visiting poets series
In the spring, the English Program ius pelased to host two visiting poets, who will offer readings for both the college and Gunnison communities.
- David Rothman
March 26 - Gunnison Art Center, 7:30 p.m.
Poetry and Jazz Piano
David J. Rothman is the author of three volumes of poetry, Dominion of Shadow, The Elephant’s Chiropractor (a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award), and Beauty at Night. He is also the editor of The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s Western Slope. His poems and essays on a wide range of literary and scholarly subjects have appeared in journals including The Atlantic, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Light, Poetry, and scores of other journals. He also has published extensively in the mountain sports world, in journals such as Powder, Couloir, Off-Piste, Crested Butte Magazine, Telluride Magazine and many others.
David also founded the Western Slope Chamber Music Series, co-founded of the Crested Butte Music Festival, and served as the third Headmaster of Crested Butte Academy. He is the founding publisher and editor of Conundrum Press. He lived for many years in Crested Butte and has served on the faculty at Western State College, where he also helped to edit Marginalia as a Guest Poetry Editor. He is the current President of the Robinson Jeffers Association and sits on a number of governing boards of non-profit arts and educational organizations. He lives near Boulder and is an Instructor at the University of Colorado.
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- Joe Richey
May 2 - Gunnison Art Center, 7:30 p.m.
Poetry (in cooperation with the Marginalia Showcase Reading Series)
Joe Richey is a poet, journalist, and researcher. He has a B.A. from the Naropa Institute where he studied with Allen Ginsberg, and an M.A. from the University of Colorado where he studied with Edward Dorn. He edited Ed Dorn Live: lectures, interviews and outtakes released by the University of Michigan Press this fall.
Richey has one collection of poetry, Riding the Big Earth (University of Maine, National Poetry Foundation, 1987). At la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, he edited the academic journal Istmica, Revista de la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras (1993-1996. He has contributed to Brigadista, Earth Prayers, Life Prayers, Prayers for the New Millennium, American Environmental Leaders from Colonial Times to the Present, Ecotourism and sustainable development: who owns paradise? Pollution A to Z, Changer L’Amerique, Selvática and others editions.
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For more information, contact Dr. Mark Todd
(The English Program would like to thank the generous support of the Office of Academic Affairs for the Arts Funding Grant that made this programming possible.)
(updated 03/2008)
