Brief by Central Staff
Poetry – April 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
Granted, there’s Income Tax Day, and it’s Mud Season, but on a more pleasant note, April is National Poetry Month, and there are at least two celebrations.
The Salida Regional Library, along with Bongo Billy’s Salida Café, is hosting “Poetry on a Platter” April 8-10. Visiting poets include David Lee, Marilyn Taylor, Luís Lopez, Karen Chamberlain, and Carol Bell.
They will read and host workshops, with some free books being given out, and the program will also be held in Montrose on April 11-12, and in Paonia on April 12-13. There’s a detailed schedule in the ad in this edition, and you can also call the library at 719-539-4826.
If you live in Lake County, you can enter a poetry contest sponsored by the Book Mine, Leadville’s bookstore. There are three divisions: Children through age 12, Young Adult 13-18, and from 19 on up is Adult.
Each category will have a winner ($50 Book Mine gift certificate) and a runner-up ($10), and winning poems will be published in the Herald-Democrat. There are no entry fees.
Rules and other particulars are available at the store (719-486-2286, right across Harrison Street from the Lake County Courthouse), and at all public and school libraries in the county.
