Ziggies Poetry Fest

Ziggies serves snack foods like Hamburgers, Philly Cheese Steaks, Edamame, and Personal Pizzas. We are also going to offer salads and organic peaches this year. You are welcome to bring in your own food (except Hilario’s), however, all drinks must be purchased at the bar. This is a full service bar, and non-alcoholic drinks are also available, including coffee, tea, juice, and bottled water.

There is a Sunflower Market and a King Soopers approximately 2 1/2 blocks away.

On the RTD bus route, Route Number 38 stops across the street east bound and 1/2 block to the west on the west bound 38 route. You can also take Route Number 51 and it will drop you off at Sheridan and 38th. Then you have a short 2 block walk.

Parking is street parking, anywhere around the neighborhood. Hilario’s WILL tow your car if you park in their lot.

Ziggies Live Music

4923 W. 38TH AVE

Poetry and CommitmentAugust 10, 11 and 12

2012

www.ziggieslivemusic.com/poetry

Ziggies, while known as the Oldest Blues Bar in Colorado, has opened its doors to poetry every 2nd and 4th Wednesday from 6-7:30 P.M. and MORE IMPORTANTLY, is allowing the use of their space for poets to offer workshops and perform on stage during the weekend of August 10, 11, and 12th. Don’t miss out on this amazing event.

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Individual Tickets $5 to $10

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Entire Festival= $60 (save $5)

Debbi Brody Featured Performer Sat.Workshop Sat. 1 pm

"No One Talks About This."

Embodying the larger story through the power of poetry without spelling out your opinions. This will be a fun and challenging workshop for writers of all levels who have an issue or truth they wish to share through the creation of a successful poem. Participants will leave the workshop with at least one finished piece of writing.

Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerFeatured Performer Fri.Workshop Sat. 3 pm

The Weight of the Unknown: Writing from the unconstricted throat

We live in a culture that wants to know—we chart, graph, test, outline, classify, name and judge. But what of all the messiness, mystery and unruly potential that breeds beneath our longing for certainty? What would happen when we engage, as Adrienne Rich writes, with “the weight of the unknown, the untracked, the unrealized?” In this workshop we’ll explore how we might draw strength from “the great muscle of metaphor,” launching our poems and ourselves into the vast realm of possibility. In this workshop, we’ll read poems that lead us deeper into paradox and write our own explorations of what if and what else. Let’s see what even a small bit of wonder might do …

Rachel KellumFeatured Performer Sat. Workshop Sat. 1 pm

Poetry of Difficult Knowledge

In her essay, “Poetry and Commitment,” A.Rich tells us, “Poetry is not a healing lotion, an emotional massage, a kind of linguistic aromatherapy. Neither is it a blueprint, nor an instruction manual, nor a billboard.”  What, then, in Rich’s view, in yours, is poetry? She characterizes the poet as one committed to “talking back to the world” from a “fearfully alert” space of “difficult knowledge” which offers one’s society an opportunity to change. From the theatre of your own living, how is the personal political? Does poetry need to be overtly political to offer opportunities for social change? In this workshop we will explore all these questions and more in lively discussion and a variety of writing exercises designed to explore your “difficult knowledge.”

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Dates Time Event

August 10 1 p.m. Workshop $5

August 10 3 p.m. Workshop $5

August 10 5:30 p.m. Open Mic

hosted by Ken Greenley

August 10 7 p.m.Featured Performances

$10

August 10 9 p.m. The Roustabouts $5

August 11 11 a.m.Workshop $5(choice of 2)

August 11 1 p.m. Workshop $5(choice of 2)

August 11 3 p.m.Workshop $5(choice of 2)

August 11 5:30 p.m. Open Mic

hosted by Neil Kelly

August 11 6:45 p.m.Featured Performances

$10

August 11 9 p.m. 2 Dog Tuesday $5

August 12 11 a.m. Closing Ceremonies $10

Lynda LaroccaFeatured Performer Sat.Workshop Fri. 3 pm

"Weighty Words"

Ways to use our words to generate power--the idea being, we don't want to say, I'm in love, tra-la-la; I'm furious; I'm sad. As poets, we want to/need to/must find ways to be evocative, to get our readers/audience to feel/experience/resonate with our words. And we do that by creating feelings and images: the wheelchair-bound couple holding hands and grinning at each other in the nursing home; the bloody shirt on the sidewalk; the skinny, gray-muzzled dog scratching at the door.

“Something I was Forbidden To See”A.Rich writes: But poetry also sometimes finds those who were not looking for it.

Reading these lines a moment after a violent month of reserve duty, which was full of a sense or righteousness of the way, was no easy thing. I remember that for one alarming moment I felt that I was looking at something i was forbidden to see. What this thing was I did not know, but on that same Friday afternoon I went to look for every book by Yitzhak Laor that I could find in the shops.

Charles NicholsWorkshop Fri. 1 pm

Padma ThornlyreFeatured Performer Sat.Workshop Sat. 3 pm

No Description at this time. But it will be a good workshop, very cerebral.

“Unlocking the Anima Energy Within”

Psychologist Carl Jung has described the Anima as that Feminine energy,

which both men and women can tap into if

they're willing to step out of their controlling

consciousness and into the unconscious realm of the imagination.  During

the workshop we will attempt to get in touch

with the collective unconsciousness among us and to allow the

Anima to reveal the hidden truths

behind our words.

Anita Jepson GilbertWorkshop Sat. 11 am

John MackerFeatured Performer Sat.Workshop Sat. 11 am

“The Roaring Stillness Across Open Ground”

Don't extinguish the wildfire of your imagination, put it on paper! We will track your writing across open ground to its source. How does it feel, as Jack Hirschman said, to be "soused with words"? We'll also briefly explore wild wordslinging from the Symbolists to the Beats.

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Enter the Ziggies Poet of the Year Contest! See informaiton in this brochure.

As one of Colorado’s best known performance poets, SETH has collaborated with countless musicians, poets, actors, dancers and other performance artists in a never-ending quest to render poetry more entertaining, and thus more accessible, to general audiences.

Valerie Haugen, a practicing poet, is an Associate Artistic Director with Carbondale's Thunder River Theatre Company. She also organizes the annual Karen Chamberlain Poetry Festival. She has performed in over 40 TRTC productions, and serves as the company dramaturg. She builds Literary Night performance pieces for the theatre, and her play “A Tempest of the Mind,” developed with Lon Winston, was produced last year. As part of the Support Women Artists Now celebration, she recently shared excerpts from an autobiographical performance piece about how poetry saves lives .

SETHFeatured Performer Fri.

Valerie HaugenFeatured Performer Fri.Neil Kelly

Open Mic Host Friday

Ken GreenleyOpen Mic Host Saturday

Jimi BernathFeatured Performer Sat.

Julie CummingsFestival OrganizerFeatured Performer

If someone doesn’t show up, I guess I’ll be on stage.

!Clarence EvensFeatured Performer FridayWho is Nabraska? Some would say a poet’s poet, because of his passion and dedication to the art form. An unadulterated supporter of various venues he can usually be found online and offline listening, speaking, and respecting spoken word.

Lenny ChernilaFeatured Performer Friday

Denver poet and leader Lenny Chernila, also known as The Professor. Lenny hosts poetry readings as well as performs his own poetry. His hope-for-the-future filled verse and his accepting and open demeanor have made him a leader and a legend in the poetry scene.

Phil WoodsFeatured Performer Fri.

Ziggies Poet of the Year ContestAny subject, any form. Must be 21. Must attend Open Mic to claim prize. Deadline: Poems must be received by August 1. Submit 3 poems for $5. Entries can be hand delivered, mailed to Ziggies @ 4923 W. 38th Ave, Denver, Co. 80433or entered via email poetry@ziggieslivemusic.com

Ellen Metrick, San Miguel County Poet Laureate, judge

Do not put your name on any of the poems. Please put your name on a seperate paper or index card, with the title of your three poems. Obviously, if entering via email, we can get your name off the email. All entries will be photocopied, as well as the envelope, if appropriate.

Ladyspeech SankofaFeatured Performer Sat.