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3rd Tuesday: Open Mic & May Feature: Aspen Everett!
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us for the monthly culmination of the “Journey of the Poem.” The evening begins with an immersive workshop at 4 PM, hosted this month by featured poet Aspen Everett, offering a deep dive into the craft and process of our monthly guest. Later, the energy shifts to our community open mic at 6 PM, a supportive space to share your own work. From first-time readers to seasoned performers, all are welcome to take the stage and celebrate the diverse voices of our collective.
About Aspen
Aspen Everett is a poet, editor, and organizer rooted in the Front Range literary community, with a presence stretching from Boulder to Fort Collins and across the wider Colorado poetry landscape. Their debut collection, Tributaries, released in 2024, is a love letter to an unlovable landscape, a work that reaches toward reconnection with the More-than-Human world, using water as its guiding thread and conduit. Beyond the page, Aspen serves as Assistant Editor for Screaming at America, hosts and curates Spotlight: A Boulder Notoriety Show, teaches workshops at Lighthouse Writers, and is a lead organizer with the Artist Resistance Coalition. They are also a participant in Writer’s Block, a weekly writing group that meets every Wednesday at Mi Chantli in Boulder. A full-time single parent and tireless advocate for the creative community, Aspen brings to everything they do a philosophy of creative reciprocity: the belief that when one poet succeeds, the whole community rises. May 19 marks the one-year anniversary of Tributaries, and this feature will serve as something Aspen never quite had: an official celebration of that book’s arrival in the world.
