Loveland’s Poet Laureate reading series came through with its usual excellence last night featuring Colorado writers Claire Boyles and Kathryn Winograd.
They were wonderfully matched (a consistent value
added by our poet laureate) bringing fiction and poetry together, but also
themes.
Boyles' writing combines memory and imagination with
works based on her lived family experience.
And she connected (in my mind anyway) with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
in her piece based on an ancestor leaving the world and grandchild entering: Harjo (who read in Loveland this year) suggests
that a new soul is accompanied into the world by an old one. Boyles will be at the Fort Collins Writer’s Fest
this weekend.
Winograd also made unexpected connections and invoked
one of my favorite poets, James Wright.
She has a new chapbook Under
the Dog Star reflecting on experience in the pandemic, with reference
to the Pink Moon—certainly germane in this time of the Harvest Moon.
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