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october 20-22
2023
Thursday
Registration
5:00
sign-in and get acquainted
Crestone Charter School
Local Poets and Storytellers
6:00
hosted by Kelly Hosner
Crestone Charter School
Featured Reading
7:00
Crestone Charter School
Poet's Party
9:00
Celtic Music with Nerea the Fiddler and Friends. The penning of a collective poem (also known as an exquisite corpse). Hosted by Peter Anderson.
Crestone Brewing Co
Friday
Workshops
1:00
Blackout Poetry / led by Debbi Brody
Written with the Body/ led by Carolyn "Carolina" Brown
Writing the Wild / led by Pam Uschuk
Aspects of Revision/ led by William Pitt Root
Crestone Charter School
Saturday
Workshops
1:00
Inviting the Reader In / led by Nathan Brown
Moving Toward the Voice of Water/ led by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Old Poets in the Futurist Era: Deconstructing Walt Whitman/ led by Adrian H. Molina
The Music of What Happens/ led by Joseph Hutchison
Crestone Charter School
Poet's Banquet
6:00
Special Bhutanese buffet
Desert Sage Restaurant
Poem-a-Palooza
7:30
ACT 1: OMNIBUS READING with Joe Hutchison, Barbara Ford, Jane Hillberry, Barbara Robidoux, Noona O'Reilly, Julie Cummings, Maria Melendez Kelson, Aaron Abeyta, Peggy Godfrey, Mark Irwin, and Danny Rosen
ACT 2: PERFORMANCE AND POETRY with MC Art Goodtimes, musician and poet Nathan Brown, poet, performer, and filmmaker Adrian H. Molina, and national award-winning slam poet Jessica Helen Lopez
Crestone Charter School
Workshops
9:30
Yoga, Mindfulness and Writing/ led by Val Killpack
Raising Poetry to a Higher Power/ led by Mark Irwin
Anti-social Haiku/ led by Maria Melendez Kelson
Loving the Limerick / led by Tom deMers
Crestone Charter School
Sunday
Breakfast and Book Signings
9:00
Crestone Charter School
Pick up a book to travel with and get it signed. Burritos, baked goods, fruit, and coffee for sale
Talking Gourd Circle
10:00
Crestone Charter School
Bring a poem to share
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