Submit a poem to the Howl of the Hearts poetry contest! In celebration of Fort Collins Book Fest and in anticipation of to National Poetry Month, we're celebrating the creativity of community members. Submissions are accepted, February 1-19, 2024. Finalists will read their poems to an audience at a poetry reading on April 4, 2024. […]
Help us kick off the Fort Collins Book Fest at this special after-hours event for all ages! Drink hot cocoa, play word games, snag some swag, and participate in book giveaways as we celebrate all things literary. There will be a special performance by The Story Bakers from 6:45 to 7:15 pm! The Story Bakers […]
Experience food preparation and creative writing in this bilingual workshop with Franklin Cruz. A delicious opportunity to learn about some food and their stories, home, and family. Connection is the element to the recipes we make and stories we tell that makes them similar. Through creative writing, we can document both in different ways. For teens […]
What does it mean to be "in community" in the writing space? Acclaimed Colorado poet Meca'Ayo guides us through creating collaborative poetics. Unleash the power of shared expression as we weave a tapestry of collective verses. No previous writing experience necessary! Registration is required. Registration opens Jan. 8, 2024.
Between human and animal, illness and health, call and response, partitions of all kinds can be violent or generative, mythic or experienced. Two poets live in, collapse, and question these borders: Rajiv Mohabir reads from Whale Aria, in which a humpback whale’s migration reflects queerness and brownness from underwater to air and Guyana to New York, […]
In this panel of accomplished authors, there also resides the community experiences of a bookseller, a massage therapist, a mathematics student, and a director an MFA in Creative Writing program. These writers offer insights into oft-neglected western experiences including the histories of Chinese immigrants, silencing of Indigenous experiences, the challenges of living with mixed-race identity, […]
History is a haunting. And the West, in particular, is filled with the spirits of our ancestors, echoing with the voices of the dead. Not all of them are recognized, however. Not all of them get to speak. What are they trying to tell us? How do we honor them? How do we bring them […]
In this workshop with author Deborah Jackson Taffa, we’ll discuss how prose narratives can benefit from poetic techniques, how expanding the use of poetic principles—from metaphor to repetition, space, juxtaposition, accrual, lists, and rhyme—can deepen the experience of writing and reading creative nonfiction. What is the lyric essay? How can we use poetic ideals to […]
Using text and photos (provided), we'll investigate ways the elements in each find themselves interacting on and with one another. From there, we'll turn our attention to how we might work these observations and interactions into notes, poems, and larger projects of exploration outside of the workshop space. Register for the workshop. Event led by […]
Acclaimed writers Ramona Emerson (Shutter) and David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Winter Counts) discuss how they use the mystery and thriller genres to explore questions of justice, Native American identity, and intergenerational trauma. Shutter follows Rita Todacheene, a forensic photographer, who’s haunted by the ghost of a murder victim intent on justice. In Winter Counts, Virgil […]