DAVID J. ROTHMAN
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club welcomed David J. Rothman as January ’s featured reader on Tuesday the Seventh at 6 p.m. at Arroyo Telluride. The theme for the evening was Darkness .
Widely-published poet (The Atlantic, Poetry, The Hudson Review), author and director of Western State Colorado University’s Poetry MFA program with its Emphasis on Form, David’s an amazing performer. He was founder and former editor of Conundrum Press and is president of the Robinson Jeffers Association. Fitting with this month’s theme, David’s latest book is called Part of the Darkness (Entasis Press, 2013). “What impresses one first about David J. Rothman is his immense imaginative and intellectual range, but the more one reads his striking and exuberant poetry the more deeply one feels its emotional force and quiet but genuine ferocity,” says David Mason, Colorado’s Poet Laureate.
After the feature, we’ll have a short break and then pass the gourd to give those club members and attendees a chance to read poems from the theme, pieces of their own, or the work of a favorite poet.
Talking Gourds Poetry Club is a joint venture of the Telluride Institute, Wilkinson Library, Between the Covers Bookstore, Telluride Arts and San Miguel County poets. 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), 970.239.2006, beginning at 6 p.m. in Telluride, Colorado.
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The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club welcomed David J. Rothman as January ’s featured reader on Tuesday the Seventh at 6 p.m. at Arroyo Telluride. The theme for the evening was Darkness .
Widely-published poet (The Atlantic, Poetry, The Hudson Review), author and director of Western State Colorado University’s Poetry MFA program with its Emphasis on Form, David’s an amazing performer. He was founder and former editor of Conundrum Press and is president of the Robinson Jeffers Association. Fitting with this month’s theme, David’s latest book is called Part of the Darkness (Entasis Press, 2013). “What impresses one first about David J. Rothman is his immense imaginative and intellectual range, but the more one reads his striking and exuberant poetry the more deeply one feels its emotional force and quiet but genuine ferocity,” says David Mason, Colorado’s Poet Laureate.
After the feature, we’ll have a short break and then pass the gourd to give those club members and attendees a chance to read poems from the theme, pieces of their own, or the work of a favorite poet.
Talking Gourds Poetry Club is a joint venture of the Telluride Institute, Wilkinson Library, Between the Covers Bookstore, Telluride Arts and San Miguel County poets. 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), 970.239.2006, beginning at 6 p.m. in Telluride, Colorado.
Please post regarding this and other TLA events on our BLOG