Let's write poetry with RWT! Rosemerry will lead a poetry workshop at the Deveraux Room above the Rialto Theatre in Loveland on Saturday morning May 13, 2023 at 9:30AM

No registration necessary for the Saturday workshop. Seating available for 70 attendees for the workshop.

Bill Tremblay is an award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, editor, and reviewer whose work has appeared in ten full-length volumes of poetry including Crying in the Cheap Seats [University of Massachusetts Press], The Anarchist Heart [New Rivers Press], Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada [BOA Editions Ltd.], Shooting Script: Door of Fire [Eastern Washington University Press].

Winter Poetry reading and music - part of our quarterly poetry series - local poets and musicians, come early to sign up for open mic - featured poets include Lisa Zimmerman, Joanna Rago, Marj Hahne, Beth Lechleitner, Jack Martin, Val Stark. Theme poem: Billy Collins' SNOW DAY.

Join us at Art Space for a special event to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Jewelry Pop up with Melissa Robinson, 6:30 PM Sound Bath with Sylvia Eichmann, 7:00 PM Poetry by Kathleen Willard and Val Szarek. The Road to Guadalupe - A Journey into the Sacred  celebrates the Winter Solstice.

Poetry Workshops at the Library - Encountering a Poet Series

All ages, all levels welcome.
Registration will be available at the Loveland Public Library website.

Led by Juan J. Morales:
1st event of The Carolyn Forché Symposium (see Above)

In this generative workshop, poet Juan J. Morales will use the work of diverse poets to guide the workshop on writing the impact of migration, immigration, and diaspora as it impacts our communities, our own histories and experiences, our larger worldview, and how belonging and mattering can help our poetic lens. We will delve into poetry that helps us consider how migration and immigration may be part of our heritage, and how it helps us realize the complexities of our identities. We will learn methods of navigating the tensions that come when the political and personal intersect in our writing, as inspired by Carolyn Forché’s important poetry and writing.

Poetry Workshops at the Library - Encountering a Poet Series

All ages, all levels welcome.
Registration will be available at the Loveland Public Library website.

Led by Evan Oakley and Veronica Patterson:
2nd event of the Carolyn Forché Symposium (see Above)

You will have a chance to engage the attentive, open and compelling Carolyn Forché through her memoir of her time in El Salvador, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (1993). This is the powerful story of a poet's experience in a country on the verge of war, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time. Her memoir portrays her time in El Salvador, which began with a knock on the door. She captures that time in the memoir and in poems from The Country Between Us (1982). Her work bridges the political, the social, and the poetic. In the workshop, we’ll write twice, as we look at a poem of Carolyn’s and a poem from the Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. (1993).

“You are a witness— but how can you approach that witnessing? 
                                  Who has knocked on your outer or inner door?”

Poetry Workshops at the Library - Encountering a Poet Series

All ages, all levels welcome.
Registration will be available at the Loveland Public Library website.

Led by Kathleen Willard:
3rd event of The Carolyn Forché Symposium (see Above)

Join a book discussion based on In the Hour of War: Poetry from the Ukraine edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. (2023)  One Ukrainian poet writes “I am writing/and all my people are writing.”  Ukrainian poets are the most apt witnesses to life in a war zone.

We will discuss the contemporary Ukrainian poetry written since the invasion by Russia  and poetry’s ability to spotlight the war.  How does poetry differ from journalism or nonfiction as it delivers the same content? What power does poetry have in this discourse?  What poetic techniques or procedures do poets employ to create empathy, compassion and understanding that other modes of writing cannot? Is poetry dangerous? Can poetry change the world? Can poetry be used to sustain interest as the world exhibits fatigue to the conflict in the Ukraine? How does poetry do this work? Why are poets silenced when they speak of atrocity? Can writing  poetry be considered a revolutionary act?


Willard suggests attendees buy and read In the Hour of War: The Poetry of the Ukraine to gain a full understanding of the poetry of witness. While we will be reading this far away from the war zone, we are witnesses. Handouts will also be available.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Hour-War-Poetry-Ukraine/dp/B0BVGRSJLS

Art Opening + Poetry Reading + Reception

Loveland Library & Central Galleria

The City of Loveland’s Art in Public Places program has announced the eight
artists and the eight poets for an interesting collaboration. The poets are paired
with an artist and will write a poem inspired by artwork for The Art Advocacy project,
commonly known as TAAP 2D.

Both the poetry and the artwork will be on display from February 2024-February 2025.

Poetry Workshops at the Library - Encountering a Poet Series

Come listen to Lisa Zimmerman as she shares her passion for Jane Kenyon.

“Why I want to share my love of Jane Kenyon is because her writing has always spoken so clearly to me. She is a poet of the "luminous ordinary" and her poems allow readers to remember small daily events, quiet moments of witness, and to be grateful for them. She wrote poems that are spare, fierce, and filled with quiet emotion even though she suffered, like many people, with depression.” Lisa explains.

Downtown Loveland, Colorado

The VIP reception at the Devereaux Room above the Rialto Theatre is to thank all of the sponsors for their donations of $100 or more to help fund Carolyn Forché’s visit to Loveland. Appetizers will be served and a cash bar is available. Come to a meet and greet with Forché and take advantage of an opportunity to buy her books and have a conversation with her.

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Rialto Theatre, Downtown Loveland, Colorado

Join us for an intriguing and inspiring interview moderated by Evan Oakley, who has
known Carolyn Forché for many years and worked with her on the groundbreaking
anthology, Against Forgetting. Question and answer session with follow the interview.

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Downtown Rialto Theatre, Loveland, Colorado

Carolyn Forché Poetry Reading at the Rialto Theater followed by book signing in the
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Black & Blues, Music & Brews
423 N Cleveland Ave, Loveland

Free poetry open mic; all welcome. Hosted by poet & spoken-word performer, Cortney Collins and Loveland Poet Laureate Lynn Kincannon.

Black & Blues, Music & Brews
423 N Cleveland Ave, Loveland

Free poetry open mic; all welcome.
Hosted by poet & spoken-word performer, Cortney Collins and Loveland Poet Laureate Lynn Kincannon.

Loveland First United Presbyterian Church
400 E. 4th St, (2 blocks west of the Loveland Public Library)

Winners of the Middle Creek Publishing & Audio Fledge Chapbook Contests

Free, with light refreshments
Presented by the Loveland Poet Laureate Program

Loveland Public Library, Gertrude Stein Room
Please Register, event is Free

Led by Lorrie Wolfe, winner of the 2023 Middle Creek Publishing & Audio Fledge Chapbook Contest for her collection The Language of Crows.

A poem is built of language. Plain language. Fancy Language. Lyrical Language. How do we get those pesky nouns, verbs, and adverbs, adjectives and prepositions to line up and act like a poem? In this generative workshop, we’ll start with John Ciardi’s four elements of poetry and build poems that surprise, delight, and challenge us. Bring your favorite thesaurus or dictionary and go in search of just the right word to make your poem zing.

ABOUT LORRIE WOLFE

Please Register, Event is Free

Black & Blues, Music & Brews
423 N Cleveland Ave, Loveland

Free poetry open mic; all welcome.
Hosted by poet & spoken-word performer, Cortney Collins and Loveland Poet Laureate Lynn Kincannon.

Black & Blues, Music & Brews
423 N Cleveland Ave, Loveland

Free poetry open mic; all welcome.
Hosted by poet & spoken-word performer, Cortney Collins and Loveland Poet Laureate Lynn Kincannon.

Loveland Museum, Foote Gallery
503 N. Cleveland Ave., Loveland

There will be more than a dozen featured readers ( reading 5 minutes each), plus room for 10 open mic speakers (2 minutes each). Sign up at the door. 

The theme is "September Afternoons,"  if you wish to respond to it (not required).

FREE, with light refreshments served.
Presented quarterly by The Regional Poets as a gift to our northern Colorado community and beyond, for more than a decade.

As working poets, we write alone. Then comes time to share our poems with the world and we panic, pray, & practice – but do we know how to present our writing? How do we lift it off the page in a way that excites and entertains our audience?

This is not a SLAM! Somewhere between the trembling paper or squinting at our phone, and performing in a high-speed slam competition, there is a whole range of Spoken Word Presentation poetry.