Art Goodtimes of Norwood won a Colorado Council on the Arts poetry fellowship 29 years ago and served two years as Western Slope Poet Laureate. His most recent book is Looking South to Lone Cone: the Cloud Acre Poems (Sedona, AZ:…


 
 Beth Paulson lives in Ouray County, Colorado where she teaches workshops, leads Poetica, a monthly workshop for area writers, and co-directs the Open Bard Poetry Series.  She formerly taught English at California State University Los Angeles…

Bill Tremblay is a poet and novelist. His work has appeared in nine full-length volumes including Crying in the Cheap Seats (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), The Anarchist Heart (New York: New Rivers Press, 1977). Home Front (Spokane,…

Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House of Stone. She lives in Denver with her husband and sons. Poems Correction You are fifteen the first time it happens and you know the power of names and renaming from your study of the Bible,…

Kyle Laws is based out of the Arts Alliance Studios Community in Pueblo. Her collections include This Town: Poems of Correspondence with Jared Smith (Lafayette, CO: Liquid Light Press, 2017); So Bright to Blind (Five Oaks Press, 2015); Wildwood …

Lisa Zimmerman’s poems and short stories have appeared in Cave Wall, Poet Lore, Florida Review, and many other magazines. Her poetry collections include The Light at the Edge of Everything (Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2008) and The Hours I Keep …

Political activist and wilderness advocate Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love (2010 American Book Award) and her most recent collection, Blood Flower (2015). Translated into more than a dozen languages, her work…

Pattiann Rogers has published fourteen books of poetry, two prose books, and a book in collaboration with the Colorado artist Joellyn Duesberry. Rogers is the recipient of two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award. Among other…


 
 Peter Anderson’s most recent books include Heading Home: Field Notes (Conundrum Press, 2017), a collection of flash prose and prose poems exploring rural life and the modern day eccentricities of the American West; Going Down Grand: Poems…

Rita Brady Kiefer has published two full-length poetry collections—Nesting Doll, finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and Crossing Borders—and three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Face to Face (New…

Robert Cooperman is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently, City Hat Frame Factory.  In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains won the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. Poems At the Denver Botanical…


 
 Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Placerville on the banks of the San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate and as Western Slope Poet Laureate. She teaches poetry for twelve-step recovery programs, hospice,…


 
 
 Wendy Videlock is a writer, visual artist, teacher, and a life-long student of the world. She lives on the Western Slope of Colorado in Palisade. Her books include Nevertheless (San Jose, CA: Able Muse Press, 2011), Slingshots &…