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Poetry Show
A Presentation of Talking Gourds and Telluride Mushroom Festival
This poetry program is an annual late-night tradition as part of Telluride Mushroom Festival, held on the third weekend in August. Featuring regional and guest poets, for fungophiles of all types!



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POETS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Art “Shroompa” Goodtimes … Welcome & “Prayer for the Great Shroom” … 0.01-3:57
William Padilla-Smith … “A Little Poetic Vibration” … 3:58-7:23
Wendy Videlock … “MycoEpithalamia … 7:24-9:23
David Rothman … “Kingdom of the Ghost” … 9:24-12:20
Erica Waters … “Mushroom Crawl” … 12:21-13:05
Lynda LaRocca … “Shroom” … 13:06-14:12
Erin Robertson … “The Art of Mycophagy” … 14:13-15:00
Haz Said … “The Risen” … 15:01-15:39
John Michelotti … “Bolete” … 15:40-18:39
Gary Lawless … “When the Animals Come to You” … 18:40-19:44
Ann Huang … “Hard (Mushroom)” … 19:45-20:47
John Curl … “Cloud Castles” … 20:48-24:13
Judyth Hill … “Covid Kintsugi” … 24:14-30:32
Albert Flynn DeSilver … “At Reel Point (Shelter Island)” … 30:33-33:23
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer … “It’s Laughable” … 33:24-34:01
Henri Bensussen … “Root to Hyphal Root” … 34:02-34:46
Roy Beckemeyer … “Morels” … 34:47-35:54
Tori Miner … “Sometimes” … 35:55-37:23
Rachelle Woods … “Walk Slowly” … 37:24-38:12
Nathaniel Kelly … “Absorbed” … 38:13-38-42
Blake More … “Boletus Coitus” … 38:43-40:23
John Calderazzo … “Turkey Vulture” … 40:24-42:39
Lawrence Millman … “All Praise the Mighty Leccinum” … 42:40-43:17
Daiva Chesonis … “The Zombie Fungapocalypse” … 43:18-46:49
Michael Olschewsky … “Wannabe Blues” … 46:50-49:41
Ruth Duffy … “Time’s Up” … 49:50-51:30
Anna Scotti … “The Uses of Speech” … 51:3-53-20
John Nizalowski … “Walk With the Spirirts” … 53:21-54:39
Erin Robertson … “Opjata” … 54:40-56:33
Robert “Bob” Pyle … “Chinook & Chanterelle” … 56:34-58:32
Cynthia Gallagher … “Mushroom Has Landed” … 58:33-1:00:25
Phyllis Klein … “Mushroom Festival” … 1:00:26-1:02:18
William Padilla-Smith … “Can You Show Me Paradise?” … 1:02:19-1:05:08
Carol Anne Modena … “Fungophobia” … 1:05:09-1:06:38
Danny Rosen … “Ek Balam Yucatan” … 1:06:39-1:08:45
Shroompa … “Mushrooms” … 1:08:46-1:10:45
John Michelotti … Closing … 1:10:46-1:12:00