poetry

June 7th, 6pm-midnight, the Dikeou Colleciton and TIE will host a collaborated event entitled, Cinema Jou Jou III, "An evening of cake and creative fetish," which will feature music, poetry readings, a cake walk and short screenings of experimental films. $10 at the door benefits TIE, a 501(C)3.

Music will include: Ian Cooke, Team Awesome, Mr. Pacman and Castles

Featured films will include those directed by: Tom Chomont, Lenny Lipton and Jesse Kennedy

Poetry readings will feature: Eleni Sikelianos and Andrea Rexilius

Cake walks will feature: Very pretty ice cream cakes

Friday May 30th, 7pm, the Dikeou Collection will host a combined jazz/poetry performance featuring poets Leo Goya, Kayanne Pickens and Marcelo Games accompanied by Evan Cantor (bass guitar) and Bob Mulligan (percussion).

Local musician, Edward Almost, recently performed at Hi-Dive with Themes and the Build-Up. The experimental folk songster is also in the English department of graduate studies at the University of Denver so it's no surprise (or really, unexpectedly fitting) that much of his music has a strong (though innovative) narrative component.

You might have seen, on more than one occasion, an orange Greyhound with the words “Worland Warriors,” on the side, and perhaps you’ve even been so lucky as to observe the group of 20-somethings in band T-shirts and arty/ragamuffin garb step off, talking about how one really ought not to purchase The Communist Manifesto with a credit card, and then maybe you’ve wondered to yourself what-on-Ginsberg’s-angelheaded-hipster-grave (may he rest in peace) this whole thirty-nine-foot-long oddity is about.

Fast-talkers armed with pens and Waldman paperbacks are making noise in the streets, on buses, at coffee shops and allover town for poetry month, which officially began three days ago. From the slam crowd to Boulderite neo-beats to fiction-writers-who-sound-like-poets to the academics to otherwise-undefined-guy/girl-stringing-words-together, there’s a lot to listen in to.

Brooklyn poet, Brandon Johnson is in town tonight giving a poetry reading at the Dikeou Collection with local poet-hero, Bin Ramke, at 7pm. Johnson received his BA in creative writing at the University of Denver in 2006, where he was a student of Ramke (long-time editor of the Denver Quarterly).