Jack Mueller reads April 1st for National Poetry Month
Celebrating National Poetry Month, The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club features the legendary North Beach poet and Log Hill Village recluse, Jack Mueller, on April 1st (2014) at Arroyo’s in Telluride.
Raised in Philadelphia and Louisville, Jack Mueller moved to North Beach and became a fixture in the San Francisco literary scene of the Sixties and Seventies. A revered reader and performer at Bay Area poetry venues, he founded the Union of Street Poets and convened a symposium on poetics and ethnobotany at Kule Loklo in Marin. He served as Chairman and Executive Director of the National Poetry Association, and was CEO of the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas. He’s published five books of poetry and two books of drawings. His latest collection, just out, is Amor Fati (Lithic Press, Fruita, 2013). Writing for ZyZZyva, a prestigious West Coast literary magazine, Maggie Milner praises Mueller’s “paradox poetics” and notes that he asks the “big, unanswerable questions” and goes on “to propose new terms for our human condition, to reach, to wish.”
Jack will be interviewed on KOTO-Fm’s Access program at 4 p.m. on April 1st.
Featured poet for the first Tuesday in May, will be Tish Roo from the Navajo Nation.
As always, following Club announcements and performances, we’ll have a short break and then pass the gourd around the room to give those club members and attendees a chance to read poems from the monthly theme -- pieces of their own or the work of a favorite other. April’s theme for the open gourd circle will be Fools .
Also, of local note, ACE of Norwood sponsors a Gourd Circle reading at the Livery on the last Thursday of each month. Visit www.aceofnorwood.org.
Talking Gourds Poetry Club is a joint venture of the Telluride Institute, Wilkinson Library, Between the Covers Bookstore, 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
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Celebrating National Poetry Month, The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club features the legendary North Beach poet and Log Hill Village recluse, Jack Mueller, on April 1st (2014) at Arroyo’s in Telluride.
Raised in Philadelphia and Louisville, Jack Mueller moved to North Beach and became a fixture in the San Francisco literary scene of the Sixties and Seventies. A revered reader and performer at Bay Area poetry venues, he founded the Union of Street Poets and convened a symposium on poetics and ethnobotany at Kule Loklo in Marin. He served as Chairman and Executive Director of the National Poetry Association, and was CEO of the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas. He’s published five books of poetry and two books of drawings. His latest collection, just out, is Amor Fati (Lithic Press, Fruita, 2013). Writing for ZyZZyva, a prestigious West Coast literary magazine, Maggie Milner praises Mueller’s “paradox poetics” and notes that he asks the “big, unanswerable questions” and goes on “to propose new terms for our human condition, to reach, to wish.”
Jack will be interviewed on KOTO-Fm’s Access program at 4 p.m. on April 1st.
Featured poet for the first Tuesday in May, will be Tish Roo from the Navajo Nation.
As always, following Club announcements and performances, we’ll have a short break and then pass the gourd around the room to give those club members and attendees a chance to read poems from the monthly theme -- pieces of their own or the work of a favorite other. April’s theme for the open gourd circle will be Fools .
Also, of local note, ACE of Norwood sponsors a Gourd Circle reading at the Livery on the last Thursday of each month. Visit www.aceofnorwood.org.
Talking Gourds Poetry Club is a joint venture of the Telluride Institute, Wilkinson Library, Between the Covers Bookstore, 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
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