Jef Otte

This is a week for beginnings and endings: The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers will host a panel on how to write and publish a book, while BMoCA's Biennial-affiliated Line Break poetry series will say so long after seven poetic weeks. And in between, author Paul Levitt will talk about his...

"Poetry can be dangerous," said Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, "especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it."  But poetry can also be provocative, entertaining and amazing, as three literary events this week will show.  Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos and Roger Green Syntax...

Of all starving artists, poets may be the most starving. A challenging art form that demands a type of time and engagement most people just aren't willing to give, poetry tends to get sidelined even in communities dedicated to nurturing challenging art that demands time and engagement, relegated instead to...

Kelsie Huff was a mess, a co-dependent drunk from a family of drunks who'd made a shambles of everything in her life. But she'll tell you that herself — that and a whole lot more about her struggles with alcoholism and her dysfunctional past in Ranch Dressing & Other Coping Mechanisms,...

The homeless folk who amass at the doors of the Denver Public Library at 14th and Broadway will have something besides books and air conditioning to look forward to the morning of Tuesday, September 8. That's the date the DPL plans to roll out what it's calling "Sunrise Concerts," a...