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| Uche Ogbuji performing last year (Goodtimes) |
The Thunder River Theatre Company's pleased to
announce the third annual Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival to be held in Carbondale, March 29 - 31, 2013. Poets, performers and listeners are
invited to join us as we honor the inspiring life of Colorado poet Karen Chamberlain, who
passed away in September 2010.
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| Festival organizer Valerie Haugen |
This year's theme is "Poetry
Everywhere!” The first evening of the festival will feature an award ceremony
naming a new Western Slope Poet Laureate. On Saturday evening, honored Colorado poet Reg Saner
will be presented the Chamberlain Award for Lifetime
Poetic Achievement.
Performers this year include current Western Slope Poet Laureate Art
Goodtimes, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Trinity Lafey, Jared Smith, SETH, Uche
Ogbuji, Kit Kalriess Muldoon, Roseanna Frechette,
Eric and Jacob Walter, MD Friedman, David Rothman, and more
Performances and open mics will take
place Friday and Saturday evenings. Sunday morning’s program includes a
continental breakfast, followed by a Gourd Circle led by Goodtimes.
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| Colorado Poets Center's Bob King |
Saturday workshops, more than a dozen
of them, include Ogbuji’s "Poetry from the Heart's Far-Flung Places"; "Contemporary
Music and Poetry: Creative Connections" taught by Richard Kempa; "Writing
the Political Poem" with Debbi Brody, and Stewart Warren’s “Collaborations:
the muse everywhere,” among others.
Don't miss this incredible opportunity to honor a great lady, to celebrate the Western Slope's vibrant poetry community, and to find
the poetry growing wild in your own soul's garden
Tickets are available online at
<www.thunderrivertheatre.com> . For more information, e-mail
<karenchamberlainpoetryfestival@gmail.com>
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