Well-known northern Colorado poet Jack Martin will read with Linda Aldrich (Portland, Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate and former Loveland resident) this Thursday, January 21, 7 p.m. via Zoom.
Martin teaches high school in Arvada and has also worked
as a whitewater river guide and standup comic. He has an MFA from Colorado
State University (where he was a classmate of mine as an undergraduate). His poems have appeared in numerous literary
journals including Agni, Ploughshares and Georgia Review.
A collection of his poems has been a finalist in the National Poetry Series.
Aldrich’s third collection of poems, Ballast,
has
just been published by Deerbrook
Editions, and Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,
among them Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, Elixir, The
Denver Quarterly. A graduate of Vermont College’s MFA program, she was
awarded a Hewnoaks writing residency in 2017, and her poem “Woman-without-Arms”
won the Emily Dickinson Award from Universities West Press.
You can sample poems by both writers in posts January
9 through 13 on the Loveland
Poet Laureate’s website.
The reading is part of the Loveland Poet Laureate series. Please register in advance at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdOqvrzorEtfBDMMNYueSPp1OfmiCpItP
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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