Zoey Benally featured at Arroyo’s Sept. 2nd at 6 p.m.
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club for Tuesday, Sept. 2nd features Dr. Zoey Benally, a performance poet, veterinarian and professor at Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint on the Navajo Nation.
Zoey has been a Talking Gourds poet/performer many times over the last few years. At the Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale earlier this year, a few of us got to hear her do her wildly political piece, Navajo Zombie Apocalypse. Expect more than sheep and scarred buttes from this performance powerhouse.
With this September gathering, the Club will go back to its normal 6 p.m. time slot on the first Tuesday of every month for the rest of the year.
As always, following Club announcements and performances, we’ll have a short break and then pass the gourd around the room to give Club members and attendees a chance to read poems from the monthly theme -- pieces of their own or the work of a favorite other. September’s theme will be “Choices.”
Talking Gourds Poetry Club is a joint venture of the Telluride Institute, Wilkinson Library, Between the Covers Bookstore, Arroyo Telluride and the newly formed Telluride Literary Arts. Members meet monthly, on first Tuesday evenings, at Arroyo Fine Art Gallery & Wine Bar at 220 E. Colorado Ave. (next door to Telluride Hardware and the Masonic Hall), beginning at 6 p.m. in Telluride, Colorado. Call 970-729-0220 for more info. Or visit the Telluride Literary Arts website, tellurideliteraryarts.weebly.com
Please post regarding this and other TLA events on our BLOG
Talking Gourds Poetry Club
Aug. 11, 15014 {NW} / For Immediate Release
Contact: Art Goodtimes 970.729.0220
<[email protected]>
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club for Tuesday, Sept. 2nd features Dr. Zoey Benally, a performance poet, veterinarian and professor at Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint on the Navajo Nation.
Zoey has been a Talking Gourds poet/performer many times over the last few years. At the Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival in Carbondale earlier this year, a few of us got to hear her do her wildly political piece, Navajo Zombie Apocalypse. Expect more than sheep and scarred buttes from this performance powerhouse.
With this September gathering, the Club will go back to its normal 6 p.m. time slot on the first Tuesday of every month for the rest of the year.
As always, following Club announcements and performances, we’ll have a short break and then pass the gourd around the room to give Club members and attendees a chance to read poems from the monthly theme -- pieces of their own or the work of a favorite other. September’s theme will be “Choices.”
Talking Gourds Poetry Club is a joint venture of the Telluride Institute, Wilkinson Library, Between the Covers Bookstore, Arroyo Telluride and the newly formed Telluride Literary Arts. Members meet monthly, on first Tuesday evenings, at Arroyo Fine Art Gallery & Wine Bar at 220 E. Colorado Ave. (next door to Telluride Hardware and the Masonic Hall), beginning at 6 p.m. in Telluride, Colorado. Call 970-729-0220 for more info. Or visit the Telluride Literary Arts website, tellurideliteraryarts.weebly.com
Please post regarding this and other TLA events on our BLOG
Talking Gourds Poetry Club
Aug. 11, 15014 {NW} / For Immediate Release
Contact: Art Goodtimes 970.729.0220
<[email protected]>