Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO

Book Buffs
1307 Bannock St.
Denver, CO
(800) 265-9552
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Tattered Cover Bookstore
1628 16th St.
Denver, CO

Available from Colorado State Language Arts Society, 10012 Quivas St., Denver CO 80260, $5.00.

Arts Alive: Fort Collins
A Fort Collins based arts organization that promotes excellence in the arts by advancing community arts and cultural activities. Their website maintain a calendar of arts events.

Aspen Writers Foundation
Aspen Writers Foundation is a non-profit literary center that has been bringing readers and writers together since 1976. The organization's mission is to provide programs that encourage writers in their craft and readers in their appreciation of literature.

Colorado Arts Consortium
Provides services to the community through a variety of programs including communications networks, community initiatives, and technical assistance.

Colorado Center for the Book
The Colorado Center for the Book takes an active role in promoting reading and writing in Colorado. Their website maintains a calendar of literary events occurring around Colorado.

Colorado Council on the Arts
For over thirty years the Colorado Council on the Arts has invested in the cultural life of communities across the state. The Council has helped cultivate artists, arts organizations, and cultural opportunities enjoyed by millions of Coloradans each year. The council hosts a conference concerning online poetry.

Colorado State University
Offers a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Students of the program run the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, a student group committed to nurturing the writing community on campus through student readings, readings featuring visiting writers, and career workshops. Each semester the creative writing department hosts guest readers in poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Naropa University, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Inaugurated as The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974, Naropa University's Department of Writing and Poetics offers a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Writing and Literature and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Writing and Poetics. Hosts a summer writing program for students of other colleges and universities.

University of Colorado
The University of Colorado offers a MA in Creative Writing. Intellectual life on campus includes seminars, colloquia, and visiting scholars sponsored by English and other departments.

University of Denver
The University of Denver offers a Ph.D. in creative writing. It is also home to the Denver Quarterly.

The Poetic History of Colorado
by Mary Crow
Because Colorado was settled late in the nineteenth century, poetry in English begins late in Colorado. Though there were nomadic Indian groups and, later, settlers from Mexico, there is little poetry of record before the middle of the twentieth century. Read more >

The Graves of Poets
Mino Loy is buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Aspen, Colorado. Her grave is at the base of a tree and is marked with a round, engraved stone.

1. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...

2. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...

3. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...

4. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America...

5. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...

6. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...

7. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why...

8. This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten / the plums...

9. A Supermarket in California
by Allen Ginsberg
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman...
10. Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams...

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Spirit that Form'd this Scene
by Walt Whitman
Spirit that form'd this scene...

Colorado State University English Department
Hosts a variety of guest readers each semester. Recent guest readers have included: Reginald Shepherd, Tomaz Salamun, Judith Kitchen and John Bradley. Contact the Main Office at 359 Eddy Hall, or email english@lamar.colostate.edu.

The Greyrock Institute: Reading and Writing the Rockies
Reading and Writing the Rockies is a week long celebration of literacy in the Rocky Mountain West. Events include: opening and closing readings, featured writers series, workshops, "Nonfiction Saturday," and Wild About Writing (a children's writing workshop).

The Colorado Review
The Colorado Review is committed to publishing serious poetry, fiction and non-fiction. With determinedly eclectic offerings, they feature both well established and new writers.

Conundrum Press of Crested Butte
Conundrum Press is a small, locally owned publishing house specializing in regional writers, poets and essayists.

Denver Quarterly
A quarterly literary journal published by the University of Denver. They feature poetry, fiction and non-fiction by established and emerging writers.

The Freestone
The Freestone is a literary journal of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that is published annually by the English Department at Colorado State University.

Many Mountains Moving
With a mission to provide a much-needed literary space for writers of diverse backgrounds, Many Mountains Moving Inc. is a nonprofit arts organization responsible for a literary journal of diverse contemporary voices, MMM Press poetry books, as well as arts events. It is based in Longmont, Colorado.

The Nieve Roja Review
The Nieve Roja Review is a diverse electronic literary journal, devoted to providing publishing opportunities for new and established writers and artists. This on-line publication is open to the internet community and provides a space for a multitude of voices and contributors with vastly different experiences.