Acclaimed poet and critic, Cathy Wagner, gave a poetry reading at CSU center for the arts on October 25, 2012, as part of a promotional tour for her book, Nervous Device, published by City Lights Books. Wagner is the author of numerous chapbooks in addition to three full-length books published with Fence Press. She […]

I first moved to Colorado—the Front Range—in 1984. Boulder, specifically, my junior year of college at that other university, CU. A California kid who had gone East for college initially (Colgate), I was rather worn out by the place, its small size and Tri-State insularity, the lake effect weather. And so, like many Californians, I […]

Flannery O’Connor was once famously asked if writing workshops discouraged young writers, to which she is said to have replied, “Not enough of them.” The essayist Pico Iyer maintains that, “Writing can be learned, but not taught.” Beneath such skeptical pronouncements lies, it seems to me, a niggling doubt about the source of art: whether […]