What a Week!

The reading at the Loveland Museum on Sunday was magical—another great event from the three muses of Loveland poetry:  Lynn, Caroline and Veronica.  Everything fit as though it had been carefully composed, a testament to the engaging embrace of these women.  The audience was substantial despite competition from sports and fair weather, and it was a lovely and reflective way to spend a couple of hours.  Surely all there experienced life more deeply because of it.

And that launched a busy writing week:  tonight Charles Duhigg at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Thursday Bryan Stevenson at CSU.

And next Monday, Nora Naranjo Morse--writer, producer, sculptor--at CSU.  During her visit, Morse will be focusing on Numbe Whageh--a Tewa Pueblo word, meaning ‘the center place.’ “Numbe Whageh was Albuquerque’s first land art piece,” Morse explains.  “This controversial project focuses on the historical treatment of Pueblo people by Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Onate during the late 1500s.  Among other subjects, this project looks at issues of monuments, who makes them and why.” Morse speaks at 4:30 in the Clark Building on campus and a reception follows.  (Parking at the garage on Pitkin might be your best bet.)  

If fabric is your poetry, you might want to take in the public presentation on Thursday, 7 p.m. at the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising in the old Fort Collins High School (entrance on the Lake Street side).  As part of her Fall 2016 graduate exhibition in the Avenir, CSU Design and Merchandising student Caitlin MacLaughlin will discuss the journey she has taken to become an apparel and textile designer in Colorado. Sustainability and 'slow fashion' are center stage.