Art Goodtimes, Neeli Cherkovski, Danny Rosen, and Tate Swindell

Join us for an evening with poets Art Goodtimes, Neeli Cherkovski, Danny Rosen, and Tate Swindell.

Art Goodtimes is a poet, basketweaver, emeritus Western Slope Poet Laureate (2011–2013), and poetry editor for Fungi magazine. He has been poet-in-residence at the Telluride Mushroom Festival for 43 years, and directs state and national poetry contests at tellurideinstitute.org/talking-gourds. His poetry and op-ed columns appear at goodtimespoet.blogspot.com

Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including Elegy for My Beat Generation and In The Odes: Confucius and Ezra Pound. He was the co-editor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children. He’s lived in San Francisco since 1974.

Danny Rosen runs Lithic Press and Lithic Bookstore in Fruita, Colorado.

Tate Swindell has received a weekend pass to participate in this reading.