telluride Literary Arts FEst

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Talking Gourds partners with Between the Covers Bookstore, the Ah Haa School for the Arts, Wilkinson Library, the Literary Burlesque, and Telluride Arts to produce LitFest each year. Talking Gourds hosts a featured guest poet and an open reading gourds circle, the Fischer Prize awards ceremony, and every other year the selection of the Western Slope Poet Laureate. 

The 2017 winner of the Fischer Prize is Anna Scotti and the current Western Slope Poet Laureate is David Rothman of Crested Butte.
The Fourth Annual Telluride Literary Arts Festival
May 19th - 21st, 2017
The Third Annual Telluride Literary Arts Festival
May 20 - 22
Telluride, Colorado
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TLAF is a collaboration among the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds program, the Wilkinson Library, 
Between the Covers Bookstore, Ah Haa School for the Arts, and Arroyo’s Telluride.

Talking Gourds is indebted to grants from TI boardmember Audrey Marnoy, San Miguel County Poet Laureate Peter Waldor, 
and Commissioner Elaine Fischer for seeding this year’s poetry programs.

For more info, call Art at 970-729-0220 or visit <talkinggourds.weebly.com>
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