GUEST GOURDS TOUR

REGIONAL POETRY TOURS

GUEST GOURDS TOUR

REGIONAL POETRY TOURS

Free & Open to the Public

The Guest Gourds Tour is an opportunity for a well known poet to tour our region as a guest of the Talking Gourds Poetry Club. These readings take place intermittently and will be publicized through our monthly mailing list. Sign up to receive notifications of these special readings!

Talking Gourds programming survives without government grant or subsidy through the generous support of private donors and Club members. There is a one-time fee of $25 to join the Talking Gourds Poetry Club which makes you a full member for a year and gets you on our mailing list for readings, festivals and contests. It also means that you are one of those generous supporters who believes in the importance of the arts on the Western Slope.

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Fischer Prize finalist Ann Kaiser set to read March 2nd for Bardic Trails Zoom poetry series

Ann Kaiser, slated as featured reader at March’s Bardic Trails Zoom poetry webinar Tuesday the Second at 7 p.m., is a translator as well as a poet. She works with …

Talking Gourds wins grants, Hosts new Bardic Trails program, and more!

Talking Gourds wins grants, hosts Bardic Trails on First Tuesdays and recommends Chesonis for another San Miguel County Poet Laureate term TELLURIDE … Grants from the family of Elaine Cantor Fischer …

It’s a Very Literary New Year! Workshops, Lectures and News from Center for the Literary Arts, Crested Butte

It’s a very literary new year! Kick it off right by engaging in the power of storytelling — attend a lecture, workshop, or join our supportive writing community. mountain writers …

New Bardic Trails poetry club Zoom series!

Cantor Prize winner Mark Oreskovich to kick off new Bardic Trails poetry club Zoom series TELLURIDE … At the urging of Joanna Spindler of the Wilkinson Public Library, the Telluride …

Video Conversation with Award Winning Poet Art Goodtimes

Anna Scotti Wins Inaugural Lightscatter Press Prize

Lightscatter Press is pleased to announce Anna Scotti of Burbank, Calif. as the winner of the inaugural prize for her poetry collection Bewildered by All This Broken Sky. Scotti’s manuscript …

Aspen Poet’s Society, Ink Events

Poetry Events in the Valley For more information on all events, see link below! Aspen Words Presents Winter Words Jericho Brown, poet * Ada Limón, poet Tuesday, January 28 Paepcke Auditorium, …

Rella Awards: New Poetry Contest for Local Youth!

Telluride Institute’s Ettore Rella Awards for Local Youth Thanks to a generous donation from the Bardwell Donachy Family Fund, Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds poetry program is proud to offer two …

Featured Poet Mary Oishi at Talking Gourds September 16th & 17th

TIMES UPDATED TELLURIDE … The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds poetry program kicks into lyric gear with the first autumn Poetry Club meeting featuring Mary Oishi on Monday Sept. 16 in …

Slam poet Tori Miner to perform in Telluride @ Mar. 19

Tori Miner of Fruita will be the featured reader at the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club meeting Tuesday, Mar. 19, at 6 p.m. at the Telluride Arts Headquarters across …

Talking Gourds Spring Schedule Announced

The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds poetry program is hosting a pre-Valentine poetry reading specially reserved for love poems. “I’ll bring a trove of love poems by good poets if people …

Eutimia Cruz Montoya to Read at Indigenous Peoples Day @ Oct. 7, 2018

The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Guest Gourds project is proud to host Denver curandera and poet Eutimia Cruz Montoya Sunday Oct. 7th, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at Telluride Arts HQ …

Two Major US Poets to Read in Telluride July 31, 2018

Talking Gourds hosts Barbara Ras and Ellen Watson. The job of the poet is, perhaps, to be “part rhapsodist, part mourner,” as renowned poetry critic Edward Hirsh has said of …

Guest Gourds with poet Claire Blotter , April 19-24, 2018

Bay Area poet kicks off  new Guest Gourds Tour The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds poetry program announces a new Guest Gourds Tour bringing an out-of-state poet to the Western Slope for …

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 …