The five finalists this year were Anne Valley-Fox’s “Because the Road Rises to Meet their Feet,” Jennifer Rane Hancock’s “St. Mary’s Orphanage: Galveston Island, September 8, 1900,” George Perreault’s “Mr. …
2017 Fischer Prize Winner & Finalists
20th Annual Fischer Prize Winners Announced. Anna Scotti – 2017 Fischer Prize Winner Click HERE for a video of Anna reading her winning poem 2017 FISCHER PRIZE FINALISTS Helen Chinitz …
2017 Fischer Prize Winner Announced
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program announced that North Hollywood poet Anna Scotti’s “Tanager” has won the $1000 Fischer Prize. In addition to her poetry, Anna Scotti is a …
PR October 2016
Talking Gourds Tour with Kate Kingston of Trinidad. Tuesday at Arroyo Telluride on October 4th at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Cimarron Books in Ridgway on Oct. 5th at 1 p.m. …
Julie Shavin of Colorado Springs wins 2016 Fischer Prize
It’s the 19th year of the annual Fischer poetry contest, and the awards, plus the number of contestants, keep getting bigger. This year Southwest poet/provocateur Judyth Hill reviewed 330 poems …
Bardic Trails Tour: Judyth Hill in January 2016
Judyth Hill kicks off new Bardic Trails Tour on Western Slope. Poetry’s upping the ante on Colorado’s Western Slope with a new three-day poetry tour at the beginning of each …
Trommer Named Western Slope Poet Laureate 2015
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer of Placerville was named the third Poet Laureate of the Western Slope during the Talking Gourds Poetry Performances Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Ah Haa School …