Readings & Special Events

Each week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. (except on July 4 where the reading moves to Friday), there will be a reading featuring members of our core and guest faculty. With writers coming from coast to coast, and everywhere in between and beyond, to share their craft, this is an exciting time to see what is happening in contemporary literary culture.

All of the following readings and events are open to the public. All student and faculty readings will be held in the Performing Arts Center at Naropa University's Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder. Ticket prices for faculty readings are $6 for the general public, $4 for Naropa students/staff/alumni and free for SWP students registered for the week. All student readings and performance salons are free of charge.

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. Any changes will be noted on the SWP master schedule.

SWP 2009 Schedule of Readings

Week One

Tuesday, June 16 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Jack Collom
Laird Hunt
Renee Gladman
Brad Gooch
Rebecca Brown

Wednesday, June 17 – 8 p.m.
Student Scholarship Recipients Reading
(free)

Thursday, June 18
Art Show Opening for Bobbie Louise Hawkins – 6–7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading – 8 p.m.
Junior Burke
Anselm Hollo
Janine Pommy Vega
Samuel R. Delany
AB Spellman

Friday, June 19 – 8 p.m.
Student Reading
Text-based readings by SWP students (free)

Saturday, June 20 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Basil King
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Eileen Myles
Joyce Johnson

Week Two

Tuesday, June 23 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Amy Catanzano
Akilah Oliver
Kass Fleisher
Maxine Chernoff
Jerome Rothenberg

Wednesday, June 24 – 8 p.m.
Student Reading
Text-based readings by SWP students (free)

Thursday, June 25 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Eleni Sikelianos
Selah Saterstrom
Cecilia Vicuña
Anne Waldman

Friday, June 26 – 7 p.m. (second showing at 8:30 p.m.)
Film Premiere at Atlas Auditorium, C.U. Boulder Campus (Atlas 100)
The SWP presents Ed Bowes' Entanglement.

Saturday, June 27 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Lisa Birman
Laura Elrick
Elizabeth Robinson
Reed Bye

Week Three

Tuesday, June 30 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Christopher Stackhouse
Leonard Schwartz
Truong Tran
Travis Hedge Coke

Wednesday, July 1 – 8 p.m.
Student Reading
Text-based readings by SWP students (free)

Thursday, July 2 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Gloria Frym
Lewis Warsh
Zhang Er
Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Friday, July 3 – 7 p.m.
Memorial Ceremony for Allen Ginsberg

We will have a brief ceremony honoring Allen Ginsberg, poet, activist and co-founder of the Kerouac School. The occasion will mark the internment of some of the poet's ashes at the Shambhala Mountain Center this summer. The ceremony will take place in front of the Allen Ginsberg Library.

Friday, July 3 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Mark McMorris
Mei Mei Berssenbrugge
Clayton Eshleman
Bei Dao

Week Four

Tuesday, July 7 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Max Regan
Joanna Howard
Dan Machlin
Ed Roberson

Wednesday, July 8 – 8 p.m.
Student Reading
Text-based readings by SWP students (free)

Thursday, July 9 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Brian Evenson
Hoa Nguyen
Dale Smith
Alberto Ruy-Sanchez
Wang Ping

Friday, July 10 – 8 p.m.
Student/Faculty Performance Salon
(free)

Saturday, July 11 – 8 p.m.
Faculty Reading
CS Giscombe
Steven Taylor
Simone Forti
Michelle Ellsworth

Outside Readings

Monday, June 8 - 8–11 p.m.
“So, You're a Poet” Reading Series at the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse

Monday, June 15 - 8–11 p.m.
“So, You're a Poet” Reading Series at the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse

Monday, June 22 - 8–11 p.m.
“So, You're a Poet” Reading Series at the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse

Monday, June 29 - 8–11 p.m.
“So, You're a Poet” Reading Series at the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse

Monday, June 13 - 8–11 p.m.
“So, You're a Poet” Reading Series at the Laughing Goat Coffeehouse

*Admission prices may vary.

For more information see: The Laughing Goat

Special Guests

Mei Mei Berssenbrugge
Mei Mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. Her books include Empathy, The Four Year Old Girl, and Nest. A collaboration with Anne McKeown and Kiki Smith, Concordance, was recently produced by the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, and her selected poems, I Love Artists, was published by the University of California Press. She lives in New Mexico and New York City.

Berssenbrugge will be reading on Friday, July 3.

Travis Hedge Coke
Travis Hedge Coke’s writing has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Many Mountains Moving, Mountain from the View, Gatherings, Dead Pretty Boys, and elsewhere. His Art been shown in galleries in Los Angeles and Kyoto, not to mention, the occasional living room.  He co-edits the online lit & arts journal, Future Earth, where he gets to help showcase all manner of great writers, artists, and musicians.

Travis will read on Friday, June 30th.