Sunday Mar. 5, 2-4 p.m.

Creative Writing Workshop

Reynolds Branch of the Boulder Public Library

• The cost of two workshops is a total of $45, which includes a free issue of Many Mountains Moving. The cost of one workshop is $25.
• Regular participants (returning writers) can pay $20.
• To register, e-mail [email protected] or call Jeffrey Ethan Lee at (970) 351-1476 at the University of Northern Colorado.

Sunday from 2-4 p.m. Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited!

Participants can also get a free back issue at the end of the workshop. The new poetry books invisible sister, They Sing at Midnight and Feeding the Fear of the Earth will be available for sale at the workshop.

Visit the faculty web site of Jeffrey Ethan Lee

• Jeffrey Ethan Lee's new full-length poetry book is forthcoming this fall from Ghost Road Press. His 2004 poetry book is available from Many Mountains Moving Press. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook competition for The Sylf (published 2003), published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Press, 2001), and won the first Tupelo Press Prize for literary fiction in 2001.
• Learn several methods to find the spontaneous voice within yourself. Learn to use other voices that inhabit or haunt you and your imagination, and let those voices create characters and situations. Learn a freewriting game that allows for a fun, collaborative exchange of inspiration and ideas. Learn to write a poem based upon a "still-life" analogous to those set up by visual artists. Learn to write a poem without adjectives, and learn why this exercise is a good idea.

April Salon & Potluck details tba

MMM is a friend of Ghost Road Press & The Poetry Show on KRFC 88.9 FM in Fort Collins.

February 2006

Many Mountains Moving Press & Literary Journal Presents a February Poetry Salon & Potluck

Featured Readers: Chris Ransick and Aaron Abeyta

Followed by book signings and open mic.

Performance poetry welcomed.

Bring a dish to share. Coffee, tea and wine provided.

When: Friday, February 17th, 2006

Where: St. John's Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St, Boulder

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Contact Barbara Sorensen: (303) 823-5149 for more information

A $2.00 donation would be appreciated.

Aaron Abeyta is originally from Antonito, Colorado and currently teaches English at Adams State College. A graduate of the CSU M.F.A. program in creative writing, Abeyta's first book Colcha was recently announced as an American Book Award winner for 2002. Additionally, he won the Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry in 1998 and the Grand Prize for his the poem "Colcha" from the Academy of American Poets. He has also had work published widely in literary journals and
magazines.

Of Abeyta and his poetry, Ruth Heide writes that his work attempts "to preserve a culture and way of life." She cites the strong element of storytelling in his work and Abeyta explains, "I just grew up with a real strong oral tradition, especially with my grandparents. My grandparents told really good stories…To me, they were like history lessons, learning a history that's not in books. It's a cultural
history."

Author and teacher Chris Ransick has won awards for his books of poetry and fiction, as well as recognition for his workshops and speaking appearances. His work with writers and writing extends from his local library and schools to the international community of PEN USA's Freedom to Write Committee.