Free Local Poetry Reading Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

About This Event

Join us for an inspiring poetry reading on Saturday, April 11th at 3:00 PM at our Colfax location! We will have limited books for guests to purchase in store! ABOUT THE POETS Master teacher, editor and poet, Madelyn Garner has degrees from the University of Denver and Mills College. As a creative writing instructor, middle school principal, and mentor, she is widely recognized for designing and implementing a variety of innovative educational programs at all levels, elementary through university. Among her educational achievements and honors, she is the recipient of the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities for encouraging incorporation of the arts into school programs and her leadership in providing students multiple opportunities in the field of writing. Seth Brady Tucker is executive director of the Longleaf Writers’ Conference and he teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers' Workshop and at the Colorado School of Mines near Denver. He is senior prose editor for the Tupelo Quarterly Review, is originally from Wyoming, and once served as an Army Paratrooper with the 82ndAirborne in Iraq. He is a multi-genre writer and his work recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review, Driftwood, Copper Nickel, Birmingham Poetry Review, and others. Joe Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2019), is the award-winning author of 20 poetry collections, most recently Under Sleep’s New Moon; The World As Is: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015; and Marked Men (narrative poems focused on the aftermath of the Sand Creek Massacre). He directs two programs for the College of Professional Studies: Arts & Culture Management and Professional Creative Writing. Joe’s poetry, short fiction, essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in over 100 journals, including American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Chautauqua Literary Journal, as well as several anthologies, including New Poets of The American West. His narrative sequence Bed of Coals was chosen by Wanda Coleman for the Colorado Poetry Award.