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Everyone, whether they are engaged and aware of it [or not], is interested in poetry, she says. Poetry is everywhere and even narrative writing is poetic.”
Americans have always turned to poetry for a variety of reasons: inspiration, solace, self-expression, among others. Colorado youth in the Poetry Out Loud program are often drawn to poetry that opens them to a world of unfamiliar experiences, whether it’s that of someone who lived two hundred years ago, or others living today who’ve had very different lives from the poets own, perhaps because of their age, or race, or gender, or sexual orientation, or class, or region.
Denver s premier independent creative-writing institution, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, announced its new location this week, a brand-new building at 39th and York streets, just off the new greenway bordering the Clayton and Cole neighborhoods.
Lighthouse had previously done business and offered important literary contributions to the city and state at various historic sites. Early on, the group founded in 1997 operated out of the Thomas Hornsby Ferril House, named for Colorado’s first poet laureate. Most recently, the nonprofit has been based in the equally historic Milheim House, which was moved from 1355 Pennsylvania Street (across from the Molly Brown House) to1515 Race Street in 1989.
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