a one-on-one discussion after Cooper’s formal presentation. That will be followed by...
Fens are minerotrophic peatlands, usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater or put simply, one of the main types of wetland. The Telluride Institute’s newly formed Fen Advisory Project, Sheep Mountain Alliance and the San Migu.el Watershed Coalition have teamed up with Ah Haa School for the...
How did Father’s Day come about? According to history.com, during the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s...
