Poetry month is technically April every year. Forget that. We at Lighthouse figure the fall, with its dying leaves, spicy beverages, and proximity to the paranormal, is a better season to celebrate poetry. So for all the poets and poetry fans in Denver and beyond, we've got a full slate of classes, workshops, and once-in-a-blue moon events through November.
October
10/15: Visiting Author Series—Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
Here's your chance to learn from National Book Award-Finalist Ilya Kaminsky and renowned poet Katie Farris and later, hear them perform and discuss their work.
- Visiting Author Series: X=Y— Figurative Language with Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky (virtual or in-person)
- Visiting Author Series: Reading and Conversation with Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky (virtual or in-person)
10/16: Fall Session Begins
- 8-Week: Advanced Poetry Workshop with Radha Marcum (virtual)
- 8-Week: Introduction to Poetry Workshop with Alyse Knorr (virtual)
- 8-Week: Introduction to Poetry Workshop with André O. Hoilette (virtual)
- 4-Week: The Poetry of Spirituality with Joy Roulier Sawyer (in-person)
- 4-Week: By Heart—Seven Essential Poems and Practices with Lynn Wagner (in-person)
- 4-Week: Writing Through the Four Queens of the Tarot with Selah Saterstrom (virtual)
10/27–10/29: Queer Creatives Retreat
Join Lighthouse for three days of intensives, seminars, and free and sliding scale community events at the second annual Queer Creatives Retreat. Writerships and payment plans are available for workshops!
The Queer Creatives Retreat is open to writers of all genres and creatives of all types who identify as members of LGBTQIA+ communities. We also welcome folks who are questioning their gender or sexual orientation and those who are in solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities. Our intention is to center LGBTQIA+ people at the retreat.
- Three-Day Intensive: Queering the Canon—LGBTQIA+ Retellings with Addie Tsai (virtual)
- Writing Queer Joy in Poetry with Ashley Cornelius (in-person)
- Human // Body: On Body Politics and Body Poetics with Aerik Francis
- Queer Nature: Queering the Poetic Pastoral with Grace Wagner
- Kickoff and Community Open Mic with Ashley Cornelius (in-person and virtual)
November
11/4–11/5: Poetry Fest
Count your blessings as we welcome legendary poets like Alice Notley and Linda Hogan to town, along with a starry lineup of local and regional poets, for Poetry Fest, a dynamic weekend of readings, classes, panels, short craft talks, and celebrations custom-made for poets and the poetry-curious.
- Poetry Weekend Intensive: Follow It to the Head Waters—Poetic Origin Stories with André O. Hoilette (in-person)
- Poetry Weekend Intensive: Toward Mystery—Poetic Sense Beyond Logic with Radha Marcum
- Epic Poetics: Reading and Conversation with Dan Beachy-Quick and Alice Notley (in-person or virtual)
- Radiant Quiet: Reading and Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Linda Hogan (in-person or virtual)
- Poetry Fest Passes for the full eperience
