SPECIAL EVENT: DORIANNE LAUX READING AND WORKSHOP!
1:00 p.m. DENVER: Poetry workshop with Dorianne Laux in room 442 of the Tivoli Student Union. To sign up for the workshop, email Barb Sorensen at woc@indra.net. Workshop fee: $100.
7:00 p.m. DENVER: Dorriane Laux reads in room 444 in the Tivoli Student Union, Auraria campus (here). To get to room 444, take the Tower elevator on the ground floor of the Tivoli, across from the Cimmaron Cafe.
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.
12 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.
13 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.
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.
14 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.
3:30 p.m. DENVER: Maria Melendez reads as part of the "Women Writing the West" symposium at CU-Denver.
7:30 p.m. FORT COLLINS: CSU Fall Reading Series. Karen Volkman and Stephanie Strickland read in room 158 of the University Arts Center on the Colorado State University campus (here). For more info, email Dan.Beachy-Quick@colostate.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.
16 thursday
3:00 p.m. DENVER: Lee Ann Roripaugh reads as part of the "Women Writing the West" symposium at CU-Denver.
MOVIE NIGHT CANCELLED!
7:00 p.m. FORT COLLINS: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE! Poetry at the Movies. The Colorado Poets Association presents a showing of Il Postino, with a poetry presentation before the movie, at Mug's Coffee Lounge, 261 South College Avenue (on the northwest corner of College and Olive). For more info, email Bryan Roth at bryanroth@coloradopoets.org.
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.
17 friday
4:00 p.m. DENVER: Karen Volkman reads as part of the "Women Writing the West" symposium.
6:00 p.m. DENVER: Copper Nickel release party for issue #10, at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place (here).
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.
18 saturday
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.
19 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.
20 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.