Poet, essayist and photographer Kathryn Winograd of Littleton will be the featured performer for the Telluride Institute’s first Tuesday Talking Gourds’ Bardic Trails virtual stories & poems series Tuesday May 5th at 7 pm MST.
A happy retiree from forty years of teaching, Winograd wanders the banks of the South Platte River in Colorado and the meadows along Phantom Canyon where an old 1800s homesteader once wagon-drove the milk of his cowherd to an old Cripple Creek and Victor railroad stop. She is the author of several poetry and creative nonfiction books including Air Into Breath, an alternate for the Yale Series for Younger Poets and winner of the Colorado Books Award.
Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, was the winner of an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Bronze Medal in the Essay category. Her most recent book,This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye, a hybrid of poetry, prose, and photography,received an honorable mention by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Art Book.
Winograd has published poems and creative nonfiction in journal as widely diverse as Cricket Magazine for Kids and The New Yorker. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Workshop and a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver.
A founding faculty member for the Ashland University MFA program, she also taught poetry and creative nonfiction for Regis University’s Mile High MFA.
For those that like prompts, we are suggesting “the more-than-human worlds of birds,” although poems on any subject are welcome. Virtual attendees are encouraged to bring a story or poem to share each month after the featured reader, their own work or someone else’s.
The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program hosts the free Bardic Trails virtual zoom series on the first Tuesday of each month. The Wilkinson Public Library continues as our collaboration partner, with town support from Commission for Community Assistance, Arts & Special Events.
No longer needing to register with the library, participants are encouraged to visit <https://www.tellurideinstitute.org/western-slope-calendar> to get the zoom link each month, if they aren’t already on our mailing list. Or email Art Goodtimes directly.
