Innisfree This Week: Thursday September 25th at 7PM: Annie and Flowers Charlotte Annie is a poet from Maine. She received her Masters in English from Trinity College and her MFA in poetics from Naropa University. When she is not in the company of pencil and paper, you can find her running along one of Boulders many mesas. She is interested in hibernation and migratory birds. Her novel, More Winter than Feather OR More Charlotte than Annie, is about Wendy. She teaches writing in Denver. Lisa A. Flowers is a poet, critic, vocalist, the founding editor of Vulgar Marsala Press, and the author of diatomhero: religious poems. Her work has appeared in The Cortland Review, elimae, Tarpaulin Sky, The Collagist, Entropy, and other magazines and online journals. She is a poetry curator for Luna Luna Magazine. Raised in Los Angeles and Portland, OR, she now resides in the rugged terrain above Boulder, Colorado. Visit her here or here. Sunday September 28th at 2PM: Gary Whited and Susan Nisenbaum Becker Gary Whited grew up on a ranch in eastern Montana, where his maternal and paternal grandparents had homesteaded in the early 1900s. Leaving the ranch to attend college, Gary eventually found his way into the study of philosophy with a special interest in the ancient Greek thinkers. He was intrigued by a kinship between the ancient ways and the life hed known on the prairie. He studied classical Greek and eventually translated fragments of the Pre-Socratic thinkers, including the poem of Parmenides. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Penn State University in 1973. For several years Gary taught philosophy at various universities, including University of Montana, University of Texas and eventually at Emerson College in Boston. While teaching philosophy, Gary became interested in the practice of psychotherapy with its keen attention given to the art of listening. He realized that the activity of listening was a thread that ran through his entire life, starting with listening to the subtleties of the prairie landscape and to its people, to the ancient Greek classical voices, to his philosophy students and eventually to clients in his private practice as a psychotherapist. All along the way he wrote poems, trying to capture the many voices of the prairie, which is how his book Having Listened came into being. A strong sense of place pervades his poems, whether that place is the prairie, the city or the inner spaces we inhabit. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, and Comstock Review. He is currently working on a new translation of the complete fragments of Parmenides. He lives in Boston with his wife, Elizabeth, a painter. Together they have two grown children, and three grand children. Susan Nisenbaum Beckers poetry has appeared or in PLAINSONGS, PHOEBE, SALAMANDER, COMSTOCK REVIEW, POETRY EAST, WILDERNESS HOUSE LITERARY REVIEW, LUMINA, AVATAR REVIEW, CONSEQUENCE, CAYLX and SLIPSTREAM, among others. She is a playwright, actor and arts organizer. She has received several Local Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants on behalf of the Herring Run ArtsFest, a weekend long arts festival held in her hometown of Middleboro, MA, which she co-founded and co-directed. She has been awarded writing fellowships at Canadas Banff Center for the Arts Leighton Studios , Yaddo where she held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency, and the MacDowell Colony. Susan has been a featured reader at venues in Boston, Cambridge and Cape Cod. Her work was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Her first full-length book of poems, Little Architects of Time and Space, was published by Word Poetry in October, 2013. Sunday September 28th at 3:30 PM -Circle of Cares Intergenerational Voices Open Mic Circle of Care Presents Intergenerational Voices - Uniting the Generations through our Stories, Songs and Poetry. Come take the Mic for 5 mins and represent your generation. Theme: “Beginnings and Endings...”
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