Sunday afternoon

Dec. TBA

Sundays 2-4 p.m.

@ St. John's Episcopal

1419 Pine St, Boulder

Creative Writing Workshop

• 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) pay $20.
• To register, e-mail [email protected] or call Jeffrey Ethan Lee at (970) 351-1476 at the University of Northern Colorado.

Send e-mail with questions or to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited to 8!

This month we are again devoting part of the time to exercises that help you to generate new material and half the time to a more traditional workshop process with peer critiques as well as my critiques of your new works.

(RSVPs are required as we need to know how many paper copies of works to bring.)

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.

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.

BIO:

Jeffrey Ethan Lee’s second full-length poetry book, identity papers, is available from Ghost Road Press (http://www.ghostroadpress.com) and http://www.identitypapers.org. His first poetry book, invisible sister (2004), is from Many Mountains Moving Press. Lee won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), published Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook with Ashland Press, 2001), and published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in Many Mountains Moving, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Crosscurrents, Drexel Online Journal, Green Mountain Review, Washington Square, PBQ. His CD identity papers (2002) was released by Drimala Records. He teaches creative writing at University of Northern Colorado and is now one of the editors for Many Mountains Moving. Visit www.unco.edu/poetry/jeffrey.lee. He has a Ph.D. and MFA from NYU.

Nov. details forthcoming

Salon & Potluck

Many Mountains Moving Inc.

Presents a Poetry Salon

Followed by an open mic.

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

For more information, contact Barbara Sorensen at 303-823-5149.

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

PAST EVENTS

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.

A lover of all things literary, Chris has 25 years of professional experience with college-level courses and community workshops. A recent participant remarked about experience a workshop with Chris,
"[He] offers ringing insight and clarity in his work, both on the page and at the front of the room."

Chris's collection of short fiction, A Return to Emptiness, was winner of the Colorado Authors' League award for best fiction and a fiction finalist for the 2005 Colorado Book Award. His first book,
Never Summer, Poems From Thin Air, was recently re-released with a new design and ten new poems. It was the winner of the 2003 Colorado Book Award for Poetry.

Aaron Anstett received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first collection, Sustenance, was the finalist for the 1998 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. His second, No Accident, was selected by Philip Levine for the Backwaters Press Prize and won the 2005 Balcones Poetry Prize. This book is currently a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.   A new collection, Each Place the Body's, is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press in 2007.

Anstett has been a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa and a Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught creative writing at those institutions as well as CSU-Pueblo and for Lighthouse Writers in Denver. He is active in the southern Colorado poetry community, hosting readings, organizing chapbook contests, and generally agitating.

John Latham has published four collections of poetry in the UK, with Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets, and one collection with the Mellen Press, New York. A new collection, Sailor Boy, was recently published by the Collective Press, in the UK.

He has won first prize in more than 20 national poetry competitions in the UK, and has frequently been a tutor to both the Arvon Foundation and the Taliesin Trust, UK, on 5-day residential creative writing courses. His poems (also radio stories and plays) have appeared on BBC national radio and TV, UK. He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1990, and his poem Construction on the Queen’s Highway won the A.E. Housman Cup in 2002.

He has worked extensively in schools, led many poetry writing workshops, taught poetry in prisons, and had writer-in-residence appointments.

Tim Z. Hernandez won the American Book Award in 2006 for Skin Tax.  He is a writer and performer originally from Central California’s San Joaquin Valley. He has studied extensively in a variety of mediums including: creative writing, physical theater and murals, and his written work, performance texts, and art have been published in various anthologies. His performances have been featured in prestigious venues such as: Los Angeles’ Getty Center Museum, The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, Stanford University, and at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

In the past, he’s been commissioned by major groups such as the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and the National Fanny Mae Foundation to write and perform his original plays on issues such as homelessness and poverty. He’s the recipient of several other notable awards including: Zora Neal Hurston Award for writers of color who exemplify great literary promise and dedication to their communities, and for his one man show, Diaries of a Macho the 2003 Best Solo Production Award, as well as the 2003 James Duval Phelan Award for best manuscript by an emerging writer sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation.

When he’s not busy with classes at Naropa University, he’s on the road collaborating with a band of ahimsa locos known as Mezcal. On any other day, he’s an arts education consultant for non-profit groups, foundations, libraries, and school districts, offering workshops to youth and aspiring writers/ performers. Currently, he resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two daughters.

The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation

The American Book Awards, established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation, recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. The purpose of the awards is to acknowledge the excellence and multicultural diversity of American writing.

10/21/06

Jeffrey Franklin lives in Denver with his wife and their two children and is a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. He will read from his new collection, For the Lost Boys, which just came out from Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in such journals as The Hudson Review, New England Review, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, and Third Coast, as well as in Best American Poetry (2002). He has two book manuscripts in circulation: a scholarly book entitled Victorian Buddhism and a collection of formal verse entitled Refugees of the New Age.