HearthFire Books 2nd Friday Poetry Reading

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Please join Bob Cooperman, a winner of the Colorado Book Award, Rita Brady Kiefer, a semi-finalist for Colorado's Poet Laureate, and your host, Padma Thornlyre of Turkey Buzzard Press for an intimate evening of poetry on Friday, March 9 at 7 p.m., at Hearthfire Books in Evergreen (1254 Bergen Parkway, Unit D118, in the Bergen Village Shopping Center across from King Soopers) ... for directions if you don't use MapQuest, call the bookstore at 303.670.4549.

Denver poet Robert Cooperman has published 12 volumes of poetry, most recently Troy (March Street Press) and Cave Dweller (Wind Publications). Cooperman won the 2000 Colorado Book Award for Poetry for his collection, In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains. Wind Publications is slated to publish his newest book, The Lily of the West. Significantly, his poetry has appeared in the North American Review, The Sewanee Review, The Mississippi Review, and The Classical Outlook.

Rita Brady Kiefer, once a Catholic nun, has received the Mark Fisher Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2000 Colorado Book Award for her collection, Nesting Doll. Other titles include Unveiling and Trying On Faces. Frequently anthologized, Kiefer has received several grants, and major awards during her tenure as a professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Northern Colorado. Rita worked with battered women at A Woman's Place in Greeley for 15 years, and currently assists victims of domestic violence at the Gateway Battered Women's Shelter in Englewood. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Bloomsbury Review, and Cimarron Review.

Following Rita and Bob's performance, there will be an intermission, following which we will commence with the open reading segment of the evening. Open reading participants must limit their time to 5 minutes or less per person. Thank you!