Books
No chasm to cross
If we’re to trust Thurston Moore, “Rock stars can’t be poets, which sucks.”
The line is from a poem by Moore titled “By The Lightswitch.”...
The dark underbelly of Denver
The postcard version of Denver might look like a brilliant orange and blue sunset gleaming over the Rockies, beautiful young people in parks walking...
Knowing nature
Environmental history conferences have often frustrated University of Colorado history professor Phoebe Young. She grew dissatisfied with “listening to people who had really interesting things to say but examined material nature as if culture didn’t really matter.” ...
Haven in Innisfree
The couple opening the nation’s third poetry-only bookstore on the Hill knew of the uphill battle they would face trying to make their living off an art form many consider stuffy and inaccessible. In fact, according to Brian Buckley, who co-owns Innisfree Poetry ...
Raising the dead
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...
Water in the desert
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...
