Poetry

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Words | Week of Dec. 18, 2014

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Books

Spilling the tea

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The story of how Boulder entrepreneur Brook Eddy built the Bhakti Chai company starts on a trip to Bangalore, India, in 2002. There she...

Water in the desert

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In 2011 Jessie Friedman and her husband Jules Levinson were returning to Boulder after travelling for more than 50 hours from New Delhi. Not having slept, the couple was in a state of delirium when Friedman had a eureka moment...

Textures of youth

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Tina Collen’s story of her relationship with her father is multidimensional. Literally. In her memoir, Storm of the i ($29.95, Art Review Press), Collen tells the trials and tribulations and successes of her life via paintings, photographs, memorabilia. Instead of ...

Baseball in the summer

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  Although the team is currently struggling just to hover near .500, not much in Colorado says “summer” like the Rockies. With a great downtown ballpark in Denver, stellar starting pitching and exciting young hitters, the reigning NL Wild Card qualifiers ...

Searching is the salve

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There’s a sense of foreboding that hovers over the pages of Khadijah Queen’s new collection of poetry — a heavy nimbostratus cloud of dread. “In...

101-word fiction contest

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Boulder Weekly is launching its first annual fiction contest this spring...

A story about kids hunting giant robots in the desert

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Just four years ago I was sitting here sending off queries to publishers,” Zoe Hana Mikuta says from across the table at Trident Cafe.  Mikuta...

This is going to hurt

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Local poet Jade Lascelles doesn’t shrink from what she describes as “the collapsed moment, the moment of a brutality.” She approaches it, tries to...

Raising the dead

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The librarian let Julie Carr look at the box, but she couldn’t look in it.  Carr, a professor in CU’s English department, knew her great-grandfather’s...

The 31-year itch

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Boulder novelist Robert Dresner is openly self-derisive when he talks about his work...

Imperfect characters

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Animal behavior specialist Temple Grandin has often said that autism helps her connect with animals. “I think in pictures,” she told Stanford’s School of Medicine...