Poet Dane Cervine of Santa Cruz (CA) will be the featured poet for the Telluride Institute’s first Tuesday Talking Gourds’ Bardic Trails virtual Stories & Poems series Jan. 6th at 7 pm MST.
Dane Cervine’s books include Nine Volt Nirvana (Word Poetry Press), DEEP TRAVEL – At Home in the [Burning] World (Saddle Road Press), The World Is God’s Language (Sixteen Rivers Press), Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). His poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, and the Atlanta Review.
His work appears in the SUN, the Hudson Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, Pedestal Magazine, among others.
Dane lives in Santa Cruz, California. Visit his website at: https://danecervine.com/
For those that like prompts, we are suggesting “Wishing for Snow,” 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 Stories & Poems Norwood series at the Lone Cone Library has shut down indefinitely due to declining attendance and loss of funding, so no more Third Thursday live events in Norwood.
However, the Wilkinson Library and Talking Gourds has started a new live Stories & Poems series at Magazine Room on the third Tuesday of every month, We began in December with Montrose metaphysical poet Tracy Lightsey, and for January we will have Montrose storyteller Tanya Ishikawa.
Talking Gourds’ Scot Rasor (KOTO DJ Razor Blaze) is working with Telluride Arts to continue to bring poetry to Artwalk first Thursdays in selected galleries and is also working with a lot of local arts entities to start a monthly music and poetry event somewhere in town with the beginning of the new year
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. Thanks to the Cantor Family, the Guttman Family Foundation, CCAASE and our Fischer and Cantor contest participants for supporting our program and projects.
