Colorado launch of anthology: Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to the 2024 Election:
5-6pm reading. Poets will gather at 4:30 to socialize, sign, & sell books.
Join us in joyful literary resistance as we celebrate Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election, an urgent and moving anthology featuring poets that capture this moment in history.
Poets Andrew Schelling, Matthew Cooperman, Aby Kaupang, Paul E. Nelson, Mari Brown, and Roxi Power. will gather at 4:30 to socialize, sign, and sell books and read from 5-6pm.
Mari Brown is an Allen Ginsberg Fellow at Jack Kerouac School. Her projects have been covered in The New York Times, The Economist, The Believer Magazine, ABC News and Al Jazeera English. She co-founded Word on the Street, a company that created documentary theater based on real-life interviews.
Matthew Cooperman has just been awarded a Guggenheim Award in poetry. He is the author, most recently, of the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) and many other books, He is Professor of English at Colorado State University. http://matthewcooperman.org
Aby Kaupang’s most recent works include Radiant Tether (Verge), & there’s you still thrill hour of the world to love (chosen by Brenda Hillman), & NOS, disorder not otherwise specified (w. Mattthew Cooperman). She hosts the reading series, EveryEye, and has served as Poet Laureate of Fort Collins. abykaupang.com
Paul E. Nelson co-edited Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election and the Cascadian Zen anthology series. He founded the Cascadia Poetics LAB & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Books include DaySong Miracle (Past 62) (2024); Cascadian Prophets (Interviews 1999-2023) and many others. He’s Literary Executor for the late poet Sam Hamill.
Roxi Power co-edited Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election and founded the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches. Her poetry book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing was published in 2023. Roxi podcasts for The Hive Poetry Collective on KSQD Santa Cruz.
Andrew Schelling has taught poetry and Sanskrit language at Naropa since 1990. Among his twenty odd books, the underground classic, Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture and most recently, Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers (Empty Bowl Press). 10 books and anthologies of poetry from India’s old tradition have made bhakti literature and the Upanishads part of American consciousness.
