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David Mason

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    March 20, 2012

    Tonight: Poetry Out Loud gets proud in Lakewood

    On a Tuesday night on the cusp of spring, when a young man's fancy turns and the cruelest month looms just days away, you could do worse than head to Lakewood to hear great verse declaimed at the seventh annual Poetry Out Loud state finals. Declaimed, emoted, and embraced -- by high school student ... More >>

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    June 1, 2011

    Tonight: D.I.N.E. serves up poet laureate David Mason

    ​Le Central will host this round of D.I.N.E.: Dinner, Ideas 'N Exchange, with poet laureate David Mason discussing "The Poet and the West." The Colorado Humanities-organized event starts at 6 p.m. and costs $35; for reservations, call 303-863-8094 or go to www.lecentral.com. To learn more abou ... More >>

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    May 31, 2011

    D.I.N.E., Colorado Wine Dinner and more on this week's culinary calendar

    ​Great Divide's monthly beer-and-cheese pairing is always a good draw -- and there's lots more taking place this week in Denver's foodie scene. Here's what's on the menu:

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    April 19, 2011

    John Denver: Five things you may not know

    ​As the song goes, John Denver was born in the summer of his 27th year. That was1970, when the singer, who hadn't yet gained a huge amount of fame, moved to Aspen with his wife, Annie, and began writing the songs that we all know by heart.

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Students burn bright, fly right in Poetry Out Loud contest

    David Mason announces the winner, Samuel Opoku (third from left).​Memorizing and reciting great verse kept the epics of the ancient world alive. It helped former hostage Terry Anderson survive years of dismal captivity -- and countless closet poets from losing their sanity in a tin-ear world. ... More >>

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    February 28, 2011

    Tonight: The stakes get lyrical at the Poetry out Loud State Championships

    Last year's finals: Woman? Whoa... man.​If we learned anything from Akeelah and the Bee, it's that spelling bees can be pretty exciting, even if the subject matter is boring -- who nedes speling anyway? That shit is for lossers. It's the do-or-die elimination format that give the bee its drama ... More >>

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    December 15, 2010

    Poetry and contemporary art demystified at SAY WHAT tonight

    Liz Miller's "Decorative Eco-Disaster" is just confusing.​Of all the expressive media, probably the most exclusive tend to be poetry and abstract art. They're dense, demanding and heavily symbolic, and they're hard to interpret without some background of study -- all of which gives them a repu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Top five ways to improve One Book, One Denver -- and great Colorado authors to consider

    John Williams​For years this space has been the repository of staff rants about the weird selections made by the city's One Book, One Denver program -- most of which have little or nothing to do with Colorado and seem to be, at best, a nod toward oh-so-PC mediocrity. The worst offender may be ... More >>

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    July 1, 2010

    David Mason: Meet Colorado's new poet laureate

    David Mason.​At 9:30 a.m. this morning, in a ceremony on the State Capitol steps, Governor Bill Ritter will welcome Colorado's seventh poet laureate. And no, he's not an ancient dandy in an ascot with an Auden-like pallor and a thirst for sherry. This is Colorado, bub. Ritter couldn't have d ... More >>

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    January 26, 2009

    Back to Ludlow: a massacre revisited

    Catching up on my reading over the weekend, I found that the January 19 New Yorker has a terrific piece by Caleb Crain discussing the emergence of new, revisionist accounts of the Ludlow Massacre. "There Was Blood" delves into the bloody conflicts in the southern Colorado coalfields a cent ... More >>

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    May 10, 2007

    Tonight: A Bold Light on Dark History

    Catching up on my reading over the weekend, I found that the January 19 New Yorker has a terrific piece by Caleb Crain discussing the emergence of new, revisionist accounts of the Ludlow Massacre. "There Was Blood" delves into the bloody conflicts in the southern Colorado coalfields a cent ... More >>

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    April 8, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Catching up on my reading over the weekend, I found that the January 19 New Yorker has a terrific piece by Caleb Crain discussing the emergence of new, revisionist accounts of the Ludlow Massacre. "There Was Blood" delves into the bloody conflicts in the southern Colorado coalfields a cent ... More >>

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