PLAN NOW FOR NATPOMO: It’s not too early to plan National Poetry Month events for April 2006. The UW creative writing program in Laramie is sponsoring the month’s biggest event, an appearance by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser on April 6-7. Wyoming’s own poet laureate, David Romtvedt, is available for readings and residencies through the Wyoming Arts Council’s Tumblewords grants. Laramie’s Chavawn Kelley presents "Purple Trout on Every Side: The Poetry of Trout Fishing" through the Humanities Forum of the Wyoming Humanities Council. Alaska’s fiddling poet, Ken Waldman, will be traveling through Wyoming the last month in April. You can snag him as he’s traveling through, possibly through a Wyoming Arts Council Open Door "unexpected opportunity" grant.

- posted by Michael Shay @ 10:45 AM