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"In Any Language"

an evening of music and
spoken word performances
celebrating friendship

Weather Update!
Yes, we're on for tonight.
See you at Scooter Joe's

Las Comadres
Joan Logghe and Miriam Sagan


Joan Logghe


Miriam Sagan

Saturday, December 8th, 2007
7 to 9 pm at Scooter Joe's Cafe

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"Though poetry is the art of connection, the writing of it can be quite solitary. That's why, in part, it's so marvelous for poets to gather at events such as these--to meet and to honor and to read. After all, poetry is an aural and oral practice. But the real reason to come? It's fun. "

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Director, Telluride Writers  Guild


Access Idiom
Colorado Poetry Conference

  • poetry
  • expression
  • dignity
  • freedom

Mission Statement

Access Idiom, Inc. creates opportunities for collaboration, education and artistic expression. Access Idiom, Inc. empowers people with access to a broad scope of literary culture, performing arts, and additional ongoing events, all built on the foundation of the written and spoken word.

The Skyland Community School Collaboration, poet/teachers working with youth. See what we're doing here.


Would you like to clean out your book case and support good works in your community?
Do you have your own CDs and publications you'd like to have distributed?

details here...


It seems to me we live in a unique age when it comes to poetry and the appreciation of the spoken word. Ever since Bob Dylan inspired the Beatles to write about more than just holding hands, pop music throughout the world has been inundated with poetic language. Gone are the days when people as a whole could be considered poetry illiterate. Everyone coming to age since the 60’s has grown up completely at home with metaphor, simile and the rudiments of poetic expression. This is even more true now that rap is an international rage.

Sadly, a great many still associate poetry with that stuff our language arts teachers tried to shove down our throats; that stuff we couldn’t quite relate to or understand. Thus many feel intimidated at the concept of poetry and balk at the thought of attending a poetry reading. How do we combat what the late poet Trinidad Sanchez called “poemaphobia”? I would suggest we strive to make our poetry events more entertaining, more inclusive, more participatory and more relevant. We need only to meet our audiences half-way –our words will do the rest.

Seth
Performance Poet and Author


Annual Poets' Picnic 2007
Labor Day, September 3rd

with singer/song writer
Kate Denning

      

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Denver Office of Cultural Affairs brought Denver's Longest Multi-lingual Poem, to our Annual Poets Picnic in Washington Park.

Some words from our friends
about us, and about poetry.

There are many paths to poetry; some of us come to it as children, courtesy of a bedtime reading by a grandparent, others through teachers who bring it alive in the classroom. Still others catch the energy of a performance and are hooked. Some might find it in the quiet, meditative state of their own minds, or hear its music in the recitation of rituals, the voices of creatures, or the hum of human activity all around them--things that draw forth a response in words. This versatility in the sources of poetry gives it such richness, such broad application, in our lives.

Denver Poet LaureatePoetry burns its blue flame in surprising places, rarely flaring up in mass media or pop culture but never going out altogether. Every so often the celebration of this ancient and vital art brings people together around that flame, to enjoy its diverse range of expression and renew the spirit of cooperation, appreciation, and uninhibited expression. At its best, such a celebration can give courage and pleasure to all who participate, reminding each of us why we first came to poetry, and why we keep coming back all our lives.

Chris Ransick
Denver Poet Laureate
author of Lost Songs & Last Chances


 
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