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10 May 2nd Telluride Literary Arts Festival, Overview
“This is an opportunity to get together and party around the joy of reading. It is a celebration of that good ole fashioned past-time,” said Between the Covers Bookstore co-owner Daiva Chesonis, one of the original conspirators behind Telluride’s newest shoulder-season happening: Telluride Literary Arts Festival (LitFest), Thursday, May 14-17. A...
23 Dec Poets’ Corner: Faux Ho Ho
Editor’s note: Poet extraordinaire Kierstin Bridger never disappoints, but often shocks. There, packed in the back of the closet with the tired tinsel star and the good holiday plates lie our memories of the season: some are of angels; others, well, the devils that nip at our souls. Here...
10 May Lit Fest’s Burlesque: “Taking it All Off” – Poetically
This is the razor’s edge. It is the line between sexuality, tease, and the real deal, the raw, cutthroat gulp where performance meets poetry, where neo-Burlesque meets memoir, where fiction flies like a dove from a magic hat. This is the Ah Haa School’s Friday,...
09 May Poets’ Corner: Two from Rosemerry for Mother’s Day
Editor’s note: Internet research came up with the history of Mother’s Day. The tribute was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a...
08 May Telluride Literary Arts Festival: Overview
First Literary Arts Festival in Telluride features eclectic events for book lovers. Come get “Lit” in town, Thursday, May 15 – Sunday, May 18. “This is an opportunity for everyone to get together and party about reading,” says Between the Covers Bookstore co-owner Daiva Chesonis, the originating...
21 Dec Poets’ Corner: Christmas Spelled “Origami”
“How does the ordinary person come to an experience of the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It...
30 Oct Poet’s Corner: Dia De Los Muertos, My Love
What would you feed me, what complements the sweet amber whiskey you pour on my tomb? Remember me with persimmons, pomegranates, ripe amorous figs. Cut through a rare skirt-steak ancho-rubbed, sealed with oils of poblano and olive. Paint my skull rich turquoise like the...
28 Aug Poets’ Corner: “The Drive-In” for Film Fest
Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger, a winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. She is nothing if not arch and, like painter Edward Hopper, a keen observer of our solitude, for better or for worse, always pregnant...