Books

Stone cold and striking hot

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There will always be stories that slip through the cracks. Whether a function of human capacity, or our proclivity for comfort over truth, the...

books

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Monday, May 5: Paul Stanley, guitar player from KISS, at Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 7 p.m...

Words | Week of Jan. 1, 2015

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Friday, Jan. 2...

poetry

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O’Bedlams...

Snow snakes, boy princesses and mountain men

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While teaching elementary school kids how to ski in places like Copper Mountain and Eldora Mountain Resort, Annie Fox saw her fair share of spills on the slopes. "On no, you fell! The snow snake got you!" was the popular joke with ski instructors who tried to make ...

David Foster Wallace: An American literary great revealed

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“It sounded like the voice that I thought in,” says David Lipsky about the captivating literary style of novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace. “Which of course is what you’re trying to do as a writer. And he’d done it! It was amazing! I was so thrilled. I faxed...

Poetry

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June´s Cleaver...

Unearthing what’s beneath

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When she’s not writing fiction, Kristie Betts Letter teaches her 10th grade students how to fail.  Not how to do it intentionally, of course, but...

American Life in Poetry: Column 559

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by J. Allyn rosser...

Words | Week of June 25, 2015

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Thursday, June 25...

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 ...

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...