12:00 noon. DENVER: Mass poetry reading on the 16th Street Mall. The goal is to get a hundred (or more) people to read a poem in unison to promote National Poetry Month. For more info, email Jake Adam York at jake.york@cudenver.edu.
7:00 p.m. LONGMONT: Longmont Poetry Meetup. Meets at Shear Beauty, 619 Ken Pratt Boulevard (behind Village Inn). 303-485-0585.
8:00 p.m. DENVER: Pretty Boy School of Public Speaking. Open mic at Common Grounds in LoDo, 1601 17th Street (NW corner of 17th & Wazee). 303-296-9248.
2 wednesday
7:30 p.m. BOULDER: Lyn Hejinian reads in the chapel of Old Main on the CU campus. For more info, email Vivian Liao at vivian.liao@colorado.edu.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: Open mic presented by Illiterate magazine and Baobab Press at Burnt Toast, 1135 Pennsylvania Avenue (on The Hill, across the street from The Sink). For more info, email akposani@aol.com or call 303-859-1034.
3 thursday
7:30 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Lyn Hejinian reads. More info forthcoming.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Featured reader Elizabeth Robinson, followed by an open mic, at Folsom Street Coffee Company, 1795 Folsom Street (SW corner of Folsom & Canyon). 303-440-8808.
4 friday
10:00 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street (SW corner of 22nd & California). Sign-up starts at 9:30. 303-924-9258.
5 saturday
10:00 a.m. DENVER: Columbine Poets critique session at Daphne's Deli, 393 Corona Street (between 3rd Avenue & 4th Avenue, on the west side of Corona). For more info, email Anita Jepson-Gilbert at anitajg5@aol.com. 303-733-1212.
9:30 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Brother Jeff's Cultural Center and Cafe, 2836 Welton Street (between 28th & 29th, on the east side of Welton). For more info, call 303-297-0823. Donation requested.
7:00 p.m. DENVER: "Jam before the slam" with Art Compost & the Word Mechanics at 7 p.m., open mic at 8 p.m., and a poetry slam at 9:00, at Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street (SW corner of 22nd & California). 303-294-9258. Donation requested for the slam.
7 monday
7:00 p.m. FT. COLLINS: Open mic on the ground floor at The Alley Cat, 120& 1/2 West Laurel Street (a half a block west of College Ave., in the alley behind Pizza Casbah on the north side of Laurel). For more info, email (preferred) twilightkid86m@yahoo.com, or call 970-223-3002.
7:00 p.m. MANITOU SPRINGS: The Goddess Open Mic. Open mic at Black Cat Books, 720 Manitou Avenue (in downtown Manitou Springs). For more info, email Karen at kalikookalehua@aol.com or call 718-232-5961.
8:00 p.m. DENVER: Open mic, followed by featured readers at 9:00, at The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl Street (on the north side of Pearl Street, just east of 17th). Sign-up for open mic starts at 7:30. 303-440-4628.
8 tuesday
8:00 p.m. DENVER: Pretty Boy School of Public Speaking. Open mic at Common Grounds in LoDo, 1601 17th Street (NW corner of 17th & Wazee). 303-296-9248.
9 wednesday
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: Open mic presented by Illiterate magazine and Baobab Press at Burnt Toast, 1135 Pennsylvania Avenue (on The Hill, across the street from The Sink). For more info, email akposani@aol.com or call 303-859-1034.
10 thursday
CANNON MINE CANCELLED TONIGHT BECAUSE OF WEATHER FORECAST! Mr. Franklin will be rescheduled.
7:00 p.m. LAFAYETTE: Cannon Mine Reading Series. The Colorado Poets Association presents Jeffrey Franklin and TBA, followed by an open mic, at Cannon Mine Coffee Company, 210 South Public Road (four blocks south of Baseline Road on the NE corner of Cannon Mine & S. Public Road). Door Prizes awarded! For more info, email cannonmine@coloradopoets.org or call Bryan Roth at 303-817-3312.
7:30 p.m. BOULDER: Sheryl Luna, Gabriel Gomez, and Erika Wurth read at the Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street (one block west of Broadway on the north side of the Pearl Street walking mall). 303-447-2074.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Student poets from Naropa, followed by an open mic, at Folsom Street Coffee Company, 1795 Folsom Street (SW corner of Folsom & Canyon). 303-440-8808.