March 2009 Archives

National Book Award winning poet Mark Doty will be appearing on the Auraria Campus this Thursday. He'll be giving a poetry reading at 11.30 am in Tivoli 320 with a book signing and reception to follow.

At 4pm, Doty will deliver a craft talk entitled "The House of Memory: Writing from Remembered Spaces" at 4pm in Tivoli 440.

These events are co-sponsored by the Metropolitan State College of Denver Department of English, the University of Colorado Denver Department of English, MSCD Office of Student Activities, UCD Office of Student Life, the Community College of Denver's Office of Student Life, the Auraria Library Development Board, and Copper Nickel.

Mark Doty will also appear at Tattered Cover LoDo Thursday evening at 7.30pm.

For more information, follow this link.

We'll release our 11th issue and continue our celebration of five years of literary publishing on Friday, March 13th, from 6-10pm at The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar. Join us for an evening of reading and discussion.

From 6-7pm, you can meet contributors and editors, then listen as contributors Marilyn Krysl and Simmons B. Buntin read from their work and discuss the challenges of working in multiple genres. Krysl is a poet who has recently published a collection of short stories, and Buntin is also a poet now working on an MFA in Creative Nonfiction.

At 8:30, a panel of student contributors will offer some short readings, followed by more mingling.

Throughout this, Copper Nickel 11 will be on sale to the public for the first time (not counting, of course, our website presale), along with a new batch of our green-and-copper buffalo nickel shirts designed and printed by our friends at Vital Industries.

This event is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and also enjoy The Lab's current exhibitions.