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Sparrows – Performance Poetry Festival 2001-2007

September 30, 2015September 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

by Laurie James In the early fall of 2000, driving back from a Talking Gourds poetry gathering at Windy Point on the Uncompahgre Plateau, poet Jude Janett proposed that she and I start a poetry festival in Salida. She led a writing circle I had been in for a couple of years and had gotten …

Nomadic Poetry – Illusion

October 14, 2015September 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Illusion By Laurie James Illusion wears a fur coat but pulls the wool over my eyes Her stale breath reeks of coffee and bad teeth You can hear those old songs in the back of her throat I ride her piggyback over the pins and needles of the great plateau to where she sleeps on …

Nomadic Love

September 30, 2015September 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

by Eduardo Rey Brummel Back in 2003, when Craig Nielson was hosting monthly “P3” (Poetry Prose Performance) evenings at the former Bongo Billy’s Café in Salida, he would occasionally witness ensemble performances, which he had also seen during a local poetry festival named Sparrows. Liking the idea of working with other poets, he conceived of …

Onion Thief

November 12, 2013July 1, 2013 by Mike Rosso

By Laurie James, Salida, Colorado

A woman I saw yesterday had

small crooked hands that clutched

at her coat to keep the cold out.

Her head was wrapped in scarves,

like snakes ready to strike.

Gratitude

February 8, 2011November 1, 2010 by Mike Rosso

by Laurie James

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~Horace

800 million people go hungry

everyday. really. 800 million.

Stirrings

January 10, 2010March 1, 2009 by Staff

Our windows are flung open

to air full of promiscuous arias

from feathered beings hopping

the leafless, monolithic, barked edges

when, a murder of crows swoop in

to steal the hanging, gooey suet,

then lift away, black and ragged,