7:00 p.m. DENVER: Open mic at Miss Prothero's Books, 1112 Santa Fe Drive (here). For more info, call 303-572-2260.
7:00 p.m. DENVER: "Liquid Poetry." Wynkoop Brewery.
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.
12 saturday
10:00 a.m. DENVER: Columbine Poets meet 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.
1:00 p.m. DENVER: "A Swap of Language." Dikeou Collection.
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.
13 sunday
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.
14 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.
7:30 p.m. DENVER: Second Monday Poetry Series. Julie Carr (Boulder) and Noah Eli Gordon (Denver) read at Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 Colfax Avenue (here). 303-322-7727.
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.
15 tuesday
12:00 p.m. DENVER: Copper Nickel Student Literary Festival. St. Cajeten's Student Center on the Auraria Campus. For more info, see website: www.copper-nickel.org.
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: Open mic poetry reading at the Bean Cycle, 144 North College Avenue. Presented by the Campus Feminist Alliance of Colorado State University. 970-221-2964.
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.
6:30 p.m. DENVER: Poets included in the anthology Improv read at the Denver Women's Press Club, 1325 Logan Street (here).
7:00 p.m. PUEBLO: Noah Eli Gordon and Eric Baus read at CSU-Pueblo, in the First Year Center on the second floor of the library.
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.
17 thursday
7:00 p.m. BOULDER: Nin Andrews reading at CU. More info forthcoming.
7:30 p.m. BOULDER: "Poem in your pocket." Open mic night at Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street (one block west of Broadway, on the north side of the Pearl Street Mall). Sign-up starts at 7:00. 303-447-2074.
8:00 p.m. BOULDER: "East Coast Series." Open mic at Folsom Street Coffee Company, 1795 Folsom Street (SW corner of Folsom & Canyon). 303-440-8808.
8:05 p.m. DENVER: 9TH ANNUAL NERUDA POETRY FESTIVAL. Tribute to Lalo Delgado at El Centro Su Teatro, 4725 High Street. For more info, call 303-296-0219 or visit their website, www.suteatro.org.
18 friday
6:00 p.m. DENVER: 9TH ANNUAL NERUDA POETRY FESTIVAL. Open mic, followed by "Barrio Slam" at 7:00 p.m. at El Centro Su Teatro, 4725 High Street. First Prize for the slam contest is $500. For more info, call 303-296-0219 or visit their website, www.suteatro.org.
NEW COLORADO POETS EVENT!
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: "3 DIVAS" Reading. The Colorado Poets Association presents the Fort Collins Reading Series, featuring three of the best poets in Colorado: Colorado Poet Laureate Mary Crow, Veronica Patterson, winner of the 2001 Colorado Book Award for poetry, and Lisa Zimmerman, whose new book will be released soon from Anhinga Press, followed by an open mic, at Everyday Joe's coffeehouse, 144 South Mason Street (on the east side of Mason, one block west of College Avenue, between W. Mountain Ave. & W. Oak St.). For more info, call Bryan Roth at 303-817-3312 or email information@coloradopoets.org.
7:00 p.m. GILPIN COUNTY: An evening of poetry at the Gilpin County Public Library, featuring Marcelo Games, Leo Goya, Larry Grieco, Kayanne Pickens-Solem, Burt Rashbaum, Karla Schorzman, and Christine Weeber, who will serve as poet-in-residence for the library during the summer of 2008. The library is located at 15131 Highway 119 (south of Nederland on the Peak-to-Peak Highway, near mile-marker 15.5). NOTE: The event organizers request that those attending avoid wearing cologne, perfume, scented body sprays and lotions, essential oils, and other types of fragrances on the day of this event, in deference to those with asthma and allergies. 303-582-0161.
7:00 p.m. DENVER: Chapbook release party for Amy Irish at Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street (SW corner of 22nd & California). For more info, email Amy at lunablue_girl@msn.com. 303-924-9258.
7:30 p.m. DENVER: Eileen Myles reads in room 451 of Sturm Hall on the University of Denver campus. NOTE: Maureen Owen will NOT be reading with Eileen, as previously announced elsewhere.
7:30 p.m. DENVER: "Poetry for all seasons." Cate Wiley, Renee Ruderman, Alice Goble, and Joy Sawyer read at West Side Books, 3434 West 32nd Avenue (here). 303-480-0220.
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.
19 saturday
10:00 a.m. DENVER: Columbine Poets meet 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.
4:00 p.m. DENVER: 9TH ANNUAL NERUDA POETRY FESTIVAL. "Words and Tacos" Literary Salon. Sheryl Luna, J. Michel Martinez, Rachel Snyder, and Sandra Maria Esteves read at El Centro Su Teatro, 4725 High Street. For more info, call 303-296-0219 or visit their website, www.suteatro.org.
7:00 p.m. BOULDER: Many Mountains Moving Poetry Salon. Featured readers Marilyn Krsyl and Robert Cooperman, followed by an open mic, at St. John's Episcopal Chruch, 1419 Pine Street (in downtown Boulder, two blocks north of the Pearl Street Mall, three blocks west of Broadway). Potluck during intermission; beverages provided. For more info, email Barb Sorensen at woc@indra.net or call 303-823-5149. $2 Donation requested.
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.
20 sunday
6:00 p.m. BOULDER: Book release party for Michele Naka Pierce's My Beloved Integer and Chris Pusateri's anon, with other readers, in Shambala Hall on the Arapaho campus of Naropa University.
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.