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14 May Telluride Lit Fest: Fischer Prize Winners Announced
Rosemerry Trommer and Art Goodtimes, co-directors of the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds program, announce the winners of Fischer Prize and Cantor Prize, chosen by judge Joan Logghe of New Mexico and featured at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. (Go here for more on Lit Fest...
29 Apr Lit Fest Adds Cantor Award
Thanks to a generous donation from Elaine Cantor’s family, this year the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Program will add a $500 Cantor Award to its national Fischer Prize contest for the best poem by a Colorado poet. The Cantor Award will be presented at the...
28 Mar Trommer’s “Naked for Tea”: Now Available!
Telluride’s Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer will be reading from her book, “Naked for Tea,” and signing copies at Telluride Arts, April 3, 6 p.m. as part of a special event co-sponsored by Telluride Arts, Between the Covers, Talking Gourds Poetry Club, Telluride Institute and the...
13 Feb Colorado’s Fischer Prize Accepting Entries Now
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program continues its 20-year tradition of offering a national Fischer Prize contest in honor of attorney/poet Mark Fischer, who died in 1987, and his wife politician/painter Elaine Cantor Fischer, who passed away just three years ago. “Both were beloved...
21 Jan Women’s March: Telluride & Beyond
On the 1st anniversary of the Women’s March, January 20 & January 21, thousands gathered in major metro areas and small towns like Telluride across the globe, from New York City to Cheyenne, Wyoming, from Washington to Rome. According to the New York Times, “A...
20 Dec Solstice: Rosemerry & Elissa Shining Their Light
The term solstice means “sun stands still.” On the year’s two solstices (winter and summer) the sun appears to halt in its incremental journey across the sky and change little in position during this time. Of course, contrary to appearances from Earth, the sun’s “changing...
26 Sep Rothman Named 4th Poet Laureate at Lit Fest
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. Started at the Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale, the naming of a Western Slope...
07 May Telluride Literary Arts Fest 2017: Overview
Get ‘Litʼ in Telluride at the 4th Telluride Literary Arts Festival. The weekend features eclectic events for lovers of books, reading, and poetry, Friday, May 19 – Sunday, May 21. Tickets, $15, to Saturday night’s Literary Burlesque are on sale as of Monday, May 8, at Telluride’s Ah Haa School or...